Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 353 Robert Justus

The second floor has been echoing with noisy sounds since nightfall. Those deserters ordered a lot of ale. Although they were dressed in rags, they were generous and didn't care about spending money.

Their accents are somewhat difficult to distinguish. Although they also speak the imperial language, the various states of the empire have developed different local accents due to the long geographical distance.

Raz hid in a corner and struggled to catch their accents.

"I told you before, this road will not work, and the sea will be ahead!"

"We need to find a country where no one knows us, or even a country where there has been no war!"

"Yes, we need to find a stinky ditch that no one has been to, wash the blood-stained gold coins clean, wash off the patina on the emperor's head, and then stuff the gold coins into his mouth, so that, As long as you stop talking, no one will know that we have taken those dead money, right?"

"Fuck you!"

From the room came the sound of fist-to-flesh fighting and the dirtiest swearing Raz had ever heard, followed by the screech of planks snapping and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

Then there was the cracking of bones, and the howling of broken voices.

These frightening voices lasted for a full 3 minutes.

And what ended these sounds was a gunshot.

Raz looked at the position of the door, and saw that a stream of blood slowly flowed out from the light shining through the gap under the door, soaking the dirty floor and rolling it together with the dust.

"Whoever dares to make trouble again will die."

A voice more vicious than anyone else said:

"We have no way out, you all know what happened on the front line:

The emperor reached an agreement with the rebellious Grand Duke Tulip, and dumped the twelve regiments of our expeditionary force on the border of Horest State like rubbish. He wanted us to be cannon fodder—

Either continue to fight against the Duke of Phoenix in Horest State until the last person is dead.

Either be driven by Grand Duke Tulip, enter Yanan, next to Xiliu Town, and fight to the death with the Red Army of the Anthem.

In any case, the emperor has made money - if we stay on the border of Horest State, the power of Duke Phoenix, who has been vacillating, will be reduced, and the pressure on the emperor to unify the empire in the future will be reduced.

We were driven into Yanan and confronted with the Red Army, and the power of the Anthem was reduced-our expeditionary force has a full twelve regiments of troops!There are more soldiers than usual for an entire legion!Even if we are all killed, the monsters of the Red Army can still be severely injured!

Once there is a problem with the army of the choir, the pressure on the emperor will still be much reduced. "

Raz listened to the movement in the room, holding a pen and paper with trembling hands, and recorded the content of their conversation on paper.

She is not very literate, and usually only uses symbols instead of names when keeping accounts, so it is very difficult for her to write at the moment. Such a feeling of difficulty makes her hold the pen in her hand tightly, so that deep spots appear where her fingers touch the pen. dents.

But now she can't feel the pain anymore. The adrenaline surged from hearing the secret made her ignore the pain and completely immerse herself in listening and recording.

"We... can only end up like this?"

"Yes! The emperor has made up his mind! He wants to fight all enemies to the death!"

"How...how do you know this?"

"You idiots! Do you have to wait for someone to put a knife on your neck before you use your brain to think?!"

"Then... what should we do?"

When he said this, the people in the room lowered their voices, and Raz had to lean in a little before he heard the whispers in the room.

"We don't have enough money... Although there are a lot of gold coins from the battlefield, they will be spent one day, and those gold coins are not enough to support our future life..."

"We're going to make a big deal."

"This is already very close to the center of Yanan Town. People with a little money gather here. We have to pick a night, grab enough money, and find a way before the Red Army marches—and at the same time, our comrades-in-arms They made this vote before they were driven back from Horest State.

Then find a deserted country to stay until the war is over, our money will be useful! "

"How about tonight?!"

Raz covered his mouth and felt that his pants were wet. When he lowered his head, he found that there was already a puddle of...water stains under his body.

"Idiots! After you drank so much tonight, are you going to shoot yourself in the foot with a gun?!
Of course, I will inquire about the news during the day tomorrow, and then act again tomorrow night! "

"Okay...Ok..."

The sound in the room was temporarily silenced.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of approaching footsteps suddenly sounded in the room.

Laz couldn't care about anything else, she got up, and on the premise of desperately controlling her footsteps, she rushed downstairs at the maximum speed she could achieve!
When she entered the downward stairs, there was already the sound of the door opening behind her.

Then came the chatter of deserters.

"what are you doing?"

"Go out and get some water."

"Go and come back quickly, it's not safe outside at night."

Raz had already reached the first floor, and she was huddled in the darkness under the stairs, and the moonlight in the golden hotel shone through the skylight, less than a hand away from her.

The sound of going downstairs appeared above her head, and the smell of sweat mixed with body odor also appeared randomly, getting closer and closer to her.

A deserter went downstairs and stood on the ground not far from her.

There was only one meter between him and her.

Then, he untied the belt of his trousers, faced the corner of the wall, and started to release water.

She held her breath, not even realizing she was suffocating.

After a while, the deserter finished his work and went upstairs cursing.

There was a sound of closing the door, and Raz fell limply to the ground, tears streaming down his face, and his pants became even more wet.

Raz didn't know how she made it through that night, she just remembered not being able to sleep, just staying there in the darkness at the bottom of the stairs, as if the darkness would make her absolutely safe.

All she knew was that Robert Justus arrived at dawn the next morning.

She gave Robert Justice everything she recorded.

The man read the record, his eyes changed several times, and when he spoke again, he had put on a very serious expression.

"Thank you, Raz, the people of Yanan will remember your kindness, your record averted a catastrophe."

That morning, when the deserters were still drunk on their beds, heavily armed officers from the Yanan Town Police Station rushed into the hotel and arrested them all.

Robert Justice found Raz after it was all over, and said to her:
"Laz, boy, would you help me one more time?"

Raz flinched, but after a moment's hesitation, she nodded.

This time, she no longer made a decision just out of fear like before.

She felt that her records seemed to have value-my actions were no longer purely for survival, those notes not only allowed me to live, but also allowed others to live.

At this moment, she doesn't have much concept of "saving the life and death of others".

She just felt that her records—her own behaviors—finally had meaning other than "keeping herself alive".

At the moment when the record was completed, she felt that she was no longer a person who lived in vain in order to "survive".

This feeling was extremely strange, it was obviously dangerous, but it made her linger on.

She wants to experience it again... She wants to know what it is that she wants, that makes her not hesitate even in the face of danger.

Robert Justus says:

"Our police station has received news that various spies will come to Yanan recently. They want to inquire about each other's information as the beginning of the final decisive battle...

I want you to help me record the words and deeds of those new travelers. "

(End of this chapter)