"Who ordered the wheat crackers?"

The diminutive restaurateur shouted in a loud voice she had developed when her business was busy. It wasn't necessary, because there were only a few customers in the restaurant at the moment, and she could remember who ordered it - it was a middle-aged homeless man in shabby clothes and dirty hair.

If he hadn't taken out six copper coins beforehand, the proprietress would not have received him, and he was so dirty that he looked like lice. Seeing that the man silently opened his burlap bag, she poured three pieces of hot, dry and hard wheat cakes into it, but did not leave, and asked curiously, "Why are you rich today?"

She had seen this man several times, often sitting motionless on street corners, living off the scraps that were occasionally thrown at him. I heard that he had fled from the other side of the alliance, and the proprietress who usually refused to talk to such a person, today for the sake of the six copper coins, allowed herself to satisfy her curiosity: "Where is your home? Why don't you go back?"

"North. ”

It was the first time in weeks that the proprietress had heard him speak. The man's voice was hoarse, and every word was broken into fits: "It's dead to go back, it's burned everywhere." ”

"Huh?" the proprietress was taken aback and rekindled her interest. "Is that your lord?"

"Lord Lord, run away, because there are too many of them," the man said a little slurred, "Since they won a few battles, more and more people have gathered, I heard that there are almost tens of thousands, right? Kill and rob everywhere...... Ask me if I'm going, and I don't! Don't look at them now, but that's because the lords of our area have not fallen into the spirit. When it gets bigger, you see, can you still change the world after so many years? ”

"It's those rebellious guys, isn't it?" the proprietress was willing to make herself sound well-versed in current affairs, so she brought out the gossip she had heard people talk about......: "Which one is it that makes such a big fuss? Is it the 'Tiger Army', or the 'Lokamed', or the 'Tianxiangqu'?"

The man waved his hand and interrupted her: "I haven't heard of what you said. I knew that even Little Bangalo had joined the ...... He's the owner of a bakery, so what's not to like? ”

Seeing that he was a countryman who didn't know anything, the proprietress smacked her lips and lost interest in talking. The man seemed to notice this, and slowly stood up and walked slowly out of the restaurant. He put his hands in his hands, and the sack hung down from between his cuffs, swaying with his steps, and when he reached the alley, he was suddenly grabbed by the arm: "You're here!"

The man's eyelids drooped, not at all surprised.

"I thought you ran away with the copper coins," Lin Yuqing's voice came from under the shadow of a ragged burlap robe: "You bought it?"

The man nodded, picked up the burlap bag, and pulled out two pieces of wheat cakes from it. The remaining piece, he carefully carried into his arms.

As soon as the dry, hard, hot cake was held in Lin Yuqing's hand, it suddenly made his heart feel steady. He glanced back at Ada, who was standing beside him, also covering her face with her robe, and turned to the man and said, "Don't worry, we'll let you buy it tomorrow." ”

This man encountered bandits on the road, and lost all the money he had saved in his life, and even such cheap wheat cakes, if he were not paid by his two children, he did not know when he would be able to eat them—but it was a thousand miles of luck to be able to save his life from the hands of countless bandits and bandits along the way.

Seeing him leave, Lin Yuqing and Ida quickly turned into the alley together.

This is the alley he found on the day he went to the auditorium, both hidden and accessible. After escaping from the Mesoko Manor, the gate of Jiyingling was immediately blocked, and the two children could not escape, so they could only hide in the corner of this alley for three days.

For the past three days, there has been a steady stream of soldiers going from house to house, almost every squad holding a portrait of them, and along with this, there is also a line of crimes committed by Ida. Lin Yuqing never thought that he would one day become one of the most familiar faces of the people of Jiyingling - besides, Ida's clothes were too conspicuous, and the two of them didn't dare to show their heads at all.

They had stolen clothes from other people's houses, but had nothing to eat, and after two or three days of hunger, they finally decided to take the risk of asking the homeless man to buy bread for them, but fortunately no soldier would show the portrait to a homeless man on a street corner, so he did not recognize the two children.

Ida took her piece of bread, pinched it, and examined it.

There were a few dirty fingerprints on the pale yellow, crisp skin, and she frowned, broke off a piece and put it in her mouth, slowly soaking it with her saliva - even so, the rough and stiff texture of the wheat cake made Ida wonder for a moment, wondering if she was chewing it or if it was chewing itself.

Swallow a mouthful of bread with all your might, like sandpaper slicing through your throat. Ida looked at Lin Yuqing, who was munching on the bread, apparently not finding it unpalatable, and sighed, she looked at the wheat cake in her hand, and whispered, "How much more money did you give us?"

"It's enough, and I can buy a dozen wheat cakes. ”

Ida didn't think it was happy news.

"You say...... If we run out like this, will they find out that it was Shi Lao who sent us a letter?" she whispered, "and we didn't go through the gate either...... Shi Lao may think that we can't trust him. ”

"No, he wants you to escape, you've escaped now," Lin Yuqing slurred his words, "He must be happy now, don't think about it." ”

Ida didn't say anything, swept the dust off the cake, and took a bite like him. She missed the barbecue, cider and white bread at home, but she didn't say a word.

They didn't know when the gates would be lifted, so they had to wait one day at a time. Several large houses near the city gates had been temporarily requisitioned, and the lords were there every day - the situation had evolved to the point where it was no longer just Roman Ransay's business. Once they realized this, the two children felt like they had another dark cloud over their heads.

Out of caution, they did not dare to summon the Fallen Spirit for help, and had to live on a palm-sized piece of wheat cake every day and the occasional leftovers found from the back of the tavern.

Even with the savings, the money for the labor did not last for six days. By the time they had eaten the last piece of wheat bread, the two children were so thin that no one would recognize them even when they walked out into the street.

However, the gods seemed to feel that the pain inflicted on them was not enough, and that night, a thunderclap suddenly sounded in the sky.

A few thunders in a row failed to wake up the two weak and groggy children, and it wasn't until the raindrops of beans smashed down that Lin Yuqing was so frozen that he hurriedly pushed Ada: "Get up!"

Ada, who was already skinny, looked as if she had only a handful of bones left. She got up in a daze, and ran with Lin Yuqing to shelter from the rain under an eaves, and they were not much wet, but because they had not eaten for a long time, they stood against the rain curtain for a while, and they all started to fight, and their teeth rattled.

Cold, hungry, and sleepy, the two children stood like this until dawn. The rain finally subsided, and finally disappeared, turning into egg-blue clouds in the east. Ada slowly slid down the base of the wall, like a bundle of dry wood falling to the ground.

After a long while, her voice sounded indistinctly: "I, I...... I'm probably going to die here like my father and sister...... Died in the ...... of Jiyingling"

But there wasn't much emotion, as if they were just discussing the weather.

Lin Yuqing couldn't hear this. "Let's break through," he said anxiously, "just get out, Nagarjuna may not be worse than them if he has been recuperating in my body for so long......"

"You've been feeding it with feather bread all this time. Ida smiled sarcastically, and with some dependence, grabbed his outstretched hand. "Besides, relying only on Nagarjuna, how can they be their opponents?"

Baijiu can't help at all. They discovered this when they broke through the defenses from the Mesoko manor - the second time they summoned it, it couldn't even keep its soft appearance, and it yawned as if it were itching, rolling back and forth, unable to calm down for a moment.

The reason why the two of them were able to break out was because Nagarjuna used spirit stones to replenish a little physical strength, although it was not enough to use its ability, but it finally escaped. So much so that when Ida thinks of Baijiu now, she is ashamed and hateful.

It's just that they can't afford to wait for this job. The two children rested for a while, and finally gathered up their strength, and walked in the direction of the city gate, if not at once, to see what was going on.

As soon as he walked to the entrance of the alley, a person suddenly stumbled out, and the two of them looked at it, and it turned out to be the middle-aged homeless man.

"Ah, I forgot to tell you yesterday that we're running out of money......"

Lin Yuqing didn't finish speaking, and his voice was already quiet. At the same time as Ada, he noticed that the man looked a little different today.

The man subconsciously grinned at them, showing a mouthful of yellow teeth - when he spoke, every word in his mouth couldn't wait to rush out together: "No, I don't want your money, I don't buy any cakes, you look at me, it's me!"

The two children took a few steps back, looked at him warily, and their hearts thumped.

In his messy, dirty hair, there were two fire-lit eyes, and the homeless man slurred his speech, crying and laughing, and at last his voice became sharper: "Thanks to your wheat cakes......! Remember, my name is Benjamin, remember! You don't have any money, what are you afraid of? There's me, look at me! Wait here, wait!"

When he had finished speaking, he turned and walked, and with his steps he was getting bigger, and his body was upside down, so that people could see that he was a little lame.

This person is so abnormal today - Lin Yuqing and Ida glanced at each other, turned around and ran.

"Come back, don't go!" immediately rang out Benjamin's roar behind the sound of their footsteps. The two children dared to pause, for fear that he was going to call the guards, and they didn't dare to turn back.

"I'll tell you to stop!"

This time, with his shouting, a huge shadow rushed out, enveloping the two children, and Ida noticed that there was darkness in front of her, and subconsciously raised her head—

A fleshy, flattened falling spirit slapped two flanks on the heads of the two, stirring up a gust of wind, and a pair of eyes pressed under its flat body turned to Ada, staring at hers.

In the next second, the two children were knocked down by the fallen spirit together, and they stumbled and rolled to the ground.

"Didn't I say, don't run, wait for me to come back!" Even the thick hair on his face couldn't hide the look on Benjamin's face. His hands and feet trembled, his face flushed, and he cried out, half ecstatic, half haughty, "I have fallen spirits! I will be a lord too! You are not allowed to move, and I command you to wait here obediently—these untouchables, you will soon be offered me good wine, and you, allow you to taste it too—"

In the rain last night, there must have been a falling spirit!

Lin Yuqing immediately understood, but to no avail. Even at a low point in strength, this piece of flat-fleshed falling spirit still firmly suppressed the two children, making them motionless, and just when the two of them were secretly anxious, they suddenly heard a long howl, and a pair of wings rose far from the ground and rushed into the sky.

Immediately their faces turned white.

"Let us go!" Lin Yuqing and Ida shouted at him together, and the words were inaudible: "They're coming soon, they're going to kill you!"

"Who? who can kill me, I have a falling spirit," Benjamin laughed, "I have a falling spirit!

"The lords are going to kill those who have fallen spirits!"

When Lin Yuqing blurted out these words, the pair of wings had already been wrapped in the wind and brushed over the heads of several people, and suddenly circled in the air and turned back-Benjamin looked up with his mouth open, and then suddenly woke up from a big dream, and stammered: "This, is this the falling spirit of the noble lord?"

"Run, there's more to come!" Ida shouted, and the flat-fleshed falling spirit immediately lifted up, and as soon as her voice fell, a black mist rose from the other direction with an exclamation from someone in the distance.

Benjamin was startled, as if he finally realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly beckoned to call back the falling spirit, and at this moment, Lin Yuqing had an idea, and hurriedly shouted: "You run out of the city, they won't be able to catch you!"

The large piece of flat flesh immediately wrapped Benjamin and rushed in the direction of the city gate.

Sir Giant's wings flapped and flew up, not attacking, just hanging high on his head - the two children were still palpitating, staring at the back of the fallen spirit in the distance for a while, Lin Yuqing suddenly pulled Ada: "Let's follow!"

"In case it's discovered—"

"Follow behind, don't show your head," the boy pulled her up without question, "find a chance to help Benjamin, maybe we can take advantage of this opportunity to escape!"

They followed behind them and dodged all the way to the city gate, just in time to see Marie Sailbine's fallen spirit also arrive—a swarm of black mist rolled and surged towards Benjamin, and his fallen spirit flew up to meet it, but a six-legged lizard crawled out of the darkness, and was entangled in it.

In the early morning, near the city gate, many people had gathered, all of them travelers who wanted to leave the city for various reasons, but were stopped in the city. The crowd fled like a swarm of bombed ants, and two children were drowned in the crowd, pushing and stamping against the current, hiding under the lookout of the city wall.

Sir Giant's wings were still hovering high in the air, apparently pointing the way to the other fallen spirits. Lin Yuqing glanced at it a few times, and his heart was about to jump out - he gritted his teeth, turned to Ida and said, "You're ready to run!"

"What are you going to do?"

Benjamin didn't hold out for long, and after a while, the other fallen spirits arrived. "They haven't realized yet, it's not our Fallen Spirit...... We're going to have to take advantage of this opportunity to get out!"

As he spoke, Benjamin on the other side had already been besieged by the two fallen spirits, and he was about to be defeated at any time - Lin Yuqing didn't dare to delay, and immediately dragged Ida and shouted "Nagarjuna!" while rushing to the city gate.

A dark shadow swooped out from his shoulder, brushed past the fallen spirits who had been fighting fiercely, and went straight to meet the guards at the city gates. Lin Yuqing and Ida followed it closely, and with a short waist at the right time, several guards who were thrown into the air by Nagarjuna immediately flew over their heads.

After Nagarjuna bit and kicked the guards in front of him, the two children immediately turned around and shouted, "Benjamin, run!"

The homeless man was lying on the ground, his leg was wounded by one of the fallen spirits, and he couldn't get up with a cry of grief. His fallen spirit reacted very quickly, shook off the pursuers with a vigorous shake, rolled up Benjamin, and flew out of the city gate with a snort, and in the blink of an eye it was far away, leaving only a small black dot in the vision of the two children.

"Nagarjuna, come back!"

As soon as Lin Yuqing put away the dragon tree, the pair of wings suddenly crossed its head, and it was so preoccupied with catching up with the strange fallen spirit in front of it that it did not notice the two children under him, who did not dare to breathe, and hurried up, and rushed into the nearest forest, leaving behind the faint scolding and neighing of horses.

As the lords gathered around the gates that had been closed in an emergency, Sir Giant's fallen spirit came back at the same time, landing on the wrist of the silver-haired lord—no body, only two long wings, the tip of which trembled with feathers.

"It's a mistake to chase it," the silver-haired decent lord grimaced, and said to a few people around him, "It's not those two children at all—I don't know which pariahs it is, and they got the newly fallen spirit by luck." ”

"This wave is not over yet?" Hai Bo was stunned and surprised: "It has been a thousand years and there has been no falling spirit, why has it suddenly fallen so frequently in the past few months......"

"What's the use of talking about this now, they must have taken advantage of the chaos a long time ago!" Mary interrupted him stiffly, and turned her gaze to Romandan, who was standing at the end, without saying a word.

In nearly ten days, Romandan has changed from a handsome young man to a silent man. After the lords were quiet, he said slowly, as if with a hint of mockery, "The Inquisition has set up defenses on the border, and if they really want to leave the Holy Alliance, sooner or later they will crash into the hands of the Inquisitor. I think everyone should think about what we will do when that day comes. ”