Lan Nuo suddenly kidnapped the leader of Iron City State, which immediately caused everyone in Iron City State to be in chaos. They did not expect that someone could be so powerful. For a moment, they did not know whether to continue the attack, and at this time their commander also
He started shouting at the top of his lungs: "Retreat! Retreat!"
Lan Nuo still couldn't understand what these people were saying, but he had already started the rehearsal and began to constantly try to figure out the language of these people. Based on his experience, he should be able to figure out the language of this world in no time.
The kidnapped commander still has some commanding talents. At least he has some combat experience and knows when not to force his soldiers to fight.
It is impossible for the two armies to fight when they are kidnapped. At this time, the soldiers cannot be allowed to retreat freely, because once they are allowed to retreat freely, it will be no different from a rout.
Once defeated, it would be equivalent to a complete defeat in the cold weapon era. Without a formation, the enemy could massacre 10 times the number of troops.
After he was kidnapped, he knew that he could no longer command, so he issued an order for the legions to retreat in an orderly manner. They slowly retreated towards the castle. What surprised him was that the soldiers who kidnapped him also followed.
Together they retreated towards the castle.
Originally, he thought that the person who kidnapped him was an enemy soldier. Under normal circumstances, he would have been kidnapped into the enemy's camp. Considering that he was a noble, as long as his family paid a certain ransom, he should be able to be redeemed.
of.
But now it seems that the assassination is not that simple. The assassin is likely to be a member of his own family, which is more troublesome.
He tried to negotiate with the assassin, but the assassin was as cold as ice and would not respond no matter what he said.
The most terrifying thing is that this assassin will occasionally imitate his speech. And the pronunciation is quite non-standard, as if he has some kind of mental illness? As a noble, he is not afraid of powerful enemies. Because during the battle, the noble's
Life can often be guaranteed. Lord wars in the feudal era were often like some kind of game between the lords.
Nobles never die. They just redistribute benefits through military battles.
But the premise of all rules is that someone abides by the rules. If you encounter a psychopath, then all the rules are meaningless. And the guy in front of you who can't speak well, although he has strong combat power, but how do you think about his intelligence?
All have some problems.
As a noble, this is what he is most afraid of encountering. However, as the two of them gradually retreated into the city, what made him feel a little relieved was that the guy who just couldn't understand what he said just now was speaking more and more fluently.
I started to express myself in other ways besides imitating his speech.
Lan Nuo has gradually figured out the language system of this world. After asking, he learned that the nobleman he kidnapped belonged to the Anvil family of Iron Castle and had a noble title roughly equivalent to a baron. If the name is transliterated, it should be called Fu
Liman.
"You can say whatever you want. Although I can't give you a title, I can give you a woman of wealth and status in this city. A warrior like you deserves to enjoy these."
When Freeman saw this powerful and terrifying assassin starting to talk to him, he thought he had taken control of the situation, so he started talking and bargaining, trying to change the situation in front of him through his sharp tongue.
However, he obviously thought too much. Lan Nuo could give up the chance of becoming the emperor of the interstellar empire. How could he be attracted by the temptation promised by a baron from a remote country like him?
Lan Nuo ignored the other party's temptation and asked instead: "How many people are there in your castle? How many people are there, including soldiers and civilians? How much food reserves are there? There is no farmland around your castle. Where does the food source come from?
Are you here? And how do you make money?"
Lan Nuo is quite curious about these questions. Although the area of the Ecological Roller is much smaller than the surface of the planet, this does not mean that a large population cannot survive here. The surface area of this area is already 10,000 square kilometers.
, already has the area of a smaller county-level administrative unit, which is theoretically enough to support the existence of a kingdom of hundreds of thousands of people.
"Surrender, it's useless for you to inquire about this information. Even if you learn this information, you can't escape." Freeman immediately calmed down after returning to the castle, as if he had found his home court.
To some extent this is true.
In the castle, a large number of guards rushed out and surrounded the two people. They were surrounded by a forest of spears, leaving no room for escape.
"This is already my territory. You can't escape even if you have wings. Isn't it good to live? Why must you die? No matter who your employer is, I can hire you at double the price."
Freeman felt that Lan Nuo must have kidnapped him for money or something else. At least he shouldn't have kidnapped him because of hatred. Although being a noble would inevitably offend some people, a number one person like Lan Nuo
He had no impression at all.
"It seems that you haven't recognized your situation yet. After returning to your castle, you feel that you have regained the initiative, right? These are the guards you have carefully cultivated? But judging from their condition, each one can
It doesn't look very good. There is a certain amount of malnutrition per capita. The personal guards you have trained are all at this level. I'm afraid it will be more difficult for ordinary people to survive.
Forget it, it’s better to let you recognize the reality as soon as possible, and save you from having those unrealistic fantasies.”
Lan Nuo held him hostage and suddenly made a move at lightning speed. In the blink of an eye, he snatched a long spear from the guard next to him. Both sides held the long spear at the same time, but the strength was not of the same order of magnitude. Although these guards did not
Severely malnourished, but definitely not strong. Lan Nuo's powerful explosive power easily snatched the weapons from their hands. Then he saw him turning the spear in his hand, holding the spear in his hand as if he was holding a stick.
It's like a toothpick. It can be waved easily and casually, as if it consumes no energy at all.
Freeman, who was held in his other hand, became the most solid shield. As long as he held it in his hand, he was immune to all attacks. With the cooperation of the spear and shield, he displayed exquisite
Incomparable marksmanship.
They almost just turned around in a circle. The weapons in the hands of the guards who besieged them were knocked to the ground one by one. They lay on the ground in embarrassment to pick up their own weapons. But the moment each of them lost their weapons,
The enemy's spear left a shallow wound on their neck or chest. Although the wound was just broken and bleeding slightly, it meant that the opponent could pierce their neck with just a little more force or
It pierced their chests.
This really couldn't make them not fearful. Freeman was terrified when he saw this scene. This kind of super master usually only appears in legends and stories, but he didn't expect to meet him in reality. It was like a dream.
generally.
"Do you understand the situation clearly now? Explain it to me honestly and you can answer whatever I ask. How much food does your city still have, and what is the source of the food reserves?"
"I said it all. Don't be impulsive, hero." Freeman felt the dagger pressed against his throat a little harder, and it seemed to have cut his skin. He finally understood the current situation clearly. No one can do it.
He was saved.
"The food in the city is enough for half a year, because there is a harvest altar in the city. Although the food produced by a harvest altar is not enough for everyone in the city, with the support of the stored food, half a year is enough."
Lan Nuo nodded. When he was observing outside the city just now, he had discovered that there were no fields around the castle. This was a very strange phenomenon. Normally, there would be a large number of farms around the castle, and farmers lived in the farms.
, and farmed and paid taxes to the owner of the castle. They also assumed certain military obligations to the nobles in the castle. This was a common phenomenon in the feudal era.
Of course, this refers to the feudal era in the West. If we follow the Western division method, strictly speaking, the feudal era in the East ended after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
When Lan Nuo was observing outside the castle just now, he was puzzled to find that although there were buildings like villages outside the castle, there was no cultivated land around it. What he found in the villages were small workshops similar to handmade factories.
Maybe this city is a handicraft city. But even so, in the ecological roller where every inch of land is precious, the surrounding areas should theoretically be cultivated. This is obviously unreasonable at present.
According to Lanno's estimation, this ecological roller is likely to have food sources other than farming. The efficiency of plants in absorbing sunlight is actually very low. And the lighting intensity in this world is actually not very high.
At least the intensity of light is much lower than that of normal sunlight. It is very difficult for plants to grow in this light environment. It is also a waste of energy.
The Harvest Altar sounded very much like the specific equipment Lanno had guessed. So he immediately asked Freeman to take him to see the Harvest Altar in the city.
The so-called harvest altar is actually just a huge machine. It has a large feeding port and a discharging port, but at this time, the machine has been decorated with various decorations to look like an altar.
At this moment, someone was pouring baskets of gray stuff into the feeding port, and the machine was slowly running amidst the roar. From the feeding port, there were pieces of stuff that looked quite hard, like soap.
was produced. And this thing seems to be the main food of this world.
"This is our harvest altar. This harvest altar is very well preserved. As long as enough water and corresponding ashes are put in, the altar will give us enough food.
However, if you don’t go out of the city to harvest grass for a long time, the dung will be burned and turned into ashes. The storage of ashes in the city is very insufficient. If there is not enough ashes and water, the Harvest Altar will not provide us with enough food."
Lan Nuo nodded and said, "Then take me to see your water source. I want to see how you use water."
Soon, Lan Nuo came to a huge water pipe. He could see patches-like existences stuck on the water pipe. These things were definitely not hand-made by people of this era. They looked simple.
The patch was stuck on the water pipe, but the places where water should be leaking were stuck tightly.
At the end of this huge water pipe, water is constantly being poured into a pool, and next to the pool is a bucket. Residents who come to fetch water one by one, the water in the pool is quite clean, and they have obviously passed by before being released from the pipe.
processed.
Lan Nuo was thoughtful and looked up at the distribution of clouds in the sky. Circles of water vapor would gather above his head, but the fog in mid-air was quite thin. He could also see the sky above his head and the other side. Between the ecological rollers
There is actually very little surface runoff in the drum, which means that the drum is actually quite dry, and the water source is purified by facilities left by the builders here.
Lan Nuo nodded and asked again: "Have any special disasters happened here recently?" He just looked at the water pipes around him and saw the large and small patches on them, and realized that the system in the ecological drum was probably quite old.
, this group of lords from the feudal era did not have the ability to repair these aging systems.
In this case, once the system fails, it will be a devastating blow to the residents of the ecological roller.
"The frequency of natural disasters has indeed become higher and higher recently. There was a floating disaster more than ten days and nights ago. At that time, the earth lost its grip on us. Once suspended in the air, it would float farther and farther away.
There was no way to return to the ground. The floating disaster was also a serious one. It lasted for half a day. Many people couldn't help but move and ended up floating hundreds of meters in the air.
It fell and was turned into a pulp on the spot."
"Huh? It doesn't look like it's simulating gravity. It has a device similar to a gravity generator. It seems like we need to raise our expectations for the technological level of this spacecraft again." Lan Nuo originally said when he saw the ecological roller.
It is also thought that the residents in the ecological roller rely on the rotation of the ecological roller to provide simulated gravity.
But now it seems that the situation is different from what I imagined. If gravity is simulated, this state of weightlessness will not suddenly appear. The rotation of the drum cannot be stopped even if it stops suddenly, which is not what they described.
In this way, there will be a phenomenon where someone is directly knocked to the ground by the super strong gravity and crushed into a pulp.
