Chapter 173 (1/1)
After saying goodbye to Elsa and them, it's been a day since the ravens left the town where they settled. If it's in the usual stronghold, it's enough time for the magician to see the walls of the capital city, the melting iron city. However, at this time, the situation of the fierce hammer collar was different. In the past, with the border line with Saron, the iron fort and other important nodes were swept by the plague, the security of the whole Duke's command deteriorated to an unprecedented level.
The population of the strong hammer collar is far from comparable to that of the saloon collar. Although it is located on the edge of the grassland, the Duke, under the protection of Lord hammer and several city lords appointed by him, has always been the most prosperous area of Cang Lion Kingdom except for the territory under the jurisdiction of the royal family. This means that when panic strikes, the chaos here is far from being comparable.
Another group of escapees, the curse crow on horseback, looked under their hoods at the people rushing by in front of them. These people are not refugees in the conventional sense. Their homes have not been threatened by the plague. Their gorgeous clothes and calm expression on their faces also tell the curse crow that these people just don't want their property and interests to be damaged, so they left behind the industry of hammer and moved with their families.
Ironically, these refugees are generally successful businessmen or aristocrats of small families. It is precisely these people who are the key to the life of most ordinary residents in the whole territory. They manage the transportation and sale of commodities, and their departure makes the balanced market collapse instantly. These people with a large amount of money and unsold goods out of the strong hammer collar, their behavior directly led to the ordinary people lost their living environment. And this, in fact, is the main reason for the chaos.
”Borers in the territory?” The curse crow looked at that group of people's mighty troop to leave, murmured in a low voice. He read a book about governing territory in the library.
These big businessmen and small nobles are usually blood sucking insects attached to the people, they wantonly earn amazing benefits between the state's administrators and the bottom people. But when the storm came, they first fled to the distance with the body that sucked the essence. In the face of war and natural disasters, such groups will cause great losses to their territory. However, in this storm, these blood sucking insects are also doomed to be unable to retreat.
Shortly after the refugees left, several people on horseback appeared in front of the curse crow. They wore crude leather armour and crude weapons pinned to their waists. After noticing the curse crow, they instinctively put their hands on the handle. The horses surrounded the crow.
Although they put on a ferocious posture, but with these people, the curse crow has not seen them, the incantation master sat on the horse indifferently and looked at them silently, as if they were frightened.
The leader walked around the mantra crow. After he found that the grey robed man had no luggage except the horse he was riding, he lost interest in the sorcerer. He's still chasing bigger prey, and he doesn't have time to waste on such a small target. So with a greeting, the people who surrounded the curse crow roared away.
These people are robbers, or it is more appropriate to call them robbers. As more and more wealthy people left with wealth and food, the frequency of these hyenas like vagrants in the territory of hammer became more frequent. As for the troops that usually encircle these bandits, they don't have time to deal with these guys now.
Most of the robbers were originally brave and ruthless, and wanted to make a fortune when the army had no time to manage. However, there were also some people who were forced to become bandits by life. When you can't exchange money or goods for food in the market, it's impossible to grab some food with a sword.
This is the status quo of the strong hammer collar. In this day's journey, curse crow has seen more than three such scenes, and even witnessed the whole process of a group of robbers. Stimulated by money and desire, the bandits who knew that the Lord's army could not provide support killed all the refugees. Blood brings vultures, and sooner or later, hungry rat men. As a result, the spread of the plague accelerated, giving birth to more refugees and bandits.
It's a sad cycle. The curse crow thought. But these are not the things he should care about. The magician doesn't care about the life and death of ordinary people in the hammer collar. Anyway, people will die. Compared with those unimportant things, curse crow just wants to find out the person who spread the plague and let him pay the price for fooling himself.
The horse continued to move towards the city of molten iron, and some noisy voices came from the distance with the wind mixed with a faint smell of blood. It seems that the robbers started with the people before. If it's cheese, it may help those people because of their inexplicable sense of justice, but curse crow is not cheese. The smell of blood only delights Ravens who feed on rotten food. Even if those people want to blame, they can only blame themselves for being too stingy and not hiring a few mercenaries.
What the magician is now thinking about is whether he can gain the trust of Lord hammer in the shortest time with his own resources and chips, so as to get the content of the ”barrier” plan and the news of the Cang lion royal family. Perhaps it is out of intuition, the curse crow always thinks that the Cang lion royal family's attitude towards the plague is too indulgent. Even in this period, the royal family did not come forward to give clear instructions, which is not the response speed of rulers. So the only explanation is that they must know something about this plague.But just as the curse crow was planning, the stronger smell of blood and the sound of horses' hooves interrupted his thinking. A girl, dressed in a torn coat and riding on an apparently frightened horse, rushed straight to the position of the magician. And behind her, a few robbers with strange smiles on their faces also rode after them.
”Why can't I just think about it calmly for a while?” The curse crow rolled its eyes under its hood. When the horse was about to hit him, the curse crow stretched out his left hand, palm to the horse's head, and the ring on his ring finger flashed a green light.
It's strange to say that it takes a lot of effort for even experienced riders to calm down the frightened horses. But the curse crow just raised his hand, and the horse became quiet. The fierce impact was also resolved by the horse's own deceleration. The horse that stopped by the crow's hand seemed to have returned to normal, and showed a very abnormal closeness to the magician. It even took the initiative to rub its left hand with its head.
Pacify the frightened horse and curse the crow to look at the robbers who are grinning grimly. The robbers didn't see how the magician stopped the horse, and even if they did, they thought it was just a coincidence.
”I guess if I give you this girl, you won't let me go, will you?” Said the crow.