1379. Old Friends
Early in the morning, Samira walked out of the bathroom with a bath towel around her and changed into a tight-fitting light leather armor in her bedroom.
She pushed open the door of the terrace, and stood on the large terrace on the second floor, and could see that the front courtyard was full of all kinds of felt tents, and after climbing a flight of stairs, she could reach another terrace, from which she could see the large garden in the backyard that had not been mowed for a long time, which looked like an impermeable primeval jungle.
Samira was in a good mood, and her eyes fell on an umbrella-shaped tree in the back garden, whose dense canopy seemed to be perched with a flock of appendix-tailed copper-billed finch, and she couldn't help but take out her heavenly bow to shoot a bird from the tree.
"Do you want to kill them?"
A pleasant voice came from the ridge behind Samira.
"Huh?"
Samira put down her bow and turned to look at Signa, who was sitting on the tiles with her knees in her arms.
Signa shrugged her shoulders and smiled at Samira, "Those birds, I don't think they should be very tasty, we actually have a better choice, right?" ”
Her big swarthy eyes flickered, and she looked beautiful under the morning sun.
With loose curly hair and a white face, she looks a little like Selena, but it's completely different.
Samira had to admit that when Xigna was quiet, even a second-turn powerhouse like her couldn't sense her breath.
"What do you want to say?" Samira turned and looked at the elf's quirky little girl.
Signa looked at Samira and said very seriously, "I can take you to catch better prey and spare the birds." ”
Samira put the Heavenly Strike Bow back on her back and asked curiously, "Where do you want to take me?" ”
Signa let out a cheer and slid down from the rubble, then stood in front of Samira and said with a cheer: "Go out with Dark, and we will go wherever he goes!" I know he's going to go out today, and it's not going to the barracks, let's go out with him, and when the time comes, we'll definitely find more interesting prey. He doesn't want to take me, but he will definitely take you, and I will secretly follow you when the time comes. ”
“……”
Samira found herself being calculated by Sighna, and she wanted to say no, she didn't want to be surrounded by more clingy little troubles.
But just as Samira was about to open her mouth to refuse, Signa's big eyes suddenly filled with 'next time I will help you create an opportunity like last night', and Samira immediately changed her mind and stretched out her palm.
A crisp high-five rang out on the terrace, startling a few sparrows hiding under the eaves.
……
Surdak rode out of the house, this time still taking Samira and Jiali with him. Decker.
Originally, Signa and Nika were going to stay in the house with Selena, Naomi, and Gulitham, but what Surdak didn't expect was that Signa didn't know how to use to successfully persuade Samira, and the two actually rode a horse together.
He knew Samira's character very well, she was the kind of person who hated trouble the most, and he didn't know what Signa had used to impress her.
When the group went out, the refugees who had moved into the front courtyard had already started to light a fire and cook, almost all of them looking at Surdak and his party with curiosity and gratitude.
There are really a lot of people on the streets of Epson City, but no one is blocking the avenue, so all the way to the city gate is unimpeded.
There was a large number of people waiting to leave the city at the city gate, and everyone lined up in a long line, and there were more people entering the city, and the queue was longer, and the censorship was more stringent, and many people who were lining up in the line to enter the city were stopped one after another, and then driven out by the city gate guards.
Surdak rode his horse and lined up in a line out of the city.
Probably because of the noble badge he wore on his chest, he went out of the city without incident, and those who were crowded on the drawbridge saw Surdak riding out of it, and they all stepped back to the sides and took the initiative to make a way out.
Surdak went out of the city this time, but he didn't plan to inspect the camp of the Western Route Army.
When he left the city, he found that there were at least tens of thousands of refugees gathered outside the city.
These refugees seem to be crowded at the city gates, some have set up simple tents, some are simply lying on blankets or mats, some have built pergolas, some are simply lying there in the sky, these refugees are almost all civilians, most of them are old people, women and children.
The procession into the city was at least two kilometers away, but there were less than a third of the people who could agree with the conditions for entering the city.
"Why don't those gate guards let them into the city?" Signa asked as she sat down in Samira's arms and looked curious.
"I guess there's no room in the city." Samira replied, with one arm around her and the reins in the other.
"Isn't there a lot of people on the other side of the portal every day?" Signa asked, confused.
"Who knows......"
Samira didn't care about that, only Surdak's back was in her eyes.
The world outside the city looked more real than in Epson, and when a large number of refugees crowded the city gates, he clearly remembered that John and Lisa's home was on a hillside opposite a sunflower outside the city.
Now, the sunflower field is gone.
The hillside is lined with all kinds of simple wooden houses, some of which are even connected to each other, and covered with some simple rainproof tarpaulins.
The shantytown was originally just a strip along the river, and there were even one or two houses scattered elsewhere.
But now the land is overwhelming, and the slopes on both sides of the river are crowded with all kinds of simple wooden houses, which are densely packed with no end in sight, and after leading the lord army for so long, Surdak has a little bit of experience in the number estimate, according to his estimates, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people in this shanty town outside Epson.
Just a casual glance will make you feel a little big......
Surdak even wanted to dispel the thoughts in his heart, but he thought of the faces in his memory, and he stubbornly shuttled through the dilapidated wooden house.
From a distance, these dilapidated wooden houses seem to see intermittent alleys, but when Surdak enters on horseback, he will find that the roads in this shantytown are so narrow and so wide that these alleys are never straight, and as you walk, you will find that you have deviated a long way from the direction you want to go.
Fortunately, he rode a horse and wore a noble badge on his chest, which showed his nobility and would automatically keep many commoners away from them.
There are a lot of thieves here, Surdak can tell from their wincing gaze, most of these thieves are poor, when they stare at Surdak and his party on horseback, they are like red-eyed hyenas who have been hungry for half a month in the wasteland looking at the lions, although they are terribly afraid, but driven by hunger, the desire in their eyes is swallowing the last bit of timidity.
When they saw Samira in dark red leather armor and saw that she was still holding Signa in her arms, they wanted to come around.
Once you are surrounded by them, you may inevitably lose something.
Those hands that couldn't help but stretch towards Sami were like clusters of bony hands that stretched out from the blood-colored door every time Count Fornak was summoned.
The men rushed up and wanted to touch the horse under Samira, to touch her shin armor calf......
The next moment, Samira's body overflowed with a kind of killing intent that could only be found when he walked out of the battlefield, the kind of thick murderous aura that would only be soaked into his body after his hands were stained with blood.
This group of refugees who are not qualified to enter Epson City is like a swarm of stinky flies, and they disperse with a 'boom'.
They are a group of cowards who don't have the courage to go to war, and they are also a group of forgotten people who have lost the last bit of courage in their incessant flight, and no one even cares about their life or death.
Surdak regretted it a little, if he had come out this time with a cavalry squad, maybe there wouldn't have been so much trouble.
After such a toss, the group was completely lost in this shantytown, except for the walls of Epson City in the distance, there was not even any reference around, and Surdak could only ask around.
Surdak began to ask the poor people who were sitting at the door of the hut about 'John' and 'Lisa'.
When the name John is mentioned, no one knows it at first.
But after asking for a long time, there are always people who know a few people named John, after all, this name is very common, just continue to talk, you will find that the age and identity of the owners of these names are difficult to match the catapult repairman Surdak is looking for.
In fact, Signa couldn't understand what Surdak was looking for, she originally thought that Surdak would go around the barracks and go around Epson City to inspect the terrain, because tomorrow the Western Route Army would leave here, at least figure out where to go.
But he didn't expect Surdak to plunge into the slum and ask around about two people......
Finally, they heard about John and Lisa in a shanty town, and there were many people who knew that they were husband and wife, and that the John they described was exactly the same as the man Surdak remembered.
Surdak let out a long breath and knew he had come to the right place.
One of the most active boys from the crowd was chosen and a silver coin was tossed to him, and Surdak said to him:
"You take us to him, and when I find him, I'll give you a little more money."
The big boy quickly caught the silver hammer, wiped it the linen clothes on his chest, looked at the luster on the silver hammer with a look of surprise, and licked his face and asked:
"Can you give me something to eat?"
"Of course."
Surdak took a baked wheat cake from his burlap pocket and threw it to him.
So Surdak saw the wooden house in his memory.
The house they live in is still the same dilapidated wooden hut that used to be, but the area is now in the heart of the slum.
From here, it spreads outward, until the hillside in the distance, there are some huts like thatched huts everywhere, and if Surdak is left to find it himself, he may not be able to find this place even in ten days and half a month.
The big boy who had taken a silver bounty gave a cheer and went into the alley next to him, where he disappeared.
Surdak's gaze fell on some of the wooden tables and chairs at the door of the hut, the simple furniture seemed to have not been painted, and he jumped off his horse and stood at the door of the hut with his Guborai horse in his hand, his eyes showing a kind of remembrance.
That kind of look is like a kind of nostalgia for the past, as if it has been a long time, but in fact, it has not been a long time......
Until a man with an oil drum and a brush came out of the hut, and he was about to paint the families at the door, but it was hard not to notice the three tall Gubolai horses at the door, and he squinted his eyes and looked at them with some hesitation.
"Hey, John, long time no see......"
Surdak let go of the reins in his hand and strode over, wrapping his hands around the man's broad shoulders.
The man gradually woke up from his confusion, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and he looked at Surdak and said excitedly:
"You are the Knight of Surdak...... Oh, did you become a nobleman first? Oh, my God! ”
Samira, Jiali. Decker and Signa stood quietly behind, in fact, they knew that Surdak had served in the Warsaw plane, but they didn't expect him to come here to find someone.
John's waist was thicker, his abdomen was bigger, and the top of his head was bald, but he looked very energetic, and he turned around and shouted to the inside of the cabin: "Lisa, Lisa, come and see who is coming, it is Lord Surdak who has returned." ”
There was the sound of running footsteps in the house, and a woman in an apron ran out of the hut with a boy of five or six years old in her hand.
Inviting Surdak into the wooden house, Lisa pulled the boy to the kitchen to boil water and make tea, but John looked at Surdak sitting on the wooden sofa with some confusion, and couldn't help muttering:
"Why did you come back, why did you come back at this time, now the Warsaw plane is almost rotten to the bone."
Surdak looked at the furnishings in the room with a smile, and although a lot of furniture had been added, most of the place remained the same.
"Somebody's going to have to come back and clean up this mess, isn't it?" Surdak said calmly.
John's eyes looked straight at the demonic pattern on his body, and he finally noticed the change in Surdak.
He hurriedly asked Samira and Jiali. Decker sat down, looked at Signa, who was as delicate as a porcelain doll, and asked with some intent, "Is this your daughter?" It's all so big......"
"Hmmm! Even if it's it! Surdak naturally admitted.
Signa was unmoved, and even gave Surdak a blank look, as if she was dissatisfied that he had taken advantage of her.
Samira looked at the wooden house with great curiosity, and even looked through the corridor and landed on Lisa's back in the kitchen.
"You're coming with Bena's reinforcements?" John asked.
Surdak nodded again.
"Since you have already served in the Warsaw plane, there is no reason for you to do it again, even the military department!" John was indignant that Surdak had been treated unfairly by the military department.
"I can't refuse this requisition." Surdak sat down on the couch and said, he paused before he said:
"Besides, I have a reason to have to come back, my brothers are still lying in that mountain, this time I want to bring them home, besides, those evil spirits on Moyun Ridge still owe me something, and I plan to take them all back this time."
Meow for the sea 1 Silver Alliance Leader (39/90)
(End of chapter)