Damn it.
Even though this is the City Lord's Mansion in the main city, isn't their strength a bit too weak?
Calculating the time of the orc attack,
At most, it hasn't been an hour and a half.
And it was breached.
The entire City Lord's Mansion was occupied by the Batou Kingdom's surprise troops.
Chen Yu was puzzled, where were the city guards?
The City Lord's Mansion has been taken, shouldn't they at least come to help and deal with these detestable invaders?
The guards in the mansion were either dead or wounded, all pressed down like prisoners, utterly pathetic. Chen Yu and Roni were among them.
"Chen Batian, what should we do now?"
Roni, squatting in the corner, pursed her lips. Chen Yu glanced at her sideways and clicked his tongue.
"Just keep your heads down!"
This young lady clearly lacked worldly experience.
Everyone in the City Lord's Mansion was crouching with their heads down, but she was just standing there as if chatting, showing no semblance of being a prisoner.
This was a major taboo!
If the enemy leader was in a bad mood, he might just cut them both down.
What to do?
Hearing Chen Yu's call, Roni quickly imitated Chen Yu and put her hands on her head, her eyes still filled with fear.
"Aren't we going to be killed?"
"Why panic? They haven't decided whether to kill us yet, have they?" Chen Yu comforted her softly and said, "Just put your mind at ease."
"Oh."
Roni responded obediently. Chen Yu stretched his neck to look around at the captured prisoners squatting nearby.
"See if there are any direct descendants of the City Lord's Mansion?"
"It seems not," Roni whispered. "I've already checked. Carloy and Rose are not here. It looks like they've already run away."
"Look, look!"
Chen Yu, with his head in his hands, took his hands down and clapped.
"Does this City Lord's Mansion have any good stuff? They call you brother and friend to your face, but in the end, they ran off without caring about you. And now it's you and me suffering here."
"You over there, behave!"
Suddenly, a beast soldier guarding them roared. Chen Yu quickly grinned, nodded apologetically, and put his hands back on his head, whispering in a low voice.
"From this incident, can you see who your true close friends are?"
"I... I already saw it." Roni's little face was full of grievance. "When you video chatted with me, you told me to listen to you obediently, and I did. In the end, I didn't betray you. I know they are not good people. This is my fault, I apologize."
Admittedly, her attitude in admitting fault was quite good.
Chen Yu was quite satisfied.
More importantly, after this incident, if he asked Roni to do anything again, she probably wouldn't have her own ideas like before.
Chen Yu liked people with ideas. He also liked people who were able to listen to him and be manipulated as he pleased, without having any ideas of their own.
The only ones he disliked were those who couldn't grasp the bigger picture but insisted on thinking for themselves, ultimately causing trouble.
It was best to get rid of such people quickly!
"Don't be angry anymore." Roni pursed her lips and tentatively touched Chen Yu's shoulder. "Shouldn't we think about how to escape now? You must have a way, right?"
"Everything is under control!"
Chen Yu's eyes were filled with a confident smile.
Want to escape?
As long as they weren't instantly killed, and the Batou Federation people hadn't directly chopped them when they were illuminated by the Holy Radiance spell.
Chen Yu knew in his heart that they were bound to live.
It was just that he didn't know yet what the ultimate price would be.
"I knew you could do it!" Roni's face was full of smiles.
From this incident, she had absolute unconditional trust in Chen Yu. His status in her heart was probably comparable to Fu Hua Aierton.
For no other reason.
These past few hours in the City Lord's Mansion had truly overturned her previous perceptions, or rather, made her clearly feel the gap between herself and Chen Yu.
She knew that even if she studied harder.
She wouldn't be able to catch up to Chen Yu's level in a short time. So, what she could do was to give up her own ideas as much as possible and listen more to the suggestions Chen Yu gave.
She didn't feel this behavior was like being a puppet.
As the saying goes,
He who listens to advice eats well!
Her father had educated her like this since she was young. Therefore, although she was the eldest daughter of the Aierton family and a bit spoiled and willful, she was not someone who was stubborn and unwilling to listen.
On the contrary, she was very good at self-reflection.
"Then are you still squatting here, waiting for Hei Dou and them?" Roni, holding her little head, blinked her eyes. "I don't see Hei Dou and them here."
"Smart."
Chen Yu grinned.
He was staying here because he wanted to wait for Hei Dou and them to gather. Looking at the people gathered here, it seemed that all the prisoners in the mansion would be concentrated here.
If nothing unexpected happened, these beasts were preparing to transport them collectively.
However, Hei Dou and the others in the treasury still hadn't come to join them.
"When Hei Dou and them arrive, we'll leave directly."
"Young Master, if you have a way, can you take us with you?" Just then, a captured guard, still crouching nearby, came over. "If you can save us, our lives are yours. From now on, we will obey your command through fire and water."
"Yes, yes, we will obey your command."
The guards all eagerly responded.
No one knew where these prisoners would be taken. Anyway, according to the rules of the Tatou Kingdom, prisoners would mostly be fitted with magic-restricting bracelets and sent to mines to dig ore.
Or they would be sent to do manual labor.
Their lives would definitely not be human.
"Hoo, you have sharp ears." Seeing the guards crowding around, Chen Yu grinned. "You guys want to run with us too?"
The guards nodded their heads like pecking chickens.
"Shh!" Chen Yu raised a finger slightly. "It's okay to want to run, but you have to listen to me, and this matter absolutely cannot be publicized now. We must act discreetly."
"Understood, understood!"
"Then you all go back to your original positions. Otherwise, if they notice us later, there might be unnecessary trouble. And don't make too much of a fuss. It's enough for just us to know."
"Alright."
The guards scampered back, their faces beaming like monkey bottoms, as if they had already imagined the scene of their escape.
Seeing this, Roni's eyes were also filled with smiles.
"Wow, with a few words, you've made the City Lord's Mansion guards defect. That's good. If they come with us, maybe our chances of escape will be even greater."
Unexpectedly, Chen Yu immediately showed a look of disdain upon hearing this.
"Bah."
"Take them? Am I out of my mind to take this bunch of FWs? Little Sister Roni, it seems your understanding is still not enough."
Roni, who had been smiling a moment ago, was suddenly stunned.
"Huh?"