After crossing the mountains, the Blue Sword Mercenary Group once again came to the territory of the Weisbach family.
The villages along the way were almost all gone, with large abandoned houses everywhere. Occasionally, we met refugees on the road heading to Mingxing City, and we learned that the reason was partly due to rat plague and partly due to war.
If you encounter a supernatural mutation in the village, you will die. In the city, at least there are other supernatural beings (demigods) to protect you. In addition, the conscription officers in the village are all kinds of tyrannical and levying heavy taxes, and they will draw their swords to conscript men at any time. They are far less civilized than the conscription officers in the city, and their words are not as nice...
Therefore, a large number of refugees from the surrounding areas began to migrate towards Mingxing City, which in a sense even accelerated the urbanization process of the Duchy of Bavaria - at least that was the analysis of the player forum before the time travel.
In fact, it was not just the Duchy of Bavaria. As the flames of war continued to spread in the next few years, residents of towns and villages in almost all continental countries were forced to migrate to cities (mainly to centralize and resist the threat of war).
At the same time, a large number of villages were abandoned, the habitats of supernatural creatures expanded rapidly, and various mutant copies emerged like mushrooms after rain.
The group arrived at the ruins of Betanred, which was once a prosperous town, but was completely destroyed by the rat plague of the Lord of Filth.
And, it was in this place last time that the people of Cangqing Sword joined forces to kill the culprit and prevent the disaster from spreading further.
Although the rat plague and the epidemic have subsided, the townspeople who had fled have not returned. Instead, a group of refugees have occupied some blocks, looking over from afar with blood-stained swords in their hands.
This time, Nora and Eleanor were walking in the main plane. The latter's power armor was so majestic that the refugees quickly retreated back into the building and kept silent.
"Alas," sighed Eleanor.
"Ellie." Nora once again gave her a psychological hint, which cheered her up from her originally depressed mood.
"I'm fine." Eleanor stared at the ruins in the distance. "I just wonder when this war will end."
"But even if it's over, it will take a long time for this town to be populated again." Nora also said with emotion, "At least the original townspeople probably don't want to return to their hometown where the disaster happened."
"Why are people so fragile?" Eleanor asked another profound question.
"It is precisely because people are fragile that we need to be stronger." Even the battle-hardened Ask couldn't answer this kind of philosophical question, and Nora was naturally unable to cope with it. She could only respond casually and said hurriedly, "Well, it's noon. I have to go back to cook. Let Sidlifa come out to take over."
She teleported back to Hearth Island. Eleanor looked up at the sky, her expression somewhat wistful.
Ask once told everyone that since entering the Vatican's R1 monitoring list, the All-Seeing Eye military surveillance satellite overhead has been continuously monitoring the Blue Sword team from 6:00 to 18:00 every day.
Therefore, there are strict team rules and regulations on which team secrets can be exposed and which cannot be used in open-air environments during the day.