At night, the town of Chanda was quiet without a sound. In the moonlight, the dilapidated houses were a little cold, and the whole town was shrouded in a desolate and apocalyptic atmosphere.

The remaining surviving residents of Chanda Town gathered in the hall of the mayor's house to discuss matters. Everyone sat together, but they all bowed their heads, silent, their eyes lost their light, and they were as lifeless as dead people.

I don't know how long it took for someone to finally break the dead silence.

"Is it really the end? are we really going to get out of here?" asked Granny Shoy, the owner of the town's tailor shop, curled up and whispered to Harrick, the mayor and sheriff of Zenda Town, who was sitting on the main seat.

Harrick sighed helplessly and said, "Shaw, you should be very aware of the current situation. Since the "king" left, Zenda has become a borderless land. The lords and lords around us only know how to collect taxes and squeeze out our surplus value, and none of them will come to protect us!"

Granny Shoy turned around and sobbed and muttered, "I have lived in Zenda for eighty-one years, and I have been here since I was born. This is my home, my final destination. I'm not leaving!"

Harrick sat down and closed his eyes in pain: "I don't want to leave Zenda if I can." But we've persevered until now, and we've really reached the limit. That wolf cub from Nabal has given us an ultimatum to move out within ten days, or we're going to have to wash our blood in Zenda......"

With a "snap," a tall one-armed old man slapped the table and stood up, shouting in a rough voice: "Then fight with them! Nabal, a bastard who fights back, I really regret picking him up on the battlefield! I'm sorry for everyone! If I hadn't relented for a moment and brought him back to Zenda, treated him, and asked everyone to feed and drink, he would have died a long time ago, and then he would have been dismembered by wild dogs who don't know where! Now that he has grown up and become a bandit leader, he actually led his men to rob his benefactor, what a wolf cub who can't be raised! ”

"Kai! that's enough!" Harrick shook his head, stopping the old man's shout, "That's enough......"

The old man's name was Kai, and he was once the most famous Praetorian Guard soldier in the south of Caiyun. More than thirty years ago, Kai was discharged from the army after losing an arm on the battlefield. When he returned to his hometown of Zenda, Kai was accompanied by an eight or nine-year-old barbarian child. It was during a raid on the barbarian tribe, and Kai relented for a while.

The barbarian kid was so thin and weak that he had a high fever, but he stubbornly didn't tell Kai, and he collapsed after following Kai to Zenda.

Everyone said that he was dying, but Kai refused to give up, and carried him for another fifty miles to the nearby big city of Zhivadine to find a witch doctor to treat him. After spending all his savings and retirement money, the barbarian kid was finally rescued.

After that, the barbarian child stayed in Zenda. Eat hundreds of meals, wear hundreds of clothes, and grow up slowly with the help of Zen masters.

That barbarian kid was Nabal. No one could have imagined that Nabal would grow up to be a bandit, and that he would attack Zenda regardless of his nurturing grace.

Speaking of which, since the news of Nabal becoming a bandit, the saddest thing should be Kai.

Kai is a rough man who doesn't know how to hide his feelings. The inhabitants of Zenda could tell that Kai really regarded Nabal as his own son. His son became a bandit and harmed the villagers, which can be imagined as a blow to Kai.

So none of the inhabitants of Chanda blamed him, and no one blamed Kai for Nabal's grace.

However, Kai himself refused to let himself go, he kept blaming himself, and regretted his upbringing. Capturing Nabal and sending him to hell became the most important thing in Kai's life, and the only thing he wanted to do.

Harrick also knew that Kai was not in a good mental state, so he didn't bother with him, and he didn't take Kai's words to heart.

Why are they desperate? How can a gang of old, weak, sick and disabled people be able to deal with bandits who are like wolves and tigers?

"Ten days to go! We can still get the Ranger for help! There will be a way!" Granny Shaw suddenly rushed over, took Harrick's hand and whispered.

Her husband, her son, all died to protect Chanda's safety. Her husband, the sheriff of the town, was split in half in a battle against bandits, along with her two sons.

Zenda is her last spiritual support. Other than that, she had nothing left to lose. And her spirit has reached the verge of collapse.

Harrick shook his head and sighed, "Although those rangers are called "chivalry", they are not profitable. We haven't recruited them for help over the years, but what has been the result? We gave all the money we could muster, but when the bandits came, they didn't leave us behind and escape alone! These so-called rangers, none of them are good!"

"Is it really heaven that wants to punish us for Zenda?" Granny Xiao couldn't control it anymore and hid her face and began to cry.

The others touched the scene, felt nostalgic for themselves, and cried along with it. For a while, the hall was full of weeping, and it was even more sad.

Harrick staggered to his feet, ready to go and pack his bags.

He is the mayor of the town and the leader of Chanda. Even if everyone in Zenda was already pessimistic, he couldn't show a trace of panic. Because that means they are in even greater despair.

He is seventy-nine years old, and he has seen the most glorious moments of Zenda, and he has also experienced the decline after Zenda. Now, he doesn't have a few years to live. But at least before he died, he had to do one last thing for the Zen that he had lived all his life in, to save the lives of the last of these Zen residents.

This is what he, the mayor of the town, should do, and is the only thing he can do now.

But at this time, there was a sudden knock on the door with a "tuk tuk".

Everyone in the hall was taken aback, forgot their grief for a moment, and looked at each other.

"Knock knock!"

The knock on the door became louder, like the whisper of death, knocking in the hearts of everyone.

At this time, what kind of good people could be in such a desolate town as Chanda? Eighty percent of them were bandits! I just don't know if it was the ungrateful brute Nabal or someone else.

"Bang bang bang!"

The knock on the door was getting quicker and louder, and it was clear that the people outside were getting impatient.

Everyone, you pushed me, I pushed you, but they didn't dare to go and open the door.

Kai stood up: "What are you panicking about? Even if you die, you can't lose the face of our Zen masters! I'll open the door!"

"Don't!" the crowd tried to stop in horror, but as soon as the words reached their mouths, their voices suddenly became quieter. Obviously, they were afraid that if they opened their mouths, the person knocking on the door would hear them. The Zen masters are now terrified to the extreme, and the slightest disturbance will make them sensitive.

Kay shook his head. A Zen master can die, but he can't die in a nest. If you don't even have the courage to confront the enemy head-on, how can you live? Such a person, even if he survives, is just a walking corpse!

"Glory to my king!"

Kai whispered the prayer that every Praetorian Guard in the South of the Clouds would have recited before the battle, his expression solemn and serious, and he resolutely walked towards the gate, as if he were a true knight, brave and strong.

The door opened, and the person who appeared in front of everyone was very different from the bandit everyone had imagined.

It was a young man in his twenties, with ragged clothes, a tired face, and a flustered expression, as if he was being chased. When he saw the people gathered in the house, he was also startled, scratched his head embarrassedly, and apologized in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I searched the whole town, and I only saw the lights here." Don't bother you, do you?"

The moonlight outside the house shines into the house through the young man's body, which looks illusory and mysterious......