Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 260

In the deep cold of autumn, Xia Houyan rode on the back of the white horse "Meteor", facing the biting north wind all the way, and shrankly turned up his collar.

Alice Comstock, who was following him on horseback, slanted her body and stretched out her hand from the air, and carefully adjusted the slightly crooked shoulder pads for the lord.

On the other side, Chris Mann rode on horseback, lowered his head and studied the map intently, and set up a pergola to look into the distance from time to time to confirm whether the team was heading in the right direction.

As for the remaining members of the Frost Maple Ridge hunting team, the royal horse followed behind the lord, almost dozing off due to the excessively slow horse speed and the bumpy road.

Eight or nine hours have passed since the opening ceremony of the "St. Augustus Festival" in the morning, and it is now evening when the sun is slowly setting.

Chris stared at the map to check again and again, finally raised his head, and reported in a helpless and tired tone:
"My lord, the Kemal Manor where the 'Red Flame Demon Vulture' lives is [-] kilometers north of the imperial capital—and according to the map, we are now more than ten kilometers away from the Kemal Manor: in other words , our hunting team only walked less than forty kilometers in more than eight hours..."

"That's less than five kilometers per hour." Master Laurie, who was swaying behind the lord on horseback, took a bite of the apple in his hand, and said vaguely, "My grandma can walk faster than this."

"Master, your grandmother died a long time ago." Chris reminded unceremoniously.

After listening to the report of his deputy commander, the lord looked into the distance with deep eyes, and he sighed with emotion after a long time:

"No way...we're going too fast..."

"F-quick?!" Chris opened his mouth wide, almost unable to speak:
Riding a horse can actually go at a speed of five kilometers per hour. The inhumane speed of the Shuangfengling hunting team is enough to make the human ancestors who first tamed the horse feel like a dead body.

"It's still too fast!" The lord nodded firmly, "Master Laurie, you spent time around the imperial capital when you were young. I wonder if there is any place nearby where we can spend time? Let's go fishing or take a bath." Row……"

"But..." Chris said in amazement, "If this continues, it will be dark when we arrive at Kemal Manor!"

"So it's too fast!" Xia Houyan folded his arms and raised his face, "Chris, use your clever little brain to find a way to slow down the speed as much as possible, it is best to step on tomorrow morning Arriving at the manor at sunrise..."

"Then how about..." Chris said embarrassingly, "Let's take a detour?"

"Good!" The lord applauded, turned around and shouted at the members of the hunting team, "You all remember, don't be dazzled by your sense of honor and good face, our Shuangfengling along the way Strategy is just a word for 'dragging'!"

"Yes..." the hunting team members replied weakly.

Chris shook his head helplessly, pulled the reins and turned slightly, and began to lead the team around an arc.

——The cause of all this can be traced back to eight hours ago.

Earl Philip Netwan raised the banner of justice and denounced Frost Maple Ridge's dereliction of duty in public, causing commotion in the Flower Square almost immediately;

And after some chaotic wrangling, swearing, and messing with each other, the incident finally got the final result from His Majesty Basil:

The Frost Maple Ridge hunting team under the name of the Igor family will be the first to march to Kemal Manor as the leader and vanguard of the empire's territories in accordance with Earl Netwan's proposal!
——After this decision was made, all the nobles of the empire looked at Lord Shuangfengling in the eyes, only pure sarcasm and sorrowful emotions remained:
As we all know, the biggest unlucky guy in a war is always the vanguard: no matter how many immortal feats the friendly troops behind you make, and no matter how many people dominate the war, the only task of these front row pawns is to put themselves A stinky skin was buried on the front line of the battlefield to buy a little bit of pitiful output time for the main force behind him;

Hunting monsters and fighting in battle are very similar in various senses:

The Frost Maple Ridge hunting team assigned to be the front row, its biggest role is to attract the firepower of the Red Flame Demon Vulture, and then expose the corpses in the wilderness to wait for the big territory team behind them to leisurely harvest the heads... Ah no, bird heads .

There is a saying that once a general succeeds, all bones will die. Before Xia Houyan had time to become a "first general", he was arranged to be a "white bone".

However, compared to the ashen face of the top Igor family members after hearing the news, the other imperial lords were not surprised by this decision:

Everyone in the imperial capital knows that the young son of Vincent Igor beat Earl Netwan's only son to the bum in front of countless distinguished guests. It's not surprising that he will attack in public - what His Majesty Basil needs to do is to weigh the importance of the Igor family and the Netwan family:

One is a poor territory that committed a serious case of treason and was dispatched to the border of the empire, and the other is a veteran nobleman who has long been loyal to the imperial family and sent a few boxes of fine wine to Her Majesty the Queen just half a month ago...

Even if His Majesty Basil suffers from dementia, which is more important at the two ends of the scale, he can tell the difference at a glance!
In fact, when His Majesty's ruling was announced, most of the nobles in the imperial capital had no sympathy for Shuangfengling at all:

As a child of a rebel, you are lucky not to have your head chopped off. You can maintain your status as a noble lord thanks to His Majesty the Emperor’s kindness. As a result, you offended the real nobles as soon as you arrived in the imperial capital—doing such a thing , who will die if you don't die? !

So, this morning, the hunting team of the Igor family set off for the Kemal Manor in disgrace under the mocking gaze of the majority of the people in the imperial capital;
Even Xia Houyan has to admit that the feudal lords of the empire are really skilled in raising the banner. They can be called old sows with bras, one set after another-don't look at Shuangfengling in Knight Earl Wan was framed and ate, but they were arranged to be sent to death as human shields, and ran to the mouths of Richelieu and Master Mephisto who saw them off, and it became:
"Dear Elliott Igor, today, you and your Frost Maple Ridge, under the guidance of the Supreme Holy God, will be the first to devote themselves to the epic cause of killing the monsters in purgatory! With courage and dedication, wash away the past shame and sins of the family, and open up the way forward for the brave of all empire territories! May the eternal flame of the Holy Light Cathedral guide you in the dark night!"

However, the aristocrats of the imperial capital and the Earl of Netwan, who have calculated thousands of times, did not expect that there is only one kind of person in the world who is the most difficult to defeat - that is, the warrior who dares to resolutely abandon everything around him in order to realize his ideal;
And Xia Houyan, who is an earth traveler, is one of the best:
Because he is shameless.

Almost at the same time when the Frost Maple Ridge hunting team set off from the "Gate of Triumph" at the north gate of the imperial capital, the Lord Lord of Frost Maple Ridge came up with a brilliant idea:

Didn't you let Shuangfengling go first?Well, we will do so in Shuangfengling;

But the imperial capital is [-] kilometers away from the Kemal Manor. You don’t care how fast or slow I walk on the road, right?
In fact, after Xia Houyan led the team to leave the city gate, it was an incomparably swift sprint, which made the onlookers in the imperial capital excitedly think that these wilderness fools were so angry that they lost their minds and wished to rush to die at the feet of the Red Flame Demon Vulture;

However, the super high starting speed of the Frost Maple Ridge Hunting Team is just to get rid of the sight of other hunting teams...

After completely getting rid of the other territorial teams that set off later, the lord led the team secretly for a while, and used the collision with the human tricycle to calculate the ultimate speed of the tricycle speeding. First, he ran to the Hadrian River to touch it. After a while of fish (literal meaning), it took half a day to pick apples on the farm in the north of the city, and finally created a legendary indicator that "can't cover [-] kilometers in eight hours", which is almost unheard of on the Haiwen continent.

Xia Houyan's idea is actually very simple:
As long as Shuangfengling spends enough time on the road, by the time they arrive at the Kemal Manor, the hunting teams in other territories will probably be finished, and maybe they can have a celebration drink...

——Anyway, after being taught by Master Laurie, Xia Houyan also knew that relying on the strength of Shuangfengling would not be able to achieve results in the hunting competition, so he simply put it badly to the end and avoided the competition passively...

Of course, this strange development of the lord's competition idea was not expected by Master Laurie at the beginning:

The master at least said that "the competition shows the demeanor, the progress, and the spiritual quality";
Who the hell would have thought that the lord would lose all his demeanor, progress and spiritual quality!
In fact, after the team set off, Master Laurie and Alice had advised Xiahou officials well.

Master Laurie's speech, contrary to the abnormal state of being idle, seemed very earnest:

"My lord, please think twice, think twice! Our family was designated by His Majesty the Emperor as the hunting vanguard. If you deliberately procrastinate on the road and don't participate in the battle, then Shuangfengling will lose all face! This, this will make us the Igor family how to hang out in the circle of imperial aristocrats in the future! We will be regarded as cowards and stabbed in the back!"

The lord's response was full of the stubborn attitude of manure in a manure pit:

"My power as a lord is unlimited, I have the final say on this matter! Face? How much is face worth?! In order to fight for this face for the family, we went to serve as human shields for other territories, and what we gave away was our Shuang The fate of the Fengling brothers and sisters! Lao Tzu's lordship is for the people, not for the orders of the foolish emperor and the fearful words of the foolish nobles!"

As a result, Chris Mann could only hold his nose, and led the team on the road in accordance with the Lord Lord's instructions to delay time.

However, in stark contrast to the generally gloomy mood of the members of the hunting team, the lord's journey along the way is like a leader in research, full of a relaxed attitude and a joyful attitude of enjoying life:

Not only did Ya personally roll up her trousers and go down the Hadrian River to catch a fat-headed fish, but she also kindly uncovered a few pot covers at the fruit farmers’ homes in the north of the city, and made a good investigation into the sales of the products of the fruit farmers in the Central Plains during the harvest season;
Even, in order to praise the spirit of slowing down the hunting team and rejecting introversion, the lord even wrote a poem on horseback with great interest to commemorate the great ancestor of the Igor family:
Remember the early days of the Empire

everyone simple
kill one die one

Heishui Town in the morning
The long street is dark and there are no living people

Old Undead Zombie Breathing Cold
Former corpse hardened slowly
Birth, old age, sickness and death are slow
Only once in a lifetime is enough to burp

The former castle is also beautiful
The city gate is beautiful

If you lock it, zombies can't get in

After one poem, Master Laurie could only secretly rejoice, fortunately, the lord went to the city to study magic, instead of learning poetry, comedy and art like many aristocratic children——

——The master originally thought that the lord's magic talent was not good enough, but after listening to this nonsense crooked poem, he only had admiration for the lord's magical literacy.

Seeing his subordinates scoff at his shamelessly falsified masterpiece, Xia Houyan rolled his eyes and said to himself that you Western feudal barbarians know nothing about modern poetry...

However, the journey is like love and house property rights, there is always an end.

The hunting team of the Igor family had already tried their best to pass the time on the road, but at dawn the next day, they arrived at the outskirts of the Kemal Manor.

The scorching flames had dyed half of the sky, red as blood.

A candle man covered in charcoal black and with a burning head on his head stumbled past the hunting team of the Igor family, then fell to the ground with a plop, and did not move anymore.

Even though there was a small hill and hundreds of meters away from the Kemal Manor, Xia Houyan could still hear the screams coming from the wind, the sound of arrows piercing the air, and the howling of flames.

Feeling the scorching temperature in the air, Alice Comstock and Chris Mann drew their weapons together on horseback, guarding the Lord Lord.

"Fuck!" Master Laurie opened his mouth wide, showing his yellow teeth, "This... my lord, why is it almost morning, and the hunting teams in other territories are still fighting with the Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture? !"

Xia Houyan was silent for a moment, raised his head, and roared loudly and righteously:
"Everyone, I seem to have dropped the protective sachet that Anjie prepared for me in the middle of the road ten kilometers ago... The Shuangfengling hunting team listened to the order and immediately turned their horses around. Let's go back to pick up things!"

A certain unscrupulous lord pulled the rein of his horse and was about to run when he suddenly heard a shrill scream:

"Y-Master Igor—you are finally here! I beg you, hurry, save us!"

"Is anyone talking?" Xia Houyan turned his head and asked in confusion.

"Yes." Chris Mann hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded and stretched out his hand, "It's there."

——Chris's finger pointed at an imperial knight who was staggering towards the Frost Maple Ridge team step by step, and was extremely embarrassed.

Xia Houyan let out a long sigh, and galloped up to meet the knight who asked for help.

When passing by Chris Mann, he patted the young man on the shoulder encouragingly:

"Chris, your biggest problem is that you can't pretend to be confused, you have to change..."

(End of this chapter)