The midday sun made the square a little hot, and even the wind was warm.

People crowded into the square, and a group of aborigines surrounded the punishment stone in the center of the square with some wooden planks held high, trying to block the girl on the punishment stone from the scorching sun. Some people even tried to splash water from a water bottle on the girl's body.

Four guards crossed their spears in their hands to stop the crowd from getting too close.

She was prostrate on a black reef, her skin exposed to her clothes was red from the blinding, her mental condition was very poor, her eyes were half-closed, and even if her lips were chapped and her eye sockets were deep, it was difficult to hide her beautiful face. She looked a little thin, with a pointed chin, a straight nose, and a slightly whiter complexion than the other natives, but her face was full of stubbornness.

She was about eleven or twelve years old, and the long linen dress she wore was tattered, and her thin arms and legs were almost devoid of flesh, and her legs were curled barefoot, and her body was almost flat against the black reef, and she was burned red by the hot punishment stone.

Several of the Indigenous people in the crowd appeared agitated, and they tried to break away from the guards guarding the Punishment Stone, only to be stopped by the guards outside.

There were still a lot of onlookers in the square, but the Imperials who had emigrated from Bena just watched coldly from a distance, their eyes full of disdain and indifference.

The sun scorched the stones, and some water poured on the girl's face, and she tried to curl up her body, but was blocked by two metal chains.

Surdak, who had come from the crowd, stood in front of the maiden, and happened to see her, and the moment she looked up, her eyes showed a desire for life.

Seeing Surdak coming, the girl closed her eyes indifferently, raised her pointed chin, let her head lie on the black reef, and covered her embarrassed face with one hand.

The guards didn't dare to stop Surdak, and when they saw Surdak's unfamiliar face, they didn't know what to say for a while.

After all, the silver medallion of nobility hanging on Surdak's chest made them dare not have any disrespect for Surdak.

Several people dressed as nobles were originally watching from afar, and when they saw that the scene was a little uncontrollable, they whispered a few words to a few servants behind them.

Two of the guards walked briskly to the center of the square, squeezed in through the crowd of aborigines, and saw Surdak standing next to the punishment stone with two female dependents and a little girl, followed by a local guide, who hesitated and didn't know whether to come up or not.

They hesitated for a moment, but seemed to remember the purpose of their visit, and began to help the guards maintain order on the field, and told the guards that someone had gone to the garrison barracks in Kieran Town to apply for reinforcements from the garrison, and let them hold on a little longer.

The guards, who had originally flinched a little, heard Hu Cong say this, Shuang. The legs became stronger, and the natives became more resolute in pushing them.

Selena pulled Signa to stand beside Surdak, and just as she was about to walk towards the girl on the black reef, she was stopped by a guard.

"We are on command, ma'am! No one is allowed to come near her. ”

Selena hesitated a little and looked at Surdak beside her.

Surdak said to the guards with a faint expression, "Listen, guards! She needed to drink some water, and if she continued like this, she would die. ”

"The mayor has instructed that no one should come near her until she has confessed the whereabouts of the stolen goods." One of the guards said persistently.

Surdak glanced at the four guards, they were all Bernard people who had walked through the portal from the Grimm Empire, but they spoke with a different accent from the Bernards, probably because they had lived here for a long time.

Surdak glanced down at the guards and said with a serious expression, "I need to take a look at the House court's verdict, or the authorization issued by the Archon of Kieran Town. ”

The guards did not expect the noble baron in front of them to put on a businesslike attitude, they did not dare to resist the order of a noble baron, but they refused to let go, so they could only bite the bullet and say: "These certificates are not in our hands for the time being. ”

Samira, who had been standing behind Surdak, suddenly flashed out like a ghost, strode in front of the guards, her arms were like a poisonous snake clasping the guards' necks, staring coldly at the guards with a pair of pale red eyes, and shouted coldly: "Then get out of the way!" ”

The guards didn't even feel any thrust, and their bodies involuntarily took a few steps back.

Dressed in a precious salamander leather armor and a hood covering her face tightly, Samira walked up to the Black Reef, reached out and untied the water bladder from her waist, snuggled the indigenous girl on the Black Reef into her arms, put the water bladder next to her chapped lips, and fed her a little water.

Selena and Signa hurriedly stepped forward to help.

The guard, who had been drunk, hurriedly caught up, and tried to stop Samira but did not dare to approach, but persuaded with a bitter face on the side:

"You can't be so savage, you can't take her away, she's a thief, he stole a beloved ceramic vase from Lord Baron Goss, with exquisite colorful patterns on it, you must know how expensive this precious porcelain brought from the Roland continent is, but this aborigine, she stole the vase, we want to get the vase back, and give her a little punishment, it's not too much!"

Selena took out a blanket and put it over the girl's body, and rebuked the guards, "How long has she been here in the sun?" It's all starting to be dehydrated, and you want her life? ”

The guard muttered a sentence in a low voice.

The surrounding aborigines didn't expect someone to stand up and speak for them, and for a while, they were also excited, and surrounded the black reef in a water system.

One of the aborigines came up with a clay pot and trembled to lift the blanket and apply a pale green grass juice to the girl's sunburned skin.

The girl drank some water, and had some spirits, and she looked at Samira blankly, her wrists a little erosive where the shackles had worn out.

Samira does not say a word from the great. A sharp dagger was found on his leg and slammed into the shackles on the girl's wrist, which immediately made Surdak's heart tighten, although the manufacturing process of the Green Empire's standard weapons was very sophisticated, but using the standard dagger to forcibly cut off the prisoner's chains, this dagger was inevitably going to collapse.

The shackles snapped, and Samira asked the native, who had come up boldly with the pot, to smear her wrist with the pot.

When the guards on the side saw that Samira had actually cut off the shackles, their faces turned pale with fright, and they did not dare to come forward, but they only held the spear in their hands, and said to Samira in a trembling voice:

"You...... You can't let her go, she hasn't told the whereabouts of the vase yet! ”

Samira looked up at the vicious sun overhead, and tried to carry the girl to a shady place, where there were only a few poplar trees on the edge.

When she got up with the girl in her arms, the aborigines around her followed.

The four guards and two servants huddled in the crowd, struggling to stop Samira and the others, but they stopped in front of them and did not give an inch.

Samira handed the girl to Selena beside her, and without hesitation, she took the alloy bow from her back, put on the feather arrow, and drew the bowstring to the full, so sharp that the tip of the arrow almost touched the tip of the guard's nose, and the guard sweated profusely on his forehead.

"If you dare to stand in my way, I will shoot you with an arrow! I don't care about you! Samira snorted coldly at the guards.

The murderous aura brought back from the battlefield on his body seemed to shoot the guards through the next moment, which frightened the guards a little weak, and he hurriedly retreated to the side with his companions.

……

The square is located on the west side of the town, not far from the council chamber in the center of the town, and the town's garrison camp is also within sight.

The commotion in the town square had already attracted the attention of the garrison camp, and it would take some time for the infantry to get there.

At this time, several people dressed as nobles standing on the edge of the square saw that their subordinates couldn't control the scene and couldn't continue to stand next to the square to watch, so they hurriedly walked over to Surdak and his party.

Walking in front was a young man dressed in aristocratic clothing, I saw that he was fair-skinned, and he did not have a sword on his waist, and it was estimated that he was used to living a pampered life on weekdays, but he did not wear a noble badge on his chest, not even a knight's badge, he walked up to Surdak and said to Surdak very enthusiastically:

"Who are you, Lord Baron?"

Surdak stood up straight and said to the young man: "Baron Surdak, the sheriff of the barren land of the guard camp of Highlanza City in Bena Province, belongs to the cavalry regiment of the Luthor Legion in Bena Province, and this time he was ordered to rush to the Bailin plane to garrison and replace the Langdon family legion, ...... Your Excellency?" ”

Hearing Surdak say such a list of names, the young nobleman smiled unnaturally, and said with some unconfidence:

"I'm Arlo. Goss, my father was a baron like you, and managed the ranch here for the Goss family. ”

It turned out to be the son of a baron, no wonder he wore aristocratic clothes but did not have a noble badge, normally these young people could choose to enter the knight academy, and after graduation, they had the opportunity to directly become a knight officially canonized by the empire, but looking at his fair face, thin body, he did not wear any leather armor on his body, nor did he wear a sword, and he did not look like a knight.

Maybe it's because there are no knight academies nearby, Surdak thought.

But in this case, it shows that this Arlo. Goss was just a commoner, dressed in flamboyant aristocratic attire, apparently not quite attached to his identity.

At this time, a middle-aged woman from the aboriginal crowd ran out to see her prostrate in Arlo. Goss in front of him, holding his calves, almost pressed his face to Arlo. Goss pleaded to him in his boots:

"Master Arlo, please let Nika go, she really didn't steal your vase......"

Arlo. Goss wanted to kick the aboriginal woman away, but his legs didn't have that much explosive power, and the servant on the side forcibly dragged the aboriginal woman aside.

Arlo. Goss smiled at Surdak with some embarrassment, looked at the shiny leather boots on his feet, and said:

"You see, just how savage they really are."

Then he realized that he could not let Surdak despise him, so he puffed up his chest and said:

"You just came to the White Forest Plane, you may not know much about the situation here, these unruly and poor aborigines are a mixture of thieves and rogue beggars, they can't stand the hardship of life, and often steal the property of our foreign colonists, this time I just want to get my vase back, and I haven't done anything excessive, is that okay?"

may have been accustomed to a pampered life, so that he is also used to the toughness of the superior:

"I'm just exercising the rights of the nobility, and I don't think I'm breaking the laws of the Grimm Empire, you say? Baron Surdak. ”

Several servants stood aside with bitter faces, really not knowing how to remind the young master of their family what tone they should use to speak to a real noble baron.

Surdak didn't expect it to be a case caused by a vase.

He heard Arlo. Goss felt a little unhappy when he spoke, thinking that he was just going to see Baron Goss and wanted to buy some war horses from others, and he was rashly involved in this matter, and he also regretted a little, but it was impossible to quit, so he said casually:

"You lost a vase at home? Maybe I can help you find the whereabouts of the vase. ”

Surdak thought that he might be able to use Aphrodite's 'urging' and 'charm' to find out the real thief.

Arlo. Goss didn't expect Surdak to say this, he was stunned for a while, a vase was nothing to him, he just wanted to take this opportunity to make the natives of the town fear him, he didn't care too much about the girl's life or death and the whereabouts of the vase.

"Tell me, did you take that vase?" Surdak turned his head to look at the weak girl in Selena's arms, leaned into her ear and whispered, "Listen, if you take it, as long as you return the vase to him, I can guarantee that you will be spared punishment......"

The girl shook her head stubbornly under the gaze of several people.

Surdak glanced at Selena, and saw that Selena also shook her head slightly, obviously she didn't think that the aboriginal girl stole the vase, and turned to Arlo. Goss asked, "Who else was in the house when the vase was dropped?" I want to meet them...... Everyone. ”

"It's the study, and almost no one goes there except for Nika who has to go there every day to clean regularly, and occasionally my father reads in the study, but he happens to be out these days, and I don't pay much attention to it...... I lost the vase, and Joe told me about it, and Joe was my brother. "Arlo. Goss pointed to a chubby aristocratic boy beside him and introduced Surdak.

The little fat man noticed Surdak's gaze and barely managed to squeeze out a smile.

Seeing that his eyes flickered, showing some inner struggle, perhaps knowing some inside information, Surdak reached out and touched the top of the little fat man's head, and said to him and the people around him: "As a knight who believes in the power of the Holy Light, I have the blessing of the gods, I can see the truth and the false, and no one who lies can escape my eyes. ”

As he spoke, he unleashed his 'momentum' in the square, and a two-faced and four-armed demon god phantom more than five meters high appeared behind him, and the face belonging to the god slowly turned, facing the front, facing the little fat man with sweat on his forehead.

He stared at the little fat man and asked him, "If you don't want to be punished...... Just don't lie, tell me where the hell that bottle is? ”

The little fat man saw Surdak's sharp eyes, and he was frightened for a while. Weak legs, a fart. Sitting on the ground, pinching his ears with both hands, he cried: "The bottle was accidentally broken by me, I was afraid of being scolded, I didn't dare to tell the truth, I didn't think about harming anyone, I didn't want to hurt Nika, I just wanted to buy another one in the grocery store in the town, but the grocery store in the town is not exactly the same at all, I want to find a chance to say, but I'm really scared ......"