Chapter 98 Expulsion

Sometimes, when I am idle in the camp and daydreaming, especially now when I am dying, I always wish I could have a superpower, even if it is just to fall asleep at any time to solve my insomnia problem caused by homesickness.

But mortals are mortals after all. Like all the Romans and Germans present, I can get sick, get injured, and even die.

"Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! Hold on, Centuriae!"

Andrew desperately blew the wooden whistle hanging on his chest, and struggled to support me as I retreated. The Germans' pursuit made us like dogs that had lost their homes. I felt cold, a kind of cold that radiated from the inside out, probably because of too much blood loss! Then my eyelids became heavier and heavier, and an almost irresistible sense of distress surged into my heart. I was very familiar with this feeling. I had the same feeling when the vicious robber stabbed my back like a honeycomb with a knife.

I might be dying. Mentally, I gradually couldn't hold on any longer. My upper and lower eyelids involuntarily closed with irresistible force like magnets with negative poles against each other.

"Luka! Luka!"

In a daze, I heard Andrew calling, "Don't sleep! Don't close your eyes!" He was shaking me desperately, trying to keep me awake.

However, I couldn't control myself. The cold made me shiver constantly. I became weaker and weaker, and I couldn't even walk without Andrew's support.

"Luga! Luga!" Andrew continued to call my name and kept pulling my eyelids with his hands, forcing me not to close my eyes.

"Don't sleep, Luca! You have to think about it. If you close your eyes like this, you will never be able to open them again!" Andrew's tone sounded anxious. He kept slapping my face and called to the soldiers behind him: "Hey! The three of you, come and lift him up!"

In this way, I was carried by four people, and what I could hear in my ears were the shouts of killing and the gasps while running.

"Luga, think about Ana who gave you the ring, and Tenaia, don't go to see God so easily!"

Andrew comforted me and kept pressing on my wound with a cloth he got from somewhere.

"Quick! We have to speed up."

"Don't stop! Don't stop! Keep going! Keep going!"

My limbs were lifted and kept shaking, and in the haze my sixth sense told me that I was moving forward and not stopping.

The clash of bodies wrapped in armor, the clanking of weapons, the angry roars of madmen, the painful screams of the defeated before being killed. All the sounds on the battlefield were like a rushing river that poured into my ears, which was much more useful than the slaps and the actions of holding my eyelids closed, and it kept me awake.

"Luga, hold on a little longer, we'll be out soon!" In the chaos, I heard Andrew's voice again, accompanied by the unbearable coldness that hit me again. The feeling of powerlessness all over my body told me all the time that I really couldn't hold on any longer.

"Damn it! For God's sake! Luca, hold on! We can't get out, we can't get out!" Andrew's voice was clearly filled with tears, and he began to despair. I looked at the sky and listened quietly to the noise around me. Now I was trapped, so should I fight to the death or give up resistance?

"money!"

I said in a weak voice that I hoped the idea I had at this time could help us out of this predicament.

"What? Luca, what did you say?" Hearing the sound in my throat, he heard it and was surprised. He put his ear close to my mouth and listened carefully.

"Money! Spread the money!"

I used up my last bit of strength, but the sound I made was still so weak. From then on, I couldn't make any sound anymore. I only had this short chance, and I could only hope that this guy could understand me.

"Money? Yes, yes, money!"

Great! Andrew understood. He shouted happily, "Hey, everyone, throw the money in your pockets on these barbarians or behind them!" Then he lowered his voice and prayed secretly, "I hope these bastards can accept our bribe and let us go!"

"Here! All to you, damned beasts!"

"Here you go, savages! Here you go!"

The soldiers who heard the order also understood Andrew's order. In the face of money and life, they still made the right decision. Everyone was insulting the Germans in front of them, and they also threw all the gold coins or denarius silver coins in their pockets into the faces of the German mercenaries.

As expected of a man who works for money, I don't know how high these damn barbarians and damn borderless people have taken their materialism. They actually gave up the fight and went to pick up the scattered Oren and Denarius. They really fought for this and didn't care who the enemy was.

"Forward, abandon the formation, abandon the formation!" Andrew seemed to have seen hope. He was ecstatic at this moment. While running forward, he turned back from time to time to look at me and said, "Luga, Luga, did you hear that? The Germans made way for us. Your method worked. We got out! Haha, we got out!"

It was true, although all I saw was the gradually blurry sky, and besides the sound of dozens of pairs of feet running quickly, I could also hear the unbridled laughter peculiar to the barbarians. They must have gotten what they had always dreamed of, so fighting became unnecessary.

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He once walked into Worms with arrogance, but now he has fled under the city wall like a stray dog.

"Romans?"

A question in front made everyone stop. It turned out that in the hole under the city wall, the Burgundians finally couldn't hold on any longer and were retreating step by step. Now all that appeared at the entrance of the street were Roman centuries and the German mercenaries who came with them.

"Friendly forces! Friendly forces!"

Andrew waved hurriedly, and with the help of the other three people, he carried me out of the square and waved at the Romans who were blocking the road ahead.

"We are soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the 14th Twin Legion. I am one of the centurions, Orius Andrew. I have another centurion here, Orius Luca. He is seriously injured and needs treatment!"

“Make way! Make way!”

Fortunately, the Romans did not suspect anything, and they spontaneously made way for Andrew. I passed through them, and saw blood-stained faces on both sides, and eyes of different colors, all looking at me in surprise.

"I can survive!"

I comforted myself, and under the gaze of those pairs of eyes, I slowly closed my eyes and felt that the whole world was plunged into darkness.

(End of this chapter)