Terra Martial God and Merit System

To Luo Chen, the Carolina family was no different from the Losang Tudan family.

Even factories and farmland are essentially the same thing.

Luo Chen knew that killing these people would be beneficial without any harm.

Luo Chen started to call people.

This time he was not going alone. He couldn't kill all the people, and if he caused chaos and innocent villagers were injured, his merits would be deducted.

Luo Chen ordered Lin Yuxia and Lavinia first.

One is responsible for the inventory after the house is searched, and the other is responsible for the trial after the arrest.

He also asked Hellagur to send him a team of 100 people to take charge of some blockade tasks.

The leader was an Ursus man, who saluted Luo Chen respectfully. It was obvious that Luo Chen had done him a favor.

Luo Chen nodded casually, not paying attention. He just said briefly -

"Lieutenant Hamblin... Very good, you just need to follow my orders for this operation."

"Remember, you must obey completely. No violation is allowed."

"Don't ask 'why', got it?"

"Yes!" The other party puffed out his chest and shouted loudly.

So the group left the city and walked onto the snow-covered wasteland.

Brown Snow Town.

It is said that there was originally a vein of a mineral here, which caused the snow that fell nearby to change color. This is how the town got its name.

There is nothing wrong with this rumor. It can even be said to be true.

However, this mineral vein did not lead to the revival of the town.

Aunt Carolina's grandfather used this mineral vein to complete the initial accumulation, and then began to expand wildly.

It only took a few years for them to have the final say in the entire Brown Snow Town.

Until now.

.....

Lavinia exhaled a breath of hot air, watched the white smoke slowly dissipate, and then rubbed her hands.

It was never this cold in Syracuse.

She wanted to stamp her feet to warm her body, but when she did, she heard a sound of something breaking.

"What is that..." Lavinia raised her foot to push away the snow around her. When she saw what was underneath, she couldn't help but scream.

"Don't be afraid." Luo Chen placed his hand gently on her shoulder, soothing Lavinia's tense nerves.

"......." Lavinia looked at the corpse in the snow in disbelief.

It was a frozen corpse, and looked to be no more than ten years old.

There were obvious frostbite and bruises on her skin. She closed her eyes tightly, as if she was asleep.

Neither Lin Yuxia nor Lavinia had ever seen a body that died in such a way.

Longmen is located in the middle of the earth, with a warm and suitable climate, and few people freeze to death.

As for Syracuse, some people might freeze to death, but the family is an expert in dealing with corpses, so at least they wouldn't let people see such a corpse in such a horrifying way.

They were both stunned for a moment.

The soldiers behind Luo Chen pursed their lips tightly, with a hint of fire in their eyes.

This situation is all too common in Ursus.

Some of them are eyewitnesses of this, and some of their relatives have even frozen to death in the winter.

Luo Chen dug up the snow and took out the frozen corpse.

Everyone was silent, Luo Chen waved his hand——

"Look everywhere, there should be more than one."

After saying that, he bent down and began to dig in the snow.

The crowd scattered and soon dug out many corpses from the snow.

These corpses have many things in common, such as they are all frozen, dressed in tattered clothes, and have scars on their bodies.

Some bodies were found together, with several people holding hands and dying together. They looked like a family.

The corpses piled together like a small hill.

No one said a word, even Luo Chen felt a hint of unusual emotion.

"Hablin, dig a hole." Luo Chen ordered.

So with the soldiers' shovels, a big pit was quickly completed.

For some reason, the soldiers felt that the soil today was particularly easy to dig. It was as if it was not frozen soil at all, but had been burned by high temperatures, and the ice inside had turned into water.

Luo Chen put the bodies in one by one, and then asked Hamblin to pour a pile of accelerant.

The flames suddenly rose up.

These people who were tortured by the cold finally felt the warmth.

Their stiff bodies stretched out, even as they were gradually broken by the burning flames.

Through the dim firelight, Lavinia seemed to see the smiles on their faces.

Yes, they would be delighted to know that a count gave them a funeral.

Lin Yuxia let out a soft "hmm". She was curious about what the combustion accelerant was that made the fire burn so vigorously.

Luo Chen raised his head and exhaled, and a reminder of his merit increase appeared before his eyes. But he was not in a good mood.

After the body was burned, people filled it with soil, and an inconspicuous small grave mound appeared in the wilderness.

"Let's go." Luo Chen said softly, but there was a hint of imperceptible anger in his tone.

"Yeah." Lin Yuxia replied.

She looked at the town getting closer and closer in the distance, and suddenly felt that she seemed to have missed a lot in her life.

"I could have saved more people...but..."

Lin Yuxia felt a little ashamed.

She thought, maybe Luo Chen’s thoughts were similar to hers.

Chapter 4000: Contract with the Mine ()

"I have wasted my time..." This was Luo Chen's real thought.

These people shouldn't have died, but... I could have saved them.

Of course, hindsight is of no use at this moment.

Endless self-blame and regret cannot solve the problem. For Luo Chen, there is only one way to solve the problem.

The team continued to move forward and got closer and closer to Brown Snow Town.

Luo Chen noticed someone was watching him.

He didn't react, but just continued walking forward step by step.

After marching for ten minutes, the team arrived at the entrance of Brown Snow Town.

The streets here were clean and tidy, without a trace of snow. When several gorgeously dressed girls saw Luo Chen, they immediately ran over holding flowers.

Luo Chen looked at their thin clothes and couldn't help but sneer. He pushed them away and continued walking forward.

"Dudu-"

It was the sound of a special musical instrument. Along with the sound, a banner was pulled out.

[Welcome the Lord of Kamsko and the Count of the Empire to come for review]

"Wow——" A lot of people suddenly appeared on both sides of the street.

They were all dressed in formal clothes, holding cardboards of different sizes in their hands, with excited expressions and exaggerated movements.

"Mr. Earl~"

"City Lord!"

They shouted.

But there was something wrong with the expression on his face.

If you observe carefully, you can find that the emotions they express when cheering are not genuine. Instead, they reveal a hint of hypocrisy.

Some young people even stop acting, with a hint of boredom and disdain in their eyes.

"What shall we do?" whispered Lavinia.

"This is a common welcome ceremony, although it's a bit exaggerated..." Lin Yuxia pondered for a moment, "The normal process now is..."

She had experienced this kind of scene many times.

In Longmen, Lin Yuxia has many titles and has also experienced many similar welcome ceremonies.

Generally speaking, the person being welcomed should smile and interact with the person welcoming him/her.

Although it is hypocritical, human interpersonal relationships are themselves full of hypocrisy.

Lin Yuxia believed that Luo Chen had this hypocritical ability. His ability to say one thing to one person and another thing to another was not weak at all.

But now Luo Chen doesn't seem to have any intention of taking care of these people.

He just walked forward slowly with a gloomy face.

The ground was transformed from ordinary cobblestones to carpets, and the welcoming team was growing in number.

Luo Chen looked up and they arrived in front of a mansion.

Unlike the mansions he had seen before, the one in front of him was more like a 'castle' rather than a luxurious manor.

Luo Chen did not have any systematic training in military affairs, but after killing so many soldiers from the Sixth Army, he already knew very well where the enemy would emerge from and how they would attack.

With a rough scan, Luo Chen found several good shooting positions.

And if you feel carefully...there are people behind them.

"A cowardly coward..." Luo Chen sneered, and at this moment, the door of the mansion opened.

The servant in a suit bent down and made a gesture of invitation.

"What should we do?" The people around looked at Luo Chen.

"Lavinia, Lin Yuxia, follow me in."

"Hablin, lead the team to surround the mansion. If anyone dares to come out, capture them. If you can't capture them, kill them. And..." Luo Chen paused, "Be careful of those people who welcome us outside. They are not real townspeople at all."

After saying that, he strode into the mansion.

It was warm as spring inside, in stark contrast to the biting cold wind outside. Several servants came over with hangers in their hands, wanting to take Luo Chen's coat.

Luo Chen ignored him and walked in.

Lin Yuxia and Lavinia looked at each other and chose to follow.

The center of the hall was brightly lit.

Everyone attending the banquet was wearing luxurious clothes.

Of course, these clothes are not warm, but considering the current temperature in the hall, they are more than enough.

They clinked glasses and talked about things they considered elegant.

The piano in the corner of the hall played elegant music.