A strange world

Chapter 174 Chapter 28. Spy

The Gilman sisters run an art gallery.

Inbred relatives, cannibalism, eccentricities, belief in evil gods...these traits that are unacceptable to any normal person are, in the eyes of artists, the natural soil for cultivating art.

A necklace that elves weaved for hundreds of years to give to dwarves? Too vulgar.

A heart made of a hundred heads of different races? What an art this is!

And the Gilman family does have certain attainments in art, so this art gallery is quite famous - and then it was rejected when Lorna proposed to move to Xingyue Bay.

It is too early for the people of Xingyue Bay to accept this level of art.

Moreover, artists will not come to the indifferent Xingyue Bay to visit the indifferent art museum.

"We are brother and sister."

Lorna Gilman corrects Annan's misconception that her brother possesses only some of the characteristics of a woman.

Annan recalled the "girl" slumped on the carriage: "Is he in bad health?"

"Cartilage disease..."

"Can't the priest's magic heal it?"

"This is the price for blaspheming the goddess of life..." Lorna whispered in despair, without the enthusiasm when they first met, nor the rationality not long ago.

There were only three days left before the apocalypse forecast on January 1, 999 in the Saint Laurent calendar, so Annan took the time to finish what needed to be done.

First up are the guards.

The Elemental Legion plan made training guards unnecessary. Annan reduced combat training such as riding horses and swinging swords, and extended physical training such as standing and carrying.

Kerrian, the lucky man who was chosen from among the new citizens, murmured in a low voice. He could understand letting them carry materials and collect ore. What's the use of standing up straight and standing in line?

Kerrian, who was standing in line, saw their lord coming accompanied by "Stinky Face".

It definitely works! Christian thought almost fanatically, puffing out his chest.

Sweeping past the reserve guards who seemed to be waiting for review. After two months of training, they began to form the outlines of soldiers - at least these young men who were taller than Annan looked much better than the careless guards in Breeze City.

Annan did not make a long speech, but directly inspired the magic ring to summon a large earth element.

"Beat it," Annan said.

The reserves looked at the large earth element that needed to look up and hesitated.

"It won't fight back, it will only resist your attacks."

The guard captain ordered: "Raise weapons and attack!"

The reserve guards turned into a neat torrent and flooded the earth element. At first they did well, but as they broke into the viscous realm of the earth element, it was like running in water, swinging swords, like a snail besieging a beetle.

There is a gap between elite professionals and civilians that is difficult to bridge. Annan firmed up his idea.

The summoning time ended, the large earth element disappeared, and the exhausted reserve guards fell into the cold wind, leaving only a few of Kerrian still standing.

This battle shattered the self-confidence of the reserve guards - a hundred people were helpless against an earth elemental.

"Don't be discouraged. This battle is not to undermine your self-confidence, but to inspire you." Annan said to the reserve guards who raised their heads: "In the future, it will become a teammate of the guards and follow them on patrol."

"Xingyue Bay currently has 1,500 citizens, and 100 guards is too many. So only 50 of you can become real guards."

Currently, Annan has permanently summoned five water elements and seven earth elements - including the one he just summoned.

Fifty guards formed a five-person team with exactly five soldiers and one element.

Then Annan remembered that he had forgotten to go to the Mage Tower to learn the Four Elements Language and become proficient in the Common Language, so he had to wait until the apocalypse was announced.

Before returning to the big house, Annan, who passed by the residence of the Gilman brothers and sisters, saw Lorna's brother suffering from rickets, twisting and deforming like an octopus, moaning in pain.

Only human flesh could alleviate his pain, but then the brothers and sisters would not be able to escape the fate of the Gilman family.

Annan asked the knights to disperse the gathered citizens, called Wood, pointed at the dazed vampire and said: "A vampire can endure the temptation of human blood, and so can you."

But Lorna's brother never stopped wailing, and Francois realized something and whispered to Annan: "A very hungry person will lose his mind for a piece of bread."

"You mean I'm the piece of bread?"

Francois said nothing, and Annan guessed that was what he thought. Tentatively retreating, the wailing sound is indeed gradually weakening——

Annan asked Francois to stay and look after the Gilman brothers and sisters, and retreated to the big house with a guilty conscience.

"Abby, I want a cup of coffee."

The little spider in the glass bottle still showed no signs of hibernation.

Annan flipped through the briefing notes that Ingrid sent in the morning. They were all trivial matters. For example, the milkmaid secretly drank raw milk and had diarrhea, and Ingrid had to order all the milk to be boiled before drinking it; one of the new residents who came yesterday hid a bottle of wine, and ended up drunk and fell into a snowdrift. , discovered by the patrolling reserve guards. Although his life was saved, three of his toes were missing.

Near noon, the captain of the guard suddenly came to say that a citizen was missing.

But not the most suspicious of the Gilman siblings.

The knights soon found the missing citizen in the wild - he was walking through the snow up to his knees. The knights followed him from a distance and found the person who responded to him about ten miles away from Xingyue Bay. They then closed the net and brought him back.

These guys were just gangsters, and before they were seriously interrogated, they revealed the truth: they were from Glacier Port, and they asked their companions to disguise themselves as refugees in Breeze City and sneak into the team in Xingyue Bay, collect information, and then bring the news back to Glacier Port.

There is actually no problem with rough plans, and many territories will not pay attention to the insignificant territorial citizens.

"Let them do hard labor until Gama comes to ransom them."

Annan didn't take the episode to heart. Limestone is still being mined, and the Elemental Legion is still keeping secrets. Even if they go back, all they can say is "many beautiful houses were built in Xingyue Bay and many trees were dug."

Next, Annan, Ingrid and Francois spent the whole day discussing in the big house.

The next day, the citizens who got up early in the morning discovered that a tavern had opened in Xingyue Bay.

However, the 1,500 citizens together could not collect a few copper coins. No one paid attention to the tavern that had little relationship with them. As a result, after finishing the day's work in the evening, everyone got a few copper coins to more than a dozen copper coins. - Lord Annan said these were what was left after board and lodging.

The tavern was overcrowded that night, and a glass of rye wine only cost five copper coins.

In the lively tavern, the citizens were watching "The Fall of the Mage Tower" and laughing at a certain unlucky guy who lost a leg, an egg, an eye, and a finger when he hid his private wine in the snow and froze it - rumors always followed. The spread is getting more and more bizarre.

A new day, new changes. The residents who woke up from the cool morning one after another found that there was an announcement in the camp: the new town was officially opened and the housing prices were favorable.