"Half of Antaili is occupied by the Imperial army, where are the ordinary villagers going, and it is even more impossible to ask the Resistance to take the villagers away - it is the Resistance that needs the support and help of the people, not the other way around. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" The baron snorted a few times: "In short, the moment the Resistance successfully carried out this ambush, the Empire lost no matter what. If we don't retaliate, the Anteli people will despise the Resistance when they see that we can't do it, and if we retaliate, the villagers who witnessed the persecution and massacre will secretly increase their assistance to the Resistance out of hatred. The effects of the latter scenario would be even more pronounced, and the Resistance was afraid that the Imperial army would do more stupid things like massacring villages. Alas...... In the final analysis, the only way to do this is to eliminate the Resistance as soon as possible. ”

Would the Empire do more stupid things like this? Rhodes was a little hard to believe, Hawke and Monterey...... Did you really deliberately watch the villagers suffer reprisals?

He may never get an answer, but it doesn't matter, the source of the matter is himself. It was his own impulsiveness and missteps that caused a village to be slaughtered, and my mother always said that everyone should be punished for their mistakes, but why did this time, my own mistakes lead to the death of an entire village of innocent villagers?

"How many people died. ”

"I don't know, dozens of them, it should be less than a hundred. ”

Rod nodded, and turned back in deep thought, his chest rising and falling more violently.

"Rod, there's still a long way to go, get to the carriage. Roy peeked out of the window, she was going to have a good chat with her brother on the road, and the guy who wanted to lead the guards was about to give Rhodes a horse, and she was a little angry.

"No, that's fine. ”

The girl saw that her brother's expression was abnormal, and frowned: "What's wrong with you, if you don't feel well, come up and rest." ”

"I'm fine......" Rhodes is very bad, killing dozens of people with his own hands, and people who are not hard-hearted can't deal with it calmly. He didn't know how many troubles he had since he was a child, but he didn't know how serious the fight was, so he couldn't get out of bed for a few days, and he was locked in the house by his mother for a few days, and everything was still as usual when he came out again. Not long ago, when he escaped from the pursuer, he even killed an ordinary village woman to blame himself to the extreme, this time he actually carried dozens of unjust souls on his back, and his whole person was in a trance so much that he could barely ride a horse, but fortunately, the mare under the crotch was extremely humane and consciously maintained a state of alongside Baron Victor.

"You want to ride a horse, but you little darling wants to make the most of your time on the road and learn magic from me. Roy shouted to the sturdy figure on the side of the carriage, "Grom, go and help Rod get off the horse and let him get to the carriage." ”

Rod did not resist any longer, he dismounted in a daze, and somehow got into the carriage and sat down in a soft chair.

The interior of the carriage was spacious, with two rows of seats facing each other, and Rhodes sat down in a state of confusion, feeling more and more heartache and sadness, feeling almost crushed by self-blame and guilt.

The little fox got out of the bag and stepped on the cushion and jumped happily a few times, squatting next to Rhodes and looking at Roy expectantly, just now the girl said that she wanted to take advantage of the time on the road to continue to teach herself magic, she could hear it, as long as the "teacher" gave an order, she could immediately change back into human form and study hard.

After a few days of being alone, the little fox girl found that Roy was not as scary as she seemed at first glance, cold and arrogant were just protective masks she wore to avoid harassment, and in her bones she was not much different from ordinary girls.

It may be that you are satisfied with the content of your "informing", or it may be that you value yourself as an "internal response" that can spy on your younger brother...... In short, Roy has become more friendly to himself, and he is very careful when teaching himself magic.

She may not be the best human mage, she hasn't studied magic elsewhere and doesn't know if the teaching she's being taught is of high quality...... But intuitive feelings don't lie: Roy starts with the basics, helps himself feel the magic by hand, and helps himself lay the foundation for a basic common sense...... I can always figure out exactly what I already understand and what I still don't understand, and then explain it accordingly...... The little fox girl felt that even if Rodken spent money and found connections to send him to study in a real magic academy, it would be difficult for him to meet a teacher like Roy who was knowledgeable and omniscient and willing to teach himself patiently as an orc.

However, Roy was obviously not in the mood to teach now, she got up from her seat, waved her hand to drive the little fox to her original seat, sat down next to her brother, and asked him with concern: "You were fine when you set off, but suddenly what happened to your mind?"

Rhodes told her exactly what he had just heard, and the girl frowned when she heard it: "Tu Village, this is simply too brutal, the person who gave this order will be punished, if you are not angry, I can go to His Majesty the Emperor when I go home, and say a few good words in front of him...... Make sure that the old guy doesn't die and sheds his skin. ”

"Come on, when the time comes, it will be rumored that you have seduced the king with your beauty and deceived your loyal servants. Rhodes said with a look of frustration: "And the key is that the source is me, if I hadn't killed his son impulsively, Commander Carlyle wouldn't have gone crazy and ordered the slaughter of the village." I thought they were bandits who had deserted and burned and looted...... But now that I think about it, I'm afraid they are just performing their duties to search for the villagers who are secretly assisting the resistance, although it is not a good thing, but at least they should not be ...... by me."

"But it wasn't you who ordered the slaughter of the village, the logic must be clear. Luo Yi admonished his younger brother with a serious expression: "You killed all three people who were at the scene at the time, which means that you are not too stupid, remember, in front of outsiders, don't mention that you killed impulsively after a mistake, as long as you insist that they attacked you first, no one can do anything to you." ”

"You want me to lie?"

"Otherwise, admit that you have attacked Imperial soldiers who are in service, or even in military service, and then obediently go to the gallows? ”

"At least that makes me feel better. Rod replied angrily.

"What a stupid thing to say, if I were mom I'm going to beat your ass to pieces. Luo Yi said angrily, but realized that his words didn't seem to comfort his brother at all, so he had to think of another way: "Didn't you say that the little girl you picked up was also at the scene at the time, call her over, and I'll ask." ”

Rhodes suddenly remembered that after the incident, he didn't seem to have had time to ask about the real situation at the scene of the incident, so he nodded in agreement, opened the curtain and said to a family guard he knew outside the window: "Go and call Nikita over, and say I'm looking for her." ”

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