The absurd experience of the past few days has taught the boy a hard lesson, he now understands the sinister human heart and the madness of the world better than just being lectured verbally, if you add the lesson of "use your brain in everything", it is two lessons. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But even if you don't think about it, you can imagine that in front of this large crowd of angry Anteli soldiers, he must have ended no good with telling them that he was going to the Imperial army and asked them to send him home.

So, having just escaped from the north, Rhodes was in a daze and was in the queue of refugees who fled north. The villagers of this small village, whose names he didn't even know, did their best to sort out what they wanted to bring with them in an hour, gathered in an open field at the head of the village, and watched as their country's army began to set fire to the place where they were born and raised.

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"You are soldiers, we have worked hard to provide for you, why did you not think about how to fight the invaders back in the event of war, but instead came to burn our village down?!" asked a gray-haired, respectable-looking villager in a loud voice.

"Nonsense, do you think we don't want to win?" roared the sturdy officer, "but those sons of bitches assassinated the king, and took advantage of the civil strife to raid, raid! You know, we have no time to stop the resistance! In the morning, the Earl has organized more than 5,000 men, and is now building a defensive line dozens of miles south of us to try to stop the vanguard of the Midland army to buy us time, for their sake, stop the chatter, and hurry on the road! If anyone is anxious to become a subject of the Empire, he can go south now! But I won't allow him to bring a grain of food, and let's see if the 'righteous teacher' who preaches that he wants to bring civilization and the rule of law to the north will give you food!"

This small detachment was all new recruits except for the officers, but even those who dared to quarrel with the soldiers were still a minority, and the people watched in a panic as they entered the village with torches and began to burn things, and soon black smoke rose in the village, and then the flames also rose from the houses and some women began to cry...... Watching the place where he had eaten a moment ago being engulfed in flames, Rhodes felt the cruelty of war so truly for the first time.

At the urging of the officers, the villagers set up horse-drawn carts and ox carts loaded with a dozen men, dozens of women, and many more children...... The cattle were ready to go, and some cats and dogs were accompanying them, who also lost their birthplace and raised their places.

"Lord Hunter, and your apprentice. The lame young squire, who had been chatting with the two of them in the inn just a moment ago, came over, "My neighbors have unanimously asked me to come and invite you to come with me. ”

"Hire me to be a guard along the way. Ryan corrected him unceremoniously.

"Well, yes, that's what it means. The young man scratched his head. "You see, autumn is almost over, winter is coming, Midland's army is approaching to the south of us, and the young and strong part of our village has followed the local lords to the counterinsurgency battlefield, and the rest have been called away today to prepare for training against the invaders...... The bandits from the south will surely go straight north to attack Sardenberg, and we will have to avoid this route. From the Forest of Kavenhall to the northwest of the kingdom, it is best to run to Harwich to take refuge, but you may encounter robbers, beasts of the forest, and so on. ”

The young man cleared his throat and looked at the sword on Rein's back and his demon wolf.

"You've got horses, you've got weapons, and you've got big dogs. He stammered. "And it seems to be experienced in a lot of battles, so if we have you with us, we can go with peace of mind...... We offer a reward, a guide who is familiar with the route...... And enough food, after all, this year is quite a good harvest. ”

"Well, the conditions are good, and I happen to hate sleeping alone. The hunter touched his chin and nodded, "I don't know if my apprentice will." ”

The villagers stood together and looked prayingly at the monster hunter, and the peasants' wives and daughters couldn't help but glance at his "apprentice", and Rhodes, who had made himself into an inch, was no longer so handsome, but he was still as obvious as a horse in a herd of pigs in the middle of a pile of muddy children in the countryside. The boy felt their expectant gaze and shrugged, "I don't care. ”

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So Rod followed the team and set off in the northwest direction, thanking God for not letting the gang decide to flee in the northeast direction, otherwise Rod would have returned directly to the town where he was almost hanged yesterday. There was everyone in the team: bear children, farmers, butchers, brewers...... Bear Kid ...... Pigs, cattle, sheep...... and bear children.

Half of the members were children, and the procession was very lively, with the harvest of food and belongings and livestock, the procession moved slowly, and the small Antelli force that had burned the village followed them unhurriedly, nominally to protect them from being harassed and intercepted by the Midland Striker scouts, but in fact everyone thought that they should have been sent to prevent the refugees from stopping and giving food to the Imperial army as protection money.

It feels amazing: the son of the commander of the Midland army, chased by the Midland army and fleeing behind the ass...... Fortunately, the leader chosen by the villagers was well acquainted with the route, and he knew that every path, every field and river, and the dikes and dry pine areas that could be passed between the swamps and lakes, and that the convoy was moving slowly but smoothly.

"Something to do" was the best way to curb crankiness, and Rhodes was soon surprised to find that he was content with the status quo. Originally, his plan was: after leaving the field of view of the small army behind them that kept driving them away from the battlefield, he secretly left the fleeing team and returned to the empire, but he was always ready to run away, and he was worried that after returning home and asking the reasons for his difference from ordinary people, would he be placed under house arrest, brainwashed or destroyed? This duty involuntarily puts worries about one's origins behind me and relaxes.

What's the hurry, no one is chasing and killing you anymore, there is food and drink, and there are still such a bunch of people who need their own protection, do the current things first, and then think about anything else.

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Rhodes is not the only one who has no heart and lungs, the Cavin Hall Forest full of wild beasts has not yet arrived, the war has just begun, and the refugees and deserters have not yet appeared on a large scale, and soon the two "bodyguards" find that they have nothing to do, and a large number of children quickly forget about the smoking and burning homes behind them, thinking that the escape is a long journey, they began to chase and fight, laughing happily.

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[Remind Chapter 154 again in the group, ask for a ticket, whatever the ticket~]