Ride and Cut

As the days passed, the chaos in the wilderness did not stop at all, but intensified instead.

For a large tribe going south to the nearby three-point land, it is like putting a 20-pound dog fat carp into a half-acre square pond, and the ecological relationship of the entire fish pond will undergo a major reshuffle.

Chaos and turmoil will be the themes here before a stable mutual relationship is re-formed.

There seemed to be some jitteriness in the breeze passing by from the Alpine Fort.

There are more and more wandering bandits in groups of three or five, and sometimes they even gather to try to attack the Alpine Fort. Of course, this attempt was nothing more than hitting a stone with a pebble, and was defeated by the soldiers like mowing grass, but the tense situation has become a tacit consensus of all.

Li Cha personally opened the stomach of a bandit who died in battle, and inside was no longer unsatisfactory grass seeds and bark, but raw meat and a few unchewed fingers.

This discovery made everyone present feel horrified.

"Have you seen their red eyes? Cannibalism will lead to red-eye madness. In fact, you will die in the end." After finishing speaking, Li Cha rinsed his fingertips with clean water, and gave a gag order to the soldiers present.

It is better not to let the civilians know this kind of news. The more turbulent the situation is, the more the Alpine Fort needs to maintain internal stability.

There were even vicious incidents in which herdsmen who went out to graze were robbed and killed, and their livestock were looted, which once caused large-scale panic among the local people. Compared to usual, Li Cha was extraordinarily silent that day. He set off at sunset with the centaur, and didn't come back until noon the next day.

They were covered in blood, their clothes were soaked in sweat, and their weariness was palpable, but each of them carried a few wolf man heads that hadn't closed their eyes until they died.

These heads were inserted on the surrounding pointed stakes to warn the bandits, and the eyes still kept the fear of the last moment of life, until they were pecked by crows or dried.

The citizens did not comment on this, but silently shrank the living area, and began to spontaneously organize sentries or help the centaur blacksmith forge ordnance.

They were actually very scared, afraid that the lord would choose to withdraw to Cologne temporarily, because they were all natives of the wilderness, and it was impossible for them to be accepted by the Pompeii Empire even temporarily. And once they are left behind...they simply don't have the courage to imagine that kind of result.

In fact, the citizens did not know that Li Cha had received a letter sent by the Noble Court with a falcon a few days ago.

The load that the creed falcon can carry on a long-distance flight is very limited, so the length of the letter is precious. How to convey as much information as possible within the limited space is even a science worthy of special study by the clerical staff.

But those bums in Noble Court were still as unreliable as ever, they used three whole lines to write honorifics and format, and only two lines for the main text.

Generally speaking, it is to warn the pioneering lords stationed abroad of the risk and call on them to return to Pompeii as soon as possible.

The falcon ate some shredded meat and then soared into the sky again, leaving nothing in the wooden barrel on its feet. Alpine Fort is still Alpine Fort, daily patrol training grazing and fishing, and there is no wavering because of this episode.

For a pioneering lord, once he returns to Pompeii to avoid disaster, it means the failure of pioneering, which is absolutely unacceptable to Richard.

The benefits of converting the wooden building into a nest appeared at this time. The part exposed on the ground was very low, and with the transplanted grass nest tall enough to cover a person, it looked like an ordinary barren mountain from a distance.

In this season when everything is in danger, Li Cha never expected to see Annie.

"Why are you here?" Annie was riding a tall horse in a leather hunting suit, her hair was wrapped in a linen turban, and she wore a thin sword around her waist. She looked heroic.

Behind her is a mercenary team of more than a hundred people, complete with infantry, cavalry, and bows. The queue is neat and solemn, and it can be regarded as a small army.

"What do you mean I'm here? I should ask you this question. The Alpine Fort is my territory." Li Cha wondered to death.

"We passed by here to rest our feet. I didn't expect that you haven't returned to Kelun yet. Didn't the Noble Court inform you?" Annie stopped the large troops behind her, and she drove the horses slowly towards Li Cha.

"Notified, but I don't want to." Li Cha waved his hand, "It's not necessary at all, as long as those bandits dare to come, they will give away their heads."

His voice was so loud that the mercenaries couldn't help laughing as soon as he spoke. But the soldiers and citizens of the Alpine Fort did not. They looked at the mercenaries as if they were pitying the mentally retarded.

"Master Li Cha, you may be the last pioneering nobleman in the entire Northeast Province who is still holding on to his territory." Annie's complexion was gloomy at first, but she couldn't help but bend the corners of her mouth after hearing this arrogant man's words, "I'm thinking, are you really that brave, or it's just that the information channels are too closed."

After she finished speaking, she stretched out her small hand to Li Cha, and the lord also raised his hand to support her, and helped her get off the horse.

"Do you know what happened recently?" Annie asked.

"It is said that it is because a large tribe of bearmen went south." Li Cha hesitated as he said it.

He still inquired about this news from the mercenaries of Voya Trading Company, Annie must have known about it long ago. But as far as Li Cha knows, there are at least a dozen pioneering territories in the Northeast Province. If it is only a threat from a tribe, it should not be enough to make them all retreat like rats crossing the street.

"No one knows the ins and outs of the whole thing better than me. I dare say you don't know the truth." Annie sighed, and a blind person could see that she was very heavy.

"I would like to hear more about it." Li Cha immediately climbed along the pole.

Commercial firms often have a wide range of contacts, and in terms of intelligence acquisition capabilities, ordinary small nobles can't keep up with it.

"In the past, this involved the top secret of our firm, but now there is nothing left, and there is nothing to talk about."

Annie and Richard walked into the lord's hall and sat across the table. Richard waved Gunther and Hurt to go out and close the door first. Annie was followed by only one female swordsman.

An obsolete secret is also a secret, and if one less person knows it, one less person knows it.

"The building you designed is really practical." Annie looked up at the roof made of logs. "It's cool and easy to hide. My scouts were all fooled, but the appearance can actually be improved."

Before she left last time, Li Cha said that she would launch a brand new building with exclusive design and name it "Nest of Earth", which was a hype. At that time, Annie believed in the elf motto "The more you show off, the more you need", she didn't take it seriously after listening to it. She never thought that she would be the first to experience the effect.

"Get down to business." Li Cha impatiently picked up the teapot and refilled her a glass of water.

It is recognized that elves like to talk about architecture and art. Anne is obviously deeply influenced by elf blood in this regard, and the lord has long been deeply aware of it.