The Northern Desert has always been home to the dead and the ghosts, but a few months ago, a new group of inhabitants had been added to it—humans.

Shang Rong was initially surprised by the tolerance of the dead and ghost clans, because for him, the brute beasts that had ruined his hometown, the brute beasts that had been fighting against humans for two hundred years, now acquiesced in their activities in the Northern Desert, which seemed a little unimaginable.

Of course, their battle against the brutes never stopped.

Under the leadership of Hedage, there is an additional human city in the Northern Desert, the Spirit Capital, at the beginning, they were only a few thousand people, but fortunately, these people are the elite of the War Capital, relying on the location of the Spirit Capital, while building this city, while fighting with the surrounding beasts.

However, just half a month later, everything has changed.

At the beginning, Shang Rong didn't know the news of the invasion of the empire by the tide of dead ghosts and beasts, he only knew that Hedage had selected hundreds of people and sent them to different designated locations in the southeast in dozens of groups, saying that they were receiving fresh blood from the spiritual capital, and Shang Rong was also one of the executors.

After waiting for two days at the designated location, a large number of brute beasts appeared, and then, in Shang Rong's fear, handed over to them the hundreds of humans they had escorted.

The first time he escorted the human exiles was just a dead beast general, but that lifeless aura made Shang Rong breathless, and there was nowhere to ask all kinds of questions in his heart.

It wasn't until the Dead Beast General led the army away that Shang Rong breathed a sigh of relief and worked with his companions to wake up the originally unconscious outcasts, and in their narratives, they learned the news about the invasion of the Empire by the Dead Beast Tide.

Shang Rong was shocked, because this proved one of his conjectures - Lingdu was actually cooperating with the Death and Ghost Clans!

He didn't know how Hedag did it, but this fact made him think of two words.

Traitor!

For a hundred years, the war between humans and barbarians has never stopped, but now Hedag has cooperated with the enemies of mankind to capture and plunder the people belonging to the empire into the Northern Desert, just to increase the strength of the war clan, this behavior has made the entire spiritual capital a traitor to mankind!

But he held back the disgust in his heart, and took these hundreds of people back to the spiritual capital after several days of grinding.

All new blood needs to be sifted, and the task given to them by Hadag is to implant the greatness of the Spirit City in the minds of these outcasts during the few days of trekking, and stimulate their desire to fight, and those who fail to do so, the brutes on the trek will naturally destroy them - just as Hadag led them into the War City in the first place!

When he returned to the Spirit Capital, the number of displaced people had been reduced by two-thirds, and after handing over these people to the people in charge of guiding the Spirit Capital, he rushed to the center of the Spirit Capital, the Spirit Palace.

"You're working with a brute!"

He still remembered how angry he was when he said this, but Hedag seemed to have expected it, as if he had been waiting for him in the Spirit Palace.

Immediately afterwards, Hadage's rhetorical question made Shang Rong stunned.

"Shang Rong, do you think that without our intervention, the brute beasts would not have invaded the empire?"

No, it won't, how can a war between people and barbarians stop so easily.

"Or, without our intervention, what would have happened to these displaced people?"

Shang Rong struggled in his heart for a long time, and finally calmed down the anger in his heart.

He understood what Hedag meant: whether or not the Spirit Capital cooperated with the brutes, the invasion of the Dead Ghost Beast Tide would happen sooner or later, and like now, it would be possible to save some of the humans who should have died in the war.

He didn't ask how the deal came about, but accepted the facts and took on the job of leading the new blood of the Spirit Capital.

But today, he couldn't help it.

On March 11, 224, Shang Rong returned to the spiritual capital again with a thousand-strong army of displaced people.

In the space of three months, the spiritual capital has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The underground city, which was only a thousand people at the beginning, has now reached a population of 200,000, and with this amazing labor force, countless buildings have risen from the ground, initially showing the magnificent face of the spiritual capital, and the spiritual capital with the highest terrain in the middle is even more shining, flashing with a light like holy light, shining in all directions.

But Shang Rong was not in the mood to appreciate the beauty of the Spirit Capital, so he rushed to the Spirit Palace with a blue face, and then passed the inspection of the guards and entered the main hall.

"You're back. ”

Hedag's voice was calm, and he stood on the side of the main hall, looking at the beauty of the Spirit Capital, half of his silver-white mask obscuring his expression.

Shang Rong didn't speak, just stopped at the main hall.

Hadage sensed the anomaly, and looked back, catching a glimpse of Shang Rong's clenched fists and his overexerted and whitish phalanges.

"Tell me, what's your problem?"

Looking at Hei Dage, who was not alarmed, Shang Rong suddenly felt a nameless fire burning in his heart, but he still suppressed his voice and said, "The last batch of homeless people this time has been brought back!"

"yes, I see. ”

"But this shouldn't be the last. ”

Hadag sat down on the stone chair in the main hall and nodded, "Yes." ”

"Do you know where the few people go?"

"I don't know. ”

"They were killed by the ghost clan!" Shang Rong exclaimed.

Hei Dag looked at the furious Shang Rong, but his eyes were surprisingly calm, and after a while, he asked, "What do you want to say?"

"What do you want to say?" Shang Rong felt that Hei Dag was unreasonable, and pointed to the outside of the hall and said loudly, "The brute beasts regard humans as food, how can you still cooperate with them so calmly?"

In the face of Shang Rong's questioning, Hadage just sat quietly, and even closed his eyes, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

Just when Shang Rong couldn't help but want to step forward, Hadage suddenly spoke.

"Do you know why I'm wearing this mask?"

Shang Rong was stunned for a moment, and his eyes involuntarily fell on the half of the silver-white mask.

"This mask belongs to my father. ”

Hadagg's fingers slid lightly across the mask.

"Ten years ago, Sedona and I had not yet joined the War Clan, and at that time, we lived in the first-level town of the Xuanwu Domain, Khan Town. ”

Shang Rong's eyebrows were slightly raised.

He knew that Khan Town, this town was indeed a first-class town in the Xuanwu Domain, but it had changed its name ten years ago and became Ironwood Town.

"At the beginning, Khan Town belonged to the Khan family, and their ruling method was very violent, almost squeezing out the rest of the families, even inferior to the families of the second-level towns and cities. In order to rebel against the Khan, the Temu family in the town secretly united with other families and organized an army to challenge the Khan. ”

What Hadag is talking about is the history of Khan's town becoming Temujin, and the defeat of the Khan family at the challenge of the Temu, which eventually led to the birth of Temu, is a story that Shang Rong does not remember hearing from somewhere.

But Hei Dage's next sentence made Shang Rong stunned.

"However, the Ironwood Army was too weak to pose a threat to the Khan family, and their challenge was crushed by the Khan family at the beginning. ”

Shang Rong frowned - this was completely different from the story he knew!

If the Ironwood Army hadn't succeeded in their challenge, how could Khan Town have changed hands?

Then Hadag gave the truth: "However, the Khan family still failed in the end, their head of the family was attacked and killed by two men, and then the core of the clan was all killed in an accident that day, and the Khan Town changed hands to the Tiemu family and became the town of Temu." ”

Sneak attack?

Shang Rong suddenly realized something and asked, "Could it be that the accident has something to do with your father?"

Hadage smiled, but did not answer directly, but said: "The town defenders of Khan Town are amazingly powerful, and they are very famous in the Xuanwu Domain at that time, and their signature feature is that the whole army is uniformly wearing silver-white masks. ”

Shang Rong's eyes widened suddenly, because he saw that Hadage had actually taken off the half of the mask, and under the mask, there was an extremely delicate face, not a scar or birthmark as everyone imagined.

The mask is grasped by Hadag in his left hand, while the thumb of his right hand slides lightly across its sections.

"You should have thought of it! Sedona's father and I are both members of the Khan family, and they are also the two lieutenants in charge of leading the town guards, and the two men who killed the lord of Khan Town are our fathers. ”

Shang Rong was puzzled: "Since your fathers are all members of the Khan family, why do you ......?"

"Why would they betray the family, lead troops to suppress their own people, and let the Temu clan take the throne?" Hadag's eyes kept stopping on the mask: "The reason is very simple, because he can't stand the way the Khan family informs Khan Town, so he wants to change all this, he wants to let the various clans in Khan Town live in peace." ”

Shang Rong was silent.

"It's just that my father overestimated their own cultivation, although they succeeded in killing the Khan family master, they themselves were also attacked by the Khan family master's death, my father died on the spot, and Sedona's father was also seriously injured and died a few days later. This mask is the half of the mask left over from my father's battle. ”

"But why do you ......?"

Shang Rong couldn't ask for a while, but Hadag understood his thoughts: "Why did Sedona and I leave Ironwood Town?" In fact, after the lack of control of the Khan family, the Tiemu family has been on the throne and has always maintained a grateful attitude towards our two families, but for us, Tiemu Town is no longer suitable for survival, because the power of the Khan family is extremely large, even if the head of the family falls, there are still many remnants of the Khan family in the town, these forces control some key economic veins of Tiemu Town, yes, the Tiemu family does not dare to act rashly against them, and can only choose to coexist with them. ”

Hei Dag paused, raised his head and said flatly: "In the eyes of the Temu family, we are their benefactors, but in the eyes of the remnants of the Khan, we are out-and-out traitors. Our two families have been in Timmu for less than three months, and have been assassinated no less than thirty times, but fortunately my mother died when I was a child, but Sedona's mother died in the assassination of the remnants of these khans. The Ironwood family tried to protect us, but the protection they could provide was too limited, so in order to save our lives, Sedona and I chose to leave Ironwood Town and go to the low-level towns to start a new life...... After that, I think you probably know the story. ”

He put the half of the mask back on his face, then looked at Shang Rong and said, "If you are not of my race, their hearts will be different, and cooperating with brute beasts is tantamount to seeking skin with tigers, I know these very well, but you are the only one other than the confidants of the war clan, and I chose to participate in this matter because I believe you can understand one thing, that is, what is called sacrifice." ”

"I'm not an abandoning boat god, I don't have the power to decide the life and death of others, but for the sake of the future of the war clan, cooperating with the death and ghost clans is our only choice. The war between humans and barbarians was not started by me, although it is not my excuse, but I can only seek the greatest benefits I can in this war for the war clan and mankind in this war, and in the process of seeking benefits, sacrifice is inevitable, and all I can do is to willingly become a traitor in the eyes of others!"

"Perhaps, one day after everyone discovers the truth, I can leave with peace of mind, and you, Shang Rong, will continue to walk with them!"