After moving the timber that had been hoarded in recent days, as well as the furs, gold and silver he had purchased, Wang Qiu had planned to travel back to modern times directly in Bath City, and by the way, he would buy some goods from the small commodity market there. As for the wormhole itself, Arthur brought it back to Camelot Castle to be housed.

However, as the saying goes, Jihua is not as good as change, and before Wang Qiu can start acting, a new discovery disrupts his schedule.

“…… Mr. Father, do you mean that this wormhole only appeared this morning? ”

Standing in a messy courtyard in Bath City, Wang Qiu looked at the deep wormhole floating above a small field of turnips, and asked casually. King Arthur, who was forced to act as a translator, opened his mouth to translate with a blank face, and stumbled into Celtic translation.

“…… Yes, John from the grocery store stumbled upon it when he got up to cook today, and there was absolutely nothing here yesterday. ”

The chubby Father Paul replied with a smirk, "...... This is how the path to heaven that God has given to the angels to return is so unpredictable......"

But John, who discovered the wormhole, despite taking a Christian name, clearly disagreed with the priest's opinion and had a different opinion:

“…… What the? Angel's path to heaven? How could several of the Druid elders in the tribe say that this is the all-purpose cauldron for all wishes? Otherwise, how could the king get so much candy, coloured cloth, salt, metal, and so many other good things? ”

John at the grocery store paid no attention to Father Paul's glaring and ugly face, and just muttered to himself.

This is exactly what is characteristic of this era. When they see something that can't be explained in a reasonable way, they naturally associate themselves with the gods...... Unfortunately, the Celts at this time had more than one faith. The result is conflict and chaos.

After all, it was only the beginning of the sixth century AD, less than two hundred years before Christianity became the supreme state religion of the Roman Empire, and Britain was so remote from the Roman Empire that it was far from the early Christian centers around the Mediterranean.

As a result, the Christian faith of these Celts has always been precarious, and a considerable number of people are still more willing to listen to the teachings of the druids in their tribes. There were also quite a few Celts who had already converted to God. After being defeated or conquered by the Anglo-Saxon barbarians, he once again turned his back on Christian identity and returned to the bosom of Druidism. As for the guys who believe in heretical sects within Christianity. And the list goes on.

Even the Celts, who now clinged to the Christian faith, have become far from pious in their belief in God with the collapse of the Roman Empire and intermittent ties with the bishops of Rome...... In fact, according to the original history. The rest of these Celtic Christians who cling to their faith. After being defeated and conquered by the Anglo-Saxons, who did not believe in God at the time, they would soon also betray the faith and abandon their Christian identity. It was not until later that these Anglo-Saxons followed suit and Britain returned to God.

Ignoring the "murderous eyes" stares between the fat priest Paul and the pagan John, Wang Qiu and Arthur discussed the ownership of this wormhole, "...... Merlin was rushing to Pudong Airport to greet his loved ones; Bedwell spent months working as an overseer at the lumberyard; Lancelot stayed at Carmellot Castle and never left...... Then it's just my sister Morgan, who hangs out a lot......"

Arthur counted with his fingers crossed. While looking critically at the courtyard, "...... But. How did my sister come to such a place? ”

-- Wormholes can only appear not far from the traverser's side, which is an empirical statement summed up through long-term practice. Although the wormhole may not follow the traverser, sometimes the wormhole has already appeared, but the traverser is still unaware. But the wormhole must have been born at least once there. It is impossible for any traveler to descend on Handan in the Warring States Period, but the wormhole appeared in Xianyang, where he had never been......

However, now this newly discovered wormhole was born in a small and dilapidated courtyard...... Wang Qiu looked at the environment here and found that it was a large compound similar to a migrant workers' dormitory, where Zhuang men who had rushed from the countryside to the city when it was their turn to serve as laborers, with a total area of about three or four hundred square meters. It's a pity that the yard is large, but the house is small, so each room is crowded with a bunch of people - obviously, even in the modern Shijie migrant worker dormitory, the smell of the stinky feet of that group of big men will definitely not smell. Not to mention the ancients who didn't care much about their own hygiene. Some of the Romanized citizens also often went to the hot spring baths, while others who had recently migrated from the mountains often did not take a bath or wash their hair for months...... This kind of disgusting sour temperature is really unacceptable to people's noses.

And, in order to save money, they also planted a little vegetable in the yard and fertilized it...... So...... Everyone should know that......

No matter how you look at it, Arthur's charming, amorous Morgan sister doesn't look like she would come to hang out in this kind of place......

Wang Qiu muttered to himself as he looked up at the newly emerged wormhole—about the size of a basketball, emitting a faint cold black mist, suspended in a small patch of green turnips, clinging to the walls of Fat Father Paul's church...... Wait, church walls?!

In response to this discovery, Wang Qiudeng's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked the fat priest Paul, only to learn that Miss Morgan had made a confession to him yesterday evening—that is, through a window inlaid with perforated wooden boards, her hands clenched into fists or folded, and she began with the sentence "God, I am guilty", and the clergy on the other side of the wall confessed their sins or recounted the troubles that had accumulated in their hearts.

And the wall where the turnip field where the wormhole appears is clinging to is the confessional room of this church.

Obviously, this wormhole was quietly born during this secret room confession, and it may have been only two or three meters away from Miss Morgan at that time. Unfortunately, there was a wall across it, so neither the priest nor Miss Morgan herself noticed it, and it was not discovered by the whistleblower until the next day.

And then. Seeing that his report was confirmed, the person who found out about it began to ask for a reward with a flattering face.

“…… No problem, ten bags of fine white flour, ten bags of sugar, twenty packets of refined salt, plus ten stainless steel kitchen knives, will be delivered to you in no time! ”

Arthur snapped his fingers disapprovingly, and promised the whistleblower who was on his knees and thanked him.

For rewards like this for "spotting wormholes", he has recently had to pay a sum every few months.

- Despite the legend of the Druids of the Celtic tribe. This wormhole has been described as the "Holy Grail" that can grant all wishes......

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In the last two years, the priority projects of the Kingdom of Carmellot have been in addition to logging, construction, farming, mining and grazing. It's about finding the way back for those who travel through the world except for Arthur - in short, it's about finding wormholes.

――Since there are multiple time-travelers in this space-time, it is natural that there will be multiple wormholes.

Although most of the places where wormholes appear are obvious. Glance. But occasionally wormholes appear in hidden places, such as Arthur's wormhole, which appeared in the outlet of the hot spring baths, and was not discovered for several days...... In order to avoid the recurrence of similar situations, Arthur deliberately offered a high bounty at the strong request of all the British travelers, mobilizing all the people to help find the wormhole, and the results were remarkable.

However, finding and confirming the wormhole does not mean the end of the trouble. You know, the exits at the other end of the wormhole are all on the modern Earth. But God knows where it will be on the modern earth, and it's hard to say if it's a place of peace. It would have taken a lot of trouble to get the Britons home safely through the wormholes - one of the wormholes exited at a mosque in the Middle East, where the hapless British sergeant had just come out and had been stoned in the head by angry prayers; The exit of another wormhole turned out to be in the Zhongnanhai compound, and even China's top state leader was alarmed; There is also an exit to a wormhole at the homicide scene in Osaka, Japan, and as soon as I came out, I saw a pair of adulterers and adulteresses who were cut to bloody flesh by their cuckold husbands, so that a certain chef at the scientific research station was almost regarded as a suspect by the Japanese police; The remaining wormholes are located in relatively ordinary places, some in parks, some in fields, some in fishing boats, some on the roofs of skyscrapers, and some are next to Cai Rong...... Fortunately, as long as they can find the wormhole caused by themselves, no matter how the process is, they can still return to their shijie.

However, in the past two years, there have also been people who have died one after another before their own wormholes appeared—some were killed by missing a cannon while mining a mine, some were trampled into meat sauce after falling from a horse in battle, and some died of AIDS during a group of pornographic gatherings......

Due to the fewer and fewer time-traveler assistants around him, and Wang Qiu's manpower was also recalled to rest, Arthur was forced to start training and promoting natives of the plane as senior assistants on the one hand, and on the other hand, he had to take on more work himself, taking on more work, frequently leading troops to patrol various places, deal with lawsuits, suppress riots, and ally with the Celtic kings of Wales and Cornwall to stabilize the international environment in the surrounding area.

The work of appealing is very cumbersome, and the traffic on the island of Great Britain is very underdeveloped in these years, and the road conditions are also very poor, even if the land of the "Red Dragon King" is only the size of a palm, it takes a lot of time to patrol the mountains and rivers, so in the last year or so, Arthur's time in Camelot Castle has begun to become shorter and shorter, and he and his wife Gnavelle are also very close.

In recent months, the pressure on Arthur's shoulders has increased even more - Lancelot and Morgan have married and stayed at Camelot to look after the house; Only Arthur and Bedwell went out separately to patrol and bomb the place, and Merlin occasionally came over to help...... The whole little kingdom was barely functioning under a grossly unsound management team, always like a dilapidated old ox cart, creaking and threatening to fall apart at any moment.

This time, Arthur had just returned from a visit to the Kingdom of Cornwall, where he had discussed the opening of trade routes with the European continent - this man's territory was closest to the French coast, and he had to inspect the territory again after returning from a night's rest. Inspect production: The traversers who were originally placed in various places to supervise production have either died or returned, and many things can only be done by King Arthur himself. However, Wang Qiu and other Chinese urban management have no intention of producing resources on a small scale. The island of Great Britain, which has limited economic benefits every year, invests too much manpower and material resources......

-- A long period of separation between husband and wife, especially such a political marriage with a weak emotional foundation, is often prone to problems. Especially when the couple doesn't have children yet...... But in the face of a mountain of official duties and endless chaos, the exhausted Arthur is also helpless.

In fact, while Arthur was away from home, there was already a problem with the people who stayed behind in Camelot. So much so that Morgan, who had noticed certain signs, was so upset that he had to confess to the priest - but King Arthur was still ignorant of this......

Then, just as he was about to go home. Informing his sister Morgan of the news of the wormhole, and by the way, he asks for a delicate and ornate crown and a set of intricate dresses embroidered with white satin and gold thread from Wang Qiu, and Jihua gives it to Gnavelle as a gift to soothe her long-term loneliness in the empty boudoir. But it brought an ominous piece of bad news to Arthur.

“…… Alert! Alert! A large number of Irish pirates have landed from the west! The port of Bristol was attacked! The battle broke out! ”

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The remnants of the sun are like blood, the crows are circling, the walls are ruined, and the smoke is curling.

On arrival at the Port of Bristol. When he saw the tragic situation of this seaside village and town after it was looted, Wang Qiu was almost stunned by the scene in front of him.

After several years of painstaking management, a village of more than 2,000 people has emerged on this desolate beach, which was originally only reeds and mud, and has built trestle bridges, docks, warehouses and small shipbuilding workshops. According to the original plan, as the only seaport in the Kingdom of Carmellot, it would gather merchant ships from the seven seas and spread a thriving trade network connecting the whole of Western Europe.

But at this moment. All the grand plans, all the ideal blueprints. It's all gone up in smoke!

Under the red sunset, the thatched roofs of many houses were still smoking, but the thatch had long been scorched, the fuel was almost exhausted, and the fire naturally became the end of the crossbow, leaving only a few fragments of broken furniture, still burning in the smoke. Countless walls collapsed in the blazing fire, allowing the rubble to cover the dead beneath the ruins. Countless charred corpses were all twisted in strange shapes, some holding their heads, some covering their stomachs, most of the corpses were burned without their hair, and the pungent smell of burnt protein blew with the sea breeze, making people want to vomit.

Located at the mouth of the River Avon, Bristol Harbour is built on the water, and a clear stream runs through the rows of cottages, which feed more than 2,000 villagers. But now, the beautiful stream has been filled with blood and corpses, and all kinds of severed limbs and broken arms are floating on the water, and the curled corpses have attracted swarms of ants and flies, which lie densely on the fresh raw meat and feast on it.

When the walls of the villages and towns were breached, it was obvious that many villagers fled in panic. Because their carcasses blocked the roads like sardines. But they could not escape, because a detour of the enemy had already blocked their escape, causing them to fall sideways on both sides of the road. Expressions of horror still lingered on their faces, and some of them seemed to be trying to cry out for help, but in the end they were killed by the rounds of swords, arrows, and javelins, and some even had their skulls shattered alive by blunt objects, so much so that their brains cracked and died.

Everywhere there was blinding flesh and blood, dyeing almost the entire dirt road a horrible scarlet. A chubby middle-aged woman was lying on the ground, her hideous lightning-like scar slashing from her right shoulder all the way to her left leg, her belly was completely dissected, and her intestines were pulled open for nearly half a meter like duct tape, which had been oxidized to an ugly black and yellow. If Wang Qiu didn't guess wrong, she must have struggled very hard before she died, and even dragged her internal organs flowing out of her belly for a long time...... But even with such a tenacious will to survive, in the end, he was unable to defeat the cruel Grim Reaper.

“…… Looks like your Bristol is all over, who do you think should have done it? Anglo-Saxons? Or Vikings? ”

Rounding the killing fields of Bristol, they found no enemy bodies, except for a few abandoned pirate wrecked ships on the beachfront. So Wang Qiu had no choice but to sigh and ask Arthur.

“…… No, the Vikings are still in their Nordic homeland, and it should not be until the next century that they sail the seas with dragon head warships. Arthur shook his head, "...... As for the Anglo-Saxons, who were east of the island of Great Britain, and the Germanic people were never seafaring peoples, it is hard to imagine that they would be able to bypass Cornwall and land behind enemy lines in Bristol, which is deep on the front line. In fact, after seeing this scene, I can already guess who the enemy is attacking us......"

He took a deep breath and then said the zuihou answer: "...... The murderer of this tragedy should be the Irish! (To be continued......)