Chapter 499: The First Wave
The small Schleiling has become a microcosm of the whole world.
The riot was unstoppable.
The "good people" who were still struggling yesterday have always had expectations in their hearts, hoping that the dawn will finally come.
The nobles and scholars have said that the long night will eventually disperse, and after the longest "six months", they now find that they have been deceived!
"It's over, it's all lies, it's all lies!"
"I mean, those landlords and nobles have all gone to the holy capital, and even their ancestral properties have been sold cheaply, they have news, they are looking for their own way of life."
"We have been left behind, and only we will be destroyed with this world."
"Why is it not dawn yet, am I not religious enough? I sacrifice my children and my wife to you, and give us the dawn again! ”
It's so unfair, it's so unfair, we also have the right to live. At the very least, tell us what's going on. ”
"Weren't there some shepherds before? They said that the end was coming and the sun would not shine, and as a result, they were taken as liars by everyone and driven away by the lords. I regret that I have thrown stones at them. ”
When the long night comes, most people can wait patiently at first, but when the night refuses to fade, everyone gradually turns from hope to despair again.
Smash and rob? Here it comes.
Burning, killing, looting? Also coming.
Crazy sacrifices and hysterical suicide? I was not absent either.
This time the desperation spread so quickly that everyone in the know was dumbfounded.
Among them, are there any cultists and doomsday activists involved? There must be, and there are a lot of them.
Doomsday theorists and cultists are actually active all the time, and all kinds of doomsday preachers are coming one after another, and the cultists need panic and despair to spread their own teachings, to expand their congregation, and finally make a profit. Among them, the most ferocious is the quasi-gods who are only one step away.
At this time, they even had a huge advantage that the true gods did not have, and they took the opportunity to establish the earthly god kingdom, and they directly dug up a large area of surface land on the Silent Mountain Range, just like the newborn sun god, and took away their hometown and their people.
In places that Lu Ping'an and others can't reach, wars and strife have long been white-hot, and the holy capital, which is the center, has at least three divine battles a day, and rule-level powerhouses are thrown into the battlefield to compete for the opportunity and resources to become gods.
Today's holy capital has long become a large-scale battlefield of death fighting, and I don't know how many refugees flee every day. But at the same time, more refugees are fleeing into it.
Chaos, accompanied by the second flight of the sun, spread inexorably throughout the world.
In some places, before they could react, they were hanged by the mob on top of their castles.
What about their knights and guards? Oh, the ones who take the lead are those original guardians, who can guarantee that their sanity is still online? Who can guarantee their loyalty in the face of desperation?
Contrary to what most lords think, the knights closest to them know more or less about some of the "secrets", and when the secrets become reality, they are the ones who collapse the fastest.
In just two days, Schleiling received countless letters for help and knights asking for help. Just now, when it just started, four of the seven lords around him had already been hanged.
When the people, knights, and powerful people below fall into despair, the first thing they do is to find someone to take charge.
"What is the state of the Knights?"
"The mood is very stable, and the trick of taking over all the knights' families before is the right one."
Hearing this, Lu Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief.
In the midst of the chaos, Schleiling is outstanding.
There is no other reason, just because Lu Ping'an and his party are here, don't misunderstand, they didn't do anything.
In the other realms, there are also cunning lords and nobles, and some of them have even communicated with their own knights. But language alone won't solve anything.
When the expected desperate situation really comes, when some lords still have one or two tickets to leave, will the knights who know honestly help them suppress the desperate people first, and then obediently wait for death?
Perhaps, they will try to snatch the tickets first, and if they can't, at least let everyone die together!
The end is coming much sooner than expected."
The prophesied seven plagues, the third plague has not yet begun, just the re-ignition of the sun and the extinguishing of it again, which has completely plunged many regions into chaos and destruction.
"Hehe, there are four more that have survived, more than I expected."
The old lord was eating fruit and was in the mood to laugh.
He does have the capital of pride, and in this frontier territory, Schleiling is simply outstanding.
Above the square, there were more than two dozen bloody fresh heads, most of them instigators and careerists behind the scenes, and on the walls of the other few hung at least hundreds, some rioters, some original lords and merchants.
In Schleiling, the knights were on duty in the square, the priests of the Holy Fire were distributing porridge in the church, and the market was still functioning, as if nothing had happened except for the initial chaos.
Cause? It's actually very simple, it's just that the road is safe. The lord succeeded in buying the Knights.
Schlei's command is not large, there is only a knight order of more than 100 people as the core armed force, but it is almost all extraordinary or alternate transcendental, and its strength is far beyond that of ordinary mortals.
In the border area, security depends on local militias, mercenaries, and a very small number of territorial knights. Generally speaking, it is good to have three or five extraordinary combat power in a village, and the main force is always the mortals of the half-peasant and half-militia, who basically have no opportunity to train off-duty, and their combat power can be ignored in front of professionals and transcendentals.
How many mortals can a Seal Knight fight? I'm afraid that as long as he is given time, thousands can be killed by himself.
In this era, as long as the lord grasps the knights under his command, his position is actually very stable, and as long as the king has the support of the lords, he also indirectly controls most of the extraordinary power, and the country is naturally stable.
When the riot broke out, Lu Ping'an and his entourage not only did nothing, but even asked the groups to leave the crowd Among the local people in the riot, outsiders, strangers, and foreigners were simply the best targets to vent.
He didn't even do it, it was only the local forces in the realm that suppressed the desperate, the knights who had been bought.
The knights just did the work assigned by the lord, found the lurkers, the instigators, and then got rid of them, and then hoisted a few people who took the lead in smashing and looting, and everything was stabilized.
Then, the lord and the local Holy Fire Church opened the granary, which was already small, and began to distribute food, and everything naturally calmed down.
"Those who master force in troubled times are equal to having everything."
That's the truth, simple and crude, but extremely effective.
Lu Ping'an didn't do anything, he even asked other outsiders not to suppress the riot, but because of their existence, the lord had the bargaining chips to buy the knights, so until the last moment, the knights were still emotionally stable, and their devotion to their duties at least seemed to be stable.
"Outsider Lu Ping'an has a lot of tickets in his hands."
The news had already spread within the Order, and the two captains and the participants in the Battle of the Forest had personally visited the courtyard, so it was convincing enough.
"Don't care about the knights' behavior, don't even watch if you don't want to have nightmares."
Even though Lu Ping'an said so, the explorers who came back still suffered a heavy blow to their hearts.
The small urban area of Schleiling was stabilized by the knights, but the border villages and towns were completely in a state of decay and chaos. It is said that more than a dozen different kinds of burning tables were seen at the stake where the living people were sacrificed.
The Knights sent out the Rangers, who said words they didn't believe, and after a circle, the situation improved slightly.
"This is where the social order collapses. Precursor? ”
Even at this moment, Lu Ping'an still didn't feel that the social order of Shi Lailing was still completely collapsed.
But no one is confident, how long can this order last? Ten days? Half a month? Or.
"We're going to have to think about the next step in two months at most."