Blood tax

Chapter 166 The living corpses are causing casualties all the time, and my militia is endless!
Erza and Amber rode across the Raven River, and were startled as soon as they crossed the stone bridge.

It's like one big dump and barracks.A three-layer roadblock built with desks, door panels and wardrobes sealed the intersection tightly, and militiamen guarded the intersection.

Behind the barricades, the broad square was filled with the old and the weak and children.

Crowds of residents were divided into many teams, and they made simple banners out of cloth and wooden strips, and everyone carried one on their backs.A combination of a letter and a number is written on the flag.

Like busy worker bees and ant colonies, they smashed open the houses around the square, swarmed in and moved out furniture, food and everything that could be used as weapons.

At the same time, more people gathered from all directions like a tide.

"What did Griffith do!?" Erza was taken aback, "How did this place become like this?"

Not far from them, some people who looked like liars were standing on a temporary stage, shouting to the residents who had just arrived from another block:
"The living corpses are coming to eat our brains!"

"You know? Old White's family, they were all eaten! Old White himself was bitten to death at the door of his house. Then he turned into a monster and ate his wife, parents, and his three-month-old child!"

The residents in the audience let out a burst of exclamation.

"Old White was still nibbling his son's finger when he was caught by the knight, and then digging his brain with it!"

Someone in the audience fainted from fright.

On the table on the other side, a very reliable uncle was speaking in a steady voice, pointing to a balcony beside the square:
"Did you see that balcony and the curtains floating outside?
"That is the family of the gentleman who was murdered. Respectable gentleman, please allow me to avoid his name. The family was having dinner when the monster rushed in and ate his three-month-old wife in front of the gentleman.

"Yes!" Someone in the crowd shouted, "I was hiding on the roof at that time, and I heard his wife's screams!"

"I was downstairs, and I saw the gentleman rushing up to rescue his wife, but several living corpses grabbed him and forced him to watch the whole process..."

Horrific and shocking stories are being circulated.The entire square was filled with frightened and shivering residents.They hugged their children and huddled together, desperate and helpless.

"What is Griffith doing!" Erza gritted her teeth and growled, "How can he let panic and rumors spread."

At this moment, bursts of cheers suddenly sounded from the side of the square.Almost everyone stood up and looked over there.

Cheers came and went.Finally, a knight in fine armor appeared at the end of the street.He held up his lance, and there was a monster's head on it.

Behind him, someone held up a flag.The flag depicts a white falcon ready to fly.

Immediately, someone in the crowd cheered: "White Eagle Knight is here! We are saved!"

"He just went to the city public school and saved 1000 people from hundreds of monsters!"

"His cavalry spear is the holy spear blessed by the princess, and it can kill a hundred enemies with one shot!"

The rumors became more and more outrageous, and the frenzy of the crowd reached its peak when Griffith appeared.

He raised his lance, and the war horse walked gracefully in dressage steps, and once again jumped onto the pool in the square!
"Citizens! You know me!" Griffith shouted in the dense crowd in front of the stunned Erza and Amber.

"Griffith Knight!"

"The White Eagle Knight sent by Byelan to rescue us!"

"Princess Charlotte's guardian knight is here to protect us!"

Amber rubbed her eyes, thinking she was hallucinating, she asked Erza: "Who is Princess Charlotte? Is there such a princess in our country?"

Erza looked at her with a complicated expression, wanted to say something but didn't say it.

Among the cheering crowd, Griffith shouted again: "Citizens! Take up your arms, follow me, and save your families from the clutches of terrible monsters!"

Immediately someone shouted: "Follow Griffith Knight!"

"Follow the flag of the white eagle!"

The militiamen behind Griffith shouted together, and then the whole square echoed the roar of the tsunami.

After delivering a simple speech, Griffith jumped into the pool and walked towards the administrative hall.The seething crowd cheered enthusiastically and tried to catch up with him, but was stopped by militiamen.

"Citizens, take up arms! Go to the registration office and register, take up arms!" A man who was obviously an official shouted into a microphone, and the crowd immediately took action.

Erza and Amber, who looked shocked, rushed to the administrative hall of the lower city immediately.

The bustle there was like a boiling pot of hot water, groups of officials, businessmen and people dressed as militia walked around there.

The doors of different rooms were also scrawled with chalk on the doors, which were "food", "weapons", "medical treatment", "militiaman A", "militiaman B", etc., with a total of more than a dozen categories.

Griffith's office is in a conference room on the second floor.Thousands of people trotted in and out, reporting to him the attack and the militia that had just occurred.

Griffith was surrounded by a large crowd around the table.He was looking at the map, writing and drawing with a charcoal pencil in his hand.

"Transfer Team C here," Griffith knocked on the table, "tell Herold to lead his Team B to attack from the Evernight Templar, and we can cut off the reinforcements from the living corpses."

"The Ruiwen Commercial Hall is in danger!" A person replied, "Many civilians were unable to retreat in time, and hid there to ask for reinforcements."

Griffith wiped the sweat from his forehead: "It's okay, as long as Herold launches an attack, everything will be fine."

A young monk whispered beside him: "Knight, Sheriff Herold..."

"The sheriff can't attack!" cried the man wearing the mayor's armband suddenly. "He doesn't have enough troops!"

There was a second of silence in the office.Griffith looked up and glanced around with tired eyes.Suddenly, he found Erzakh Amber standing at the door.

"I'm looking forward to your coming!" The captain of the reserve assault squadron jumped up, "Come with me!"

……

"So, you have been busy all night and gathered most of the residents?" Erza asked, leaning back on her chair with a tired face.

"Yes, most of the residents are now concentrated in the five main positions. Although the living corpses keep appearing and attacking non-stop, and the situation was very critical at the beginning, we have finally completed the initial fortifications, guarded the intersection, and are Build a temporary arrow tower." Griffith was a little exhausted, he said with a hoarse throat, and brought biscuits to the two while talking.

Amber grabbed the biscuit and took a bite, and found that it was made of sweets such as olive oil, honey, sesame seeds, dates, etc., boiled and dried in the sun and sliced.

Hey~ Only Griffith can eat this stuff!Amber put down the biscuit and asked: "I found that news of panic is spreading, many of which have even reached the level of rumors, and the residents are terrified. Aren't you going to stop it?"

"Stop? Why?" Griffith asked suspiciously.

With the help of two reinforcements, at noon on the 31st, after Griffith and the others repeatedly fought with the living corpses, the defense line was finally initially stabilized.The exhausted three returned to the lounge, slumped on chairs and talked.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.Lansada walks in with several men.

"Your Excellency, your little bird has arrived."

"Come here," Griffith waved cheerfully, and took out a money bag from under the table.

Amber looked up and found that the liar in the square, Uncle Li, and even a few people shouting in the crowd had all walked in.They looked at Griffith with flattery on their faces.

"You guys did a good job." Griffith threw them small purses one by one.

"You are too much, Master Knight." The liars rubbed their hands happily together.

"Continue your work," Griffith continued, "The focus of the next publicity will still be the living corpses killing our kind citizens and creating tragedies; however, this time we will add the battle stories of our heroic militiamen."

"Listen to you, listen to you." The liars agreed in unison.

"Go down." Griffith waved them away.

Only Lansada and the two Extraordinary ladies were left staring at each other in the room.The trainee monk first saluted Amber, and then saluted Erza respectfully.At the moment when his eyes crossed, he seemed to have a look of surprise.

"Do you have any suggestions for the future work?" Griffith looked at them and quietly asked a question.

No one pays attention to him.

Griffith had to ask the question again.

"Why use horrific rumors and liars?" Amber asked. "It would add to the confusion."

"Yes, chaos," Griffith replied, "but the situation is already very chaotic, and the cultists still have the upper hand. From last night until now, we have been under constant attack, and our enemy has prepared an attack on an astonishing scale. Layout."

"So you want to create chaos and bring the cultists back to the same starting point as us?" Lansada looked back and asked in a polite and respectful tone.

"The same starting point is no longer possible. We are now waiting for the cult to fight. They will definitely use amazing methods," Griffith said, "However, they must have planned for a long time to infect the residents of the city. If Let the residents stay at home, and the door will not protect them. The living corpse will break down the door of the citizens and infect them all.”

Erza nodded: "I understand, the defensive position is the isolation point where you isolate the civilians from the plague, so as to slow down the production of living corpses. In order to drive everyone out of the unsafe home, you used The means of deceit and fear. By the same means, you get them to join the militia and fight."

Griffith looked proud, raised his hands and said:

"A great man once said that fear and interest are the best motives for action."

The sky was cloudy and there was no sunlight. Griffith's crazy movements were reflected by the candlesticks on the table, drawing a long dark silhouette on the wall.At this moment, fear is his weapon and chaos his ally.

Amber objected in a low voice: "You look like a villain."

"What's wrong, doing small evils in order to overcome big evils, this is the responsibility of courage." Griffith said.

Lansada nodded excitedly, his violet eyes sparkled, his face was full of admiration and admiration, and he was almost applauded.

Amber was speechless, folded his arms and sighed: "It's always bad to lie, it will make you look like a bad man."

"That depends on the situation, and we can't generalize," Griffith said indifferently, "Amber, you haven't been cheated by a man, have you?"

The people present looked at Griffith together and fell silent.Amber blushed on the spot, Erza sighed slightly, and Lansada also lowered her head.

"So, what should we do next?" Erza asked, "Amber and I are about to return to the city hall, which has also been attacked many times, and a large-scale offensive is brewing."

"Go ahead," Griffith said calmly. Although his throat was hoarse and his eyes were dark, he looked radiant. "Thanks to your support, my defense line has been initially established. After a while, As long as the arrow towers are erected, the defense capabilities of the militia will be greatly improved."

"Are you sure you can hold it?" Amber looked at him with concern. "The situation is changing drastically now. It is difficult to have Extraordinary people here to support you in a short period of time. However, there is a steady stream of living corpses, and Extraordinary people also have a moment of exhaustion."

"Continuously?" Griffith snorted, raised a finger and shook it, "After the residents were taken in by me, I set up twelve recruitment points and conscription stations, and the militiamen are being quickly recruited and organized."

He stood up, came to the window, and waved his hand out the window.Under the barricades, armed small merchants, artisans, and coachmen were fighting the oncoming corpses.Whenever there is a casualty, two people immediately make up.They dragged away the dead and treated the wounded.

"Look!"

Griffith said confidently:
"The living corpses are casualties all the time.

"And my militia is endless!"

(End of this chapter)