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The originally dark earth had now changed into a silver-white costume, and the cold wind whistled by, carrying the snow dust that swirled on the ground in circles, mixed with a faint whistling sound, swept across the plain, through the dilapidated doorways and gaps, and flew away in all directions.

"What a deserted place. ”

Looking at the dilapidated, uninhabited town in front of him, Yuren pulled down his hat and looked around.

It's just an ordinary town on the plains, with hundreds of wooden houses scattered around, albeit a little cluttered. But you can still feel the vitality and vitality that once existed here. Now, this vitality and vitality are gone, replaced by cold and silence.

The facades of many of the houses are broken, there are traces of battles everywhere, and all sorts of things have fallen to the ground, and the chaos of the time can still be perceived. But now, it's unusually quiet, and you can't see half a person. Yulian gently patted the shadow warhorse under him, and then, after receiving the instructions, the mount walked forward leisurely. And this seemed to be a signal, driving the carriage that had been following the side.

"I've heard about it from Lady Tira, but I didn't expect it to be even more exaggerated than I thought. ”

Looking at the mess around him, Yulian shrugged his shoulders and said half-jokingly to the carriage next to him. At the window to the right of the carriage, O'Faryl watched everything in front of him quietly. Then he frowned slightly.

"I didn't see any corpses. ”

"After all, it's a riot, not a bandit. ”

Yuren didn't seem surprised by Ofariel's doubts.

"Riots naturally have riots, and if you think of the other party as something like a bandit, then it's strange. ”

“............... Is this what a country becomes when it loses its leader?"

Staring blankly at the scene in front of him, Ofaril seemed to have a different feeling. Although she has now let go of her responsibilities as a princess, she still can't help frowning when she sees such a scene. After all, this is not a harmonious sight in any way.

"The incompetence of the superior is sin, and that is the consequence. ”

Yuren was obviously not so sentimental, and he replied as he rode around the corner.

"Instigation!"

At this moment, a stone suddenly flew from the side, and Yulian didn't even move, just tilted his head, and the stone passed in front of him, and then slammed into the wall next to him, making a heavy crashing sound.

At the same time, dozens of figures suddenly emerged from the ruins, and then surrounded Yulian and the carriage beside him.

"Who are you!What are you doing here?!"

The leader was a childish young man, who held the wooden stick with both hands, gritted his teeth, and stood in front of Yulian and shouted. However, what did not match the heroic momentum was the body and legs that were shaking desperately. Of course, considering the current weather conditions and the other party's clothing, it may not be due to timidity and nervousness.

"We were just travellers and dropped by. ”

In the face of the encirclement in front of him, Yu Lian didn't particularly care, he didn't even reach out to hold the weapon on his waist, after all, the people surrounding them in front of him were just ordinary farmers, and most of the weapons in their hands were the products of farm tools and wooden sticks, and for Yu Lian, just this level of threat was basically the same as no for him.

"Are you residents here? Can you tell us what's going on here?"

"Traveler?"

"It looks like a nobleman......"

"What are you doing in the snow and ice in this remote place?"

After hearing Yulian's answer, the besiegers also began to turn their heads to each other, and they looked at Yulian in front of them suspiciously, while at the same time being uneasy and vigilant. Although the tone of the other party was very relaxed, the aristocratic style of clothing was not the usual travel dress. Moreover, the horses beneath the young man also gave a sense of unease. I hadn't seen it clearly before, but when I looked closer, I realized that the horse didn't seem to be a creature at all, it was simply made of shadows, something like a horse. And at its head, the eyes that radiated a cold light also made everyone feel a little uneasy.

"Anyway, outsiders aren't welcome here!"

Eventually, after a moment of whispered discussion, the young man in the lead shouted loudly again.

"Hurry up and get out of here, or we're going to be unwelcome!"

"As you wish. ”

Hearing the boy's words, Yuren shrugged his shoulders, and then he gently pulled the reins, and the Shadow Horse walked forward again. After seeing this scene, the young man was a little stunned, and then, he jumped off the ruins and once again blocked in front of Yu Lian.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"All the way north. ”

For the young man's inquiry, You Lian gave the answer very patiently. He looked up and pointed ahead.

"I advise you that it's better to turn back. ”

The boy frowned, then spoke dissuasively.

"It's not quiet in the area right now, there's a lot of trouble stuffing around, so if you don't want to get into any trouble, get out of the area right away. Anyway, you aristocrats are just idle and bored to come out and play, so why don't you just change to a better time?"

"Oh, there's such a thing?"

Hearing this, Yulian's eyes narrowed slightly, and then, he looked at the young man with a friendly smile.

"If you may, can you tell me more about what's going on here?"

"This ........."

"Of course, I won't let you do the day job. ”

You Lian said, with a wave of his right hand, and then, a small thing that exuded a shining brilliance flew out of his hand and flew towards the young man in front of him. And in the face of this sudden move, the young man also reflexively stretched out his hand and took over the thing that fell in front of him. By the sunlight, he quickly saw what was in his hand clearly, and then, the young man's eyes immediately widened.

"This, this is ........."

"It's a gem!!"

Lying in the palm of the young man's hand was a small ruby, although it was not very large, but anyone who saw this shining luster could be sure that this pair was a high-quality one, and if it was sold in the city, I am afraid that it would be able to exchange it for hundreds of gold coins! Holy grace is on it, even if these people save money for decades, I am afraid they will not be able to get so much money! And now, this young nobleman casually shook his hand, and that was so much? It seems that what those old people in the town said is really right, these nobles are really the masters who take money and do not pay money!

"Excuse me, what do you want to know?

The so-called money can make ghosts grind, not to mention that there are people and ghosts in front of them, and it is not for them to grind. Moreover, although these people look very dangerous, they are not bandits after all, and they don't have those unbearable minds. Although they were a little curious about the nobles, the real benefits in their hands in front of them still made these farmers immediately respect You Lian a little more, and they smiled and put away the "fangs and claws" weapon in their hands, and then immediately asked politely.

"Everything that's going on here. ”

"Yes, yes, you want to know what's going on here, then I can tell you about it, sir........."

Although I had received a general situation from Mrs. Tira, I still had a completely different feeling when I heard the accounts of those who experienced them.

According to the townspeople, the riots here began several weeks ago, and they didn't pay attention to what they thought were just bandits somewhere. After all, this kind of robber and mountain bandits generally only rob foreign travelers, and the local people rarely meet unless they go up to the mountains to hunt, so they don't care.

But then things changed. These people, who were considered by the townspeople to be bandits, appeared in the town on their own initiative and began to spread some strange ideas. All in all, the world is difficult now, and ordinary people have no way to live anymore, so everyone must unite to resist those evil oppressions and fight for their own interests.

For most of the townspeople, there is no trend in this kind of thinking, after all, everyone is just stable, and the surnames of the countrymen are very simple, although the current season is a little more difficult, but it is not as exaggerated as those guys say, as if the world will end tomorrow. Most of them didn't say anything, but some residents were encouraged to join in.

And after that, things get troublesome.

These guys didn't know what kind of bear-hearted leopard gall they had eaten, but one night, they completely demolished the town office near a small town, and even forced the mayor's family to leave here, saying that they wanted to control the place and no longer let everyone be enslaved by the nobles.

Many residents expressed their surprise at such a result, they originally thought it was just a trivial matter, but they didn't expect these people to have such a big courage to dare to drive out the mayor. However, these people didn't say anything more at that time, after all, this place is still under the jurisdiction of the Senna family. Right now, these guys are doing this kind of thing without knowing the sky, and it's no wonder that they are not beaten down by the nobles.

After that, things developed just as the townspeople thought, and the Senna family soon sent a hundred private soldiers to come, and although the hundreds of armed thugs were still resisting at first, they were no match for the regular army, so they had to hug their heads and flee. After that, the mayor returned to the town, and everything seemed to be back to its usual order. And for those quirky guys, everyone didn't think too much about it. Most of them thought that they had been wiped out by the nobles, or that they had gone into the mountains to become robbers, but most of them did not go to their hearts.

However, at this moment, something unexpected happened.

It was a cold autumn morning. When the townsfolk yawned again and walked out of their rooms, intending to start their day's life and work, they were completely stunned by the scene in front of them.

In the square in front of the town, the bodies of the mayor's family were dropped on wooden poles, and the entrances to the town were blocked again. The fellows who had been evicted before reappeared in front of the townspeople, and unlike before, they were extremely vicious this time, not only asking the townspeople to cooperate with their actions, but even threatening no one to leave the town.

After all, this is just a remote place, and people have always lived in peace. Suddenly such a big event happened, and everyone didn't know what to do for a while. However, most people still believe that as long as the nobles send troops again, then these guys will still be killed as before. It's just that this time everyone hopes that the nobles can cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and don't leave such a tail behind.

Sure enough, although I don't know how the Senna family got the news after that. But it was obvious that they were indeed angry, and soon, more than a thousand elite private soldiers appeared again and began to encircle and suppress those thugs. And this confrontation was no different from the previous ones, the thugs were no match for the well-trained regular army, and soon they were once again on the run. And the private soldiers are also catching up, different from the previous mentality of indifference, this time many townspeople hope that the nobles can get rid of these dangerous guys and restore peace and tranquility to the town.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that the soldiers of the nobles actually lost.

"Lose?"

Hearing this, Yu Lian's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Do you see how they lose?"

"Of course we did!"

The young man at the head hurriedly stretched out his hand and gestured.

"A lot of people, dozens of people in robes, they look like mages, honorable sir. I haven't left here, but I'm sure it's a mage's clothes. Moreover, these people are a little weird, and they also wear a very beautiful set of armor on their robes! These people just float in the air, and then they take the things in their hands, and they 'bang' at the thousand people, and the Holy Grace is above, I have grown so big, but I have never seen such a scene! It was a thousand soldiers, and they were directly blown to pieces, and they couldn't see their human appearance at all!"

"And then?"

"Then ........."

The boy pursed his lips with a look of frustration.

"Then they lost and ran away. Later, the nobles and lords sent people a few times, but these thugs hid back as soon as they couldn't beat them, and then those flying mages appeared, beating the other party with no temper at all. Later, the nobles stopped sending people, and these guys took over the place smoothly. ”

"So they're in charge of the area now?"

"That's not the case, noble sir!"

Hearing Yu Lian's inquiry, the other person immediately jumped up quickly.

"These people are in charge of a ghost! They know all day long that they take what we eat and drink, and they force our people to build houses and walls for them! Damn it, they don't give them money, these bastards are very nice, everything is for us, and what is the result? These guys are not as good as the nobles! I see, they just want to find an excuse to rob! Moreover, now, they are still recruiting soldiers on a large scale, saying that they want to form a country. It's really wishful thinking, whimsical! But some people still believe it, no, there are so many hundred and eighty young people in several small towns on this plain who have been deceived by them. Hey, I don't know who these guys are or what they want to do, but I mean, it's definitely not a good thing!"

"Then you are .........?"

Hearing this, Yulian frowned, and then looked at the people in front of him curiously.

"We're also forced to be helpless. ”

Another person spoke helplessly.

"Now the big city is under siege by this group of guys, and we can't get in if we want to, and even if we go home, if we are found by these guys, we will still be forcibly expropriated by them, which is really a dilemma, so I have no choice but to hide, and one day is a day. ”

Saying this, the man glanced at You Lian, and then couldn't help but dissuade him.

"I'm not saying, noble sir, if a man like you were seen by that group of thugs, he would definitely have to strip off his clothes! They hate the nobles the most! I heard that several nobles were robbed of their money and beheaded for public display, and they still called themselves 'rebels', I see, these are all bandits at all!"

"I see. ”

It was only then that Yulian finally figured out the current situation. However, he still has a few questions that he has not clarified, but I am afraid that there is no more information to be obtained from these townspeople. And the main problem is obviously still with the mages, but before that......... "By the way, I would like to ask if any of you are feeling unwell or have any strange illness?"

"This ............"

Hearing Yulian's inquiry, everyone looked at each other for a moment, and then shook their heads.

"Although there are people who have fallen ill from the cold, it has never been a strange disease. ”

Mana's balance has not been broken.

Hearing everyone's answer, Yulian frowned. Spells require a large amount of mana, and on such a plain, mana is not thick, and it should be impossible to maintain a very strong attack spell. Of course, it is not excluded that the other party has a large amount of Mana power in storage. However, such storage is very expensive, and even if it is to be used in rebellion, it should only be worth the money for the great powers. And this land is just one of the little nobles that West has fallen apart, is there such a necessity? Or is there something else behind it?

"Oh no! Oh no!"

Just as Yulian was thinking about and analyzing, suddenly a voice sounded, and then, I saw a person dressed in the same tatters running over in a panic, and pointed behind him in horror.

"Those people from the rebels are already here!!"

(To be continued)