Chapter 501 The First Wave
The little Schley collar has become the epitome of the whole world.
The riot broke out uncontrollably.
The "good people" who were still struggling yesterday have always had expectations in their hearts, hoping that the dawn will eventually come.
The noble lords and the scholar lords have said that the long night will eventually dissipate, just after the longest "six months", but they now find that they have been deceived!
"It's over, it's all lies, it's all lies!"
"I'm talking about why those landlords and nobles ran away to the holy capital, and even sold their ancestral property at a low price. They have news, and they are looking for their own way of life."
"We are left behind, and only we will perish with this world."
"Why is it still not dawn? Am I not pious enough? I sacrificed my child and wife to you, please give us the dawn again!"
"...It's unfair, it's unfair, and we have the right to live. At least, tell us what happened."
"Aren't there some shepherds before? They said that the end is coming and the sun won't shine, but they were taken as liars by everyone and driven away by the lord. Regret, I even threw stones at them."
When the long night comes again, most people can wait patiently at first, but when the night refuses to fade away, everyone gradually turns from hope to despair again.
Smashing and looting? coming.
Burning, killing and looting? also came.
Crazy sacrifices and hysterical suicides? Not absent either.
This time the desperation spread so quickly that everyone in the know was dumbfounded.
Among them, are there any cultists and doomsdayists involved? There must be, and many.
Doomsdayists and cultists have been active all the time. All kinds of doomsday preachers follow one after another. The evil gods need panic and despair to spread their teachings, expand their congregation, and finally make a fortune. The most vicious of them Yes, you are only one step away from quasi-gods.
At this time, they even have a huge advantage that the true gods do not have. Taking advantage of the opportunity to establish the kingdom of gods on the ground, they directly dug away a large area of surface land on the Silent Mountains, just like the newborn sun god, taking away their hometown and their people.
In places that Lu Pingan and others could not reach, wars and battles had long been intensified. As the center of the holy capital, there were at least three god battles a day. Dozens of rule-level powerhouses entered the battlefield to compete for opportunities and resources to confer gods.
Today's holy capital has long been a large-scale death battle battlefield, and there are countless refugees fleeing every day. But at the same time, more refugees are fleeing into it.
Chaos, accompanied by the second escape of the sun, spread unstoppably throughout the world.
Some local lords were hanged on their castles by the mob before they even had time to react.
What about their knights and guards? Heh, those who take the lead are those original guardians, who can guarantee that their sanity is still online? Who can guarantee that they will still be loyal in desperation?
The fact is exactly the opposite of what most lords imagined. Those knights who were closest to them knew some "secrets" more or less, and when the secrets became reality, they were the group that collapsed the fastest.
In just two days, Shi Lai received countless letters and knights asking for help. Just now, four of the seven lords around him have been hanged to death.
When the people, knights, and power holders below fell into despair, the first thing they did was to find someone to take responsibility.
"How is the status of the Knights?"
"The mood is very stable. The previous move to take over all the families of the knights was the right move."
Hearing this, Lu Pingan breathed a sigh of relief.
Amidst the chaos, Shleyling stands out.
There is no other reason, just because Lu Pingan and his party don't get me wrong here, they didn't do anything.
In other territories, there are also cunning and cunning lords and nobles, and some of them have even communicated with their knights. But just words can't solve any problems.
When the expected desperate situation really comes, when some lords are still holding one or two tickets to leave, the knights who know the truth will honestly help them suppress the desperate people first, and then obediently wait for death ?
Perhaps, they will try to snatch the boat ticket first, if the snatching is not enough, at least let everyone die together!
"...the end is coming much sooner than expected."
Of the seven plagues in the prophecy, the third plague has not yet begun. Just the re-ignition of the sun and its extinguishment again have caused many areas to completely fall into frenzy and destruction.
"Hehe, there are still four that have survived, more than I expected."
The old lord was still in the mood to laugh while eating the fruit.
He does have the capital to be proud of. In this frontier territory, Shi Lai Ling is simply outshone.
On the square, there are more than 20 bloody fresh heads, most of them are instigators and careerists behind the scenes. On the walls of several other houses, there are at least hundreds of them, some are rioters, some are original lords and businessmen .
In Schleyland, the knights were on duty in the square, the priests of the holy fire distributed good porridge in the church, and the market was still in operation. Except for the chaos at the beginning, it seemed that nothing happened.
reason? It's actually very simple, it's just that Lu Ping'an. The lord successfully bought the Knights.
Shi Lai's leadership is not large, and there is only a knight order of more than 100 people as the core armed force, but almost all of them are extraordinary or alternate extraordinary, and their strength is far beyond that of ordinary mortals.
In the border area, the security depends on the local militia, mercenaries, and a very small number of territorial knights. Generally speaking, it is not bad for a village to have three or five extraordinary combat powers. Without the opportunity for off-the-job training, its combat power is negligible in front of professionals and superhumans.
How many mortals can a sealed knight beat? I am afraid that as long as he is given time, several thousand can be killed alone.
In this era, as long as the lords seize the knights under their command, their status is actually very stable, and as long as the king obtains the support of the lords, he also indirectly controls most of the extraordinary power, and the country is naturally stable.
When the riot broke out, Lu Ping'an and his party not only did nothing, but even asked the groups to leave the crowd. Among the rioting local crowd, foreigners, foreigners, and foreigners are simply the best targets to vent their anger on.
He didn't even do it. What suppressed the desperate was only the local armed forces in this territory, the knights that had been bought.
The knights only performed the work assigned by the lord, found the lurkers and instigators, and then got rid of them, and then hung up a few people who took the lead in smashing and looting, and everything stabilized.
Then, the lord and the local Sacred Fire Church opened the granaries that were not many and started distributing food, and everything calmed down naturally.
"Whoever masters force in troubled times is equivalent to owning everything."
The truth is this truth, simple and crude but extremely effective.
Lu Pingan didn't do anything, he even asked other outsiders not to take action to suppress the riots, but because of their existence, the lord had the bargaining chip to buy the knights, so until the last moment, the knights were still emotionally stable and loyal to their duties, at least they behaved like Stablize.
"The outsider Lu Pingan has a lot of tickets."
This news has already spread within the Knights, and the two leaders and the participants in the forest battle have all been to the courtyard in person, so it is convincing enough.
".Never mind what the knights do, don't even watch if you don't want to have nightmares."
Even though Lu Pingan said so, the explorers who came back still suffered a heavy blow to their hearts.
The not-so-large urban area in Shiley was maintained stable by the knights, but the border villages and small towns have been completely plunged into corruption and chaos. It is said that more than a dozen people have seen the burning platform where the living people were sacrificed. Kind of different.
The knights sent out patrollers, who said things they didn't believe, and went around, and the situation improved a little.
"Is this the precursor to the collapse of social order?"
Even at this moment, Lu Pingan still didn't feel that the social order led by Shi Lai had completely collapsed.
But no one is confident, how long can this order last? ten days? Half a month? or.
"At most two months we have to think about the next step."