Chapter 371 There is no such good thing!

The prisoner-of-war camp where Dutney was located was located on a low hill.

It is called a camp, but it is actually a cave made of stones. The cave exudes the body odor of wild beasts and a faint smell of blood. It used to be where hunters processed their prey.

The prisoners here included four soldiers and a wounded and lame camel.

The other three cavalrymen were seriously injured and had to lie down most of the day, waiting for the doctor to come and check and give them medicine.

Although Datney's stomach was pierced by the bamboo sword, he felt severe pain in his waist and abdomen and his whole body was cold when he exerted force, but it did not affect his slow walking.

He was allowed to walk around the prison camp with the aid of a stick.

The guards here are cat-men who can switch between cat and human forms at will. Usually, they mostly squat or observe in secret in the form of cats. If they find any situation, the cat-men will immediately return to the human form to fight.

The guards were very grim and barely spoke to any of the prisoners.

Apart from the birds in the sky and the insects on the ground, the only people that Dartney communicated with were Prince Wadiye, who came to check on him once a day, and his deputy, General Sharo.

Prince Wadiye had a strange appearance. He looked like a large oval brown walnut with a pair of eyes and a mustache painted on the nut.

The strange thing is that although they are eyes in the painting, they can move and blink normally.

He claimed to be an exiled noble from the Kingdom of Kermit, who had received mercy and kindness from Lord Yao and was given asylum in the Yao tribe's Sand City. He was currently organizing an army to restore his country, ready to counterattack and restore his country at any time.

In the prisoner camp, Prince Wadiye was responsible for investigating and recording the confessions of the prisoners of war.

He said to Dartney, "New soldier Dartney, if it weren't for the treatment of the Yao doctors, you would have died. We treat prisoners well because the Yao and Sand City respect and cherish every life."

"In the eyes of the cavalry, you are nothing more than a number, a cannon fodder that can be easily consumed. But we hope that you can turn from evil to good and turn back to the right path."

Dartney asked tentatively: "Do you mean that I should surrender and become a member of the Yao clan?"

"How can such a good thing happen? You are just wishful thinking!"

Prince Wadiye was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "New soldier, I just want you to give up those inappropriate thoughts. I know your every move very well."

"I know very well what you are hiding..." the prince said in a low voice.

Dartney's body froze, but he still said, "I don't understand, Your Majesty, I didn't do anything to break the rules here. I was just taking a walk around here so that I could recover better."

"Don't try to be clever, you can't fool me."

Prince Walnut was suspended above the ground, his eyes sharp. “Do you think I don’t know that you secretly dug a tunnel? Don’t think you can play tricks in front of Prince Wadiye. No one can!”

"I tell you, even if you dig your tunnel all the way down to the sea under the cliff, there are many ferocious carnivorous fish and sea snakes that will bite people, and even the Redthorn Tribe would not want to provoke them."

The Dartni were a little confused: "Tunnel...dig a tunnel? I didn't."

"How dare you be so stubborn!"

Wadiye snorted coldly: "Is the cave where you recuperated the one with three stones piled up in it?"

“That’s the Banu next door.”

“…”

A moment later, the captive Banu, who had a limp in one leg, was arrested for trying to dig a tunnel to escape. Before being transferred to a special ward, he glared at Wadiye and waved his fist.

"You traitor! You damn recruit! Don't let me see you again, I'm going to break your throat!"

Dartney was completely at a loss for words.

Afterwards, Prince Walnut laughed and said, "It turned out to be a misunderstanding. I always thought that you were an upright person, Dartney, so I talked to you the most. I also hoped that you would not go astray."

“…”

Dartney thought that it was because the other prisoners were very tight-lipped, so he was the only one who cooperated more and his injuries were relatively minor.

"You are a new soldier, and you probably can't understand the cruelty of war."

Prince Wadiye changed the subject: "I saw it with my own eyes. The invaders burned trees and farmland, killed those who resisted, and abused the weak as if they were livestock and weeds... The essence of aggression is the humiliation of the weak by the strong."

"What's different from the past is that your Benqi Army encountered the more powerful Yao Clan, so the situation has completely reversed. You have begun to regard yourselves as the weaker party and think it is unfair."

"The war will end soon. It's inevitable. In a way, you are lucky."

Datney could hear some reluctance in the other party's words, probably because Prince Wadiye remembered the fallen kingdom and how his home and territory were taken away from him.

"Let's not talk about that anymore. It's still early today, so let's play a game of tribal chess. I tell you, the Yao tribe's tribal chess is a classic game that you must try."

As the prince spoke, General Sharo, who looked a bit like a cactus, took out a battle flag from his handbag and spread it on a flat stone slab.

"I'll teach you. It's very simple."

While teaching chess, Wadiye said: "After the war, come to my Restoration Army. We are organizing a cavalry team. You will be the captain of the cavalry team and train the riders..."

This game of chess lasted until midnight.

It was only after the cat-man guards reminded him repeatedly that Prince Wadiye left reluctantly.

Before nightfall, Datney said he had a stomachache and left the camp and walked outside to a small valley.

A crow sat on a stone, croaking, and when it saw Dartney it turned its head and gazed at him with its little black eyes.

Dartney was stunned.

Is it a military bird? This is going to be a military punishment...

He suddenly became nervous.

But soon, Dartney discovered that it was just a larger crow. The eyes of the warbirds would turn blood red in the dark, and there were fine teeth in their beaks.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

I hope it's not being chased by military birds.

Dartney returned to his cave ward, but tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

The slightest sound outside, whether it was falling gravel or wind, would wake him up immediately.

Even in the prisoner camp, he could feel the Yao clan's omnipresent traces.

There were flying vehicles called sky lanterns floating in the sky. The bamboo bird monster shot down the general birds one by one. The ground was controlled and monitored by the cat people... The only blind spot was in the water.

Although he was not abused here and had good meals, Dartney still wanted to return to the country full of ashes, where everything he was familiar with was. The strange world was scary.

He decided to run away.

In the afternoon of the second day, Dutney went around to the low cliffs at the back - as long as he could safely descend he would be able to enter the sea.

Dartney dropped the rope made of his clothes and pants and prepared to climb down.

Then he was blown by the night wind, and his passion was slightly cooled down, and he thought of a problem that he had neglected.

How to deal with piranhas and sea snakes in the water? ...

After much thought, he decided to give up on escaping and go back to have a good sleep.

At this moment, the simple rope tied to the stone suddenly straightened, as if something was grabbing the rope from below.

Dartney took two steps back in fear.

A wet man climbed up, grabbing the rope.

The man was dressed in rags, with wounds so deep that the bones could be seen all over his body. Many of the wounds had festered and abscesses had formed. It was a miracle that he hadn't died from such injuries.

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The man glanced at Dartney, and said something through his dry and torn mouth. Then he fell straight to the ground, and his head hit the stone with a clang.

Dartney yelled for help in the direction of the camp.

The cats quickly rescued the unknown wounded man and placed him in a prisoner-of-war camp. Doctors came at night, and the funeral horn who had saved Dartney also came, which made Dartney feel vaguely that this might be some important person.

"Well done, you found him and pulled him out. He had been in the water for many days and had no strength at all."

Bingjiao sighed and said, "Fu Jianbei was seriously injured. We tried many ways to help him stabilize his condition. This body was almost lost."

"His name is Fu Jianbei? Who is he?"

"A swordsman from the Sword Bearer clan."

Bingjiao hesitated for a moment and said, "According to the front line, not long ago, Fu Jianbei broke into the headquarters of the Benqi Army alone, broke through the defense line of the Ash Warriors, and killed Apostle Falbert. Then he disappeared, and we all thought he died over there."

Dartney's mind was buzzing.

Lord Falbert, the unrivaled warrior with a broad back who could lead an army of one man, the commander of the central army who had killed two apostles, the glorious warrior, the king of cavalry... just died like that.

Under the protection of the Ash Warrior, he died at the hands of a lone assassin?

What made Dartney feel that fate was even more fickle was that the murderer who killed Lord Falbert was actually saved by himself.

He felt dizzy for a moment.

"Are you okay?"

Bingjiao was a little curious: "Are you close to that Falbert?"

“…”

Good relationship?

How could the Apostle have anything to do with a new recruit? After all, it was nothing more than Dartney's admiration and worship for the powerful Apostle.

The doctor's words made Danit realize himself.

Suddenly, the smile on Bingjiao's face faded: "Do you have something you want to tell us? Danite, you are not good at hiding your emotions. I hope you can tell the truth instead of waiting for us to verify it."

Dartney looked embarrassed.

Finally, he lowered his head and said dejectedly: "I am a deserter."

"ah?"

"I fled from the front during the charge and tried to hide, but was injured on the way and was rescued by you. I was very scared... I thought it was a warbird chasing me."

"I saved Fu Jianbei because I wanted to escape from the sea. But I don't know what I can do if I go back. I might be regarded as a deserter and executed, or I might be considered a traitor and locked up in jail. I don't know."

"I'm just a soldier. I don't know what I can do."

After Dartney spoke up about the huge rock weighing on his heart, he immediately felt relieved.

Bingjiao showed a hint of surprise on his face: "You are very honest."

"I'll say it again."

The ghost doctor said seriously: "It won't be long before we end the war, and then you will regain complete freedom. We will send you back to your hometown. Of course, if you want to stay, you can also."

Danit said in disbelief: "You really won't attack the Benqi Army's homeland?"

"Conquering that kingdom of God is meaningless to either God Yao or the Yao clan."

Bingjiao spread his hands and said, "Those cavalrymen are useless to the Yao tribe, and the apostles are not strong enough. However, the moose you use as mounts are a good new species."

Although he knew this was the truth, Danit was still a little depressed.

"But, Physician, the Ben Cavalry may be defeated, but the Ben Cavalry belongs to the Fearless Empire. Lord Ben is a powerful god, and he is also a subordinate god of the invincible god, the Fearless. The Fearless Empire will definitely support you quickly, and you will never win easily."

"The Fearless?"

Bingjiao grinned: "The previous subordinate god of the Fearless was called Boshen. Lord Yaoshen only sent an apostle to symbolize his status, but he was so scared that he blew himself up and didn't even dare to resist."

"How is this possible... this is too..."

Dartney was shocked. He wanted to say that this must be a lie, but his reason told him that there was no need for Funeral Horn to exaggerate to a captive.

"I want to discuss something serious with you."

It seemed like Bingjiao remembered something.

"Lord Jushen has already calculated that the war is about to end, and many cavalry soldiers will be captured on the front line. Managing prisoners is a troublesome matter. So I recommended you to do this with us, at least to reduce unnecessary casualties among your compatriots until the war is over... But this must be voluntary."

"Will you go with us to the front?"

Dartney hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

He didn't want to convince other soldiers, but wanted to see how Bingjiao would end the war as he had vowed.

The war of gods is not like playing a game of tribal chess where you can automatically win by placing your chariots and horses.

Even a wild beast trapped in a desperate situation will fight back against a hunter, let alone hundreds of thousands of battle-hardened cavalry.

(End of this chapter)