MTL - Mercenaries and Adventurers-v4 Chapter 173 , Flowers in Fire, Difficult Young Refugees

On Kiel's side, he saw that priest Batar organized a group of young people to carry out church activities, so he didn't bother them. He walked in circles next to small groups of young refugees separated by villages.

He observed the organizational and physical conditions of these people, as well as their mental conditions. By the way, let the new refugee young people find their acquaintances and meet together.

Soon, Keir found that most of the young people were not in good physical condition, but at least they had the strength to walk and work. Perhaps it was because everyone had already eaten some of the God-given food last night, and there was something in their stomachs, so the young people who were sent out by the elderly among the refugees seemed to be looking okay at the moment.

There is no case of getting sick due to physical hunger and weakness.

These young people were standing or sitting, and some stood quietly, watching Kiel, the well-armed 'knight'. Some people were sitting on the grass with big thorns, and they were indifferent when they saw Keir walking past them, and even whispered and laughed.

Keel glanced at them and found that these people sat on the ground in much better physical condition than the others, and when they sat next to each other, they sat very closely, obviously they were loosely gathered together because of their acquaintance. , these people are organized people with a common interest.

In other words, they can also be called small-scale gang organizations that spontaneously emerged among refugees.

These guys, who are more male than female, each have short swords or long daggers, short knives and other weapons hanging around their waists. Compared with other unarmed young refugees, they are already considered 'sophisticated'.

This can be seen from the occasional frightened expressions of young people in other surrounding villages. It is estimated that these so-called refugee gangs not only steal and rob others during the checkpoint, but the refugees themselves are probably one of the most attacked.

That is to say, I don't know what method those old men used to get these people out of the Baishi City Wall checkpoint.

It didn't look like he was being threatened, it seemed that these gang members came out on their own initiative.

Keir held the hilt of the long sword at his waist, strode past the group of people, and even nodded to several young gang leaders who looked over. Keir's nod passed by, and he did not criticize these people's wanton behavior, which immediately made these people proud.

Someone laughed in a low voice, someone raised his chin and showed a strange smile of disdain to other people standing obediently like quails around him, and someone walked around with his hand on the young female member of the gang, which made the surrounding The eyes of the young villagers who have not yet married are staring straight. And the female gang member who was touched in public was not shy, and even twisted her body generously.

Keir didn't care about the behavior of these people, but secretly found some small future "jobs and tasks" waiting for them.

Make the best use of people, anyway, those old people 'send' these people out, there is probably no way out.

Maybe they have the idea of ​​finding a way out for their current situation, but Keel thinks it is more of a self-protection method chosen by those old people under difficult circumstances.

After all, there will always be a day when the food will be exhausted, and there are so many young men and women among the refugees who are ready to move because of difficulties. For the survival of others, these people can only be 'sent' out. act together.

Anyway, following the Batar priest, there is God-given food that can fill their stomachs. Maybe the group of people who are "sent" can really find a way to survive in the increasingly chaotic southern province.

-

Kiel circled the crowd of refugees several times, and waited until there were no more empty-handed young refugees coming out from the east gate of the checkpoint city wall, and then he came to the center surrounded by everyone and prepared to speak.

Unlike Kiel's side, Priest Batar's side has been exceptionally quiet.

Priest Batar, who was wearing a formal priest's robe, corrected the posture of praying in the wild for the new believers whose prayer movements were irregular. As for some messy prayers to the **** of agriculture, he can't take care of them in a short time.

Correct the prayer posture first, so that at least it looks very neat. Not only can outsiders see that they are an organized whole, but even the believers who are praying secretly open their eyes and look around, feeling that they don’t know each other well. Everyone I know prays to the same great **** in a neat posture. At least the sense of connection and trust brings us the sense of steadfastness.

After he finished correcting the prayer posture of each new believer, the young priest hammered his waist, stood and rested, and then came to the center where all the praying people sat around.

Here, the amulet statue placed on the top of the amber metal staff has glowed with a messy blue light. If you observe carefully, you can find that the fluorescence around the amulet statue is now greater than when the priest just took it out. .

When he came to the long staff standing upright on the grass, Priest Batar coughed lightly, and then began to tell a story about the introduction of the Saturnalia Church.

His voice is gentle, but as loud as possible, and his words are straightforward, without some descriptive words, trying to make the believers around him who are watching him understand, understand, and understand.

The story is very simple, it is the story of a small village in a precarious age.

In the chaotic era a long time ago, the small village could be overturned by external crises at any time, until a young Saturn priest, guided by the goddess of spring, came there in the spring just after a cold winter.

The little young priest was thin, but quite intelligent. Although he was despised by others in the village at first, he quickly gained the trust of the villagers by virtue of his wisdom and quick wit.

Thus, people began to rally around the young priest.

The professor trusted the advanced and effective planting techniques of his villagers, and when harvesting grain in autumn, he used his identity and magic spells to frighten away a small number of rogues who wanted to rob the grain.

As a result, more people united with the young priest.

In times of hardship, when the winters were always long, the young priest taught new knowledge and strength to those who rallied around him.

Through learning knowledge, the ignorant villagers know for the first time that the earth is a ball of earth floating in the void, and above the empty sky is a more distant universe, and people do not live on the back of a sea turtle, Nor is the sky a curtain of night or day drawn by the cloaks or chariots of other gods.

They learned some words, not many, but each learned to write his own name and that of his companions.

They learned to count, although there are not many, but everyone can finally accurately calculate how long their own food can last and how much it sells for.

They also picked up farm tools and practiced martial arts in the open fields, so that if the young priest left one day, they could rely on their own skills to defend the fruits of their labor.

The harsh but warm winter is over, and spring is here again.

This time, the young priest guided the people who believed in him, worked together to cultivate, and did many things.

Cutting wood to renovate the houses of each family, using traps to hunt animals that steal food, and using animal fur to make new clothes for people who believe in him.

During busy farming seasons, everyone took time to build small canals for water diversion, and in the envy of other villagers, after meeting their agricultural water needs, they generously distributed them to other villagers.

As a result, more people united around the young priest.

The young priest built a crude statue of Saturn on the edge of the farmland with stones dug out from the deep plowing of the field, so people knew the gods and churches represented by the young priest.

It was the harvest season again, this time the young priest stood behind everyone, smiling and watching everyone wave their sturdy farm tools, and drive away the scary-looking bandits and bandits, so no one bullied them again.

As the days passed, a wooden fence was built outside the village so that wild animals could not disturb the raised poultry.

The fields are more and more extensive, and early warning wooden towers and windmills are built, so the rough wheat cakes are far away from the villagers' dining tables, and replaced with fine bread.

The young priest also grows into a young man, just like the changes he brought to the original small village.

The smartest boy in the village packed his bags and set foot on a distant town with a small token of **** given by the young priest. Maybe it won't be many years before a former young priest will appear in another village in need .

The church guide story called "Flowers Growing in Fire" stopped here, and it was not that there was nothing to tell, but Priest Batar looked at the crowd gathered in Kiel opposite, and there was a fight.

-

"Everyone, listen to me. Although you come from different villages on the west side of the southern province, you may not be very familiar with it now. But in the future, you need to listen to my instructions for a certain period of time, and provide for me and the Bata of the Saturnalia Church. I am helping you with a mission that has been borne by the Reverend Ernst."

Keir spoke directly, telling the refugee youth what to do and what to do.

"This is not an easy task, Changmai Village. Maybe some people have heard of this remote village in the west of the southern province. This village is different from those of you who fled their hometown early. They encountered a worse situation. A group of people suddenly entered this vigilantly relaxed village one night before, arrested and kidnapped everyone in the village! And now they are nowhere to be seen!"

Kiel's words made some young men and women look scared. After all, many people took their family and friends, the whole family and the whole village to leave their unstable hometowns in order to avoid such a bad thing from happening, trying to cross the line. The checkpoint border in the west of the province, to reach the safe and war-free western province to avoid various dangers.

Although the life of fleeing is not easy, everyone has suffered a lot along the way, and suffered from hunger and hardship in the Baishi City Wall checkpoint, but at least there will be no disasters like Changmai Village.

"Please, Sir Knight, yes, who took all the villagers of Changmai Village away? Are they dead?"

A young female villager dared to ask a question. Keir hesitated for a moment, but said anyway, he had to see what good-looking guys were among these people.

Although it is said that they need their help, the slow-legged and soft-legged shrimp are not only useless, but also make things worse.

How could it be said that out of the 887 people, at least a hundred could be selected to be useful, and dozens of young villagers who could fight?

"It's a group of defeated troops who were defeated in the border war last year. The number is unknown, but there are at least hundreds of them."

As soon as Kiel finished speaking, he saw that most of the refugees flinched subconsciously.

Someone quietly took a step back, someone lowered their head, and someone even screamed softly: "Hundreds of soldiers! At least! God, please save me."

Keir frowned, he didn't expect these people to be so soft.

He raised his arm and pressed down, temporarily calming down the young people who were chattering: "Listen to me, I am a knight, and this is also my mission. Of course, I will be the main force in the battle."

"you're lying!"

"Shameless liar!"

"Speaking of it now, when the time comes, we must be at the forefront and do our best, right?"

Keel clicked his lips. If he said that he didn't mean it, he couldn't say that he didn't. However, this method was mainly used to deal with the refugee gang members he had seen before.

Ordinary young refugees don't have to use it this way.

"Quiet, quiet!"

He raised his voice a little, and Kiel continued, "It's not that I look down on everyone. You are really useless in combat. I promised the old people in your village before that I don't really need you to fight."

Keir tapped the metal horns on the forehead of the helmet with his fingers: "A safe camp, a safe village where even the people of Changmai Village can live safely with you in the future, this is what troubles me. This southern war The root cause of the chaos in the province is the war on the border. The war is endless and the chaos is endless. And none of us know when this war will end! Therefore, the most important thing is a place where everyone can live safely. "

"Where is such a place! Unless it's a big town, but I heard that some towns were rushed in by bad guys, and many people died."

Someone yelled like that, which immediately caused other people to follow suit.

What this person said is indeed correct, but regarding this point, Keir actually has a preliminary plan, but it is hard to say now, and he will have to look at it later.

After discussing it together, some people immediately felt that being pushed out of the checkpoint at this moment was a very risky thing.

Someone started, and immediately there were more than 20 people who wanted to move to the Baishi City Wall checkpoint and sneak away.

But Keir kept facing the Whitestone City Wall checkpoint, and he saw any changes in the crowd.

"Where do you want to go? Stop, those people over there!"

Keel shouted, and hundreds of young people immediately turned to look over, only to realize that some people had left everyone and were trying to sneak back into the checkpoint.

"Stop them! Those who stop will get double the food!"

It’s just that the words double the food came out of Kiel’s mouth. Immediately after the words fell, dozens of male villagers who were close to him ran out quickly, and caught those cowards who couldn’t run fast because of their timidity. .

These people were pressed through the crowd with their arms twisted. Although they were caught, they were not calm: "Everyone heard, this knight wants to find a safe place to arrange for us, this is to let everyone die ah!"

"That's right, don't talk about saving those people in Maizi Village, how many people are we going to die? Let's talk about the knight's imaginary arrangement. We escaped from our hometown with great difficulty. Although there is nothing to eat at the checkpoint, at least we won't be killed. People killed!"

"Going back to live will kill everyone! He rescued people, and finally left here, what about us who were left in the so-called 'safe village'? Isn't it just waiting to die!"

The more these people said, the more outrageous they became. Keir finally lost his composure. He strode over, and when he raised his palm to slap someone's face, he hesitated.

It was only then that he noticed that he was still wearing armor and gauntlets with metal armor on his hands. If he slapped it like this, the people who spoke probably lost half of their lives.

In the end, they didn't slap them, but just tapped the foreheads of these people with their fingers.

Turned the person over with his fingers.

"Drag the shoes on this man's feet and stuff them in his mouth."

When Kiel ordered this, the young people who followed him hesitated for a while, but followed suit.

Very well, although these people are greedy for the doubled food he promised, they can at least follow his orders simply. This is enough.

Kiel also has no ability to train these people into brave soldiers or fighters like Crow Knight and Rumi Knight~www.novelbuddy.com~ He doesn't have that ability, these people can help him cheaply and easily Rescue the people in Changmai Village without losing too much, and Kiel is satisfied.

Of course, without the appearance of these people, Keir also planned to save people, but since there are enough people to assist, he must make good use of them.

-

Keir was about to go back to the center of the crowd to speak again, but a group of young men and women with daggers on their waists stopped him: "Are you really planning to place us in the so-called safe village as these people just said? ?"

This group of people is another gang organization established in the Whitestone City Wall checkpoint. Kiel saw it when he was patrolling the crowd just now. There are more than 800 people, and there are as many as five similar small gang organizations.

It is estimated that those old people also understand that as time goes by, more and more young people will definitely join or create similar refugee gang organizations. Not only will it worsen the law and order in the checkpoint, and lead to the disgust and surrender of the soldiers at the checkpoint, but these gang organizations must be the first to bully the refugees themselves.

That's why those old people took this opportunity to kick him out, no, they tricked him out into Kiel's hands.

Looking at the dozen or so people blocking the way, Kiel put his hands on his waist, and responded with a higher level of momentum: "What? Is there anything wrong with my plan? I have a plan to keep you safe."

A somewhat robust young man in the lead squinted his eyes, pursed his mouth tightly, and said, "Yes, yes. But your so-called **** plan of %￥#￥%￥! Everything %￥%￥ is not good. !"

After finishing speaking, the whole person rushed forward two steps, and then kicked straight to Kiel's chest!