In half a month, the monsters surrounding Brenos City completely retreated, but at this time, Merlin's mood was not so excited, but he felt faintly deeply uneasy.

"What the hell is going on, the army of monsters outside the city has retreated, why haven't Du Liniang and them come back yet?"

Hearing Ryker's doubtful words beside him, Merlin's expression became more and more solemn.

Seeing Merlin's solemn expression, Lake frowned slightly and whispered, "Old Merlin, what are you thinking? Could it be that Du Liniang and the others were really robbed and killed by the army of monsters? No, Du Liniang's girls are very strong, and the group of people in Longquan Restaurant are all good hands." ”

Merlin didn't respond to Lake, and stood there with a solemn face, looking in the direction of the barley field outside the city.

After a long time, he finally said to Lake: "Lake, you immediately take people and go to monitor all the people who walked out of the misty forest with Du Liniang, and make sure to control their every move." ”

Listening to Merlin's words, Lake was stunned for a moment, but quickly understood Merlin's intentions.

Asked in a low voice of confusion: "Do you think Du Liniang has thoughts about Brynox?"

"They haven't come back for so long, there are only two possibilities, one is that they are besieged and intercepted by the monster army, and the other is that they want to capture Brrenos. ”

Hearing Merlin's analysis, Lake was a little surprised and said, "How could it be? ”

"Du Liniang may not have had it before, but now that the king is gone, Brenos has lost the protection of the king, and his faith is on the verge of being shattered, people with enough strength will definitely aim here for the first time, and Du Liniang and they, coming out of the ruins, have enough strength, if they want to compete for hegemony in the troubled times, they also need a suitable pedal. ”

Merlin's words really surprised Lake.

Staring at Merlin in horror, he said, "But, but Du Liniang, she is still only a holy order. ”

Hearing this, Merlin sighed: "In this era of decaying civilization and the fall of the gods, the Holy Rank is already very powerful, not to mention that Du Liniang has a 'domain' and has entered the ruins, she already has enough strength. ”

Lake frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded and promised Merlin: "Okay, I'll arrange it." ”

After a pause, Lake continued: "However, now that the food in the city has bottomed out, shouldn't we also send someone to the barley field to have a look? The monster army has retreated, we can't continue to sit still like this, in case Du Liniang and those people really can't come back, there is no point in waiting." ”

"Don't worry, I've already arranged for someone to leave for the barley field soon to transport grain. ”

Knowing that Merlin had already made arrangements for the food problem, Lake didn't ask any more questions, turned around and walked away quickly.

After Lake left, Merlin looked up at the sky and whispered, "Du Liniang, what do you want to do? Do you really think that you can take Brenos when the king is gone?"

As Merlin muttered to himself, the familiar footsteps of Lake were suddenly heard behind him.

Immediately afterwards, Merlin heard Lake's excited words: "Merlin, Du Liniang, they are back, and they have brought back four carts of grain." ”

And Merlin, who heard Lake shouting excitedly, twitched violently in his heart, and blurted out meaningfully: "How can there only be four carts of grain?"

Without waiting for Lake to come to his senses, Merlin disappeared in a flash, and the next moment he appeared in front of the stairs of the city wall, walking quickly to the bottom of the city wall.

In front of the city's west gates, the people of Brenos gathered in front of four tall steam locomotives laden with grain.

Lucius, who came back with the convoy, sat in the carriage of the steam car, looked at Arnold in front of him, and said, "See, the people outside are eager to get food, what do you think should be done now? Should the car be loaded with food and distributed to those people?"

When Arnold learned that Du Liniang and others wanted to seize Brenos, he planned to escape the convoy and return to the city in advance to report to Merlin.

But he didn't want to be discovered by the people of Longquan Restaurant, and was caught by everyone in Longquan Restaurant and locked in a steam locomotive transporting grain.

Originally, Arnold thought that Du Liniang and others would kill him in order to block the news of their intention to seize Brenos, but to Arnold's surprise, Du Liniang and they did not kill him, but just tied him up and left him in the carriage of the steam locomotive and ignored him.

On the contrary, it was Lucius, who looked smaller than himself, who kept chatting with him along the way.

Lecius was less of a persuader and more of a storyteller.

Along the way, he kept telling Arnold all kinds of stories, and the stories told were almost all of Lucius's past experiences.

Even his affairs in the Sanctuary were told to Arnold without reservation.

If it weren't for Arnold being tied up in the carriage, he even felt that Lucius was like a long-lost friend, even if he was tied up in the carriage, Arnold still regarded Lucius as a friend, and also told some of his own things, sharing the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the past with Lecius.

At this time, in the face of Lucius's inquiry, Arnold almost didn't want to say: "Of course it's time to distribute the food on the car, the people in the city have been waiting for so long." ”

Hearing this, Lucius smiled and said, "Hehe, Arnold, you really shouldn't accept Constantine's source nucleus. ”

Lucius's sudden words made Arnold feel dazed, and asked a little puzzled, "Why?"

But Lucius didn't answer Arnold, but pushed open the door and walked out of the carriage, and said to Du Liniang, who was waiting outside the carriage: "Auntie, you arrange for people to distribute the food." ”

Hearing Lucius's words, Du Liniang and the others suddenly felt a little puzzled, and didn't understand what Lucius meant?

According to the original plan, they should hand over the food to Merlin and others, and use the limited food to intensify the conflict between Merlin and the people of Blaonos, and then Lucius and them will secretly incite the feelings of the people, so as to shatter the faith of the people of Bronos in Constantine, so as to seek to seize this border city.

But right now, Lucius actually asked Du Liniang and them to distribute food, which was obviously different from the previous plan.

Du Liniang came to her senses, pulled Lucius aside and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Auntie, don't you think about the plan, don't you see how desperate those people outside are for food, and we should distribute it to them, so that the hungry people in the city can feed their stomachs first. ”

Listening to Lucius's words, Du Liniang looked at Lucius with a surprised face and said, "Have you ever thought about what the consequences will be if we distribute the grain? Because the contradictions caused by the lack of food will be directly transferred to us, in that case, we will be very passive. ”

"No, Auntie, even if we lose this opportunity, we should distribute the food. ”

Seeing that Lucius was firm, Du Liniang knew that she couldn't persuade Lucius, so she could only nod and agree after thinking about it.

Afterwards, Du Liniang led the people of Longquan Restaurant, turned on the four steam locomotives and began to distribute food to the people gathered around.

Although the people who had been waiting for a long time had an urgent desire for food, no one crowded it, but consciously lined up in front of the steam locomotive, and according to the previous regulations for the distribution of food in the city, they received food from the steam locomotive in turn, and no one cared about the amount of food distributed.

With the cooperation of the people, the distribution of food was very smooth, and in a blink of an eye, many people received food and left the West City Gate.

By the time Merlin and Lake arrived, the four truckloads of grain had been distributed.

Seeing a large number of people leaving happily with food, a layer of anger appeared on Merlin's face.

Pushing the crowd to the steam locomotive, and seeing the people distributing food, Merlin stepped forward and grabbed the other party and yelled, "Who asked you to distribute food?"

The dwarf, who was distributing the grain, looked up at Merlin in horror and was speechless for a long time.

Soon, Du Liniang and the others heard the movement outside and rushed out of the carriage quickly.

Seeing Merlin grabbing the dwarf distributing the grain, Du Liniang also yelled angrily: "Merlin, what are you doing?"

Hearing Du Liniang's roar, Merlin threw the dwarf aside, not caring at all about the grain bag that he had knocked over, stepping on the barley scattered on the ground, approaching Du Liniang step by step, and said with a gloomy face: "Du Liniang, what are you doing?

Seeing Merlin stepping on the barley scattered all over the ground, and hearing Merlin's question to Du Liniang, the people waiting in line were all stunned.

Even Lake, who came with Merlin, was also full of astonishment at this moment, standing in the crowd and looking at Merlin incredulously.

By the time Merlin realized that something was wrong, he looked down and saw the wheat grains under his feet, and he could not undo the mistake.

Du Liniang glanced at Merlin with some pity, and then didn't say anything, just squatted down and began to clean up the wheat grains scattered all over the ground.

But this simple action was like a straw on the faith that was about to be broken by the people of Blaonos, and the last trace of faith in Konstantin was completely broken, and the people gathered in front of the gate of the western city all knelt down silently, clasped their hands into fists and whispered prayers in front of their chests.

Almost instantly, Merlin turned his head in horror to look at the bell tower towering in the middle of the city.

But listening to the melodious bell of the legend of the bell tower, in that bell, the flame of Brenos's faith in Constantine was completely extinguished.

Merlin opened his mouth, trying to explain something, and to undo the fatal mistake he had made.

But before Merlin could speak, he suddenly heard a commotion not far away.

As the noise approached, the people waiting in line for the delivery of food shouted: "Oh no, those nobles are here, and they have snatched the food from the people who received it." ”

"What ......" Merlin suddenly turned pale with horror when he heard the shouts of the civilians.

Trembling, he took two steps back, opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood, and said to Lake a little weakly, "Lake, hurry, hurry, hurry up and stop those bastards." ”

Lake was completely stunned, and he came too quickly and quickly, so that Lake didn't come back to his senses for a long time, and he didn't understand the meaning of Merlin's words, but he just promised to make a promise, and turned around and ordered the soldiers who followed him: "Go quickly, evacuate the crowd immediately, and don't let things get bigger." ”

Hearing Lake's order, he saw the soldiers in the city turn around and start evacuating the crowd.

Merlin's face softened slightly, turned his head to stare at Du Liniang, who had already stood up, and said with a fierce look in his eyes: "Du Liniang, I didn't expect that your methods are so clever, but if you want to take Brenos, such a little trick is not enough, what other means, just take it out, I will wait for you in the temple." ”

After saying that, Merlin didn't linger, turned around and led Lake and the others away.

Seeing Merlin and the others leaving, Du Liniang was stunned for a moment and turned around to ask Lucius what to do.

And when she turned around, Lucius had already stepped off the steam locomotive, smiled and said to Du Liniang: "Auntie, continue to distribute the grain, and send someone to send a message to Dekez and ask him to bring the rest of the grain." ”