Under the dim sky, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the land of the western wilderness, and the sky and the earth were vast.

In the barren field, the bleak wind stirred the withered weeds, and a few scavenging crows landed on the dry trunks of the trees, their tiny blood-red eyes staring indifferently at their feet.

There, a convoy was moving slowly.

It was almost evening, and when I looked up, I could see a blood-colored remnant sun slowly sinking in the western sky, and even the sunset was burned to a blood-red color, which was shocking.

In one of the carriages of the convoy, Li Yunfei looked out the window at the barren and barren fields, his brows furrowed.

"Here...... Is it the Wild West? ”

Vanessa glanced at him and nodded, "That's right, this is the Wild West. ”

Li Yunfei's brows furrowed even tighter, and he couldn't help but glance at Vanessa several times, and even Sred and Rebecca, who were silent in the car, were all under his gaze.

There was an indescribable confusion in his eyes, "You made it like this?" ”

Sred in the corner sneered and didn't speak.

Vanessa sighed and said calmly, "Not really. ”

She looked at Li Yunfei and said calmly, "The former Western Wilderness is indeed a fairly rich land. However, since the Second Orc War, it has been tainted by the evil spells of the Orc Warlocks, and it has become increasingly barren. ”

"Coupled with the fact that my father later broke with Stormwind and chose to occupy this place as a base, the Wild West is even less popular with Stormwind."

"Of course, even without my father, I don't think the Wild West, which is no longer able to produce enough food, would still be taken seriously by Stormwind."

Looking at Li Yunfei very calmly, Vanessa said, "How could those high-ranking nobles ever pay attention to the suffering of the people? All they have on their minds is lavish parties, high-profile ostentations, and more money and profit. ”

"A Wild West that can't produce enough food will only be a liability, and they will be disgusted."

"And since my father was killed and the Brotherhood was scattered, the Wilds West has long since returned to Stormwind's control. Many years had passed, and the nobles of Stormwind had many opportunities to change that. ”

"But what happened?"

Pointing to a dead skeleton on the side of the road, Vanessa said indifferently, "The Wild West is now compared to when my father was alive. Instead of getting better, it's getting worse. ”

"The poor did not have enough to eat, the victims were displaced and their families were ruined, and the nobles hid in their estates to eat and drink, living the richest and most wasteful and luxurious lives. Refusing to help the poor people out there. They would rather throw away the leftovers in their hands than give alms to the homeless people who are dying of starvation outside, and they laugh and laugh at the starvation of the victims......"

Looking at Li Yunfei coldly, Vanessa said, "Do you think such a nobleman can save the people of the Western Wilderness?" ”

Li Yunfei was speechless.

The carriage was quiet again, and several people were silently thinking about their own affairs.

Seeing that Li Yunfei no longer spoke, Vanessa also lost interest in continuing to explain to him. Just walking there coldly, writing something in the bumpy carriage.

Until a certain moment, the convoy, which had been moving slowly, suddenly stopped, and the voice of the guards was heard in front.

"Eldest sister, there is a group of refugees passing by in front, should we stop and make way for them?"

Hearing the news, Vanessa and the others poked their heads out of the car window and indeed saw a group of ragged refugees passing by on the left side of the intersection.

In the dim sunset, most of them were yellow and thin, with the tiredness and vegetables left over from days of hunger on their faces. His cloudy eyes were full of confusion, and he couldn't see the slightest goal. Even the footsteps are the kind of weak fatigue, like a group of walking dead. Lost purpose in life.

In addition to the stench of the refugees, there was also a gloomy despair and confusion that made Vanessa's brow furrow.

She looked around, then asked the guard outside the window, "If I'm not mistaken." This is near the Shanlin River, right? ”

The guard nodded and answered her inquiry.

"Report to the eldest sister, this is a small town of Texas near the Shanlin River, and you can see the town's buildings not far away."

So Vanessa's brows furrowed even tighter, "Since it's a small town in Texas, how can there be refugees?" I remember that the land here was quite rich, but had something happened here in the days since we left? ”

The Blood Elf Maiden interjected, "It may also be from other places, and it may not be ......"

Vanessa nodded, "It's a possibility. ”

The guard slapped his head and was eager to try, "How about I go and ask?" Isn't it clear when you ask? ”

Vanessa shook her head, pushed the door open and stepped out of the carriage, "I'll ask in person, you take care to protect the convoy." ”

After a pause, she glanced back at the guard and said, "Hide all the food and keep it out of the way." Everyone, now you are not allowed to eat - not a single roasted sweet potato! Do you understand? ”

Li Yunfei was confused about her order, and he didn't know why such an order existed. Could it be that the refugees were really so hungry that they even robbed the streets?

Not really......

That being said, after seeing that the group of people in the Brotherhood were all skillfully hiding everything in the convoy, and then looking at the group of yellow-skinned refugees on the road who had been hungry for days, he suddenly felt that this guess was probably true.

Therefore, he also jumped out of the carriage and walked towards the group of refugees with Vanessa and the others.

The group of refugees had apparently noticed the stopped convoy not far away, and most of them had stopped, except for a few who looked blankly and then looked away and continued on the walking corpse's way.

They staggered there, looking longingly at the convoy, the shadows of the setting sun stretched long, looking poor and miserable.

When Vanessa and the others approached, Li Yunfei could even see the sick longing and pleading in the eyes of these people, believing that if it weren't for the existence of the Brotherhood guards with sharp blades around them, these refugees would have rushed up and surrounded them.

And so, under the hopeful and fearful gaze of a group of refugees, Vanessa came to the refugees with a group of murderous Brotherhood subordinates with their swords unsheathed. Stopped.

"Do you have a lead? The homeless team has a leader, right? Tell him to come out to me. ”

Vanessa's loud questioning led a group of refugees looking at each other, people look at me, I look at you, and finally a gloomy whisper rang out from the crowd.

"What is the leader......"

"Is she talking about Brother Kerry?"

"Who is this woman......

"Honorable Miss. Please, can you give me something to eat? We haven't eaten in days......"

"What a leader, I don't understand......"

Looking at the mess, a Brotherhood guard slammed out and slashed a dead tree next to him. He said loudly, "Our eldest sister asks you something!" Why don't you hurry up and answer Lao Tzu? ”

The murderous appearance frightened a group of unarmed refugees, and everyone fell silent in an instant.

Looking at the group of silent refugees, Vanessa frowned and asked, "Does no one know?" Who are your leaders? I think I've heard some Kerry brothers before, who are they? ”

The crowd was silent for a while, and then someone raised his hand tremblingly and whispered.

"Gram...... The Kerry brothers were the leaders, but they were dead, beaten to death by the lord of Texas......"

Vanessa's brow furrowed. "So you don't have a leader now?"

"I didn't ...... No more ......"

"And where are you going now?"

"We are going to the next town, and we have heard that the lord there is quite kind, and we hope to be able to beg for food and clothing there. And then...... Then we'll go to Sentinel Ridge and go there to find Lord Sardinia, and we might be able to find a bite to eat there when we hear that Lord Sardinia is relieving refugees at Sentinel Ridge. ”

This answer made everyone in the Brotherhood look at each other, and Li Yunfei on the side was even more dumbfounded.

If his memory was correct, Vanessa's adoptive parents were a small manor named Satin who lived near Sentinel Ridge.

He couldn't help but glance at Vanessa several times, but he saw that his face was indifferent, and his expression did not fluctuate in the slightest. It seems that this satinia lord has nothing to do with her.

So Li Yunfei couldn't help but shake his head, and began to doubt his judgment, maybe it was really just a coincidence......

By this time, Vanessa had already begun to ask more questions.

"And where are you from?"

"Most of us are from the town of Eric, which was raining heavily recently. The river swelled and flooded the village, leaving most of the people without a home, and those who remained without food had to starve to death, so everyone had to try their luck outside. ”

"How long have you been gone?"

"It's been five days......"

"Hasn't anyone eaten for five days?"

"At first, everyone had a little food left, but then they all ate it. Sometimes people are so hungry that they start gnawing on the bark and grass roots on the roadside. Some people also eat glutinous rice soil in the hope of being able to make it to Sentinel Ridge. But many people still starved to death, and some people were strutted to death after eating glutinous rice soil, and everyone begged all the way, but none of the nobles were willing to help us. ”

"And what about your leader? Why was he killed by the lord of Texas? ”

Speaking of this, the one who answered was a little afraid, quietly glanced at the group of murderous guards behind Vanessa, and the bright steel knives in their hands, swallowed his saliva, and whispered, "When passing by the small town of Texas before, the Kerry brothers begged the Lord of Texas to give everyone some porridge, but the Lord of Texas refused. Then in the course of the dispute, they were killed by the guards of the Lord of Texas......"

Vanessa frowned, and at a glance she could tell that the refugee was lying.

However, after staying in a place like the Western Wilderness for a long time, she easily guessed the scene at that time, and it was obvious that the Cree brothers, who were so hungry that they couldn't stand it, tried to hold the Lord of Texas hostage and forced him to give alms, but instead they were hacked to death by the lord's guards.

It's just that this kind of thing is naturally not a glorious thing, and the refugee is naturally difficult to say.

And just as Vanessa was asking about the group of refugees, Li Yunfei suddenly noticed that there was a six or seven-year-old girl in the crowd looking at him blankly.

The little girl was not tall, her face was yellow and thin, she looked very pitiful, her face was black and full of mud, and her body was tattered, as if she had just come out of a garbage heap, except for dirty, cowardly and pitiful, to see the cuteness and liveliness that any girl of the same age should have.

At this time, her eyes were staring directly at Li Yunfei's waist, and she swallowed saliva from time to time. The eyes were full of longing.

Aware of that sight, Li Yunfei subconsciously lowered his head, only then did he notice that a piece of bread was exposed in the pocket he hung around his waist, which was exuding the unique fragrance of flour in the setting sun.

And the little girl stared blankly. It was the corner of this bread, and the eyes were full of longing.

Her father noticed that Li Yunfei was looking over, and also noticed his daughter's gaze, so he was startled and quickly covered his daughter's eyes. He was going to take her away - after all, the murderous Brotherhood escort around Li Yunfei was too much of a deterrent for the poor father to provoke him.

So seeing that the other party was panicked and wanted to retract from the crowd, Li Yunfei subconsciously stopped the father and daughter.

"That...... Belch...... Please pause. ”

As he spoke, under the fearful and fearful gaze of a group of refugees, Li Yunfei walked straight into the group of refugees, passed through a group of refugees who emitted a foul smell, and came to the father and daughter.

"Little sister, are you looking at this?"

Squatting down, his gaze parallel to the little girl, Li Yunfei took out the pocket containing the bread. handed it to the little girl, smiled and said, "I'll give you these two breads, okay?" ”

As he spoke, he directly took out the two dough cakes and handed them to the little girl's dirty hands, "If there are two, you and your father will be one each, do you want it?" ”

The little girl's dirty little hands grabbed the bread in her hand tightly, and looked at Li Yunfei who was smiling in front of her sluggishly. Overwhelmed.

Her father subconsciously wanted to speak, and Vanessa suddenly roared from outside the refugee group.

"What are you doing!"

In the next second, sudden chaos and screams suddenly attacked the place, and Vanessa rushed over with the Brotherhood soldiers as if she had gone crazy. After violently pushing all the refugees around, they surrounded Li Yunfei and the trembling father and daughter in the middle.

Looking at Li Yunfei with a stunned expression in the circle, Vanessa was furious, "Who allowed you to give them food privately?" Look up around you! Do you want the lives of these two? ”

Li Yunfei looked stunned, "Uh...... What's wrong? ”

He stood up and subconsciously looked at the crowd around him. Then he showed a blank expression.

All around him, the Brotherhood soldiers were all unsheathed and on guard, protecting him and Vanessa in the middle of the circle as if they were facing a great enemy, sweating profusely.

And the object of their treatment is the poor refugees who are displaced, starved and have no food to eat, but to eat the soil and grass roots and tree bark.

It's just that when Li Yunfei looked over, he clearly saw the sick longing and impatience in the eyes of these refugees. When the refugees, who had no goal and walked like corpses, looked at the two pieces of bread in the little girl's hand, they had turned into the most ferocious and vicious hungry wolves, showing the most vicious fangs.

At that moment, Li Yunfei even believed that if it weren't for the deterrence of the weapons in the hands of this group of Difia soldiers, this group of refugees who were about to move would have rushed up and grabbed them frantically.

However, even so, the threat of a dozen steel knives was already difficult to suppress the riot of hundreds of people.

In the midst of the refugees, people are ready to move, the terrible sound of grinding teeth is sounding, and the cold and manic whispers are also sounding, which can rush up at any moment and the bloodiest clash will occur.

In the chaos of the crowd, Vanessa's voice rang out.

"Take away your bread! Let's go! ”

This order made the mob even more stupid, and almost someone approached, and couldn't help but want to storm the outermost guard circle.

However, in the midst of such chaos, standing in the center of the root of chaos, scanning the chaotic scenes around him, Li Yunfei was silent for a while, and slowly drew a sword from the void air.

"I thought the Wild West was miserable......"

The terrifying sword wind swayed around him, and the terrifying killing intent almost turned into a surging tide, instantly sweeping the scene within a radius of hundreds of meters.

In the strange encirclement that instantly became silent, Li Yunfei's whisper sounded, "I just didn't expect it to be so miserable......

Under Vanessa's stunned gaze, he slowly squatted down, gently touched the little girl's head, and softly comforted the little girl's frightened heart.

Then he took the dough from the little girl's trembling hand, tore it into small pieces and fed it to her, and said calmly.

"Eat slowly, don't be afraid."

"Now, I'm here, who dares to come."

The audience was silent! (To be continued.) )