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That night, Amir stayed in Keech and Hill's tent.He didn't try to occupy the bed which was already not spacious enough, he just spread a layer of quilt on the floor, and casually made do with it for the night.

Early the next morning, before many people got up, Amir left Sofia town with his driver in black, and asked Keech to take the communicator with him before leaving, in case something happened to him look for him.

"Is the effective distance of the communicator very far?" Hill asked doubtfully after Amir left.There is a considerable distance between Yagran County and Yanila Province, much farther than from the Magic Association to Asshai City.

"It can be re-conducted through the communication tower of the Magic Association, so as long as both communicators are within the effective range of the communication tower." Kidge explained.

"It's really convenient!" Hill sighed with emotion, and also sighed in his heart. No wonder Emperor De Rossi has been fighting with the Magic Association for the license to sell magic weapons. If such a convenient means of communication as a communicator is used in the army, Its effect is no less than that of a cursed raid.

Kiki, who has long been accustomed to the various conveniences of magic, did not take this small communicator to heart. The heavy rain that he had foreseen yesterday afternoon made him feel that earthquakes might also be predictable, so after eating a few After breakfast of a piece of cold bread and a cup of porridge, he concentrated on studying the changes in the earth elements below the surface.

But the situation underground was far more complicated than Keech expected. He soon discovered that although the ground under his feet was composed of a large number of earth elements, like most earth elements, they all had strong Inert, does not move on its own, what really caused this earth-shaking disaster was other elements covered by the earth.

Keech barely discerned that they were some composite elements that should belong to the wind and fire elements, but due to his limited field of vision, his control over the elements could not spread indefinitely. Therefore, after staring at it for nearly an hour, Keech only got one conclusion that the earthquake is not over yet, and new aftershocks will still come.

Just when Keech told Hill this conclusion, the ground shook very cooperatively, waking up all the people who hadn't escaped from their sleep, announcing the arrival of a new day.

"Well, this conclusion is meaningless." While shaking, Kiki pouted depressingly.

Hill smiled and stroked his black hair reassuringly.

After everyone had breakfast, according to yesterday's arrangement, Hill sent some people to the countryside to inspect the disaster situation, and then counted the situation in the town again, and divided the residents of the square according to their surnames, allowing them to New tents are built with the family as a unit, but the materials can only be taken from the ruins of their own homes, and other people's property cannot be tampered with.

The crowd in the square quickly became busy again. Hill went to look at the wounded, and then, accompanied by Keech, called Sandra, Jason, and William to his tent, and aimed at the next Two important issues faced: food and order to discuss.

But after asking the three people in detail, Hill realized that compared with food, the subsequent home construction is a more serious problem.

Most of the residents in the town have their own land, and now it is spring plowing season. As long as the land returns to calm and the drought stops, the land will be productive soon, and self-sufficiency will not be a problem.There are many herdsmen raising livestock around. As long as the wealthy households in the town donate a few gold coins, they can buy enough cattle and sheep from them to make bacon and sausages that can be preserved for a long time, and feed everyone's hunger together with food.

However, there are no brick kilns or quarries in the town, and most of the houses of each family are old houses passed down from generation to generation. If you want to rebuild, you have to purchase a large amount of bricks and stones, which requires not only funds, but also manpower, and space. Buy.In addition, the town of Sofia is located on a plain, with a lot of grass and few trees around, so it is very difficult to cut down trees to build wooden houses.

"The winter in Sofia is very cold. If the houses cannot be built before the end of autumn, I am afraid that many people will not be able to survive." William stammered.

"Although the house has collapsed, the bricks and stones are still there. Can't we clean it up and reuse it?" Sandora was as puzzled as Hill on this matter.

"Miss Sandora, building a house is not that simple." Jason interjected helplessly.

"Okay, although this matter is very important, at least it is not in urgent need of resolution, and we can slowly find a solution." Hill raised his hand to interrupt, "Let's move on to the next topic first."

After speaking, Hill turned to ask about the equipment of the militia.Compared with whether there will be a house to live in in the distant winter, he is more worried about the refugees and robbers who will appear at any time.

Not all local officials will appease the people like Sophia Town, and not all the people are willing to rebuild their homes immediately after the disaster. Refugees are an inevitable derivative of natural disasters like the plague.How to deal with them and how to protect themselves while dealing with them is also a difficult problem that all generations in power need to face.

Compared with refugees who are just looking for new settlements, bandits who have completely used robbery as a means of livelihood are more dangerous existences.After the earthquake, the number of business groups must have become less and less. After losing the original hijacking target, those robbers will not change their ways, they will only change their targets and attack the town.A sparsely populated and unarmed town like Sofia is an easy target for them.

In addition, the town may not always be as harmonious and peaceful as it was yesterday.It is impossible for everyone to live on Grove’s food reserves all the time, and Hill does not plan to pay for the whole town out of pocket. , may become the fuse that induces conflicts.

At this time, order and maintaining order become very important.

Hill was asking Jason if there was a blacksmith who could make weapons in the town, when a young official who was doing disaster statistics in the square suddenly ran into the tent and told Hill with an anxious expression: Another group of knights came to the town.

Hill was slightly taken aback, then realized that Sirius might have sent another person, immediately paused the topic, and led the others out of the tent.

When he came out, Hill immediately smiled, opened his arms, and strode forward to meet him.

"Joey!"

"Hill!"

The leading knight was Hill's good friend Joey. Seeing Hill coming out, he immediately got off his horse and gave Hill a big hug.

Unlike the casual clothes that McPhee and the others wore when they came over, Joey and his team were all dressed in shining armor, so that anyone who saw them would immediately understand their knight status.There were also two rather large carriages with them, but they looked very unrefined, not like the carriage of Prince Siris.

Hill briefly introduced the people who were with him to Joey, then invited him into the tent alone, and asked straight to the point, "Why are you here?"

"Come and see you, and entrust you with something by the way." Joey replied with a smile.

"You have something to entrust to me, so why don't you come and see me?" Hill pointed it out bluntly.

"It's just a question of word order, what's the difference?" Joey seemed to want to shrug his shoulders, but the heavy armor only made his shoulders shake, and he couldn't shrug at all.

"Just tell me what you want me to do!" Hill rolled his eyes back at him.

"Help me take care of some people." Joey put away his smile and expressed his intention.

As Amir said last night, the bad news brought back by the cavalry made Seres realize the seriousness of the disaster, so he immediately canceled the unfinished parade plan, and no longer waited for the land to be completely calm. Let the entire guard change back to the original knight costume, and rush directly to Yanila's capital, Yani City, to host disaster relief and stabilize the people's hearts.

Also because of the urgency of the situation, Sirius, who wanted to summon Hill to meet, could only send Joey as a representative to express goodwill and friendship, and sent several knights who were injured in the earthquake due to shocking horses and other reasons. , let Hill take care of it.

"McPhee said that you have a doctor here, and the level seems to be pretty good." Joey explained, "I also brought you some medicinal materials and food, so you can accept their reward."

"Can I refuse?" Hill asked helplessly.

"What do you think?" Joey grinned.

Hill didn't answer, but instead said: "It seems that you and Prince Siris are getting along pretty well."

"I have to admit that I was indeed blinded by the rumors. He is completely different from the legend." Joey put his hand on Hill's shoulder and said mysteriously, "In addition to his appearance like a woman, The rest of the place is not feminine at all. And that A-Dong, he—oh no, she—she is really super powerful! Super strong, and she can fight! No one in our entire knight order is her opponent , no one can even break her wrist!"

"That is to say, she is actually the personal bodyguard of His Royal Highness Siris?" Hill also asked pretending to be surprised.

"From my point of view, our prince doesn't think so!" Joy blinked pretendingly, "Honestly, if one day, she suddenly becomes our concubine, I won't be surprised at all." of."

——The appearance of her transformed body will definitely make your jaw drop.

Hill chuckled, and didn't discuss further about the lace news about Prince Siris and A-Dong, but secretly sighed in his heart: the same face, the same character, the same person, but with a different gender, everyone's point of view is different. Immediately it was very different.If his relationship with Keech is exposed, he may experience the same thing as Prince Siris, but in reverse.

Since Joey was still in a hurry to catch up with Prince Serris' guards, he didn't stay in Sofia town for long. After handing over the carriage containing the wounded, medicine and food to Hill, he hurriedly left the town with his people.

Hill put down what he was doing and went to receive the five injured knights first.Only one of them was seriously injured. It seemed that he was trampled by other horses after falling off the horse. Although the other four were not as serious as him, they could no longer bear the weight of the armor for quite a while.

After interviewing the five knights, Hill called his maid Lucy and asked her to prepare five beds for them at Dr. Monterrey's and asked Dr. Montermery to re-examine their wounds .

Although the arrival of the five knights could not add much combat power to the town, it had a great effect in terms of stabilizing people's hearts.Knights are only loyal to the empire and the emperor, and even ordinary members of the royal family cannot be driven at will, and ordinary civilians may not be able to see a real knight in their entire lives.But now, such knights have appeared many times in an unknown town like Sofia, and there can only be one reason for this—they came following a certain important official of the empire.

And the new young clerk in the town is obviously very familiar with the important official of the empire.

In the eyes of the residents of the town, this young clerk, who has the protection of a magician, is friends with many knights, and is entrusted with important tasks by a big man, must be more noble than they imagined. He wrote a beautiful stroke on the paper, and he must be willing and able to let the town survive this disaster in peace.

The residents who thought of this immediately became motivated, and became more obedient and respectful to Hill.

On the afternoon when the five knights came here to recuperate, the mayor, Grove, finally woke up.Hearing the news, Hill hurriedly took Keech to visit, but as soon as he entered Mayor Grove's small tent, he was puzzled to find that Mrs. Grove was crying, while Sandra was full of resentment, with her hands in her hands. He clutched his skirt tightly, as if trying to restrain himself.The other three children also had different expressions, which made Hill feel that they had just experienced a family war.

However, one of the aristocratic principles is not to show curiosity, so Hill could only pretend that he didn't see it, and greeted the mayor of Grove on his own, and compared the attitude of his superiors to his superiors. The situation was briefly stated to him.

The mayor of Grove is still very weak. He is very self-aware and did not ask Hill for the power of the mayor. Get out of the misery of disaster.

But at the end of the polite remarks, Grove changed his voice and mentioned his eldest daughter Sandra, "Although it is an extraordinary time, Sandra is just a girl who doesn't understand anything. Managing so many men is really... too embarrassing for her. "

Hearing what Grove said, Sandra next to her clearly showed the desire to intervene, but she opened her mouth and finally endured it.

"I'm really sorry, I didn't think well enough." Hill understood what Grove meant, and immediately said apologetically, "I'll rearrange it now, and I won't let them bother Miss Grove again."

"Where, it's because Sandra is too ignorant." Grove didn't let Hill take responsibility for the fault, and immediately squeezed out a smile, taking the fault back to his daughter.

Seeing that Grove's complexion was not good, Hill didn't stay here any longer, talked for a while, and then got up to leave.

When leaving, Sandora tried to give them a ride, but Mayor Grove glared back viciously.

Obviously, Sandora neither thinks that she has done something wrong, nor is she willing to accept her father's "care".