"Don't be afraid. Tell me why you are monitoring me. They sent you here to do something good. If you don't want to suffer any losses, just tell me honestly." Diao Si approached the foreigner who was staring at him. Man, he said to him slowly.
However, when the guy saw him approaching, he turned around and ran away, so Diao Si had to freeze his legs with water magic and let him fall to the ground. Seeing Diao Si approaching like this, the guy was even more frightened and couldn't help begging for mercy.
"Tell me, what happened?... Before I hurt you!" Diao Si continued to talk while approaching the guy. At this time, Ou Ya behind him probably heard the sound and ran out.
Unfortunately, the guy still refused to say anything and kept begging for mercy. Diao Si had no choice but to use the dark magic of his mind.
It turned out that there was really a team of foreigners who wanted to escape secretly. They thought that such a large team was missing a few of them and would not be easily detected, so they wanted to escape back to the imperial city. However, they were still afraid of the punishment Diao Si mentioned before, so they arranged for this fool to stare at Diao Si and the others.
"You immediately summon those dark crystal warriors and walk around the entire team. I will bring them back." Diao Si left a word and chased in the direction in which those people fled.
It's a pity that Diao Si is not a warrior. He can't run very fast. He is only trying to cooperate with wind magic to lose part of his weight. But this can only save energy and has little effect on speed. It would be better if it could fly. This is the direction he will work hard in the future.
We finally caught up with him, because those people were not walking very fast after dark. Only when we caught up with Diao Si did we realize that there were hundreds of them. It was estimated that some of them were influenced and followed them. However, these people really had no experience. Diao Si caught up with them and passed by them until he reached the front, but no one noticed him.
"You still want to escape under my nose. Aren't you afraid of death?" When Diao Si said this, the people in front stopped suddenly, but those behind him continued to walk past stupidly.
"It's the imperial envoy, we have been discovered, we are going to be finished..." Those people immediately became nervous, some then begged for mercy, and some wanted to continue to escape in the dark.
"Don't expect to escape from here. We have already surrounded the area. If anyone dares to escape again, they will be killed immediately if they encounter those dark crystal warriors..." Diao Si said this, and those people stopped and then Observations all around. They knew what a Dark Crystal Warrior was, and they were too scared to move just by hearing the name.
"Okay, come back here. I didn't intend to hurt you. It's true. I don't mean to hurt you now. I just want to know why you are running away. We are just a little bit close to getting there. The hungry Chihu City, why did you give up at this time? Who incited my people like this... "
After Diao Si's ideological work, those people slowly expressed their worries. In fact, Diao Si knew the general situation. They just couldn't believe the royal family and were afraid that something bad was waiting for them.
Listening, Diao Si secretly summoned a few lightning bolts, and then told them: "Okay, don't worry, I won't tell Mr. Ouya what happened tonight. It's going to rain here, everyone." It’s better to go back to the camp, there are no dark crystal warriors in that direction right now.”
After Diao Si's persuasion, those people left immediately, and some even fell down one after another, so Diao Si followed them back. However, while walking like this, Diao Si suddenly felt something slightly spiritual at the place where those people had fallen.
Is it a low-level treasure? Out of curiosity, Diao Si lowered his head and observed, only to realize that it was a skeleton. How could someone die here? Logically speaking, there can be no war here. If any nearby residents died here, they would have been taken back and buried by their families.
But it's not a big problem. They might just be some outsiders passing by. It's normal for someone to die in such a wilderness without being discovered.
When we returned to the camp, the sky was already slightly bright, and Ou Ya was still waiting for Diao Si to return. If it weren't for Diao Si's evil thoughts just now, these people might have fled far away. If other people in the team knew about this, the impact would be quite big.
However, the eyes of the little beauty Ou Ya began to avoid Diao Si. Diao Si was too embarrassed to go back to the sedan chair and only followed the group of strangers. In fact, Ou Ya might not hate him that much, but Diao Si didn't want this to affect their actions this time.
It was the coldest when it was almost dawn, and the clothes of the foreigners were so thin, so in order to prevent them from catching cold, Diao Si let the large team set off in advance.
This, of course, caused dissatisfaction among many soldiers and foreigners, but Diao Si ignored them and issued an order that those who could not enter the basin before the sun came up would not be able to enjoy the first breakfast of the day.
I can't believe that these thin and frail foreigners can have such explosive power for a breakfast. It seems that many and many incentives must be designed in future work.
Just as they were turning over the artificially dug mountain pass road, the first sun emerged, and some people still couldn't catch up. In this way, Diao Si first strictly followed the requirements and distributed food to the people in front, and then used his own food to treat those who did not meet the requirements on the grounds that he had tried his best.
In fact, as a leader, you can do whatever you want. You just need to speak reasonably. Especially when facing such obedient people, this is the blessing of the ruler.
Just entering from the mountain pass, you can see the beautiful Chi Lake in the distance. It is really too big. From a distance, it looks like an endless ocean. This is a different picture.
But the abandoned fields around him were very disappointing to Diao Si. As he continued to observe, he began to become shocked, because this place was not just the deserted farmland that Ou Ya said, because it was on the side of the mountain. The bark of the trees in that dense forest was also stripped off a lot.
Diao Si became even more serious now. What caused the trees to be peeled off? It seems that not only the fields here were abandoned, but there was also a famine. This was really unimaginable to Diao Si, because staying in the imperial city not far away, he had no idea that such a big thing had happened not far away.
So Ou Ya's expression when she came back yesterday was not just because of Lei Pi. She must have discovered the serious situation here and despaired of Diao Si's plan, so she had no intention of doing anything with Diao Si.
What about the rule that the royal family should not leave the city? In such a place with underdeveloped communications, your royal family is unwilling to leave the imperial city, so how can you know the actual situation elsewhere? If they had known that the situation here was so serious and had taken timely measures, there would not have been such serious consequences.
"Ah... someone died here..." The sudden cry touched Diao Si's nerves, and he immediately asked everyone to retreat to the mountain pass. This was not because he found any danger. He didn't want these people to know the reality of the famine here.
Then Diao Si ran to the place where the bones were found. It was indeed a skeleton, and not just one, but many. These were probably the people who starved to death during the famine in Chihu City, and there must have been more than that. The follow-up will be more exciting. Woolen cloth.
"Here, here used to be..." Ouya wanted to tell Diao Si the truth at this time, but Diao Si immediately motioned her not to speak, lest the soldiers hear.
"Let's do this. You guys will camp here for a while and then plant the seeds brought from the Imperial City in the land nearby. We'll start planting from the riverside first..." Diao Si wanted to temporarily stop those people. They were arranged here to prohibit them from leaving the camp and plantation area, lest they discover the truth.
Originally, Diao Si thought that the food crisis was not that serious and was just a result of the massacre of the little monsters who specialized in farm work, resulting in a loss of food harvest. Only when he came to Chihu City did he realize that things were far from that simple. Due to food problems, the place had developed to the point of life and death.
But there was no other way. Now that he had come to this point and brought so many outsiders here, he couldn't turn back. Otherwise, not only would it be difficult to explain to Oso, but all the outsiders here would die because of him. (To be continued)