Since leaving Tianfeng City, Yi Yun was worried about the situation in Aida Town, so he hurried back day and night. When he finally arrived in Aida Town, it was already more than ten days later.
When he stood on a hill a few miles away and saw his longed-for hometown of Aida Town, he was stunned by what he saw.
"Is this still my hometown of Aida?!"
I saw about a thousand soldiers wearing imperial uniforms, all encamped on the outskirts of Aida Town, encircling the entire Aida Town with one tent every 100 meters.
What made him even more unbelievable was that the circle surrounded by the soldiers, which was the former location of Aida Town, was now a large open space dozens of miles long, with countless broken walls and tiles stacked underground, and all the houses were in ruins.
All facilities were destroyed and demolished.
Moreover, he saw hundreds of soldiers holding some destruction tools, divided into more than ten teams, and continuing the demolition work on other houses that were still intact.
His former hometown, the church in his heart, is constantly falling...
"What on earth is going on?" Yi Yun watched the houses collapse one by one over time, his whole body trembled violently, and he shouted in great pain.
The years he lived in Aida Town were the happiest time he had ever had so far. His family, neighbors, friends... were all the most beautiful memories in his heart. Even if these people are no longer here, here
It is still the eternal palace in his heart and his root!
Now he sees the paradise in his memories being destroyed one by one, and his roots are destroyed. A person without roots can only be a duckweed on the water. From now on, he has no home to return to.
At this time, Menluo also stood beside Yi Yun and watched, his face was ashen and stagnant, his eyes were burning with anger, and he said in a deep voice: "These people are obviously soldiers of the Qiwu Empire. If they dare to do such a big move, they must have the imperial royal family."
With the approval of the State Council, our ancestral land, which has been guarded by the Stat family for thousands of years, has been rooted and multiplied for generations. We must not dare to violate the solemn ancestral precepts left by our first generation ancestors. Now it has been destroyed in one fell swoop. If
If the ancestors of our clan knew this, they would definitely be pissed to death underground again!"
Taking a deep breath, Yi Yun tried his best to calm down, but his body was still trembling slightly, and he was obviously anxious. He said in a cold voice: "Although Aida Town was taken out by the imperial royal family as the biggest prize in the Qiwu Demon Fighting Tournament,
, but before it was officially granted to others, it was still the territory of my Start family. I wonder why these soldiers were stationed here and demolished Aida Town in advance?"
"Can't you figure it out?" Monroe glanced at Aida Town, which was completely overwhelmed, and said with an evil smile: "Then let's find someone to ask!"
A few hours later, day turned to night, and the half-waned moon hung high in the night sky, exuding silver-white moonlight.
Tearing down walls and tiles is a very physically demanding job. After a busy day, most of this group of thousands of soldiers, except for the soldiers who had to take turns to watch the night, got into the camp early to rest.
This is not a battlefield. They were just ordered to stay here. If other people came here and saw an army of a thousand people belonging to the empire stationed here, they would immediately take a detour and never risk it.
You are asking for trouble if you walk by rashly. The swords in the hands of soldiers are for killing enemies on the battlefield and they will not reason with you.
Therefore, these soldiers stayed here without much vigilance. In addition to most of them sleeping early and dying in the tents, even the dozen or so soldiers responsible for night vigilance mostly found a tree to lean against and continued to make up for their injuries.
Get up and sleep.
A quiet night, with ruins of dilapidated houses everywhere, and a heart burning with anger.
At this moment, a sleeping soldier who was closest to the outskirts of the military camp and leaning on a big tree was suddenly dragged into the dense forest by a pair of big hands extending from behind, and then a hand tightly pinched the back of his neck.
Lifting it up in the air, it was as easy as lifting a cat or dog, and then led him into the boundless dark woods.
The soldier was so frightened that he opened his mouth to shout, but found that no matter how loudly he screamed, no sound could come out of his mouth. He could only feel the trees around him flying back at an alarming speed. The man was holding him in one hand and running
, and it was even faster than he was riding on a horse. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. Just when he was about to struggle to get out of trouble, he suddenly felt a strange burning sensation on his neck that penetrated his body. He felt a pain and immediately fainted.
passed.
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"I will ask you a few questions. If you answer them honestly, you will live. If you refuse to cooperate or shout loudly, you will die!"
Yi Yun took the captured soldier to the woods a few miles away, threw it on the ground to wake him up, and said in a deep voice.
The soldier woke up from the pain as soon as he landed, and saw a tall man covered in black cloth standing in front of him and speaking to him in an extremely cold tone. He was just an ordinary soldier, only at the level of a one-star warrior.
Knowing clearly that this person was definitely beyond his ability to deal with, he trembled and nodded in agreement.
"First question, you must be imperial soldiers, what is the purpose of coming here? Why did the entire Aida Town be demolished again?" Yi Yun asked calmly.
The soldier was still trembling and immediately replied: "We are a new army formed by the empire. First, we are to guard this place and not let anyone get close. We received two orders when we came here; second, we are to quickly demolish the whole town to the ground."
, to facilitate future reconstruction.”
Yi Yun then asked: "Who gave the order?"
"The chief minister of imperial affairs──Earl Lanville!"
Yi Yun was shocked when he heard this, and his voice suddenly turned cold: "Are you the private army of the Lanville family?"
When the soldier saw this mysterious man and heard what he said, he suddenly became filled with murderous intent. He was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and shook his head violently: "We are not private soldiers. We are all regular soldiers belonging to the Qiwu Empire. We are just belonging to the Qiwu Empire."
In the army under the jurisdiction of Earl Lanville, although most of the officers in the army are descendants of the Lanville family, we only obey the military orders issued by the imperial royal family, and even the salaries we receive are paid by the empire.
of."
Yi Yun also recalled in an instant that the Lanwell family held the two major powers of Emperor Qiwu and the government, and that their men did command several armies in the empire, and most of their family members also held important officer positions in the army. Now this thousand
The People's Army should also be one of them.
After pondering for a moment, Yi Yun asked again: "You said that the purpose of demolishing Aida Town is to rebuild it. The Qiwu Demon Fighting Tournament has not yet started, and this territory may not necessarily be owned by the Lanville family in the future. You are in a hurry to start now.
Don’t the imperial royal family and other aristocratic families talk?”
Seeing that Yi Yun seemed to have calmed down and that he probably would not kill him for the time being, the soldier breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied: "Because this territory has been taken back by the imperial royal family and will be used as a reward in the future, we have ordered our army to
Come here and guard this territory, and don't let other people come close to you at will.
"And Earl Lanville ordered our army to demolish Aida Town first. It was also approved by the royal family. As long as the demolition is stopped and not rebuilt immediately on the spot, other aristocratic families will not say anything. After all, no matter which aristocratic family gets this in the future,
For a piece of fiefdom, the first step must be to dismantle it, and everyone is happy to see our army do it first...
"Why did Earl Lanville order our army to dismantle it in advance? I don't know the reason why the Earl did this. However, I once heard senior officers in the army chatting that it was because Earl Lanville was worried about being able to obtain this piece of land in the future.
I am almost 100% sure of the ownership of the territory, so I don’t mind finishing the demolition of the abandoned houses ahead of schedule.”
The Count Lanville mentioned by the soldiers was Yi Yun's father, Mexico Lanville.
After hearing this, Yi Yun sneered: "100% sure? Before the Qiwu Demon Fighting Tournament even started, Count Lanweier was already full of confidence. He was able to manipulate the strong men from all major academies and major families.
Clay doll? Tell me, where does his confidence come from?"
There was a strong sense of ridicule in the mysterious man's laughter. How could the soldiers not hear it? He could tell that this man was very unfriendly to his immediate superiors in the army, the Lanville family. He just hoped that he would not make him angry.
.
He answered very carefully: "I heard this all from the commander. As for the details, I am only a soldier at the lowest level, so it is impossible to know the reason clearly... I only know that Earl Lanville had a crush on Ada
This hundred-mile territory of Zhenzhen is bound to be acquired. It is said that the geographical location here is excellent and can be used as the most suitable military logistics training center...
"He also said that the previous landowner had no idea of the value of this territory and only used it to build a dilapidated town. He was a waste of this excellent land and deserved to be exterminated. Instead, he was allowed to
The Blueville family got a big deal...as far as I know, that's all."
After hearing the soldier's last words, Yi Yun's whole body trembled violently. An extremely cold aura suddenly emanated from his body. The surrounding space seemed to freeze for an instant. The bone-piercing chill and the awe-inspiring murderous aura shook the man.
The soldier was so frightened that he urinated and urinated. He was extremely frightened, but his whole body seemed to be covered by an invisible force. He could not move a step, and just knelt down in front of Yi Yun.
Monroe had been listening by the side. At this time, his face was covered with frost, his eyes flashed with a trace of strange purple flames, and he actually laughed angrily: "Hahaha, your paternal family is really good! It turns out that I, Star
The Te clan was exterminated by the whole clan. He didn't feel any pity at all. On the contrary, he thought it was deserved and he was glad that his family got a big deal? Our clan is really honored to have such an in-law! Hahahahaha...
"
The wild laughter that only Yi Yun could hear echoed in the night, and the laughter remained the same. Monroe looked at Yi Yun and smiled evilly again: "The Lanwell family believed that you had died in the massacre that year, and before sending troops here
In Aida Town, instead of trying to find your remains and relics, they let the army destroy the whole town just for what they saw as a military logistics training base, completely ignoring the in-law friendship that the two families had, and you.
The whereabouts of this biological son, such a relative, and such a father are really good to you!"
Listening to the irony and laughter in Munro's mouth, Yi Yun did not respond. He just took a deep breath, suppressed the evil fire that was rising in his heart, and fell silent.
When the soldier saw this mysterious man, he suddenly became silent and just looked up at the sky. The light of the missing half-moon above his head reflected on him, like the blackness of the boundless night, stained by the silvery moonlight, as if an eternal statue had already existed.
The majestic stone statue looked even more mysterious and strange, and its heavy and solemn aura was as if it were real, so frightened that he did not dare to make a sound.
After a long time, Yi Yun turned to look at the soldiers who were slumped on the ground, and asked calmly: "Last question, when your army was demolishing Aida Town, did you destroy the cemeteries in the town?"
The soldier was startled when he heard this and said in confusion: "There is no cemetery in the town...or what you said was that it was dug by another army for the more than 2,000 citizens of Aida Town who were massacred a few years ago.
The mass graves that came out?”
Yi Yun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the burial place of Pusius and others that he had buried with his own hands had not been found or destroyed. He was slightly startled when he heard the word "mass grave" from the soldier's mouth.
Immediately asked: "Do you know where the mass grave is?"
A few years ago, he had heard from Nice that the bones of all the residents of Aida Town were buried together by the army sent by the empire. He had thought about worshiping these residents who had lived together, but he had been looking for them.
After visiting their burial place, I discovered that this soldier seemed to know something about it, so of course I wanted to get to the bottom of it.
The soldier thought about it and immediately replied: "I once heard the military commander say that it seems to be in a dense forest thirty miles east of Aida Town. Because a few years ago, the imperial royal family had planned to
This territory was used as a reward, so we preferred to go to great lengths and use a lot of horse-drawn carriage manpower to move the more than two thousand corpses to a remote location dozens of miles away from the center of the territory for burial."
As early as when Aida Town was massacred, the royal family had already made preparations to take back the territory and use it as a reward?
After listening to this, Yi Yun thought to himself: "It seems that the imperial royal family has no intention of finding the murderers who massacred Aida Town. They only focused all their attention on the lost artifact and the piece that became
On top of the territorial ownership of Borderlands...the royal family of the empire handles affairs just like the aristocratic families who are obsessed with profit. They make decisions just for profit. They have never let them worry about the more than 2,000 innocent lives that were wasted.
Come on, alas...!"
After hearing this, Yi Yun nodded slightly, looked at the frightened soldier, and said calmly: "I understand. Thank you for your cooperation."
After saying that, he immediately hit him lightly on the back of the neck with a hand knife, and the soldier fell to the ground and passed out.
"Now that I've finished asking, he's no longer of use, why not just kill him?" Monroe asked.
Shaking his head, Yi Yun said calmly: "It's not that I won't kill, but it's that there is no need to kill. In the past ten days, I have been traveling day and night, rushing all the way back here in a hurry. When I saw Aida Town turned into the miserable state it is now, I
I found that I couldn't do anything... Originally, I wanted to at least take away the books my mother left for me and my grandfather's belongings from the manor, but now it seems it's too late...
"In this case, is there any point for me to stay here? The soonest I can wait for him to wake up is tomorrow morning. Since he doesn't know my identity and I'm not afraid of him telling the truth, I will have left here long ago."
After a pause, Yi Yun continued: "Now it is confirmed that the burial ground of grandpa and his family outside of the Stat Manor has not been discovered or destroyed, which is a good thing! But what I am most worried about at this moment is whether they will
Even the stove in the ancestral home was destroyed!"
"There is no way that the ancestral home that our Stat family has guarded for thousands of years will be destroyed! Have you forgotten that it is protected by a star field-level magic circle?" Munro said with a smile.
Shaking his head, Yi Yun sighed softly and said: "When I met Dean Belim's stone chamber, I certainly understood that the star field array in the ancestral home could not be destroyed by human power. That's what makes it troublesome. If that
If the army cannot damage the ancestral home even after all their efforts, then the strange features of the ancestral home will be known to the imperial royal family and the Lanville family, and it will be completely exposed to the sun."
"Although they will never be able to enter the secret room of the ancestral home, it will also attract the curious exploration of countless powerful people. The ancient ruins that have been passed down for thousands of years will also be exposed to the eyes of everyone in the entire Qiongwu Continent!"
Monroe was stunned, and his expression suddenly became solemn: "I have overlooked this point. You are right. If things really develop to that point, it will be terrible!"
"Anyway, before you leave, let's sneak back to our ancestral home and have a look!"
The ancestral house is located at the northernmost tip of Aida Town, backed by a cliff, behind a large hill and forest, and there are no houses around it. It is an extremely remote area.
Yi Yun deliberately bypassed many military tents and came to the dense forest in the north of Aida Town. As expected, there were less than ten military camps here, much less than other places. He seized the opportunity and took advantage of the gap of the night watch soldiers.
Immediately, he jumped up high and with great speed. Under the cover of the dark night, he jumped over the layers of guards and entered the town of Aida.
He moved like wind, following the location in his memory, and found the former manor of the Stat family. The manor house that he remembered the sweetest in his memory was now only a pile of rubble and broken tiles, except for a perimeter
Apart from the fact that the side wall has not been completely demolished, there really is nothing left.
When he walked to the manor, he saw a poplar tree that had been cut into two pieces. Although the open space was just a piece of loess, he knew that the remains of his three grandfathers were buried underneath.
Back then, he dug three meters into the ground under this poplar tree and made a secret unmarked tomb for the three of Pusius. Fortunately, the former Stat Manor has now been completely destroyed, and they
His resting place remains intact and undisturbed.
Looking at the ruined open space in front of him, Yi Yun sighed: "When I left here, I promised that one day I would revive the glory of my Stat family. But now, a few years later, not only our family's manor and love...
All of Da Town has been shoveled into wasteland, and even the ownership of this territory will change hands to others, but I am powerless to stop it...
"Things in the world are really unpredictable. In just a few years, everything and everyone has changed completely..."
Aida Town was originally just a remote place in the north of the empire, but now it has become a rich reward given by the imperial royal family for this magical martial arts tournament. It is also the largest reward in the empire in a hundred years.
The small town that no one cared about in the past has now transformed into a coveted cake, attracting countless strong men from the academy and major aristocratic families to compete for it.
Things have developed so unexpectedly that Yi Yun alone cannot turn the tide.
Monroe also sighed at this time: "The location of Aida Town is excellent. It was a big city as early as thousands of years ago. As long as there are enough construction funds, it is entirely possible to restore this place to its former glory. Therefore, the major families will definitely not
They will let this piece of fat go, which is probably the royal family’s plan to use this land as a reward.”
If there is one more big city in the empire, the annual tax revenue will increase by at least millions of gold coins. Why wouldn't the royal family be happy about it?
Yi Yun said nothing and just looked at the cemetery in front of him silently for a while before turning around and leaving.
He said fiercely in his heart: "Although Aida Town has been destroyed, this is my hometown and my home. Maybe I don't have the ability now, but in the future, no matter whose hands it falls into, I will definitely take over this territory."