There were more than 30,000 captives living in Iron Sword City, which was crowded and filthy, and it was almost inferior to the places where the poor lived, and they had to do a lot of work every day for the ghosts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info such as logging, used to make and research more powerful engineering equipment.

More than 30,000 captives lined up in the open space outside the city, and although they were not troops, they looked extremely shocking.

"With such an army, it would be easy to take Black Sparrow. Lin Yu said while standing on the walls of Iron Sword City.

"All I want to do is turn them into regular troops, but they are stubborn and simply unwilling to obey. ”

"Have you been here before, the northerners who fled back didn't mention that you were still alive. ”

"No, no, so I said we might have a big harvest this time. Ernest looked at the crowd of more than 30,000 below, he knew that many people would not hear him, but it didn't matter, they would spread the word to each other.

"Ladies and gentlemen, some of you are slaves, some are northerners, and a small number are prisoners of the expeditionary force. I suppose someone will be able to recognize me, right?" Ernest had a loud voice, and it was the kind of roar, a kind of confidence, a very loud confidence, not noisy, but it could be heard by many people.

The men below looked up at the talking man on the city wall, the man they had seen for the first time. But it didn't take long for someone to suddenly be surprised, "You are Duke Brooke, Duke Brooke of Black Sparrow City!"

As soon as he said this, everyone knew who it was, no matter who it was, as the Seven Ancient Castles, everyone in Black Sparrow City knew it, they were also familiar with the Brooke family, which had ruled for thousands of years, and they naturally knew that it was he who created the King of Ghost Corpses, he was a magician, a curse, and a big bastard.

Listening to the boiling voices below, Ernest raised his hands and said, "I need you to be quiet first, the history you talk about is not helpful to you. ”

The crowd quieted down and looked at the men on the city wall again.

"You speak of joining us as a traitor to humanity, a traitor to humanity. I don't think you should know that the human race that has joined in the north is under my leadership, they can learn, they can train, they can enjoy all the life of normal people, and they are making efforts for the development of mankind. I can assure all of you that humanity will not perish, but will only be reborn because of us. ”

"We won't take the words of the damned, we won't believe you, you're a liar, bastard. One shouted loudly. Then a group of people still echoed and cursed.

"Can I continue?" Ernest raised his hands again, and the voice faded away.

"Yes, I have resurrected the king of the ghosts that terrified you and tortured you. But he's also my son, and his name is Gordon, Gordon Brooke. Many of you are from the south, and you should know how the humans treated him in the first place, and they kept saying that they wanted to kill him, and yes, he was very dangerous, and people were very afraid. But he's my son, and I think some of you have children of your own, and what kind of choices would you make if you were you, when they had a glimmer of hope to save a child who had been indebted for more than ten years, and had never even hugged him. ”

"I don't want to defend him, he's a ghost now. He's at war with humanity right now, but you're human and I'm human too. Gordon had assured me that what he needed was the coexistence of humans and ghosts, who were no longer just weapons of killing created by magicians, who had already had minds and had become a new kind of creature, just like us. I don't think you ever thought that one day you would be enslaved by a ghostly corpse, a creature that died and then came back to life. But that's just the way it is. You would rather be enslaved, fed, and struggling in fear than work with me to build a new civilization for humanity, which is why you have been failing, and it is for this reason that there will always be only 10,000 troops in the Kara Mountains. ”

"I think you all know how many soldiers the nobles of the South have, have they ever launched a general attack for you, have they ever banded together to fight the ghosts to save humanity? No, not once. While I am here to persuade you to join us in building a new civilization, they are still enjoying themselves, they are still intriguing by any means, even the king has taken refuge in the farthest south, and who you are counting on to save you, you are just a bunch of outcasts and forgotten people. ”

"You think you'll be treated kindly when you go to the north? No, you're only hunted down, experimented by the pharmacists, and no one will accept you. There should be some escapees around you, have you ever seen them again, even one? ”

"Not a single one, at least not now. ”

There was complete silence below, and everyone fell silent as Ernest spoke.

Lin Yu cleared his throat and shouted, "I'm Lin Yu Brooke, and I just came from the south. I didn't come to join the King of Ghosts, I didn't know my father was still alive before I came, just like you, I didn't know it for a long time. I can attest to what my father said, that you will only end up in death, and that when I was an expeditionary force, I took in dozens of northerners who had escaped, but in the end they survived because of their resistance. I think you will see you on the battlefield in the future, and you will be able to confirm whether what I said today is true. ”

"Truth be told, my purpose here is simple, to get close to the King of Ghosts, my own brother, and then find an opportunity to kill him. That's what I'm here for, but... When I see everything that happened in the Ice Temple, everything new, if ghosts and humans can really coexist, I am willing to choose to accept them, and those who join us can not only learn words, someone teach how to fight, but also obtain everything that can be obtained through their own abilities. ”

"Whatever I'm saying now, I don't have to be the northerners, I'm sure there will still be expeditionary forces that will be captured, and they will prove what I'm saying. My purpose, all the encounters after I woke up, being hunted down again and again, incognito, all this experience, I still choose to stand with humanity and kill my brother. However, I am a little shaken now, and I hope that you too will be shaken and choose to join us and become a person who can live again, a warrior, a bachelor, a medicine man, a wise man, whatever you want. ”

After waiting for a while, Ernest looked at the discussion below, and said, "I don't have much time, I still have to lead the army against the incoming ice monster, I think you haven't heard from the ice monster for a long time." They're emotionless monsters, they're changed by the cold, and if the ice monsters break through the defenses, I swear the army of ghosts won't protect you, you'll just be cannon fodder. ”

"Now, the team that is willing to go back with me is at the end, and I will take you along to live a new life. ”

Gradually, people in the group began to move, although there was a quarrel between them, but someone moved, the first one came out and walked to the back, the second, the third, and gradually more people came out.

After a while, when the group was completely separated, Ernest could tell at a glance that about 1,200 people had walked out. This number is absolutely staggering, in the past they sometimes had a dozen, several, even dozens of very few, but this time more than a thousand people came out at once.

Lin Yu took the opportunity to say again, "When your new members join, I think more of you will join us." ”

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The next day, a party of a hundred men became a party of more than two thousand, and they began to return home. On the way, Lin Yu asked, "There are only more than 1,000 people in the Ice Palace, so many of them are brought back this time, where to put them?"

"The towns around the Ice Temple need to be rebuilt, and these people can help restore them, and the Wolf Castle has been abandoned for a long time, and we need manpower. So many people will make resources scarce, but it will also motivate the people before to work harder. Otherwise, they would have to move out of the Ice Temple. ”

By night, when everyone had begun to rest, Ernest called Vanessa out alone.

"Are you sure you want to marry Lin Yu?" asked Ernest.

"Yes, I'm sure. ”

Ernes nodded, "Then I can tell you the next thing, remember that this matter must not be told to Lin Yu until the last moment." At the same time, you may really die because of this choice. ”

"What is so important?" Vanessa looked at the stern Ernest.

Ernest glanced around and said, "You are here to kill Gordon, kill him, so that the humans can repel all the remaining ghosts." What I want to tell you is that at the last moment, remind Lin Yu not to forget his purpose. ”

"What?" Vanessa was surprised when she heard this, "Your Excellency, you...

"That's right, everything I said before is true. Gordon is also willing to coexist with humans, but you don't know about ghosts, they evolve very quickly, especially after Gordon takes over, he gives them a lot of things. They are not human souls, and if Gordon dies in the future, they will never leave any human left, it is their nature. Human nature is greed, but the nature of ghosts and corpses is to eat all human beings, which cannot be changed. So... You have to remind him. ”