A strange world

Chapter 965 Section 196. The truth is always covered with dust

Outside the city of Ize Bay, there was a long queue of people waiting to enter the city.

A short and thin boy and a lame old man stood in front of the city guards, their faces full of embarrassment and pleading.

"Sir, we really don't have money..."

They came too hastily and forgot to bring money to pay the city tax.

"If you don't have money, get out of here." The city guards grabbed the arm of Lame Babu and wanted to throw him out.

Little Smo hurried over to stop him: "Captain, we know the secret!"

"Secret?"

Taking advantage of the attention of the captain of the city guards, Little Smo said loudly in a voice that people around could hear: "When we fled, we encountered a group of rats with plague, and they are approaching Ize Bay!"

The crowd around changed color, and the city guards kicked Little Smo to the ground, raised their spears and poked Little Smo's chest, shouting fiercely: "Catch these two demagogues!"

"I don't, I don't! We saw it with our own eyes-"

Bang!

The captain of the city guard whipped Little Smoo's cheek with his spear, and he was knocked unconscious again.

"Take them to the dungeon!"

The captain of the city guard swept through the restless crowd, feeling annoyed.

Damn... It's getting harder and harder to hide...

On the way to the dungeon with two refugees, the honest lame old man suddenly shouted at the intersection: "Children, the plague is coming, run!"

The captain of the city guard, who was having a headache, was furious and swung his spear to hit the old man in the back.

Lame Babu stumbled and fell, and it was difficult to get up. The city guards who rushed up dragged him away like a dead dog in front of the people on the street, leaving a mottled bloodstain on the stone slab.

"They are just two crazy refugees, don't pay attention to their crazy talk!"

...

[Letter to Miss Yanes:

See you, Miss Yanes, when I stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the Mam River today, I thought of my hometown and you.

We easily wiped out the group of Free Blades who destroyed the mine. They were so weak that they rushed towards us with ridiculous wood and stones. I killed three Free Blades without much effort.

My lady, doesn't this prove the lies of Free City? Their soldiers are weak and powerless, and even the boasted beauty is so false...

Miss Yanes, I have no intention of exposing the things you like, but just want to help you recognize what kind of people you like in Free City.

However, we didn't find their leader. The captain interrogated the captives and he said that the rats appeared in the east with plague... I almost couldn't breathe when I heard this. It was the knight captain who told me that this was a lame excuse made by the cunning Free Blade leader when he knew we were coming.

Damn Free Blades, I was almost deceived by them!

I want to find this group of rats and eliminate them without leaving a single one!

Please wait for me, I will go back as scheduled, or even ahead of schedule, to marry you.

[Claude, October 7, 1001, Saint Laurent Calendar]

After Claude and the knights searched the short mountain thoroughly, the knight captain said that they could go back.

The difficult pursuit was finally over, and Claude couldn't wait to send the letter back home to Miss Yanes.

The short Robin found several wooden boats on the Mam River. The knight captain was no longer as brutal as when hunting the Free Blade people, and laughed: "Boys, do you want to return to Ize Bay before nightfall?"

"We can't wait!"

It's great not to have to carry heavy and smelly heads on the road. Although the weather is getting cold, the heads can be stored for a long time before decaying.

The knights got on the wooden boats prepared by the Free Blade for themselves and arrived at Ize Bay before dusk.

"Go back and have a good rest for the night, and prepare to come to the Knights to receive the reward tomorrow!"

The knight captain dismissed the knights and returned to the City Lord's Mansion with a good mood to report on his work.

But the good mood only lasted for dozens of minutes. He soon learned that the two leaders of the Free Blade had been captured in Ize Bay.

"You let them run back and let the people know about the plague."

The words of the deputy city lord dispelled all his joy. He lowered his head and said, "We have been following the Free Blade. When we caught up, they had already-"

"I don't want to hear the explanation." The deputy city lord waved his hand, "Send the heads over."

"Understood!"

If Little Smo and Lame Babu were not captured but sneaked in smoothly, they would see a Jingguan made of thousands of heads in the square outside the city lord's mansion.

They claimed that these were all people from Free City, but how many of them were people from the kingdom who died in vain?

Because of the plague, the city lord's mansion demanded that Little Smo and Lame Babu be executed as soon as possible.

In order to deter the Free City people active in Ize Bay, they chose to publicly execute Little Smo and Lame Babu at the execution ground.

The next morning, the sky was gloomy, and the Mage Academy said that the first snow was coming.

The execution ground in Ize Bay was full of people.

The city guards maintained order, while the knights and the magicians guarded the execution ground outside.

Those people from the Free City could not help themselves when they saw the Jingguan. They used this trick to lure many people out. Now that the Free Blade people were executed, they should also jump out...

Soon, the jailer brought the two Free Blade leaders to the execution ground, put hemp ropes around their necks, and removed the black cloth on their heads.

Both of them were tortured and covered in blood. The thin one lost an ear, and the old man had two legs broken.

The crowd was a little disappointed. They thought the Free Blade would be so powerful, but they didn't expect it to be just an ordinary person that could be seen everywhere on the street...

Even though he was so embarrassed, Little Smo still stood with his head held high and took a deep breath: "Kingdom of Rekanel! You can kill countless of us, but you can't stop more of us from waking up!"

The jailer waved the short flail, breaking Little Smo's teeth and knocking the words into his stomach.

It was Lame Babu's turn. He opened his only unswollen left eye and smiled and said, "Kill them."

The captain of the knights who presided over the hanging shouted loudly: "These two traitors betrayed the kingdom, defected to Free City, brainwashed hundreds of people in the mine, and brutally killed a group of foremen and guards!"

The crowd of onlookers was indignant. They hated traitors.

"We have eliminated the minions hiding in the suburbs. Now, according to the laws of the Kingdom of Rekanel, they will be hanged!"

The jailer walked towards the gallows. Just as they were about to start, a cloaked silhouette rushed out from the intersection. The city guards could not resist and were knocked several meters away.

"He is an elite!"

The fallen city guards screamed, and the well-prepared mages and knights quickly approached.

"Huh?"

A cry of surprise came from the chaotic crowd. There was no time to think about who that guy was. He blew a whistle, and the undercovers hidden in the crowd rushed to the execution ground.

Two arrows shot out and cut the hemp ropes on Little Smo and Lame Babu's heads.