Alien world

Chapter 304 157. Ghost Town

"What's the use of your plea for help?"

The old mage standing in front of the window watched the pigeons fly north, "Ghost Town is hopeless."

"Then why did you come back? The notorious mage." The mayor who put back the quill raised his head.

"I have come to die with my enemies."

"But I don't want to. Ur, let Ghost Town survive the Ratman attack, and I will consider pardoning your crimes." The old mayor said in a low voice.The shield and sword hanging on the wall indicate that he was once a knight.

"Do you still need me to teach you? Followers..." The old mage's sarcasm made the old mayor nostalgic. Identity? Just give them food, identity, and a house for runaway cowards."

"But they're just people who don't even have the strength to leave..."

"Old servant, can you still lift your sword?" The old mage continued to sarcastically: "You are not even willing to sacrifice, how can you defend Ghost Town?"

His reflection disappeared from the window, and he came to the table and whispered: Why don't you give me the position of mayor....

"Okay, I'll leave it to you." The old mayor said boldly.

But the old mage made a playful request: "You have to beg me, kneel down and beg me..."

"As long as Ghost Town can survive." The old mayor stood up, walked around the desk, and knelt in front of the old mage's robe: "Please save Ghost Town and repel the invading ratmen..."

The old mage looked down at his gray hair and said to himself:

"What a dazzling justice..."

……

Beggars, lame people, old people... The people who are still in Ghost Town at this time are the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.

The old mage who leaned on his staff like a cane stood in front of these temporary conscripted "guards" and told them to fight for Ghost Town - in a threatening way: "Either become a townsman or die here. Have you figured it out?" ?”

Scattered crowd you look at me, I look at you.

"I... I didn't think about it!" shouted a scavenger, turned and ran away.

The flickering magic drilled through the head of the escapee, and the plopping corpse revealed the old mage holding the staff. He swept over the others who were silent: "It seems that no one has any objections."

"Each of you take a sack of food, and then go to recruit the rest of the town. I hope to see everyone in the town has a weapon in a while."

The awed crowd dispersed, and Tom hurried back to his "place".After the original owner fled, it became his and his sister's home.

"The mayor and the mage conscripted us, made us townspeople, and gave us weapons." Tom turned his back to his sister and was busy in the kitchen. He filled a bowl of wheat flour from the grain bag, and added another bowl after thinking about it. .

"Are we going to stay here?"

The head of the thin girl sitting on a wooden chair that didn't reach the floor followed the passing brother.

"Yes, we're staying here..."

Moving the chair and hiding the food bag on the beam, Tom told no one to talk about the food: "This will be our home."

"Home... what is it?"

"It means that we don't have to wander anymore, I will have a job, you will have friends, and we will have a warm place to live!"

"I want to live here..."

"Yes, this is our home!" The boy, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, looked forward to a better future: "So I want to protect our homeland!"

Tom didn't know how to bake, and he'd get two lumps of black charcoal if he tried to do it, so he boiled the semolina into two bowls of gruel, brought them to the table, and gorged himself to fill his stomach without worrying about getting hot.

Licking the wooden bowl, Tom found that his sister's bowl was only a little missing. "I'm full..." She pushed the bowl to Tom.

"It's okay, we won't be hungry anymore." Thom pushed the bowl back again, but after all, he was a child, and his stomach bulged with half the bowl left.

Tom finished eating the rest, picked up the shovel as a weapon and was about to go out, but was grabbed by the corner of his clothes by his sister, who held the spoon in the other hand: "When you are full, you have to work."

Tom took his sister and knocked on the house where smoke rose and people were shaking.It's not that no one resists guarding the town. Whenever this happens, the mage will descend from the sky and punish them with spells.

The composition of the guards became more and more complicated, there were gangsters, thieves and other bad guys, and later even the elderly and women picked up tools and followed them to build wooden walls and dig ditches.

Tom thus met Uncle Mick and Aunt Prami.They like their sister very much-or everyone here likes this lively and sensible little girl.

The "bad guys" among the guards laughed at him for his followers, but mostly envied them—they were the outcasts.

Even the old mayor knew her, and asked Tom what her name was.

Thom shook his head and said his sister had no name.His own name was misidentified by a clerk when he was moving things for the casino, and then he gave himself this name.

"After everything is over, I will name your sister." The words of the old mage surprised Tom, and the others envied.

As the wooden walls strengthened, ravines appeared, and each other got to know each other, Tom felt that the atmosphere of the town changed, and everyone was less desperate and began to smile.

As night fell, Tom and dozens of guards guarded a city wall.They took turns patrolling, and after the quiet first half of the night, he hugged the shovel and curled up under the wooden wall to take a nap.

Half asleep, he was awakened by the vibration of the ground.It was found that the sky was already cold, and the surrounding gravel and gravel were beating.The captain of the guard who put on his coat hurriedly ran from the hut to the wooden wall: "The cavalry is approaching us! Let's see who it is!"

The shouts of the townspeople woke up the small town in the early morning. The guards who used to be thieves climbed up the watchtower, then rang the alarm bell in the village, and the barking of dogs resounded over the small town.

The guards, seized by panic, stood on the wooden wall, saw the sound of galloping hooves, the dust kicked up on the dirt road, and saw the shining of the shield.

The old mage who rushed over expressed his complicity and relief: "You are saved..."

"It's us."

The old mayor next to him corrected.

At this time, they saw the young man named Tom climbing over the wooden wall.Under the gratified eyes of the two old men, he waved to the distant knights and shouted to them, "The knights are here! We are saved!"

……

Annan and the knight team saw the outline of the town in the distance in the early morning.

The team slowed down, looking at the closed town, the knight captain came out ominously... The town was too quiet.

As it got closer, the knight in front suddenly grabbed the reins.Because a mangled corpse pecked by crows was nailed to death in the middle of the road by arrows.

The scout in the cavalry rode close to the corpse, lingered around and then returned to the team: "The Ratmen have been here, but there are no living ones, and there are signs of decay for about three days."

They had just set off then.

(End of this chapter)