Goddess Wanhua Mirror

"It's just a misunderstanding. This lady knight probably thinks I'm a cultist."

Lude shrugged with a smile, but Sharo, who was bound, struggled to sit up from the ground, shouting weakly with all his might.

"Don't, don't listen to him! He's not...not a good person."

Because of the debilitating effect brought about by the thorn suction, Shanis felt weak all over, and her mind was dizzy. She wanted to expose Lude in public, but she didn't have the strength to speak out.

Lu De just smiled innocently at this.

"Maybe you drank too much?"

"Looks...like."

The villagers were surprised and embarrassed when they saw that the priest had a conflict with the knight master, but most of them were on Luther's side emotionally.Especially the earliest villagers in Songshu Village, these old neighbors who have experienced the Bandit War, are all Lude's die-hard fans!

At Lude's request, the villagers carried all the subdued knights back to the vacant barn.Although they did not use violence against them, all the weapons and armor were taken away, which made these knights who temporarily lost their ability to resist feel unspeakable humiliation.

Especially Sha Luo, she is not only the daughter of the count, but also the captain of the warlord knights. It is shameful enough that her own squadron has many enemies but few are captured alive. Now even the weapons and armor have been confiscated.

Especially when the two old women who took off her armor took off her breastplate, the surprised expression on the other side made Shaluo want to slam his head against the pillar next to her to death.

"This girl is too flat!"

Soon, all the knights were stripped of their shirts and underpants. Lude came to the barn and walked around, and finally came to Shaluo, and glanced at the cliff called "natural danger" subconsciously. Can't help showing a trace of pity, the angry Shaluo squeezed out a resolute cry from between his teeth.

"Gu...kill me!"

"I said Miss Knight, please calm down first, okay, I'm really not a good person... Bah! I'm really not a bad person!"

Faced with Lu De's explanation, Sha Luo obviously didn't believe it. She didn't have the energy to speak now, so she could only glare as hard as she could.Lu De could only sigh helplessly, then turned and left the barn.

Old Rom, who was guarding outside, greeted him immediately, and asked Lude in a very anxious tone.

"My lord, what happened?"

"To be precise, it's some misunderstanding. Do you still remember Hamilton and Jie Gang who came to our village shortly after the beginning of winter last year?"

"Remember! What happened to them?"

"After they went west, they haven't returned until now. These knights actually came to look for them, and now they are suspicious of us."

"This is not bullshit! What does it have to do with us?"

"It's useless to say anything, people just don't believe it."

Lude told the general situation to Old Rom, and concealed the part of the fluorescent powder that directly caused the confrontation, and only talked about Shaluo and others' suspicion of the village.In fact, I really can't blame people for being suspicious, because the situation in Songshu Village is indeed very unusual, and the "giant dragon delivering meat" alone is already suspected to be nonsense.

Therefore, Lude felt that in order to resolve this misunderstanding, not only had to find time to invite Ned Hogg to come over, but also had to find Hamilton and the others who were currently missing, otherwise many things in it were really unclear!

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091. The Taste of Lies

The connection between Luther and Nidhogg mainly depends on the black dragon scale left by the other party, which is attached with Nidhogg's magic power, which is used to maintain the activity of the dragon scale, so when Lud hit the scale, , will be felt by Nidhogg who is hundreds of kilometers away.

When the winter was coming to an end, Luther asked Ned Hogg not to send meat to the village, because with the rising temperature, the preservation of meat has become a problem.

In fact, they haven't even finished eating the meat they sent before. Lu De can only mobilize the villagers to make the remaining meat into air-dried bacon as soon as possible. The reserves are even enough for them to eat until the end of next winter.

But what makes Lude vaguely strange is that, based on his understanding of Nidhogg's daughter, even if he is not allowed to deliver meat to the village, he will definitely find other reasons to run to the village, but at this time the distance Seventeen days had passed since the last time he came to visit.

So Lude speculated that something might have happened to Nid Hogg and his wife, and they couldn't get away for a while, so they were delayed until now.

No matter what, Lude knocked on the dragon scale and sent Ned Hogg a letter. This matter required him to come and show up, and he even had to ask him to help find the missing Hamilton.The giant dragon not only flies fast and high, but also has super vision. It can see a hare on the ground clearly from hundreds of meters to a thousand meters in the air, so it is easy to find someone.

So Lu De left Hume here to keep an eye on Sha Luo and the others, first to prevent them from escaping, and second, to prevent the villagers from messing around.

Now that there are too many people in the village, it is inevitable that there will be some dregs with extremely poor quality, who will mix in the crowd and wait for an opportunity to do evil.

There have been many criminal cases in Songshu Village this winter. There have been as many as nineteen cases of attempted rape alone, which has added a lot of workload to the militia in the village. We must keep an eye on the lawless elements who are mixed among the masses.

The facts also proved that Lu De's worry was correct. Hume caught three waves of criminals that night.Two groups were after the money of the knights, and three bastards were after Sha Luo, wanting to take advantage of the female knight's inability to resist now, and do whatever they wanted with her.

Lu De has known for a long time that the seemingly honest villagers are not all honest people. Conventional education methods are useless to some people. They only know fists and whips.

For these people, the village was not polite, they were all arrested and whipped in public, and then they were forced to work for several weeks.

The next morning, Lude came to Sharo again. After one night, the captured female knight obviously calmed down a lot, but her gaze towards Lude was still full of undisguised hostility.

If it wasn't for Shanisi's thorns still tightly binding her and continuously sucking her strength, the opponent would definitely jump up now and want to fight Lude for a second round.

"Did you sleep well last night?"

"It's ok, thanks for the blankets."

"How is it? Is it convenient to have a good chat now?"

"I don't think there is anything to talk about. I am the eldest daughter of the family and a knight with a sense of honor. I can kill or cut as I please, but you don't want me to bow to evil!"

"So you conclude that I'm evil just based on the fluorescent powder that detects the undead? Don't you think it's too arbitrary?"

"Arbitrariness? I have more evidence than that."

"Then you might as well listen to it and confront me face to face."

Aware of the prisoner he has become now, Shaluo simply went all out at the moment, and presented all the information and analysis conclusions he had so far in front of Lude.But the part about the "Pupil of True Sight" was hidden, so that Luther would not discover this artifact.

After listening to her analysis, Lu De thought to himself that although the whole set of reasoning had some preconceived elements, it was generally reasonable.Lu De had been a policeman himself, and he would have been suspicious if he had changed it.

"I must admit that your reasoning is not completely unreasonable, but because the information you have is not perfect, the final conclusion and the truth... are far from the truth!"

"Haha! We are all meat on your chopping board now, do you want to continue acting?"

Seeing Shaluo's disdainful expression, Lude shook his head, and then took out the dragon scale for communication that Nidhogg gave from his bosom.

"Know this?"

"Dragon scales?"

"This is a token left by the black dragon Ned Hogg to the village. You can call him here by knocking three times with your hand. It is a thank you gift for me for saving his wife. I also learned from you that after Hamilton and the others left the village , I didn’t go back after several months, so I just knocked on the dragon scale and planned to call Ned Hogg to come over, explain clearly to you face to face, and ask him to help find Hamilton by the way. Although you definitely don’t believe it now, I still want to Say, I'm friends with Hamilton."

As Lude said, he put the dragon scale back into his bosom, and then took out the pupil of true seeing that Hume had obtained from a body search before, and solemnly put this artifact of a lie detector in Shaluo's hand, and said earnestly.

"People live in this world, it is very difficult to tell the truth for a lifetime. Sometimes we may not even notice it if we say it carelessly, and not all lies are out of malice. Ms. Sha Luo, how about you?" Being young, jealousy is never a bad habit, impulsiveness is."

After Lude finished speaking, he got up and walked out the door.And Shaluo stared at the lost and recovered Pupil of True Sight for a long time, because the state of this artifact at this time was the same as when she secretly tested Lu De, showing the gray color of lies.

As Lude said before, it is indeed impossible for a person not to tell lies all his life, and sometimes he doesn't even notice it.

Outside the barn door, as soon as Lude came out, he told Hume to have some food prepared for the knights, and not to neglect them too much.

After all, Shaluo is the daughter of the earl, and this conflict is largely a misunderstanding, and it is not impossible to solve it.

Although the current God of Medicine Sect is developing rapidly, it has gained a firm foothold in this village, let alone confronting those first- and second-tier major sects, and the secular forces headed by nobles, he can't afford to provoke them now.

Fortunately, the current Earl of Lumley is quite famous. From many rumors about him, it is not difficult to see that the other party is a very reasonable nobleman, and Pine Tree Village is still a nominally directly controlled area of ​​the royal family. Sha Luo and others went to Coming here belongs to "cross-border law enforcement", which does not make sense legally.

Just when Lude was thinking about how to negotiate with the earl, Ron, the eldest son of the village chief, suddenly came to him.Seeing the flustered look of this silly big man, Lu De knew that something must have happened in the village again.

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"Master Priest! Something happened, something happened!"

"Ron, what's the matter?"

"You, you should come with me, my father is looking for you."

Seeing the panic on the face of the silly big Ron, Lude realized that the situation might be a little serious, and hurriedly followed him to the village chief's house, only to find that old Roma had called all the wise men in the village over.

These people are the former village chiefs of other villages who came here together. Now they have the title of "elder" in the village, and they will be called over when there are discussions and discussions, but the true ones in the village are actually the spiritual leaders. Lourdes.

"Brother Rom, what happened?"

"You let him talk."

Old Rom pointed to a middle-aged man sitting by the fire. Lude remembered that his name was Danka, and he was one of the hunters in the village.

In a general village, hunters have two important functions. One is to hunt to provide wild meat for the village, and the other is to patrol around the village to see if there are any threatening monsters or robbers.

In Pine Tree Village this winter, because the black dragon Nidhogg sent them a steady stream of meat, after the village was merged, the hunters had little room to display their expertise.Therefore, the main work is only patrolling, and the scope of patrolling has been expanded due to the increase in the number of returnees.

Lu De saw that Danka was shivering and warming the fire at the moment, his expression seemed to be frightened, and his nerves were highly tense.So raising his hand was a calming spell, and the hunter's mood immediately stabilized a lot.

"Thank you, Lord Priest."

"Relax, my child, what's going on?"

"To the north, a large tent suddenly popped up from the northern forest. There are many demihumans. I found their camp..."

The hunter's mood was obviously still a little nervous, and his speech was a bit incoherent, but Lude still understood the point.Danka found a large campsite of the demihumans in the forest north of the village, and the other party was probably approaching them.

The elders who learned about this situation didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that it was not a big deal at all.After all, the subhuman race in this world is not a rare thing, it can be regarded as a collective term for many non-human minorities.

Some demihumans took the initiative to integrate into human society, and successfully found a place based on their own specialties.Some were forced to hide because of their feud with human beings, and they still live like primitive tribes.

Under normal circumstances, the tribes of these sub-human races are not large. A dozen or 20 members are considered normal, and a hundred or 80 members are considered large.

In the early years, because these sub-human tribes hid in remote mountains and old forests, away from the territory of the human kingdom, they were out of sight and out of mind, and there were not many conflicts between the two sides without contact.

However, with the revival of the human kingdom and the relatively peaceful environment in recent decades, the population of all countries has begun to enter a period of rapid growth, so in order to survive, they must expand their territories.The pioneers who are constantly expanding outwards will inevitably encounter some sub-human tribes, and conflicts between the two sides are inevitable.

However, in most cases, the pioneers have an overwhelming numerical advantage. Even if they encounter some powerful ones by chance, they can ask for help from the lord's army nearby. , can be used as a military honor.

In view of this, the elders didn't think it was a problem to find the camp of the sub-human tribe. Songshu Village is now a large village with a population of over [-], and there are about [-] militiamen alone. There are even more strong men who can copy guys into battle , so each of them is very courageous.

However, when Danka told everyone present the number of demihumans he deduced based on the size of the camp, the elders who had been bragging about how vigorous they were when they were young were suddenly dumbfounded.

"How much did you say? Tens of thousands? You, you, you... have you really seen it clearly?"

"Facing the elders' questioning, Kadan swore to the goddess on the spot that what he said was true. He had been recruited back then and served as an archer in the king's army, so he had seen the size of a camp of 1 people. And the campsite he saw in the mountains was definitely not small in scale!

"That valley is less than thirty miles away from the village, and the valley is full of pits and tents. I saw at least a dozen kinds, including orcs, gray goblins, and ogres. I even saw several giant monsters! "

As if to make the elders believe in him, Danka stood up excitedly from his chair.Lude hurriedly went down with another calming spell, and then asked Ron to take him down to have a good rest, and let him handle the next thing.

After Danka was taken away, the room fell into a dead silence, and the elders frowned, not at all relaxed as they were at the beginning.

"If Danka is not mistaken, there are really tens of thousands of subhumans lying in ambush in the forest to the north, then our village will be in danger!"

"Elder Narus, didn't you just boast that you were brave and invincible when you were young, and that you could beat a dozen orcs by yourself?"

"I hit the Ratman, not the ogres and trolls!"

"Okay, stop arguing! My lord priest, come and make up your mind, we will all listen to you."

Seeing that everyone was a little flustered, Old Rom stopped the quarrel among the elders and cast a look at Lude for help.

Thanks to the fact that he has helped the villagers get through several difficulties without any danger, although the old Roma didn't say anything, in his heart, he had the same deep trust and dependence on Lu De as his eldest son.

Since the giant dragon attacked before, his old man was able to protect the whole village, and the allied army of ten thousand sub-humans would certainly not be able to match the power of Lord "Blood Hand Broken Soul".

Seeing that everyone present was looking at him, Lu De couldn't help but sighed, thinking that the recent nonsense was really either not coming, and they all gathered together as soon as they came, which caught him off guard, but he just stood there As the commander-in-chief, at least on the surface, there should be no panic at all, otherwise the paper-made military spirit in the village would really be broken with a single poke.

"Okay! Elders, be safe and don't be impatient. Since everyone trusts the old man's decision so much, then I will make some preliminary arrangements. First of all, don't rush to disclose this news, so as not to cause uneasiness among the villagers, but our subordinates We must not neglect our preparations in the slightest. We must immediately organize a reconnaissance team to collect more information about this demi-human coalition force according to the position Danka said just now. The more detailed and accurate the better. After all, only by knowing ourselves and the enemy can we Can win every battle!"

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In today's world, human beings have already secured the number one position in the world by virtue of their overwhelming numerical advantages. More than half of the world's land is under the control of human countries, and they are distributed on three continents.

It is no exaggeration to say that if one day in the future, human beings become the public enemy of other civilized races in this world and are attacked by groups, then as long as human beings do not fight among themselves and gather all their strength to fight, they can completely defeat other non-human races with ease. extinct.

certainly!This is only a theoretical inference made purely based on data, because it is impossible for human beings not to fight among themselves.

However, the overall advantage does not represent the local area. Songshu Village currently only has more than 3000 residents, while the demi-human coalition forces that suddenly appeared in the north may exceed [-].If the other party really came after them, then depending on Songshu Village alone, it might be really bad luck in the end.

So Lude immediately made arrangements. On the one hand, he sent people to investigate and monitor the campsite to obtain more information. On the other hand, he sent people to deliver letters quickly, not only to ask for help from the nearby Earldom, but also to remind Be careful with the other villages to the east.

At the same time, the village must also make early preparations. At present, their defense facilities are only a wooden fence wall and eight simple sentry towers. It is barely enough to defend against small-scale bandits and wild beasts, but it will definitely not be able to stop them. The menacing demihuman army.

It's not that Lude has thought about strengthening the defense and turning Pine Tree Village into a real town, but everything has to be done step by step.It was impossible to start large-scale construction projects in the winter before, and in the spring, we had to concentrate manpower and material resources to cultivate new fields first, so as to restore self-sufficiency as soon as possible, so the building of the city had to be postponed again and again, and we were going to wait until the second half of this year.

But the plan couldn't keep up with the rapid changes. The sudden appearance of the demihumans once again disrupted Lude's original pace, and armed defense of the base has once again become their current top priority!

After arranging the relevant matters, Lude returned to the temple, and the more he thought about some things, the more he felt something was wrong.There are more than a dozen races and tens of thousands of Asians. Lu De does not believe that such a heterogeneous coalition force will be formed spontaneously by a group of small tribes. They must have a leader.

After thinking about it, Lu De suddenly had a bold idea in his heart. He planned to return to his old job and be an undercover agent again!