Chapter 454

The bleak wind blew the grass on the roadside, and two men walked silently on the road.

The man walking in front of the windbreaker rises and falls, thinking about how to plan the world better.

He has put on the wind of dark night again. This kind of modern style clothes, through the cognitive camouflage of space, looks like an aristocratic cloak in gulantin, with no sense of violation.

The sun slanted westward, and their shadows on the ancient road were gradually lengthened.

Lu Chen was thinking that gulantin was a man of few words and would only obey orders around the Duke.

Around the hill, Lu Chen saw the cooking smoke in front of the road, and they accelerated their pace.

"It's nicori."

Gulantin's hometown is in the north. He has an impression of many villages in this land, explained to the Duke.

After approaching a little, Lu Chencai found that this small village was already in ruins, and there were basically no intact houses.

At the entrance of the village, there was an old man with gray hair, holding an old pipe in his hand, sitting on a big stone smoking and watching the sunset.

"Old man, what's the matter here?"

Lu Chen called the old man back to his senses. The old man turned and saw them, especially gulantin in military clothes. He was scared and trembled.

As if he had exhausted all his strength in his old body, a spirit stood up and yearned to run in the village.

But gulantin's speed was faster. The old man didn't see each other's movements at all, so he was surrounded by gulantin to the front and stopped.

Gulantin's mind is very simple. Since the Duke speaks, he wants to ask questions. How can you run?

The old man was hopeless to escape, so he begged: "Lord Jun, Lord Jun, we really have nothing here. We have paid all the taxes this year. Please give us a way to live!"

Lu Chen frowned, "what's going on?"

Seeing the old man's frightened face, he said again, "we are not from the army."

At least not now.

The old man was stunned when he heard the speech. He looked at the military equipment of the Keya imperial system on gulantin. He didn't believe it.

"He has retired. We came out from Wangdu and traveled to the mainland."

Lu Chen explained, and casually made up a reason.

The old man looked at gulantin and looked at the young man who seemed to be higher. The other party was wearing a cloak, but his temperament was also like a soldier, but his bones showed the power of some aristocratic big men.

"Traveler?"

The old man sat down suspiciously. Seeing that they were not rude and had a good explanation, he relaxed slightly.

"Yes, sir, what happened in your village?"

Lu Chen looked at the broken village. Only two children were chasing and playing in the distance. The adults who repaired the houses were also sad. It was time to bury the pot for cooking, but only a few families raised cooking smoke.

"Alas, young man, you go out to travel. What's the wrong place to choose? Run to the north of us. What can you see?"

The old man sighed, shakily picked up some tobacco leaves he had collected on the mountain from his chest pocket and lit them again.

He is eighty-seven years old this year. Unless he is the top power of the Empire, it should be right to call him a young man from this face.

But except for those who join the army, those who have achieved success in practicing magic and fighting spirit are all big people. How can big people travel with only one bodyguard?

"We just travel at will and happen to be in the north."

Lu Chen said.

The old man shook his head and sighed, "it's too hard in the north. Just now you asked me what happened to my village or it was looted by the imperial army."

Lu Chen was stunned. He didn't expect such a thing, "did the Imperial Army rob civilians?"

"Isn't it? It seems that the young man really comes from Wangdu. His family should be rich and seldom goes out."

The old man thought that the man in front of him was the kind of traveler who came out to see the world for the first time. "In recent years, famine has been going on all over the country, especially in the north. It is said that there has been a vacancy in the supply of grain and grass for the army of the Great Wall. Those military lords didn't have enough to eat, so they turned back and robbed our people nearby..."

His thin old hand clenched, "if we say that when the harvest was good more than ten years ago, the military master couldn't eat, we'd be happy to give some. After all, they are guarding the Great Wall. If the abyss creatures cross over, the first one to suffer is the people in the North."

"But... Now that we can't eat enough, how can we give them food?"

The old man's face was helpless and indignant. "If we don't give it, they will rob it, smash it and burn it. The young people in the village are popular. However, some were killed after they started, and most of the food was taken away. Now they are tight for the children to eat. I'm afraid there will be someone in the village who can't stand it."

Gulantin listened with a trace of anger in his eyes.

"Didn't you react up?"

Lu Chen's voice was flat.

The old man took a long breath of smoke and seemed to calm down. "What's the use of reaction? To the consul of this area? How dare he offend the defenders of the Great Wall? In the final analysis, we are just ordinary people. How can we fight with big people?"

He sighed again and again, "Oh, old man, I don't have anything. I've lived long enough in my life. I only pity those dead young people and those children who don't have enough to eat. Now it's day by day."

"Doesn't the Empire have disaster relief?"

Lu Chen doubted that even though his previous Empire disappointed him in the final treatment of the war, he still managed the country well and would pay close attention to the people in the disaster area in case of famine.

Speaking of this, the old man looked a little sarcastic, "Oh, in recent years, the food in the country is insufficient, and the big people in the king's capital are only concerned about themselves. Who cares about the life and death of people in remote places?"

After that, he realized that his words were inappropriate, and the person in front of him seemed to come from Wang Du, "young man, I didn't mean to target you."

However, at the moment, he was no longer nervous. After the initial shock, he calmed down and was a little optimistic. Anyway, according to this momentum, they won't live long and will starve to death sooner or later.

In the barren mountains and forests nearby, you can't even see the shadow of Warcraft. Even if there is shrem, it's better to cut it into silk and boil it with boiling water. It tastes like vermicelli.

Now, if you go hungry like this, you can only chew the bark.

Lu Chen shook his head lightly, indicating that he didn't care.

"Alas, I really miss the time when the Duke of Godzilla was still there. At that time, the Great Wall army was much more disciplined."

The old man sighed with emotion. Seeing that the expressions of the two travelers around him were strange for a moment, he explained: "you must have heard too many unreliable rumors to have such a great prejudice against the Duke of Godzilla. In fact, the Duke was not as unbearable as the rumors."

Rao Chen asked, "how come there is little contact with Lu Xingzhi's family?"

The old man was stunned and looked at Lu Chen suspiciously. "You won't be fishing? There's really nothing to plan in our village. Even if you want to convict us again, you'll die."

"The old man misunderstood. I really haven't heard what you said."

Lu Chen shook his head. It seems that the atmosphere of the Keya empire is not very good.

After thinking for a while, the old man said, "the north is actually better. I heard that the rumors in the mainland are crazy. It is said that the Duke of Godzilla killed the guardian dragon of the mainland for the Witch of the elf family. In fact, he has been rebelled by the abyss."

Lu Chen feels strange in his heart. These people really dare to make it up.

"Old man, I haven't seen any market. They say that the fairy princess is the medium for the recovery of the Lord of the abyss, and that the Duke of Godzilla has secretly reached an agreement when fighting with the abyss. I don't know if it's true. I don't make a false evaluation."

The old man took a deep breath of tobacco, but some were choked and coughed a few times because it was only the inferior tobacco he collected.

"Cough... But the old man, I still understand one thing. No matter what those people say, these are just guesses. Besides, apart from guarding the dragon, the Duke of Godzilla didn't do anything bad to aika. For the human beings of our Keya Empire, he guarded the border for many years like a patron saint."

The old man knocked the cigarette pole. "The old man has short knowledge and can't judge whether it's true or not. But the Duke has done so much for the human race, but it's true. To say 10000 steps back, when the Duke was still there, he didn't see the army come out to rob the village."

Lu Chen didn't feel anything. He had no "sense of substitution" for the Duke of Godzilla. It sounded like talking about others, but gulantin held his head high and looked proud.

"So, old man, I really believe that the Duke can come back and take over the military power again, rectify the atmosphere of the army, resist foreign enemies for the mainland and guard the dragon? He doesn't guard our Terran. I haven't enjoyed his kindness, old man. All my life, the people guarding the North Great Wall have always been our Terran, and it's the most reassuring when Duke Godzilla is here."

People like to nag when they are old. The old man seems to talk hard. It's rare to meet foreign tourists, and his mouth can't stop for a moment.

Seeing that the two young people were qualified listeners, he also had a taste of instructing the country at this time: "however, if you want the old man, I say that the Duke of Godzilla is really true. For a woman, or a woman of the elves, he worked with the dragon. I don't know whether to say that he is a hero, sad beauty, or regardless of the overall situation."

Gulantin frowned. Lu Chen even sat on the big stone with the old man with a warm smile, just like chatting at the head of the village.

"Isn't it a good story that a man protected his beloved girl?"

Lu Chen asked with a smile.

"Well, what's good? It's a woman of the elf family. We don't talk about our hatred for hundreds of years. Moreover, I heard that the elf princess is really abnormal. Usually, the elf has light blond hair, but she is dark red, which makes it difficult not to think of the abyss..."

At this point, the old man seemed to realize that he had made a mistake and waved his hand and said, "of course, I think Duke Godzilla certainly didn't surrender to the enemy, but he may have been fascinated by the fairy women. After all, I heard that the girl was very beautiful."

Lu Chen is thoughtful. It seems that the rumors about him on the mainland are very bad, and they are progressive layer by layer, and even the analysis is correct.

He knows that the hair color of painted pear clothes is natural, but the original fairy princess should be the same color. There may be some problems. Guarding the dragon should not be a psycho. He should pay attention.

"Eh..."

The old man seemed to think of something. "Just remembered, it seems that Duke Godzilla has been in prison for 20 years. This year should be the year he was released from prison. Only 20 years later, things have changed."

"Isn't the old man optimistic about the return of the Duke of Godzilla?"

Lu Chen looked like asking for advice. He was off the battlefield in his previous life and sometimes chatted with some village elders.

"Old man, I personally hope the Duke can return to the peak of power, but that's impossible. Now almost the whole country knows that the faint king is very dissatisfied with the Duke and won't let the Duke regain power."

The old man is not optimistic about this. Even if he admires the Duke of Godzilla, now all kinds of power have returned to the faint king. Why do you fight?

The Duke may not resist the elder brother's instruction, and even if the elder brother dies, the elder brother will not stand up to it.

"Grandpa, eat!"

At this time, the cry of a little girl interrupted their dialogue. Lu Chen looked back and saw a seven or eight year old girl with sheep horn braids running towards this side.

The little girl's face looked a little thin, her face and clothes were dirty, but her eyes were very bright.

"Little Lika, grandpa is not hungry. Go eat with your mother."

The old man smiled kindly and waved the little girl back.

When the little girl saw Lu Chen and gulantin, she was afraid, but she said timidly to her grandfather, "mom said Grandpa would starve to death if he didn't eat again..."

Lu Chen also got up with a smile. He almost understood that the old man was just an ordinary people after all. Just listen to some words.

After listening to the little girl, the old man hesitated, but his granddaughter was very stubborn. He decided to accompany xiaolika home first, and then drink some water to pretend to be good.

The opportunity is still left to the young man, who has lived enough.

He looked at the two travelers. "Our village of nicori is very hospitable, but there are no conditions at the moment..."

It seems that I can't explain why I didn't invite others to settle down after chatting for a long time. The old man thought and said, "why don't you... Come to the old man's house and sit down for a while?"

Lu Chen looked up at the already red sky. It was estimated that it would soon be dark. It was OK to stay in this village for one night today. He nodded and said, "thank you for taking in the old man."

The old man held little Lika's hand in front and said, "accommodation is OK, but don't think about eating. I can give you a drink at most."

Lu Chen and gulantin followed the old man to a dilapidated house on the other side of the village. The courtyard wall had collapsed and only one house was intact.

At this time in the yard, a beautiful woman in her twenties, dressed in coarse cloth clothes and carrying bowls of clear soup, walked to the big stone in the courtyard, which should be the "dining table".