Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 330 Red and Black

Earl Dimitri accompanied Xia Houyan to eat a few pieces of barbecue served by the owner of the "Kingfisher's Feather" tavern, and then he put down his knife and fork and left:
If someone sings a bad face, someone has to sing a red face. The lord swears at the group of incompetent southern nobles and runs downstairs to appease them and control the situation.

However, Count Dimitri had no complaints about this:

Rather, it is the governor who is the happiest to see this group of five-person, six-person, nonsensical idiots being fisted and slapped.

However, Earl Dimitri's hasty departure still created an embarrassing situation...

Xia Houyan and Earl Dimitri rushed from Shuangfeng Ridge to the north bank of the Lionheart River non-stop after briefly handling the affairs of cleaning up the battlefield in the Land of Cracking Soul;

Along with them, there were a thousand elite pioneers who crossed the river with them—the north bank of the Lion Heart River is the territory of the southern nobles. The turf is wild.

At this moment, when the two high-level empires were having dinner, whether it was the deputy commander of the pioneering army, Chris Mann, or Eldridge, Sean Mountbatten, Alice Comstock and others, they were done helping. After the scene, they all rushed back to the pioneer army station outside Peacock City——

——Now there are dozens of private soldiers stationed outside this ruined city. Shuangfengling doesn't want to cause some unpleasant stories about the small town because no one controls the field.

When Earl Dimitri left, apart from the two ironclad soldiers of the Development Bureau standing guard outside the door, only Xia Houyan and the roast suckling pig on the table looked at mung beans, and Karen Le Peg sat aside boredly:
The soldiers of the Pioneer Army are all direct descendants of Shuangfengling, and no one will listen to Karen, who is a half-human and devil, so she has nowhere to go, so she can only stay here.

Eating alone in a restaurant is always a bit embarrassing, but after Xia Houyan took a few bites of pork, he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.

He turned his head just in time to meet Karen Lepergue's icy eyes.

"What are you looking at me for?" The lord picked up the napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth in an aristocratic manner.

"I can watch wherever I like." Karen replied with a sneer as usual, "Why, you are allowed to be a dominator in this room, and if it were me, I would be controlled even where I look?"

"Theoretically, you are a zombie resurrected by me, and I have the right to manage all your actions." Xia Houyan gestured with a fork, "And do you demons all talk like this? 'Domineering'? I Zhuo, these southern bastards don’t do personnel affairs, they are only busy with their own private affairs every day, disregarding the life and death of the people, as the ‘President of Southern Military Affairs’ personally appointed by His Majesty the Emperor, I will teach them a lesson, is there any legal problem?!”

"It's a trick of hammering people with the banner of justice, you play with those southern nobles, don't pretend to be a messenger of justice with me!" Karen's expression did not change at all, she folded her arms and said disdainfully, "You still 'disregard the life and death of the people' ...I think you are the one who disregards the life and death of the people, right? With Shuangfengling's combat power, wouldn't it be much safer to honestly join the coalition forces and garrison on the north bank of the Lion Heart River? Why, in order to keep Shuangfengling's Boss, in order not to be constrained by other nobles, in order to monopolize the spoils of the 'Hammer of Purgatory', it's not you who took the risk to stop the orc invasion on the land of cracked souls alone? When you made this decision, did you ever think about what if The Pioneer Army lost in the Land of Cracking Soul, what will happen to the people on the north bank of the Lionheart River?!"

Xia Houyan was silent for a moment, then picked up a piece of pork with a fork, chewed it slowly in his mouth, and shrugged after swallowing:
"I am the lord of Shuangfengling, and the lives of people in other territories have nothing to do with me."

"Yo yo yo..." Karen leaned on the table and laughed wildly, "Now you don't fuck with your identity as 'President Southern Military Affairs' anymore? You just scolded those southern human scums for being selfish. So you are alone again? Why, your Imperial Academy City has cultivated a hypocrite like you?"

"You can scold me whatever you want." Xiahouyan shrugged, "Miss Karen Lepergue, let me tell you the truth, when I was surrounded by millions of zombies in the infected area, I swore to Assume the responsibility of the lord and be responsible to your own people. As for the other imperial people, with all due respect, it has nothing to do with me-this is my attitude and it has never changed."

"Then what's the point of accusing the southern nobles just now?" Karen tilted her head and looked at the young Duke of Shuangfengling playfully.

"It's just for the benefit of Shuangfengling." Xia Houyan raised the knife and elegantly cut the meat slices on the white porcelain plate. "If you don't give them a warning, why would they follow me to Ganyanxi City?"

"Purely for profit?" Karen blinked, "So you don't really care about the lives of those people on the north bank of the Lionheart River?"

"It's not my people, of course I don't care." Xia Houyan lowered his eyes and said, "In my opinion, these imperial humans are no different from orcs, demons, elves, trolls, and sub-orcs who are not my people ——Racial equality is exactly the concept I repeatedly emphasized in the textbooks of the Political Department of the Pioneering Army."

Karen Leperg rested her chin on one hand, stared at the lord for a long time with her misty purple pupils, and finally snorted: "Hypocrite!"

Xia Houyan didn't bother to talk to her, and poured himself a glass of beer.

However, his zombie slave is destined to not want his master An An to have a good meal.

"What about the orc?" Karen Lepage asked suddenly, "Where is that orc general named Gullit Gale?"

"What's wrong with him?" The question was a bit abrupt, Xia Houyan couldn't help but glanced at the wooden box on the stool next to him.

The head of General Gale was placed in the box.

"Why did you let him rest in peace after you resurrected him and obtained information about the Glorious Federation?" Karen pursed her lips and said, "It would be more appropriate to keep a veteran orc general as a slave for a long time. The interests of your Frost Maple Ridge?—So far, your Frost Maple Ridge has not had a commander who is good at leading a large army to fight, right?"

"The talent of the commander? Isn't this the lord?" Xia Houyan smiled, and won the eyes of the half-devil female military adviser.

Then, Lord Shuangfengling suppressed his smile and was silent for a moment before he stared at the ebony box and sighed softly:

"Probably because, if I revive him into a zombie slave, I will feel very guilty... General Gullit Gale and his 'Hammer of Purgatory' are the most heroic, selfless, and tenacious I have ever seen Soldiers, such an army, I have only seen in a long, long time ago, in a place far, far away... Perhaps, my conscience will not allow me to enslave such warriors... to die on the battlefield forever , is the best destination for General Gullit Gale."

"So, don't you feel guilty about me?" Karen asked without hesitation.

Xia Houyan fell into silence again.

For some reason, he suddenly wanted to escape the sharp gaze of those lavender eyes.

"You kidnapped my sister back then, and the lion demanded a ransom! What's more, if I don't resurrect you, how can I control the Moon God Village and ensure the stability of the entire Soul Splitting Land?" Xia Houyan replied casually, casually He fiddled with the barbecue on the plate with a silver fork, "If you are also a foreign general who values ​​honor and has nothing to do with the interests of the wilderness, I will definitely be happy to let you rest in peace."

Karen Lepergue didn't speak, and her eyes looked a little empty.

The air in the conference room was suffocating with embarrassment.

This almost condensed silence lasted for half a minute, and the former female village head of the Moon God Village sighed quietly:
"Eliot Igor, we were bandits who took over the mountains and took money from roads... If I don't do that, is there any other way?"

"Then I am also the new lord whose sister was just kidnapped by the idiot bandit. I had no other choice at the time." Xia Houyan said dryly.

"So, fate turned me into a zombie who can only be manipulated by you?" Karen might have wanted to laugh sarcastically, but in the end the smile was bitter and helpless.

"Perhaps. Fate." Xia Houyan also smiled wryly.

"To my fate." Karen Leperg leaned over, picked up Mr. Xiahou's ale glass, and took a sip from it to his lips.

Zombies can survive without food, Xia Houyan was suddenly curious, do living dead people like Karen and Alice need to excrete out of the body after taking a sip of wine?
But he keenly felt that it was better not to ask this serious scientific question.

The lord is still wandering and thinking wildly, but Karen has handed back the wine glass.

Xia Houyan hesitated for a moment, then took the wine glass, and also took a sip:
"Respect fate."

"You are a scum, a hypocrite, and a blasphemous necromancer." Karen Leperg bit her lip, staring at the lord and said, "But you may be a passable lord... If you , I can successfully inherit my father's position, and I also hope that I can become a responsible demon lord."

"My suggestion is that it's best not to." Xia Houyan said with a chuckle, "Because maybe one day, this lord will lead troops to kill your demons! If you really become some kind of demon lord, then you will There is a high probability that I will die by my knife."

Karen Leperg gave Ya a hard look.

Due to the existence of the arcane spire defense line, the peace between the human and demon races is almost a foregone conclusion. Anyone with any sense of reason will regard it as drunken farting.

"But to be honest, I don't need you anymore, command and training, I believe in Sean's ability." Xia Houyan raised his head and looked at Karen seriously, "If you don't want to use this kind of inhumanity any longer, If you live like a ghost, I can really let you rest in peace."

Karen raised her willow eyebrows and asked playfully:
"Oh? Are you apologizing to me for your original behavior?"

Xia Houyan rolled his eyes wildly:
"My lord never apologizes, because my lord is always right—Miss Karen Lepergue, do you know what the couplet I just asked Mayor Joel to hang on the door of my study in Vincent Palace?"

"What is it?" After staying with the lord for so long, the half-devil chick probably understood that the so-called "couplets" in the lord's mouth referred to a strange kind of note hung symmetrically.

"'My heart and deeds are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is just'!" Xia Houyan laughed.

Karen Lepage gave a merciless "pooh" to the lord.

"Hey, hey!" Xia Houyan said depressedly, "Miss Karen Lepage! At least I am your master, right? I didn't give you a death order like 'respect the master', but at least you shouldn't act like that." Put your nose on your face?"

Karen didn't like this set, and sneered:
"It is said that you human nobles advocate the equality of 'rights and obligations' - if you want to enjoy the rights of being a master, you might as well think about whether you have fulfilled your obligations!"

"What kind of obligation do I have to you?" Xia Houyan held his wine glass, feeling baffled, "As a fucking slave owner, I still have to serve my own slaves?! But, if you mean what you want Rest in peace, I will not stop you."

"I'm fine now, why rest in peace?!" Karen snorted, "But if you really want to apologize..."

"Tell me, what do you want?" Xia Houyan knew that this chick was just trying to see her, "Seeing that you have honestly contributed a lot to Shuangfengling in the past few months, I can promise you It's not too much of a request...why, you want me to pay more salaries to your old Luna Village subordinates?"

"Let Katerina sleep with me!" Karen Leperg looked at the lord enthusiastically, her eyes frenzied.

"Fuck! Impossible!" Xia Houyan became angry on the spot, "I'm not someone who would take my sister for business!"

Karen glanced at him disdainfully, remained silent for a moment, and then asked suddenly:
"If your sister can't... then can you?"

Xia Houyan suddenly felt a little short-circuited in his brain.

"What do you mean?" he asked stupidly.

"That's what it means." Karen turned her face away a little, "except that I don't need heartbeat and breathing, my daily needs are no different from those of ordinary demons... Since I can't eat Katerina, I can barely make up for it with her brother Counting is not impossible..."

Xia Houyan blinked and rubbed his ears to make sure he heard correctly.

Karen didn't bother to tangle with him, so she stood up directly, stretched out her slender hand and grabbed the collar of the master without the slave consciously, and said through gritted teeth:
"You knocked me to death back then. I remember clearly the feeling at that time... Not only did this girl ignore the previous suspicions, she even worked hard to train your soldiers in Shuangfengling. What's wrong with asking you for a reward? I use your If people satisfy their own needs, you are not at a disadvantage, is there a problem with this transaction?"

"This...isn't that good..." Xia Houyan stretched out his hand and pushed the plate on the table away a little, scratching his head.

"Why are you pretending to be a hypocrite?" Karen sneered again, "Or do you think I'm a living dead with no body temperature? But I haven't seen you so shy when I'm with Miss Comstock on weekdays?"

Xia Houyan thought for a while, and finally came up with the answer:
It seemed, indeed, that there was no need to be so shy.

(End of this chapter)