Mo Yu and others watched the priest check all the slaves. Among those who were glowing yellow, he picked out three relatively better ones, put them together with the healthy slaves, and then his eyes fell on the remaining few people.
Bella said, "He's not going to kill these people too, is he?"
Sure enough, the priest stretched out his hand and was about to touch the heads of the remaining few people. The slaves were trembling with fear, but they were used to obedience and did not dare to move.
Jia Luo felt Mo Yu move behind him, and knew that she was about to attack. He quickly pulled her back and said, "Wait, wait! Master Priest, if you kill these slaves, will you still pay?"
The priest looked at him and said, "When it comes to serving the gods, don't always put money before your mouth. This will make you corrupt."
Gallo said, "Master Priest, I am just a small officer serving the Lord. I am certainly willing to serve the God of Nature, but this money is not mine, but my Lord's. I am just fulfilling my duty to reduce the losses for the Marquis.
You should know that the envoy of the kingdom told our Lord Marquis that no matter if the person is injured or not, as long as he is brought to this place, he can get money according to the number of living people. We traveled from such a far place for nearly half a month to get here. The travel expenses alone are huge. If the person is killed and the money is not counted, I can't explain to Lord Marquis. "
"How you explain to your master is your business. Do you expect me, a Silver Leaf priest, to pay attention to these trivial matters?" The priest said unhappily. "No matter what, you will be paid. That's what the people of the kingdom told you. You can ask their queen for money. I only accept useful people and I only pay them."
Gallo smiled secretly in his heart. He had known for a long time that these priests would not be so generous. In his opinion, these guys in the Temple of Nature were best at superficial work. They said one thing at the beginning, but often did another thing in reality.
But this was exactly what he wanted. All he wanted was to delay some time and save the lives of these innocent people. They had discussed before and were going to do something to the Temple of Nature. No matter what their plan was, they couldn't succeed. He said, "If that's the case, how about returning these people to me? Anyway, you don't need them, and I can take them back to our territory. This way you won't lose anything, and I can also give an explanation to the Marquis.
You should know that our Marquis is a very good friend of the chief priest of the Eastern Temple of Nature. Our Marquis and the Temple of Nature should be considered as our own people. Can you please show some mercy?"
The priest didn't expect that this young officer would dare to talk so much to him. He was about to teach him a lesson when he saw a knight running over and said to him, "Sir, the adventurers locked up in the back attacked our guards and tried to escape, but we killed several of them."
"Kill them? What about the number of people?" The priest's face changed.
The knight said, "We have no other options. They have already been notified and will take action soon. If we don't suppress them, there will be big trouble. Now they have finally calmed down."
The priest said: "But this is the last batch, there is no one left..."
The other two priests also heard the knight's words and came over to discuss with him. After a few words, they began to look at Gallo and others frequently.
Finally, the priest said to Gallo, "We can give you the man, but you have to wait here for a while. We have some other urgent matters to deal with, and we will settle the money with you later."
Gallo didn't know what the other party was up to, so he replied, "Of course. We'll wait for you here."
The priest asked the knights to lock the selected slaves into the fence. Then he asked Gallo and his men, Baron and other guards, and the remaining slaves to wait in the square, and he led the other priests and knights out of the fortress.
Gallo felt uneasy when he saw the main entrance door was closed. He said, "There's something wrong with the way these guys talk. It seems like they deliberately kept us in this fortress."
Gawain turned around and looked around, and found that the temple knights who were guarding outside the fences had disappeared without noticing. He said, "Something is wrong. The guards ran away."
Mo Yu pointed to the towering city wall, and saw many temple knights climbing up the stairs on the inside of the wall.
Bella said: "These people seem to be trying to avoid something, so they evacuated in a hurry. Could there be something wrong in this fortress?"
The appearance of these people reminded Mo Yu of those people who dodged after lighting firecrackers. She said, "I vaguely heard someone saying that the time is up and to prepare to evacuate..."
Gallo said, "They care a lot about the quality and quantity of the slaves. They probably kept us here just to make up the numbers. As for what they're going to do when they get enough people... will there be some large magic circle that's going to be activated inside the fortress?"
Gao Wen said, "No, I didn't detect any magical fluctuations in this courtyard. As long as that kind of large magic array is ready to run, it will definitely not be hidden from our senses."
Barron, who had been silent until now, heard their discussion and couldn't help but interrupt: "Sir, then aren't we going to have the same fate as those slaves? I don't want to stay here, let's get out of here quickly."
Gallo said, "Look at the top of those city walls. Do you think you can get out easily?"
Barron looked up and saw that the archers who were originally defending the outside were now facing inside, as if they were preventing the people inside from running out. After the knights ran up the stairs to the top of the city wall, they blocked the way up with sandbags and drew their swords to guard there.
"But you all are powerful masters, right? I don't think it's possible for these people to stop you." Barron said.
"We haven't investigated the situation here yet, so we have no plans to leave." Gallo said, "No matter what happens, if you want to stay alive, you'd better be smart."
Barron swallowed, gripped the hilt of his sword and said, "I will definitely follow you."
Gallo ignored him and focused his attention on the hall. "There is nothing suspicious in the yard. Maybe what we are looking for is in this hall."
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