Castle Peak is not a big city. In terms of scale, it is like a turbid town with walls, not to mention a fortress like a king''s capital or molten iron. Even compared with iron castle and valley, Castle Peak is not as big as it is. However, in such a small town, due to the attack of rat people, a large number of residents were gathered. Most of them came from the villages in heishanling, and were demobilized to settle down here for the time being before the defense line of Zhuoluo town broke down.


    The streets of the city can be seen everywhere low coarse cloth tents, as well as the surrounding messy environment. Although the Baron''s Tower stinks badly, the rest of the city doesn''t smell much better. Maybe that''s why Jack hates it so much. Wolfwalker''s keen sense of smell is now like a curse.


    "I don''t understand. Where are they looking at their Lord hanging? Just watch Jack shrugged his nose. He faced the sun and looked at the hanging chair and Baron on the tower in the distance. It was not only him, but also many residents who went out of their homes. They kept a distance from the tower and whispered in groups.


    "There''s a strange phenomenon." After changing the clothes under the robe, the cheese went to the balcony, checking whether there was still a smell on his body, and responding to the doubts of his companions, "those nobles, especially the lords who dominate the land. They always think that their leaders should be loyal to them and obey them for their own sake. It doesn''t make sense, does it? You see, the power and wealth of a lord actually comes from his people, not from himself. If a land has only a lord but no residents, the Lord is nothing. Is this a profound truth? "


    "It''s true. It''s just that a lot of aristocrats forget this on purpose. They prefer to believe that everything they have comes from their blood." The net worm sat in the chair and gently wiped the dagger. There was a lot of resentment in her words. As a mercenary, she inevitably had to deal with many nobles, not everyone as easygoing as Lothar.


    "Blue blood man? It''s a pity that they can think of such absurd words. " Corantine fiddled with her hair, and though there was no record of aristocratic behavior in books, her mother and grandmother loved to tell her these anecdotes. Of course, maybe only witches think it''s funny.


    "How they do not concern us. When Marcus settles the guy, we''re going north. " Cheese shook his head. He didn''t care about the conflict between the nobility and the common people. For the mage, these things are just the affairs of the human kingdom, and he does not belong to any country.


    "Shall we leave like this?" The door opened and Elsa and Mona came in. The landlady didn''t hear the conversation of several people in the room before. Her eyebrows were tightly wrinkled under the red hair, and the expression on her face was not good-looking. "This city is suffering more terrible tribulation than a cowardly Lord, and we have just seen a few foreigners being chased and beaten by the original residents when we were just finishing the carriage."


    Cheese heard some impatient knock on the balcony handrail, "only now. The city can''t support so many people, and now it has enough food, but the contradiction between the local residents and the poor people due to the outbreak of living space has emerged. After a while, the granary will reach the bottom, and the conflict between the two sides will not be as simple as a few people. "


    "Then we can''t go! Can''t you do anything to save them if you foresee the problem? " Elsa came to cheese. She was neither a soldier nor a mercenary, so she couldn''t control the sadness in her heart when she saw the pain on those faces.


    The mage did not speak, but Jack said, "we can''t save them, at least not here."


    "What do you mean?" The landlady turned her head and asked. She knew that her companion was not a man who could not help but needed a clear reason.


    "Now it''s the same scene in cities all over the Kingdom, a large number of refugees are homeless and the living space in cities is overcrowded. Before long, food will begin to be scarce, and with it comes the disease caused by the dirty environment, and the people who can move will begin to grab other people''s resources openly. In the end, there will be no order. Inside the city wall, it will become a more terrible place than the wilderness full of rat people, the hell on earth. But what''s interesting is that more people will choose to die here than to walk out of the city wall to find a way out, just because they think their own kind is better to deal with than rat people. " Cheese spoke of the end of the city with a cold tone, his eyes swept the street outside, and the sun could not reflect any brilliance in those eyes.


    "We can''t stop this happening, not Marcus. Because the lack of resources is the lack of grain, there will be no sudden increase of grain in the barn without grain. All our activities here are just delaying the occurrence of the conflict and can not solve the root of the problem. " The mage turned to Elsa and said, "that''s why we have to go to the valley and find a way to solve the source of the problem. Only when the rat man disappears from the field can people walk out of the wall and have a hope to live. And this, the sooner the better. "


    There was something else the red haired lady wanted to say. She understood the cheese was right, but it was too cruel. But before Elsa could speak, Rosa strode in. By the time the count of Heishan realized the strange atmosphere in the room, it was too late."Am I disturbing something?" He asked the net bug sitting by the door in a low voice, but only got a grimace response.


    "I see." Elsa bowed her head, said to cheese, and turned away from the room. Two of her better acquaintances, collenti and Mona, followed out of fear.


    "You let her down." The maid said leisurely after the footstep sound had gone away. She knew why the landlady had such a reaction.


    "Ha..." Jack took a deep breath, scratched his hair with his hands, went back to the room and sat down. His expression was a little dispirited. In fact, everyone knew the problem raised by ELSA, but it was helpless because she saw the problem clearly but couldn''t solve it.


    "Is there really no way? You know, even if we solve the rat man problem, a lot of people will die Wolf Walker raised his head and looked at the gray figure on the balcony.


    Cheese was silent for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth. "Magic is not everything. I said it the first day we knew it." Then he said to himself in a lower voice, "even if magic can do everything, I''m not."


    The oppressive atmosphere spread in the room, or Lothar''s opening broke the silence. As the count who alone carried the whole black mountain family, he was actually the one who experienced the most coldness. "Marcus has solved it. The fat man took control of the city with the Baron''s approval, and he didn''t need our help. So I thought, maybe we should... "


    The cheese nodded and pulled up the hood from his robe. "Jack, go and talk to them. Let''s go. Go to the valley. "


    www.novelhall.com , the fastest update of the webnovel!