Chapter 24: The City of Maluka

Paul and Andre had a headache, they had to correct Xing Jun's distorted personality, so from the twenty-seventh day onwards, Xing Jun was tied to the back of the truck, drying and drying all the way, except for occasional relief and eating, and was not allowed to go to the ground at night. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This life lasted until the thirty-eighth day, and Xing Jun, who had only half a life left in the physiological sense, was relieved.

Andrey: "I hope this little punishment will help you." ”

Xing Jun didn't think so, looking at the look between his eyebrows, some people thought he was an uncle. β€œ............ Sooner than I thought, I thought it would be like this until I returned to the imperial capital. ――What happened to me and I need to be released from the punishment in advance. ”

Paul was shocked and annoyed.

β€œ............ You're too smart...... , can anyone tell me that your wisdom is only 70 points, only 70 points, how can a person with only 70 wisdom be like this!"

The old thief from Congliang handed Xing Jun a water bag, and he thought that Xing Jun was his nominal master.

Xing Jun took a few sips and said: "It's not wrong that you think I'm smart, because my wisdom is no longer 70 points, I went to the office before leaving the imperial capital, and my wisdom has risen by 23 points, and now it is 93 points, as for the strength and agility have increased even more, and now the high is scary, so I am not afraid that you and Andre will go together."

-- The strongest brave man is in your team, and you have nothing to fear. ”

Andrei was dumbfounded.

"It can't be...... It's only been more than half a year, how did you do that?"

Xing Jun's words were not shocking.

"I have a special physique, and I am both a knight and a warrior, so my ability value is both knight and warrior. Let me tell you, I am the strongest brave, a few days ago I also awakened the special talent 'strong perception', as long as I want to know, I can tell who is strong and who is weak in front of me, and even can look for the existence of the strong in an unfamiliar environment. ”

Paul took a breath and was quite moved.

"Very good...... This is good...... Then it's really your time to show what you can do. I'll tell you about the situation, the situation is very bad now, we and the upper echelons of the imperial capital have miscalculated, it's been a while since winter began, and instead of leaving, the monsters have entrenched. ”

Xing Jun: "This is a good thing, we were originally here to crusade against monsters." ”

"But we don't have anyone in our hands! We are not strong enough, we only have more than a hundred people, and the number of enemies is more than four hundred, they are not a rabble like bandits, they are bloodthirsty monsters. ”

Paul paused, then continued:

"We're close enough to the monsters, so the information is accurate enough. Twenty days ago, the emperor sent nearby troops to encircle and suppress, it was a team of 500 people, and the team of 500 people provided information to the people who had been defeated and fled back in three days, and there were at least 400 monsters left there. ”

"Twenty days ago, there was a conscription of troops...... And after that, in twenty days, no other troops have come?" Xing Jun asked.

Andrei shrugged.

"We. ”

Xing Jun was surprised.

"We?"

"It's a pity that we are the Imperial Capital Army who came back again. ”

Xing Jun opened his mouth wide.

"I'm a little puzzled, is there only five hundred people guarding the entire west of a country as big as yours?"

"The reason will not be clear to you for a while, because of the system, the permanent troops of the empire are temporarily gone, and the private armies of the noble lords do, but they refuse to send troops. ”

"How many people are in the hands of the nobles?"

"The 'Baileys Knights' of Maluka City, with a total number of more than a thousand, are experienced in combat and well-armed. However, they had to escort caravans, so there weren't many permanent knights in the city...... I think there should be five or six hundred. ”

"Why don't they send troops?" Xing Jun frowned and said, "Since they don't send troops, should we go and beg them to send troops in a low voice, or do their ideological work to persuade them to send troops?"

"Whatever you ......want," Paul said, glancing at him, "Anyway, the current situation is not optimistic, so I will release you early." ”

Paul avoided Xing Jun's gaze and ended the conversation, and he said with a strong heart: It is impossible for the king not to give the order to Gil Oles of Maluka City to conquer the monsters, but Maluka City is silent.

If Gil Olaes received a royal order, then he would have broken the oath he had made to the king by not sending troops, which would be a capital offense. Then why didn't he send troops?

"Xing Jun?"

"I'm ...... Can you let me take a shower first?" Xing Jun sniffed at his clothes, "I'm all spoiled." ”

"Yes, but you'll have to hear me first, Maluka City rebelled more than a decade ago. ”

"This is really surprising...... Xing Jun shrugged his shoulders and did not care.

"The city of Maluka has only been divided in recent generations, and in the long tradition of peace, the fourth generation of lords has lost their hearts and minds with their mediocrity and cruelty. The merchants and the craftsmen of the city joined forces to assassinate the lord, and many of the lord's diners took the opportunity to cause chaos in the city without their masters.

Before the army rushed to suppress it, it was the younger brother of the fourth generation of lords, the then auxiliary priest of the temple, Jill Olles, who stepped forward to support the overall situation. Afterwards, as the children of four generations of lords died in the rebellion, the lord's younger brother Gil Oles succeeded him as a baron and took charge of a city. ”

"Sounds so complicated. ”

Paul preached earnestly:

"Gil Oles is an auxiliary priest of the temple, a religious auxiliary priest, and he is not incompetent because he is strong-willed, how could he turn a blind eye to the invading monsters. So there is a problem in the city of Maluka, if we are going to go to the city of Maluka to borrow troops, I must first take a few people to explore the wind, you wait here, if no one can come back before nightfall, then the city of Maluka is our enemy. ”

Paul traveled to the city of Maluka with a few veterans of the imperial capital.

The gates of Maluka were closed, and the city was on full alert.

"Who's coming?" shouted the archers from the walls.

"Paul Hunt, the centurion under Hogel's tent and the king's messenger, has asked to meet with Lord Gilles, lord of Maluka City and auxiliary priest of the Temple. ”

The archers shouted from the city walls: "The king's messenger has come, you are not, get out!"

"Look at the Phnom Penh Moon Flower Banner in our hands, we are from the imperial capital and are the king's messengers. ”

The archer shot his bow at his feet, threatening him in a cold voice.

"If you don't leave, you'll be just a corpse!"

Paul looked up at him, turned his horse's head and walked away, rather knowingly. But they did not have long to go, and several knights caught up with them, and Paul knew their silver armor, and recognized the silver dove on the armor as the Knights of Baileys.

"What are you doing with your Excellency, Knights of Bailey?"

A handsome knight drove his horse forward.

"I am the deputy head of the Baileys Order, FΓΌrth Tabry. ”

Paul observed his expression and felt that he was indeed not hostile, and then asked, "There are three deputy commanders of the Bailey Knights, may I ask what your Excellency FΓΌrth is doing?"

"I'm sorry for what happened to the city gates, but allow me to tell you what's going on inside the city of Maluka......"

......

Paul hurried back to the camp.

"There was a rebellion in the city of Maluka, though there was no bloodshed......

Before the appearance of the demons, the lord of Maluka City, Gil Oles, was already insane, he couldn't handle affairs, and the affairs in the city were basically handled by his adopted daughter Daisya on his behalf. Later, the demons appeared, and the king's messenger came to the city with a royal decree, and some people with evil intentions began to plot against them. ”

"What did they do?" Tang Xian asked.

"No troops. Paul explained to them: "If you don't send an army, Gil Ollets will be put to death by the king, and Gil's daughter is only an adopted daughter, and she is not related to him by blood, and if Gil dies, it will not be her who will inherit the title first according to the inheritance rules, but Gil Oles's only remaining sister." ”

"Is that the problem with his sister?" asked Xing Jun, who had taken a bath, chewing on the jerky.

Paul shook his head.

His sister was a good man, a believer in God, and her husband was an honest man who had never done anything bad in his life. The problem lies with their two sons, one of the deputy captains of the Baileys, Pete Baker. ”

Andrey: "His dad was a baker?"

Paul nodded, then explained to the others in the tent:

"When you know a person, his surname can tell you many things, for example, those who don't have a surname are definitely inferior, and above the inferior people are craftsmen and inhabitants.

The craftsmen's surnames were basically fixed, with 'Baker' for baker, 'Hunter' for Hunter, 'Carter' for Coachman, 'Smith' for Blacksmith, 'Cook' for Cook, 'Miller' for Miller, and 'Turner' for turner.

Now I'm telling you, Andre's full name is 'Andre Miller' and my name is 'Paul Hunter', you know?"

These things are not difficult to understand, Ding Dong opened his mouth to speak: "So Andre is the son of the mill owner, and you are the son of the hunter." ”

Andre nodded and affirmed: "I am the second child of our family, and I can't inherit the family business, so I joined the army, but I know our family's mill craft, and Paul is also a good hunter, and I will never go hungry with him." ”

"Getting back to business," Paul said, "the Knights of Baileys did not openly rebel because their management, those who really held knightly titles, had sworn allegiance to Gil Ollets, so they did not want to blatantly break their oaths. Oh, right...... Because our world is different from yours, let me explain to you the importance of vows.

The oath is the norm, the unwritten law in Mo Huijun's mouth. Gil Olaes had sworn an oath to the king when he was knighted, and if the Knights of Baileys broke their oath to Gil, Gil had the right to condemn them to death or exile, while Gil Olales would have been put to death if he broke the king's oath. ”

Xing Jun opened his mouth and asked: "Now that the monsters are invading, the king ordered him to lead the troops into battle, and he is crazy and can't take his life, right?"

Paul: "According to tradition, if he is sick, he can order other people to lead the army on his behalf, and madness is also a kind of disease, which cannot be denied, because it is the duty of the lords to respond to the king's call to send troops." In other words, the city of Maluka had to send troops to save Gil's life, but he was too mad to give orders himself, which gave the Baileys Knight an excuse to refuse the orders of their adopted daughter Daisia to go to the monster.

In this way, when the king gives Gil Oles death, the title will fall to his sister, and eventually to 'Pete Baker', who will become 'Pete Baker Dorne', the lord of the commercial city of Maluka. ”