The smoky night sky is full of the waning moon in the east, and the night in the southern part of the Cangzhou continent is particularly cold after winter. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is the southwest of the Cangzhou continent, stretching for thousands of miles in the Gobi Desert.

To the north, is the most prosperous Valan Plain in the Cangzhou Continent, where the Baishi Empire and the Xuanyue Empire face off from east to west, and further south, there are the southern tribes full of darkness and curses, stretching endlessly, dense and gloomy primeval jungle.

There are five human cities that are closely connected to each other, and the Cangzhou nobles call it the Five Cities Alliance, while the locals are used to calling it the Southern Alliance. The seemingly isolated five cities, because of their mutual aid agreements, miraculously survived in the gap between the two empires.

This is Tianshui City, located in the Southern Alliance, and is located on the southernmost border of the entire Southern Alliance like Parkway City.

The cold rain fell from the dark sky, and at night in the city square, because of this sudden rain, it added a bit of sadness, and more and more people died of the wind chill throughout the city, and the dead were transported to an abandoned mine outside the city.

There were many old people and children in tattered clothes in the square, shivering in the cold rain, and they looked at the roaring bonfire in the center, and their cheeks were covered with helplessness and confusion.

In the crowd, some young faces could be faintly seen, their eyes were more angry than that, they were trying to rummage through the nearby garbage, trying to find food from here to fill their stomachs, their bare arms looking thick and powerful, strong muscles, and dark skin full of wildness.

The night of the city belongs to them, the children of the nobles have long been asleep in the cold and damp night, the city is full of hungry desolate people, and any abandoned food can lead to a bloody battle.

"Little Five, the master is coming soon, we will definitely be selected!" Near the edge of the square, a boy who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, in such a cold night, turned out to be bare and strong, and on his back in the rain, there was a scar that ran through the left and right that looked shocking.

A huge iron bow shaped like a cold moon spanned his back, overlapping the scar.

He bent over and shielded his companion from the rain with his broad body, and the tattered coarse cloth shirt was wrapped around the young man lying in his arms.

"Flag Commander, I... Am I going to die?" The young man in his arms was very weak, he was originally a recruit from the Black Iron City Youth Academy, and he had already accompanied Qin Mu through three such cold winters, unfortunately he contracted the wind chill a month ago, and his body was getting weaker and weaker day by day.

Three hundred elite soldiers in one team, one hundred teams in one flag, the so-called flag commander, naturally is a senior general who once commanded thousands of troops and horses!

In the history of Cangzhou, the battle of the Southern Alliance ten years ago was successful or lost?

The generals of the defeated army can only face a lowly life of fleeing, although they miraculously survived, but death never left them.

The weak boy stretched out his hand and held Qin Mu tightly: "Good luck, I will always bless you, Flag Chief!" The light in Xiao Wu's eyes flashed away, perhaps no one knew better than him that death turned out to be such a cold feeling.

Qin Mu had black curly hair, he shook the raindrops on his head hard, he couldn't believe that Xiao Wu had left the world so easily, he hadn't married a wife and had children, and he hadn't had time to attend his grand wedding.

It's just that the pair of cold and miserable white hands have fallen weakly, lying quietly on the cold and damp ground, and have never moved the slightest.

At this time, a carriage stopped in the square, followed by a group of ascetic monks shrouded in black cloaks, followed by the monks in white robes on the carriage and stepped out of the carriage, their silver-white boots stepping on the muddy water, and walking towards the bonfire. The dervish in the back bowed his head and followed in silence.

Master Qiuji, in the hearts of the poor class of Tianshui City, is the apostle of God, the embodiment of benevolence and kindness, whenever the bonfire in the square is lit, the master will inevitably appear in the center of the square, for some of the suffering people who are struggling on the edge of life and death to eliminate some of the misery in their hearts, and arrange a relatively stable job.

Maybe it's just a servant, maybe it's a mercenary army that licks blood from the knife's edge, or maybe it just becomes a part of the dervish who follows the master.

This is a gift, for people who have been suffering all year round, even if they are regarded as servants by the nobility, they can finally fill their empty stomachs, and even have a stable reward.

The reflection of the dancing flame in the eyes of the people seemed to evoke a wave of fanatical faith, and the people worshipped the master, revered his forgiveness and kindness, and all began to pray for blessings, as if the savior had come to their side.

"Suffering is impermanent, the dog of the world!" this is the master's eternal opening words, but the desolate people never get tired of hearing it.

Qin Mu's heavy eyebrows were twisted together, and he held Xiao Wu tightly in his arms, as if he had lost his other half of himself at this moment, they had known each other since the academy, and they were inseparable in the last three years. We went to work in the mines together, climbed to the alleys full of dead branches, and watched the famous ladies ride through the streets in gorgeous carriages from afar.

They carried each other's joys and sorrows, starved together, and rejoiced together because of a dusty steamed bun.

"Sorry kid, I might have bothered you!"

When Qin Mu was still silent in pain and couldn't extricate himself, a gentle voice sounded in his ears.

When he raised his head, he saw that the master was raising his hand to take off the hood, revealing nine eye-catching ring scars, and then put his hands together and recited the sentence "Goodness", which is a ritual of reverence for the dead, Master Qiuji squatted down and crossed Xiao Wu's arms hanging on the ground on his abdomen. Take a rosary from your wrist, open your lips lightly, and meditate on your death.

Until the deeply hidden grief was made public, the corners of Qin Mu's eyes were already warm, he closed his eyes and silently prayed for Xiao Wu, in the next life, he may be able to be a rich and compelling young master, and no longer bear the suffering of purgatory on earth.

"If you are not afraid of sacrifice and are willing to be an upright warrior, the Tianshui Merchant has been in need of a sturdy mercenary like you recently" Master Autumn Scar put the rosary sticker back on his wrist and raised his hand to pat his strong spine before getting up.

"Master, I can't let Xiao Wu be thrown into the mine!" Qin Mu didn't even dare to raise his head, his eyes still showed stubbornness, even if Master Qiuji was a high-ranking apostle, even those arrogant nobles didn't dare to offend the master respectfully.

"Trust my kid, you'll love your new life, and I'll arrange it for your friends!" Autumn Scar finally put on his cloak again, and two dervishes behind him had already gone over to lift Xiao Wu's body and wrap the body that was still warm with a brand new black cloak.

Qin Mu didn't say much else, he kept staring at his bare feet with his head down, and followed the master all the way into the carriage, originally he didn't dare to go in, but the master insisted on this, he naturally couldn't disobey the master's wishes.

The bonfires in the square were gradually extinguished, and the deserted people who had not been picked were scattered in all directions, some howling and crying, some biting their lips without saying a word, and the dim light in their eyes was completely extinguished.

The carriage bumped all the way, and finally stopped in front of an independent house near the south gate of Tianshui City, Qiu Zhen took Qin Mu's hand and walked to the gate of the courtyard step by step.

"Master Autumn Scar, Miss Zhuyan has been waiting for a long time!" The doorman was a tall and burly man, dressed in silver-white bright armor, bent down and saluted, turned around and pushed open the courtyard door.

Qin Mu did not follow the master into the room with orange lights, but was taken to another low house on the side.

"There's hot water there, hurry up and wash it up and change into this outfit!" Qin Mu was led in by a middle-aged man, with a thick beard, golden curly hair, a broad forehead, a square face, a very strong body, and an obvious scar on the left side of his neck.

Qin Mu knew that he didn't have the right to know too much, and without the slightest hesitation, he turned around and walked in the direction designated by the man, passing through a wooden door, inside was a not very spacious house, there was a stove with a fire, and a large cauldron was set on it, and the hot water in it was steaming.

In such a cold weather, being able to take a hot bath was something that Qin Mu had never dared to think about before.

Scooped the hot water into the wooden barrel on the side, added some cold water to it, and when the temperature was just right, Qin Mu lay naked in the wooden barrel, the chill in his heart was swept away, and his cold body gradually became warm.

"Change your clothes and gather in the courtyard!" the man's voice came through the wooden door, Qin Mu hurriedly climbed out of the wooden barrel, wiped the water stains on his body with his old pants, changed into the coarse cloth green shirt that was at least intact, and finally straddled the giant bow on his solid back again.

When Qin Mu walked into the courtyard, the night was densely packed with people dressed like himself, he found a random place to stand, looked up from the gap, in front of the crowd, the bearded man was holding a booklet in his hand, and a pair of eyes scanned back and forth in the crowd a few times.

"Shouted by name!"

"Xiao Qiang!"

"Here!"

"Wang Xiaojun"

"To"

“。。。。。。。 ”

"Qin Mu!"

"Here!" Qin Mu's name came last, and when the other party read his name, he almost frantically opened his voice in response.

"In the past, you may be murderers, death row prisoners, thieves, ruffians, untouchables, from now on, forget your past, now you are Miss Zhuyan's temporary mercenary, from tomorrow, you will undergo strict training until the master sets off, use your weapons, crush those bastards who dare to violate the majesty of the master!

With this subdued voice, everyone present silently puffed up their chests, no matter how unbearable the past was, from this moment on, they longed to become heroic fighters.

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