In February of the fifth year of the Eltino calendar, the north gate of Reyns was closed

"By the way, what about our eldest lady?"

Seeing the figure of Nier, Gengoro, who had planned to run to offer his courtesies, frowned and asked Bai Qianlang, who was supervising the training of his own troops.

"Miss Niel is out, headed for Kigru, and I don't know what to do. ”

This really puzzled the two, Nier has been running out a lot in recent days, looking mysterious, and Gengoro is not allowed to follow, every time she comes back, she has a smile on her face, which is really strange.

Gengoro was vaguely aware. After listening to Lancelot's speech that day, Nier's expression was also a little uncertain, although she didn't know much, but at least she understood that Bai Qi could not be some of Eltinor's spies, in other words, she knew that her brother was lying. Perhaps because of this, Nier's mood has been low these days, and she deliberately ran out of the North Gate Tianguan, wanting to escape something.

There was nothing wrong with that guess, and Nill was really upset by it. During the time he was away from Jixia, the elder brother fought alone against a strong enemy, survived countless dangers, and won the victory, but it seems that something has changed.

If it's in the past...... At least the brother in his memory, although he is not completely honest and undeceiving, but at least it is impossible to tell lies so fluently, this time I saw him talking beautiful words on the podium, but I could feel that there was even the least sincerity in these words, as long as I thought of this, I felt uneasy about the future.

It would be nice if I could go back to Jixia immediately to find out, but it is not possible at the moment, and Shuijing Communication can't find anyone, so I don't know what my brother is busy with in Jixia City. Distraught, he had no choice but to wander out of the customs and go straight to Kigru to meet the little boy who was so cute that he couldn't stop laughing.

After a few days of getting along, I got along quite well with Sojiro. One is unreservedly pampered, the other seems to be accustomed to receiving such pampering, and the two of them are like princesses and teddy bears, talking and laughing together all day long, and having endless fun.

"Sojiro, little sister is here, are you there?"

In response to Nier's call, Sojiro on the snow mound waved his hand excitedly.

Playing in the snow on the slopes has always been a favorite of children on such snowy days. Build a wall of snow, divide into two camps, rub snowballs, and throw snowballs at each other for a snowball fight, which is the most fun children's play on a snowy day.

Maybe it should be said that God favors handsome men and beauties, and it is also a desolate and snowy scene, and there is a different situation around Sojiro.

It is still the dead branches swaying in the wind and snow, but after being stained with water droplets, they are connected into long and short icicles one after another, which are crystal clear and reflect a rainbow halo under the sunlight. A forest without leaves is like a glazed castle, magnificent and unstoppable.

The soft snow powder, a little bit of snow powder fell slowly, and fell on the children's faces and hands in the wind, which should have been very cold, but because they were having fun, they only saw a smile on their red faces, and they scrambled to grab the snowflakes from the ground, knead them into balls, and throw them at their companions.

This scene made Nier elated, rubbing her hands and participating in it. When the excitement came, she used her natural divine power to absorb the snowflakes on the ground into a large ball wrapped around her arms, which was held high above the top, and the children around her were stunned.

"Oh! Big sister is so amazing!"

"It's a lot of strength, it's not like a human at all!"

In an exclamation that really didn't look like a compliment, Niel threw the snowball into the air, and once again turned into a shower of snow and rained down on the ground.

The time for fun did not last long, and the children were just from ordinary families, and of course it was impossible to have snowball fights with deerskin gloves like the children of the nobles under the grass. Although they were wearing cotton jackets, everyone grabbed the snow and threw it empty-handed, and it was really uncomfortable for a long time, and when the time was close to noon, it didn't take much effort for people to disperse.

"Strange, why did they run out all at once? and...... Why are there fewer people than in the previous two days?"

Having fun, Nile felt a little unfinished and looked at Sojiro beside her.

It's been a long time since we first met, and the boy who said he was going to wait here for the master still hasn't waited for them, Niel was suspicious of this, but the boy just smiled and said, "There's nothing strange about it, the master used to make an appointment with me before, and then come to me every once in a while, he said that it was a kind of practice, and that it would be beneficial for me to live on my own." ”

That's what she said, but Nier didn't believe it at all, after all, she was more than half a year late, and this explanation sounded too much like Hu Lai.

And the boy who was abandoned here did not suffer the pain of being abandoned at all. The angelic and lovely appearance is extremely pleasing to anyone, and the example of wanting to be close to him as soon as you meet Niel is not unique, and the parents of those children, after seeing a beautiful little boy here, are also busy sending all kinds of gifts, from snacks, pastries, warm cotton jackets, to many small toys, and many people rush to take him as a godfather and entertain him home to stay.

(It's so powerful, I will definitely eat with my face in the future...... ）

In addition to admiring, Nier couldn't help but have such thoughts, but while thinking like this, she still beckoned Sojiro to lean over and give him half of the meat steamed buns that she had originally put in her arms.

Through the kraft paper, the internal force runs slightly, and the meat steamed buns that have cooled down become steaming.

Seeing the boy's cute appearance of blowing into his hand as if he was afraid of being hot, bringing the meat steamed bun close to his mouth, and swallowing it in small bites, Nile felt a burst of heartwarming joy, as if she was moved by seeing a perfect work of art, and her heart was full.

"Hey, Sojiro, why are there fewer children coming to play? It's too cold, do they catch a cold?"

Sensing that the number of playmates was decreasing, Niel asked worriedly, wondering if she should bring some medical supplies from the North Gate Tianguan.

The boy shook his head, ate the meat steamed bun in his hand, and said casually: "No, I heard that Reyns and Altino are going to fight recently, and the people in the village are worried that they will be affected, so they have started to move. ”

"Hit ...... How would they know?"

"Hmm...... I don't know, but I heard that the new King Reins said something, as if he was going to war against Eltinor, so everyone in Kigru began to move away......"

"That's it...... It's really hard for them......"

As her mood changed, Niel's voice was deep. Although the words made by the elder brother a few days ago did not explicitly indicate the start of war, the obvious hostility in them could be heard by anyone with the least of mind, and it was naturally impossible for Eltino not to know it.

Kigru is located on the border, and if a war breaks out and the North Gate is broken, this is the first place to suffer. Originally, the place near the border was very unsafe, this is the common sense of war, in the past Reins and Eltino were safe, there were only residents here, since the previous incident, the people of Kigru have been harassed, and now they realize the possibility of war breaking out soon, so they naturally rush to move out of this place.

I really feel very uneasy when I think about it, although I was a little reluctant at the beginning, but now as the person in charge of the North Gate Tianguan, my responsibility is to protect the lives and property of the people of Reines after the North Gate Tianguan......

"But...... As long as we hold the North Gate, it is impossible for the enemy to cross the border and invade Kigru, but as long as I ...... Well, as long as there are good generals, the North Gate Tianguan will be very stable, so you don't need to be scared to move, right?"

"As long as you think that there may be a war nearby, everyone will be afraid!" said Sojiro.

"And...... There is no level in the world that will never be broken, and if the general is too self-assured of force, he will eventually attract military disasters and bring trouble to everyone. ”

Unexpectedly, she would hear such mature words from Sojiro's mouth, and Nier was taken aback at first, and then took the boy into her arms and hugged him hard.

"Oh, Sojiro, you're amazing, you're so sensible at a young age, and I'm so proud to be your godsister......"

"Uh......h Sister, you're too strong, I'm out of breath......"

As if playing with her favorite puppet, Nile waited for a while before reluctantly letting go of the boy who was held tightly in her arms.

"Sojiro, who taught you these truths?

"No, I came up with it myself. In the past, every time I was left alone by the master and didn't know what to do, I started thinking about things by myself, thinking and thinking, and I figured out a lot of things. ”

"Oh, it's really promising, just looking at your appearance, my sister really can't imagine that you are so smart. ”

Niel really likes this boy, but sometimes it feels weird to think about it. It's like encountering some very precious exotic beast, watching him make a little ordinary move, stretching out his little hand to grab the steamed bun, using his fingers to brush the hair combed into bangs, and licking off the powder on the side of his lips...... It's obviously nothing unusual in the little movements, but I think it's so cute in my eyes.

Compared with the surrounding snow, the skin on the boy's hands is so white that it is difficult to distinguish, and the feeling of rubbing against his cheeks is even more comfortable than good silk satin......

Well, it's so strange, is that island country dedicated to handsome men and beautiful women? If that's the case, I will be a member of that country in my next life.

But...... It seems to be a weird shemale country where men are more beautiful than women, and if they were born there in the next life, would it ......

Well, it's better not to be good, it's good to be beautiful, but it's too expensive to get the gender unknown.

"Hmm...... But there's still something I don't understand!" Raising his little face, the boy had a pair of extremely clear and bright eyes, "Why do you have to fight?"

A simple question, but Niel was stumped, at this time, she really didn't know how to answer, especially when she saw those innocent eyes, she couldn't say anything.

When he first came to Reins, he wanted to use the power of this country to fight against Al Tino, firstly, because he was forced to have nowhere to live and wanted to establish his own territory, and secondly, he wanted to use Renes's troops to counterattack and avenge the dead brothers of the forty thieves.

But after this period of time, at first I thought that Reyns's troops were too weak to speak, let alone raise troops to attack, and under the strong troops of Eltinor, it would be good not to lose the country. When I knew that the five-color flag, which was the main combat force, was so strong, it was originally estimated that the time would change, but those people were strange and mysterious, and they all looked ill-intentioned, and I really didn't want to have too much to do with them.

But even if there are strong troops, so what? Is it really true to launch a large army and go straight to Eltino? In the past, he might have been able to rely on a wave of anger to kill him directly, regardless of the thirty-seven twenty-one, but now that he has gained insight and seen the situation of the people hiding from the war, he has begun to doubt in his heart, for the sake of his own personal grudges, he has implicated the people of Reins and let thousands of people die, is this really right?

When Jixia was baptized, tens of thousands of lives were ruined, although he did not witness it with his own eyes, but saw the images and text descriptions sent, it was really tragic enough, if the war broke out, Eltino's strong hands killed, let this situation repeat, then these people are not waiting to be killed by themselves?

Alas...... The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't figure out who my enemy was? Of course it wouldn't be the people of Eltinor, so ...... Is it the people of the Shi family and the Hua family? Is it the pig-headed emperor of Altino?

However, what did it matter to the two families in the battle on Ku'er Mountain? However, to say that it didn't matter, in fact, there was a little confusion.

The murderer on the dry ear mountain that day was the lizard girl in the purple shirt, and her men.

If you want revenge, you should lead people to kill Ascending Dragon Mountain, but I heard that she was instructed by her master Lu You, that is, the old man Lu You can't get out of the relationship, because in this way, the scope of revenge must be counted in Lu You, and therefore it includes the entire White Deer Cave, and with the vast power of the White Deer Cave, to be the enemy of the White Deer Cave is equivalent to being the enemy of the entire Al Tieno.

Wait a minute...... In this way, if the children of the White Deer Cave are all enemies, then Wu Lian, Reins, and the people in the Free City who have studied art in the White Deer Cave are all enemies! Do you want to kill them all one by one? Of course, this is impossible, but even if you don't do anything to them, when you make it clear that the chariots and horses are going to pick the White Deer Cave, will those people smile at themselves?

It's so difficult to do it or not, I just want to get justice for my brothers, how can I involve so many things?

"Ahh

The more I thought about it, the more annoyed I became, and the original good mood was gone, Nier kicked out angrily, swept a large snowflake into the sky, and looked at the snow all over the sky, feeling a little relieved, but when I turned around, I found that Sojiro beside me had disappeared.

"Sojiro, where are you going......?"

Looking to the left, I was surprised to see Sojiro squatting on the ground, reaching for a small hole, as if to get something out.

"Sojiro, what are you doing?"

Curiously approaching, Niel found Sojiro with a happy face, carrying a cloud of stuffed things in his hand, and at a glance, it looked like a black cat.

"It's ......"

"Little sister, this is Xiao Lei, I've always wanted to show you, but it's been hiding far away for the past few days, and now it's hard to let it out!"

It turned out to be a child's pet, and Nier was relieved, and when she looked closely, she was really surprised. This black cat has a strange appearance, and it doesn't seem to be an ordinary cat. Under the thick black fur of the torso, obvious scars can be seen, the limbs are also wrapped in white bandages, the claws on the palms and soles of the feet are longer than ordinary cats, but they are curled up and do not hurt people;

"Little sister, Xiao Lei was brought from my hometown by me, and when I went out, he was very stubborn and refused to come out. ”

"It's ...... What kind of bat cat? Did you bring it from your country? I've never seen it on the mainland, okay...... Curious. ”

The boy was holding the cat in his arms and rubbing the cat's back with his little face, which looked really cute, but Nier didn't dare to reach out and touch it rashly for some reason.

It's also very strange, it's just a little black cat, although it has a pair of weird wings, but it's still a small thing, but every time Nier gets closer, she feels a tightness of skin, as if the boy is not holding a cat in his arms, but some high-risk object. Especially the pair of cat pupils, as black as ink, a little staring, as if it had become a deep bottomless pit, slowly swallowing itself.

"Little sister, are you not feeling well?"

Sojiro asked curiously, so that Nier came back to her senses, and it was funny to think about it, he was actually bluffed by such a small thing, so that Gengoro knew that he must have been laughed at for a lifetime, and without thinking about it, while talking to Sojiro, he reached out and touched the cat's head.

"Sojiro, why is its name Kolei...... Ouch!"

With a cry of pain, Nier hurriedly withdrew her hand and retreated, but it was already a step too late, how could she not have imagined that the kitten pounced so fast, and suddenly waved her left palm, and the claws popped out, leaving a few blood marks on Nier's hand, and the skin was splashed with blood, and the force was not small, if it wasn't for the fast hand, maybe even the meat would be hooked off.

Nier was in pain and immediately tore her clothes and wrapped up the wound, but fortunately, the wound was not black or swollen, and there was no sign of poisoning. The other party is a child and a kitten, and no matter how much she loses her temper with them, it's just that when Nier looks up with a wry smile, she happens to meet the bat monster cat, and she can't help but be frightened again.

After the cat hit it, a pair of round inky black cat pupils actually showed a happy and proud look, and stretched out a bright red tongue, licking the blood on the palm of the hand little by little, although it was a cat, it was like a lion cub who had tasted blood, and looked very hungry and happy.

"Little sister, you can't do this. Sojiro smiled apologetically, while hugging the cat tighter in his arms, "Xiao Lei doesn't like to be human, so it's dangerous to touch him casually." ”

Suddenly, Nile had a strange feeling in her mind. Sojiro is a boy who loves to laugh very much, and he has long known this, and he has always liked the cute appearance of his smile, but now that he is injured, he still smiles so brightly as usual, is it a mistake?

Any child who knows a little bit about the world will not have such a reaction, not to mention that even if he doesn't understand the world, if the two of them are really friends, and see that his hand is injured like this, he should at least worry and comfort Ah, like now, laughing as if nothing has happened, this is really strange......

Thinking like this, the cat in Sojiro's arms suddenly screamed, as if it was deliberately going against his words, and tore a long blood mark on his hand, which was dripping with blood, and he knew that it was unclear at a glance.

The attack was successful, and the cat seemed to be very proud, shaking its head from side to side, squinting at Sojiro above, revealing the kind of expression that if it was a person and not a cat, anyone would think it was provocative.

Surprised to see the boy injured, Nill hurried forward to see how he was hurting, but the injured person had no expression of pain at all, only looked at the bleeding hand in confusion, and then smiled as usual, and let go of his arms, and threw the smug cat to the ground.

"Sojiro, you ......"

Before he could say a word, he saw Sojiro leap forward, break off an arm-thick branch from above, and when he fell, he strengthened his hand and slashed hard at the ground, smashing it on the triumphant bat cat.

The branches themselves were thick, and the strength of the hand was surprisingly large, and the batcat didn't even have time to escape, so he buried most of his body in the snow with this stick.

"Meow!"

"Little Thunder...... Why ......"

"Meow!

“...... Why...... That's how you ...... Disobedient, disobedient...... Ask for your own hardship!"

The boy always had a smile on his face, and there was no hint of pretension, nor a trace of anger or pain, but his hands were really heavy, and he hit the cat accurately one after another.

It can be seen that the cat has been trying to escape from the stick blow, and even wants to resist, to pounce on Sojiro and tear the attack, but it has not been successful, and it has been hit on the head and body by the chaotic stick, and after a few efforts, blood splashed out.

"Hey...... Sojiro, you ...... Let's stop!"

It wasn't until Niel on the side woke up from the shock and spoke out to dissuade him that Sojiro stopped his movements and picked up the dying bat cat. Counting this cat, it can be considered durable, if it were an ordinary cat, it would have been beaten into a ball of cat meat sauce long ago if it withstood such continuous heavy blows.

The wound on his hand was still bleeding, but the boy seemed to have no pain, and his face was smiling, and he looked at the cat in his hand, which was full of mockery, and Niel was more sure that what flashed in the eyes of the scarred cat was a deep hatred, a resentment that swore to take revenge in the future.

(1. How can a cat have such eyes? It has so many wounds on its body...... Could it be...

... Probably not...... ）

Horrified by what she found, Nier looked to the side, but saw the small hole where Sojiro had raised the cat just now, it was a trap full of sharp branches and iron bars, and there was blood stained inside......

When it tried to sneak up from behind, it hit the trap, right?

(You, you two...... What kind of pet is this?

"Little sister, now Xiao Lei is very well-behaved, he won't move anymore, do you want to touch it?"

The voice was still as good as usual, but the smile on Nier's face stiffened when she came into contact with the boy's innocent and lovely smile......

Located in the Longteng Mountain Range, the North Gate Tianguan divides the Reyns and Altino on the ground into two different spheres of influence, but in the sky, snowflakes still fall and fall regardless of the world, falling on Kigru in the east of the North Gate Tianguan, and also on the territory of the Hua family in the west.

Compared with the poverty of Kiglu, the people around Xuanjing do live a relatively prosperous life, although the famine and prolonged drought caused great disasters to the eastern part of Altino a while ago, but Xuanjing is the headquarters of the Hua family after all, through fast transportation, it can still maintain a prosperous situation in the famine, and when the heavy snow falls in winter, the drought elephant has also been relieved.

Originally, under such circumstances, the people's suffering could be temporarily relieved, as long as they were worried about how to spend this winter and wait for the spring ploughing of the coming year, but a sudden change caused the people in the Xuanjing area to be killed and injured, and their families were ruined.

The main reason for this situation is the sabotage activities caused by the previous white uprising. Although it was not as miserable as the Great Baptism of Jixia, the overall follow-up damage was more far-reaching, and the poisonous gas emitted from the Huajia General Fort, the center of the disaster, made the people in the Xuanjing area, regardless of men, women, old and young, shrouded in a large-scale epidemic.

It was the middle of winter, the official rescue work of Altino was progressing slowly, the aristocratic families with a lot of resources in their hands spent their efforts on treating their families and building manors, and the illness of ordinary people seemed to them to happen in another world, and not many people realized that if the people were killed and injured in large numbers, then if the serfs at the bottom of the Altino society were abolished, when the spring farming period came, there was no longer a labor force to work, and there was no fertile land, and those nobles who had no ability to work could only stare dryly.

Once paralyzed the recovery ability of the Hua family, Bai Qi implemented this goal thoroughly, completely ignoring humanity, and striving to obtain the maximum benefits, if this plan is not hindered, then at most, within a radius of 700 miles centered on the Huajia main fort, it is estimated that the population will be reduced by more than 50%.

In order to prevent this from happening, Hua Cripple, who is "the most conscientious and knowledgeable man in the Hua family at the moment", can be said to have taken great pains, and in his capacity as the head of the emperor's imperial guard, he visited various wealthy families in the Hua family's territory non-stop, asking them to provide medical and food support, and at the same time to make the paralyzed administrative system work as much as possible.

The disaster relief work is not going well, and the local wealthy people who are already selfish and accustomed to it, thinking that this winter is not good, of course they must keep most of the resources for their own needs, the previous drought has hit them hard, and now they have to contribute to the disaster relief, and the degree of generosity will naturally be affected.

Hao Kelian, who is a colleague of Hua Cripple, has outstanding skills in detoxification, and quickly finds out the antidote prescription and dispenses the antidote, but in the case of the lack of various medicinal materials, the mass production of the antidote encounters difficulties.

It's just that no antidote can remove the toxins 100%, and for the damage that has been caused in the body, Hao Kelian, who is only a poison expert, is helpless, if it is not a turning point at the right time, a tragic mass of deaths will appear in the Hua family's territory.

This opportunity for change is the arrival of a noble person. The goddess doctor Yuqi Fenghua, who has been missing for several years and has moved the entire Wind Continent, suddenly came to the territory of the Hua family and announced a free clinic.

A few years ago, this goddess doctor, who traveled for free clinics and never charged a penny, was already a figure admired by people everywhere, and now she appeared in the territory of the Hua family in time, which is nothing less than a timely rain in a drought, bringing hope to countless people who have been hovering at the moment of death.

The power of a person is very limited, but this woman, who is listed as one of the three great miracle doctors in the world in the secret records of the Qinglou, does have extraordinary skills. Originally, the reputation of the jade signature was achieved on the battlefield, with a very short time to a large number of wounded soldiers first aid, if the action is not fast, only one or two people can be saved, and the rest of the wounded have already choked, and this time when she came to the territory of the Hua family, she proved that she is the best of the three great doctors to see a large number of experts in a short period of time.

With the assistance of Hua Defective, a group of doctors was formed led by the jade signature Fenghua, and after being guided by her, they began to carry out the diagnosis and treatment work in an organized manner. Even though the jade signature Fenghua Ken does not accept the consultation fee, but all kinds of medicinal materials are still an expense that the people cannot afford, but fortunately, this time the head of the Medici family is very interested, and all the medicinal materials delivered will be given away without additional charge. If it was in the past, there might have been a situation where the medicinal herbs were seized by the powerful after they arrived, and they were filled with private pockets, but it did not happen under the close supervision of the flowers.

Through the joint efforts of many parties, the overall disaster situation was finally controlled, but in the entire disaster relief process, the current Hua family's master Hua Tianxie did not participate at all, he ordered all the Hua family's children to prepare for war, and then hid, most people believe that at the moment of losing face, he can't face his subordinates, he must be hiding in a corner to get drunk.