Chapter 403: When the Whole World Is Accusing You
"Oh, ma'am, whatever you need help with, the Captain and I are honored to be of your service, especially the Captain, who is a hero of the Empire, a model among gentlemen, and you are perfectly free to open up and speak your needs. ”
As he spoke, Rogge walked up to the woman with an amiable smile and gave her a standard breast stroking salute, and the woman hurriedly said gratefully: "Thank you, please come to my house and bring my husband and a few months old child here, I would love to see them, but I can't go back to town." ”
"Of course, ma'am, we're going to do that!" Rogge nodded in approval and said, "Don't worry, we'll bring them all, not just your family, but everyone else's, if you have any family." ”
Seeing this, the other women begged Rog to bring their family or their belongings from home, and Rogge asked the lamp god for a pen and paper, wrote down the addresses of their homes one by one, and then got up and said to Antonio, "Okay, Captain, although I know that you are also willing to help, but you better stay, and I will go with Miss Tully." ”
"We'll be waiting for you here, stay safe. Antonio patted him on the shoulder, and whispered in his ear, "Don't cause trouble, you know?"
"Yes, don't you know after knowing each other for so long?" Rogge smiled like a cunning fox and whispered, "I'm a good boy!"
After saying that, he asked the lantern god to open the dimensional door, and walked through the dimensional passage with Tali to the town, at this time the town was still sparsely populated, and the streets were empty, and the two of them began to search for the nearest address, explain the situation to the family of the rescued woman, or go to their solitary residence to take all the valuable things with them.
When they reached the last two neighboring houses, Rog told Tali to go to the one across the street, and he came to the house of the woman who wanted to see her children and husband, and he walked through the lifeless door, went up the dimly lit staircase to the second floor, looked at the house number, and stopped at the second door.
He knocked lightly on the door, and the little furball standing on his shoulder asked loudly, "Hello, is anyone there?"
Rogge glanced at her with his spare eyes, stretched out his finger and flicked her hard little eagle beak, only to hear a "click" The door opened, and a man with a sad brow peeked out of the crack in the door, and when he saw Rogge, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, as if he was wondering where the immature female voice came from just now.
"Hey, hello sir, it was your wife who brought me here, she just escaped death and was rescued, and now she is ready to leave here, she asked me to take you and your children with you, you better pack up quickly, and we will go." Rogge said as he poked his head into the room.
"What? She was rescued, who saved her?" Hearing Rogge's words, the man's face did not show the expected surprise, but added a trace of horror and uneasiness, he looked at Rogge and the little furball on his shoulder in surprise and said, "Could it be that the witch saved her?"
"Oh, who knows, maybe it's a wizard!" Rogge shrugged his shoulders and leaned on the door frame and smiled, "Anyway, you'd better pack your things and take the kids with me, it's going to be dark if we delay any longer." ”
"No, tell the woman that I won't let her see the child!" The man's face changed suddenly, and he tried to close the door while shouting, and Rogge quickly blocked the door of the house, and asked in surprise, "What are you talking about?"
"No, not anymore!" the man roared hoarsely like a frightened ghost, and tried to close the door with both hands, but Rog's hand was like an iron rod against the door, and he couldn't close it even with all his might.
"You'd better tell me why this is, and I'll have an explanation when I go back. Rogge poked his head to the man, stared at his pale face, and said, "Otherwise, it will not do anyone any good if we spend it like this." ”
"I don't know who you are," the man stared at his stubble face in horror, as if the word evil had been written on his face, so much so that he screamed as if he were emboldened for himself, "but I know that the priest of the Holy Congregation said that the woman was an evil witch, and that I would not allow her to return to this house, nor should she come near my child!"
"Wicked witch, huh?" said Rog and Little Furball tilted their heads forty-five degrees at the same time, and their four pairs of eyes stared straight at the man, "Do you believe what the priest of the Holy Congregation says?"
"Of course, the Holy Congregation represents God, and the priests are supreme oracles, and they can't be wrong, they say that the woman is a witch, then it must be! If you are the ones who help her, then get out of my house, I am a faithful believer, and I will not give in to the devil!"
The man roared hoarsely, but his body trembled with fear, his eyes stared nervously at Rogge, and his mouth kept praying, as if begging for the protection of an angel, and his face was even paler than that of a vampire.
"I really should let the head of the regiment come to see you!" Rogge shrugged his shoulders with a sneer, and said to himself, "He must be very moved, maybe your loyalty will be passed on to His Majesty the Holy Emperor, and he will reward you as a high priest!"
The man looked at him blankly and didn't know what he was talking about, only to hear Rogge suddenly smile and ask, "By the way, have you ever seen what a witch looks like?"
The man hurriedly shook his head, and Rogge said with satisfaction: "Ah, I guess too, it seems that you should see it!"
As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed the small furball on his shoulder and threw it at the man, Lilith turned into a little Lori in the red light, and threw the man to the ground at once.
The man who was knocked down screamed, and was beaten violently by Lilith riding on the neck with two small hands, pinching his ears and hair, hitting his cheeks and pinching his nose, the man panicked and wailed, but Rogge closed the door and walked into the house as if nothing happened, and found the child who was only a few months old in the bedroom.
"Oh, little darling, look at you. Rog picked up the crying child, kissed him on the little brain, and looked around and found nothing to give the child food.
He searched the room for valuable things, wrapped it in an old towel and brought it with him, then went outside the house with the child in his arms and shouted to Lilith, "All right, it's almost enough, don't kill that guy." ”
Little Lori raised her head and saw that the man had become blue and swollen, she pinched the man's neck with both hands and looked down and said to him: "Look clearly, big fool, I am a witch, and your wife is not a witch, unless she has beaten you like this!"
"I don't need to say that I know that her wife must not have done that, otherwise he would not be the way he is. As Rogge walked past the man, Lilith jumped up from the ground and looked into the room, and when she saw an apple on the table, she ran over and grabbed the apple and ran out of the room with Rogge.
When Rogge returned to the street downstairs, Tali was already waiting here, and the two came to the agreed place with the families of the rescued woman, but found that no one was here, Tali looked around with some surprise, and asked uneasily, "What's the matter? Why haven't they come yet?"
"I don't think they're coming. Rogge sighed and said, "It seems that the brainwashing work of the Holy Congregation is still very good. ”
"Brainwashing?" Tali looked at him in amazement, Rog told her what had just happened at the man's house, Tali's eyes widened in disbelief, she said in amazement, "This is ridiculous, don't they even believe their own family?"
"When some mysterious power of justice blinds the world and makes the whole world accuse you of your crimes, it may be difficult for your family to be spared, because that justice will tell them that only it is right, and that those who oppose it are wrong, and it will even make them the vanguard of the accusations and send you to the gallows with their own hands. ”
Rog raised his eyebrows meaningfully at Tali, touched the head of the little Lori who was eating the apple with his hand, and said, "Let's go, little villain, no one will come, but fortunately we can bring these valuable things back as compensation for bringing them back bad news." ”
The two of them returned to the jungle by the river from the dimensional passage with Lilith, who was gnawing on the apple, and Rog asked Tali and Lilith to return the belongings to their owners, and he himself carried the baby to his mother, and handed the child to her, "I'm sorry, I only brought back your child, and your husband has decided to be with the angel." ”
"What?" the woman looked at him in amazement, and Rog squatted down and spread his hands to her, saying, "Yes, he said that he was to be loyal to God and not to give in to the devil, so I had to leave him at home and wait for God to come down and angels to reward him for his loyalty, rest assured, he looked very good, except that his face was a little blue." ”
He took out the belongings he had collected from the woman's house, handed them to the woman, and said, "Believe me, your husband will one day understand how wrong he has made, and if he doesn't understand, it doesn't matter, at least you still have this lovely child, who will always be our hope for the future." ”
The woman suppressed the sorrow in her heart, bowed her head and kissed her son, the hungry little guy got into his mother's arms to fill his hunger, Rogge silently got up and walked away to Antonio, the knight commander bowed his head with a heavy expression, and the words of Rogge and the woman just now were still echoing in his ears.
"I'm sorry, Captain, but maybe you shouldn't have come with me. Rogge lit a cigar and took a deep breath, watched the green smoke rise up, and said meaningfully to Antonio: "I am a bad person, and the things I can present to you are probably not what you want to see, they are not positive, but they are reality." ”
"No, it's the opposite," Antonio shook his head solemnly, "you have taught me a lot about the hidden side of the Holy Order, maybe I can do something to reverse this, I think I am capable of doing so." ”
"Really?" asked Rogge, looking at him uncertainly, and Antonio looked back at him with a determined gaze, "Yes." ”
"I don't mind if you give it a try, I hope you succeed, but until then I'll continue to do things my way until a new era comes. Rogge said as he put his hand gently on Antonio's shoulder.
Before Antonio could answer, a little Lori's exclamation suddenly came from the jungle on the side: "Wow, help, don't come here!"