Chapter 77 Robbery (Part 1)
The second day of the winter festival is a very good day. In fact, the residents of the surrounding villages will come to Pezaros to participate in the winter festival today, and Pezaros' winter festival is getting more and more lively. Many unique activities start on the second day and will not end completely until the heavy snow falls again.
Generally, this festival belonging to the residents of Pezaros will last at least 5 to 7 days, and there has never been a winter festival that will last or be shorter than this period. Even the shortest winter festival will last for nearly five days, while the longest one has never exceeded seven days.
However, it will be very difficult to enter and exit the southern gate of Pezaros during the winter festival. In fact, this area is the most lively place in Pezaros. Therefore, Chen Kai and the others had to go out from the eastern gate in a circle, and then turn south.
Even so, when the group really turned to the road to move south, it took half a day to leave Pezaros. It took them a morning just to pass a distance of less than five kilometers, because there were too many people on the road. Countless residents living in Pezaros, even those living in remote areas, would gather in Pezaros the day after the winter festival. If the number of residents in Pezaros was only more than 800,000, then at least one million people would gather in the entire city today.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of residents of the territory around Pezaros will arrive here, including merchants, including believers of the goddess of nature or the goddess of winter Adela. Therefore, when moving south, Chen Kai and others will encounter civilians rushing to the road from time to time. Some are riding horses, some are sitting on flat carriages, but more are walking with their feet.
Chen Kai sat in the carriage and looked at the residents, although he knew in his heart that the gods occupied an extremely important position among ordinary indigenous people. Because they could not change their living conditions, many indigenous people without professional talent could only place their spirit on the gods. They hoped that their destiny could be changed. Most temples in the game were not for seeking wealth. They only needed the beliefs of these ordinary people. Compared with the beliefs that religions change to accumulate wealth in reality, the religions in the game are more real, because in the game, the gods are relatively real.
Of course, the gods in the game are not completely kind or have no **, and they may be betray even if they are the closest people in order to compete for believers or clergy. However, it seems that although the gods are competing for believers with each other, it may be that they have just experienced the gods' war in the last year. In less than a thousand years, the gods have not completely recovered from the gods' war. Therefore, although there are occasional frictions between each other, they are still mainly based on cooperation. At least it shows that this is the case. As for whether the facts are as
This is unknown, but at least Chen Kai knows that although there are some distractions between the three goddesses, the three goddesses of life, the three goddesses of nature, are also the strongest alliance between them. Because the kingdom of gods of the three goddesses is connected together, and the thrones of the three goddesses also exist side by side. In any temple of life, the temple of earth and the temple of nature, you can see three thrones of gods on the throne of the main temple, which means that the relationship between the three goddesses will not be missing.
Due to the itinerary, Chen Kai and his friends' lunch was solved on the spot on the carriage and war horses, that is, cold bread and warm water. This kind of lunch is common for mercenaries, and it is similar to Chen Kai. The only thing that is depressed is Chen Yi. She felt that the cold bread was too hard, so she could only heat it up with her own magic stove before eating. Although she was called a prodigal girl by Chen Kai, it is undeniable that Chen Kai and the others could always find valuable items from the pile of things she bought that were considered garbage.
For example, this time Chen Yi spent nearly 50,000 gold coins to buy a lot of useless jewelry, but only two thin crystal diamond earrings were identified by Xu Fei to have special magic fluctuations. [w..cm
|I||】 This is not because these two earrings are magical items. But because the two crystal diamonds are made of special materials, they belong to very special frost-type magic crystals. Real ice crystal diamonds. According to Xu Fei's estimate, these two frost-ice crystal diamonds are worth at least 100,000 gold coins. Of course, Chen Yi was lucky enough to pick up a leak after buying such things. But she still did not get her private money back from Chen Kai, which made Chen Yi extremely angry. As a result, Chen Yi was alone in the car and sulked, and she didn't care about these Chen Kai at all.
The journey was very boring. Perhaps because of the heavy snow, basically no thieves came to rob Chen Kai and his caravan. Therefore, the group was very smooth and the speed was relatively fast. It took almost four-fifths of the time to reach the border of Pezaros and entered the territory of another noble. Then Chen Kai and his friends entered the secret travel method again, and they were the kind of hiding out day and night, because this territory belonged to the dead Viscount Miranda. Although it was only the territory of Viscount, and because of the death of Viscount Miranda was taken back by the royal family, you should know that Viscount Miranda was only a member of the Miranda family. The old Grand Duke Miranda was very angry at the death of his grandson, even if this grandson was the most incompetent cannon fodder. After all, the nobles who could be granted viscount were not so easy to be born.
Even if you raise a pig, it is very difficult to get the pig's title as a viscount. After all, a pig can give birth to many cubs in one child, but it is very difficult to make a pig a noble. Even for an ancient aristocratic family with hereditary title, not every member of the family can inherit the title of a noble family. In fact, in the game, the only one who truly has the inheritance rights of the noble family is the eldest son and grandson. If other aristocratic descendants want to get the title, they need their parents to work hard to get it. The worst thing is because of the family.
There is already a great noble in the clan, and all his descendants cannot obtain hereditary titles. Although they can have a territory, this territory only has full management and does not have the right to inherit. If you want to obtain hereditary titles and fiefs, you must also leave the original aristocratic family in addition to changing your surname. The most important thing is that you must be three generations before you can obtain the title of hereditary noble. That is, before the third generation, although your father and your grandfather also managed the fief, it was completely a place where the royal family worked for free.
Viscount Miranda is the second generation of the Miranda family. His father, Earl Miranda, chose to leave the Miranda family, and this Viscount Miranda is the second generation. The territory they operated is the most important new territory resource of the Miranda family. However, after Viscount Miranda died, the territory operated by the two generations directly became royal assets, and the tens of millions of assets invested by the Miranda family became vague. This hatred cannot be easily covered up with a light word, so although the Miranda family did not dare to deal with Earl Zuff under the suppression of the old Rohan Empire emperor, he had no scruples to deal with Chen Kai, a foreigner or traveler. Of course, he would not kill directly, but instead used other means, such as finding robbers or simply sending his own people to play robbers.
But what is more tragic is that the first wave of offensives of the Miranda family turned into a bubble because of the Golden Purgatory Wild Boar Momoto. Whether it was looking for robbers or playing robbers, they were turned into meat paste for fertile land by Momoto in the Zafaro Forest. At the same time, due to heavy snow, the Miranda family had no idea that the team they sent to the Zafaro Forest had been completely destroyed. In fact, they only realized when the heavy snow fell again, and at this time Chen Kai and the others had left the territory of Viscount Miranda.
"Idiots! A bunch of idiots!!" The angry Grand Duke Miranda smashed his table. In fact, the Marquis Zafaro was even more angry compared to him. Because the huge private army that he had finally experienced had been completely destroyed. The two most important robbers he secretly controlled were also finished. Compared with the complete destruction of the robbers in the forest, the night hunter Bamezava, who was given a bounty with his head, made him even more angry.
"Kill that Hansting nobleman for me!" This is the words of the Marquis of Zafaro and Grand Duke Miranda roaring at their personal guards in their private study. Although the time of the roar was a little different, the people targeted were extremely the same, that is, the unlucky Chen Kai. Because in the Rohan Empire, neither the Marquis of Zafaro nor the Grand Duke Miranda dared to attack Count Zhafu when the old emperor of the Rohan Empire was still alive. However, killing Chen Kai, a foreign nobleman who had fought with Count Zhafu in the biography of Chen Kai, would have no problem with them.
When Chen Kai didn't know, he had been included in the list of killings by two great nobles of the Rohan Empire. If Chen Kai knew about it, he would definitely feel very wronged, because in his opinion, he was completely unfamiliar with Count Zafu at most, and he had to get rid of the other party and get some military supplies. Now he not only wants to take the blame for Count Zafu, but also seems to have to take the blame all the time. The worst thing is that he has now become the Marquis of Zafaro and Grand Duke Miranda who intend to kill the chicken for the monkey, that is, the chicken that Count Zafu showed.
However, Chen Kai didn't know about these things. He was busy arranging the mercenaries to buy supplies in the village next to him and then continued to rush. Although most people wanted to enter the village for a rest, both Hanmota and Chen Kai asked to hurry up. Hanmota felt that it was not safe to leave the territory of former Viscount Miranda. Chen Kai didn't have many gold coins in his pocket and hoped to arrive at Kazmodo early to sell the goods.
Under the joint urging of Chen Kai and Hammota, everyone basically did not enter the city for the next half month to rest. They kept sleeping in the open and heading towards Kazmodo in the south. In fact, after passing a territory called Zamos, Chen Kai and the others found that the surrounding area was not so cold. Because they had already traveled a total of 500 kilometers south, which was placed on the national straight road of the Rohan Empire, except in the territory of the former Viscount Miranda.
In addition to the slow speed, he traveled at least 50 kilometers a day at other times. The cost of traveling more than 500 kilometers in half a month was a bit expensive. The slow horse he pulled was changed at least five or six times, and Chen Kai spent most of the gold coins in his pocket to buy slow horses from the villages and towns next to him. But it was this way of rushing to allow Chen Kai and the others to avoid interception again and again. The interception troops sent by Marquis Zafaro and Grand Duke Miranda did not know where Chen Kai and the others ran.
When they ran to Chen Kai and the others, they found that Hanmota suddenly asked the team to change a road. Constantly changing the road and detours made the interceptors run away. They even made an awkward team of people to make an illusion to treat each other as Chen Kai and the others. As a result, after a fierce fight, they found that the person who was covering each other and unable to see their faces on the dark night was actually his own kind. Of course, they could not be the same kind, they should be people with the same purpose. As a result, after communicating with each other, they found that the people who had been fighting each other for a long time were all coming for the same target. However, after a fight, the two sides were half of the people, but they didn't even see Chen Kai and the others, which was a big trouble.
In the end, the two gangs found that they were led by Chen Kai and the others, so don’t intercept Chen Kai and the others. I guess they would be exhausted by running continuously. In the end, they chose the stupidest, stupidest and most useful method, and directly chose to wait for the rabbit and stay on the road to Kazmodo. That is, the border entrance of the southern border city of the Rohan Empire, Frederick Stokes, which is the must-going way for the entire Rohan Empire to Kazmodo. Because Frederickstone is basically flat. If Hansting and the Rohan Empire fight, as long as Hansting capture Frederickstone, they can quickly rush into Rohan Emperor along the road.
The heartland of the country, so the casters of the Rohan Empire artificially created a pass, the Great Mozafi Pass. This was a pass that was dug by artificially. Frederick, who was adjacent to Kazmodo, and the road within the Rohan Empire was artificially turned into a road. On the one hand, this road became a barrier for the Rohan Empire to block the Hansting Empire, but on the other hand, the Frederick residents on the other side of the pass felt abandoned by their motherland. Therefore, for a long time, the Fredericks made this pass an isolated gate, and it was not until the tax revenue of the pass was classified as a part of the Frederickstone that they slowly changed.
But the Great Mozafi Pass is not safe. In fact, this empire is the most chaotic area in the entire Rokhan Empire except the Zafaro Forest. Because when building the Great Mozafi Pass, the former legendary wizards of the Rokhan Empire designed a very long and complex path, with the purpose of blocking the Hansting Empire's troops through this path. This path is in the very famous or infamous Great Mozafi Isthmus, a maze-like mountain gorge road that lasts thirty kilometers. In fact, the Great Mozafi Pass is composed of the Mozafi Fortress in Moktok, the Great Mozafi Isthmus and the Great Mozafi Pass in Frederick Steck. Among them, there is a ten-kilometer area where robbers and robberies of the entire Rokhan Empire frequently occur. Here, many robbers rushed down from the high ground on both sides of the isthmus from time to time and ransacked the passing merchants.
Although both Moktok and Frederick lords cleared the bandits in the isthmus repeatedly, the bandits here were still killed. There were even cases of the convoys of the great nobles being attacked. Therefore, this place is even more dangerous by the Zafaro Forest, but it is the only way to Kazmodo.
In fact, Chen Kai and the others had arrived in Moktok a day ago and were still in Moktok City for a day. It was not that Chen Kai did not want to pass through the Great Modhafi Pass as soon as possible, or even through Frederick Stec to Kazmodo, but because Hammerta had been contacting the garrison of Modhafi Fortress stationed on the Moktok border, hoping that patrols could protect the entire pass.
But for some reason, Hammerta found that the patrol captain of Mozafi Fortress seemed to be disrespectful to him, and directly refused Hammerta's request and expelled him from the patrol base. This made Hammerta very strange because he had no idea where he offended the other party.
"My Uncle Hammoth! Have you seduced someone's wife? Why is that person so rude to you?" Fei Yun followed behind Hammoth. They were on the way to Moktok. Modhafi Fortress is nearly twenty-five kilometers away from Moktok, at least more than one time.
"I don't know! I've never seen this guy before. It's strange that the patrol team here would not refuse such extra money. The price I gave was very good!" Hammerta was very confused. He didn't know that the day before they arrived in Moktok, the two interceptors sent by Marquis Zafaro and Grand Duke Miranda had communicated with the patrol captain. Under the pressure of the two great nobles, even if Hammerta gave more benefits, this person
The patrol captain did not dare to get involved. Although the patrol captain had the urge to join the Marquis of Zafaro and the others at the beginning, when he found out that Hammota belonged to the Earl of Zaf, he directly chose neutrality, because if he participated in it, the final outcome would definitely be crushed to death as a pawn. Whether it was helping Hammota protect Chen Kai and the others, or helping the Grand Duke Miranda to take action to kill Chen Kai and the others, they would make the patrol captain offend one of them.
After offending, whether it is the Grand Duke of Miranda or the Marquis of Zafaro, you can find an excuse to kill the patrol captain. Although the Earl Zafu, as a new nobleman who has just appeared in the Rohan Empire, is definitely a mistake in killing people who have helped others slap themselves in the face. So the captain of the patrol chose to be a turtle with a headshot and simply did not help either side.
Chapter completed!