Lord of War

A team of about seventy people marched silently in the Canyon Rift.

The whistling knife wind was fierce and cold, and from time to time, you could see a tongue mark or other trace suddenly appearing on the surrounding mountain walls or the ground. This was no longer weathering, but a real knife cut. But what is amazing is that when these knife winds blew in front of everyone, they just swayed like a general breeze, leaving no traces on these people.

As for the scene in front of them, the people in this team don't know if it's because they are tired of seeing it, so they just turn a blind eye.

The atmosphere seemed rather depressing and gloomy.

There was even a faint discordant atmosphere like confrontation.

Wamisi walked at the end of the team, silently scanning the whole team, but sighed helplessly in his heart, with a rather complicated mood.

He has nearly four years of living experience in the barren land. For a place like the barren land, where the climate is harsh and the environment is harsh, and things like gangsters and gangsters often occur, it is by no means easy to live for such a long time things. So this is why anyone who can survive in the barren land for more than two years will be hired heavily by nobles who are willing to join the slave hunting business. At least you have to have the strength of an elite army.

And even if you have such an army, you still have to withstand the almost tragic battle loss ratio.

If you can't bear this kind of psychological pressure, then you can only play small-scale slave hunting.

Therefore, here in the barren land, the number of slave hunting teams is usually maintained at about a hundred people, and the highest number is no more than two or three hundred people. However, this number is actually nothing terrible for the slave catchers in the wild land, at least it cannot form a deterrent force in terms of numbers, so even if it is a fight like black eating black, there will never be any slave catchers team will back down

In fact, in a place like the barren land, there is no way to back down.

Because there is no way out.

But these are not the reasons why Vamis would sigh. He has been the leader of a slave hunting team for nearly a year, and his experience is naturally considered good. What he is really helpless about is that the current team is not the one he has always led.

In the last slave hunting mission, his harvest was not bad. He captured a small tribe of dozens of gray elves and a few orcs who were said to have Beamon blood. This wealth is quite considerable, at least hundreds of thousands The entry of gold coins. However, for this reason, they clashed with two slave hunting teams. In the end, they relied on Vamisi's rich experience and team strength to avoid the end of the group's destruction and successfully brought these slaves back.

However, his team was on the verge of disbanding because of this. It is very dangerous for a slave hunting team of more than a hundred people to come back alive and have less than 30 people. People can only accept it, and according to the rules, they can get at least a one-year rest period. This time is for Vamisi to recruit new slave catchers, and then train, train, and run in with the old team a process and time.

But for some reason, this time they didn't get such a rest period. In the second month after returning, he was summoned by the lord he worked for, and then gave him another slave hunting team, asking him to send two The bands were assembled and immediately set off into the wilderness for slave hunting. This kind of thing has never happened before, so Vamis is naturally curious, but he can hear the lord's voice is very eager, and his attitude is obviously tougher,

There is no room for him to refuse, so he can only lead these two teams to set off immediately.

In fact, this kind of thing is not uncommon for the slave hunting team, but generally no lord will do it.

Because a slave hunting team is a small group, forcibly merging two slave hunting teams together, who will be the leader? If this problem is not resolved, it will inevitably cause internal problems. After all, the position of the leader is not only a manifestation of power, but also has many other advantages, such as distribution rights.

After the slave hunting team captures slaves and sells them to the lord, they can get half of the reward, and the specific distribution of this reward is distributed by the leader.

The one who contributes more and more will naturally get higher rewards.

The two slave hunting teams were mixed together. Under normal circumstances, the leader would definitely favor the slave hunting team he had been leading. It was very difficult to be fair and just.

So if it was a slave hunting team with little experience, Vamis would not have such a headache, but this other slave hunting team also had more than two years of experience in savage lands, and they died because of the old leader. That's why he was dispatched by the lord to Vamisi's command. According to common sense, it should be the slave hunting team who elected a new leader, rather than the two slave hunting teams joining together.

The situation seems a bit complicated.

A sense of powerlessness surged in Vamisi's heart. He didn't know why the lord he served was so eager.

However, he is very clear that if he wants to gain something this time and leave the wild land alive, then he must find a way to eliminate this gap and completely integrate the two slave hunting teams into one whole. Survive in this environment.

And to solve this problem, the best way is to find a slave hunting team after entering the wild land, or attack a tribe, so that the two sides can exchange a little fire for each other. Only in this way can the two slave hunting teams accept each other's existence, and then slowly run in for two or three months. Vamisi thinks this should be almost the same.

Of course, it's not unhelpful for both teams to be veterans.

At least they are very clear about what to do and what not to do, and there is no need for Varmis to remind them.

Soon, the team came to a huge cave.

A few people acting as scouts stood in front of the cave and gestured, and Vamis was slightly relieved. The gestures meant that there was no one in the cave. So the team walked into the cave in silence, and the scouts walked ahead holding torches, and the team followed one after another. In front of them, they had already selected a relatively clean place to set up a simple temporary camp, and set up a camp. There are things like boilers, and there are piles of firewood in the cave that can be taken at will.

These firewood are all prepared by other slave hunting teams, which is regarded as a default unspoken rule.

When any slave hunting team leaves the wild land and passes through the canyon rift valley, it must collect a batch of firewood and pile it up to facilitate other slave hunting teams passing through here. And in this cave, there is also an unwritten rule, that is, no battles are allowed here, and the first provocateur will be attacked by other slave hunting teams in the cave.

Of course, there are many tricks in this unwritten rule.

For example, at this moment, if there is a slave-catching team in this cave that has returned and has harvested a lot, and there are only them and another slave-catching team in the cave, then a fierce battle is very likely. It was here that Vamis had a conflict with the second slave hunting team, but he didn't let everyone in the team fall asleep with his experience, so he succeeded in killing all the opponents in turn, but he also paid a heavy price for it. the price.

"Let's take a rest here, our schedule will be very difficult for the next day." Wamisi lifted his hood, revealing a slightly vicissitudes of face, and said in a hoarse voice, "Everyone is a veteran, It’s not the first time I’ve been on this road, so you guys know what’s going on, so I won’t say anything more.…, drink some wine to warm up, but you must control the amount. I don’t want to wake up tomorrow morning and see someone cheese Drunk."

Almost at the same time, Sean and the others who sped up their pace finally joined up with the werewolf and gray elf who were in charge of the investigation ahead.

"What's the situation?" Sean asked.

"The other party just entered the No. 1 fire cave ten minutes ago." The werewolf retreated from the entrance of the cave and said, "I smell the smell of food and wine. They should be warming up."

This cave is what Andre called the rest base.

Because of the mountain wind problem in the Xiadi Rift Valley, there will be a long section of the road in the range of this furious knife wind. Naturally, there is no way to rest and eat in such an environment, so some people travel during this period. There are three caves in the mountain wind section. The slave hunting team can use these three caves for rest, but in order to prevent some accidents, these caves do not only have one entrance and exit, but a section of road similar to a corridor, and there are more than six entrances and exits, allowing people to The slave-catching team chose the location of departure at random, and using these caves can shorten the trip by about two days at most.

You know, the journey covered by the fierce mountain wind lasted seven days, and it was not easy to shorten the journey by two days.

However, as the first cave that can shelter from the wind, there are not so many entrances and exits, only three. However, under normal circumstances, the slave hunting team will go directly to the third exit to leave this cave, and then walk about a day's journey to reach the second cave. Naturally, it is impossible to stop and eat during this process, so when leaving You must be full before the cave.

And I don't know why, the temperature in the cave is much lower, probably close to zero, even if the cloak is specially made to keep out the cold, the effect is not much better, so there are people in the cave. The custom of warming up by drinking alcohol, these are the experiences of the slave catchers.

Sean turned his head to look at Andre, after all, he was much more experienced than himself.

As if sensing Xiao En's gaze, Andre said: "You can cook food and start warming up after just ten minutes after entering the cave. Judging from the other party's approach, it should be a more cautious and experienced type, so he There will definitely be someone on shift to watch the night. But it also shows that he really wants to save time, otherwise he should let everyone relax after entering the cave, and then start warming up and chatting..."

"They didn't chat, and the cave was very quiet." A gray elf added, as if he knew what Andre wanted to ask.

"From this point of view, either they are in a hurry, or this slave team has not been fully adjusted." Andre said, "In either case, it is very beneficial to us. We can wait outside Go up for two to three hours before entering, and then launch a surprise attack to catch the opponent by surprise, because at this time those who have already fallen asleep will fall into a deep sleep because of the alcohol, and the person in charge of the night watch will also start to feel sleepy because of the alcohol."

"Very well, then we'll do it like this!" Sean immediately agreed to Andre's plan. (to be continued)【】. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. ) PS:: Immediately after I came back at nine o’clock in the evening, I started to catch up with the manuscript, and I finally caught up. ..., I dealt with a lot of things today, but I only slept for three hours, so I was really tired. But I have at least fulfilled the promise, and the two chapters promised to be updated normally every day have not been missed. For the sake of my diligence, vote for me some monthly tickets, right?