The end of the forest path disappeared into the hills ahead, and the dense forest on both sides began to thin out. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Shari's Guards stopped and stopped along the way, and after half a month of long-distance migration, today they finally reached the city-state of Kurheya.

As the team climbed over the hill, a huge black boulder castle came into view in the distance.

The city wall with a height of about 30 meters is like a black dragon lying on the ground, the two sides are out of reach, the huge wall has four city gates far apart, and the figure of the size of an ant shuttles in the city gate.

The city of Kurgea is built in the shape of a fan on the mountain, behind it is the Kurkh Mountains more than 3,000 meters high, the first half of the city is flat and mostly residential, there is a huge lake in the center, countless small boats and fishing boats are dotted on it, as if a pale green mirror is inlaid with countless broken diamonds.

The second half of the city is steeper, and the buildings on it are getting taller and taller, mostly made of white rock, with ancient patterns and sculptures, and the lines are rough and magnificent.

Only a handful of people from the village of Siro had ever been to the city of Kurhea, and even Ota was shocked when he saw such a majestic city for the first time.

They could only see from a distance on the hill, but the dizzy expressions on their faces could not be concealed, and Ellie stood in front of Yuna and Avril and chattered non-stop.

Xia Rui was in a good mood at the moment, and his hanging heart finally fell, and he said with a smile:

"I'm happy today, after returning to the city, we will have a big feast, and the three of us brothers will marry Jinlan, let's go, this road seems to be quite close, but at least for an hour. ”

The team moved again, in fact, if the war horse ran at full speed, it would be able to run in more than twenty minutes, but the wagon carrying the goods would not work, fortunately, it was downhill, and the speed of the carriage was much faster.

From the topography point of view, the low-lying terrain of the Kurgea city-state is the junction of the mountains and the plains, and the Kurkh Mountains are only at the middle and low height in the Terran area, and even the city built on the mountain, its area and majesty are also the last among the twenty-three city-states of the Terrans, and they are not ranked at all.

Only these people who have just come out of the village will be shocked by its vastness and majesty, for nobles like Lord Xia Rui, who have seen several city-states, Kurgea City is really nothing, this is also behind the three words of Kurhe, why there is a 'Yacheng'.

In the human race, where there is the word 'Yacheng' behind it, it is either built by the mountain or by the water, and there is always one or two sides that have no city walls because of the terrain, and the area is not very large, and the population ranges from millions.

The closer he got to the city-state, the more majestic Ota's felt majestic, and the young men who felt the novelty looked up at the city, and the soldiers on it walked around in jet-black heavy armor, and their heavy footsteps could be faintly heard.

The team finally arrived at the west gate of the city, and there were only a dozen soldiers guarding the city, and the person leading the team seemed to be very familiar with Lord Xia Rui.

"Brother Xia Rui has returned to the city, didn't he say that he was going to encircle and suppress the orc tribe......?" the captain asked with some confusion after glancing at the long dragon of troops and carriages.

Xia Rui replied with a faint smile: "The loss of personnel is too great, go back to the city to rest for a while." ”

The captain glanced at the guards, who were less than 1,000 people, nodded, and said, "When you left, you also walked through the West Gate, and there were more than 5,000 people, right? ”

Xia Rui was said to be in the sore spot, and his face was not very good-looking.

The captain was also a smart and clever person, and when he saw that Xia Rui was not very happy, he hurriedly stopped the conversation, arranged for a few guards to symbolically inspect a few carriages, and then let them go.

Once inside the city gate, the boys of Outa began to look left and right.

The gate was wide, and it was no problem for five or six carriages to walk side by side, and the road was paved with thick cyan stone slabs, and the road surface was smooth, not to mention the towering black walls, which alone seemed to have taken a lot of manpower.

The horse's hooves made a crisp clatter on the stone slabs, and Ota saw that there were mostly wooden houses on both sides of the road, with few windows but many wooden doors, and few of them were two or three stories high, most of them were low bungalows.

When the team passed by, the sound was very loud, and suddenly many people poured out of the small doors to watch, and when they saw these people coming out, Outa actually felt dizzying, and began to wonder how such a small room could accommodate so many people.

On both sides of the road stood short figures, mostly children of twelve or thirteen years old, unkempt and wrapped in tattered clothes, some with skin exposed under the holes, and some of them were unclothed in such a cold winter.

When the children saw them as if they had seen a savior, they all stretched out their dirty little hands and whispered:

"Give me something to eat, please be kind sir..."

"My mother is dying of hunger, so let's get some food. ”

"Kind young master, give me two clothes, my brother is about to freeze, please, please. ”

“......”

Voices came from all directions, and a low humming sound lingered in my ears for a long time.

When Ota saw hundreds of such yellow-faced and skinny children on both sides of the road, he was stunned. Not only him, but all the people who migrated from Xiluo Village looked at them in disbelief, and the kind-hearted Avril Lavigne had already begun to have red circles in her eyes, and together with Yuna and Ellie, she took out the food she had with her and stuffed it into the hands of these children.

Ota looked at Xia Rui and the instructor and asked loudly, "This is the city of Kurhea that you call full of flowers, and this is the sweet city that never sleeps that those adventurers boast about every day?"

Elle also asked loudly, "Why is this happening? What about the parents of these children? They are all starving to death, and no one cares?"

Xia Rui coughed and said, "There are 10,000 or 20,000 such children, all of whom fled from all over the country, some of them were harassed by orcs in their hometowns, and some of them couldn't survive the winter because they had no food. ”

Xia Rui glanced at the low wooden houses around him, and then said:

"These wooden houses are temporary residences for them to be settled by the city-state, and the expenses are all collected from us noble lords, and as for their rations and clothing, they are arranged by the people of the Consulate, and we can't control too much, and we can't help them at all, these mouths are bottomless. ”

Ota was silent, Ellie and Tetsuo were silent, and the men, women, and children of Shiro Village were silent as they watched more and more beggars gather around.

This is the first scene they saw when they came to Kurgea City, and this is just a microcosm, these teenagers are just residents on both sides of a street, and in the entire Xicheng District, there are countless such children, but Xia Rui doesn't know the exact number.

Ota learned from Xia Rui and the instructor that the city-state had placed all the people who had fled in Xicheng District, not only these children, but also many unemployed vagrants, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled were placed here, and Xicheng District was a veritable slum.

And Aina's next sentence also shocked all the people in Xiluo Village.

"If it weren't for Lord Xia Rui having a place to settle us, I'm afraid that those of us who migrated here would have to live here like them. ”

"It's not as comfortable as living in our village, at least you can eat and drink, and the place you live is not so crowded. ”

"yes, if I had been allowed to live here, I wouldn't have come if I had been killed. ”

"We can't go back to the village, don't forget that we are all the people of Lord Xia Rui, if you don't take us away, that Will won't let us go, and he will definitely be tortured to death by him when the time comes. ”

Just as the voices of the villagers were different, Xia Rui waved his hand, and the sergeant in front shouted loudly, and the team began to march again.

Ota rode behind the group, and Ellie and Tetsuo beside him stared intently at the group of children.

Some of these beggars were a little older, on a par with Otta, but their faces were sallow and thin, and their ribs bulged out one by one under their clothes that were lifted by the wind, which was extremely dazzling, and the people who looked at Ota shook their heads.

Seeing that the convoy was leaving, the boys' pleading voices became louder and louder, and they gathered around the carriage to beg for more than once, and they could not persuade them, and in the confusion, there were many thin arms reaching into the carriage and tearing animal skins outward, one and some two, and for a time, countless thin arms were as many as greedy claws stretched out in hell, and they were dense and terrifying.

"Stop, stop me..."Iron Man's shouts didn't do anything at all.

"This is the spoils of our desperate death, what are you going to do?" Ellie's shout became sharper, but no one cared about her resentment, in the face of hunger and cold, in the face of the desire to survive, her voice did not care at all.

Ota looked at the scene in front of him and didn't move, only feeling that his chest was so dull that he seemed to be out of breath.

It wasn't until the sergeant of the Guards drew his sword and drove away that the men retreated in a panic, but their eager eyes were still fixed on the carriage.

"What else are you looking at? This is all the hard work of the old men to bring back this bit of family money, and you still want to get it for nothing, and dare to reach out and chop off your claws. ”

The sergeants finally came back alive, and they said in their hearts, "Is it easy for us to live? We have worked hard to bring these back, how can we cheapen you bastards, and why don't you drink the northwest wind?"

Ota was silent all the way, he was shocked by the scene just now, he never knew that survival was so difficult for some people, so painful, compared to them, he was much luckier.

Orta pondered all the way, and the freshness of the first sight of the city-state disappeared without a trace.

Suddenly, when the convoy turned past a tall building at the end of the road, a lively and noisy sound suddenly came to his ears, which woke him up.

What catches the eye is a huge square, which is full of merchants, a table or a piece of cloth, on which a few things are placed is a stall, and the crowd of people coming and going is even more crowded and lively, and the sound of bargaining and shouting is mixed together, as if it is going to reach the sky.

The square is surrounded by tall buildings, and the entrance is crowded with people, and the plaques on them are all kinds of trading houses, shops, auction houses, and many taverns and casinos are also scattered among them.

At the door, the warblers and swallows are showing their flowers, and the girls in the green Luo handkerchiefs and silk satin have attracted countless eager eyes to linger on their bodies, and these women are even more happy, scratching their heads, showing off their amorous words, making provocative remarks, and playing in the ring.