A strange world

Chapter 337 Chapter 190. The truth getting closer

If Star-Moon Bay was in the south, the November temperature would still cause a violent plague to break out among hundreds of thousands of corpses, but in the north, those hard corpses were so frozen that even the ratmen couldn't chew them.

As if not wanting to take advantage of Annan, the retreating rat tide still took away all the "rations". Annan couldn't help feeling that not only did they not invade Xingyue Bay, they also cleaned up the battlefield for him. There were also good rats in the McKean clan.

The second wave of rat tide surged to the east, but Xingyue Bay did not resume its previous opening because some rat people arrived one after another. They don't know what happened before, and they still regard Xingyue Bay as a delicacy lying across the road, and they need to pry open the hard shell to enjoy it. So the occasional gunfire from the city wall became a relief.

Annan and Elimoas went to the south again, and the ratmen belonging to the second wave of rat tide were converging on Breeze City. After returning, Brom's knights hoped to take the initiative, and in response, they tactfully, coquettishly, and tentatively hoped to have meritorious deeds painted on their armor.

Annan agreed, and the knights who witnessed the high morale poured out of Breeze City.

Now, he still has one important thing to do.

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"Let us welcome the hero of Xingyue Bay, Broken Tooth!"

A ratman stood on a high platform, receiving cheers from thousands of musketeers and residents... Outside of Star-Moon Bay, this scene could only happen when a ratman was about to be hanged.

As a Stun elite rat, the height of its broken teeth is more than 1.6 meters. Its shiny cilia and strong body are what distinguish it from the slave rats. It can barely compete with Fast, who does not use combat skills.

But the most valuable thing is that Broken Tooth is not at all cunning, insidious, and cunning as a rat man should be, but he actually holds a grudge.

The people of Xingyue Bay don't have that much hatred for the rat people... In other words, Annan's will is their will. Annan was right when he said that there are good ratmen among the ratmen. And these days, news of Broken Tooth's sacrifice has long been spread in Xingyue Bay. The story of the bards is this: an enemy soldier was influenced by them and returned to the field after being disarmed. However, when the enemy invaded again, this soldier stood up and took the initiative to resolve the crisis.

Without this real Stuen rat, Annan couldn't fool the McKeon rat. Broken Tooth’s honor is well deserved.

Annan personally put a gold badge on it.

"You are not a soldier, so I won't award you any meritorious service." Annan chuckled. "As compensation... is there anything you want? For example, friends and tribesmen you want to bring over?"

"I don't remember them," Broken Tooth said. "I think...I want a name."

Annan meditated for a while: "How about Solens...?"

In the common language, the meaning is "the evil one who devotes himself to justice." The allusion is that in the elven years, a chaotic and evil abyss fiend suddenly believed in the righteous guardian god, shocking the demons in the abyss and the gods in heaven for ten thousand years.

"I like this name."

Broken Tooth didn't react at all - Annan finally saw someone more ignorant than himself!

The square began to cheer Broken Tooth's new name, Sorens. Annan smiled: "Now you are riding on the old orc's head."

The old orc is more famous than many legends in Plang's Gift County because of "Betal's Redemption", and is also very popular in Star Moon Bay, but now Saurons is even more popular.

Then it was the turn of the other participants in this battle: Losi, Fermi, a dozen musketeers and the thirteen-headed white dragons who also made important contributions - Ilymoas was too lazy to attend such a gathering.

They received the silver badge of the battle, second only to gold. All other musketeers who participated in the war wore bronze badges - this was done to distinguish merit - and to save money.

The reward for the thirteen white dragons is ten barrels of fresh fish. After all, it is difficult for the white dragon to understand what honor is.

No one becomes the “Captain of Ten Thousands.” The black blood that killed ten thousand ratmen was just a luxury for them now. However, nearly half of the knights made up for the rewards from the battle - they graffitied a rat head pattern on their plate armor to represent killing an elite rat. Fermi even painted a bloody rat head because he killed more than ten elite rats. .

After the medal ceremony was over, the Musketeers couldn't wait to go out to clean up the ratmen on Xingyue Bay. Annan asked them to rest for a day and go to Breeze City to help tomorrow.

Returning to the Lord's Mansion, Annan found Ingrid following her with doubts.

As the Secretary of the Interior who is good at political affairs, Ingrid, who was born into a noble family, finds it difficult to understand why meritorious service can make soldiers ignore threats and instead look forward to new battles.

Annan said that this is the charm of growth: It is stupid and painful for a person to push a stone up a mountain, but if you push a stone up, there will be something meaningless to count for you, then your motivation to push the stone will increase. If we add a ranking list on top of this to record the person who pushed the most rocks, and put all the stone pushers together to compete——

"I don't understand."

Ingrid's exposure to "ladylike" etiquette from a young age insulated her from competition.

"What if Olmedo announced that he would put together all those who are good at government affairs and rank them based on their performance..."

"I see."

This woman was almost as cold as Lindy, but her eyes flashed with unnerving enthusiasm.

"Call the rat people here... no, take them to the Department of Home Affairs." Annan said, and after Ingrid asked what, "I have something to ask them..."

Annan paused for a moment, as if he was sorting out his words: "We have to know what the Rat Man is going to do..."

It's just that Annan has no hope of getting news from the rat people. This is indeed the case. The slave rats don't know anything. They are just driven north by the clan.

Maria asked her to leave, and the druids, elves, dwarves, and dragons were all fleeing the north.

Although the rat plague is terrifying, it should not scare all races unless they know the secrets that humans do not know.

Annan seems to be standing in front of a forked road between survival and destruction.

Unable to think of an answer, Annan asked Olmedo when he was in doubt, and sent the musketeers over by the way.

The rat tide in Breeze City was a few days earlier than in Xingyue Bay. Now that Xingyue Bay has lifted the crisis, Breeze City is still fighting. Compared with Xingyue Bay's "slave rats mixed with elite rats", Breeze City's "slave rats mixed with elite rats".

But Olmedo still felt strange: "It seems that the Rat Man hasn't exerted his full strength yet."

For the city that stands at the northernmost tip of the kingdom, Breeze City is full of martial virtue, and the gathering rat tide did not bring much pressure. Even Agarwal did not come back.

"The rat tide army hasn't arrived yet?" Annan asked.

Olmedo shook his head: "The rat tide has surrounded Breeze City for more than a week, maybe they have squeezed to the foot of the snow-capped mountains.

Annan suddenly froze at this moment, his dark eyes reflecting the snow-capped mountains outside the window trembled at the sudden horrifying suspicion.

Could it be...