Liang Ke instructed Sanduo to lie down in front of those carts, help others block some wind and sand, protect Joanna, and climb up the dirt slope to watch. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the distance, a wall of sand made of yellow sand rose and rolled forward, and as the sand wall slowly approached, he seemed to hear the constant shouting and screaming faintly coming from the sand wall, and the occasional loud roar made him shudder.

"Sanduo, follow me! Joanna baby! Cast a light shield to protect yourself, stay still, and wait for me to come back. Liang Ke roared, jumped on Sanduo's back, and galloped towards the sand wall.

Three arrows came in the blink of an eye, and when he approached the wall of sand, he finally saw what was going on. I saw that under the yellow sand, countless figures were desperately fleeing, and behind those frightened crowds, more than a dozen huge insects were preying on their prey. Liang Ke was a little afraid, really a little afraid, those insects were like huge earthworms, each one was five or six meters long, as thick as a bucket, like a huge pocket, and the mouth of the pocket was covered with a circle of sharp fangs, until the eyes could not see, those sharp teeth still existed. Behind the panicked crowd, an old woman was swallowed whole by the big insect that caught up, and in the blink of an eye, several white bones spit out from the mouth of the insect, so frightened that the people who looked back screamed in horror, and some of the timid ones passed out directly and were swallowed by the insects catching up behind.

"Damn! That's a sandworm! These things are ferocious, thick-skinned, and extremely difficult to deal with. You have to be careful!" Achilles reminded Liang Ke urgently.

"You're not going to help?"

"I can only rely on my mental power to release some soul attack magic now, didn't I tell you? These things are large earthworms, and the attacks are completely out of primitive instinct, how can I help?"

"Queen of the Storm, are you going to watch as well?"

"Hmph! Sandworms don't have brains, and you don't have brains, how can I attack if I don't have brains?"

Liang Ke was scolded with black lines, but he knew that what the two men said was the truth, and he couldn't help but miss Pidero's long knife and Tucker's sledgehammer. Liang Ke gritted his teeth, stood up from Sanduo's back, grabbed the compound bow in his hand, put the precious magic burst arrow on the string, and yelled forward: "Sanduo! run steadily, I'm going to shoot these ugly bugs!"

With a piercing scream, the magic arrow quickly swept through the space, accurately piercing into the huge mouth of an insecticide in front of it, and a loud "boom!" sound came from behind a cloud of red light, which blew the upper body of the insecticide's fangs to pieces, and before those splashes of minced flesh landed, the second feather arrow also broke through the air, blasting the other larger insecticidal lazy waist in half. A series of five sharp arrows will chase the nearest few insects to clean up, those refugees also got a little space to escape, at this moment, Liang Ke also broke into the middle of those insects, he collected the longbow, jumped high from the back of Sanduo's back, the big knife in his hand by the momentum of the fall, fiercely pierced into the back of the head of an insecticide, and then with both arms, sharply cut down a huge wound nearly two meters long, a stream of bright yellow blood instantly sprayed Liang Ke's face, and the pungent smell almost made Liang Ke vomit out of disgust. The insecticide did not die immediately after eating the pain, but roared and turned his head to bite Liang Ke.

Liang Ke stepped on the insect with both feet, and the shock force from his feet was full of elasticity, he used the toughness of the insect's body to jump up more than three meters high again, and the big knife in his hand turned back to the jaw of the sandworm, and the sharp long knife broke through the soft flesh and split the terrifying giant mouth in half, the sandworm was in great pain, twisted its body and desperately drilled under the sand, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Sanduo faced such a huge opponent for the first time, it seemed a little inexperienced, he fell into the empty space with two mouthfuls of lava in succession, although the thick lightning chain made the two sandworms stiffen, but the oily skin of these sandworms seemed to have extremely poor conductivity, and in the blink of an eye, they regained their mobility, except for leaving two large holes in their bodies, and did not suffer any substantial damage. Sanduo jumped around wagging his big tail to avoid the attacks of the sandworms, and at the same time kept spitting lava and lightning, making a huge noise, but with little effect.

Liang Ke was not complacent because he repelled a sandworm, but was faintly worried in his heart, with such terrifying attack power as he and Sanduo, he couldn't kill these nasty big guys, and he really couldn't predict what the outcome would be if he fought for a long time. After losing their prey, those sandworms focused all their attention on Liang Ke and Sanduo, although their attacks were single, just by that sharp mouth to bite, but because they could sneak between the sand and gravel at will, so the suddenness of the attack was extremely strong, more than a dozen sandworm attacks were endless, and for a time Liang Ke was forced to be in a hurry, and he could only rely on the amazing explosive power to rush left and right, although he could also cut off some stump flesh from time to time, but for the huge sandworms, those injuries were not enough to kill, but Liang Ke's tenacious flea aroused their ferocity, and attacked desperately around Liang Ke。

Ten minutes later, Liang Ke was already sweating like rain, his physical strength was slowly draining, the long knife in his hand overwhelmed him, and his vain steps made him almost swallowed by sandworms several times. Liang Ke watched as the refugees who supported each other fled up the dirt slope under Joanna's guidance, but the distance of three arrows could be chased by those sandworms in a blink of an eye, so they had to persevere and let Joanna escape further with them.

Just when Liang Ke and Sanduo were about to exhaust the last bit of physical strength, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves came from behind the sand dunes in the distance, and then, a tall red-tailed fang crossed the sand dunes, like a gust of wind, galloping towards the battlefield under the sand slope, those riders were well-trained, and they steadily raised their longbows in their hands in high-speed gallops, and after a volley, sharp arrows were inserted all over the body of the sandworms, and almost none of them fell to the ground. The bowstring rang three times in a row, and the riders had already rushed to the sandworm, and they worked in groups of three, the long knives in their hands slashed through the sandworm's body in an orderly manner, and then turned around and launched a fearless charge again, as if those giant mouths were not in their eyes at all.

The back and forth of the knights did not kill the tenacious sandworms, but they did pose a real threat to their lives, and the sandworms roared after swallowing the three knights and their mounts, and burrowed into the ground, and the sand and gravel rolled quickly into the distance, and after a few breaths the earth was calm again.

Liang Ke threw the big knife on the ground, leaned on Sanduo and gasped, those knights were more than a hundred people, all wearing fully covered helmets, faintly surrounding him in the middle, led by a tall knight, riding on a giant red deer with a fiery red body and two horns, the knight pushed the mask on the top of his head, and then took off the helmet, hung it on the hook behind the saddle, and leaned over to look at Liang Ke with his antlers.

Liang Ke took out the water bladder and moistened his throat that was about to smoke, and then squinted his eyes to observe the knight who suddenly appeared. To be honest, he was a little jealous of this man, it was definitely the most handsome face he had ever seen. The forehead is high, the eye sockets are deep, the gray-blue eyes are deep and long, the nose bridge is straight, the nose wings are narrow and hard, the cheekbones are slightly convex, the thin cheeks, and the short beard on the lips all look so sexy. Although there are some traces left by the wind and frost on the face, it can highlight the fortitude and depth of this face. Liang Ke has always been hostile to creatures that look more handsome than himself, he pouted and snorted coldly, and asked the blonde knight, "Your Excellency is here to kill me?"

The knight was stunned by Liang Ke's question, and then laughed loudly: "Hahahaha! Baron Aragon is not only excellent in martial arts, good looking, but also so smart, no wonder my stupid daughter can't kill you." ”

Liang Ke was really uncomfortable by the stones under him, moved his butt and said, "It's not hard to guess." I don't know anyone here, you and I don't know each other, and your Excellency and a whole team of knights will not come to save me, not to save me, but to kill me. ”

"Can't it be a passerby?"

"Out of here, it's my territory, and I don't remember inviting a friend like you to be a guest. ”

"Hahaha! Mr. Aragorn speaks with such a humorous voice, aren't you not afraid at all?"

"I'm afraid! Who wants to return to the arms of God at a young age? It's useless to be afraid, what should come is always coming, I want to know if you are serving the third prince, or for yourself?"

"You don't have to be tempted anymore, my name is Grufender. The handsome middle-aged knight slowly retracted his smile and replied slowly as he stared into Liang Ke's eyes.

Liang Ke had already guessed who was coming, and if the third prince wanted to kill him, the killer sent would not talk nonsense with him. He stretched his waist, and did not mean to get up from the ground, and his lazy expression really did not look like a man who was about to die.

"Grufend! What an enviable name! Once a hero in people's hearts, a sharp knife in the rock fortress in the northern frontier of the empire, but now he has become a thief hiding in the shadows to assassinate and sneak attack, and rob houses!" Liang Ke picked up a stone from the ground and flicked it out with his middle finger, and the stone accurately hit the bronze mask of Grufende's mount, and there was a crisp sound of "pop!"

Grufend didn't blink an eyelid, still staring at him quietly, as if waiting for him to continue. Liang Ke didn't plan to stop, spit lotus flowers in his mouth, and began to teach the former general a lesson word by word.

"I envy your handsomeness, but I sympathize with your miserable situation. Originally, it was a woman, or to zoom in further, at best, a family was sorry for you, but you stupidly chose to betray this country and betray the tens of millions of people who are proud of you. You may think that everything you do is aimed at the royal family of Gallente, and only those members of the royal family are harmed, but have you ever thought about how many businessmen have lost their families because of the appearance of 'white hair', and how many civilians have lost their jobs and been displaced. Look back at the woman, and see what she has to lose except to pass on her own bad things to her own sisters? I have heard that his current lovers and faces are so many that he can't remember their names, and that your name Grufend may have long since disappeared from her memory. Look at what the royal family of Gallant has lost? They have expanded their armaments because of the perennial invasion of orcs, how many young children have been sent to the battlefield with tearful eyes in their mothers, and the taxes in the northeastern provinces have increased year after year, and this war has not fattened the orcs, but fattened those insatiable nobles. Is this what you Grufend wants?"

Liang Ke spoke aggressively, his voice was sonorous and powerful, and when he said excitedly, he stood up from the ground.

"Look at you now, the white-haired wind is holding the banner of robbing the rich and helping the poor, banishing himself in the wasteland, the rich are robbed by you, and they will rob those unarmed and defenseless civilians again, don't think how noble you are, everything has its source, have you considered it?

Behind you, there may be your comrades-in-arms back then, do you dare to ask them if they are confused now? Do you know what they are fighting for, do they miss their wives and children, and how long can they hide in the dark and damp underground with you?"

Liang Ke's words made Grufender fall into deep thought, he looked back at his subordinates for many years, he knew that as long as he stood here, those comrades-in-arms would always stand here, but that didn't mean that what Liang Ke said was unreasonable.

Liang Ke picked up the giant blade from the ground, hung it back on Sanduo's body, then turned around and continued, "Just a few months ago, I asked that kid named Locke to bring you a message. I think that as the most dazzling general of the empire, it is impossible for you not to understand these truths, there is a saying in our hometown, called 'the authorities are fans'. It's time to wake up, let go of your hatred, open the doors of your heart, and let your subordinates and those who have suffered because of you be liberated. If you really can't open your heart, turn the horse's head now, go into the palace like a man, slaughter the wicked woman with your own hands, and I will be by your side if you need help. ”

Liang Ke's resolute and sincere gaze finally melted the iceberg that had been frozen for thirty years, and Grufender looked up at the sunset that was gradually disappearing into the horizon in the distance, his eyes were full of unconcealable discouragement, he slowly raised his saber and tapped the saddle gently, the voice seemed extremely unwilling.

"Your Excellency!"

"General!"

The knights shouted loudly in a hurry when they saw Grufender's order.

"Dismount!" Grufend continued to tap on the saddle, and at his urging the knights jumped off their mounts, splunged their swords into their scabbards, and watched Grufend silently.

"Over the years, you have suffered with me, and I Grufend am sorry for everyone!" Grufend stroked his chest and apologized to all his subordinates, waving his hand to stop everyone from talking.

"Monsieur Aragorn's words have been heard by all, and although they are harsh, they are telling the truth. I'm not here to kill him today, you've all witnessed Mr. Aragorn's bravery, and the civilians on the dunes have nothing to do with him, but he can stand up and help them desperately, what have we done all these years?" Grufender looked at the civilians who were looking at the place with disapproval, and bowed his head in shame.

"I'm tired. After a few breaths, Grufender looked up and continued, "I brought you here to see this legendary hero with my own eyes. I don't want you to follow me as the Empire's wanted criminal, I want you to have a good home. ”

"My lord, we will follow you to the death!"

"Yes! We swore that we would never leave us. ”

“......”

Grufend waved for everyone to hear him.

"We can't afford to be wrong, this fearless war started with us, and now it's up to us to end it. Although Mr. Aragon is still young, when I can see from him bravery, decisiveness, kindness, justice, we need a safe home, this south of the Gobi is his territory, I hope you follow Mr. Aragon to his territory, I believe that he can treat you and your family kindly. ”

"Adult ......"

"This is my last command, are you ready to betray your oath?" Grufend's voice raised sharply, his eyes daring at everyone. After a while, when everyone was silent again, he turned to Liang Ke and asked, "Mr. Aragorn, please forgive me for my presumptuousness. You're right, I want my subordinates to have a good home, so I'm here today to ask you to find a place for my subordinates and their families to settle in your territory. ”

Liang Ke never dreamed that the result would be so dramatic, he was even ready to summon the Storm Queen, although he was not a politician, but he also learned from TV that if a new city wants to be built, it first needs a population, no one, everything is nonsense. In the face of this generous gift sent to the door, Liang Ke forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, his face twitched a few times, and he put on a face of embarrassment.

"Your Excellency Grufend, it's not that I'm stingy, it's really that my territory is barren, and I, the baron, am also shy in my pocket, I'm afraid I'm ......"

"Don't worry, Mr. Aragorn, we still have some savings over the years, all you need to do is provide them with enough land to live in, and then give them a new legal identity. ”

"That's no problem!" Liang Ke agreed.

"Thank you, Your Excellency Baron of Aragon, for your generosity, I know how much you are risking for this, and I thank you on behalf of all my men. Grufender gave Liang Ke a deep bow on his chest, then turned his head and commanded backwards: "Locke, you take a few people back to the camp to convey my order, all of them move to the territory of the Baron of Aragon, each batch is no more than five hundred, to disguise themselves as homeless people and caravans, and when you meet Pancha on the way, you would rather lose your head than tell your identity, understand?"

"Yes, Father!" Locke, who was beaten into a bare-bones commander by Liang Ke last time, glanced at Liang Ke deeply, flew onto his mount, and led a dozen people to gallop towards him, disappearing into the darkness in a blink of an eye.

"Sibbins!"

"Your Excellency!"

"Take the rest of the men with you, protect Mr. Aragon and his convoy, and first go to Mr. Aragon's territory to choose a site, which must be close to a water source, preferably with a wide pasture, so that we can feed our mounts.

"Your Excellency!" replied the burly knight behind Grufende, in an angry voice.

Liang Ke was confused by Grufend's series of arrangements, and he hurried up and asked, "Your Excellency ....... Grufender, I take the liberty of asking, how many of your subordinates are there?"

"Oh! Many brothers have been lost over the years, and now there are less than five thousand men, two thousand cavalry brigades, two infantry brigades, and almost a thousand engineers. ”

"What?" Grufender replied lightly, but Liang Ke was taken aback, you know, the size of the garrison in a province is less than 10,000 people, so if the Imperial Military Department knew that he had such a number of private soldiers as a small new baron, he would not immediately send a large army to exterminate him as a traitor.

Of course, Grufender also knew the risk of the matter, and he immediately smiled and said: "Baron Aragon, please rest assured, these subordinates can become good craftsmen and farmers by taking off their military uniforms, just don't report it truthfully." Oh, by the way, they may have to bring family members from all over the country to your territory one after another, and population growth should be a good thing for your territory. ”

Grufender's last sentence made Liang Ke's devastated heart feel a little better, including the soldiers and their families, there can be a population of 20,000 in the blink of an eye, which is indeed too good news for him.

Grufender arranged everything, urged his mount to approach Liang Ke, and then stroked his chest with another salute.

"My desire has been understood, and now I'm going to untie my knot. If I can come back alive, I hope that Monsieur Aragon will give me a place. There will be a time later!" he said, and with a jerk of the reins, the deer lifted its front hooves, made a beautiful turn in place, and then neighed and galloped away into the darkness far away.