Chapter 444: The lonely city is running out of food, and suddenly there is good news that Ryan wakes

After marching day and night, the civilians and soldiers were already exhausted. Not long ago, the soldiers had fought a battle with those disgusting and twisted monsters.

After finally finding a place to stay, the group immediately lay down in the street in groups of three or four.

Seeing this, the people of Vahlan hurried back to their homes, took out their meager food reserves, and rushed to feed everyone.

Hu Lun's eyes were also bloodshot at this moment, but he did not dare to sleep at all. Instead, he stood on the city wall of Vahlan and looked into the distance.

Once he spotted the shadows of those monsters, he would quickly call the soldiers to resist the enemy.

"Hoo...Hoo...Lord Hu Lun, have a drink of water."

The fat noble climbed up the city wall panting, holding a bowl of water in his hand.

After saying thank you, Hu Lun took the bowl of water and drank it all.

Just now, he also asked the name of this fat noble, whose name was McGee.

This McKee man was not very smart. Although he exploited the people in his own city, he was too timid and never withheld the soldiers' pay.

It is precisely for this reason that the soldiers under McGee performed so brilliantly in the recent confrontation with the monsters.

Seeing that McGee's eyes were also full of bloodshot, Hu Lun said, "You go down and rest. I'll guard here."

"Hey...hehe..."

McGee smiled awkwardly: "I can still hold on for a while, I'd better stay here. I won't feel reassured unless I see the situation with my own eyes."

In the final analysis, it's still too cowardly.

"By the way, why hasn't that female general come back yet? Did she run away?"

Hearing this, Hu Lun kicked McGee angrily: "If she wanted to run away, she would have run away long ago. If you keep talking nonsense, I will kick you outside the city wall!"

Although he said that, Hu Lun was actually a little worried.

What he was worried about was not that Octavia would run away, but that they suddenly changed their itinerary to the south and did not have time to inform Octavia, and he did not know whether Octavia could find this place...

“Hehehe… Now that we’ve arrived in Vahlan, what should we do next?”

"Wait for rescue."

Hu Lun sighed and said, "Hiding in Vahlan is a helpless move. If we continue to retreat, we will only be further away from the imperial capital, and... we don't have enough dry food.

All we can do now is trust His Majesty and defend this small town until reinforcements arrive."

"This is too...wait! There's a crowd in the distance!"

Halfway through his words, McGee suddenly noticed something and his face turned pale.

Hu Lun squinted his eyes and was about to raise his hand to ask the soldiers to stand up, but he found that it was not the monster they had just fought with.

But... a group of soldiers and a group of civilians.

When this group of people arrived at the city gate, the old city lord immediately opened the gate.

The nobleman leading the group was a frivolous man. After entering Vahlan, he raised his hand and said, "Restock the supplies quickly!"

Seeing this, Hu Lun raised his eyebrows slightly. Replenish supplies? Where can we replenish supplies?

The next moment, Hu Lun understood.

The soldiers under the nobleman immediately turned into bandits, with fierce looks on their faces, and began to swagger into the houses of the surrounding people and loot food.

Hullen was filled with anger for a moment, and was about to speak, but he saw that he and McKee's soldiers had spontaneously picked up their weapons and surrounded the noble's soldiers together.

Even dogs and horses know the grace of being raised and taken in. When they stepped into the city of Vahlan, this group of warriors were already prepared to protect the people.

The nobleman looked horrified: "You...what are you doing!"

"You still ask us what we want to do?"

Hu Lun shouted, "If you dare to let your soldiers touch the people here again, I will throw you out to feed the monsters!"

Under Hu Lun's pressure, the noble subconsciously shrank his neck.

Because he fled late, he had fought with those monsters several times and almost escaped death every time.

After getting the noble to behave himself, Hu Lun glanced at the troops he brought with him and saw that the civilians and soldiers were all exhausted and covered in dust.

A rough calculation showed that there were only over 10,000 civilians, which made Hu Lun a little confused: "Why are there only these civilians you brought? Were they slaughtered by monsters?"

"Well... because we fled in such a hurry, we didn't have time to take most of the people with us, and some of them..."

At this point, the nobleman's face froze and he became speechless.

The soldiers' faces turned pale, and many of them even began to retch. The civilians in the rear also looked pale.

Hu Lun didn't react at first, until he noticed the reaction of the civilians and soldiers. Hu Lun felt his head buzzing, and without saying a word, he stepped forward and grabbed the collar of the nobleman:

"What's the difference between you and those monsters?"

"I... I have no choice! We fled in such a hurry that we didn't have time to bring food with us! It's great that we can bring these civilians with us!"

The nobleman was about to cry, but it was obvious that he was not crying because of guilt, but because he was afraid:

"But...but didn't I still save a large part of the people? Otherwise, we would all have died under the claws of the monsters!"

Hu Lun gnashed his teeth but could not utter a word. He threw the noble aside and wiped his hands in disgust: "Get lost! Remember to take care of your soldiers!"

This nobleman felt as if he had been pardoned. He fled with his soldiers to a more open place in the city.

After intimidating the noble, the old city lord with white hair walked over slowly: "Lord Hu Lun, thank you very much."

Hu Lun waved his hands again and again: "You opened the city to take us in, which is what we should do. It is us who are adding burden to your city."

"It doesn't matter."

The old city lord shook his head and said, "If what you said is true, the demons have already started their invasion, and it is only a matter of time before my small city falls into their hands.

The defense of this small town is weak. I would be more than happy if you could bring soldiers to help me defend the town and protect the people."

Hu Lun sighed: "That being said, our food supply was already limited, and now there are more than 10,000 mouths to feed. Even if the monsters don't attack us, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out for much longer."

If the situation really came to that, I wouldn't... do the same thing as that noble, right?

When he thought of this, Hu Lun shuddered violently and got goose bumps all over his body.

"Lord City Lord!"

Just as Hu Lun was frowning, one of his knights came running over: "Lord Ryan...Lord Ryan is awake!"

"what?"

Hu Lun immediately turned his worry into joy. The big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. He was so happy that he almost jumped up on the spot: "Quick! Take me to see Lord Ryan!"