When the announcement of the orcs' attack spread throughout the village, the villagers immediately gathered in the center of the village.
Although the time was short, it was also thanks to the scary stories about orcs that the village elders taught the younger generation in the village every day.
Most of the villagers did not remember much about the homes they were about to leave, and they cooperated very cooperatively in the village evacuation plan just announced by the village chief.
After all, life is more important than anything else at this time, and the people of Kamode have always insisted on the saying that "if you can keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood."
They believe that as long as there is time, everything can be done again.
Facing the invasion of the orcs, most of these people were optimistic that the village was only temporarily lost.
As long as Noah's army arrives, it will be easy to regain this small village, but it will inevitably be troublesome if it needs to be rebuilt.
The central square, which usually seemed spacious, was suddenly filled with carriages urgently transported from the warehouse and luggage temporarily packed by the villagers.
The assembled villagers, under the command of the garrison and the village chief, boarded carriages and prepared to evacuate from the village.
"You can't fit this thing, take it down!"
The mayor of Dundee stood on a pile of old wooden boxes and directed the villagers to evacuate. At this time, a loud quarrel came from a carriage assigned to load goods on his left.
Probably a villager wanted to load a large wooden basin onto the carriage, but apparently it took up too much space and other villagers' luggage could not be accommodated. This led to a dispute.
"What's going on?! Everyone spread out!"
Dundee, who noticed the situation there, immediately shouted and some villagers who heard it dispersed, but there were still many people gathered around to watch the fun.
"This is passed down from my family's ancestors. This thing is precious!"
The middle-aged village woman was so nagging that she insisted on forcing the wooden basin into the carriage, causing all the things originally contained in the carriage to make no sound.
If that person continues to push in, the fragile items in the luggage may not be safe.
This caused a commotion among the surrounding villagers. Although other villagers continued to yell and curse, the stubborn village woman showed no sign of weakness.
The son of this village woman is a police officer in a town. She has been domineering in the village because of her son. At this time, no one really dared to fight her.
As the dispute continues to escalate, more and more people are watching, which has affected the progress of the evacuation.
"Okay! Let's all spread out! Let's go! Do whatever you need to do!"
Dundee simply walked down, followed by several sturdy young men. They were all members of the temporary garrison, responsible for assisting the evacuation of the villagers.
"Susan, what are you doing?"
Dundee also understood the situation above, but he still asked the village woman again.
"Chief Dundee, this ancestral basin of my family cannot be left to the orcs!"
The village woman cried to Dundee with runny noses and tears, and the villagers nearby also looked to Dundee for support.
"Chief of Dundee, what should we do? There are not enough carriages!"
Seeing that Dundee had not yet decided to pay attention, several villagers nearby started talking.
"Yes, how can you delay everyone just because of a basin!"
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"What do you mean 'just because' of a basin? Do you know the market price of this treasure? Two hundred Osadins! That's enough for you to work for a month!"
The village woman immediately suppressed everyone's words.
Because two hundred Osadins is indeed not a small number. Ordinary families in the village can only earn so much by working in the fields and mountains for a month.
Including daily consumption, it would take almost half a year to accumulate two hundred Osadins.
This is under the condition that no one in the family is sick or suffering from disasters. It will be even more difficult to have so much savings if there is a natural or man-made disaster.
"Okay, Susan, let me ask you, the market price of your basin is two hundred Osadins, right?"
Dundee, who had already made up his mind, pushed aside the crowd and walked up to the village woman.
"Yes."
Deng Di, who was followed by several strong men, had already overwhelmed the village woman in terms of momentum.
Moreover, the other party was the head of their village, so Susan did not dare to make too many mistakes.
She saw that the postures of Dundee and the young man behind him were unusual, and the guilty village woman couldn't help but have a hint of fear in her voice.
"Lance, open that box."
"good."
He turned around and called one of the young men carrying a big hammer on his back. The young man immediately took a box from the young man next to him, and then pried open the box with the tail of the hammer.
"Everyone! Look, this big vase was obtained at an auction when my grandfather was a businessman from the south. At that time, my grandfather spent 300 Osardins to buy this thing. Now this kind of antique is sold for
Four hundred Osadins is no problem at all."
Everyone looked down at the vase in the box.
The box where the vase is placed is specially made of silk to wrap the body of the vase. The vase is bright in color and has complicated and beautiful patterns. It is obviously a high-end product.
People can't help but sigh at the wealth of Dundee's ancestors.
"Now this thing can't fit in the carriage, and I can't take it away. It can't be left to the orcs, right?"
Then he waved his hand.
Before anyone else could react, the young man who was still holding the hammer picked up the hammer and smashed the vase in the box to pieces.
"Okay, there's nothing to worry about now. You don't have to run away with such a big, stupid thing."
Deng Di looked at the village woman Susan who was still in shock, and then said to her: "So don't bring this basin with you."
Then he turned around and said to other villagers: "Everyone, please don't bring something that takes up too much space. The carriage can't fit in it, so I thought it was a pity and smashed it. We don't have much time, so we have to hurry up."
Others responded to him in unison: "Okay!"
Next, they all went to sort out their carriages and horses, and the evacuation of the villagers got back on track.
Susan, who was stunned on the spot, said nothing more about putting the basin on the carriage.
She threw the basin together with the broken baskets on the ground, and returned to the carriage without saying a word.
"Village chief, Aunt Susan's pot is worth fifty ossardins. Why would you take such a valuable thing..."
Because of Dundee's demonstration just now, many villagers threw some of the pots and pans that occupied the space out of the carriage.
A lot of space was immediately vacant in the carriage, and the remaining people could finally put their luggage.
As a result, the villagers who were hesitating just now because there was no place to put their luggage basically got on the carriage.
Only a few young men from the garrison and a few villagers who were tying their luggage with hemp ropes had not yet boarded the bus.
"It's not easy for Susan. She became a widow at a young age. She remarried in the village alone with her son, and was often looked down upon by others. Now decades have passed, and her son has finally made a difference, and she is better than many.
People are more considerate. Just try to understand her words as much as possible."
The mayor of Dundee is very familiar with the affairs of the villagers in the village, which is one of the reasons why Dundee has been able to serve as the village chief.
Now that things were basically over, he and the young man named Lance got into a carriage together.
"Well, that's a vase of four hundred Osadins!"
Lance didn't quite understand that this village chief, who was always known for his frugality, was actually willing to spend so much money to make a point.
After all, that vase is not that big, and no one would say anything if it was put into a carriage at this price.
"It's an extraordinary time, not to mention I didn't spend that much..."
Anyway, it's just a fake that's worn out, and you can't sell it even if you want to.
Naturally, Deng Di would not speak out what was in his heart. He laughed at himself in his mind that his ancestors wanted to buy good goods to show off their appearance, but were deceived and lost all their money. The sad things finally came in use today.
In the neighing of the horses, the shouts of the coachmen, and the crack of the whip.
The wheels of the carriage began to roll slowly, and the carriages walked onto the road and began to move towards the exit of the village.
As the delaying garrison has different responsibilities, it will not leave with them.
And they also left a carriage at the predetermined location to facilitate the evacuation of the garrison.
Thinking that all the ordinary villagers in the village should have boarded the carriage by now, Dundee was about to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Wait a minute! Grandpa Village Chief! There is still someone who hasn't come yet!"
At this time, a little girl suddenly jumped out of a carriage in front of Dundee. He recognized it after taking a closer look.
"Isn't this Lisa? Stop! Stop the car!"
Dundee quickly stopped the carriage and let Lisa climb on, while Lisa's mother stuck her head out of the carriage in front and shouted:
"Lisa, come back!"
Lisa's mother's skin looks pale because she has not been exposed to the sun for many years. She is also thin and has a sallow complexion. She looks like a frail person at first glance.
Now such a sick and weak woman was furious and yelled at her daughter.
"Well!"
Faced with her mother's scolding, Lisa instinctively flinched, but she still raised her head and said to the village chief: "Grandpa, the village chief, Nia and his family are not on the carriage."
"What!!"
At this time, Dundee was shocked. He had never expected that he would make such an omission.
"Aren't Nia and her family here?"
Dundee quickly confirmed with Lisa again.
"Yes, Grandpa. I looked everywhere in the square and couldn't see them."
Lisa was very sure, because she believed that if Nia was here, she would definitely come to her.
But when everyone got in the car, she didn't see Nia or her mother.
She was sure that Nia and her family were not here.
"How, how could this happen? Didn't anyone inform them? Where is Belkas?"
Dundee remembered that although Belkas refused to join the team responsible for delaying the evacuation, he still agreed to join the team responsible for protecting the villagers along the way during the evacuation.
Logically speaking, he should be looking for his family as soon as possible. In addition, time was tight at this time, so Dundee did not carefully check the number of villagers.
"Belkas said before, 'Davidson and the others have encountered something incredible,' so he went there to help."
Lance on the side raised his hand and said.
"We won't leave them alone. Yuffie is still pregnant. Maybe they will run into some trouble now."
Federer was Nia's neighbor. Because he was in a hurry at that time, he didn't care about the situation of Nia and her family.
Now that Nia and the others' situation was unclear, he began to regret it.
"How many people have to go find them? Who is willing to go?"
Due to some strange combination of circumstances, they did not notice that something was wrong with the mother and daughter. However, the village chief Deng Di raised this issue and he had no objection to finding the mother and daughter.
But the village is very dangerous now, not to mention getting off the bus now, and they can't make a special trip to wait. Those who go like this will definitely not be able to keep up with the others.
"I'm going!"
In the carriage, Federer raised his hand.
"And me!"
Then Lisa also raised her hand, her eyes firm and not timid at all.
"Lisa, please don't go...your mother will be worried."
Federer grinned. His wife was squeezing the fat around his waist, and she was squeezing it hard.
"Oh! Wife, Belkas is my brother! How can I ignore his affairs?"
Federer whispered in his wife's ear, and then he heard her say: "It's up to you."
Then the strength in his waist disappeared, and he laughed.
"And me! Nia is my best friend, I can't leave her behind at this time!"
Lisa stubbornly resisted their good intentions and stubbornly wanted to find Nia and the others.
"You will only cause trouble if you go... Federer, is it okay for you to be alone?"
The village chief shook his head and rejected Lisa's choice. Most of the people in the car did not have a very close relationship with the Belkas family, at least they could not take risks for their family. In the end, only Federer, an adult, raised his hand.
"Shall I go too?"
Lance hesitated for a while, then raised his hand to express that he wanted to go.
"No need, brother, you still want to protect people in other villages, right?"
But Federer refused his help and patted his chest and said: "I am the fastest man in the village! Don't underestimate me!"
"Oh, yes, the fastest in every sense..."
Lance joked.
"Hey, hey! You guy!" Federer wanted to get angry, but he remembered that now was not the time to relax, "Forget it, let's stop making trouble. Lisa, you can come with me too. It shouldn't be a problem if I take care of one more little guy.
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"Hey! Is that okay?!"
Lisa, who was almost crying just now, immediately burst into laughter.
"I still have two horses in my stable. You can use them."
Townsend, the groom driving in front, took out a key from his pocket and threw it to Federer, and Lance also handed him a crank knife:
"Take it, this is the best one I've ever made."
"Okay, thank you everyone. And Lance, you, the shabby blacksmith, finally made something."
Federer took the key and the dagger. The dagger was sheathed with brown animal skin. He pulled it out and looked at the cold light on the blade, feeling that it was cutting iron like clay.
"Hey! Don't underestimate me." Lance scolded with a smile. Seeing that their carriage had stopped, he said, "Okay, have a nice trip. We'll wait for you in Frostbite Town."
"Then remember to buy me a drink."
Federer jumped out of the car and caught Lisa who jumped out with him.
"Lisa, come here quickly!"
Lisa's mother shouted to Lisa. Her eyes were red and swollen, obviously she had cried.
Because she was not in a carriage, she didn't know what was going on. But she still felt uneasy. She felt that her seemingly timid and petite daughter would do something irrational.
"Goodbye! We will go to Frost Town."
"Mom, don't worry, I will come back to you soon."
Lisa waved goodbye to her departing mother, and Federer also said goodbye to his wife and friends.
Seeing the big and small people turning around and running towards the village, the distance between them and the convoy became further and further away, and they finally disappeared from sight.
The mayor of Dundee took a long breath. The old man closed his eyes and held the crutch in his hand tightly, praying for the two people in his heart.
The convoy had no intention of stopping from then on, and they drove directly from the road to "Frost Town", the nearest town to Difenni Village.
"Village Chief, do the guards in Frostbite Town know about what's going on here?"
"You should know by now. I asked Das and Polly to ride a fast horse to report."
Dundee knew that this matter was not a trivial matter, so he naturally sent people to notify nearby towns early in the morning. According to the time, their people should have almost arrived at Frostbite Town.
As time goes by, the scenery outside begins to change.
There were gradually more trees, and by this time the villagers of Difenni Village had entered the forest.
Because it was close to early winter, there was a light snowfall nearby, and the branches and some leaves of these trees are still decorated with silvery white.
Occasionally, they could hear the crisp chirping of birds coming from the forest. In the world of mixed silver and brown, people's tense spirits relaxed.
When we got here, even though we were still some distance away from Frost Town, at least those terrifying orcs couldn't chase us from the village.
Shh! Shhh!!
Suddenly, the groom Townsend tightened the reins and shouted the command to stop the horse. Because of the sudden braking, the carriage immediately shook violently, shaking everyone on board.
"What, Townsend, what happened?" Dundee asked, holding his nose and sticking his head out of the car.
"I don't know, the one in front stopped first."
Townsend jumped out of the car and trotted all the way to the front to check the situation. Most of the people in the car also got out, because the carriage in front was the same. The villagers got out of the car one after another and ran towards the road ahead.
"This? What's going on?!"
People who knew the situation were shocked because their convoy could no longer move forward.
For no other reason than that, the road was blocked. Blocking the road were several evergreen trees that looked a bit old, each one as thick as an adult's waist. They were all stacked up across the road, blocking the road.
Completely sealed.
"Who did this?"
Although heavy snow can indeed overwhelm trees, it was just a light snowfall here. What's more, the situation in front of us could only be man-made.
"Look up there!"
A woman exclaimed, with that familiar loud voice, Dundee knew it was Susan without looking.
The next person who noticed where Susan was pointing could not help but gasp.
On the trunk of a big tree in front, there were two corpses hanging with ropes. The two of them were swaying miserably in the cold wind, and they had obviously been dead for a long time.
"Darth Polly?!"
Dundee's eyes widened as he recognized the identities of the two corpses.
"Go back quickly! We are ambushed!"
Some people were shouting, children were crying, and they ran towards the carriage frantically. But when the coachmen held the horses' heads and tried to turn around, a group of screaming birds suddenly appeared in the sky above the forest.
Even if you are not a hunter, you will know that it is a sign of something unusual in the forest.
"It's too late."
Lance was in no hurry to get on the carriage. The young blacksmith took the hammer from behind.
He swung the hammer handle and it felt pretty good.
At least he thought it would be quite easy to use this thing to crack the skulls of a few wolves. After all, this thing was much easier than the blacksmithing his father forced him to learn before he left, because bones are not as hard as iron!
Lance thought this way, anyway, this time is also the opportunity for him to let go. He plans to try his best to do the best and the most beautiful thing in front of him.
Just like what his father told him: "Striving for excellence" is the family motto. At this moment, he wants to be the best blacksmith and the best guardian.
Just do it like a hero!
The other members of the garrison who were still busy squeezing into the carriage also understood something. They jumped off the carriage again and took out their weapons one after another.
The dense shrubs all around began to rustle, and the land that seemed to be covered with snow gradually began to rise.
The children in the village huddled in fear. The old men and women in the village protected the children, but their eyes were also filled with fear and uneasiness.
But the men of Kamode grinned widely, waved their fists and shouted at the black figures coming from the forest: