313th year of the Frankish Empire (295th year of the Britannia Empire)

February 7.

The Frank Empire, somewhere within the territory.

It's late at night and it's dark everywhere.

However, even if there are only faint moonlight and starlight for lighting, Teo can still clearly find a place to walk.

After all - he has lived here since he was a child, and he is no longer familiar with the terrain here.

Teo is an ordinary farmer.

When the sun comes out, farms, rests when the sun sets, and occasionally when you have time, you make some small things, such as umbrellas and toys for children to play with to supplement your family income.

Judging from his life, he lives a life that is no longer ordinary.

Logically speaking, at this point in time, he should be staying at home to sleep, but tonight he was walking in such a dark night.

The reason why he was abnormal tonight was that he had too many worries recently, which made him unable to fall asleep peacefully.

If you want to ask him what is most troubled by him, it is naturally the recent harvest problem.

Since 2 years ago, the wheat in his field has been growing badly.

Teo's family is a big family. In addition to him, there are also his wife, his two sons, and his still alive mother, a total of five people.

It is precisely because the wheat has not grown well in the past two years that the family of five has been living a very hard time in the past two years.

Special is very clear - if wheat is still not growing well this year, then the whole family is at risk of starvation.

This heavy pressure has made Teo's mental state not good recently.

It is precisely because of this heavy pressure that Teo has been tossing and turning in the bed tonight, unable to fall asleep for a long time, and all he is thinking about is about wheat.

Anyway, I couldn't sleep, so Teo simply got up and planned to take a walk outdoors to relieve my mood.

After talking to his wife, Teo went out of the house in the evening breeze.

Teo planned to take a walk next to the river that I usually go to.

The village where Teo is located is adjacent to a big river, and the water used in their village is basically taken from this big river.

Because he was familiar with the surrounding terrain, Teo soon came to the river.

The river bank and the path are not clear, because the river is too wide and the surrounding light is too dark, so there is no way to see the scenery on the other side, which is completely sunk in the darkness.

There are stars reflected here and there on the black water surface, they are trembling and broken. Only this can we infer the traces of the river flow.

There was no wind in the sky, there was a short bush beside Teo, and there was a nightingale in the bush, not paying attention to Teo at all, and still singing loudly.

The cool breeze full of water vapor was breathing in the big mouth, which made Teo feel that the "big rocks" accumulated in his chest became smaller.

At this moment, Teo suddenly noticed something strange.

He suddenly discovered that there were many strange black shadows in the middle of the river in the distance.

These strange black shadows are very large, like hills, like black giant beasts.

"What is this..." Teo murmured with confusion on his face, slowly approaching the river bank, intending to get himself closer to these strange and huge black shadows so that he could see the specific appearance of these black shadows.

After walking to the river, Teo finally saw clearly what these black shadows were.

After seeing the specific appearance of these black shadows, Teo exclaimed directly.

Because the true face of these black shadows is - the ship!

Huge ships after ship!

Teo has never seen this big ship in his life.

Although Teo is almost 30 years old this year, in his 30-year career, he has only seen a small fishing boat that can only sit 3 or 4 people.

This is the first time Special O has seen such a huge ship.

Teo felt that any of these big ships could sit hundreds of people, and maybe even a thousand people could sit down.

"What is this..." Teo murmured with shock, "Where do these big ships come from..."

As far as Teo knows, the village he lives in is just a remote mountain village, which is hard to see even strangers. At this time, he saw so many large ships as big as small hills on the bank of the river.

These big ships were moving in an orderly manner in this river, as if they were heading to somewhere.

Just as Teo was immersed in sight, a severe pain suddenly came from Teo's neck.

Someone hit Teo on the back of the neck.

A burst of intense dizziness surged from his mind.

The intense dizziness made Teo not even scream for a while, so he collapsed to the ground and fainted.

...

...

When Teo finally woke up, he found himself tied to the trunk of a big tree.

And in front of him, there were two people standing.

2 soldiers wearing armor.

Judging from the content of the two of them’s speech, they seem to be in a relationship between superiors and subordinates.

One seemed to be an officer, while the other seemed to be just an ordinary soldier.

The man, who was obviously an officer, shouted loudly at the soldier.

"How did you patrol? Didn't you say that - no one is allowed to get close to the river bank?!"

"Ten, I'm very sorry!" The soldier seemed very scared, buried his head low, and kept apologizing, "I didn't expect that at this time, there would be someone close to the river bank..."

"Look at what you did!" The officer pointed at Teo, who was tied to a tree. "We could have avoided a meaningless killing... Hum?"

At this time, the officer noticed that Teo woke up.

"You're awake." The officer said to Teo. "What's your name, where do you live, and what do you do?"

The officer's tone was extremely tough, and when he asked Teo, he used a commanding tone.

Special O, who was not sure about the current situation, swallowed with difficulty.

Just as he was about to tell who he was, where he lived, and what he did, the officer suddenly waved his hand.

"Forget it, don't tell me this, you're almost dead anyway."

--die?!

After hearing this unlucky word, Teo's eyes suddenly widened.

An unknown premonition appeared in his heart.

"It was all because of your omission that this poor man saw our fleet." The officer said to the soldier. "No matter whether this man is an innocent person or not, in order to ensure the concealment of our fleet, we can only kill him."

"Because this is your omission, you have to be responsible for it to the end, and this person will be left to you."

"Take him to the river and drown him, making it look like he accidentally fell down the river and drowned."

"yes……"

The soldier sighed, his tone full of helplessness and pain.

"Sorry, friend."

The soldier slowly walked to the death of Teo.
Chapter completed!