The content of the letter is very simple, just a small line: A month ago, the eagle encountered a leopard on the Plains of Burns, failed miserably, and no one returned.

Naturally, this is not a frolicking of birds and animals, how could the Claire family's top-secret channel be used to record such a boring thing.

The true meaning of the content is the result of a war.

The Eagle naturally refers to the Imperial Royal Family, and the Campbell family with a blue-background eagle family crest, while the Barbarian Leopard is the Leonard family with the Duke of the West, with the green-background Leopard as the family crest.

Just a few months ago, without warning, the Duke of the West, Hicks, tore apart the submission agreement he had signed with the Empire, gathered his legions, and marched on the borders of the remaining four borders, looting cities and looting supplies.

The empire, with its iron and blood on its throne, would not tolerate the existence of rebellion?

The modern-day Emperor Nehmaiah immediately signaled the soldiers close to the west, formed a large army of 30,000 infantry, 9,000 cavalry, and 1,000 knights, and appointed the Empire's famous marshal, the undefeated myth Judith with the "Blade of the Superior Army", to lead the army.

Hicks, on the other hand, had less than 15,000 legions in total, and was poorly armed, usually with only light leather armor and scimitars.

This is completely in contrast to the imperial heavy cavalry that is almost armed to the teeth and is good at frontal sprints, not to mention that since the formation of the Eagle Family Heavy Cavalry Legion, it has almost never been defeated, and it is still led by a famous general like Judith, whether it is the size of the legion, the level of armament, and the command ability are far more than one grade above the Western Legion.

Among the Five Realms, even the nobles of the Western Realm, few of them are optimistic that Hicks will be able to win, and they have even planned how to share the cake of the Western Realm after the destruction of the Barbarian Leopard Family.

But now the news came that the Imperial Army had suffered a crushing defeat, and that none of the 40,000 troops, including Judith, had returned alive.

How is this possible?

"Twisting the corners of the letter, there is another news that I used almost all of my resources to find out. ”

Dunbar's face was calm, but his arms still fluttered unnaturally.

Suo Xi rubbed the edge of the letter paper, and sure enough, as he said, a much smaller piece of paper fell from the middle layer of the paper, and after reading it, Suo Xi's face became extremely ugly.

"The empire is built on heavy horses, even if they are slackened in a hundred years of peace, but if they want to be completely wiped out by a famous commander like Judith, it is possible to do it at least with the same equipment and the quality of the soldiers, and more than three times the number of people. ”

"I can't imagine how it is possible for a 15,000 barbarians from the Western Realm to do this, so I asked people to go all out to find out the situation at that time, and the result was ......"

Dunbar took a deep breath and said with a solemn expression: "It was not the Western Legion that defeated the Imperial Army, but some strange creatures beyond our imagination that directly attacked the Imperial Army's camp. ”

"Not only that, but there is also news from the other three realms, all of which are attacked by strange creatures, and the casualties vary in severity, but at least it can show that this is not an accident. ”

He looked at Suo Xi squarely and said word by word, "You say, this mutated dragon lizard could be one of those strange creatures." ”

"I don't know, but ......" Soxi swallowed hard, his voice became hoarse: "There is a possibility. ”

Dunbar walked closer to the window with his hands behind his back and looked out at the street: "Anyway, we have to start preparing, whether it's dealing with strange creatures that may be coming soon, or other more complicated situations......"

"Empire—no, the term may be going away soon. ”

......

When Hodge and Devany return to the hotel, it causes quite a stir.

It wasn't because of anything else, but the two of them looked so bad right now, with a lot of dirt on their bodies that they didn't know what it was, and they smelled foul all around.

"Get out, bum!"

The shopkeeper apparently didn't recognize the two dirty figures, and was carrying a thick wooden stick to drive them out.

Hodge grabbed the waving wooden stick in frustration and wiped his face weakly: "It's me." ”

"This ...... Guest?"

It took some effort for the shopkeeper to recognize his appearance, and he said in amazement, "How did you become like this?" ”

"Don't mention it, bad luck. He muttered.

Daphne seemed to be unable to bear the counterpoint of his ink with the shopkeeper, so she came and pushed him aside, popping a silver coin out of her fingertips, which the shopkeeper quickly caught it, and although it was dirty, it would be extraordinarily beautiful even if it was ten times dirtier.

"Prepare us three large wooden barrels full of water, and we will ask for them at once. ”

The shopkeeper suddenly realized that this was undoubtedly used to wash his body, and the three buckets of water were far from needing a silver coin, which was a bargain deal, and he nodded: "I'll let someone burn it right away." ”

"Burn?" Daphne shook her head, "No need, just fill it with cold water and send it straight to our room." ”

The shopkeeper looked at her strangely, thinking that this kind of weather would freeze into popsicles if she washed it in cold water, but after all, others paid a lot of money, so maybe she had some unique fetishes.

It didn't take long for the tub filled with cold water to be brought to their room, and a rudimentary curtain was drawn in the cramped room, and Hodge reached out to pull the curtain on the outside of his bucket after the door was locked inside.

"Can you do it yourself?" he heard Daphne's voice as the curtain closed.

"I haven't tried, but—" he nodded to himself, "there should be no problem. ”

"Hmm. Daphne replied softly, not speaking again.

Through the curtains, he could see two fires on the other side, hot water from the bucket that Devany was heating with flames.

Hodge turned his back and stretched out his hand to the tub, invisible microwaves spread to the water in the bucket, he really hadn't tried to use the ability to use hot water, but this is not a difficult operation to think about, after all, the essence of microwave heating is to vibrate water, and the speed of using it to make hot water is even faster than that of a flame.

The hot mist began to fill and Hodge stopped his abilities, he didn't want the water to boil completely, it wasn't a pleasant experience.

As for Daphne, she didn't care about the temperature of the water at all, the hot water was only for Hera and easier to clean the dirt.

There was a rustling sound of undressing from behind, and it seemed that Devany and the others had already warmed up the water.

He also took off his clothes, stepped into the tub, slowly squatted down, let the hot water reach his chin, closed his eyes and let out a breath of relief.

It's so comfortable.

He slowly opened his eyes, and the hazy mist and the obscurity of the cloth made it vaguely possible to see the two figures on the opposite side.

Devany didn't seem to be in the bath yet, but instead carried Hera into the bucket and scrubbed her hair.

Maybe it was because the water temperature was too comfortable, and because of the exhaustion, his thoughts began to be chaotic, and chaotic thoughts were running around in his mind, and at this time, he inexplicably thought, maybe Daphne would become a very virtuous mother, right?

Wrong...... The witch could not have children, and he suddenly became sad again, and thought it was a very sad thing.

He really wanted to talk to someone for a while, why, why the witch was so miserable.

But he couldn't find that "who", and even if it did, it wouldn't answer his question.

Why is there so much? The world is so unreasonable, everyone is struggling, but they can't get out.

He thought of death again, once he died, everything was empty, this should be considered a relief, since life is too hard and tired, isn't death also a great destination?

But when the idea arose, he found it boring and resisted, perhaps because the relief was too easy.

His thoughts became more and more scattered, and before he knew it, the water had reached his mouth.

Goo-goo-goo.

He curled up in the barrel, spitting blisters like a fish, still thinking about his previous question.

After all, why do we go to such great lengths to live?

Probably because of ...... It's also quite interesting to have a struggling life......