Dust of History Chapter 5: The first day of saving people

The king's capital is basically located in the center of the empire's territory. To the east and north, you can see the coast with a fast horse galloping for about two months. The south and southwest are federations of several smaller countries, and to the west is the wild highland where orcs infested.

To be precise, it is not the border of the empire, because the wild highlands do not belong to any country, and no human has ever dared to settle on the wild highlands. Since ancient times, it has been a place where various dangerous demihumans have haunted, including werewolves in the jungle, lizardmen on the edge of the lizard swamp, and various ogre tribes scattered around in the wilderness. And it is said that there are huge and ferocious strange behemoths and big eagles in the high mountains deep in the north.

Across the wild highlands and continuing westward, you will reach several other countries. There have always been imperial caravans that have traded with these countries. Although the merchants have to hire a large number of mercenaries, but a small half of the team has all become the orcs' dinner. In the past ten years or so, the imperial army began to sweep out the orcs, and basically wiped out all the orcs on the barren highlands. Only then did the trade between the empire and the West gradually flourish, and even established on the edge of the barren highlands. some small towns.

Bracada is one such town. At the beginning, it was just a few post stations and hotels. With the development of trade, more and more people gathered here, and gradually developed into a town. The caravan that Chris was in was ransacked near here, and the place where the big-eared monsters left to pay the ransom was also nearby.

Asa arrived in Bracada in only 20 days from the royal capital day and night without stopping. It was here that he and Xiaoyi landed on the shore after escaping from the Lizard Swamp half a year ago.

This is a young town that is a bit too rash and rough. All the buildings were built hastily in recent years. Most of them were temporary small hotels at first, and then expanded rapidly because of good business and then expanded again. Even if it was planned to be large-scale from the beginning, no effort has been made on the decoration. The residents here are very real passing businessmen and heroes who lick blood on the knife edge. Therefore, the whole city appears to be rough and indiscriminate, without any trace of cultural temperament and restraint. But it seems that no one cares about those, the endless stream of people and noisy streets show the unique vitality here.

The city is centered around three industries. One is naturally a hotel for people to stay, the other is a mercenary tavern for caravans to recruit bodyguards, and the third is a favorite place for mercenaries and businessmen to come and go - a brothel. It is said that in order to facilitate management, the magistrate ordered all the hotels, taverns and brothels in the city to be operated together. As a result, these three pillar industries were integrated into one. In the town, you can see hotels of the same style with rough exteriors everywhere, and even the interiors are all a hodgepodge of merchants, prostitutes, and mercenaries, which are unique and unique to this emerging place. Folk Culture.

Asa went directly to the city hall, and as soon as he saw the magistrate, he took out the appointment document that the Duke gave him. During the journey of more than ten days, he found that this was the most useful way of speaking. At the beginning, he went to the post station officials to explain that he was the special envoy of the Duke, but the officials only looked at him suspiciously at first. Looking at him, those guys rushed to help him prepare the horse and bring out the wine and food as soon as he showed the paperwork.

The magistrate is still the Borugan-sama who rescued them. Magistrate Borugan is only in his twenties, and being able to become a magistrate at this age shows that he is quite capable. He is a dwarf who looks wooden at first glance, with a huge head on top of his short body, which is a bit like the shape of a puppet played by children. The same large and rude facial features are roughly placed on the face like a big cake, and the black and big eyes are straight and unscrupulous, casting a gaze on everything worth noting, without any trace of dull stupidity. The hair is ragged like a bird's nest, as if no combing can't suppress it.

Befitting his rude appearance, he jumped up and down with quick hands and feet in everything he did, more like a waiter in a low-end hotel than an official. I am in exactly the same style as the city he manages, with a lack of etiquette but a vigor of efficiency.

It didn't match his stupid appearance, but he still remembered that Asa was the one who drifted here with the Duke's daughter half a year ago. After seeing the Duke's documents and knowing the purpose of Asa's visit, he was very surprised, and asked, "Is that the princess who was injured last time?"

"No, it's her sister."

Borugan-sama let out an oh, he was still sitting on the chair that was a little too big for him with his feet dangling in the air, his broom-like eyebrows were twisted in the middle. "Mr. Special Envoy, I'm afraid our local government can't help you with this matter." His voice was a bit like a mixture of a duck and a goose. It was obviously ugly, but he occasionally raised it in important places. "It seems that thieves from all over the world are gathering here. There have been three or four such things this week alone." He looked very angry, and his stubby hands clapped on the desk . "Because of the war in the south, all the troops originally stationed here were transferred two years ago. The local guards have begun to recruit a large number of new recruits, but it is still not enough to maintain local law and order. I have also reported to the imperial court to transfer some from the south. The troops are here. I suggest you wait for the reinforcements to arrive."

"No need, I'll just settle this matter myself." It's best if others don't get involved. Asa always remembers what Bishop Ronis said about keeping a low profile. His purpose of notifying the magistrate was only because he wanted to extract the ransom from the magistrate first if necessary.

Master Borugan jumped down from the chair and said to Asa: "You better not act rashly, those big-eared monsters suddenly became violent for some reason. Before, they were just stealing some small money. There are also some people who do some legitimate business. But I don’t know what happened recently. Not only do they rob, but they also use knives when they encounter resistance. People are often killed. You are not familiar with the place where you live. If anything goes wrong, I will I can’t bear it.”

Asa said: "You don't have to worry about this, I just hope you can tell me the situation in the recent period."

"En..." Borugan-sama started to walk from side to side, the broom brows on his forehead almost stood up, as if he was thinking hard. After walking for a while, he suddenly ran to the door of the room to look around, then closed the door and walked up to Asa. He was only as tall as Asa's chest. He looked up at Asa, probably feeling very stressed, and pointed at Asa's chair. "Mr. Special Envoy, please sit down first."

Asa sat down on the chair, but he jumped onto the table, a little taller than Asa, looked down with those big and bulging eyes like a bull, and said: "Mr. Envoy, To tell you the truth, as soon as I saw you, I fell in love with you. You are not so annoying to the other officials sent by the royal capital. You can tell that you are from a commoner and you went up with your own efforts. So I think You must be more open-minded, so I will discuss one matter with you quietly. I dare not talk nonsense about this matter. I am the magistrate here, the nanny of the people, and I cannot make random guesses and spread rumors. But this This thing is really weird." Borugan-sama approached Asa's face, with the big mouth and the upturned pig's nostrils on it aggressive. "You know, our laws don't stipulate whether big-eared monsters are citizens of the empire, so we generally don't treat them politely. Petty theft is fine, as long as you hear the news that they have done something bad , the army killed their village immediately. So those green-skinned guys are considered safe, and generally dare not mess around. But now they suddenly became so rampant..."

"You mean someone is backing them up?"

"No, yes, man." Borugan-sama's eyes widened, as if he was about to fly out of his eye sockets and knock down the person opposite him to the ground before giving up. His face moved closer, and although his voice was suppressed as much as possible, it was still a duck voice that could not be lowered. "In the past two months, there have been strange rumors. I heard that a large city is being built in the depths of the wild highlands, and it is also a city of beasts, people. I heard that there are werewolves, lizardmen and ogres gathered there. All kinds of orcs and big-eared monsters also plan to join this alliance of orcs. They have already determined not to survive in the corners of human society, so they have no scruples at all, so they suddenly became so bold and wanted to leave before leaving. By the way, I also heard that it seems that they transported the looted goods and money to the depths of the wasteland."

After finishing speaking, he finally retracted his head, but suddenly sighed again. "I know this news is absurd, even I don't really believe it. In the beginning, this news was spread on the gossip, but now it has caused a lot of trouble in the city... Hey, why is your face so ugly?"

Asa coughed and readjusted his facial expression, as if he said casually: "Shouldn't such a thing happen...."

"It doesn't matter whether there should be or not, but if there is, think about what kind of information it is. I also wrote a book to report the rumors here, but the above did not reflect it at all. Go and talk to the above in person The officials who came to inspect said that instead they yelled at me for something wrong with my head. I don’t have enough manpower here, and I can’t send people to investigate deep in the wilderness. Now I can only tell you the news. Tell the Duke After the lady takes it back, discuss it with the Duke to see if it is possible to send troops over..."

Suddenly there was an urgent knock on the door~IndoMTL.com~Someone shouted outside: "Master Borugan, it's not good, another caravan has been robbed."

Borugan-sama jumped off the table, and cursed a commonplace hooligan in the street. He opened the door, turned around and said to Asa, "I'm sorry, Mr. Special Envoy, please do your own thing. I'll deal with it before I come back." Then he ran away with the people outside.

Asa sat there in a daze. The battle of the orcs he had seen half a year ago was probably true. If the big-eared monsters really shipped all the goods in there, if the book was unfortunately mixed in... He began to pray that Chris would like the book so much that he would be hijacked with it Sometimes it will be stuffed into underwear to protect it.

No, it's just an inconspicuous book, and no one would think it would be worth much. The big-eared monster will never go to **** this book during the robbery. Maybe this book is still in the hands of the caravan. He just needs to redeem Chris and find someone to get it. up. Thinking of coming to Asa in this way, I felt much more relaxed.

But just thinking about it will never solve the problem. Asa decided to first negotiate with them at the place where the ransom was paid according to the map left by the big-eared monsters. Let's see how it goes.