Chapter 31: Suspicion
They got along very happily along the way, and the magician Jane, who traveled around, was no worse than the veteran mercenary Lianhua, and told Liao and Lucy a lot of interesting things along the way, which made Liao and Lucy very addicted.
After four days of traveling, the four of them came to a small village called Fogg, but this small village revealed all kinds of strangeness. At the entrance of the village, soldiers stood guard to check, and many people were scattered on both sides of the road, and these people sat on the ground in twos and threes, shivering, nervous, and pale. The villagers no longer stop on the road, and come and go in a hurry.
After entering the small village, Lianhua slowed down the speed of the carriage, which drove slowly on the road, and the scene here was full of confusion.
"What's going on?" said Ryo, looking around as he sat outside the carriage.
"These people are so pitiful!" Lucy also poked her head out of the carriage to look at the scene outside, and her eyes were a little red when she looked at it. Now the season has entered autumn, the temperature at night will be very cool, and the wind is blowing, and then look at the people on both sides of the road, most of them are women, children and children, and they are relatively thinly dressed, how to spend this night.
"These could be refugees!" replied Jane, looking at the scene around her, which she had more or less encountered as a wandering magician.
"Refugees!" exclaimed Ryo and Lucy in unison.
"Well, definitely. Jane replied in the affirmative.
"Is there a war ahead?" Thinking of this, Liao was actually a little excited.
"Where is the war?" asked Lucy.
"There's another possibility. Lianhua, who had never spoken, said at this time.
"You mean the epidemic!" Jane immediately understood what Lianhua meant.
"Epidemic!" Liao and Lucy exclaimed in unison again.
"Hmm. Lianhua didn't bother to speak again after speaking, glanced at Jane, and motioned for him to come.
"Okay, I'll tell you!" After receiving Lianhua's eyes, Jian opened her mouth, "Have you noticed that when we were on our way these days, the carriages and people in the same direction as us were more or less still a little, but there was nothing in the opposite direction. Isn't that strange?"
"Hmm~ When you say that, I remember it, but I really didn't. After listening to Jane's words, Li Ao was stunned, then looked back in the direction of the village entrance, and said, "Could it be that he was stopped by the soldiers at the village entrance?"
"Yes, they must have been stopped by the soldiers. Jane looked at Liao and nodded.
It happened that there was a wagon going out of the village, but the soldiers did not let it go. This can be regarded as a confirmation of what Liao and Jane just said.
"It doesn't have to be the epidemic, Opa Town is holding a drama festival a few days ago, so it makes sense for soldiers to control refugees!" Lucy interjected.
"But now the festival is over!" said Liao, pointing to the carriage that had just been stopped.
"They don't have any wounds on them. Lianhua's cold voice sounded and reminded.
"Well, if it is a refugee who has escaped from the war in front, it will be more or less injured, but not here. Jane nodded and continued.
"If it's an epidemic, will we be infected now?" Li Ao, who had already accepted the epidemic in his heart, immediately asked another question.
"No, it won't. Lianhua didn't look at him angrily. Are you still afraid of this if you have a vindictive spirit?
"And it's not happening here, there's no quarantine here, don't worry. Jane explained it more carefully, and it was explained to Lucy.
"Thank you!" Lucy understood, of course, what Jane meant.
Jane waved her hand at Lucy, telling her not to be polite. Then I got into thinking again.
"Kasro City!" Liao suddenly exclaimed on the side, "This is the only way to get to Kasro City, do you think there is something wrong with Kasro City?"
"No!" Lucy didn't want to accept Liao's words, Kaslo City was their only way, and how would they pass if there was an epidemic.
"It's not impossible. Lianhua and Jian were in unison, and this time the three of them had the same idea.
"What can I do?" said Lucy with a shrug of her head after hearing Lianhua and Jane's words.
"Hahaha, don't worry Lucy, even if it's an epidemic, it's no problem for me and Lianhua to protect you alone. Looking at Lucy's listless appearance, Li Ao grinned and reassured. "We're very strong!"
"Let's find a place to stay first, it's not too early!" Handlebar Lianhua finished speaking.
The village of Fogg was originally small, there were only 2 small inns in the village, and now this situation is full. The unexpected 4 people had no choice but to spend the night outside, so they parked the car in a place with fewer people and began to prepare dinner.
Rive took some dry wood out of the carriage and piled it up beside the carriage. After Jane had stacked it in Liao, she suppressed her magic power and used a "fireball technique" to ignite the dry wood that had been piled together. This simple spell alarmed the surrounding refugees, Lianhua and Lucy did not notice the preparation of ingredients on the carriage, but Liao and Jane immediately found out, through the moonlight, only to see a black group of refugees walking in the direction of the fire.
"What should I do?" Looking at this formation, Li Ao couldn't make up his mind, after all, they were all women, children and children, and they were not enemies.
"I don't know!" Jane had the same problem, although he could stop it with spells, but he couldn't do it with such women and children.
Just when Liao and Jane don't know what to do, the refugees are getting closer.
"Okay, it's ready to eat right away!" Lucy's voice came out of the carriage, and after speaking, she walked out with the ingredients prepared by Lianhua, but just after getting out of the carriage, the scene outside scared her into not being invited, and her hands trembled, but fortunately, Lianhua behind her reacted quickly and stabilized Luxi's hand from behind, otherwise tonight's dinner would be ruined.
After stabilizing Lucy, Lianhua followed Lucy's gaze and found a problem, and the black-pressed refugees had surrounded them. "What's going on?" asked Liao and Jane, after all, they were outside just now.
"I don't know. To Lianhua's question, Liao and Jian replied in unison.
Looking at the refugees around her, Lianhua pulled Lucy over and protected her behind her, and two bright daggers also appeared in her hands.
Just when everyone didn't know what to do, an old woman walked out of the refugees, in front of the crowd who came on crutches, looked at the four people and said unhurriedly, "Little brothers, don't get me wrong, we just want to borrow a fire to keep warm!"
After listening to the old woman's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey, that's it, the old woman doesn't take you so scary!" Li Ao couldn't help but complain. But as he spoke, the man had already hurried back to the carriage to fetch dry firewood.
In a few moments, the other three bonfires were completed, and the refugees were scattered around the campfires to keep warm. When the old woman saw that all the arrangements were made, she went back to the carriage. "Little brothers, thank you so much. The old woman bowed. Seeing this, the four people hurriedly dodged, they couldn't afford it.
"It's okay, it's okay, you don't have to be like this!" After Li Ao dodged away, he stepped forward to hold the old woman up. "It's just a trifle. ”
"That is, you are willing to help us, and the people before us have blown us away!" said the old woman disappointed, remembering those people.
"This is too much!" said Lucy, who was cooking dinner at the side, angrily when she heard the old woman's words.
"Yes, it's too much, don't you just want to help each other when you're out and about!" Li Ao also echoed angrily.
"By the way, what happened to my mother-in-law?" finally had an insider, Jane would not let go of such an opportunity, it was all speculation in the carriage before, and now it is time to confirm it.
"Hey~ It's hard to put into words!" Hearing Jane's question, the old woman sighed heavily and shook her head. "Have you heard of zombie disease?"