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Chapter 403 The City Lord Who Died in Battle

A nobleman said: "We... really want to leave? Our family sold all the remaining ancestral property and invested it here. If we leave now, our future life may be unsustainable."

The other said: "Who is not, but what can we do if we don't leave? You have seen the situation outside. Although it seems that you can still fight those monsters now, we all know that the force in the hands of the city lord is not enough. It can't consume those monsters."

Several nobles sighed suddenly. It was originally a long-term business that made a lot of money, but it ended up losing everything at the beginning, and it was unacceptable to put it on anyone.

But in the final analysis, life is the most important thing. If you don't run away, not only the money will be gone, but people will also have to be thrown here.

"Walk……?"

"Go! If you don't go now, when you really can't stand it, I'm afraid you won't be able to go if you want to."

"Since we are leaving, let's not empty-handed..."

"That's right!"

A few people got together, and you and I began to perfect their retreat plan and strive for more benefits.

Although the Brocade Empire does not allow nobles to recruit soldiers, but which noble family does not have family guards, although the number is not large, they are not a small number together. If there is no accident, the safety issue can still be guaranteed.

These little nobles discussed the plan and thought that the city lord would stop them when they ran away.

But what surprised them was that there was a lot of movement about their departure, but the city lord and the guarding soldiers, as if they were intentionally letting them go, did not appear in their plan from beginning to end.

Even though they took a lot of things that shouldn't be taken, they were not stopped. Those soldiers who were supposed to guard were transferred away by the city lord at that time, and went with the city lord to support a few adventurers who were attacked by the harpies. up.

Does the city lord really not know their plan, no.

But at this time now, everyone is planning their retreat in their hearts.

Although they didn't know what the city lord's plan was, what these little nobles knew was that the city lord was also planning something, and their departure might also be part of this plan.

The aristocrats went to empty houses, but they couldn't hide it from the eyes of the people in this half-finished city. The city lord who received the news was very angry. He rode on a horse and led the guards to carefully inspect the empty aristocratic houses.

Immediately after hearing the report from the guards, the city lord cursed and even threatened to report to the empire in public, because when those little nobles left, they stole some of the spare weapons and food reserves. Stealing ordnance was a serious crime in the Brocade Empire.

Naturally, it is impossible to hide this news from the adventurers. They were ordered to cooperate with the defenders in the city to defend the city. They were originally unwilling, even very disgusted and worried. The escape of these nobles was secretly remembered by them. .

Quite a few adventurers have a little mentality. The adventurers naturally know what is going on with the nobles here.

Those nobles wanted to leave the city even at a huge price, probably because in the eyes of these well-informed nobles, there was no hope of staying in this city.

So, the nobles can run, why can't they run?

Aristocrats have names and surnames anyway, and these adventurers only need to change their clothes and throw away their weapons so that no one can recognize them.

In this way, the food warehouses in the city were stolen again, and some 'foresight' adventurers brought enough dry food and headed south at night.

As for going to other cities in the Meteor Mountains, that is impossible.

No one is stupid, if you run, you have to run thoroughly, completely run out of the big fire pit of the Meteorite Mountains, is it necessary to run to other cities here to be recruited again? !
The city lord cooperated very well and staged the previous scene of "swearing at the street" again, but everyone in the city knew that this somewhat "worse" city lord could only use his tongue quickly.

There are not many regular soldiers in the city, and it is naturally very exhausting to defend the Harpy along the simple city wall during the day, and it is impossible to perform other tasks at night.

Therefore, the city lord very "cooperatively" handed over the task of guarding the food to the three largest groups of adventurers in the city, and asked them to supervise each other and guard the food warehouse.

The following plot was not as expected by the city lord. The three groups of adventurers not only ran away overnight, but also took away the inventory in the warehouse in one fell swoop, taking away all the already small inventory.

Now, even the most stupid adventurer can understand that this city is over, and if you don't run, you really can't run.

Facing the simple city gate that was unguarded at night, the adventurers filed out and ran away within two nights.

What is strange is that none of these adventurers thought why the city lord's guard would sleep so 'dead' at night, and no one stopped them.

Where are the city guards at this time? They are all in the vacant houses near the humble city lord's mansion.

As there are fewer and fewer people in the city, they have to gather together to ensure their own safety.

"Go clean?" the city lord asked his guards.

"Go clean!" The guard replied.

"Have all the family members gone out?"

"The caravan sent a telegram, ma'am, they have already left the range of the Meteor Mountains."

The city lord nodded and said, "Send them a telegram and wait for us at the place we planned."

Although the city lord's family fortune is in decline, that is relatively speaking. Being one of the five city lords naturally has something to offer.

Among other things, as a warrior who has made meritorious service in the war and was named the city lord, there is nothing to say about the team under him, and their loyalty to him is still very high.

As a soldier with a high position, he has already understood that they and those adventurers have been used by the empire as a human line of defense against the enemies of the plane, and it can be said that they have been abandoned.

He had already guessed that the imperial army at this moment had already begun to build a new line of defense at the border of the Meteorite Mountains.

And they and those adventurers are the abandoned sons who delay the time for dispatching troops and building defense facilities for the empire.

He knew that there were not many paths he could choose. Even if he pretended that the city was breached by the Harpy, and he was defeated and retreated, he would be dragged to the new line of defense along with his guards because of his own mistakes. Keep working hard.

At that time, even if these deserters are not executed, they will be placed at the forefront, accepting the supervision of the regular army of the empire to resist the harpies, and they still have a narrow escape.

Therefore, after the city lord analyzed the situation with his guards, they chose another way, which was to pretend that they all died in battle in the city.

(End of this chapter)