Mount and Blade

"Snap!" "Tap!"

In the cold night of ice and snow, the sound of whips hitting flesh resounded, and Green knelt in the snow with his upper body naked, silently enduring the pain of skin and flesh.

............

In the afternoon, because of what happened in the morning, the Knights of Aclo checked the soles of shoes and personal clothing of every soldier and knight, especially for a few guys with servants, and even turned over the mattresses to search them.

"Are you Green?" The captain of the four Aclo knights who were doing routine inspections asked seriously. Although they didn't think that the knight's servants would be involved in that matter, it was still necessary to search them carefully.

"Yes, sir." Green answered calmly, after all, the whole dormitory was checked in this way.

"I heard that someone saw you go to the city yesterday?" When the captain of the Aclo knights asked, his men had already turned over the mattresses of Green and Bazso, as well as any place where items could be stored.

"That's right."

"What did you do?"

"I've been in the castle for almost a month. I wanted to buy some food to improve my meals, but I didn't expect the outside of the city to be in such a state, so I came back directly." Green waved his hand helplessly. After all, he was telling the truth.

"Well... this is consistent with what was reported."

The captain of the Yaklo Knights also observed that the leather boots Green wore today were very clean, and there was no mud on the shoes belonging to the city. Just based on the marks on the shoes, a lot of suspicious people have been caught today.

"Captain, no abnormalities were found." The three Yaklo Knights did not find anything abnormal, no tattered black and gray clothes, no strange hidden weapons and daggers.

"Well, you all know what happened today. You must be on guard and don't go out again."

"No problem."

"You guys follow me." The leading Knight Yalot said. Although he did not suspect that it was one of these little ghosts, he still had to do the work given by the superiors.

After the inspection of the dormitory was completed, the entire stone house was basically filled with some noble attendants of the knights. Like the noble knights, they were just routinely inspected. But the group of civilian soldiers below were different. In the cold weather, they were roughly inspected and collectively driven outside to strip naked to check if there were any new wounds on their bodies. There was already a group of knights blocking the door. This method discovered many Joda spies, but those Joda assassins with obvious wounds on their bodies immediately bit through the poison sac and committed suicide when they saw this situation and could not escape. Not even a single one was left alive.

However, despite such a close inspection, there were still lucky Joda assassins and spies who were not injured and continued to lurk, but their number obviously decreased a lot, and some places were no longer under their control.

After a day of twists and turns, there were three things worth investigating and pondering during the day.

The first was the tragedy that happened in the city. At the scene of the crime, the heads of more than a dozen male refugees were found boiled in the same pot. It was horrible to see. It was just like what pagans would do. Some of their bodies were stabbed with flying knives, and some were pierced by crossbow arrows. Judging from the hidden weapons, it was likely that they were in the same group that assassinated Lord Laban. However, a child's footprint was found on the ground, which matched the imp who pierced Burkan's leg in the porridge shed. So several servants were taken into an empty room by four Alot Knights and their clothes were taken off for physical examination. Fortunately, Green did not leave any scars. This incident was well covered up. Now the Aklo Knights have locked their sights on the pagans who may be lurking in the city.

The second was how Jodah's spies incited the refugees and were so easily provoked. It is not difficult to guess from the spies mixed in with the refugees that they had mixed in with the refugees from the beginning. However, no matter how chaotic it was, they were just a group of people who were afraid of starving to death. No matter how they were protected by the army, they dared not act rashly. Being incited on such a large scale was not their usual style.

Third, when the riot occurred, not a single sentry on the side wall of the fortress sounded the alarm bell, and many guards on duty were killed. The collapse of the fortress wall III and the city wall all showed that the infiltrated Joda people had a certain control over the guards inside the wall.

And through the investigation of the refugee group, we learned how thin the porridge was in the past. The guards embezzled and deducted a lot, and even several spies from Joda got involved, making the original porridge even thinner. This made the refugees who were already hungry even worse, and their resentment increased day by day. When the riots started, these people were extremely easy to be incited.

For this reason, all the captains of the guards in charge of disaster relief in Or City were directly imprisoned and questioned. Perhaps they just blamed Green to excuse themselves, but it was obvious that Green's natural answer fooled them.

However, the matter of checking the body of the servant was obviously beyond Kadi's expectations. So Green was called to an underground storage room by Kadi at night.

There was a bad premonition in his heart, but he still followed Kadi silently and stepped down the damp and cold steps. Kadi walked in front without saying a word, and Best followed behind Green. Although he was injured in the waist, he was not discovered because he was a noble servant.

The light in the storage room was very dim. The torches in Cady and Best's hands were stuck in it so that everything here could be seen clearly.

"Were you responsible for the head murder case outside the city?"

Cady asked in a lukewarm voice. Although he was asking, it was obvious from his tone that it was an affirmative sentence.

"...It's me." Green admitted generously. Best should have told Cady long ago.

"..."

Cady's blue eyes looked at Green gloomily. Although he was well prepared, he was still very angry. This child was really reckless.

"Kneel down!!"

Seeing Green's admission, Best roared and kicked Green's leg hard, forcing him to kneel on the cold, wet ground. Green groaned and silently endured the pain in his legs, and knelt on the ground. There was nothing to explain. At worst, he would have killed himself.

"...Why?" Looking at Green, who was kneeling on the ground looking as stubborn as a donkey, he seemed to be as unwilling to admit his mistake as last time.

"No reason, because I can't stand the world."

Thinking of the tragic situation of the mother and son in the city, Green's hands tightly grasped the fabric on his legs and he gritted his teeth.