On the road leading to the north gate of Hatsuha Castle, Li Mengxi and Hinata Nain, who had finished their investigation trip, walked side by side. Li Mengxi rode a blood-red war horse, and Nayin on his right hand was riding her only mount that could stay on it - the wind falcon "Meng Boy".

During the journey, Li Mengxi kept looking at the map with a quill in his hand.

"Hmm...... Judging from the information I have started now, the fifth boss is probably around here. ”

While muttering, Li Mengxi drew a pen on the map, and then handed the map back to Naiyin.

"What do you think?"

Hinata Nain ignored Li Mengxi, her eyes staring straight ahead, and at the same time tugging on the reins of the cute boy slightly to make it stop. So, Li Mengxi also followed and restrained his red war horse.

"What's wrong?" asked Li Mengxi as he put away his pen and map.

"Front. With that, Naine raised her finger and walked out.

Li Mengxi looked in the direction of Hinata Nayin's finger and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

A large group of men and horses were driving out of Hatsuba City, and they were marching in their direction along the road, that is, away from Hatsuba City.

"Someone has withdrawn from Early Leaf City again. ”

Li Mengxi said with some sadness. After all, since the Williams incident six months ago, many people have moved out of Hatsuba City one after another.

"This time, though, it doesn't seem to be the player. ”

"Huh!" Naine was surprised, "isn't it?"

"Hmm. Li Mengxi nodded as he raised his hand and pointed to the convoy in the distance, "The people in front and behind are probably players." But Nayin, if you look closely, most of the fleet is made up of trucks. We players all have large-capacity portable warehouses, and even if the four major guilds move as a whole, they don't need so many trucks. So, presumably the NPC's convoy hired the player as a bodyguard to escort them out. ”

In other words, the law and order in the city has deteriorated again. Naine felt a little sad.

Williams' incident indirectly revealed the fact that players can do whatever they want to NPCs in the city. Since then, the phenomenon of players committing violence against NPCs has begun to increase, especially after the four major guilds took the lead in a map-wide dungeon cleanup at the beginning of this year, and almost all the battle guilds with heads and faces poured out of the city, this situation has shown a straight rise.

Of course, players can't be completely unscrupulous, because there is also a new group in the city of Hatsuba, the garrison troops. This is a spontaneous police-like organization formed by Williams' long-time adjutant Howard, but because it is related to the system setting, both themselves and others are increasingly ignoring the "spontaneous" nature.

This garrison unit can be regarded as the second legacy of the Williams incident.

The question of "why Williams can kill people in the city" can be understood by reading the announcement in front of the garrison fortress and obtaining the illustrative book "Guide to Joining the Army".

The player belongs to the nobility of the human race in the system setting, because the ancestors did not follow the brave to rebel against the gods, so they were protected by the gods, so they are noble people. Commoners are ordinary people whose ancestors participated in the rebellion without being blessed by the gods.

The safe zone built by the city was actually a sanctuary given to the nobility by the gods, and although the commoners could also hide from the monsters, this could only be regarded as a by-product. After all, they don't have the same rights as the nobles to be protected by the gods, which is why the player can do whatever they want with the NPCs.

However, is there something that the system doesn't restrict by coercion that the player can do casually? This is something that even the system of the game world itself denies, no, it should be said that this is the key to making the Garrison Commander gameplay work.

That's the criminal system.

Once a player commits a crime, he will lose the protection of the safe zone for a period of time and become a criminal, and then other players can start the exact same PK behavior against him in the city as they do in the wild.

An attack on a criminal by an ordinary player, even if it is a murderous act, will not be considered a crime, and will be considered an act of upholding justice, and if you apply for the position of the garrison officer, you will get the title of garrison officer and the corresponding permissions if you agree.

This is one of the two ways the player can become a Garrison, and it's ridiculously an irregular way.

The other is the recruitment system, which is completely impossible to achieve now, because the recruitment system is completely in the hands of the garrison lord and the lord. And the garrison lord will only be awarded to the "people's hero" who has completed the hidden mission, that is, the first person to punish the crime, it is none other than Williams, who has left Hatsuba City without a trace.

As a result, the fifty or so garrison officers now gathered under Howard's command were all guilty of surrender, and some of them directly executed the offenders. This is somewhat at the expense of others for power, so although they claim to be a "police force" recognized by the system, they are quite unpopular with others.

However, most of these people want to become garrison officers because they want to uphold the will of justice. It's just that after more than half a year, they seem to have deviated somewhat and developed in the direction of cool officials.

It's like this.

"Boom!"

As soon as Li Mengxi and Hinata Nain walked out of the castle tower and entered the city, they heard a roar not far away. They immediately looked at them in amazement, just like everyone else in the area.

In the very center of the line of sight, there were two young men in the uniforms of black and blue garrisons, and at their feet were stalls and merchandise that were being reduced to light chips. You don't have to ask to know that they smashed it.

This stall, Li Mengxi and Naiyin, as many people in the city have seen many times, is a street shop that mainly sells things like paints, and the stall owner is a male life group player who has been running a small business, and he is falling to the ground in shock.

Immediately, the garrison, who was a little taller than his companion, grabbed the stall owner by the collar and lifted him up.

"Say, did you do it?"

"Didn't I say it, I didn't do it!" the stall owner argued hoarsely.

"Isn't it?" said the shorter but still nearly 1.8-meter-tall garrison, flicking his fingers. What he was doing was systematically giving the garrison officers the exclusive authority to use for investigation, observing the subject's subjective action log. It is an investigative method similar to snooping into the memories of the other party.

"You sold red paint to someone yesterday at 16:35 in a group of 10. Who is this 'someone' and what is he buying so much paint for?"

"I don't know! How can I remember all the people who come to buy things! Besides, I can't even know what they want to do when they buy me and sell them!"

The relatively short garrison officer pondered for a moment, then looked at his companion.

"You don't have to keep spending with him. ”

"Hmph!" the taller garrison snorted coldly, letting go and causing the stall owner to fall heavily to the ground. Immediately, the two garrisons marched away. obviously smashed other people's stalls, and moved again, and in the end, he didn't even say a word of apology.

Watching this scene from afar, Hinata Nain trembled with anger, if it was not the time when the "Yan Shan Pavilion" was not established before, she would definitely rush out immediately to teach those two people a lesson.

Li Mengxi was also very angry, and the most important thing was that he couldn't bear to see Nai Yin show this appearance. He couldn't help but think about whether to come out and kill the garrison.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded beside the two.

"It's been a long time. ”

Hearing the call, the two men cast their eyes over. What caught their eyes was a young man in uniform as a garrison officer, but the two of them were not angry, because this person they knew was Booker Blair, a former member of the "Oberiske".