Great time travel

Chapter 19, the first batch of leading parties

In a small valley at the foot of Arnus Hill, hundreds of tents were surrounded by barbed wire, forming a separate camp.During the day, more than 800 local aborigines taken in by Wang Qiu and the others were temporarily placed here.And just after the questioning, the young magician Lelai, who was allowed to come back to rest, was wearing a priest-like off-white robe with a hood, looking at all kinds of strange things around her with curious and apprehensive eyes.

"...Is this... the human beings from a different world country? How powerful they are! The empire actually wants to rob them..."

Standing outside the door of the refugee camp, looking at the "steel monsters" that are still rumbling even at night, and on the top of Arnus Hill in the distance, the "House of the Gods" illuminated by spotlights door", Lelei, a girl magician with short aqua blue hair, couldn't help leaning on her wand, and muttered to herself—although she is only 15 years old this year, compared to those who have never left According to the villagers in his hometown several times, Lelei, who has traveled to many cities across the Farmat continent as a magic apprentice, is definitely considered well-informed.

However, Lelei was deeply shocked by this human army from another world that appeared on the hill of Arnus. Rendel, the city of strong knowledge, will not have such bright lights at night.Even in the magnificent temple where the ever-burning lamps are lighted all day long, it is impossible to be as bright as day even in the middle of the night like the Arnus Hill at this moment—however, this place in front of you is so brightly lit and as bright as a sea of ​​stars, But it wasn't a metropolis that took hundreds of years to slowly manage and build, but just a temporary camp that these outsiders quickly set up in less than a day!

What's even more frightening is that for these humans from different worlds, such lights seem to be just a very common thing...

In addition, the abundant logistical supplies of this foreign army also surprised Lelei, who is used to the banditry of various armies on the Farmat continent. On the Farmat continent, due to social Due to low productivity and insufficient material reserves, most of the army's daily supplies are very difficult.Especially when going out to fight, because the logistics and transportation capabilities cannot keep up, even the regular armies of various countries often need to collect supplies by looting the enemy's people in order to allow soldiers to eat rations on time.And in order to march quickly, officers often give orders to reduce food rations.If unfortunately they go to the barren mountains and mountains where there is no food to rob, then the soldiers often have to live with hunger and fullness.Even for the city defense troops stationed in the city, it is common for all kinds of thieves to make extra money.

However, the alien army that appeared on Arnus Hill was rich enough to be called rich.Leaving aside those things that I can't even understand, the metal consumed on a steel chariot like theirs is enough for the empire to build a legion of swords, right?And those "metal golems" that rumbled and roared to excavate earth and rocks and tamp the foundation were even more sturdy existences that Lelei could not understand at all.

Also, the food and clothing that this army provides to ordinary soldiers makes her even a magician feel jealous.Lelei had never seen many of the things that the outsiders ate, so it was impossible to judge whether they were good or bad for a while.But the relief rations allocated to the refugees in Gota Village have already left these poor and remote villagers stunned: the staple food given to them by outsiders is not the hard semolina or black bread common to the villagers, let alone that It is a kind of barley porridge mixed with many weeds, but white bread that only nobles or wealthy families can often afford!Refugees couldn't help but exclaim with excitement at the unprecedented soft texture and the sweet taste mixed with a lot of sugar and cream.

Next, each refugee was given a piece of fried salted fish and a large bowl of broth sprinkled with a lot of spices and salt, and a lot of unknown vegetables (borscht) were added to the soup.After the dinner was over, those men in green from other worlds also distributed some crystal-like pure sugar cubes (single crystal rock sugar) to the children... For the barren land of Gota Village, apart from no wine , this kind of food is already at the level of a festival feast!Even Lelei, who has participated in several noble banquets and balls, feels that these people in green clothes from other worlds are really particular about eating and drinking.

Although communicating with these outsiders, the girl magician Lelei already knew that the opposite of the "gate" is a prosperous port in their country, so their current supply line is naturally very smooth, and there is no danger of lack of food or clothing.But Lelei can also judge that even with the power of the empire, even in the imperial capital Urabianka City, it is very difficult to mobilize so many supplies and equipment in one go.

From this we can see how powerful and prosperous the human country behind the "gate" will be... Although I haven't really seen the scene of this army fighting, it is difficult to measure its combat effectiveness, but just seeing how easily they can be killed The thousand-year-old Flame Dragon in Falmat Continent, as well as so many gleaming metal equipment in the camp, even so rich that they can use steel to support the tent, are enough to prove that their combat effectiveness is by no means weak.

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——No matter in which era, there is a simple mathematical standard used to measure the strength of an army. Although it is impossible to accurately display the combat power every time, it is usually not too far off.This standard refers to gunpowder consumption in the age of firearms, fuel consumption in the age of mechanized warfare, the total equivalent of strategic nuclear weapons in the age of nuclear warfare, and the sum of the total frequency of processors in the digital age...and in the older iron and bronze ages , the most intuitive standard to measure the strength of an armed force is naturally the total weight of metal consumption...

What?Also consider magic?The magicians in Farmat continent are not that powerful, they don't have any power to destroy the world, they don't even have teleportation and flying skills, in terms of actual combat power, at best, they are comparable to those in "Harry Potter". "The British wizards in the plot world are similar, or even slightly inferior.Even the army magicians of the empire seldom fight with fireballs directly, but they are unique in logistics, communication and reconnaissance. In terms of their status in the army, they are probably equivalent to the senior craftsmen carried by ancient armies on earth. .

All in all, compared to most of the time-traveling novels, those poor protagonists who usually only carry a backpack, at most a "system", or even bare buttocks and have nothing to do , the Chinese alien advance team now entrenched on the hills of Arnus can be described as out-and-out super rich, as well as cheating players with gold finger plug-ins: not only are there a large number of people, but also a large number of soldiers. , with a full set of mechanized equipment, ranging from tanks, armored vehicles to unmanned aerial vehicles, there is an unimpeded logistics supply line behind it, and an industrialized country with a population of more than one billion. Comprehensive support for talents.

In addition, in view of the fact that this is likely to be the last time to cross another world in the foreseeable future, the relevant departments have not hesitated to take out almost all the remaining black technology props in the Doraemon plane—anyway After this time, there is no chance to use it again.Now it is because the survey and mapping work of the terrain and soil quality has not been completed, and the large-scale construction project has not really started, so the camp near the Arnus Hill is a little "rudimentary".After the expert team came up with the design and planning plan, relying on those completely unscientific Doraemon plane black technology props, even if you want to build a modern city directly around Arnus Hill, it will only take a few days. things done. (Refer to "Doraemon Novel: Doraemon and the Kingdom of Clouds", the speed at which Nobi Nobita and his group of elementary school students built a city on the cloud in only one or two weeks.)
Therefore, in the days to come, there will be more and more things that will surprise the blue-haired girl magician Lelai and the local indigenous refugees...

Besides, what puzzled Lelai even more was that the two headhunter priestesses who had sheltered the refugees for many days seemed to be very familiar with the aliens from the other side of the "gate". The anecdotes and strange events on Arnus Hill showed no surprises, and they also helped people from other worlds to talk everywhere... This made Lelei secretly speculate: These human beings who are said to be from other worlds, have nothing to do with Farmat Does the headhunting rabbit family on the grassland in the northeastern part of the mainland have any secret relationship that is unknown, and will it have some impact on the current situation in the Farmat continent...

——Of course, the reason for having such considerations does not mean that Lelei is so concerned about the country and the people.In fact, the city she was born in had just been conquered by the empire by force within a few years, so Lelei actually didn't have any sense of belonging to the empire that claimed to have unified the Farmat continent.But no matter what, she was a pure-blooded human after all, and belonged to a different camp from orc tribes like headhunting rabbits.

It's just that now she is dependent on others, and she never thinks that she has an obligation to serve the empire. Moreover, those two headhunting rabbit priestesses who look a little suspicious are still the great benefactors who saved herself and so many people in Gota Village.With Lelei's moral quality, no matter what, she couldn't just rely on an unreliable guess to do such a crazy thing like revenge against them.So in the face of all the shocking novelty on Arnus Hill, Lelei didn't know how to deal with and judge for a while, it seemed that he could only take one step at a time...

Taking a last look at the Arnus hills illuminated by high-power iodine-tungsten lamps, she sighed faintly, turned and walked into the refugee camp.

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At this moment, it was already the dead of night.Hundreds of indigenous refugees who had traveled long distances with their luggage and worked hard all day, were already exhausted after so many days of fear, lack of food and sleep. After eating, they got into their respective tents, wrapped in Sleeping soundly on the blanket provided by the People's Liberation Army.Throughout the refugee camp, thunderous snoring was heard everywhere.

Lelei originally planned to get into the tent assigned to him to rest, but accidentally discovered that the old village head of Gota Village was not sleeping, but was sitting cross-legged outside his tent door, using his treasured silver jug While drinking wine, he looked worriedly at the spotlights that illuminated the night sky not far away.

"...Grandpa Village Chief, it's already so late, why don't you rest?" After a moment of silence, Leilei greeted him.

"... Cough cough, so it's Leilei! Cough cough, I can't help it, it's too bright outside, I really can't sleep! Cough cough!"

Because Leilei's footsteps were too light, the old village chief who was thinking about his thoughts didn't notice at all, but he was caught off guard and choked.After coughing for a while, the old village chief put down the silver jug ​​by his mouth, stopped coughing, wiped the wine stains from his mouth, and asked after recovering, "...that...Leilei, what are you doing?" Are you kept by those men in green until now? They didn't make things difficult for you, did they?"

"...Nothing, they are very polite, just asked me a lot about this continent, and why did the empire open a door to their underwater port on Arnus Hill? According to these According to the man in green in another world, this door suddenly appeared in the water near a port city in their country, turning the entire harbor into a maelstrom and paralyzed for four months."

Lelei replied, "...Until recently, they managed to build a dam to stop the seawater from leaking, and then sent people over to investigate."

Hearing these words, the old village chief felt very uncomfortable—as a man whose home was destroyed by the "foreign flood" gushing out of the "gate" and also drowned his wife and two sons, The remaining youngest son also lost his whereabouts on the way to escape, and became a victim of the lonely old man. It is impossible to say that the old village chief has no resentment towards these visitors from other worlds.But if you think about it carefully, it seems that the people in green clothes can't be blamed for this matter. After all, they didn't open the "door"—from the point of view of the people in green clothes, there was something inexplicably popping up in their harbor. A door paralyzed the shipping, and maybe even sucked in the boats and swimmers. Is this a disaster from heaven?
Now, these green-clothed men from another world opposite the "gate" obviously have such powerful force that they can easily kill even fierce beasts like Yanlong, but they didn't wantonly take revenge on themselves, the subjects of the empire, but instead gave them so generously. Taking care is already very polite.

What's more, the empire originally planned to send troops to plunder the wealth of the other world opposite the "gate", but it turned out to be self-defeating, and made it into what it is today. It can only be said that it is its own death, and it can't blame others... So careful calculation , the old village head of Gota Village found helplessly that in the end, he, who unfortunately suffered the disaster of destroying his family, seemed to have to settle the account on the emperor and the Senate, and couldn't help but burst into tears...

"...Ahem, then, Leilei, how did you answer those men in green?" After a moment of sighing, the old village chief asked nervously.

"...Naturally, I'm telling the truth. There's no way I can hide such a big thing. What's more, there are those two headhunter priests!"

Lelei replied with a flat face, "...about the empire's expedition, I just told them everything I know about it."

"...This... Sigh! I also know that such a big matter must not be hidden, but if they know that the goal of the empire's opening of the 'door' is to attack and plunder their world...then what will happen next? Won't you take your anger out on us imperial subjects and drive us out?"

The old village chief sighed to Leilei with a worried expression on his face, "...The remaining people in the village have nowhere to go now!"

——Although out of the most basic vigilance of human beings, after this day's brief contact, they are still quite wary of these people in green clothes from the other side of the "door", and they are still quite wary of the large crowds pouring out of the "door". Flood was quite resentful.But no matter what, it was these strange "men in green" who killed the Yanlong who threatened their lives when they were most desperate, and provided them with quite good housing, food and security. No. has been having bad luck recently, and for the poor villagers who have narrowly escaped death several times in a row, this alone is already a paradise-like enjoyment.

In fact, according to the old village chief, the living conditions in this refugee camp are even better than those in Gota Village.Although he is currently sleeping in a tent, it is far cleaner than the shabby houses in the cottage that are full of bedbugs and fleas, and there is no air leakage at all.The steel cups and bowls that the man in green gave him for eating and drinking looked so clean and shiny that even if they were placed in a big city like the imperial capital, only the upper class could afford them. As for Gota Village Not to mention such a poor place.The lavender blanket that I wrapped around my body to keep out the cold was also a very delicate and high-quality product.Look at the workmanship, dyeing and pattern, as well as the silk wrapped around the edge of the blanket. According to the experience of the old village chief, each such blanket can be sold for at least four or five goats in the market. I'm afraid they are reluctant to buy it.However, the men in green clothes on Arnus Hill provided each refugee with a blanket like this without hesitation, even children could receive it.

——In the era of industrialization and the era of pre-industrialization, the value of a seemingly similar daily commodity in the eyes of ordinary people can be described as very different.

Hey, if possible, the old village head really doesn't want to be forced to leave this good place with food, shelter, and adequate clothing, because for the vast majority of refugees who have nothing, such a fate is almost equivalent to death—— The old village chief's whole family, young and old, have all died in the recent series of disasters. He has become a lonely family. He really doesn't want the few people left in the village to follow the same end of death. : The only problem is that these refugees and the man in green on the opposite side of the "door" are neither related nor related, so why should the other party support me all the time?
"...Grandpa Village Chief, please rest assured, those people in green clothes are very generous, they promised to continue to provide relief to all of us."

Lelei comforted the old village chief dryly and said, "...In addition, they also promised to build a house for us near Mount Arnus..."

"...The man in green from another world promised to build us a house? The address is in this Arnus hill?"

The old village chief was not as optimistic as Leilei, but frowned and looked around, "...the news is good...but, even with the help of the man in green, rebuilding the After leaving the village, what should we live on in the future? The area near the Arnus Hills is the most barren land in this area, and there is no way to grow crops. Now that it has been soaked in salt water again, I am afraid that even grass will grow in the future Oh no.

Moreover, almost all the strong men and boys in the village are dead, the livestock and farm tools are gone, the money and food have long been exhausted, and only a group of girls, widows, children and us old guys are left , where is the money to buy seeds?I don't even have the strength to open up wasteland! "

Regarding this, Leilei was silent for a long time before slowly opening her mouth, "...Grandpa Village Chief, you should know that under certain circumstances, the army itself is the most generous customer. In difficult times, Even women and children who have nothing can rely on the army to find a way out..."

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——Although the above words of the young magician Lelei were very cryptic, the old village chief understood her meaning in an instant.

To be honest, people like him who have lived to this age, how can they not understand what those women who lost their homes and properties in the war will do to the soldiers on the winning side in order to keep themselves and their children alive? His business—isn’t it selling his body to make money?
Although most women from good families are unwilling to do this kind of thing if they have a choice, but once they are desperate, relying on selling their flesh and blood to make a living will become a natural choice for women: this is the case in peacetime, All the more so in years of war and disaster.

——When you are about to lose your life, how can you care about your dignity and chastity?

Even in ancient China, which advocated that "starvation is a small matter, and injustice is a major matter", when wars and famines came, there were far more women who prostituted themselves than committed suicide.

Generally speaking, the soldiers of the regular army are very generous big spenders: first of all, in order to win the war, except for some professional households who commit suicide, most generals and kings will give generously during the war, so that the soldiers will get a lot of money. Second, because you need to face death at any time on the battlefield, you don’t know if there will be a tomorrow after today. Soldiers who get coins seldom save them. I like to seize every opportunity to spend my money to enjoy while I am still alive, which is the so-called drunk today.Therefore, even though the battlefield is full of dangers and may lose their lives at any time, there are always merchant groups and roving soldiers who are not afraid of death, who travel long distances with the army, and even rush to the place where the army is going to camp, and set aside their respective positions. Stalls, just to do business with soldiers to make huge profits - such as buying trophies and prisoners from soldiers at low prices, and then selling alcohol, meat, and sex services to them at high prices.

However, the refugees who have nothing have nothing to sell at present, and the only thing that can be sold is the women themselves.

Although the army of "Men in Green" stationed in Arnus Hill has not yet come into contact with any opponents, except for the defeated Flame Dragon, it is estimated that they have not got any spoils for the time being.But even so, judging from the "luxury and luxury" of these "men in green clothes" from other worlds, they should not worry that their soldiers will have no money to pay for whoring now-even if the coins on both sides are not common, as long as these men in green clothes are willing to give A few metal bowls and plates, or paying for a few blankets, a few clothes, can also be exchanged for money or barter at the market in the city!

Except that the young girls in the village can wash and cook for the soldiers, and accompany them to bed to sell meat.Children may also be able to earn a meager income by serving them, and the few surviving old people should be able to use their rich experience as guides for these strangers from other worlds... In short, Judging from the current situation, as long as you can save your face, the old, weak, women and children who have fled here should not have any difficulty finding a way to survive next to the man in green from another world.The only thing to worry about is the punishment and revenge of the imperial government and the local nobles in the future.

"...I can't help it... The empire doesn't care about our life and death, and brought disaster to our village. And the lord who lives in the city is really hopeless under the current situation. What's more Now even Gota Village is gone, and he is no longer our lord."

After being silent for a while, the old village chief raised his neck, drank the remaining wine in the jug, wiped his mouth with his greasy sleeve, and muttered, "...if we still want to continue The only hope to survive is these men in green clothes on Arnus Hill. As for the future, I really don’t care so much for the time being. Tomorrow I will talk to the girls and widows in the village. Now everyone I have come to such a point, relying on these kind-hearted lords in green to have food and shelter, they should have already realized something... If those lords in green have something to do with my old bones, I can be their guide at any time, and there is nothing I am not familiar with in every mountain, every forest, and every creek around here... Even if there is any danger, I have lived to this age and I am almost content... "

——In a prefabricated prefabricated room hundreds of meters away, Political Commissar Guo, who was sorting out the inquiry records under the desk lamp, would never have imagined that before he even opened his mouth to solicit, some winking natives from other worlds, I have already decided to be their dog legs and lead the way...

However, even if he knew, he would probably just laugh it off and leave it for tomorrow... Because at this moment, he was concentrating on typing on the keyboard, writing a work document on the laptop that he was going to submit to the superior: " Preliminary Investigation Report on Another World".