Heart of the Castle

Chapter 123 Decision to Migrate
"We can find solutions for ironware and food, but this place is already very dilapidated. Even if we start repairing it immediately, it will take more than ten days to get a rough scale." Li Wei rubbed his hot forehead with his hands, feeling very troublesome.

"Ten days? That's not acceptable! We need to return to the camp immediately." Sir Grace cried out in a low voice, "This rescue operation has concentrated [-]% of the manpower in the camp, and now there are only a dozen or so in the entire refugee camp." There are trained guards. If Master Brebe hadn't brought those strong blacksmith apprentices to join the guard work, we wouldn't have been able to bring so many people out."

"Grace is right. The camp is very empty now. Not to mention the attack by demons, even if it takes a long time, those unstable factors may cause a riot." Tang Na said with a serious face.

"Could it be that the only way is to give up the mine village?" Li Wei muttered to himself, and the guard captain Gilad who was sitting on the other side of the bonfire stood up angrily and said loudly, "I don't agree!"

"Sit down!" A somewhat slender hand grabbed Gilad's arm and pulled it down.Girard, who seemed quite burly, couldn't resist the power of this hand, and sat down on his original position.

It seemed that Fleischer's body was very slender, even a little weak, but she was able to wear a full set of metal armor and ride a horse to rush through the obstacles of the demon army. The strength of the female knight was obviously much stronger than her external image.Although Gilad is a good level 5 fighter, he hasn't realized the seeds of battle qi yet, so it's very common for Fleischer to suppress him.

"Knight Grievous, what are you doing..." Girard's face flushed red, it wasn't anger from being suppressed in strength, but a very incomprehensible feeling. "...This is the territory of your master, Sir Martin Knight!"

"It's Mrs. Levi's now!" Miss Frasier replied coldly, the flickering fire cast a dancing shadow on the heroine's handsome face, and even her expression seemed a little cloudy.

"I don't admit that Mine Village was defended by Sir Martin Knight with bloody battles. It is the inheritance, and it is also the inheritance of Knight Grievous. Why should he..." Gillard argued with a blushing neck, and pointed to the seat. Levi's nose across from him.

"Based on what I heard with my own ears, Master Martin's last wish before his death!" Fleischer interrupted unceremoniously, some kind of flame seemed to be jumping in the blue eyes of the female knight, but unlike her As soon as the eyes touched, Girard felt his whole body was numb from the cold, and the words he wanted to say suddenly turned into a silent murmur.

Fleischer's flaming eyes looked at the skinny butler Bart, who hurriedly spread his hands and said with a very sincere look: "Knight Grievous, I personally agree with Lord Levi's proposal." Decision, let alone abandoning Mine Village is almost an inevitable result. Since this is Lord Li Wei's territory, we can take away all the proof materials, and when the evil disaster is over, we will be able to recover it smoothly."

The female knight took a deep breath, and the coldness in her eyes faded slightly.She looked at Li Wei, and said in a somewhat difficult tone: "Lord Li Wei, this place is too far away from your village. With the current strength, there is no way to take care of both places. So... only Give up here for now..."

At the end, Frasier's voice became a little choked up, she raised her head suddenly, not wanting the tears in her eyes to be noticed, but where she didn't see, there were some scorching crystals streaking across the void, Sprinkled at Levi's feet.

Levi wanted to pat Fleischer's shoulder to comfort the extremely fragile female knight, but he just reached out his hand, but felt a little uncomfortable, so he had no choice but to respond in silence.

A gust of chilly wind blew by, the bonfire swayed and crackled, and the embers with sparks were blown into the air by the wind, pulling out a rather dazzling light.

The excitement of the militiamen who had worked hard all day was finally suppressed by fatigue, and the voice of speaking gradually disappeared, replaced by continuous grunting.Although Donner and Sir Grace were stronger, they were only more tired than ordinary militiamen, and they both fell asleep involuntarily.Girard took a break in the afternoon, but he couldn't recover his physical strength for a few hours, and now he can't keep his eyes open.Only Miss Fraser remained sober because of the support of grudge.

Neither Li Wei nor Butler Bart slept. The former was so excited that he almost didn't feel sleepy at all because he had just received the battle qi inheritance.The latter is because he does not have the ability to participate in the battle. He has been hiding in a safe cellar for the past few days. Although his expression looks a little sluggish, he can still hold on.

The three of them got together and talked softly by the light of the bonfire. Bart took out a quill from his pocket, and while providing the information he knew, he wrote down what Levi and Fleischer said in his notepad. superior.

After the catastrophe came, large tracts of land were covered by dense fog. Only when the sun was strongest at noon, could the dense fog be dispelled and bring a brief light to the land.Due to the extremely shortened daylight hours, many plants and animals have mutated, and the more vulnerable herbivores have all been extinct, while the powerful carnivores have become more cunning and vicious.

The refugee camp was half a day's walk away from the mine village, and most of the roads along the way were forcibly carved out of the dense forest.The villagers of Kuangkeng Village, who are mainly old, young, women, children and injured, can only move at a speed longer than half a day.Even before the disaster came, it was very difficult to move these hundreds of old, weak and wounded people to the refugee camp, let alone now.

Li Wei and Fleischer racked their brains and made various arrangements for the limited troops in their hands, but they still seemed a little cramped.The militiamen have not completed all combat training, and now they can only be used as ordinary villagers who have been armed.Quite a few qualified fighters in Mine Village survived, but most of them were seriously injured, without more than half a month of rest and treatment, it was pretty good to be able to barely walk, and they didn't even have the ability to protect themselves.

Harsh terrain, cunning and ferocious beasts, and wandering demons who do not know when to appear may all take the lives of the migrating villagers.What's more dangerous is that, according to the calculation of time, if the direction of travel is slightly deviated, you may have to spend a night in the dense forest.

That could very well be deadly.

In addition, there is another problem in Li Wei's heart that makes him feel thorny, that is, the incomparable attachment of farming families to the land.At the beginning of the catastrophe, Viscount Lane wanted to organize a large-scale relocation, moving some villages that were not easy to defend to the vicinity of the Viscount's castle.Regardless of whether this idea is correct or not, Viscount Lane has used his power to forcefully want to do this.However, the country bumpkins, who usually trembled with fear at the sight of even a knight, puffed up their chests this time and swore to keep their land.

Viscount Lane was of course very annoyed, wishing to kill all these bumpkins who dared to disobey the order.But the evil disaster has come, and demon stragglers have appeared everywhere. He must not be able to spend his limited force on these bumpkins, so he has to withdraw his order and never pay attention to the affairs of those villages.

When Levi raised this possibility, Fleischer was also silent.The female knight has traveled to many parts of the kingdom with her teacher, and has seen and heard about this situation.This is not a problem that can be solved by simple persuasion or even violence, and the key point is that Li Wei and his subordinates can no longer stay here, and tomorrow is the deadline for them to leave.

After all, the refugee camp is their foundation, and if the mine village wants to restore its original guarding force, it will not even be considered for more than half a month.

Mining Village does not have half a month, and Mining Village only has one last night.

(End of this chapter)