What does it mean to have a few hundred rogues? Let's put it this way, don't look at the fact that it is wartime, except for a few large towns, the standing troops of other towns will not exceed two hundred—the young and strong people still have to go to support their families. This means that if raided, a rogue of this size could even raid many towns.

And now, these hundreds of rogues have actually appeared in the southeast of the village? This is simply the greatest crisis since the establishment of Fumi Village, and within a very short time of learning the news, the village chief held an emergency meeting in front of the village altar.

Whether it is a village, a town or a city, the temple is the center of all buildings in the area, and the more important the gathering, the more it must be held in the temple or in the square in front of the temple, but the vast majority of villages cannot afford to build temples, and there is a lack of clergy qualified to serve the gods, so the villages are generally built with very simple altars.

The adults of all 42 households in the village have arrived—it is breakfast time, and they have not yet gone to the fields. But the two village elders still did not announce the start of the assembly, and they were still inviting one person.

Of course, this person is arrogant, although he put away the mage's badge, but the evil itself is a much more eye-catching mage identity than a small badge, most of the people in the village do not have the opportunity to read and read, but all kinds of legends and stories can be heard from childhood, and in all kinds of legends and stories appear the most, the first is of course the gods, and the second is the mage. So when Arrogant appeared in front of them, it only took a short time for these people to determine that this was an evolved head. If it weren't for the fact that this was a mage from the Legal Management Department, this village, which was sparsely populated and weakly armed with force, would really not dare to take in strangers casually for the night at this time.

In the war zone, the lone mage is almost the most popular traveler, and many of their towns will try to keep those mages behind and become mages of the town guard for the time being. Of course, the price of these mages is very expensive, and the price of inviting a sleeve mage to become a mage of the town guard is at least one Stolin per day, plus free food and accommodation, and this is only the basic price code, according to the actual participation in the war, you have to be paid according to your work. If you roughly calculate, hire a sleeve mage, even if the wife is not able to perform the task, 400 Storin in a year is the lowest cost.

Of course, this ordinary village can't afford it, so when they took in Ao Zong, they didn't think about asking someone to stay, but now that the unprecedented crisis is imminent, this mage of the legal management department is almost the only hope in Fumi Village - there are only fifty men in the village who can fight, and in the face of hundreds of rogues, this is simply a one-sided slaughter.

The two elders were considered authoritative figures in the village, but they were so respectful in the face of arrogance that they didn't dare to meet his gaze. Arrogant didn't love Najo, but he wasn't a compassionate and helpful model, and after listening to the elders' request, he said noncommittally that you should have a meeting first, and I would listen to it.

The altar is much more rudimentary than the temple, of course, but the advantage is that there are fewer rules, and when you meet in the temple, you must first ask the clergy to recite a prayer, and then everyone will recite it again. There is no such rule at the altars, and most of the altars do not even have idols on them - the village itself is not qualified to ask for the protection of the gods, so there are no idols at all, and the villagers come to the altar and kneel down to pray to whomever they like.

After all, it is a gathering of the whole village, and there are still some ritual processes, although Ao Zongheng knows that the gods of this world really exist, but he has developed a character of not seeking external forces for decades, and he does not plan to change it. So he was deliberately a little late. When he came to the altar, it was the discoverer of the Rogue who was repeating his discovery. Seeing his arrival, there was obviously a commotion in the crowd, and the elder wanted everyone to salute the mage, but was stopped by Arrogant.

The two brothers in the village were found to be wanderers, almost all of whom were farmers, but before they went out into the fields in the morning, they would do something else, such as the two brothers would go to the neighborhood to find some small living creatures to improve their food.

There was a small river in the southeast of the village, and there were some fish at this time, so the two brothers planned to go there to catch two fish, but when they reached the river, they found that there were about twenty rogues in ragged clothes, crossbow arrows, and various weapons, resting there. What's even more frightening is that in the reeds of the river a little farther away, hundreds of figures dressed in the same clothes can be faintly seen. The two brothers were so frightened that they didn't dare to breathe, turned around and slowly walked out of the hundreds, and then fled back to the village to report the news.

Therefore, the two brothers actually only found the traces of the Liukou, and as for where the Liukou was going and what to do, they didn't know at all, and they couldn't even guess.

Ao Zongheng didn't have any expression, he was not disappointed at all by this result - the two brothers were farmers by profession, not soldiers, not even militiamen, and it was not bad if they were scared into a cold sweat and did not alarm the rogue, how could they have thought that one person would be left there to continue to monitor, and the other person would come back to report the news.

The other villagers had a similar level of knowledge as the brothers, so they naturally didn't think about the issue of constant surveillance, they were concerned about - what should we do now?

There are not many ways to choose, one is that everyone picks up the guy and prepares to work hard, the second is to pack up what can be packed and hide elsewhere first, in fact, there is a third way, that is, everything is as usual, what should be done, but this road seems to be a little too irresponsible for their own net worth and life.

Desperate work is actually not a good way, fifty peasants can't see the slightest hope for hundreds of rogues. It seems that the only way to escape is to give up the little possessions that have been accumulated over the decades, but at least there is a chance to live. However, everyone also knows in their hearts that if they leave, they may become exiles or even slaves from now on, which means saying goodbye to freedom.

There is probably no saying in the world of Ploz, "if you are not free, you would rather die", but even the villagers who are not in a position to study can dimly realize the value of freedom.

The rally was not large, but the arguments were quite intense, and it was impossible to see for a moment that anyone could refute whom.

Or rather, no one wants to be persuaded.

The elders have the right to stop the argument at the assembly, but the two elders themselves have not made up their minds about such a high-stakes decision, so what decision can they make even if the argument is stopped?

"Scheming uncle, don't you feel a little touched when you see these poor people so frightened?" Women are fickle animals, and less than two days have passed, and the ring spirit that used to scold arrogance and unprincipledness, valuing profit over righteousness, has appeared again as if nothing happened.

Arrogant was accustomed to the sudden appearance of the Ringwraith, "What did it touch? ”

"Hey, how could I know such a black-bellied, selfish, ungrateful person, who only took you in last night, and you see that these people are in a hurry like this, you can't help them solve those rogues?"

"Take it in? I gave it to four Geelongs, okay? You women are just too sympathetic, it's useless for people to have compassion, and they can do bad things, you know. ”

"I don't understand! I don't understand. I mean, you're not afraid of offending those rogues, are you?"

Ao Zongheng gently tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Don't use such an inferior radical method on me, do you think it will be useful? I don't even know where those rogues are going to go, so isn't it too nonsense to discuss here whether to fight or escape?"

"Uh, Che, you don't care where they're going, won't you solve all the problems by killing these rogues in the past?"

"Well, it's easy to kill them all, but will killing them solve all the problems? Isn't it unusual for hundreds of rogues to appear together? Kill them, do you know who else is behind them? Do you want me to stay here to be their bodyguards, or do you sit back and watch them be found and slaughtered by the people behind the rogues here?" said arrogantly and lightly.

The ringing spirit stopped talking, usually she didn't speak, because she felt that she had nothing to say.

Seeing that she stopped talking, Arrogant spoke instead, "Don't make any noise, listen to me." ”

Of course, he said it to the dozens of villagers who were still arguing.

These words were quite polite, but the prestige of the mage was far superior to that of the village elders, whether it was a man or a woman, at first, and when they reacted that it was this one who spoke, they all immediately shut up.

Ao Zongheng has always liked obedient people, and he was initially satisfied with the performance of this group of villagers, "I don't even know the movements of the Liukou, you are arguing here about whether to fight or flee, it is a waste of time, if you are willing to listen to me, I will immediately send a few of the most clever men to the river to monitor the movements of the Liukou." ”

Seeing that the villagers were still quietly looking at him, he decided to send a reassuring pill to these people, "To invade here, a hundred rogues are more than enough, and there is no need for a few hundred people at all." So I don't think they're coming for you. No matter how short of food the rogues are, they can't afford the little food in your small village. ”

This is an ugly sound, but it is what the villagers like to hear, stop arguing and calm down a little, they also feel that what this mage said is indeed reasonable, this can be regarded as the rear of the war zone, there are not many homeless people, let alone the rogues, hundreds of rogues came to rob our small village of food? It's impossible.

Since the old man's words made sense, of course, everyone was as good as flowing, and a few young villagers volunteered to rush to the river, and the rest of the people stopped making noise and stayed around the altar to wait for news.

However, Ao Zongheng pulled the two village elders over, he had some thoughts in his heart, and it was inconvenient to say them to all the villagers, so he needed these two to share their knowledge.

In the rear of the relatively peaceful war zone, hundreds of rogues suddenly appeared, how unreasonable is this, and the rogues never pay attention to any tactics in warfare, and they rush to kill when they see the target, and these people are still hiding and resting in a clear formation, it is really strange, how do I think they don't look like rogues? If they are not rogues, then what are they pretending to be rogues to sneak around here?