Our family is in decline

Chapter 377 It turns out you also...

"It always feels so quiet. There's no one on the street. It's completely different from how busy it is during the day." A slightly frivolous young man walked around the street with his agile eyes by the light of the fire.

"Nonsense, it's really going to be a big problem if someone hangs out in the middle of the night." Another manager couldn't help complaining after hearing this, and then yawned, "Ah~ it's over in two hours, you can go back and have a good sleep Sleep."

The two were patrolling the streets, but just after he finished speaking, he noticed a figure sneaking out of the camp and not knowing what he wanted to do.

"Don't move! What are you doing?"

The two people who came out to patrol shouted directly forward to stop the person, raised their torches and walked over quickly.

And the guy didn't even struggle or run away, he just bowed and hugged his waist and waited for the two of them to come over.

"Two adults, I'm hungry and looking for the toilet." The expression on the man's face looked very awkward under the firelight, and these words could not help but make people feel disgusted.

"Isn't there a toilet over there? Why do you have to come here..."

According to the regulations, he must at least check and hear the news, register his name, and hand it over to the other side for demerit. This demerit will even be recorded in his team. It means that the captain's management is not good, which can be said to be very strict.

But before the man could finish speaking, the young man beside him raised his hand and interrupted his companion.

"Hey, brother, he can't control things like a bad stomach. Let's forget it this time. After you solve it, go back quickly and don't get caught again."

The young man said and waved his hand to send the person away. The companion wanted to say something more, but he turned away and pulled away.

"Ouch~ What are you doing?" After they were separated for a while, the companion couldn't help complaining, "Do you know that according to the regulations..."

"Of course I know, and I also know there's something wrong with him."

My companion wanted to say something else, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but was stunned, and his face fell instantly, "Then you know you still do this? It really killed me. I was promoted with great difficulty, but I fought hard to get back... …”

The reason he is standing here today is because in the early stages of development, their team bravely stood up to resist when they were attacked by cultists, and successfully persisted until the regular army arrived.

I was a little scared when I thought about it later, because only five of the ten people with him were still alive.

But compared to him, the young man who dominated the situation was much calmer and could even laugh.

"Don't worry yet, we are going to make great achievements this time."

Regardless of his companion's reaction, he began to explain himself.

"That person looks new and is probably a new arrival these days, but I remember that he should be in the dormitory in the second district. Even if he needs to go to the toilet, he shouldn't run here. There is definitely something wrong with him.

But it's not a warehouse or anything like that. Why would you go there if you want to cause damage? There’s nothing worth destroying here…”

"What do you want to do?" The companion soon understood that he was doing this to let the man go deliberately in order to catch a big fish in a long-term way.

"I suspect they are cultists who have sneaked in." When talking about this young man, he couldn't help but look solemn. "I will follow him to see what he is going to do. If I don't come back in half an hour, please notify the army immediately."

When the companion heard the word cultist, he instinctively felt fear, but he hesitated when he heard that the young man was going to take risks alone.

"It's too dangerous. Why don't we come together so that everyone can take care of us?"

"It's inconvenient to have so many people. Wait for my news." The young man raised his hand and patted his companion on the shoulder, smiled and walked past, "I don't want you to take the credit away from me."

His companion froze in place. He understood that the young man knew that he was scared, so he said this to make himself feel better.

Seeing the young man's figure disappear under the light of the fire, he stopped staying and walked towards the military camp.

The youth's movements were basically not affected. He even had a hand in the construction here. Even without the torch, he could easily walk in it and quickly followed the guy.

Sure enough, I wasn’t going to the toilet...

The young man watched from a distance as the guy came to a remote corner of the camp, and as time went by, people kept coming.

It was so dark that no one could be seen clearly, but gathering in private was enough to show that these guys were definitely not normal.

There was nothing to say next. The young man went back to notify the stationed army, and several teams of people came directly to catch all these guys.

Some people with abnormal brains still want to resist, but facing the soldiers' neat formation is an act of giving away their lives.

A completely ridiculous battle was quickly suppressed by the army.

At the same time, the army directly moved in and took control of the entire camp to eliminate the remaining cultists.

I'm destined to have trouble sleeping tonight...

At the same time, an action broke out in another camp in the northern development zone had just begun.

The reason why the cultists here were discovered was even more bizarre. Their gathering successfully evaded patrols, but in the end they were discovered due to reports from insiders.

An elite team raided a dormitory, and the leader was dragged from his bed and taken away by soldiers.

At first, he kept denying it, claiming that he had arrested the wrong person, until he was dragged out and crushed in front of several people.

"is it him?"

"Yes, he is the leader of those cultists."

Under the dim light of the fire, when the man saw the downline he had grown up in the past few days identifying himself, he immediately understood something.

"You stupid guy! Have you forgotten what they did to you? You gave up on ascension! Damn traitor!"

"We have never been friends, let alone traitors." The man had no regrets at all, and his expression was a little cold. "Although I am a criminal, I have never given up my loyalty to the lord."

The reason why I came here is because I made a mistake, which has nothing to do with the lord. I have disappointed the lord once, and I must make the right choice this time.

loyalty!

It is also difficult for cultists to sneak in. Only those who have not been seriously corrupted by the cult can sneak in.

These people have no special abilities, and if they want to expand their strength, they naturally need to develop followers and pull down the line like a pyramid scheme.

But that should be under stable circumstances, not doing this here.

It is obvious that the cultist in this camp is not restless. He is greedy and wants more, so he smartly goes offline.

Then the cultists noticed him, an unpopular criminal who did the hardest work.

After inquiring about the situation, he started to contact these people and started with his current tragic situation. They were very good at this method.

It's just that it's hard for cultists to understand why a lord who gave up on them because of "a little caprice of power" deserves such loyalty.

He joined under false pretenses, and after identifying all the cultists who had sneaked in, he jumped directly to the garrison and blew himself up.

The precise arrest operation took away the cultists who had sneaked in one by one, and there were even new ones who were developed. As for what was waiting for them, it was hard to say.

The lord is benevolent, but his benevolence is only for his own people.

But a strange situation occurred, because the person in charge of the camp also came with people to arrest him, and under his testimony, another person who was developed by the cultists also jumped to defection.

It turns out you are too...

In other words, the two guys these cultists came to develop are all undercover.

Damn it...I wouldn't dare to write it like this in a novel.

Because of the undercover identification, they didn't even need to do a little screening like other camps, but blasted accurately to find out the cultists who had mixed in.

At the same time, their actions were also exposed, but the information the two undercover agents had just received was incomplete. They only knew that the cultists wanted to use their familiar faces here to spread rumors and encourage rebellion.

It's a pity that they were taken down directly without even having time to encourage ordinary people.

The arrest lasted all night, and the torture of the cult leader almost also lasted all night.

"Speak quickly! What are your actions?"

"Death and despair will cover the entire Hamlet, I will ascend, and you are destined to fall. Believe in my Lord and go find the last..."

"Looking for your mother!" The soldier punched the leader so hard that his nose was crooked. "Why are you pretending to be your mother? You are a pure loser and you have the nerve to bark here!"

These soldiers who came from the training ground do not believe in those messy things. They only believe in the lords and military orders. Preaching to them is equivalent to the church preaching to pagan fanatics.

But he couldn't ask any more questions until he knocked the leader unconscious. Under certain circumstances, although he was stupid and arrogant and ruined the arrangement by being smart, his loyalty to the Ascension Sect cannot be questioned. No wonder he can be the leader.

It's just that Hamlet doesn't allow such awesome cultists!

"Prepare to send someone back to contact and report to the lord what happened to see if these guys should be escorted back to the town or executed on the spot?"

The squadron leader here had just given the order when he heard soldiers running back to report.

"Report! The brothers from the sentry tower noticed smoke rising from the west. Judging from the direction, it should be one of the farms."

"Martial law, work is suspended for one day, no one is allowed to move around without orders, and soldiers take over the camp."

The Ascension Sect has put a lot of manpower into the operation this time, and they are likely to take this opportunity to severely damage Hamlet.

But no matter how strong they are, they have their limits, especially after Lance's targeted attack, the number of members decreased a lot.

After the main attack direction was placed in the town and outpost, most of the elites and manpower were invested in these two places, and there were not so many manpower put in other places.

The incidents that occurred in the two wilderness development areas this time were actually caused by some cultists mixed in among the refugees who were released.

It's a pity that both of them were exposed in advance due to different circumstances. When they failed to inspire ordinary people, these guys themselves are ordinary people and cannot make a difference against the army.

However, the person in charge of the camp couldn't help but feel uneasy when he saw the slowly rising smoke. He could only stick to the camp and wait for new orders.

…………

At dawn, a convoy loaded with goods was driving on the old road. Apart from the goods, a lot of people gathered around the convoy, and it seemed very lively for a while.

The old road leading to Hamlet has not been as busy as it is today for more than ten years.

Although most of these were just refugees in ragged clothes, there were also some slightly normal people following the caravan.

The only people who dare to take this road at this time are the people from the Walter Business Group, and the person in charge of this team is Vic.

He took advantage of this crisis to contact some skilled workers in Owendo City who were implicated by the changes in the current situation. Workers and serfs were the same to the masters. They were not taken seriously. In the face of sudden disasters, even food was scarce. Can't afford it.

In addition, the development of food-related plans, as well as organizational construction, activity development, etc. need to be reported to the Lord.

As expected, only working is the most training thing. Now Vic is wearing a hunting suit that is easy to move around, a big-brimmed hat that can protect the sun from the sun, and a pistol in his waist.

The figure riding on the horse was tall and strong, and the eyes he glanced through the brim of his hat were majestic. He looked like a nobleman out hunting.

No matter who looks at it, it is impossible to think that this person was a child of a serf a year ago.

"Report!"

The convoy was very long, and the message could not be conveyed by shouting, but by the guards riding horses.

These people either came from the Hamlet training camp or were severely trained. Unlike the ordinary caravan guards who only know how to fight bravely, they know how to cooperate with each other and have received military training.

The caravan has faced many enemies, including robbers and bandits, crazy refugees, deserters with equipment, etc., but the fact that they escaped unscathed every time is enough to illustrate the situation.

"What's going on?" Vic looked at the guard who had returned from reconnaissance calmly.

The convoy is heavy and heavy, and it is easy for something to happen before you have time to react when attacked. Therefore, for your own safety, you need to send out some more mobile guards to scout the surrounding area.

But this means that a lot of horses are needed. The average caravan would rather use these horse-drawn carts than do this, because the profit of pulling one more cart will be one point higher.

Or maybe it's not that they don't want to do something, but they don't have the capital. This is why small caravans have poor risk resistance.

"We found a team in front who were suspected of having a strange disease. Do we want to drive them away?"

Vic couldn't help but frown when he heard this. The soldiers had learned some first aid and naturally understood the horror of infectious diseases.

"We are a caravan now, not private soldiers of those fallen nobles. Why do you want to be so overbearing?" Vic rejected this without much hesitation, "Bullying the weak is not what we want to do. This road is so big. Just adjust your fleet to avoid them and don’t cause trouble.”

Vic was not a good person. When he was in Ovendo City, he and Walter were preparing for the grain war operation. During this period, he led the team to act as horse bandits to rob other grain merchants' goods many times, and then sold them back to them.

But now they are a caravan and need to play their roles well, not to mention there are many craftsmen in the team. He doesn't want to cause complications because of this trivial matter.