Paine's game

"I didn't expect your food to be in such short supply."

After disposing of the black slave's body, Scarlett Scarlet invited Paine to have a meal with them. The meal was not rich. Mammy and Dilcey roasted the dug-out potatoes and brought them to the table. Paine looked around and saw that he had no appetite.

On the other hand, Scarlett Hao and her two sisters, Suellen and Carrie, ate voraciously.

"It's good to have roasted potatoes!" Su Ellen said inarticulately. "Well, since the Yankees captured Atlanta, we haven't received any new supplies."

"They also ransacked our manor while my sister was away!" Carrie said bitterly, and then swallowed a large piece of roasted potato.

Paine broke into a cold sweat and gave his share of potatoes to the two little girls.

"So what is the current situation of the war? The Northern Army has gained an absolute advantage?"

"Although I don't want to admit it, the Yankees do have the upper hand,"

"I would venture to ask, given Miss Scarlett's ability, why don't you leave here?" Paine tried.

"This is impossible." Scarlett Hao said firmly, "The witch will not leave her own land."

This is the truth. Scarlett Hao loves Tara Manor. Every time she comes back from the fields tiredly and sees the white house that is not very neatly built, she always feels full of passion and the joy of returning home. Every time she

Standing at the window and looking at the green pastures, red fields and tall and dense swamp woodlands, she was always filled with a fresh sense of beauty. She loved this place with its winding red soil hills and this beautiful piece of Baohan.

There are lands of blood red, crimson, and vermilion, where bushes miraculously grow. This feeling has become an unchanging part of her life. There is no such land anywhere else in the world.

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"Land is the only thing that lasts... and for any witch, the land she lives on is her mother... it is the only thing worth a witch's work, fight and sacrifice. It is the power of the witch

Source!"

"Your power comes from the land?" Paine raised his eyebrows curiously. This was the first time he heard that witches' power comes from the land. According to the novels, movies, TV series he had read in his previous life, and the countless RPG games he had played,

The common setting of witches is that the source of their power should be blood, forbidden knowledge and mystery!

"Of course, otherwise, why do you think the war between humans and witches in the Old World started? And why are the Yankees going to war with the South now?"

Scarlett Hao wiped her lips with a handkerchief, "Do you think they are fighting for money? No, this is not accurate. They are fighting for the vast cultivated land with neat furrows, fighting for the green pastures where livestock can be grazed, and fighting for the slow pace of life."

Fighting for the winding yellow rivers, fighting for the shady white houses among the magnolia trees. Only these things were worth fighting to the death for, the land that belonged to them and their children, the land that produced cotton for their children and their children.

Land."

"Isn't it true that possessing extraordinary power is not exempt from vulgarity? This is somewhat new." Paine said. "I thought that people with extraordinary power would be more merciless?"

"Now I really believe that you don't know anything and you are a person who came here by accident." Scarlett Hao's eyes widened.

"How to say?"

"The existences with extraordinary power in the Old World and the New World all have their power source closely related to the land beneath their feet. Whether they are witches, knights, vampires, priests or scholars, no one can do without the land. And witches have a deep relationship with the land.

Thirst is far more important than anything else. For witches, nothing is more important than land. Witches need their own territory."

Scarlett Hao said, raised her index finger and said: "For example, more than 500 years ago, there was a great witch who was annoyed with the humans who continued to open up wasteland and encroached on her territory, so she created the Black Death, which wiped out the people of the Old World in four years.

The population dropped by more than 25 million. That period was probably the last glorious period of the witches."

"That sounds really crazy. Why did she do that?"

"Why?" Scarlett Hao laughed unladylikely as if she had heard some joke, "Because in the eyes of witches, ordinary humans are almost the same as mice. They have the same amazing fecundity, and the same are very annoying. Humans on the ground

She builds filthy lairs and lives in them, infringing on the land that the witch took from the wild beasts. What reason do you think she has not to do this?"

"Okay, from a witch's point of view, there's nothing wrong with doing this. But what happens next? Humans get back in the game?" Paine was very curious about the historical direction of this world.

"It is of course impossible for humans alone to defeat the great witch Chloe. There are also beings with extraordinary power among humans. The way they obtain power from the land is different from that of witches. They need a large number of ordinary humans to help them open up wasteland, produce, and seize power.

The power of the earth. They organized a powerful knights to attack the great witch Chloe, and sealed her away at the cost of almost annihilation."

"Although they sealed the Great Witch Chloe, they made good use of the research results of the Great Witch Chloe - Black Death, smallpox, injuries, measles, influenza and plague. They relied on these treasures to conquer

Two new continents~"

"So, you witches lost?"

"We lost, but it was not those knights and priests who claimed to be righteous and were full of men and thieves and prostitutes who changed the situation of the war. In the long struggle, humans obtained many witches' experimental notes, so the profession called scholars was born. Huo He

Iron allowed them to survive the period when the witches were at their strongest, while explosives and steam allowed them to reverse the situation and become masters."

Scarlett Hao sighed, "If this were not the case, why would the witches have to flee across the ocean to the New World?"

The scene suddenly became quiet, and Paine realized that maybe his topic was too heavy. In order to break the deadlock, he had to choose some lighter topics.

"I was embarrassed to ask just now, why did that black slave attack me? You obviously told him to stop." Paine asked.

"I'm not that stupid black slave. How do I know what he thinks." Scarlett Hao waved her hand disdainfully, "But I know that guy has evil intentions for a long time. After all, the reward offered by the Yankees is really tempting.

Isn't it? Ten thousand dollars for a witch, dead or alive, big or small."

Scarlett Hao sneered, and hit the two sisters who were still eating potatoes with both hands. "The black slaves who didn't know the inside story ran away. The timid Mammy and Dilcey stayed because they had nowhere to go, and

The reason why Poker, a strong black slave, stayed here was because he knew that these two stupid sisters and I were both witches? This means thirty thousand dollars."

"Oh!" The two little girls covered their heads in grievance, but they did not dare to resist under the coercion of their elder sister.