Chapter 24: Salvation and Choice
When the light of the morning sun descended on the earth, Li Yun stood up, shook off the dew on his body, and looked at Youbao on the mountain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The layout of Yoo Castle is a bit steeper than that of Zo Castle, with cliffs on three sides, and a steep mountain path winding up, and in many places using steps.
This is the fief of the Elmer family since the orc invasion war, but the Elmer family has not run their own family business, the mountain fort has not been renovated once, it has lasted more than two hundred years, and there is not much shape to see, especially from a distance, like a part of the mountain, inconspicuous.
The war horse walked over, snorted, and rubbed his face against Li Yun's arm.
"Good boy. Li Yun touched the horse's face and said so.
The starry night and the gallop for several hours in a row, even if there was life energy on it, the war horse was still tired. After all, life energy brings energy to the body, but it cannot make up for the mental consumption, and it is not easy for horses to be highly concentrated for several hours in a row.
Packing up his rope and picking up his harness, Li Yun strode towards Youbao.
Farmland is scattered under the mountain, with the terrain, it looks messy and unevenly distributed, there are many fields with vegetables, more is unfinished idle land, they will be sown in February next year, start a new round of farming, but the preparation has begun, in order to save animal power, often people go up, a little bit of picking. Piece by piece of careful care, cooked land is such a generation of people to serve.
But today, no one comes out early in the morning to farm, and they are all confined to their homes.
Last night's tragedy filled the officers and soldiers of the Crusaders with negative emotions, which were more or less vented on the ordinary people of Youbao, more than a dozen people were severely beaten, and two guards of the Elmer family were directly killed on the spot because they drew their swords against each other. The solemn atmosphere is like a black cloud pressing on the top, enveloping this village and town built on the mountain.
"Stop, who's who!?"
Still far away, Li Yun was stopped, and two crusaders had bows in their hands, and their arrows were already on the strings.
"I'm from the Lord's House. Here's the warrant, please pass it on to Knight Logan. ā
"Stand there and throw the token over. ā
Li Yun picked up a stone from the ground, wrapped it in a warrant, and threw it over.
The crusader picked it up, unfolded the parchment, and saw the seal of the lord's mansion, and his face was slightly pale. "You're just waiting here, I'll report it. As he spoke, he gave his companion a look, and his companion nodded understandingly, took out a small trumpet, and looked at the meaning, as long as Li Yun made any changes, he would blow the trumpet to warn. Li Yun knew that this was not that the crusaders had become soldiers, but that the veteran soldiers did not rub sand in their eyes, and they had already seen that he was not an easy person.
The crusader was very fast and swift, as agile as a leopard, as agile as an ape, and as remarkable as an ordinary person who had not undergone any systematic and professional training.
Taking advantage of the waiting time, Li Yun happened to observe the first strong army of the Mann Lord.
The first impression is robust, the humans of this world call themselves the people of the Titans, whether it really comes from the giants is hard to say, but tall and strong is indeed the norm, men are generally above 180CM, weigh more than 180 pounds, muscular, body hair is also developed. The Mann, on the other hand, is even better in this regard. The crusaders in front of him were the best of the Manns, more than 195 cm tall and weighed more than 200 pounds, but they didn't feel bulky, and they were full of agility in their gestures.
But their equipment is very average, even poor, except for the weapons, there is almost no metal visible on their bodies. What they used to do was a kind of woven armor, the skin was woven with rattan, and then soaked in gum and painted. Ulashi is made from the sap of the dracaena tree, so it is dark red, like clotted blood.
It is precisely because of this woven armor with a uniform style and color that they add a bit of military temperament.
In terms of weapons, there are few swords, and most of them are one-handed battle axes. Li Yun knew that in addition to dealing with the alien races in Graystone Mountain, the battle axe was more suitable, and the sword was more difficult to maintain, which was also an important reason.
At the same time, the Crusader's armor also illustrates its financial and technical shortcomings, you must know that the weapons used by the alien races in Graystone Mountain are either blunt weapons, such as sticks, sledgehammers, or sharp weapons, shuttle spears, bone spears, and crusader woven armor, which are not very good for these two types of protection, it belongs to tough armor, which is mainly used for protection cutting and chopping.
"Hey, you guys, do you see that grove?" Li Yun said, pointing to the grove where he had lived earlier.
The crusaders on the opposite side didn't speak, but Li Yun knew that they saw it. He continued: "When an order comes down for you to pick stones, go there and pick them, and do not miss any of them that are engraved with symbols." ā
The crusaders still didn't answer, but some had curious expressions on their faces.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the reported soldier came back, and he was not polite, but he was willing to let him go.
Li Yun led the horse into the village, the houses in the mountain village are not much different from those in other places, the fireplaces and foundations made of stones, wood is the main building material, in order to prevent corrosion, the glue paint is brushed, the gaps are pasted with mud, and the roofs are mostly stacked rock chips like fish scales, these rock chips are from the shale pieces, some are big, some are small, the colors are also different, spread on the two slopes of the triangular roof, it looks like some characteristics.
In an open field, there are hundreds of dead crusaders parked there, which makes people feel shocking at a glance, there are dozens of soldiers busy there, stitching and cleaning, which is the last preparation before the burial.
The horses were handed over to the crusaders stationed in the village, and they made their way up the half-muddy mountain road, and halfway through the moans of pain could be heard, the wounded in the homes of the villagers.
There are many wounded, and more importantly, there is no particularly good means of treatment, the wound is medicated, and the rest is to endure, the chaplain can only choose to use his limited strength to help some people, and those who are too seriously injured have been abandoned, and some, in order to avoid their pain, have to be sent on a ride, this process is a kind of torture for the living.
Elmerhill Castle gradually revealed its positive appearance, shabby, shabby, and unadorned with flowers or anything, and before entering, it smelled the clumsy smell of the sinister tide gushing from inside.
It was dim and cramped, and it felt like an emergency bunker, but it was Elmer's home, and by candlelight, you could see the portraits of the Elmer family heads hanging on the damp walls.
"This lord deserves it, and it really doesn't taste much. Li Yun can experience the embarrassment of maintaining normal operation, but lacking the mind, technology, and capital to change life.
In Elmer's bedroom, he met Logan, looking very bad, partly because of his injuries and partly because of the terrible situation.
Logan's expression was very embarrassed when he saw him, and he realized that he had messed things up. He wanted to grab more, but it ended up being a major blow to the Crusaders, the kind they had never done before.
Li Yun didn't complain anything, and said directly: "I'll help you, there are too many things to do." ā
As he spoke, he stepped forward to untie the bandage on Logan's body, Logan's wound was between his chest and abdomen, and it was only a coin-sized wound, but the wound was deep.
Li Yun stretched out his hand and pressed it near the wound, and said, "Bear with it!" and then a silver light lit up on his hand.
Logan felt a strong heat coming out of Li Yun's collection, directly penetrating his body, and then there was a sharp pain from the injury, his eyes were black for a while, he almost fainted in pain, his teeth clucked, and then he smelled the fishy smell, and saw the black blood gushing out of the wound, and the fishy smell was emitted by these black blood.
Li Yun casually took the bandage and wiped the black blood off, and did not stop until it was bright red blood gushing out. After that, half of Logan's life energy was infused.
Logan gasped and asked, "Why, the priest's purification technique failed to clean up the filth?"
"It's hard to put into words, and it was not long ago that I communicated with the goddess and learned that the enemy's background is far more powerful than we thought. Let's talk about this later, now I need you to work with injuries, can you do it?"
"Yes. "Logan does feel much better, the wound is not completely healed, but as a knight, he can still clearly feel his state. There was evil lurking in his body before, but he didn't notice it, so he couldn't help asking.
More than ten minutes later, Logan, who had re-wounded, sat in the hall of the hill fort and summoned the mid-ranking officers of the Crusaders.
In his customary tile, Logan tells the men that Mannland has been completely corrupted by the forces of ancient evil, and that now the Crusaders are trying to save themselves and their families.
"Every village is to be stationed with crusaders until a new order from the Lord's Palace arrives. The first priority of the garrison is to guard the granary...... "He especially emphasized the injunction of the Lord's Palace, which does not mean that you will forcibly occupy the villages, but gives a solemn warning not to let the Crusaders move in, and once the farms and granaries of the villages are destroyed, not only will they not receive any assistance, but the Lord's Mansion will also impose severe sanctions, including hanging.
After Logan's speech, Li Yun stood up and used the new silver war paint seal to help these people get rid of the evil. For a while, the smell was all over the court.
In this process, an officer suddenly broke out, but Li Yun had already prepared and directly used blood spells to make him lose his combat effectiveness.
After the officers had eased up, Li Yun told them that due to the efficiency of removing the evil and the urgency of time, only a small number of people could be removed from the evil spirits at present, and the commanders, elite backbones, and undetoxified soldiers were on the task, and that was the only way.
Logan warns the officers that the officer's attack has proven that there are still evil minions lurking in the crusaders, and that they can only be completely eliminated if they are all detoxified, so be careful during the next mission.
Li Yun added that evil minions also lurk in the villages, and they will use various means, such as inciting confrontation, poisoning, assassination, and so on. In such situations, officers need to use their brains to solve problems. There is really no way, so I use injunctions, hoping that this can make people vigilant.
The next step was the deployment of personnel, and the squadrons were summoned in the open space in front of the mountain fort, and then single-digit backbones were selected, and the war paint was detoxified, and the exclusive communication stamp was set, and then set off with two days of dry rations. The first team went to Nightingale, where almost the entire southern district was stockpiled with the taxes and grain due for this year, which had to be secured.
Then there were several important grain-producing villages, including the domains of the nobility. The goal is food, food, food! It's already not enough, and if it gets pit a few more times, not only the Crusaders, but also the Blue Night Castle, and even the entire Mann Territory will have no food to sustain.
There are more than 2,800 crusaders, and after suffering last night's damage, there are less than 2,400, and there are nearly 1,000 slashing gorges, and there are only more than 1,300 here.
There is only one Clara left in the western district, only one Ratvo in the northern district, and the eastern district is already barren, with three farms drained and a few villages remaining, and the population is mainly concentrated in the southern district. But last night Elmer and the rebels burned two. In this way, each village can send about a squadron of troops.
Before noon, the 16 teams were assigned, and the Knife Slash Gorge also sent fast horses to deliver the letter, and Logan rushed back to the Blue Night Castle with more than 70 people, including the lightly wounded, to guard the lord's mansion.
Li Yun was left with only a team of 10 people to watch over the 10 evil minions captured in the process of detoxification, and to take care of the seriously wounded and the corpses of dead crusaders.
Li Yun, whose spiritual power and dark power were almost exhausted, had a splitting headache, but he still arranged for someone to retrieve the rune stones in the forest, and after resting for more than an hour, he put them on the foreheads of the deceased one by one. Instead of placing them randomly, he paired them and looked for them with runes, and although the symbols of these runes were the same, he could distinguish the differences between them.
By this time, the martial law had been lifted, and some people in the village had been beaten and lost their lives, but there were still people who went to the open space to pay respects to the dead.
Li Yun stood on the top of the mountain and watched all this, looking at the fields under the mountain, Zobao in the distance, and the vast world at the end of his sight, his thoughts were a little empty. The involvement is getting deeper and deeper, but forgetting the reason, the original intention originally started from a thought, neither strong nor lasting, and now there is more and more of a kind of indifference of 'die and die', there is not so much sense of mission, and it is not for any justice, and the rest is the inertia that since it has been done, then try to do it well.
Eyes retracted and landed in the corner of the pigsty, where Elmer's family, including a four or five-year-old child, was not spared. Main's laws are few but severe, and the fate of a traitor is punishable by caning or hanging. Because the Mann people believe that it is impossible for their family members to be unaware of such a thing as betrayal, and it is a sin to know and cover it up.
This incident may be a special situation, but with such heavy casualties, there must be an explanation, and Elmer's family will hardly be spared.
And the rebels who followed Elmer in the evil, and their families would be equally unlucky.
In this regard, Li Yun can't say what he feels, if he wants to say it, he can only say that he can't think about it carefully, and he can't check it carefully, otherwise some of them will be like a mess of tangled and bad hearts.
At dusk, Li Yun took action again, he asked the deceased who did not have a rune stone on his forehead to be carried into the temporary ward of the seriously injured, and said to the seriously wounded: "I inject the residual life force of your robe into your body, you survive, you have to return his relics, and try your best to take care of his family, can you do it?"
Some of the seriously injured were able to answer, while others could not even speak, so they could only nod or blink. Then Li Yun used the scarlet fangs to draw the deceased into a dry corpse in front of him, and injected it into the body of the seriously injured to further stabilize his injuries.
There are more than 40 seriously injured people, each of whom can take their turn, and there is wealth, but that part does not need to be borne by them, what they need to bear is that the family situation is not very good, and they can usually be taken care of by multiple people, and their lives are not so difficult.
The corpses that were completely squeezed out will not actually be burned, and the gift of the goddess has awakened and completed part of the sealed knowledge, which has enriched his spell casting system, and there was originally only one kind, blood spells. Now there are two lines, Blood Moon and Death. The two represent the life and death of darkness, constituting a system that belongs to him, just like the holy cedar, which this world did not have before, but now it has.
At sunset and moonrise, Li Yun used the materials collected in advance to build a moon well, just at the top of the mountain fort, the moon well has a symmetrical 'open' word wooden door frame, in which the upper one is upturned horizontally on both sides, the lower one is horizontal and the two sides are upturned, and the two vertically enter the pond well, it is called the moon gate, not in the center of the well, but at one end. The stone of the moon well is called the Moon Runestone, which contains the mystery of the runes, forming a curve like a tree pattern, but it is not so dense and more irregular, but there is a natural rhythm in it, and whenever the moon is in the sky, there will be a soft flow of light in these textures.
After building the moon well, Li Yun began to cast a spell, there was a moon-white pillar of light, with the inner edge of the moon well as the boundary, rising to the sky, that is, the side of the Blue Night Castle, which could be clearly seen. If you take a closer look, you will find that it is not the moon well that is spewing light, but the moonlight that is sprinkled on the earth is condensed into this sky-high pillar of light, and within a radius of dozens of kilometers, the moonlight is dimmed by this ingestion.
The well water gradually rises, the color is silvery green, and when there is a slight ripple, there are spots of light that fly up like fireflies.
When the pool is full, the pillar of light disappears, as abruptly as it appeared.
After that, another spell worked, and between the upper and lower horizontal sides of the moon gate, a swirling light cluster appeared, and then a mirror-like rippling energy channel was formed, and the blue light cluster appeared from within, wandering around like a living thing, but it was bound by an invisible force, and it could not get out of the range of the moon well.
At the end of the spell, under the awe-inspiring gaze of the crusader soldiers and villagers, Li Yun went to the empty field where many corpses were parked, and then lit up the rune stone in front of the deceased's forehead one by one, the rune stone exploded, and a scarlet light cluster submerged into the body of the deceased, and then, Li Yun would attract the silver water in the moon well and sprinkle it on his body, causing it to ignite a silver flame of light, without sound, no temperature, the flame was blazing, and finally turned into waves of light stars, dissipating between heaven and earth.
After that, the corpses that were drawn into dried corpses, the blue light in the moon well was captured in the air, submerged into the forehead of the corpses, and then burned with the moon well water, which also dissipated without a trace.
By the time it was all over, it was past midnight.
Li Yun distributed water from the Moon Well to the remaining crusaders and asked them to bring some drinking water to the wounded. The moon well water catalyzed by the magic method directly achieves the highest efficiency and has a healing effect, but this treatment is moisturizing, slow and long, and cannot be used for emergency treatment, and can only be used for post-war healing, not as a combat potion.
For many, it was a sleepless night, a tumultuous night, and there were still two villages in the southern district whose granaries were burned, both of which were the domain of the nobility, who refused to allow the crusaders to settle in, and one of them, the granaries were simply burned by the nobles themselves.
There were more attacks, poisoning of cattle and horses, and assassinations of people, which happened in almost every village, some of which were stopped in time, and some of which caused serious damage.
In the Blue Night Castle, the Lord's Mansion was attacked, the flames from the special fire oil bottles were difficult to extinguish, a third of the Lord's Mansion was burned down, and the arsonists threw themselves into the fire with crazy laughter and slogans of 'Glory to our Lord', without giving the guards a chance to shoot them.
The most serious danger is Tulip Town, among the crusaders and escorts stationed here, there are not only traitors, but also people who can cause evil like Elmer, the escort army was quickly defeated, and the crusaders were almost wiped out, at the critical moment, it was Hurda and others arranged by Li Yun to take action, killing more than a dozen traitors one after another, which will control the situation, otherwise after one night, Tulip Town, I am afraid that all that remains is rubble and city walls.
On this night, the only thing that didn't go wrong was the knife slashing gorge.
Li Yun knew that this was not because it was okay to cut the gorge, but because evil was brewing a big operation.
At this time, the west of the moon sank, and it was impossible to build the moon well, but the well water he brought with him removed the potential hidden dangers of the escort team and the main functional departments such as the lord's mansion, and the rest was used for the next night. This is another characteristic of the moon's well water, which is only effective at night and not during the day.
As dawn dawned, evacuation orders were announced in every village in the southern district.
This order was reached by Li Yun after consulting with Logan and Dinah, and then contacted the crusaders through the Flying Shadow to order them to carry it out.
The order instructed the Crusaders to urge the people of the Southern Sector to concentrate on the Blue Night Fort and take refuge.
In the morning, Logan and Li Yun rushed to Tulip Town, using the silver war paint seal, to remove poison for the crusaders here, as well as some of the guards, and once again found out 8 lurking evil minions, and the remaining nearly two hundred guards, Logan issued a binding order, that is, before tonight, these people must be tied up, so as to avoid another internal war, Rogan told the crusaders and guards who have completed the removal of poison that they will use the city defense tonight to defend Tulip Town, and they can only fight alone.
In the afternoon, Logan and Li Yun rushed to the Sword Gorge, passing by Youbao, Li Yun took the well water collected by the Moon Well in the night after, and used the silver war paint seal to remove poison in the morning, he was squeezed dry again, and before the new Moon Well was established, his mana could not be restored, and he could only count on the well water.
At around 4 p.m., the two caught up with the group of refugees who had taken refuge in the military town of Dao Cho Gorge, mainly from Ma'an Village, where most of the people were family members of the Crusader officers and soldiers, and the people who had taken refuge in the east, all of whom had gathered in the Dao Chop Gorge, which was also required by the refuge order.
The two of them crossed the slow march of the old and the young, and arrived at the military town of Dao Cutting Gorge first.
Li Yun was here for the first time, and he saw the steep Longji Mountains and the towering Horseshoe Pass from a distance.
The reason why it is called the horseshoe pass is because its overall shape, like a horseshoe, its front, seals the gorge of the sword-cut gorge, and that section of the wall is the highest, thickest, and most solid, after the arc, on both sides of the obvious ramps, from the front of the 30 meters high, down to the end of the 3 meters high.
The military town is on the left and right sides of the city defense, divided into residential areas and workshop areas, in the middle of the front, is the military camp, the military camp its inner fortress function, combined with the city wall, constitutes an urn city, which lasted for the attack of the foreign army, and there were several examples of being put in to slaughter. Thinking that the gate had been breached, the alien race rushed in partially, but the gate was cut off by a heavy gate, and those who rushed in were surrounded and killed on all sides, and were destroyed on the spot.
The overall atmosphere is solemn and dignified, just like iron, just like a knife, and there is indeed a lot of iron here, it is said that half of the iron in the entire Mann Collar is concentrated here, and the machinery on the workshop, the heavy bed crossbow on the city wall, as well as the city defense equipment such as horse rejection and knife carts, can be seen iron. And more than iron is stone and blood.
Along the way, Li Yun really didn't see much soil, there were rocks everywhere, among which the rocks and ground around the urn city were all black, and a dull red could be seen if you looked closely, which were all dried blood. Sniffing with a nose, you can easily smell the smell of metal rust and blood.
Logan went directly to the barracks to meet with the commander here, while Li Yun went out of the city to the east, to the eastern end of the Sword Gorge, the Greywind Outpost.
The entire gorge is actually six kilometers long, curved and stretches across the entire Longji Mountains. But now the human race is guarding only the last section of the moat, the most authentic sword cutting gorge.
Li Yun looked at the situation on both sides of the canyon, and felt that it should be born from a crustal movement, a huge crack, so that the left and right sides of the mountain were separated, forming the current appearance, the east and west sections span about 1300 meters, on the cliffs on both sides of the mountain gorge, artificially dug the road, called the 'arrow road', after the war, there are often archers on the arrow path to swim away, blocking the enemy below, and there are pits on the stone wall, which is used to avoid the enemy's throwing attack, after all, the arrow path is very narrow, it is not easy to dodge.
The blood-soaked gorge is overgrown with vegetation, mostly under the cliffs, and there are also roads about 20 meters wide on average, which fully indicates that this road is not commonly used, that is, it is used by people who are on duty at the gray wind outpost.
The Greywind Outpost is built in the center of a large platform, which is semi-natural, semi-artificial. At the height of the kingdom of Netheril, it reached into the bleak swamps and laterite forests west of the Greystone Mountains. The big platform was opened up during that period.
Li Yun stood on the big platform and looked out, and in front of it was Tianqiao Gorge. In fact, it is also a natural danger here, because Tianqiao Gorge is a grand canyon that is more grand than the Dao Cut Gorge, it is in a north-south direction as a whole, but it is not only, and there are bends, this section of Tianqiao Gorge is hundreds of meters deep, below is the gravel river with turbulent water, it is a source with the rushing river, all originate from the supreme mountain range further east. However, the Gravel River turns south, and the Rushing River goes all the way to the west.
Tianqiao Gorge is named after a natural bridge road, the opposite side of the bridge is called Triangle Bay, a mountain road, leading to the distance on the side wall of the steep cliff, whether it is the bridge road, or the mountain road that stands on the platform at a glance, it can be called dangerous, but unfortunately there are natural cliff roads on the north and south sides of the big platform, the crusaders are insufficient, do not dare to defend the platform, can only establish an outpost, if you encounter a small group of aliens, or can fight, otherwise you can only retreat, give the barrier an early warning reminder.
After carefully surveying the terrain here, Li Yun returned to the fortress, and Logan introduced Li Yun to the commander of the Knife Gap military town, Lester Norton.
The Blade Gap has a special status, it is governed by Mann, but it is actually part of the kingdom. Because the kingdom was taken from a foreign race and established single-handedly. It was once in charge of the Earl of Donkamaran, but after the removal of the lordship, an alliance agreement was reached with Mann, and then the kingdom effectively abandoned this important line of defense, and the Gorge fell into Mann's arms. And the Norton family is the master of the land of Slash Gorge. They are not vassals to Baron Mann, but allies.
The Norton family was also a baron for a time, the fief was in Greystone Mountain, the baron of Greystone Castle, the important place, was an important relay station for the kingdom to the bleak swamp and red soil forest, and then the fief fell, according to the laws of the kingdom, the baronial title was automatically eliminated, and the current title of the Norton family is Sizz, which can theoretically be divided into two knights, one of which is the one introduced by Logan to Li Yun, Lester.
Lester has the typical gray eyes and hooked nose of the Norton family, which makes him look full of eagle-eyed qualities, and because he is thin and has a well-defined face, he also looks gloomy when he smiles, which gives people a bad sense.
However, Li Yun attaches great importance to it, and the gift of the goddess gives him extraordinary abilities and makes his power more pure, so he has that silver-blue dark power. He originally thought that darkness is darkness, but he now knows that there are still many classifications in the dark, and black and white are the most inclusive, and it is precisely because of this tolerance that corrosion, destruction, distortion, and death can be accommodated. The first three are also called the three lines of evil energy, and the death belongs to the other line. The death he grasps, strictly speaking, belongs to the cold of the forest in death. The Blood Moon, on the other hand, is the Flame of Darkness, representing the active side of the dark forces.
The cold of the silence allows him to see the soul. The Flame of Darkness, allowing him to feel the blood. The former represents the spirit, the latter represents the flesh, and from this point of view, Lester's soul is relatively pure and clear, and his blood is full of power. This means that he is a strong man with great traits and great potential.
Therefore, Li Yun did not judge people by their appearance, and after some conversation, he believed that this person was worth associating.
Good qualities do not mean that the person is good in the universal sense. Tough and tenacious, brave and composed, villains can also have this kind of strength. But if the advantages include honesty and open-mindedness, then it is easy to determine whether this person is a person who is with him. Li Yun does not agree with some of Lester's views, but the other party is indeed excellent, and he can also seek common ground while reserving differences and do something together. In terms of vision and work ability, Li Yun feels that Lester is much better than Logan, although the difference between the two is 20 years old.
After nightfall, Li Yun first used the water of the moon well to remove poison for a group of Crusaders, and then this group of Crusaders went to replace the officers on duty at the Greywind Outpost.
After that, it is time to regain strength, wait for the moon to rise in the middle of the sky, and build the moon well.
There are two moons in this world, Eru and Nilou. Even so, the two moons will not dominate the whole night, there is always a period of time, there is no moon, and when the two moons are in the sky, that is, the moon is in the middle of the sky, at this time the moon is the strongest, the whole earth is like sprinkled with silver frost, and the light of the stars in the sky is compared to it, becoming a foil. The Moon Well, it is best to build it at this time, especially this one in the Dao Chop Gorge, which is the Moon Pond of three wells in one.
When the silver pillar of light rose into the sky, chaos broke out in the military town, and screams and fights were heard from the residential area, and soon, several houses were smoking and on fire.
But the Crusaders were ordered to stand still and do nothing. In the square west of the barracks, most of the officers and soldiers were disarmed, two meters apart, standing there, only a small number of those who had completed the detoxification, had weapons, they stared at the queue, holding bows and arrows, the arrows were wound, and anyone who made any abnormal movement would be shot.
There were several fires in the residential area, and half of the area was chaotic, and the workshop area on the other side was actually ignited.
Rogan gritted his teeth and addressed the crusaders in the square: "Soldiers, fellow citizens, the truth has been revealed before your eyes, the whole region has been corrupted by evil, and someone has betrayed his comrades, relatives, and even humanity and become evil minions. We will show no mercy to traitors, and we will eradicate evil. Remember this moment, remember our weakness, it is a disgrace, and the crusaders are bound to wash it away with the blood of the enemy!"
"Rogan, your speech was as empty and boring as ever. Voices suddenly rang out, coming from all directions.
Logan shouted, "Who is it?"
"Year after year, people's lives are getting harder and harder. The crusaders lacked equipment, weapons, and poor food, and guarded with their lives, and it was not ordinary people who benefited, but nobles with fat brains. They don't produce, but they can enjoy prosperity in peace, so why should we provide for them, why should we protect them with our lives?"
"Hide your head and show your tail, don't even dare to show your face, what truth do you want to talk about?" Logan shouted angrily.
"What I said is really not true, everyone knows it in their hearts, and you are willing to be a dog for the nobles, which is also true. ā
Lester suddenly interjected, "And what about you? What are you doing? Instigating people to burn down our hard-working homes, burning our food and houses, starving and freezing to death, breaking up our ranks, letting aliens come in and turn us into their food, slaves?"
"Do you eat your own food and grow it? I don't think so, people who grow their own food know the preciousness of food and are reluctant to burn it. I don't think so, because the people who built their own homes know how difficult it is to build a house, and they are reluctant to burn it down. ā
"You're also not productive, you're trying to figure out how to incite people to destroy, you're dividing the Manns from betraying their families, comrades, and compatriots, so that the Manns will change from us, to me, from collectives, to individuals of little power. It's like a bundle of branches that becomes a twig that can be broken easily. You've caused us to have to stand here, looking at the chaos and the fire not far away and not being able to help, and that's what you're already doing, and what you're doing. If you talk to us about the truth, are you worthy? Are you worthy to be called a man?"
"You vile and sinister aristocrat, you avoid the important and trivial, and you are full of lies to justify your exploitation. You are moths, scoundrels who exploit the fruits of people's labor!"
"The scoundrel of your mouth, who has guarded the Sword Gorge for generations, prevents the aliens from trampling on the Mannian homeland. As a lackey, you lead the Mann in the fight against all enemies who want to destroy and plunder the Mann homeland. You talk a lot about exploitation, but you don't talk about where our weapons, our armor, and our food come from. The kingdom has stopped aiding, the Holy See will only talk, and we Mannians can only defend our homeland and defend the eastern gate of the kingdom on our own. And your mouth is worse than the Holy See's, and you can make us Manns kill each other. What did you promise? No taxes, no equality? So what do professional soldiers like the Crusaders rely on? Rely on your mouth?"
There was no answer, no more sound.
Then Li Yun's voice sounded, "This one is very cunning, he didn't attack, and he retreated in time." ā
The three of them had long speculated that in such an important place as the Sword Cutting Gorge, there might be a powerful enemy sitting in it. To this end, Li Yun used himself as bait to attract enemies to attack when he cast spells.
His catalytic spell can be terminated and activated at any time. It's a pity that the other party was not fooled.
"Now let's clear up the misunderstanding, first row, come forward!" ......
A platoon of crusaders stepped forward and drank the water of the moon well to complete the detoxification. Evil minions can't get rid of the Evil, because the Evil is already a part of him, so not only will it not be a problem, but it will get a certain buff from it. Of course, this gain comes at a huge cost.
After the detoxification, the weapon will be re-obtained, and if there is enough 1 team, it will go to the residential area to solve the hidden dangers there, and so on, and advance in an orderly manner, from time to time someone traitor is identified, and then arrested, and some people can't bear it, trying to escape, but basically as soon as there is a change, they are immediately shot, in order to keep secret, these evil minions do not know each other's existence, at this time it is equivalent to being isolated, unable to tacitly explode at the same time.
This is also analyzed and summarized after the first battle outside Youbao. Some people are deep and lurking, and some people can't help but burst into trouble, it all depends on personal will.
As for the connection between these minions and their evil organizations, Li Yun felt that it should be done through the altar of death plants. However, it is not entirely certain. Because if this is the case, then it means that there is a god-level existence, but if there really is such an existence, it should be more common and convenient to contact, and the believer will obtain divine magic, but the evil minions do not show these characteristics, which makes him a little confused.
Besides, the dead plant altar in the gravel farm he had taken out and studied, and it didn't have a communication channel function, so if the altars in other villages were of the same type, it meant that these guys had another way.
The evil minions I encountered before were all hysterical and extremely crazy. After a series of experiences, Li Yun gradually discovered some secrets. Not all of these evil minions are fanatics, but they have some way to become crazy, and when they can't stand it, they will drive themselves crazy. Now that he knew about this situation, Li Yun wanted to arrest these guys through relatively gentle means, and then see if he could find a way to break this spiritual suicidal fangs.
While the detoxification was still going on, the Grey Wind Outpost launched magic fireworks, three red fireworks, representing a large number of alien night attacks.
Li Yun's previous worst fears came true, and he was worried that once the evil forces colluded with the alien races in the Graystone Mountain area, they should join forces with the outside and break through the Sword Gorge, then Mann Territory could basically be declared extinct.
But he also has another fear, that is, the evil forces are concentrating their forces at the same time to launch a devastating blow against the south of Mannland. Such a two-pronged approach is entirely possible, and the army attacking the southern region does not need to be very strong, there are four or five hundred people, and with the help of the means of causing evil, a terrifying harvest can be completed.
Choosing one of the two, Li Yun chose to protect the knife and cut the gorge, and the southern area lost land and saved people.
However, the information that Flying Shadow keeps sending shows that. The evacuation order in the southern district was not well enforced, and a considerable number of people did not want to evacuate, saying that they would die in their homeland even if they died, and they still did not believe in the fact that they were corrupted by evil, believing that all this was a conspiracy of the lord's mansion or Logan.
However, the Crusaders could not produce credible evidence, and the Crusaders could not persecute them with extreme force, as they were Mann, not Werewolves, after all. When people resolutely don't go, they can't really raise a butcher's knife to kill, and people understand this, so take advantage and insist. He even asked the Crusaders to stay, but when he failed, he cursed, saying that the Crusaders had betrayed the trust of the Manns.
The Crusader warriors were naturally very angry and aggrieved, and they even knew that it was not only the people's paranoia that caused all this, but also the instigation of ill-intentioned people, but there was nothing they could do. In the end, the crusaders were only able to take with them those who were willing to go.
There were also those who shouted and scolded, and caused friction, and those with pitchforks and clubs were going to fight the Crusaders. At this time, the iron and bloody side of the crusaders as a professional combat force accustomed to life and death is revealed, and whoever makes the most trouble will be immediately beaten and killed mercilessly, regardless of whether there is a mistake in killing. Then the people were instigated, and they realized that this gang of embryokillers was really going to be ruthless, and it was not something they could resist.
With their families in tow, their bags are heavy, and time is pressing, the crusaders don't have so much time to talk to people, and when the time comes, those who don't listen to persuasion and don't cooperate can't be managed.
These things that happened during the day, Li Yun basically mastered them through the flying shadow. He roughly calculated, together with the ones killed by Elmer and his party last night, at least there were 5,000 people outside who had not been gathered. I'm afraid these 5,000 people won't be able to keep it.
Sure enough, the evil forces did not miss this opportunity and adopted a two-pronged strategy.
That night, in addition to contacting the alien attack on the side of the Sword Slash Gorge, in the south, approaching the warbands of more than 500 people, attacked the southern area, including Elmer and the Crusader traitors.
After discovering that the first village people had gone to the empty building, this war group quickly dispersed its troops, took the squadron as a unit, and rushed everywhere, one word: burn!
The villages in the south were largely burned to the ground after the night. And those who refused to leave, who did not believe in being eroded, also suffered misfortune, in the face of the merciless slaughter and slashing of the evil warband, they wailed and wept, and then chose to give in, and people and things were plundered, and their homes were burned.
Moreover, with just more than 100 people, the evil warband drove a team of more than 4,700 people to the south overnight. There are very few who escaped by hiding in the chaos.
As the looted men marched south, the evil warbands regrouped, and 400 hundred men launched a fierce assault on the Blue Night Castle the night afterward.
There are evil minions lurking in the Blue Night Keep, as well as among the migrating people, who are creating chaos on the inside and cooperating with the attacking forces outside to break through the gates of the Blue Night Keep and wash the place in blood.
Li Yun, who rushed back in the starry night, faced such a situation. He is faced with a new choice: whether to free the Blue Night Keep or intercept the departing population raiders. (To be continued.) )