The snow is melting much faster than you think. After the temperature continued to rise to a certain point, and with sufficient sunlight, the thick snow on the ground, which had been expected to stay for more than half a month, melted away in just half a day.

The melting, icy snow water flows down the terrain and gradually merges into small streams, which have flowed and washed through the mountains for millions of years, forming the existence of valleys.

Even the insignificant flow of water is enough time to shake a huge mountain that seems to be magnificent to man.

Water is nature's carving knife, washing through valleys, basins and plains, shaping the world as we know it today, step by step over a time span that is incomprehensible to humans.

Few people have this ability to recognize, and very few people are willing to admit their insignificance.

To other races that live longer, humans seem to have always been "messy, hurried, and noisy." A year may be just a time for elves to go out for a walk, and it is not uncommon for dwarven blacksmiths to devote themselves to studying something and spend more than half a year in the blink of an eye. It takes three or five years for a dragon to take a nap, and in such a time, the human world can be turned upside down: the destruction of states, the change of regimes, and the mass migration of peoples under the persecution of other peoples.

After a millennia-old civilization could be wiped out overnight, the newcomers who built on the ruins were amazed by the ruins of such a magnificent ruin, and even thought that it could not have been the work of humans, but that it was the work of the Titans.

Hurriedly enclosure of the land as king, haphazardly building a barbaric so-called civilization, a noisy crowd of people together claiming to be a certain people, and then in the blink of an eye, the ashes are gone.

The human society in the eyes of the longevity species is only afraid of being like a child running around in a half-asleep dream of an old man who is dying: a person who is not careful does not know where he has run again.

It's always noisy.,Always arguing and fighting over things that may not seem to matter to adults.。

And then.

Kill or be killed.

The crossbow bolt that hit the forehead accurately with the "——!" knocked down the spear-wielding soldier without much noise, and Henry quickly grabbed the shoulder strap of the corpse's armor with one hand, and the spear with the other, and pulled it into the bushes to hide without attracting the attention of others. This kind of lowest-ranking infantry in the Land of the Moon is pronounced "Asikaro" according to the pronunciation of the local language, and the writing is "Ashigaru". The noun has the meaning of "on foot", which is a clear indication of their way of fighting - but these people are not the conscripted infantry that is common in the world of Rigal, but low-ranking soldiers with a certain status similar to that of knightly squires.

They were responsible for the maintenance of the samurai's equipment, the carrying of armor and weapons, and the logistical support of the samurai - and by extension, where there was ashigaru, there would naturally be samurai.

The situation is a bit tricky.

Although the Sage had considered such a possibility before, he was not sure of it due to his lack of knowledge of the rebels' forces.

"Directly notify the accomplices in front of you to block the road or something. "The one who spoke was Aya. Although she is still a little weak physically, the doctor who has generally recovered is seven or eight years old, looks at the crowd that is still moving in the distance with a slightly pale face. It was through her identification of the family crest on the soldier's armor that she understood that the people in black armor in front of her belonged to the army under the command of a local tyrant on the list.

The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, no matter how high Henry's combat power is and how well he understands all kinds of knowledge, they are still just outsiders, strangers.

Since the rebels used the fishing villages in the north as a gathering place for funds and weapons for the rebellion, it would be better to be conservative and consider the complicity of these marginal nobles whose territory was close to the land.

The geographical advantage meant that the opponent did not have to engage them in a one-on-one chase, and the samurai had guessed this possibility before the sages had not immediately caught up. For now, however, the rebels may be more connected than any of them thought, for the march of hundreds of men at the foot of the hill in front of them will take some time to assemble.

Presumably, on the day when they realized that the weather was affecting and could not ensure that they could be hunted down in time, they summoned their accomplices in front of them through the waterway or the letter bird cooperation node. After that, the local Haoqiang in front of him organized a team to block the road and go into the mountains to search, while the samurai behind him could wait until the snow melted and then organize enough troops to press up, forming a two-sided attack.

Now their advantage is still time. Because they had been rushing against time and had chosen a relatively easy path, the group did not bump into each other headlong after the other party began to search for them, but happened to meet these people in the process of entering the mountain. After disposing of the sentry post located halfway up the mountain, I secretly observed the enemy's strength and personnel composition, which gave me a more reliable intelligence advantage than guessing, and the margin for error in the next step of the plan was greatly improved.

"There are three teams of samurai, a total of 36 people. The rest were all Ashigaru, a group of samurai led 100 people each, the main force of 300 people were spearmen, and there were a few archers and ......." who might have been used as a breakthrough was immediately noticed by the group hiding above—a small force that was also in the array, but whose style of dress was clearly not part of the mainstream of Tsuki Kuni society, and who seemed to be somewhat alienated from the others—Mira first turned her gaze to Lulu, who nodded silently and shook her head again.

"It's not a clan I belong to, and it should be because of persecution that I temporarily cooperated with these people. The mountains are an area where the clansmen excel, and they will be asked to assist in the search, and these people are not stupid. The Yi girl said this and glanced at the missionaries behind her: "As long as they say that they are here to hunt down foreigners, they will be happy." Because if it weren't for what the white-robed people did, the people would have lived peacefully in the mountains. ”

"Uh......" Lulu's blunt words caused the three missionaries to react, with Aegie making an embarrassed noise, while the older two were cheeky and silent.

"Can it be used as a breakthrough?" Mira asked Lulu, but the Yi girl hesitated for a moment, but said, "Try it" without giving the most affirmative answer.

As an ethnic minority living in a primitive hunter-gatherer way, the Yi people are not closely related to each other. There are dialects and cultural nuances between the tribes in different regions, and some tribes are even hostile to other tribes.

In the absence of a unified and powerful regime for common cultural education, the local cultural differences displayed by the Yi people are the posture that Crescent Island would have had.

Even two places that are only a few days apart may have completely opposite cultural customs, and what is admired and forbidden can become diametrically opposed.

The powerful central power of the Moon Country will send emissaries almost every once in a while to strengthen the defense of the power center with an army directly under the central government, and to send cultural envoys to supervise and prevent local lords from having dissenting thoughts due to cultural disconnection.

It is extremely necessary to maintain the mystery and nobility of the royal family, and to retain enough force to crush the local wealthy families. If the Emperor had not been able to make the local tyrants fearful and fearful, and they would not have taken it seriously, the rebellions would have continued like showers in the rainy season.

However, even with the unimaginable centralization of power by the kings of the Rigal world, the glorious 4,000-year history of the Land of the Moon is clearly not as peaceful as outsiders know.

"No appeasement, no forgiveness. The sage's words in the language of the Land of the Moon made Alfonso and Ayato look sideways at him.

This is the "principle" pursued by the descendants of the supreme Great Moon God, and even the slightest rebellion will definitely not put on a friendly posture to the negotiating table.

"Under the light of the moon, there is nowhere to bury the dry bones. Miss Doctor shook her head, but looked at Lulu again: "This can be the starting point." ”

"......." couldn't understand her overly serious Japanese language, and the Yi girl turned her head to look at Mira and Henry.

"If it weren't for the lack of choice, your people wouldn't have cooperated with these rebels. There is no good end to cooperating with these people, because the upper echelons of Waren will not spare anyone who intends to rebel. We just want to explain this to them and give them another option. The sage summed it up to her in simple and clear terms: "Even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance that these rebels will win, do you think they will spare the Yi people as a minority and let you return to a free life in the mountains?"

"No, and people, it's bad. Lulu shook her head decisively, then noticed Aya's somewhat lost expression and said to her again, "You, you speak very strangely, but you are a good person." ”

"Thank you. Miss Doctor nodded with a little cry and laughter.

"Heh, the division of troops is complete. Sure enough. The Luo'an girl, who secretly continued to observe during the conversation of the group, suddenly said with some sarcasm: "The Japanese samurai who are best equipped with horses and horses to walk, just take the wide avenue, knowing that we are walking on a small scale and have a little brain, we will not take that kind of road." ”

"And then the road that is bumpy and difficult to search and may be ambushed is lost to the Yi tribe, this is really the 'correct' division of labor. The girl rolled her eyes, and the sage shrugged, "Isn't it just right for us." ”

As he said this, the group quietly touched the part of the Yi people's defense search.

When a few hundred people get together, it looks like a lot of people, but when they are scattered along the mountain path, there are only a few left. The snow had just melted, and there was still cold snow water left in many low-lying places on the ground, and the group carefully touched the place that was theoretically a place where the people were armed, but the figures that could still be seen on it just now disappeared in an instant.

"Qiang-" The girl pulled out her one-handed knife, and Kaleva stepped sideways in front of Aya. The sage shrugged his shoulders and did not pull out Kramer, but glanced at a bush above the side.

"Don't shoot arrows!" Lulu called out in the language of the people, and then walked out of the crowd, revealing her identity in the sunlight. As they were all still, they could hear some commotion among the people who had been hiding and apparently pointed their bows at them.

"We're here to talk—" "Thorn!" The sound of feet stepping on the water sounded "Boom!", followed by the release of the bowstring and the panicked cry of "Wow!!".

"Huh-" The arrow that was originally aimed at the sage but flew straight towards the Yiren girl standing in the front, and the Yi people hiding inside panicked, but the sage took a step forward unhurriedly, and it was as accurate as if he was holding a stationary object, "Snap!" and grabbed the speeding arrow with a bang.

"O... Oni. From behind the bushes came the voice of a young but somewhat boyish boy who had not yet changed his voice. And before this exclamation, Mira had heard the samurai on horseback who fought with Henry say that she was a little puzzled, it was a word she didn't recognize, but she could roughly guess the meaning.

After all, even in Rigal, there are many people shouting strange words at Henry.

"Thank you. A frightened Lulu glanced at the bow that was close at hand, it would be too embarrassing for someone to be shot to death by someone with a slippery foot.

"You're welcome. The sage shrugged his shoulders and threw his bow back into the bushes above.

The silence of the "......." lasted for a short time.

"Come out. Immediately after the words of a certain male leader, the more than thirty hidden Yi people all walked out.

"It's really tall. The man, who was about forty or fifty years old, looked up at Henry and Caleva and spoke. Their faces were painted in blue—a testament to the Yi people's adulthood—and they were dressed similarly to Lulu, each with a bow in his hand, and some with hunting spears. The group gathered in front of everyone, almost all of them had vigilance in their eyes, but few dared to glare angrily, and many of them were still curious.

"So, to...... What are you talking about?" the leader asked the sage in a slightly stiff Moon Chinese dialect, and he obviously saw straightforwardly that Lulu was not the existence of this team that had the right to speak, but only used it as an opportunity to spread the word because of the identity of the Yi people.

"Rustle. The boy shivered at his wet clothes and slipped down the mountainside, glaring disapprovingly at him, and he sneered and scratched his head and ducked behind the other adults.

Henry took a closer look at the group of people, and when he looked down on the hillside, he could only tell that it was the Yi because of the distance, and when he reached this distance, the group found that there were men, women, and children, and it was obviously a whole tribe.

Or at least the remnants of this tribe.

It was not young and middle-aged laborers who were sent, but even children and women who had to participate in this obviously dangerous and arduous search activity, and even for the Yi people, who were born as hunters and endured hardships, it was obviously a choice that would only be made by exhausting mountains and rivers.

Their speculation is not wrong.

Henry's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he spoke.

"Living or dead, which one do you want to choose?"