Ten carriages set off from Cold Wind City and headed south along the road opened in the wilderness. The carriages were all heavy-duty models with closed carriages, as if they were transporting goods to a warehouse of the Harmony Chamber of Commerce.
When the motorcade left the city gate, the driver raised his whip and drove away the refugees who had gathered around him. The crackle of the whip tip was quite scary. But the refugees would rather be whipped than come forward.
In a carriage in the middle, Old Bank could clearly see the situation outside through the observation hole of the carriage.
It has been more than half a year since the Long Legs family was driven away, and the city has changed dramatically.
On the way from Broken Bridge City, Old Bank noticed that the roads around Coldwind City had been completely renovated. The roads were widened, rebuilt, compacted, drainage ditches added, and specially maintained.
Some slopes and curves have also been dug out and straightened. The amount of work is not small, but the traffic environment has been greatly improved.
Improved roads make it easier to circulate people and materials. Although the surrounding areas of the city are still poor, the lives of residents have improved tremendously.
As for the refugees outside the city, they have existed for decades. They are bankrupt farmers or urban residents. They have no choice but to work outside the city.
The Long Legs family has never taken care of these refugees, and they don't know how many there are specifically. The nobles only treat the refugees as if they have psoriasis, and they will clear them out at every turn.
When Victor Hugo took control of Cold Wind City, he did everything possible to conduct a population census. After completing the census within the city, he began to conduct a census outside the city, striving to compile a realistic population roster.
Old Bank could not understand the purpose of this move. But after the roads and population were determined, at least the city became orderly. This alone is a great good governance.
Because every day the city accepts some immigrants, and those who are lucky can become city residents. The refugees gather around them desperately, hoping to find a job to make a living.
Because the opportunity is rare, as soon as the city gate is opened, no matter who comes out of the city, the refugees will flock up. Even if the person who comes is not the foreman of hired workers, it will not matter if he receives a few whips.
Besides, the 'masters' in the city are much more polite now, and it doesn't hurt much if they hit someone.
But the convoy leaving the city was not here to hire workers. The coachmen drove them all the way south. The ten heavily loaded carriages passed through the shanty towns outside the city, passed through the surrounding villages and farmhouses, and passed through the wilderness woods and grasslands.
There were several people in the same carriage as Old Bank, but he didn't recognize them. He only knew that they were from the "Special Weapons and Tactics Team" of the Cold Wind City Inspection Office.
This name is too strange and completely confusing. But the people in the city call this team the "Hunting Team", and the leader is Adrian, the city lord's confidant.
There are more than a dozen members of this team, all of whom are basically at level five or six. There are orc warriors, half-elf archers, halfling rogues, and priests from the 'Mother of Plagues', who specialize in doing wet work for the city lord.
Even after repeated clean-ups, there are still a large number of bandits and villains around the city, including legendary beasts. Anyone who dares to cause trouble around Cold Wind City will be cleared by the 'Hunting Team'.
This team doesn't have a good impression of nobles.
For example, the halfling wanderer, a variant of the thief. He is mute and keeps jumping around in the carriage like a monkey. He stares at Old Bank's neck with a weird smile, hisses in his mouth, and wants to cut him open with a knife.
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The ten carriages contained not only the hunting team, but also Hugo's bodyguards. More than twenty orc warriors, with water-resistant aluminum alloy plate armor and battle axes with fine gold plating.
Aluminum alloy has considerable magic resistance, and the adamantine-coated battle ax can break magic. This is a team specially designed to charge into battle.
The leader of the team is Todd, an orc barbarian who looks stupid.
In addition, there are also the necromancer Mondino, the alchemist Jason, and even Druinar and the dwarf witch doctor Old Borg, who have never been out frequently, are also involved.
The lord's maid is also there.
Old Bank even saw a girl with flowers in her hair and a black and white skirt joining the team. She was called to take care of the lord's daily life.
But the girl pursed her lips, looked sad, and kept muttering behind her back, "I don't know how to cast spells. What if I get into a fight?"
If you didn't see her two pockets full of magic gems, maybe Old Bank would really feel sorry for her.
But now even the chief prophecy wants to stay away from her, lest they get into a fight and be killed by this girl inexplicably.
Because of the good road conditions, it only took half a day for the convoy to arrive near the town of Dense Fog, fifty kilometers away. After a few kilometers, the convoy slowed down because the roads were full of people fleeing.
People were disheveled and panicked, and they all fled north, hoping to take refuge in Cold Wind City. After a few casual inquiries, they found out that Dense Fog Town had been attacked by the Banshee Castle army and the town had been lost.
The town of Dense Fog belonged to the Lehman family. Baron Bishop refused the family's surrender and hung its members one by one on the gallows outside the town.
Soldiers plundered the town, seizing finances and capturing slaves.
Today, His Excellency the Baron will rest in the town for the night. Tomorrow he will lead hundreds of knights and thousands of infantry to face the "rebellion" that hastily gathered in Cold Wind City.
It stands to reason that the Baron will be attacked by a 'powerful' cavalry at a critical moment in tomorrow's battle. He will have to lose more than a dozen wizard priests, more than a hundred noble knights and hundreds of infantry before he can achieve a tragic victory.
Even the Baron himself will be killed by Uncle Zhou who enters the second state during the 'battle'.
Fortunately, Uncle Zhou himself was not feeling well either, and he cheated on reading files.
When ten heavily loaded carriages approached Dense Fog Town, Old Bank thought that Lord Hugo was going to join forces with Lehman and the Minos family. He dismissed this, feeling that Hugo was bound to lose and sooner or later he would flee back.
The life of the black forest.
But when the heavily loaded convoy approached Dense Fog Town but chose to bypass it, Old Bank couldn't understand what his new loyal lord was up to.
Dense Fog Town is the boundary of influence between Cold Wind City and Banshee Castle. After passing Dense Fog Town and going south, the road becomes very bad. The speed of the convoy drops.
There will be some checkpoints along the way, ostensibly blocking Cold Wind City. But as long as the driver pays some money, he can still pass smoothly.
Anyone who wants to check what's on the carriage will either be charmed or lose their life.
Before dark, the convoy crossed a distance of more than 100 kilometers and approached the Banshee Castle from Cold Wind City. There were more than 40 people in the convoy and entered an inconspicuous village to rest.
This village is right under the nose of the Butch family, less than three kilometers away from the Banshee Castle. The people in the village were not surprised at all by the foreign convoy, and a dedicated person guided the driver into a closed hayyard.
When Old Bank got off the carriage, he heard Hugo, who was leading the team, giving instructions to the coachman: "Take good care of the horses and feed them the beans and alfalfa prepared. Let them have a good night's rest. We will have to rely on them to drive back to the cold weather tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
Windy City.”
Hearing this, the chief prophecy was suddenly shocked. The situation in front of him completely disrupted his expectations.
Something's wrong, something seems to have changed.
"Your Excellency, can you tell me your plan? Maybe I can provide some help." Old Bank walked to Zhou Qingfeng and asked.
"Oh, don't worry, I will use you. I need your help tonight." Zhou Qingfeng patted the old wizard on the shoulder, "You should rest first. Eat something, we have to do a big job tonight."
After arriving at the Banshee Castle, the atmosphere in the team became tense. The Lord, who was not afraid of the sky or the earth, also seemed worried. Now, unlike in the past, he did not have so many coupons to reload files repeatedly.
You have to be careful every step you take.
The village arranged rooms for everyone in the team. Old Bank was surprised and confirmed one thing - Hugo actually secretly buried a hidden stake near the Banshee Castle.
After entering his single room, Old Bank immediately used astrology to try to gain some predictions about the future. He had also used the same arcane spell before and saw blazing flames igniting in the Cold Wind City.
But this time, there was nothing.
The void gave no answer, only darkness and emptiness.
At the same time, a carriage rushed into the city after the city gate of Banshee Castle was closed.
After landing in the car, Powell looked around the city streets and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ah..., I finally left Cold Wind City. I finally stayed away from the damn Victor Hugo. I finally don't have to worry anymore."
On the carriage were the illusionist Johnson and his familiar pet Dudu, who were reluctantly dragged by Powell. Johnson didn't say anything, but the bitch bird yelled: "Poor man, maybe you will be better."
What bad luck?"
Powell was furious, "Damn bird, shut up.
I finally rented this carriage and drove for two days, just to stay away from that bastard. I was free, I was relaxed, and I got rid of bad luck.
I don’t believe that Victor Hugo can come to Banshee Castle. This is absolutely impossible!”