Mercenaries and Adventurers

After the hostages were rescued, Kiel walked out of the house, and finally he could ask about what happened in the waterwheel village before, and the situation of the so-called "Saturn priests" who set fire to this place.

He had a hunch that that group of people might not be that simple, not simply some priests of the Saturnalia Church who passed by here.

Because for more than a year, Kiel has never seen a priest of Saturn who acted like this. They are more accustomed to relying on a large number of farmers and women to expand the belief and influence of the bottom, because these people who account for the majority of the population Farmers, even noble lords everywhere have to deal with it carefully.

So setting fire to the entire uninhabited village is strange no matter how you look at it.

Turning his eyes around, Kiel felt that he still had to communicate with Priest Batar about this matter. But the priest sits in the ranks of the people, and he cannot leave the ranks when Kiel leaves the ranks. Blood Yaster alone cannot suppress any possible problems.

After all, only Kier and Priest Batar could control this team of hundreds of people initially and in terms of ability.

"In this way, there is nothing to do here. Bring the two guys who were unconscious on the ground, as well as these old and young people, back to the team. Just in time, I have something to ask these old people in front of Priest Batar."

Kiel made some arrangements, regardless of whether the five old people were willing or not, he directly asked his subordinates to carry them out of the village and return. As for the two unconscious guys, they were grabbed by their limbs and carried out of the village staggeringly.

Afraid that the unconscious bald man would suddenly wake up and attack his subordinates, Keir didn't allow anyone to carry him on his back, even though his hands and feet were tied.

Called by Kiel, the Mao Maos also ran back from the ruins of the houses around them. They were all covered in wood ash, but blind people could see them. They didn't know what benefit they got, and their happy eyes narrowed up.

From the metal reflections revealed in the hide and seek of the furs, Keel estimated that these guys picked up a lot of metal materials in the ruins.

By the way, Brave Maomao forcibly dragged away the shovel on the ground with Kiel's consent.

I'm afraid that thing is half as heavy as it is, thanks to the fact that this guy has greatly increased his strength for the metal.

I don't know if I'm holding on.

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The young man who used the shovel who surrendered and was captured tried to bribe Kiel with the valuables they dug up in the village when he was escorted out of the village, but Kiel just rolled his eyes and let the people watching The two young men "simplely" moved their hands, and immediately asked the young man to honestly explain where they had hidden the excavated property before.

"Let me teach you a lesson. When you can't control the situation, it's best not to try to use your own things to negotiate or something, because you are a restrained prisoner, and there are too many ways to make people speak honestly."

Keir waved his finger at him: "Don't try to overestimate your endurance, people are always much weaker than they think."

The young man's face was swollen, he hummed a few times in dejection, and didn't dare to say anything more.

So, Kiel sent several armed people back to the village to find and bring back this so-called 'wealth'.

The teams on the other side of the bridge were still gathering in a group on the commercial road at this time, and they were vigilant about their surroundings. But as Keir led the team back, the news that everything was safe spread through the team faster than the wind.

Just the moment the news was delivered, the entire team relaxed.

Originally, you beat me, and I squeezed your team to disperse quickly, each going back to each house, each looking for each mother. There were shouts and quarrels one after another, and many people forgot where they left the supplies they were responsible for before, so they had to search for them with big heads.

The three groups of armed people guarding around the crowd shouted and recalled the hunters who had been sent out with bows and arrows. The big guys also put their weapons in their waists and backs, talking in low voices about what happened to the village on the other side of the river. , to burn so fiercely.

Some people speculate that it was set on fire by passing bandits, and some people even swear that the village must be full of burned bodies.

But this speculation soon went bankrupt. The armed people who followed Kiel immediately said that no body was found in the village. In fact, the village was almost empty.

The villagers fled for their lives as soon as the spring began, leaving only a few elderly people who were still alive in the village.

So someone immediately speculated whether the old man was living in an empty village and accidentally set fire to the houses in the village while cooking. Because the strong laborers who put out the fire in the village had fled, the fire could not be extinguished, which burned the whole village?

In this regard, the armed people of the first armed group who had just returned from Waterwheel Village could not say anything, but turned their heads to look in the direction of Knight Kiel.

There, Kiel was leading the rescued five elders from Waterwheel Village, and joined Priest Batar to talk about the group of people who actually set fire to the village.

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"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! The members of the Saturnalia Church will not set fire to the village!"

Priest Lothar-Batar looked shocked at this moment, but after listening to the old man's brief statement, he refuted loudly.

"The God of Saturn taught us to stand with the people working in the fields. Such evil things cannot be done by us! I will say it again, no! Yes! Yes!"

The priest reacted violently, glaring angrily at the few old men who seemed to him to be slandering.

But a few old people swear, plausibly, that they are the parties involved, and they have really experienced this before, how could their eyes be deceiving? Right?

"My lord priest, you just have to believe in the beautiful words you said. Not everyone in this world is the same. We have met all kinds of people in our life. Some people say beautiful words in their mouths, but they never do them in their hands. Good thing. There are some people who say bad things, but they are really good people. And some people, he is just wearing a piece of human skin, under the skin, I don’t know what weird thing it is.”

Faced with such a sharp irony from an old man, Priest Batar wanted to refute, but before he could speak, another old man continued.

"That's right, the tax official sent by the lord to collect the rent always looks like I'm doing it for your own good, and I have kindness for you. Who doesn't know? Not to mention the officials under the nobles, don't you priests do the same? You are full of hypocrisy." The old man became more and more excited as he spoke, and felt like he was pointing at the nose of the priest Batar.

These old people lived their whole lives, and the village they worked so hard to build was burned, and they were not afraid of death at all. At this time, they opened fire on the priest with all their mouths, which made Kiel dumbfounded.

"You Saturn priests, you said it nicely. What did you say 'you want to be with the peasants'? In the end, you stood together, and you ended up riding on everyone's head? The village has been begging the parish church several times, Let a priest be stationed in the village, even if all the expenses are provided by the village, but half of the priests have not been seen by you. During the harvest festival every year, they lick their cheeks and come to us to ask for a good harvest of food, huh ~ You also said that the good harvest is the credit of the great God of Saturn, and these grains will be sacrificed to the gods, bullshit! We have worked so hard to grow the harvest of grain, has the God of Saturn waved a **** for us? Can you help? Which seed do you want to sprinkle in the field? Did Saturn rain more here? Oh, rain is the business of the Lord of the sky, and the 'great' Saturn has nothing to do with it."

Priest Batar couldn't hold back any longer. He clenched his fists and breathed shortly, arguing: "If farmers and women who believe in the God of Saturn get sick, they can get treatment at the church. You can't just say no to this. Bar?"

But these words just made several old people look at each other speechlessly, and finally looked at the young priest Batar with compassionate eyes.

"But we paid the money." Several old people said in unison.

"What?"

Priest Batar didn't seem to hear clearly, or rather, he heard the words clearly, but didn't understand the meaning of the words.

"What? We went to the church for treatment when we were sick, but we donated money to the God of Saturn every time. In this regard, what is the difference between the Church of the God of Saturn and other churches? We went to several other churches in Dorne Town God’s Church goes to cure diseases, and people can give them a smile.”

Priest Batar was stunned, and Kiel saw that the priest's lips were moving slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything.

A look of shock and confusion, and a lot of accumulated resentment.

He couldn't understand why believers who were also under the faith also charged money?

Keir came out at this time, stopping the two parties from wanting to say something: "How about I say a few words? How many old people?"

The old people slightly bowed to Kiel: "Please, Sir Knight."

They still understood who rescued them from the young men with bad character just now.

"Batar?"

Keel asked the young priest.

Priest Batar put his hands on his chest, waved his hands weakly, and signaled Kiel to do whatever he wanted, and he didn't want to say anything at this moment. Or, he himself wants to say, scold and complain too much at this time, and he doesn't know how to speak for a while.

Kiel coughed lightly, and then said: "I heard what you just said, but in fact, you all deviated from the original topic. The key is not whether the Saturn priests in this area are qualified or not, but whether they are good enough or not. It was the priests who set fire to Shuiche Village before, who are they?"

"Who is it? Who else can it be? Those priests and gentlemen of the Saturnalia Church."

The old people were a little displeased with this, thinking that Knight Keir was talking about some obvious superficial things.

But Priest Batar glanced at Kiel unexpectedly, as if he was touched by this question.

Kiel nodded: "Masters, why do you say that those people are priests of the Saturnalia Church?"

"What else can it be? There are only a few old guys like us left in the village. Those priests and lords pass by Shuiche Village. We must entertain them, stay, eat and so on. Ask them when they are eating, and they will answer themselves."

Keir understood: "Oh, they answered it themselves. So the question is, what if, I mean if, what if those people are not priests of the Church of Saturn?"

"How is it possible! How is it possible? The clothes and robes they are wearing are the same as that of this young priest!"

After an old man finished speaking, he pointed to the slightly reddish armored priest's robe on Priest Batar's body. The redness was due to seeing blood. Without deep cleaning of the clothes, the originally whitish robe became reddish. .

But as soon as the words came out, the other old man tugged on the sleeve of his speaking companion and whispered, "Wait, it seems a little different to me."

Keir heard everyone's words clearly, and he asked, "Different? What's different?"

The old man wanted to speak, but was secretly pulled away by his companion, so he couldn't speak.

Keir stretched out his hand and said, "You can say whatever you want, there is no need to worry about anything."

The companion at the back wanted to pull the old man's clothes again, but the old man still shook off his companion's hand, stepped forward, rubbed his eyes, wiped off the eyeballs that hindered his vision, and took a closer look at the shape of the robe on Priest Batar's body. system and pattern.

"It's really different. The robes worn by those people are not as detailed as the robes worn by this young priest. It's like using linen to imitate cotton cloth. The material is different and much inferior. And the pattern is much simpler. There is only a big one on the chest. The emblem of the **** of agriculture, for fear that others will not see it. There are no patterns and decorations on the robe of this young priest."

As soon as he said that, other old people gathered together, this time carefully distinguishing, and sure enough, they made a new discovery.

"And the appearance of the emblem of the **** of agriculture is also a little different, um, a little different."

"I have a good memory. I remember that the robes on those people were somewhat different. When I asked them, they said that priests of different levels in the church wore different clothes. I don't know, is it so?"

Priest Batar glanced at Kiel unexpectedly, his eyes widened, and then explained to the old people: "There is such a saying, but the clothes of the shepherds are not much different, only the clothes of the priests There is a big difference between a priest and a pastor. But the problem is that the pastors are all big figures in various places, and there are not many in a parish. There should be no priest leading a team of more than ten priests..."

Everyone couldn't understand what Priest Batar said, but everyone understood the meaning.

For a team of more than a dozen people, generally speaking, the style of the robes cannot be different. If the level is lower than that, they are all church standard robes, so it is impossible to be different.

"Also, the emblem of the God of Saturn is different? This is even more impossible. The emblem of the God of Saturn represents the great God of Saturn, and there is no room for any changes!"

Speaking of this, Priest Batar became serious, as if he had cleared a fog, and his eyes were different from before, now they were shining brightly.

"These people are definitely not members of the Saturnalia Church! I'm sure! It's okay to say anything else, but the emblems of the Saturnalia are different, and they are definitely not the priests of the Saturnalia Church! I knew it, I knew it! No one would set fire to it No one in the village does this!"

The priest spoke louder and louder, and almost jumped up and shouted.

Several old people looked at each other in blank dismay at this moment, could it be that they really made a mistake? Didn't the priests of the Saturnalia Church do it? But people from other churches imitated the Saturnalia Church?

If you think about it this way, it is not impossible to take advantage of the chaotic situation, impersonate the priest of Saturn, and then do evil everywhere, set fires, and kill the few of them who had communicated with them at that time after doing evil. These few people are regarded as living beings, and they will identify the Saturnalia Church in the future.

Thinking about this, several old people trembled, what a sinister thing, they almost became accomplices.

It became the mouthpiece for assassinating the Saturnalia Church.

But after a few old people thought about it, the Church of the God of Saturn is not very good at ordinary times, so let's just scold them if they scold them.

But Priest Batar heaved a sigh of relief, and slowly loosened his hands that had been tightly clenched before. His fingers were a little white due to the prolonged grip.

Keir snorted softly, with a thoughtful look on his face, and after thinking for a while, he asked another question: "So, where did those people go after that?"

This question brought back the thoughts of several people present.

Several old people discussed in low voices for a while, and then they said: "They finally crossed the bridge at the entrance of the village and headed southeast. Before that, they walked to the village along the river bank on this side of the village. In the village, most people want to cross the river by the wooden bridge in the village. In fact, the river is not very deep, and the young men in the village go into the water every day to catch some food in the river."

Keir and Priest Batar looked at each other, and said in unison: "Belisfa City!"

"They probably went there. Let me see, what's the time? Time! By the way, when did those fake priests arrive in the village? And when did they set fire to the village and leave?"

Keel asked the old people.

A few old people replied: "Shortly after the people in the village fled in early spring, UU reading www.uukanshu.com When the village was still there, we old guys could barely get by. Now we can only live outside the village. The little food left by the children was also burned, and the food buried in the village was too deep for us old guys to dig out. These days we can only eat some wild vegetables and river animals."

When the time came, Keir said to Priest Batar: "The time is just right. If those people go southeast first after leaving here, and then go south along the trade road, it will coincide with the time when the accident happened in the city of Bolisfa. .Batar, tell me, are those people?"

Priest Batar took a deep breath: "I know, it is very possible, very possible. Imitate the priests of the Saturnalia Church and mislead the villages in the surrounding areas of the city of Beresfa to oppose the city of Beresfa. If the parish in the city is Break through, and no matter how you explain it afterwards, others will not believe that we did not do this."

"What are they doing this for? And who are they?"

Kiel rolled his eyes: "It's still a question, they can be anyone, any organization, for what? That's too much. But Batar, this is not something you and I can get involved in, remember that in Mongolia Regarding the matter of Toka City, you and I have accepted the mission, and why. After all, the people in Changmai Village don’t know where they are and how they are suffering.”

But Priest Batar's eyes dodged, the young priest turned his head away, and left here without looking back: "I have to be quiet and communicate with God about this matter."

Kiel frowned. He didn't remember Priest Batar being so awkward and outspoken. It seems that the incident in the city of Beresfa, which is his hometown, still has a great impact on the priest himself.

I hope he can think about what is the most important thing to the two of them at this time.