Shortly after the Iron Army departed, with the faint sound of "humming" engines, Lucius drove Hopkin and Augustine back to the town engulfed in flames.

Looking at the raging fire in front of him, although the residents of the town had moved, but seeing that the town he grew up in was burned down like this, Hopkin still couldn't help but feel a little sad, don't look over his head and couldn't bear to look at it, lying in Lucius's arms and sobbing quietly.

With a solemn expression, Augustine sat on Lucius's shoulder and asked in a low voice, "How do you know that those guys will attack here first?"

Lucius patted Hopkin in his arms lightly and replied to Augustine in a low voice: "Judging from the information you have collected, you still remember the information in the past half a month, which shows that the riots in various places are becoming more and more ferocious, but those mining companies still have not come forward to stop it, don't you think it's strange?"

"It's very strange, but what does it have to do with that group of iron warriors just now? Those guys don't look like robots, they look more like a group of old antiques from the peak of the magical civilization of the Western Continent. ”

Lucius nodded and said, "Yes, those guys are indeed antiques, and their outfits are the costumes of the most famous Iron Knights in the Western Continent during the heyday of magical civilization, but who do you think they would have sent? No, I don't think they were sent by the mining companies, but the Avengers." ”

After a pause, Lucius said with a complicated expression: "Or, rather, a group of fighters sent out by some mining companies after cooperating with the Avengers. ”

Augustine couldn't help but be a little surprised: "You mean that the Avengers have some kind of cooperation agreement with the mining companies, so what are they here for? What is the purpose of arresting Hopkin?"

Lucius was silent for a moment, looked down at Hopkin in his arms, and said, "They need to catch Hopkin now, and then use Hopkin's identity as a bargaining chip for their next campaign on the plains, so that their war can be justified, at least nominally for the Shamrock family." ”

"Actually. The riots launched by the Avengers were not stopped by the mining companies, which I expected, because the laissez-faire of the mechanical castle alone could not allow the Avengers to survive for so long, they needed supplies and weapons, where did these come from? ”

When Ogufoddin heard this, he was still a little puzzled and asked, "But don't those mining companies rely on mechanical castles, and why do they secretly join forces with the Avengers?"

"This one is simple, because the mining company wants to get rid of the control of the mechanical castle. Every living being has ambitions, and it can be said that ambition and desire are the most primitive driving forces, and those mining companies have a lot of resources and money in their hands, so they naturally don't want to be controlled by the will of the mechanical castle all the time. ”

Ogufoddin shook his head and said, "It seems that the situation is really chaotic, no wonder Morey's father doesn't let him continue to follow you, his father probably also saw this, and is worried that Morey will not be able to deal with it." ”

Lucius smiled when he heard this: "Hehe, in fact, Morey's father didn't see such a long term. He just did not want Morey to take risks out of his father's instinctive protection of his son. ”

At this moment, Hopkin stopped crying, looked up at Lucius and asked, "Brother." So where are we going now? Will you protect me? Will you help me rebuild the town in the future? I, I want the town to be rebuilt, I don't want the town to disappear because of me. ”

Lucius reached out and stroked Hopkin's cheek, smiling and comforting: "Don't worry." I'll help you rebuild the town in the future, but now we'll go to the beach first, and you stay with your brother. Brother can feel at ease. ”

Hopkin nodded and said, "I know, if I stay by my brother's side, my brother can feel at ease, and I can rest assured to fight those bad guys, I listen to my brother, and I will go to the beach with you." ”

Agufoddin jumped from Lucius's shoulder to Hopkin's body, reached out and touched Hopkin's hair and said: "You are still a child, but you have to go through so much suffering, it seems that as a person of the Clover family, it is cruel to you to take the initiative, but don't worry, with Lucius and me, no one dares to bully you." ”

Listening to Augustine's words, Hopkins finally had a smile on his face, reached out and grabbed Augustine in his hand, kissed Augustine on the cheek and said, "Well, I believe that Augustin will protect me." ”

Augustine didn't expect Hopkin to kiss him at all, and suddenly his body developed a kind of heat, and the little wings behind his back popped out, flapping the little wings and flying up slowly, and said to Lucius with a happy face: "Oh my God, there are girls who kiss me, what a real kiss, what a real kiss, what a blessing." ”

Seeing Augustine's funny appearance, Hopkin's heart suddenly disappeared because of the haze of the destruction of the town, and he grinned: "Hahaha......"

Lucius shook his head with a smile as well, and then started his steam motorcycle, driving Hopkin around the burning town and speeding towards the west of the Grass Sea Plain.

It's just that because of the appearance of that steel army, Lucius and their return journey is destined to be a little troublesome, Lucius can't go back the way he came, he has to take a detour back to avoid the steel army, and at the same time try to avoid the towns, so as not to be discovered by other Avengers and people from the mining company.

At present, the Caohai Plain can be said to have formed a situation of separation, and the avengers of all races have obviously found new partners, and with the support of those mining companies, the strength of the avengers will definitely improve.

Similarly, when the strength becomes stronger, the Avengers will also increase their ambitions, and they will not meet the conditions negotiated with Lucius before, and they will definitely find ways to break the agreement.

And the best way to break the previous agreement with Lucius is to keep Hopkin in his hands, because for the Grass Sea Plain, Hopkin is the recognized descendant of the Shamrock family, and Lecius is not known by most of the creatures on the plains.

As long as Hopkin is in control, then they will have the right to speak, and they will change from rebellion to orthodox army, and then whether it is the war against the mechanical castle or the overturning of the agreement with Lucius, they will be able to stand.

However, it was a pity that Lucius was the first to understand their thoughts, and traveled long distances alone in advance, protecting Hopkin, and making those guys pounce.

Although Lecius sabotaged the plans of the Avengers and the mining companies, it was difficult to completely break the current situation, the Avengers still cooperated with the mining companies, and they would become the most powerful side on the Grass Sea Plain, but the mechanical castle would become more passive.

And Lucius is not the weakest side, because the Avengers have obviously begun to have a gap and competition between them, and when there are new allies, it becomes difficult for the Avengers to trust each other.

This is probably also the reason why the Black Iron Dwarves did not launch a large-scale rebellion like the Orcs and High Elves, and the Black Iron Dwarves tried their best to control enough resources, only in this way could they have a chance to have a chance in the confrontation with the High Elves and Orcs who were obviously superior in numbers.

Speaking of which, among the three major indigenous races on the Caohai Plain, the orcs occupy an excellent number of people, which is incomparable to the High Elves and the Black Iron Dwarves.

The High Elves, on the other hand, have a more powerful magical means because of their natural affinity for magic, so that although they do not have an advantage in numbers, they have powerful magic to make up for the disadvantage in numbers.

Only the Black Iron Dwarves, both in terms of numbers and strength, are inferior to the High Elves and Orcs, and most of the mines in the north are mined by the Orcs, and many towns are occupied by the High Elves, so it can be said that they do not have much advantage in the north.

Along the way, Lucius was analyzing the current situation with Augustine, talking about the black iron dwarves in the north, Augustine felt that the dwarves had almost no advantage in the north, so they chose to riot on a small scale, only to rescue the dwarves' mines, and first control those mines and surrounding towns.

However, Lucius did not agree with Augustine's analysis, he felt instead: "In fact, the dwarves also have their advantages, don't look at them in the north, it seems that the strength of the race is not strong, but the ability of those dwarves to fight alone is not lost to the orcs at all, and the black iron dwarves have a strong immunity to magic." ”

Speaking of this, Ruschuston paused for a moment and sighed: "So don't underestimate the three indigenous groups on the plains, they can still stand on the plains for so many years, and they always have the strength of their respective races. ”

Augustine nodded in agreement: "Speaking of which, humans and gnomes are relatively weak, and even if they have followed the founder for the longest time, they don't seem to have developed a very strong force. ”

"Hehe, where is it so easy to develop? What's more, when the teacher and the Clover family were in the beginning, humans and dwarfs were also very prosperous, but unfortunately, they were destined to be outsiders and did not really rise, speaking of which, it was also because of those mining companies, they diverted some of the best among humans and dwarves. ”

Hearing Lucius say this, Augustine also sighed: "What is it said that those mining companies are almost all established by humans and gnomes, but they don't mean to help their own race, I really don't understand?"

Lucius shook his head and said: "There is nothing I don't understand, I can only say that this is the inferior nature of the race, the unity of the two races of humans and gnomes is obviously not as good as the three indigenous races, not to mention that in the eyes of the families behind those mining companies, they do not agree with ordinary humans and gnomes to make their people." ”

Lucius and Augustine were talking as they went, but the speed of the steam motorcycles was not as fast as it had come, and it was still on the eastern plains for several days.

And they didn't know that the Iron Legion tracking their whereabouts on the eastern plains had already begun to search the plains, laying a dense net, and the net had begun to close to them. (To be continued......)