"Dark, you don't think so...... do you," John said, sitting across from Surdak, with some surprise.

He secretly glanced at the two overly beautiful female costumed knights beside Surdak, and they exuded a powerful aura that made him dare not even look at them more, he lowered his head, and could only use the peripheral vision of his eyes to sneak a glance at the boots on their feet and the shin armor wrapped around their calves.

The pattern on his shin armor dazzled John's eyes.

Then John realized that he was still wearing a leather apron at work, and the pungent smell of varnish remained on his rough hands.

"This is a knot in my heart that I can't get over in my life, and it's filled with too many things that I can't throw away or leave behind." When Surdak said these words, his whole body became very emotional.

Samira and Carrie. Decker rarely saw Surdak confide in him, and looked at Surdak with curiosity.

They didn't expect Surdak to say this to a civilian carpenter.

John, the stocky and strong catapult maintenance carpenter in the past, is now much older, and his hair on the top of his head is almost falling out, and he looks like an out-and-out middle-aged uncle at a glance.

The living room is mostly made of wood, which can be seen to be John's workmanship, and his life with Lisa is dull and poor.

"I thought you had already left here, but I didn't expect to meet again." Surdak smiled and said with relief.

John wiped his lips a little embarrassed, and replied honestly: "I'm a deserter with no identity, where can I go!" ”

Surdak asked a little strangely, "It is said that the deadline for the military department to verify the number of killed has long passed, and I thought that you would change your identity and wait for the time to buy two teleportation passes and leave here." ”

Hearing Surdak say this, John's brows furrowed, and he said with some distress:

"Want to get out of here? How easy it is for civilians like us! ”

"Duck, do you know what has been the fastest price rise in Epson City in recent years?"

Without even waiting for Surdak to think about it, John gave the answer:

"Portal Pass."

With a long sigh, as if at last he could find a friend to confide in, John poured out all the bitterness from his stomach, and continued:

"Every time I save a sum of money, the price of that portal pass will go up a lot, and the little money I save every year is not enough for the price of the portal pass, and for us, it seems that the money saved to buy those three portal passes will always be a little bit ......"

The hardships of life made John wipe the corners of his eyes that were a little damp.

Lisa had already boiled a pot of water and made a few cups of barley tea.

John probably didn't want his wife to see his depressed appearance, so he rubbed his face vigorously, cheered up and asked Surdak: "Tell me about what you've been through in the past few years, I think it must be very exciting!" ”

Surdak wanted to say, 'John, do you want to do it with me this time?' If that happens, I'll be able to leave here with Lisa in the open, and if that doesn't work out, I'll be able to send them back to Bena Province. ’

But the words stopped again.

After waiting for a while, he said to John: "Wait a minute, you can pack your luggage, try not to bring those heavy luggage, I will send you out of Warsaw, but when you get to Ivelsen City, if you can't buy a ticket for the magic airship, you must not spend it in the city, find a way to go to the neighboring province by land, and from there you can return to Pena City by transferring to the magic airship." ”

John didn't expect Surdak to come up and talk about this, and he was stunned for a while.

Happiness came a little too suddenly, and he couldn't even believe his ears.

"Dark......

John wanted to confirm again, but Surdak reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and then said:

"Don't refuse this time, no matter what, don't forget, we are comrades-in-arms in distress who came from the Great Meadow together, and now I still have a little ability to send your family back to Ivorson City, and the next time we meet, I don't know when and where it will be......"

Lisa was standing at the kitchen door with her son in her arms, and her face immediately became ecstatic when she heard Surdak say that she could take the family back to Ivorson.

He took his son and ran to John's side, and said excitedly, "John, can we go home?" ”

This call woke John up from his trance, and he nodded very excitedly and said, "That's right, Duck said that he could send our family out this time!" ”

Lisa cheered and hugged John, who was already badly out of shape, and the two squeezed their dazed son in the middle......

Samira and Jiali sitting on the sidelines. Decker glanced at each other, and neither of them said a word the whole time.

As soon as Lisa confirmed the good news, she began to pack her bags.

John was a little entangled in the wooden furniture made for others at the door, the last three times of paint had not been painted, and there were still two days before the day of delivery, but he was about to leave Epson City, and it was too late to do anything at this time.

The other party had already paid the deposit, and after thinking about it, he had to run to the neighbor next door, the next door neighbor was a shoemaker, John asked him to help, if someone came to his house in two days, let them remove these wooden tables and chairs hanging outside the house, the neighbor readily agreed, and promised to help John take care of these wooden tables and chairs.

John looked at his neighbours, who had been with him for several years, and remembered that when he had first arrived, the shoemaker had helped him build the hut, and he said to him: If they don't see the family back in a week's time, the hut will be given to the shoemaker's family

The shoemaker was obviously a little unresponsive, and when he heard John explain things like this, he thought that John had committed something, and when he saw John striding away, he wanted to catch up and ask if there was anything he could do to help, such as how Lisa and his son would live in the future......

Seeing that the shoemaker was about to chase him out, the shoemaker's two wives immediately grabbed him and let him see through the glass window the three horses tethered to John's door.

He yelled at him, 'Are you stupid! If John had done anything, do you think those knights would give him time to arrange these trifles? ’

The scolding of the two wives dispelled the little idea in the shoemaker's heart.

……

It wasn't until it was time to leave that I realized how reluctant it was.

Lisa wanted to pack almost everything in the house, and after several attempts by John, Lisa reluctantly left the wooden house with only four boxes of clothes.

Surdak and his party only had three horses, so many people couldn't ride together, four boxes of luggage were hung on the hooks of the saddle, and Samira was holding Signa and riding in front. Decker followed behind with John's son in his arms, while Surdak, John, and Lisa had to walk through the chaotic slum ahead.

John, who had lived here for many years, explained to Surdak the division of the ghetto.

In fact, the huge slums outside the city have a very clear regional division, for example, John's place of residence is even the old town of the slum, where some old families live, and the law and order here is the most stable.

The other four counties of Warsaw fell one after another, and a large number of refugees poured into Epson City from all over the country, and most of the civilians could not enter the city, so they had to live in the slums outside the city, and the influx of large numbers also caused a mess of law and order here.

Therefore, in order to allow the people in the slums outside the city to have a stable life, the aristocratic administrators divided the civilian area into five areas, and the security of each area was the responsibility of the residents in the slums.

The residents of the old district where John lives have some savings in their hands, and considering that it is probably difficult to suppress those foreign refugees by forming a security team, the residents of the old district actually took out a sum of money to hire a mercenary group to maintain law and order here.

Although the mercenary group is very expensive, the population base of the slum is quite large, and it doesn't really cost much money to distribute it to everyone.

The old streets in the slums of the outer city are the best places for security, because there are mercenary groups patrolling!

Slightly worse is the slum north of the city, and the worst is the slum on the south side of the city gate, because refugees from wherever they come from will gather here first, and only disperse to other places after they get familiar with the situation in Epson City.

Over time, the slum area of the South City Gate gathered a large group of thieves and scoundrels.

Samira rode at the front, and the powerful aura of the knight in the second transformation made the refugees and thieves on the street retreat one after another.

John seemed to know how chaotic it was, and he even had an axe pinned to his waist, constantly staring around with vigilance.

When Surdak and his party reached the city gate, they found that the queue to enter the city during the day was at least several times longer than in the morning, and it was like a long dragon, and many people were facing the scorching afternoon sun and chapped lips, but they were still stubbornly waiting for the inspection of the city gate guards.

A group of knights of the guard battalion, heavily armed, stood at the gate of the city to maintain order on this side.

Instead of walking to the end of the long line, Surdak led the group straight to the city gate.

When the guards at the city gate saw the delicate noble badge pinned to Surdak's leather armor, they immediately saluted Surdak, and then used their spears to stop a family of civilians who were preparing to enter the city, allowing Surdak and his party to pass first.

The gate guards didn't even make any checks on Surdak, and the populace seemed to have long been accustomed to this privilege belonging to the nobility.

They didn't dare to complain, they didn't even dare to look up at Surdak.

There were many people in the long line who stared at John's family with resentment, and saw that the three of them were sandwiched between Surdak, Samira and others, and hurried into Epson City, with jealousy and viciousness in their eyes, and even silent invectives in their mouths.

John's family of three was frightened by the refugees gathered at the city gate, they had been living in the best place in the slum for the recent time, but they heard that there was chaos at the city gate, but they didn't expect it to be like this, the eyes of those thieves and scoundrels were full of greed and ruthlessness, and even some outlaws.

And when they walked into the city and saw the streets crowded with refugees, John and Lisa were even more stunned, they didn't expect Epson City to become like this now.

This was not the case in the original Epson City.

John stood on the side of the street with Lisa in his arms, staring at the chaos of the city with a blank expression.

Epson City is huge, and if you choose to walk on your legs, you want to walk through the slums, merchant quarters, and rich neighborhoods, and finally reach the portal in the central square of the aristocratic quarter, you don't know how long it will take, conservatively estimated to be half a night.

Although there are very few magic caravans on the streets of the city, four-wheeled trucks converted from magic caravans can be found everywhere.

Many trucks were hurrying through the streets full of supplies, some out of the city and some to the neighborhoods of the city......

With the fall of the four outer counties, the farmland around Epson County simply cannot meet the daily needs of so many people.

Today, Epson City still has a certain production capacity, but most of its supplies rely on the transportation of supplies from Ivorson City, which is the main reason why the portal is so busy every day.

Surdak stood on the side of the street and waited for a moment when he saw a four-wheeled carriage with the badge of the Bena military headquarters hurrying from outside the city.

There were 200,000 Bednar reinforcements stationed outside Epson, and almost every day supplies had to be transported from the portal to the camp outside the city.

Surdak stood on the side of the street, waiting for the carriage from the Bednar military headquarters.

He casually stopped a four-wheeled carriage.

The coachman saw Surdak, Samira, and Karry. The Decker adults immediately jumped out of the carriage, and they didn't even need Surdak's orders, only to see John and Lisa, a family of three, standing beside Surdak, and they didn't understand what was going on.

Catering to Surdak's orders, John's family was put into the carriage and cargo box, and the group came to the central square of Epson City.

The central square is the whole of Epson City, and it is even more crowded than the southern city gate.

The front of the huge portal was almost crowded with people, and the people crowded here were not commoners, and many nobles with elaborate suitcases were also quietly waiting in line in the designated area, each of them even holding a parchment teleportation pass in their hands.

But the question now is...... Even if you have a teleportation pass, even if you have a noble status, even if you have money in your pocket, you still need to be patient to pass through this portal, and everyone is here quietly waiting for the four-wheeled carriages full of supplies to drive out through the portal.

There are still some vehicle wrecks next to the portal, and I don't know how, the magic caravan actually crashed into that way.

Seeing Surdak looking at the wreckage of the carriage at the portal with a puzzled expression, the coachman from the logistics department immediately explained to Surdak that the reason why the carriage crashed into that shape was caused by the blockage of the portal.

Carriages from both directions of Ivorson City and Epson City want to enter the portal, and once the two sides collide in the portal, the mana center of the portal will not be able to maintain the spatial passage, and the final result will be the destruction of the car and the death.

So every time you pass through the portal, both parties agree on the way to pass......

The four-wheeled wagons of the Pena military headquarters also waited patiently in this square, and their passage time was about five o'clock in the evening.

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