Er has worked with many people, but none of them are particularly ideal. 【Starter】Ahmed talks and spreads superstitions all day long, he has no opinion, if he wants to do things, there is no problem, but it is still a bit difficult to expect him to cooperate tacitly. Palanti is a wild horse that has escaped the reins, and although it is useful, she must always hold on to the reins, otherwise the child will be lost in the blink of an eye.

Working with Lolana is a very easy and enjoyable job, because the eldest lady will be very considerate to pave the way forward. As long as you don't mind her talking too much, the rest of the things are very simple, and you don't even need to use your brain at all, you just need to follow the instructions of the eldest lady step by step to solve the problem.

However, El still has some machismo, and he always feels that this is not a long-term solution. Girls should dress up beautifully and pretend to be stupid and cute, right, and the man dares to ask for it after his mind is so complicated all day long that he hates it? Of course, he will never admit it, this is a resentment after being suppressed by IQ for a long time.

Cooperating with Tiana is a different feeling, she and El are the same kind of people in their bones, so there will naturally be a tacit understanding. Another reason is that when she was not disfigured, she was indeed a soft girl with a national color and fragrance, which was completely in line with the image of El's dream lover, which made him still remember it.

Of course, the most important reason is that with this girl's black history and current strength, she doesn't need to bother to take care of it herself. In fact, Eldu felt that it would be a waste of resources for two people to come together for such a trivial matter as reconnaissance and intelligence, and he was more like a superfluous existence than Tiana.

But since they all came out, naturally they couldn't ask people to go back, so they should take their girls out for a night tour. With such a laid-back mentality, El and Lolana walked into the refugee gathering area outside the Sword Castle.

With Tiana's optical magic creating illusion cover, El was not worried about being discovered, and there was no obvious main entrance and guards in the gathering area in front of him, so the two of them walked in in a grand manner. The oncoming smell made Tiana subconsciously cover her mouth and nose, and when she looked up, there were tents built crookedly everywhere she could see...... Or it could be said that the shack is more precise.

Tiana's decision to divert to the brown earth hills was a wise move, the exiles were protected by an army and were not afraid of bandits, and outside of that wasteland, under the deliberate push of some behind-the-scenes masterminds, all the northern frontiers of the Oakland Kingdom fell, except for Count Kemal, who is still holding on to this day, almost all the provinces became epidemic areas, and the plague infected more than 800,000 people. Based on the slow pace of rescue within the kingdom, these infected people can basically be said to have been put on the death list.

The inaction of the upper echelons of the royal family has forced people to flee their homeland for survival, and according to currently inaccurate information, more than 100,000 refugees have fled the affected areas of the north in the past month, and among these refugees there are also hidden patients with contagious abilities or evil curses. If these refugees are left unchecked, it is foreseeable that the country will soon fall into the clutches of death.

The number of refugees gathered here has reached 30,000, and the earliest has been here since 18 days ago. Although the Sword Fort is surrounded by mountains on both sides, it is not a closed pass, and there are north-south roads outside the city. But for unknown reasons, these refugees never left.

Before this, El had received a theory from Baron Farah that the southern territory of the kingdom could be reached by crossing Longwei Mountain south from the Sword Castle, but as far as he knew, the royal family seemed to have reached a consensus with the southern nobles, and placed heavy guards at the junction of all the northern and southern regions, and no refugees were allowed to go south. This decision seems to be intended to abandon the unmanageable severely ill areas at the expense of the entire North and make every effort to protect the southern territories from being affected.

Intellectually speaking, it can't be said that this kind of decision is wrong, but judging from past experience, the Oakland royal family always has the image of in El in his heart. Obviously, the disagreement with the southern aristocracy is known to the world, and he has to persevere in cutting his wings.

The White Lion family, as a staunch member of the royal faction, was repeatedly trapped for trumped-up charges, until the entire Istalon was finally trapped. The Sword Castle Beifeng Family, which also belongs to the royal faction, hid the talented eldest lady from the secret, and it is very likely that he has seen the lessons of the White Lion Family.

As for now, the dignified royal family does not want to save the situation, but instead breaks the jar and abandons all the northern territories, abandons the important military towns in the north, including Isttalon, and instead clings to the wings of the southern aristocracy to survive and steal their lives, and no one who sees them like dead dogs will probably have the slightest hope for the future of this country.

From the objective point of view, the refugees gathered here are forced to a situation where they cannot advance or retreat, and they have no way out except to guard the only city within a radius of 100 miles in front of them. Most of these refugees were ordinary civilians, unlike the Istalans, who were all soldiers and knew how to obey orders and follow order. And no matter how powerful the Masonry Brotherhood is hidden behind the scenes, it is only a civilian organization after all, and it can't be banned like the regular army, so it is conceivable what this settlement will become.

With the hunter's keen sense of smell, El could tell that the stench was coming from a pile of, urine and feces as soon as he entered, which was somewhat unexpected to him. When the plague broke out in Queensland City, he had also seen that kind of purgatory on earth, and the refugee settlement in front of him was much cleaner than he had imagined.

Ordinary people certainly don't associate the filthy and smelly shack piles in front of them with the word "clean", but excluding the untreatable excrement, El doesn't smell the smell of corpses, which means that there are no corpses nearby...... For the settlement in front of you, this is a bit too incredible.

Taken on the flip side, this at least confirms some of Lorana's inferences that these refugees were not affected by the plague and were not short of food...... If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, if someone else had said this to himself, El would have thought he was talking in his sleep.

"It's impossible that there are no hidden infected, but they have been here for so long, even if there is a hidden source of infection, it should have broken out at this time......" Tiana's focus was slightly different, as the enemy of the Cursed Sect, what she cared about and understood most was always the plague itself. In the eyes of the magician girl, this plague is the source of all disasters, so she is extremely sensitive to all relevant information.

Even the door panels of the shacks built haphazardly are luxuriant, and from the outside, you can see a family of three huddled in the corner, sleeping groggily in their clothes. In late summer and early autumn, the weather turned cooler, and now the evening weather is already a little cold for the children, but they obviously have no other warm clothing. Looking at their skinny appearance, you can see that there is no hope for food here, at most to the extent that people will not die of hunger.

Tiana crouched down, stretched out her fingers and wiped it in the empty rice bowl, picked it up and twisted it gently, and put it in the moonlight to carefully discern it.

"This is corn porridge, and this yellow corn is a crop in the north. Tiana stood up, with a worried face, and said to herself: "The food consumed by 30,000 people every day is not a small number no matter how much you save, this yellow corn is not the crop of Sword Castle, where did they get the food?"

"The yield of yellow corn is very low, isn't it?" El saw the food scraps on Tiana's fingers, and couldn't help but ask, compared to wheat, although the yield of yellow corn is low, but the cold tolerance is very good, so it is more common in the farmland in the north, even Eyre, who grew up in the mountains, is also familiar with this, because this thing has tenacious vitality and does not have high requirements for the land and climate, even in the mountains, it can be cultivated, and it can be said to be one of the main foods of ordinary families in the north.

But then again, it's not all good, maybe because it's easy to grow, it doesn't taste as good as a regular crop, so it's not on the table, and only the poor will think of it as a staple food.

"Even if last year's year wasn't good, a manor like Baron Farrah wouldn't hoard yellow corn because it wouldn't be worth it. Tiana took out her handkerchief and wiped her fingers, her eyes flickered for a moment, and she said with some uncertainty: "Is this year's harvest?" I am not very familiar with the growing cycle of crops, but I have heard that yellow corn does seem to ripen faster than wheat. But...... Who can have the leisure to harvest grain at this time?"

"It can't be the people of the Cursed Sect, I'm afraid they are the only living people in the epidemic area in the north now. El pursed his lips and said half-jokingly. But halfway through his words, he saw Tiana's face change drastically, and his heart couldn't help jumping, and he couldn't help but say, "I'm kidding, those neurotics don't hurry up to please their masters, how can they have the leisure to harvest the crops?"

"It's not impossible...... "Tiana didn't take El's words as a joke, she thought about it seriously and said, "I thought it strange from the beginning, with the usual style of the Curse Sect, it was impossible to ignore such a large group of refugees. But until now I haven't found any traces of their dirt here, it's incredible. But if you think about it from another perspective, if the Masonry Brotherhood had reached a compromise with the Cursed Sect, these problems are now easy to explain. ”

"Please, don't, I've had enough of these bastards. El sighed and said with a bitter face. (Go read OM) (Jiangsu.com)