46. Leader Sonya

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While their ears were buzzing, they couldn't help but focus their attention on the girl.

"Answer me. Do you want to live, do you want to go back to your loved ones?"

"Yes. At first it was one or two people who were answering.

"We want to. It was a dozen people shouting together.

"We're going home!" was the unanimous voice of everyone.

"You all want to live? Do you know where this is, how to get back to the surface from here, who got you here?"

Without waiting for these frightened farmers and herders to speak. East continued.

"'This is the deepest part of Colombo's underground. Above your heads, hundreds of meters thick of rocks and labyrinthine underground caverns. To get back to the surface from here, you have to go through many dangerous areas. There are terrible monsters, man-eating traps, and an army of cultists. You want to go home? You're going to die on the way. ”

The crowd fell silent. Everyone knew that what Easter said was true. All of them had heard the terrifying legends of the Green Cross cultists and the monsters of Colombo's underground when they were in their mother's arms. Thinking of these legends, no one in their right mind can fail to tremble.

"What then, are you waiting to die?" a voice rang out from the crowd.

East followed the voice and saw that it was a very fat middle-aged man. The man was holding a middle-aged woman in his arms, and the woman was also holding a little girl about ten years old.

This is a man whose whole family is here. East was the first to confirm that the other party was definitely the staunchest potential supporter of his plan.

"And what do you say you should do?" Esther looked at the fat man. The people around him also looked at him.

Thomas, the owner of a grocery store, has never experienced such a moment of being watched by hundreds. Even in the shade of the ground, beads of sweat immediately appeared on his chubby round face. The people around him cast him with suspicious, supportive, angry and surprised looks. He gritted his teeth and looked at his wife and daughter's haggard faces from their detention. He thought of the ruined women who had been placed in the caves.

No, my family can't be like that.

Thomas blushed. This countryman, who has been talking to people calmly all his life, and who believes in harmony and makes money, used his strength to eat milk and let out an angry cry: "We fought with them!"

"Fight with them!"

"Fight with them!"

"Kill all the cult dog mongrels. ”

People were boiling. The fear of cultists and being underground was replaced by anger at unwarranted persecution. The men raised their strong arms and waved their fists at the sky. The women, on the other hand, stripped off their shirts and exposed their breasts, indicating that they would fight like men.

Eastpin raised his hands and signaled for the boiling crowd to calm down. He pulled Sonya behind him and said to the crowd that was watching him and Sonya intently, "In my hometown, there is a saying called 'Fight a bloody road'. How consistent this is with our current situation! But a fish cannot swim without a head, and a man cannot walk without a head. We need someone to take the lead. ”

He pushed Sonia in front of everyone and shouted, "This girl is the first to shoot the cultist, the first to rush into this deep valley, or the first to go into the cave and rescue the first person." Will you let this brave girl be your leader? Tell me, do you want her to be your leader? Her name is Sonya. If you need her, then call her name!"

The people were silent for a while, and seemed to be hesitant to choose a young girl as the leader. But soon, a voice shouted, "Sonya!

Everyone followed the prestige, and the person who shouted was the fat man who shouted everyone's hearts just now. He jumped, jumped, and pulled the people around him to shout, "Sonya! ”

"Sonya!" began to shout, this is the person who was directly rescued by Sonya.

"Sonya!" more people began to shout. The story of this girl is known throughout the deep valley.

"Sonya, Sonya, Sonya!" shouted in a single and converging into an ocean.

People cheered and jumped. Everyone was amazed to find that they could make such a loud noise, as if the whole valley was trembling.

Esther gave Sonia a gentle nudge. This simple girl from a remote area, looking at the crowd cheering for herself in front of her, looking at their trusting eyes, felt that her eyes were a little moist. This is my compatriot, the compatriot I fought for. The people of Coronia are so brave.

She took a step forward, raised her hand, and greeted the crowd. Everyone quieted down and looked at her, wondering what she was going to say.

Sonia cleared her throat, afraid that her voice would become unpleasant from her excitement. She wants to put the best of herself to the people who trust her.

"My compatriots. Brave compatriots of Coronia. I thank you for your trust. Sonia drew her sword, the Moonblade, and held it aloft. "I here, in the name of a warrior, swear by her sword. I will fight with you, and I will fight first, and I will not retreat until victory. ”

She felt that her image must be terrible. If you are running around for days, your hair must be unkempt. After fighting so many times, there must have been dust and blood stains on his hair and clothes. Because of the lack of sleep, the face must be very bad. When my mother sees herself like this, she will definitely let herself eat fried pork on a wooden plank.

Sonya, who was in a state of thought, didn't see the sparkle in people's eyes when they looked at her. Although judging by the costumes. The girl was clearly from an aristocratic family with privileged conditions. But this girl is definitely not one of those hypocritical aristocrats who talk a lot. She had come here to fight the most terrifying of the Green Cross cult lunatics, just to rescue some ordinary people who were not related to her. Every dust and blood on her body is a medal of her bravery, integrity, and mercy.

Such lords and nobles, the vast majority of the people of Coronia have only heard of in the heroic legends of the Great Pioneer Era. But now, a living example appeared before their eyes. This gives people a sense of living in history. Each of them is a witness to history and a creator of history.

The girl with a resolute expression holding her sword high conquered the hearts of these people at the first time. The dust on her body represents hard work, and the blood stains on her body represent righteous revenge.

The next moment, people no longer hide any emotions. Many of them still had the blood of their relatives and friends on their bodies, and they shouted angrily, "Revenge, revenge!" and they believed that the dirty-looking girl in front of them would lead them in battle, never retreating until victory.

Next, I don't know who was the first to shout, "Long live Sonia!" and then cheers echoed through the valley.

"Hooray! Hooray! Sonya. ”

In a cave. The already sleepy woman opened her eyes and listened in amazement to the tsunami-like sound of "Long live Sonia and long live Sonya". With great difficulty, she struggled to climb to the mouth of the cave, and looked at the girl who stood on the top and received the cheers of the crowd.

"Is this the coronation!" she groaned in disbelief in a low voice that she couldn't even hear. "How long has it been since the king ascended the throne to see so many people crying out with one long live. ”

"How many of you have participated in militia training? As soon as the mood stabilized, Esther and Sonia began to organize the people in front of them. In Coronia, anyone knows that an organized minority can defeat an unorganized majority. The Dark Ages were the organized royal armies that eventually defeated countless mobs, bandits, rampaging barbarians, and greedy warlords.

"How many people know how to carpenter, raise their left hand, and stand to my right. ”

"Whose eyes are good and fast at the same time?"

"Those who think they are powerful can go to the cave over there and assemble. ”

"The women went to cook first, trying to get everyone a hot meal as soon as possible. ”

"Those who are proficient in the use of weapons, go to Sonia immediately and get them. ”

Sonia and Esther organized all the men. Every healthy man, woman, and child is busy.

Esther first sent ten young men with fast legs and feet and good eyes to accompany Sonia to set up an early warning post five kilometers away from the deep valley, and Sonia carried her short bow and a flashing arrow that Esther had contributed. Once she spotted an enemy, Sonia would shoot arrows into the sky, and then the young man who saw the flash would immediately run back in relay to inform the people in the deep valley.

Esther then gathered the weapons he had collected from killing the cultists along the way, as well as the weapons he had captured in the valley, and donated a large number of spare weapons from his and Sonya's weapon bracelets to those who had served as militiamen and considered themselves skilled in martial arts. This group of well-armed men, Esther arranged for them to eat first, and then rest to regain their strength. Eventually, he mobilized all of his carpenters' men to tear down the wooden fences in the caves, and had others gather stones of the right size to throw near the ravine.

The wooden fences that had been torn down, of the right height, were split into sticks with Sonya's sword. Each stick has one end sharpened and then roasted over a fire until it is dry and hard. These sticks can be used as spears and throwing spears. There were also many long and thick woods, and Esther had recruited some of the most powerful men in the crowd and taught them how to use extra-long sticks to attack.

Thanks to Coronia for thousands of years of military tradition. Every adult male here has served as a town self-defense militia for a period of time when he is of the right age. Even if they were foolish and absent-minded when they were militiamen, they had used all kinds of basic weapons, knew the taboos and rules for using weapons, and knew more about the basic ways to exert force, at least they would not easily hurt themselves and their companions.

In order to arm as many people as possible, Esther mobilized all the men to find a solution. Anything that looked and came up with that could be made into a weapon was searched for. The wooden lid of the crockery used for cooking, the leather whip used to torture the prisoners, all the useful and useless things were equipped to the people.

When there were no more supplies to use, Esther began training these militiamen and former militiamen in a sharpening manner.

In order to conserve people's physical strength, the training lasted only half an hour. As for the effect, Esther didn't think about it at all, even if it could play a small role.

Esther gave himself a night of chowder to eat, and lazily rested at the mouth of a cave. Under his command, all the people began to rest and wait quietly, except for boiling water and cooking.

"Come on, Green Cross madmen. It's time for you to pay the price. At this time, Est was definitely not alone.