Walking all the way to the door of the martial arts hall and coming outside, Dior saw a lot of army soldiers in gray military uniforms at a glance. The soldiers were all fully armed, wearing steel helmets, rifles, an ammunition belt diagonally across their chests, and a few long-handled grenades stuck in their waists, which looked like they were going to war, and he could even see some soldiers in the distance at the corner of the street carrying sandbags and starting to build barricades, which looked extremely exaggerated.

Seeing this, Dior was relieved.

This kind of battle is too big, it is not so exaggerated to really deal with the Gray Scale Martial Arts, if the Remy Huntton Company can have this kind of energy, then the thorn barrier has already been eliminated by them, how can there be today.

Dio stood at the door and watched, and some of the soldiers also saw him, but they were not interested in him at all, and they were all busy with the business at hand, and did not come to ask him what he meant.

"What's going on?" asked Sasha, who had followed, whispering.

"I don't know, I'll go over and ask. ”

Dio replied as he looked left and right, and soon saw a very conspicuous flag not far away, with a pattern of red, blue and white vertical stripes on the flag, and a flagship fish flying up on the white part in the middle.

This is the flag of the United Kingdom of Baixos.

Under the national flag, there is a person who is obviously dressed differently from the soldiers around him, and he is directing the soldiers around him, and it is estimated that he is the officer who leads these soldiers.

Having found his target, Dio walked in the direction of the officer.

The soldiers on the road only glanced at the two Dior who passed by them, and did not stop him, allowing him to come to the officer's side.

"Who are you?" Seeing Dio and Sasha approaching, the officer waved his hand to keep the soldiers busy with him, and he turned around and asked,

The officer was young, in his early twenties, dressed in a neat brown non-commissioned officer's uniform, with a silver epaulette on his left shoulder. Because his father was a soldier, he told Dior a lot about the army when he was a child, so he had a certain understanding of Dior, the symbol of this army, and immediately understood that the appearance of this epaulette probably represented the position of company commander.

Dio walked up to the officer and stood still, and asked calmly: "I'm from this martial arts hall, I want to know why you are blocking this place?"

"Military secrets, no comment. The officer replied stiffly.

Dio frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said something else: "Then I can know what we can't do, so as not to have unnecessary conflicts with you without knowing it." ”

The officer obviously accepted Dior's statement, nodded, and explained in a slightly slower tone: "During the blockade, no one here is allowed to leave this blockade area, and they must return to their respective residences before eight o'clock in the evening, and they are not allowed to come out before seven o'clock in the morning, otherwise they will be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of wartime disciplinary violations." ”

The so-called wartime disciplinary provisions deal with the direct imprisonment without trial, and if it is serious, it may even be directly executed.

"How many days is it going to be blocked?" Dior asked.

"No comment. ”

"I don't live here, and since I can't go out during the lockdown, I need to inform my family not to worry, what should I do?

"Tell your family to write a letter to us and we'll get it to the address. If you don't have enough supplies, you can also let us know and we will help you buy them. ”

At this point, the officer's face was already clearly filled with the expression that he would go back and forth if there was no problem. Since Dio had obtained the information he needed, he didn't stay long, and took Sasha back to the martial arts hall to tell the people who were waiting for him what he had seen.

After hearing this news, everyone in the martial arts hall felt very strange, but since they were not coming for the martial arts hall, and the existence of these soldiers prevented the possible follow-up actions against the martial arts hall of Remy Hangton Company, it was also a good thing.

In the same way, everyone's mood also relaxed, and in this way, the atmosphere that had become depressed because of Rosalind improved a little.

Dio saw that Xia Ni handled the affairs in the martial arts hall in an orderly manner, so he completely let go of her, returned to the room by himself, found a pen and paper and wrote a letter to Lilia at home, and said that because of the blockade of the soldiers, he could not come back to attend the Flowing Fire Festival dinner at Anatis's house, and he might not be able to go back for a few days, so he had to stay in the martial arts hall all the time, please don't worry about Yunyun.

Anyway, Dio was still thinking of some reason to hide Lilia, these soldiers came at the right time, and they didn't even need to think about lies, just omit some of the truth.

After writing the letter, Dio went out of the martial arts hall again, and the officer before was no longer there, so he casually found a soldier to give him the letter with the address written on the cover, and the soldier didn't say anything, so he took it, and then handed it to the person in charge of sending it out.

Presumably just before curfew, a soldier knocked on the door of the martial arts hall and brought Lilia's reply to Dio.

said it was a reply, but in fact, it was just a random piece of paper folded in half. Dior opened it and saw that there were three big words on it, "I know", and there was nothing else, and he didn't seem to care if he couldn't go back or not, and he didn't worry about his situation at all, which made him a little depressed.

But that's fine, the farther away he is from his family, the more reassuring he is that they will never be exposed to such things.

......

The temperature was too high to store the body for a long time, so the funeral of Rosalind was held the next day for a short time.

Because of this special period, the people who attended the funeral were also these people from the martial arts hall. Chapman had woken up and was pushed to the funeral in a wheelchair, while Lynch was in a coma and still hadn't woken up, and was the only one of the martial arts hall who didn't know about Rosalind's death.

The funeral took place at nine o'clock in the morning, when the sky was overcast, the air was hot and humid, and it seemed that rain could fall at any moment.

The burial place is on a mound at the back of the martial arts hall, surrounded by green trees, standing on top of which you can overlook the entire martial arts hall, and it is the burial place of important members of the Gray Scale Martial Arts Hall for generations. Dior's brother, who died before he entered the house, is buried here, and there will be another one more here today.

Dior changed into a formal black suit and quietly watched the funeral ceremony.

Because of the multiple layers of bandages all over his body, his clothes were bulging, he looked a little bloated, and he walked like those rickety penguins in the zoo, but no one in the audience would laugh at him, firstly, through that battle, Dio had established his own prestige, and on the other hand, today's funeral made no one here laugh.

Now that this area, including the martial arts hall, is blocked, the nuns of the convent can't be invited, but fortunately, the versatile Xia Ni can actually know the requiem required for the funeral, and sing it well, so the work of the nuns will be done by her.

In the light and ethereal singing of Shani, two strong male disciples put Rosalind's coffin into the pit, and then Dio led the way, and each of them put in a bouquet of white lilies.

At this time, the rain finally fell, and at first it was only a sporadic raindrop, and after a while, it turned into a raindrop the size of a bean, hitting the black umbrellas that had been erected one after another, and constantly making a crackling sound.

Dio stood quietly, his face grim, as if he were a statue.

Now Dio was silent, and the others didn't dare to urge anything, waiting quietly on the side, only Xia Ni's singing continued.

After a long time, Dior finally stepped forward, took the shovel handed by the person next to him, scooped up the first shovel of soil, and gently sprinkled it on the coffin.

After seeing Dior shovel the soil, the others followed suit, and the big shovel covered the coffin with a big shovel.

Dior watched with a deep face as the coffin slowly disappeared under the brown soil, and his mood became more and more calm.

"Let's go. ”

Seeing that the funeral was completed, Dio whispered, and then turned around and walked towards the martial arts hall.

......

Two weeks on, the lockdown continues, and people, including Dior, have become somewhat accustomed to this kind of life, and the pace of life is beginning to return to the way it used to be.

After this period of cultivation, Dio's injuries were considered to have healed, so that he could instruct the other core disciples in the martial arts training field every morning - this was originally the job of Rosalind or Lynch.

When he finished today's instruction, Xia Ni walked up to the side, handed him the towel, and whispered: "I just went outside to see, those barricades are starting to be demolished, maybe the blockade will be lifted soon." ”

Dio's hand holding the towel paused, and a chill flashed in his eyes.

"I see. ”