A strange world

Chapter 304 Section 157. Ghost Town

"What's the use of your plea for help?"

The old mage standing in front of the window looked at the carrier pigeons flying to the north, "Ghost Town is hopeless."

"Then why did you come back? The notorious mage." The mayor who put back the quill raised his head.

"I have come to die with my enemies."

"But I don't want to. Ur, let Ghost Town survive the rat-men attack, and I will consider pardoning your sins." The old mayor said in a low voice. The shield and sword hanging on the wall indicate that he was a knight.

"You still need me to teach you? Servant..." The old mage's ridicule made the old mayor miss him. He stared at the street: "Those poor people and beggars are all mobilized. It's not that they have no food, no shelter, no Identity? Just give them food, identity and a house for a coward to run away from."

"But they are just people who don't even have the strength to leave..."

"Old guard, can you still lift the sword?" The old mage continued to sarcastically say: "How can you defend Ghost Town if you are not even willing to sacrifice?"

His reflection disappeared from the window, came to the table and whispered: Why not give me the position of mayor...

"Okay, I'll leave it to you." The old mayor said boldly.

But the old mage made a playful request: "You have to beg me, kneel down and plead with me..."

"As long as Ghost Town can survive." The old mayor stood up, walked around the desk, and knelt in front of the old mage's robe: "Please save Ghost Town and repel the invading ratmen..."

The old mage looked down at his gray hair and said to himself:

"What a dazzling justice..."

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Beggars, lame people, elderly people...the only ones left in Ghost Town at this time are the old, weak, sick and disabled.

The old mage, who used his staff as a walking stick, stood in front of these temporarily recruited "guards" and told them to fight for Ghost Town - in a threatening way: "Either become a town citizen or die here. Have you thought about it?" ?”

The scattered crowd looked at me and I looked at you.

"I...I didn't think about it!" a scavenger shouted, turned and ran away.

The flickering magic penetrated the head of the escapee, and the fallen body revealed the old mage holding the staff. He glanced at the other people who were silent: "It seems that no one has any objections anymore."

"You each take a bag of grain, and then go recruit other people in the town. I hope to see everyone in the town have a weapon soon."

The awed crowd dispersed, and Thom hurried back to his "residence." After the original owner fled, it became his and his sister's home.

"The mayor and the mage conscripted us, made us townspeople, and gave us weapons." Tom turned his back to his sister and was busy in the kitchen. He took a bowl of wheat flour from the grain bag and added another bowl after thinking about it. .

"Are we going to stay here?"

The thin girl, who was sitting on a wooden chair that could not reach the floor, followed her brother as he walked past.

"Yes, we want to stay here..."

After moving the chair and hiding the grain bag on the beam, Thom asked whoever came not to talk about the grain: "This will become our home."

"What... is home?"

"It means we don't have to wander anymore, I will have a job, you will have friends, and we will have a warm place to live!"

"I want to live here..."

"Yes, this is our home!" The boy, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, looked forward to the bright future: "So I want to protect our home!"

Thom didn't know how to bake, and if he tried to do it, he would only get two lumps of black charcoal, so he boiled the semolina into two bowls of wheat paste, brought it to the table, and wolfed it down without caring about scalding it.

After licking the wooden bowl, Tom found that his sister's bowl was only a little missing. "I'm full..." She pushed the bowl towards Thom.

"It doesn't matter, we won't be hungry anymore." Tom pushed the bowl back again, but he was a child after all, and his stomach bulged with half the bowl left.

Tom finished eating the rest, picked up the shovel as a weapon and was about to go out. His sister grabbed him by the corner of his clothes. Her other hand was holding a spoon: "When you are full, you have to work."

Thom took his sister and knocked on the house where smoke was rising and people were shaking. It's not that no one resists guarding the town. Whenever this happens, the mage will descend from the sky and punish them with spells.

The composition of the guards became more and more complex, including gangsters, thieves and other bad guys. Later, even old men and women picked up tools and followed them to build wooden walls and dig trenches.

Thom got to know Uncle Mick and Aunt Plummy. They like their sister very much - or everyone here likes this lively and sensible little girl.

The "bad guys" in the guard laughed at him for bringing along followers, but they were mostly envious - they were the outcasts.

Even the old mayor knew about her and asked Thom what her name was.

Tom shook his head and said his sister had no name. His own name was given to him after a clerk recognized him by mistake when he was moving things to the casino.

"After everything is over, I will give your sister a name." The old mage's words surprised Thom and made others envious.

As the wooden walls strengthened, ravines appeared, and each other became acquainted, Thom felt that the atmosphere in the town changed. Everyone became less desperate and began to smile.

As night fell, Thom and dozens of guards guarded a city wall. They took turns patrolling, and after the peaceful first half of the night, he hugged the shovel and huddled under the wooden wall to take a nap.

Half asleep, he was awakened by the shaking of the ground. I found that it was already cold and the gravel and gravel around me were beating. The guard captain, who was wearing a coat, hurriedly ran from the hut to the wooden wall: "The cavalry is approaching us! Look who it is!"

The shouts of the townspeople woke up the town in the early morning. The guards who were once thieves climbed up the watchtower, then sounded the alarm bell in the village, and the barking of dogs sounded over the town.

The guards, gripped by fear, stood on the wooden wall and saw the rushing sound of hooves, the dust raised on the dirt road, and the flashing light of their shields.

The old mage who came over expressed confusion and relief: "You are saved..."

"It's us."

The old mayor next to him corrected.

At this time, they saw the young man named Thom climb over the wooden wall. Under the gratified eyes of the two old men, he ran towards the knights in the distance and waved to them and shouted: "The knights are coming! We are saved!"

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Annan and the knight team saw the outline of the town in the distance in the early morning.

The team slowed down and looked at the closed town. The knight captain gushed out unknown... The town was too quiet.

As they got closer and closer, the knight in front suddenly took the reins. Because a bloody corpse that had been pecked by crows and nailed to death by arrows was stuck in the middle of the road.

The scout in the cavalry rode close to the corpse, circled around it and returned to the team: "The rat men have been here, there are no living people, and there are signs of decay for about three days."

They had just set off at that time.