Snowflakes fell on Xia Feng's shoulders one by one, and he was stunned as he looked at the people in the wilderness who could not see the edge at a glance.

A cold wind swept across the wilderness, but the people who relied on each other did not feel cold.

Even in this desperate world, even if you sleep in the open and are sick, as long as you are alive and can still think, the scales in everyone's heart will not be out of balance.

...

Victoria could accept the infected to live, but it did not allow the infected to become Victorian citizens, and in the eyes of the nobility and the upper echelons of the empire, the infected were tools of labor.

However, the human heart is mutual.

If you can't become a citizen of Victoria, that's what it means, Victoria's royal power is very weak in the hearts of the infected.

If it's to survive, they can swallow their anger.

But if in the face of life and death, they will not hesitate to abandon the imperial power that has been squeezing them, and choose to save the person who pays silently regardless of the return.

Seeing these infected people who were obviously sick but still waiting in the wind and snow, Xia Feng suddenly realized.

It turns out that unconsciously, he has won something that cannot be exchanged for money and power, and that is the human heart.

...

Pushing inside the car, Xia Feng walked out with the Shenyue knife.

Seeing that he was safe and sound, the people of Black Feather immediately frowned, and Ifrit happily stood on the hood of the car and beckoned him to his hand.

"Wow, yo-yo, you're finally out!"

Ah Guang excitedly ran to the side of the road and shouted loudly at the gathered crowd.

"Summer Breeze is back!"

Hearing the news, the tide surged.

"Ah!!!!!!h

The earth-shattering sound erupted in the boundless crowd, and the sound was like a mountain and a tsunami, reaching straight into the sky.

As if the central army facing the great enemy was clenched by the sound of the saber, this kind of cry was even more terrifying than the battle cry of the two armies against each other.

When faced with a desperate situation, the will of a "population" is condensed, and the power that erupts will have the power to subvert the pattern.

....

At this time, Xia Feng recognized many faces standing at the front of the crowd of infected people, although he couldn't name them, but he remembered that these people had come to the Black Feather Barbecue Restaurant to suppress ore disease.

At that time, he didn't think too much, the weight of money was as light as a feather in his heart, and if he could help infected people like him, he felt that it would also change the world.

But now, he was saved by the people he had unintentionally saved.

...

Xia Feng raised his head to look at the gray sky, and then he closed his eyes slightly.

Snowflakes fell in the corners of his eyes, wet.

His enemies wanted him dead, but he was alive, and from this moment on, he was already completely disillusioned with the decaying empire.

When Xia Feng opened his eyes again, there was no trace of sorrow in his eyes.

He turned his head and took a deep look at the massive city of Lentinium behind him.

...

"Vena, according to the agreement with Her Royal Highness the Princess, I will be back in 10 days, and before I come back, you have to take care."

Vena looked at the dense number of infected people in the wilderness with complicated eyes, and pursed her lips.

"Summer Breeze...."

"Don't say it, don't worry, I won't be impulsive."

"Yes."

"Goodbye, now I'm going home."

....

Xia Feng escaped from the Nine Deaths and returned from Lentinium to the south, where he belonged.

After returning to the barbecue restaurant, he learned from everyone what had happened in the past few days.

5 days ago.

The night after he was taken from the Royal Academy by the Ombudsman, news was sent back to the Black Feather headquarters, and it was Vena who informed him.

Knowing that he had been captured, Nanfeng also brought people from Notting City, and after everyone discussed, they immediately prepared to go to the north to rescue him.

But fortunately, Vina stopped everyone in time.

However, at the same time that the news was reaching the barbecue restaurant, seven or eight infected people from other places were being suppressed by Dr. Kane.

They who were present also knew about Xia Feng's arrest.

Although these people didn't know Xia Feng, they knew that Xia Feng was the leader of Black Feather.

The next day, the news of the arrest of the leader of Black Feather spread in the city of Hapi, and by the afternoon of the same day, all the infected people in several nearby major cities knew about it.

On the third day, almost the entire circle of infected people in the south knew about it, and for the intested, if Black Feather fell, their last hope of survival would be shattered.

Even if Black Feather can't suppress every infected person in Victoria, the significance of its existence itself is far greater than the actual medical ability.

Infected people from various cities and villages spontaneously gathered together and rushed to the north of Lentinium by various means, unable to enter the city, so they could only wait in the wilderness outside the city.

At first, the garrison did not take the sick and infected into account, but as time went on, the wind began to go in an unusual direction.

On the fourth day, almost the entire Victorian infected knew about it.

Like the center of a huge vortex, infected people from all over the country began to gather on Lentinium.

...

Until the fifth day, that is, after Xia Feng's trial began.

The total number of infected people gathered outside the city of Lentinium has exceeded the overall strength of the Central Army, and, judging by the total number of infected people in Victoria, this is only a drop in the barrel.

The Central Army's response was swift, and the two divisions were immediately mobilized outside the city.

However, these gathered infected people did not fight, did not smash, did not rob, did not even bring weapons, they just stood quietly in the wilderness, waiting for someone to appear.

In this case, the Central Army could not interfere and could only be on alert.

Because they had no reason to suppress it, and they would not be able to suppress such a large number of people unless more troops were mobilized.

....

After knowing the whole story, Xia Feng fell into deep thought.

Miracles come at a price, and in exchange, it should be your most important thing, and the reason why you think this way is because "King Arthur" does not understand people's hearts.

However, he is not "King Arthur", and he also knows that Princess Verin is not either.

It wasn't until this moment that Xia Feng really understood what Verin's intentions were.

Even if he is overwhelmed by tens of thousands of infected people, Verin can still kill him in Lentinium City, and perhaps the gathering of infected people is the best reason to kill him.

This was the right choice that the "king who doesn't understand people's hearts" would make, but with Verin's wisdom, she saw Victoria after killing him.

...

Over the years, Victoria has welcomed infected people from all over the world, ostensibly living and working in Victoria, but in reality, the injustices they have suffered have accumulated inside.

It's just that there is no one outlet for these backlogs, or rather, no one to open the valve.

Verin could have killed him, of course, but Victoria's millions of infected people would not disappear because of his death, and in the long course of history, the birth of the "leader" would happen out of sight.

And Verin can't guarantee that the next born "leader" will be as sensible as him, or that Verin can't guarantee that the next person born will be "Tallulah".

....

Of course, Verin didn't know who Tallulah was at all, and these three words did not represent a person, but a guide to hatred and a catharsis of the extreme emotions of the infected.

Princess Verin was worried that he would become "Tallulah", and on the other hand, she was afraid that the real "Tallulah" would appear after killing him, so Verin, who inherited the [wisdom] of the previous king, confidently chose a high-risk and high-reward approach.

Verin turns him into a bridge between the Empire and the Infected, as he is both an infected and a nobleman.

....

Since you can't control the infected, control the one who can control the infected.

With this kind of self-confidence and control of people's hearts, it is estimated that only Verin has the ability and courage to do it in the world.

But unfortunately, she found the wrong person.

Because the person she found was a person who stood outside this world and looked at this world as an infected person.