[Chapter 179 The Northern Plains Are in Chaos]
Wilcox looked at the knights in the village. He was very curious about the soldiers from Winter Town.
The Lord Glamorgan had left, and the Kingdom etiquette officer named Elias Parker had also left, but that didn’t mean that the people of Ironwater Village could pretend that they had never been there and continue to live in this place.
Because the knight named Gareth Stanton stayed with the soldiers to monitor and urge the villagers of Ironwater Village to move.
Some people privately expressed dissatisfaction, thinking that the people of Winter Town were too overbearing, but no one dared to say these words to the soldiers face to face.
No matter how they complained privately, everyone was packing their luggage and preparing to leave early tomorrow morning.
Fortunately, the soldiers of Winter Town did not confiscate everyone’s “private property”. Although the yield of farmland in Ironwater Village was getting lower and lower, after more than half a year of hard work, everyone had some assets in their hands to ensure that they had enough money for the trip.
In addition, the large-scale development of the northern plains has made many villages spread across this area. Even if you go in the wrong direction and miss a village, there is a high probability that you will find another village quickly.
They don’t have to worry about getting lost on the northern plains. If they really can’t, they can use the Iron Tree Forest as a reference. As long as they keep a sufficient distance from the Iron Tree Forest, they don’t have to worry about the elves in the forest coming out to attack them.
But these people have different ideas about where to go.
Some people want to go to other villages to see the situation, at least to get through this winter first. Otherwise, after running to the northern plains with great effort, the food they get is not enough to support them to walk back to Iron Tree Castle and spend the whole winter safely.
Some want to go
directly back to Iron Tree Castle. These people are basically contract farmers of the Barnett family. They don’t have to worry about not being able to survive the winter. After returning, they will continue to serve the Barnett family. Finally, a small number of people want to go to Winter Town.
These people are free farmers outside of Iron Tree Castle. They are the group of people who came to the north hoping to change their lives after learning about Winter Town from the kingdom’s propaganda.
It’s just that they stopped at Tieshui Village halfway, wasting more than half a year of time and effort.
The next morning, the villagers of Tieshui Village had taken all their belongings and divided into two teams.
One of them had animals pulling carts and carts that could carry a large amount of supplies. They were heading towards Iron Tree Castle, passing through several villages on the way. If anyone wanted to try their luck in the surrounding villages, they could go with them.
The other team was small in number, and most people only carried a bag, which was all their belongings.
These people only brought a small portion of food, and “sold” the rest of the food to other people in the village, preparing to use the money to start over in Winter Town.
What surprised everyone was that Wilcox actually stood in this team, and it seemed that he was also going to Winter Town.
Floyd glanced at Wilcox, and then glanced at the people in the other team, and found that these people did not pay any attention to Wilcox, the “former temporary manager of Iron Water Village”, and knew that this guy might not be very popular in Iron Water Village.
“Mr. Wilcox, aren’t you going to go back and report the situation here to the Barnett family?”
“Naturally, there are other people who will report the situation in Tieshui Village to the Barnett family, and the noble lords of the Barnett family will not pay attention to me.”
He got the right to speak in Tieshui Village by holding on to the thigh of Amalmanthys. Now that Amalmanthys is dead, he has lost everything.
Returning to Iron Tree Castle, he has no way to start over. At that time, his situation is not much better than those beggars on the street.
Instead of this, it is better to go to Winter Town, maybe there will be a better way out.
Just like now, haven’t I talked to a knight? After a few exchanges, Wilcox already knew that this knight named Floyd was one of the personal guards of Baron Glamorgan, the lord of Winter Town.
If he can build a good relationship with this knight Floyd, maybe he can get a good job?
For example, run errands for knight Floyd or something?
Wilcox followed the fully armed soldiers to the Winter Town with his own calculations.
There were no attacks along the way, and the terrain was flat and it hadn’t rained recently, so the road conditions were good. Even if they walked a little slowly, they soon arrived at the Winter Town.
Looking at the wooden house appearing in the distance, the people traveling with them were a little disappointed; but when they saw the “tall” palace that had been built, they felt that this Winter Town was not that bad.
Especially when passing by large tracts of farmland, the eyes of these farmers lit up.
These farmers have lived on the northern plains for more than half a year, and have experienced at least one round of planting, and know what the crops in Tieshui Village are like.
The situation is incomparable to that in the farmland of Winter Town, it doesn’t even look like a farmland on the same piece of land.
“Why… why do the crops here grow so well?”
“Does Winter Town occupy all the richest land on the northern plains?”
“No wonder they made such an outrageous border. The baron must know how rich this land is and how poor the land in other places is.”
“Hey, to be honest, if I knew about this situation, I would have drawn the boundary early to prevent people from knowing the situation in my family.”
The farmers around said all kinds of things, but their tone became much more relaxed.
Obviously, the situation of the farmland in Winter Town gave these farmers hope for the future. They felt that they had made the right choice.
However…
Wilcox noticed another thing: “There are quite a few people in Winter Town.”
When everyone only paid attention to the farmland, they didn’t think anything was wrong, but after walking forward for a while, they noticed the busy construction site in the distance, where many people were busy.
In addition, what shocked everyone the most was a few green metal giants – they saw them from a distance just now, but didn’t pay too much attention. They thought they were just strange buildings or plants, and everyone only looked at the farmland. Looking over, they
found that the metal giants were also busy on the construction site. In addition to the giants, there were also things of the same color but looked very strange, and they didn’t know what they were used for (mixer trucks).
While looking at it with a look of shock on their faces, they whispered about what exactly it was.
Wilcox was also thinking about what it was, but he did not keep staring at the giant, but began to look at other places in Winter Town.
It was a very ordinary wooden house. Apart from the huge palace, Winter Town did not look much different from the Iron Village they built.
But he noticed that the surrounding area of the palace had been paved with stone slabs, and from the signs, these stone slabs would be paved for a long distance and cover a large area.
He realized that Winter Town was undergoing infrastructure construction, and the palace was built first, probably because it belonged to the residence of Lord Baron Glamorgan.
Just as Wilcox was looking around, he soon saw a tall blond woman walking towards him and others.
“This is Eva McKenna, the clerk of Winter Town. The clerk will register you…”
Wilcox wanted to chat with Floyd for a while, but after the Knight said this, he rode away on his horse…
Floyd was going to report the situation to David. The main thing was that he brought back 17 free farmers from Ironwater Village. Eva McKenna was currently registering them. David would get a more detailed report from Eva later.
“What about Ironwater Village?”
“According to the Lord’s instructions, after making sure everyone has left a safe distance, please ask Miss Arcee to completely destroy it.”
Although Floyd didn’t quite understand David’s order, he still carried it out firmly.
In fact, in his opinion, they could completely transform Ironwater Village into a sentry post. Anyway, it was not far from the original southern sentry post, so they could just treat it as Winter Town expanding a distance to the south.
“Don’t feel bad. Compared to the impact of Arcee destroying a new village in front of countless people, a few broken houses are nothing.”
Floyd didn’t expect that Lord Glamorgan would explain to him. Does this seem to mean that the Lord’s trust in him has increased?
At the same time, he also remembered the shocked expressions of the other group of people who had not yet gone far when they saw Arcee descend from the sky and use missiles and machine guns to completely destroy a village in the blink of an eye.
These people will definitely spread what they saw and heard today to other villages.
Maybe it won’t be long before the entire northern plains will be circulated with rumors like “Baron Glamorgan of Winter Village has a terrifying pink dragon”?
Floyd’s guess was still conservative. What he didn’t know was that Vanessa Van Cleef, who was outside to investigate the surrounding situation, received a new task: to spread the news that there was a terrifying dragon in Winter Town.
In order to help Vanessa better complete this task, Arcee will increase the number and distance of patrols recently, and occasionally fly low over the surrounding villages and towns.
David did this mainly for intimidation;
the secondary purpose was to see if he could cause panic in the surrounding villages and towns, or even directly ignite the powder kegs on the verge of exploding in some villages and towns.
He didn’t wait too long. After only three days, Vanessa sent back the news: Sean Forrester attacked the villages and towns southeast of Frost Town.
And Sean Forrester’s attack on the neighboring villages and towns was like sending a signal.
Many villages and towns on the northern plains fell into a state of chaos, and the villages and towns that had been farming peacefully started plundering mode.
(End of this chapter)