I am their hero.

Inadvertently, I saved this small village of only a dozen families. The village chief told me that the gang of bandits had been almost cleaned up by me. Now they don't have to worry about bandits anymore.

I was glad to see their happy faces, but I was a little incredulous when I heard that they were from the Brotherhood.

"They call themselves people of the Brotherhood." The village chief told me again with certainty.

"So have these people been robbing the surrounding area, or have they just been here?"

The village chief said, "It's been a long time. ”

That's when I put my heart down. But the village chief's next words made my mood fall to the bottom again. "The Brotherhood killed the queen in an attempt to overthrow the kingdom, and these guys are in league with them."

I didn't know how to explain it to the village chief, but I wondered how he knew about it. He told me that they lived in this place because they had lived in this land for generations, and then when the sky suddenly became overcast and they never saw the sun again, they wanted to leave here, but later found that the mushrooms and herbs produced here were exchanged for a lot more money in Stormwind than they used to farm.

Later, they decided to settle here and not leave, but they just lacked some sunshine. They had heard about the Brotherhood when they went to Brightwood to do business, and the bandits called themselves the Brotherhood when the village was ransacked again.

After hearing the words of the village chief, the people around me began to talk again, in their eyes, I killed the people of the Brotherhood, and the people of the Brotherhood are bad people, and they should be killed.

"Why didn't they say they were from the Brotherhood when they robbed you before?" I asked.

The village chief looked at me and blinked, not knowing what to say to me.

"I've heard the Brotherhood is all stonemasons." I said, "They have robbed you for so long, were they also stonemasons before?" ”

The people around began to whisper again.

Seeing the village chief's expression change, I said, "The Brotherhood is just a rumor, and I don't know how many misunderstandings there are here, but these bandits who call themselves the Brotherhood really deserve to die." ”

When the village chief heard this, his face immediately burst into laughter, and he definitely understood what I meant.

I asked them how long I had slept and they said they had only slept one night and it was already the next morning. I looked out the window, it was still dark, and I couldn't figure out how they knew the time, they said they got something called a pocket watch from a gnome, but they had to find someone to adjust it every two weeks when I went to Brightwood to do business. And it's not pitch black here, it's just that the sky is more cloudy.

It's only about three days away from Brightwood, and the town of Ridge is not far from their village, but the town is now completely abandoned. Ever since the sky was shrouded in black clouds, the haunted legend of that place has become true, and everyone knows that it is haunted. And after the kingdom fell completely, everyone fled for their lives, and the place was even more deserted.

I asked him what was going on with the Raven Castle, and the chief said that there was no one there, it was deserted, and it was said that the orcs had breached it and killed all the people, and that the place was haunted. And there was a thick fog all the time around, so the legends about that place became more and more evil.

After two days in town, I followed their ox cart to Brightwood. Soon arrived at Luji Town, the walls of Luji Town are overgrown with plants, if you don't look closely, you really think it's a mountain bag.

Only a small part of the city wall had collapsed, but the door of the black hole was like a big mouth, and it felt like something was going to pop out of the dark depths at any moment.

We walked around from the outside of Luji Town, and the village chief urged the car to hurry up, and it was obvious that he was also quite afraid of this place.

He told me about the land before the black clouds shrouded it, and his face was filled with nostalgia for the birds and flowers of the past. I asked him why he didn't leave here and go to a new place, and he repeated what he had told me, that although there wasn't much sunshine here, they were making more money than they were, and they wanted to make enough money to get out of here.

I asked them how much it was. Maybe three or four years, maybe five or six years later, the village chief said, they would leave here and start a new life in the West or Alwin.

Brightwood is right in front of you, but it's been renamed Nighttown.

I've only passed here a few times since returning to the Stormwind Kingdom from the north, and almost always I've accompanied Varian to the south of the Dark Swamp to check on the construction of the Watchtower.

I don't have a good impression of this place at all, it always has been, and the memories of this place only make me feel tangled.

The walls outside the town were still the same, and Varian didn't plan to allocate any more funds to the Duke of Richville, and the fat man was even more reluctant to spend money to maintain his fiefdom when he saw it become like this, but it was a necessary place to go to the Watchtower, and although there were not as many people around the town as before, there were still many people who chose to stay in their homeland.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived in town, but it was already dark and the lights were already about to start.

There were still quite a few people in the town, although not to the point of bustle, but the people on the street did not go home because it was dark, the fire in the square was lit, and the surrounding vendors were shouting and soliciting business as much as possible. The only difference between this and the past is the presence of dwarves and some traveler explorers.

The village chief and I thanked each other and said goodbye, and the village chief was very generous enough to give me ten gold coins as a reward. I laughed.

Perhaps because of the Traveler Explorers, or as a staging post for the military, the quality of the weapons here is significantly better than the ones bought in Mooncreek.

I retrieved the equipment I bought from the bandits, but I didn't hesitate to sell all my equipment to the weapons shop when faced with better equipment here.

Equipped with two crossbows, and ordered a set of leg armor and arm armor from the blacksmith, I drew a picture of the blacksmith of my arm armor and handguards, and the blacksmith looked at it with a frown for a long time, and finally he looked at me and said, "You have to pay more!" ”

I can't afford to buy Thorium now, and there's no way a blacksmith here can get his hands on such an extremely precious ore. I don't have high requirements, and ordinary steel is fine, but it has to be my size.

There must be tens of thousands of people in this town, and it is indeed not easy to find Ellie and her husband from these ten thousand people. So I found the church first. But there was no record of Elle or Liz in the church, and when I wondered if Liz was also a pseudonym, the church people told me that the term was after the war, and that the pre-war roster was gone.

So I found the army again, and after spending some money, I finally found Morgan, who was still serving in the army. But instead of going directly to him, I went to his neighborhood and observed this guy.

When I saw Ellie's no longer youthful face and slightly disheveled hair, I suddenly felt a little ...... Complex.

I don't know whether to feel sorry or happy. It's not that she's no longer young and beautiful, but I'm a little lamented by the ruthlessness of these years. And that selfish joy is entirely because I think of it, if she was still with me, I guess it would be even more sad now.

But as soon as the thought came to me, I suddenly remembered her dead uncle.

I couldn't see her face well until they were back in the house. I hid outside the window and silently looked at the warm family of three in the window. Yes, she has a daughter.

Morgan looked tired, but still cheered up to laugh with his daughter, and Ellie's face was clearly illuminated by the candle on the table. She seems to have lost weight.

Watching the family of three having dinner happily made my heart sour.

Back at the tavern, the noise here is the only life in the town. I sat at the bar and drank alone, I tilted my head to look at everyone in the hall, they were happy, they were laughing, they were singing. There are also people who fall asleep with their heads arched on the table, and there are people who are a little quieter and chatting together.

Everyone is happy, and I want to be happy, but I don't seem to feel it. I feel nothing but a damn sadness, or a sentimental sadness.

I should hate her.

The next morning I followed Morgan to his place of work, where he turned out to be a caretaker for a large family. Although he is still in the army, he still has to do some other work, and it seems that life here is not easy. So why doesn't he go to a better place to find a job or a different living environment? Is there anything good about this bird place?

Seeing that he was on duty so I walked towards his house, the feeling of this behavior is actually not very good, just like cheating, you have to carry someone behind your back, but if he is around, I really can't say something, some things are really hard to do!

His small courtyard is only about 40 square meters, and his clothes are dried in the yard. I walked into the courtyard and stood in front of the door.

Her voice came from inside the door, a familiar voice, calling her daughter to dinner. I reached out to knock on the door, but hesitated.

With a soft breath, I knocked on the door anyway.

After a while, the sound of footsteps came from far and near, and my heart suddenly became worried. I used to have forgotten all the things I had imagined in my mind about what expressions and what to say when we met.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and my familiar voice came to my ears, she had a daughter......

Maybe it's best if I don't bother her.