After a series of blows, Leach no longer had any expectations for Howard, the supreme person in charge of the town of Kermos, especially when he saw that the method he came up with was to go door to door to ask if he had seen any suspicious people, and there was no purpose at all, Leach's heart was only left with despair.

However, people worked tirelessly to help, and Leach couldn't complain.

After getting nothing again, and after exiting from the small courtyard of a family, Leach finally couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Howard, why don't you mobilize your men to help us make inquiries, isn't it much faster than if we did it alone?"

After this period of observation, Leach found that Howard was full of contradictions, such as that he was obviously a high-ranking person, but he did not have the slightest arrogance towards his subordinates, and even some flattering elements, he didn't even dare to talk to them loudly, let alone instruct them to do things, and for example, he is now the top person in charge of the town of Kermos, but he behaves like a small soldier who has just joined the army for a short time。

Hearing this, Howard laughed embarrassedly: "Everyone is my senior, of course I'm not good at always asking them to help me do things, anyway, I have nothing to do when I'm idle, just accompany you out to inquire about the news!"

"What...... What?" Leach thought something was wrong with his ears, "You said they were all your seniors?"

"yes, what's the problem?" Howard asked, apparently not understanding why Leach had a ghostly look on his face.

"But you...... Aren't you the commander of the guards in this town, it stands to reason that you should be the biggest, why have you become a junior?"

"So you're wondering about this...... Howard suddenly realized, "To tell you the truth, I'm just a child of a poor family, with no power and no power, how can I become the commander of the guard of a small town at my age, do you think this is the reason?"

Howard didn't explain, but Leach was even more confused. Originally, he thought that Howard's family background was prominent, so he could only hold important positions at a young age, but when he heard that this was not the case at all, his head was a mess, and he could only nod stupidly in agreement.

"Hehe, I'll tell you the truth, just half a year ago, I was just a small soldier who had only been in the army for two months. Later, after losing a series of battles with the rebels, the former commander fled with his family for fear of being blamed, and the position of the commander of the guard was vacated. ”

"However, everyone's home is in Kelmos, and we can't just wait for death to eat and die, and let the rebels do anything in the town, so after the big guys discussed, they wanted to temporarily choose a commander before the government sent someone to take over this mess. ”

"The idea is indeed good, but when someone really needs to stand up and shoulder this heavy responsibility, everyone retreats again, and no one wants to come forward!"

"Everyone, you push it to me, I push it to you, no one wants to be the big boss of this injustice, and then someone proposed to vote for the election. ”

"And then you were chosen because of your popularity and prestige?" Leach couldn't help but complain.

Hearing this, Howard smiled bitterly: "I hope that I have good popularity and prestige, so that I will not become this commander!"

"Because everyone doesn't want to be it, so those who can usually say a few words in the team have mobilized people they know to ask those people not to vote for them, just like that, not long after I joined the army, I didn't know many people at all, and I was pushed out by everyone. ”

After listening to Howard tell his story of his experience, Leach realized why some of his behaviors were so abnormal, and the emotional family turned out to be just a small soldier.

Fortunately, after the fat shopkeeper accompanied Leach and them to find Howard, he first asked for his farewell on the grounds that he had to go back to see the store, and Leach and they also felt that he could run away from the monk and couldn't run the temple, so they didn't forcibly keep him and let him leave, otherwise if he was still here, they didn't know how they would feel when they heard that the guard commander of the town was chosen in this way.

However, thinking of the fat shopkeeper's calm behavior when he met Howard, Leach felt as if he had known about it a long time ago, and suddenly began to worry about whether the fat shopkeeper would really abscond in fear.

While Leach was struggling, Tizzel asked, "Then since you became the commander of the guards, didn't you think about training the team to protect your homeland?"

"Of course I've thought about it!" Howard suddenly became proud, "You don't know, back then, we soldiers never participated in training, so when the rebels made trouble, we didn't have much ability to resist. ”

"Later, although reinforcements came, the defeated rebels changed their tactics, and the reinforcements could not stay with us forever, and in the end we had to rely on ourselves. ”

"With my encouragement, the big guys finally began to train themselves, but the old habits are difficult to change, and it is impossible to make them elite soldiers all at once, and they will ignore me as a young man when their stubborn temper rises, so I usually have to coax them with good words when I want them to participate in training. ”

"Despite this, the garrison of our Kermos is now better than a year ago, I don't know how many times!"

"It's a pity that everyone has no experience and doesn't know how to train to be more efficient, so they have to figure it out on their own, otherwise the situation would be better. ”

After listening to Howard's efforts to protect his homeland, Leach couldn't help but be in awe of this slightly wooden young man. Thinking about it from another perspective, if he was in Howard's position, he would probably pick and choose not to run away, and it would be impossible for him to think about strengthening the team.

Because of his changed impression, Leach spoke more politely: "Mr. Howard, I think our door-to-door inquiries are too inefficient, why don't we go to the places where the five of us have been before?"

"Yes, I didn't think of it before!" Howard clapped his hands suddenly, "Let's go, let's go to the scene of the crime first, and we may be able to find out some useful clues!