Chapter 332 Visit

The army was stationed here for half a month, and a new recruitment order was issued. This time, the order given to the rebel prisoners was very harsh, because they only had two choices, one was to join the Roman legion and enjoy the treatment of soldiers, and the other was to continue to be prisoners or be sold as slaves and never turn over a new leaf in this life.

One is a way out that can be achieved through struggle, and the other is a dead end that will never turn over. If you are not a fool, you will have your own plans. Although being a soldier is dangerous and you can lose your life if you are not careful, it is worse than being a slave and living a life worse than pigs and dogs.

When a person has this idea, he will persuade those around him who have good relationships with him. The word will spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Even those who were originally stubborn will be moved by their persuasion and simply join the Romans.

The rebel prisoners were very active in signing up. Except for the disabled ones, all of them signed up. This was good. When more people learned that the auxiliary legion was reorganized into a regular legion, even the villagers who enjoyed Roman citizenship came to sign up. The original plan was to have 3,000 auxiliary legions, but more than 4,000 came. Luca believed that half of these people came just to get free food. After all, if production was not restored after a long period of war, famine would occur. In response to such enthusiastic registration, Luca actually asked his officers to accept all of them, which made Andrew very confused.

"Luga, we have to feed so many people, which is a huge burden. If we don't win quickly, the army may starve in a while!" Andrew complained to Luga.

"Oh, my friend, don't complain. At least no other place in Rome can gather such a large number of soldiers so quickly."

"But Luka! Don't forget that many of them used to serve the Bagauda rebels. Who knows when they will be full and stab us in the back like wild beasts!"

"Don't worry, Andrew!" Luca stood up and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, and then said: "I won't use him to fight against the Bagauda rebels. On the contrary, they are ready-made combat forces. They will naturally play a vanguard role, but not now."

"What do you mean?" Andrew was confused by Luca's words.

"Okay, Andrew." Luca walked up to Andrew and said, "I think Alessio and Sebastianus in Augusta-Treville have arrived. Let's go out to greet them. I just want to see what this guy thinks of this city after so many years away."

What made Luca feel relieved was that Anais came with Aresio this time. Seeing Anais, Luca couldn't help but hug Anais tightly, but Anais smiled bitterly, and her face looked very ugly. It was probably because of the long-term running that her weak body couldn't stand such torture. Luca didn't dare to neglect it, and hurriedly helped Anais back to the Governor's Mansion, and asked Andrew to accompany Aresio to visit the city that he had specially ordered the soldiers to clean along the way.

The result was naturally bad. What Aresio saw was an even more dilapidated Agrippina. Although it was crowded with people and looked lively on the surface, there were not only very few nobles here, but also the manors outside the city were all abandoned. He had no choice but to adopt Luca's proposal to rent the land to the citizens in the name of leasing and let them cultivate it. Then he only had to pay one-fifth of the tribute every year and the rest he could deal with himself, sell it or save it himself. This was much better than farming in the village. This was also a last resort, but these villagers and citizens seemed very willing.

"How come after such a long time, you still look so bad."

Three days passed, Luka thought that Anai was weak and needed nutrition, so he gave Anai the best food he could buy in the city, hoping that Anai could recover quickly, after all, Luka liked to see Anai lively. But the fact was not as Luka imagined, after so many days, Anai's face was still so pale, without a trace of blood, and even when she was fed, she only ate a little, and her appetite was not very good.

"I don't know, dear."

Anai stood there and shook her head. Luga grabbed her arm and held her in his arms. Only then did Luga realize that Anai had become so thin that her bones were just skin and bones.

"No, for my sake, you must eat more!" Luca's attitude was very firm. He put fruits and bread in front of Ana's mouth and forced Ana to eat, but Ana was very resistant.

"You are sick." Luka stroked Ana's forehead. She didn't have any fever or other symptoms, but she looked very weak. She didn't know why. Ana thought for a moment, nodded, and agreed with Luka. "Can you hug me?" Ana asked. Luka didn't say anything, but opened his arms and hugged Ana tightly, with his cheek against Ana's forehead. There were only the two of them in the room, and no one would disturb them.

"I always have a strange dream during these days without you." Ana whispered to Luca, not knowing whether she was too weak or afraid that there might be ears on the other side of the wall.

"you say."

"There was a baby, he was holding my legs, crying and screaming, he was naked, he was so tiny, he was just born."

"So how did you do it?"

"I was at a loss for words. I was so scared when the child hugged me that I didn't know what to do. Then I saw with my own eyes that the child started to speak."

"What did he say?"

"Why did you abandon me? Why did you abandon me?" As she spoke, Ana's voice gradually choked up. She buried her head in Luka's arms and trembled constantly, her throat sobbing and crying softly. Luka hugged her tighter. He could understand Ana's pain because he was there at the time, and that was enough.

"I didn't mean it, Luca, my love, you can prove it for me!"

"Yes, I can!"

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"Then I saw my former lover, my dead fiancé." Anai sorted out his emotions and continued, "Except for his head, his clothes were tattered. I tried to grab his hand, but found that I was grabbing a pile of bones. I was terrified and desperately shouted your name. And my dead fiancé roared at me hysterically." At this point, Anai sobbed, "He was no longer so gentle. He seemed to have completely changed. He was like an angry beast, roaring at me non-stop."

"Then he picked up the crying baby hugging my legs and walked away, leaving me sitting on the ground. A stream of blood engulfed me and almost suffocated me. That's when I woke up, and my tears couldn't stop flowing. I'm sorry, Luka, I shouldn't have said that."

"Nothing? It's all over, it's nothing!" Luga kept comforting her, kissing her forehead and holding her cold hands tightly, which could help her calm down.

"I can never become a mother, never!" Ana said the truth, which was also what she could not accept the most.

(End of this chapter)