Bai Chuan stood up abruptly and waved his hand: "Everyone, follow me!" Before her subordinates could catch up, she had already rushed forward and entered the circle of half-orcs.

"What the hell is going on?" she asked when she saw Roger's pale and dumbfounded face.

Roger was so surprised that Roger couldn't speak, she just pointed to the open carriage door......

Pulling the handle of the carriage, a rickety figure poked its head out of the door, and then its entire body came out of it. He was skeletal, his face was pale from excessive blood loss, he wore no hat, his hair was long and loose over his shoulders, he had a long black beard on his chin and the corners of his mouth, and his shoulders were covered with blood-stained strips of cloth, which had become dirty and smelled unpleasant. The clothes on his body were dirty and tattered, scraped into strips, like a few pieces of tattered cloth casually draped over him. Through the hole in his trousers, his knees were bruised and bruised, and the bloody soles of his feet peeked out from the cracks of his tattered leather boots, and the wounds were still bleeding, leaving a hint of red on the dirt of the road.

A few orcs next to him grabbed him as he shook his body and gently picked him up. He staggered on the dirt floor and stood firm on the rails of the carriage. Everyone can see that this man is very weak now.

Suddenly from the dark carriage to the noon sun, he couldn't get used to it, his body shook a little, he opened his eyes with one hand, looked around, and smiled when he saw the crowd gathered around.

Shirakawa gasped, took a step back, and said in surprise: "Zichuan Xiu!" She couldn't connect the person in front of her with her uninhibited handsome boss before, and she didn't recognize him until he smiled—Zichuan Xiu's smile had an indescribable taste: a little embarrassed, a little self-deprecating, but with that kind of fresh and sunny optimism, very special.

The soldiers of the Xiuzi battalion approached from everywhere and recognized that the person in front of them was their old boss, they were shocked, looked at him in amazement, and whispered: "Is that Lord Xiu?"

"It's him, it's really him!"

"He seems to be wounded. ”

Shirakawa was a little hesitant, not knowing what to call him. She hesitated and said, "My lord......" immediately regretted it again: he was no longer his commander, he had been deprived of all military positions and expelled from the Zichuan family, and he should call him by his first name. - No, even Zichuan Xiu shouldn't be called, just call him Lin He, but for some reason, it slipped to his lips, and the one that came out was the title: "My lord, you, are you injured?" There was a hint of concern in his voice that couldn't be concealed.

Zichuan Xiu smiled and said, "It's not very strict." His clear smile seemed to have penetrated all of Shirakawa's mental activity. She immediately regretted it: did she seem a little stupid to care about a traitor?

The old orc Deren on the side played a round and said: "We all have a lot to talk about, let's go to that forest and sit down first, Guangxiu's body is still very weak, and it is not good to stand like this all the time." ”

Everyone agreed. Roger whispered to the officers above the captain level in the unit. Bai Chuan waved his hand and called the herald: "You immediately run back to the base camp and call Chief Mingyu, who is resting today, over." Tell him to come over quickly, we have something very important on our side. The herald took the order.

With the support of the orcs, Shikawa Xiu came to a clearing in the middle of the forest. He looked overhead, smiled, and said, "It's here, it's cool." "First sit down cross-legged with your back against a big tree.

Roger, Shirakawa, and the officers of the Xiuzi battalion also sat down silently, forming a semicircle around him. Bai panted and looked at Zichuan Xiu: Gently sighed: But I haven't seen each other for two months, how much he has changed! Not only has his appearance changed, but his temperament has also changed a lot, compared to the cynicism of the past, he is now. The appearance is weak and dirty, but the movements are very calm, the temperament is tranquil, and the eyes are clear. The whole person was like a pool of bottomless water, calm but unfathomable, which gave Shirakawa a sense of peace and tranquility, and she recalled that she had felt the same temperament in the former Far East commander Ge Yingxing.

What kind of suffering experiences can cause such a change?

She felt that something was wrong, and suddenly realized that this was not the same as when the meeting was held before? It seems that subconsciously, everyone's respect for him has not changed because of the change of identity. After a while, Ming Yu and a few of his subordinates hurried over, and when he saw Zi Chuanxiu, he was also stunned.

For a while, everyone had a lot of questions in their hearts, but they didn't know where to start. In fact, if you think about it carefully, everyone has only been separated for more than two months, but the strange encounter is already like a world away.

In the end, it was Roger who spoke first: "My lord, what's going on? They said that you have taken refuge in the demons. ”

Zichuan Xiuqi said: "Who said that?" During the escape journey, Duo Rì did not have contact with the outside world, and he did not know anything about the demon clan's schemes.

"It was Commander Lin Bing of Valen City who said it, and he also said that His Excellency the Chief Commander has given you an order to kill, and ordered all Zichuan troops to kill you when they see you. ”

Shikawa Xiu smiled and said, "It's a misunderstanding, I'm not treasonous." - But it doesn't matter, as long as I go back, there is always a way to explain it. ”

He thought that this must be some rumor that Dìdū had heard. But it doesn't matter, as long as you return to dìdū yourself, the rumors will be self-defeating. In addition, the head of the Supervision Office, Di Lin, is his brother, and with his help, this matter is not difficult to solve.

De Lun, who had been listening to the sidelines, coughed dryly: "Guangmingxiu, there is something we haven't dared to tell you, about three weeks ago, the Demon Clan Base Camp issued an official announcement, announcing that you will be the Grand Governor of the Far East. ”

Ming Yu also said: "There are also people who say that you are going back to the family to lurk, preparing to help the demon clan to respond internally, and preparing to cooperate with the inside and outside to take down Valen......" Seeing that Zi Chuanxiu's pale face had turned iron-blue, he didn't dare to say anything further.

Shikawa Shu closed his eyes in pain. He didn't expect that the revenge of the demons was so vicious, they not only wanted to destroy their own **, but also completely destroyed their soul and reputation. His back road has been completely cut off, and now it has become that the demon clan wants to chase and kill him, and the Zichuan family also wants to hunt and kill him. Although the world is big, there is no place for him.

This plan is not so vicious, who came up with it? Crown Prince Caton, Yun Qianxue, or the mysterious military advisor Heisha? Or the Demon God Emperor himself. Through the contact of Guò Duorì, Zichuan Xiu understands that although the demons can fight habitually, their generals are used to coming and going, and they are not good at scheming. can come up with such a vicious scheme, and I can't think of a few people at the top.

"My lord, my lord, are you alright?" Shikawa woke up from his contemplation and saw Shirakawa's concerned eyes.

His mind moved: even in such a situation of crowd money, they are still willing to call themselves "adults", which is already rare. He also understood that the reason why Roger and the others couldn't go home and fell to the point of being robbers must have been implicated by themselves.

He sighed and asked, "What do you think, do you believe that I surrendered to the demons?"

Several officers looked at each other, a little embarrassed, and finally Shirakawa replied: "We don't believe it, but everyone says so......"

She was embarrassed to continue, and asked, "What the hell is going on?"

Zi Chuanxiu nodded: "I killed the rebel leader Pingjing Marquis - that is, the traitor Lei Hong of the human race. ”

"What?" exclaimed several voices at the same time.

Zi Chuanxiu nodded affirmatively and told the experience of the past few months, but when it came to the bloody scene at the dinner party, he just said lightly: "After killing Lei Hong, I fought with their masters a few times and was injured a little. I kidnapped the princess Cardan of the demon clan, and they didn't dare to stop me, so they let me out. ”

Everyone listened attentively, nervous and inexplicable, and they all knew that Zi Chuanxiu was just speaking lightly, and the actual process must be extremely thrilling. Thinking that at that time, the demon masters were gathered, and tens of thousands of jīng Rui troops were on the side, and they could kill Lei Hong and kidnap the demon princess on that occasion, which was dangerous and difficult, and it was naturally extraordinary.

This is the first time that even orcs have heard of this story. Delen understood a little: "No wonder His Majesty the Demon God Emperor wants to personally issue a wanted warrant to arrest you......"

He rummaged through his animal skin and found a piece of parchment that was still very new, and it was written in demon script: "Catch this person, whether you live or die, and immediately seal the marquis." Attached below is a portrait of Hideshi Shikawa. The gold trim and bright red imperial seal inlaid on the edge of the parchment confirm that this is indeed an order issued by the Demon Emperor himself.

"When we were still in the army, we were sent a lot of these wanted notices and portraits. ”

Delun smiled bitterly: "Everyone said that they wanted to alarm the Demon Emperor to personally issue imperial approval to arrest him, I don't know what earth-shattering things this person did? At that time, we also wondered, why did we arrest people, but they didn't tell us our names? It turns out that they still have this consideration, if the name is announced to the public, it will not be possible to frame Guangxiu." ”

Delenn handed the wanted order to Roger, and the officers of the Xiuzi battalion circulated the parchment, and one by one let out a sigh of exclamation, and there was a lot of discussion: "So that's the case."

"It seems that they deliberately wronged us. ”

"The demons are really vicious. ”

Ming Yu gently pulled the corners of Bai Chuan and Roger's clothes, and the two of them followed away willingly. The three banners with troops were hiding behind a large tree to discuss countermeasures.

Roger asked, "What's wrong?"

Ming Yu said quickly: "Do you believe his words? A person went into the demon camp, killed Lei Hong, and then patted his ass and came out?"

"Ah, why don't you believe it?"

"I mean, there's no proof of what he said! He said that he killed Lei Hong, this is something that can't be proved at all, can we still run to ask the Demon God Emperor?"

Roger: "But Delenn said that the Demon God Emperor wanted him, which proves that he is innocent......"

"First, Delun is a rebel, and his words can't be used as evidence; second, he took out that order, saying that it was the imperial decree of the Demon God Emperor, and who of us knows if it's true or not? Third, except for Zichuan Xiu, none of us can read the words of the demon clan, and what do we want to say is not just based on their own group? And fourth: if he is really a demon Jiān who wants to infiltrate our Zichuan family, then it is not easy to prepare such a small prop?"

Bai Chuan said impatiently: "Ming Yu, just order what you want to say." ”

Ming Yu was a little difficult to say: "I mean, he didn't have any proof, maybe he was lying to us." ”

There was an awkward silence.

After a long time, Shirakawa said loudly: "I don't think this is like a fake. He was so badly wounded, so weak, that he couldn't disguise it at that time. What's more, he couldn't have expected to run into us today, how could he have prepared props in advance to deceive us?"

Ming Yu frowned: "Bai Chuan, don't trust people too lightly." ”

Shirakawa said softly: "I don't trust people casually, it's just that I believe in adults." ”

Shirakawa seemed to be convincing Ming Yu, more like convincing himself. It is not out of rational analysis, she is purely based on the feeling and intuition of the female xìng, she believes that Zichuan Xiu is innocent, believes in the clear and bright eyes, and believes in the sunny and hearty smile.

Roger also spoke: "I also think that adults are not that kind of person, I believe in him." ”

Seeing that the two companions said this, Ming Yu was silent for a long time, and he suddenly smiled dumbly: "As a staff officer of the legion, I think of the worst possible thing to help the commander refer to when making decisions, and remind you that it is my duty and task."

Now, I've done my duty. -- Actually, personally, I believe in him. ”

"It's just, how should we treat him well now?" Ming Yu stopped talking, everyone understood what he was embarrassed to say, after all, he was a traitor who was arrested by the family with a bounty.

Roger wanted to say something, but stopped, and finally said, "Shirakawa, you have a good idea, I'll listen to you." ”

Shirakawa secretly sighed, in fact, everyone has the same idea, but no one is embarrassed to say it, and they all want others to say it.

She shook her head, "I can't come up with any good ideas." There are just a few thoughts: First, I always believe that adults are innocent. ”

Roger and Ming Yu www.biquge.info a little bit of fun.

Bai Chuan couldn't help laughing: "Second, everyone elected me to be the leader, but I think that my talent and courage are limited, and I really can't be a good family, how to go ahead, I don't have a ...... in my heart at all."

Ming Yu asked tentatively, "You mean you want to give him back the position?"

"Actually, this position was originally his, but when he was away, I was just temporarily acting as a deputy. Now that he's back, it's time for me to abdicate - and you know what I'm doing. ”

Shirakawa was telling the truth, she understood that individuals have talents in all aspects, and although she is called a "capable Shirakawa", her actual strengths are to accept and carry out orders, and if someone gives her an order, she can often complete it quickly and clearly. However, if we want to take charge of the whole situation -- especially in this environment full of crises -- we will not be able to command the whole army in terms of experience, strength, prestige, and so on.

Roger nodded in agreement: "That's right, I also think that I used to live a more down-to-earth life when I was led by adults." Where is it like now, I can't eat enough three meals a day, I don't know what to do tomorrow, and my heart is sad and uncertain. ”

Bai Chuan asked Ming Yu: "What do you see? If you don't want to, we won't force it." ”

Ming Yu reluctantly said, "Originally, I didn't want to, but since you two said so, what can I do? ”

Bai Chuan secretly scolded: "Damn slippery head, this guy obviously thinks the same as himself in his heart, but he is afraid that in the future, the Zichuan family will investigate why he let a traitor be the leader, so he deliberately pretended to be very reluctant, so as to shirk responsibility: What can I do, Roger and Bai Chuan agreed, and it is useless for me to oppose it alone......"

"So we say, that's it?"

"Yes, that's it"

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According to the official history, at the end of April of the 780th year of the imperial calendar, with the help of the demon princess Cardan and the half-orcs of Bulu Village in Wag Province, the future King of Light ended his painful escape from being chased by the demons. Outside of the Dura Forest, he meets the old ministry of the former Dura Forest, and historians are often vague about what these future Founding Fathers were doing in the Dura Forest at that time. But according to the memoirs of His Excellency Commander Shirakawa, an important minister of the empire, "Rìzi by the Adult's Side", it says:

"Roger led the legal propaganda on the Far Eastern Highway on the outskirts of the forest, mainly preaching the "National Road Law" and the "National Voluntary Tree Planting Law", and his preaching usually began like this: I drove this road, and I planted this tree!"

They pieced together a few wooden planks to make a small boat to run a water transportation business at the nearby Blue River Ferry, with a sign that read: "Free river crossing." "When the boat arrived at the river, the commander of Ming Yu - yes, the guy who was now the commander of the staff and looked like a dog, and he now dared to say that he was ashamed to proclaim: "I am the first to support His Royal Highness the King of Light with a clear banner!"

-- As for him, he offered a free set meal to the passengers and asked, "Would you rather eat pandao noodles or wonton noodles?"

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As for Commander Shirakawa, who was loved by the people for his fairness and strictness and was known as the "uncrowned prime minister," what did he do at that time? The memoirs do not mention it, but there is one thing that is very intriguing: every time the King of Light asks Commander Shirakawa to borrow money, once he refuses, he will mutter, as if he is reciting some incantation: "April 780...... Dura Forest Cross Slope ...... A branch of black shop...... Human Meat Bun ......"

"How much do you want to borrow?" Commander Shirakawa had already taken out his wallet.

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