Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

The man who knocked out the blood hunter with a mace was tall and thin, with a sickly look on his face. It could be seen that he was not in good health and most likely had an old illness.

Only those eyes revealed a capable spirit.

He grabbed the blood hunter's neck and confirmed that he had completely captured the enemy, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Xiao Huo!" Lu Beiyou gestured to him from a distance, "Good job."

"Don't call me that," the man said angrily, "Next time you have this kind of job, you can do it yourself."

"After all, we have cooperated so many times, so don't be so outspoken." Lu Beiyou smiled, "If my disguise skills weren't as good as yours, I would be willing to do it myself."

The man surnamed Huo snorted.

But judging from his smiling expression, the two parties were indeed familiar with each other to a certain extent, so they spoke to each other without any fear.

The two of them were far apart, as if they were chatting about everyday things, but in an instant, several more corpses were added to Lu Beiyou's knife, and their conversation did not affect his breathing at all; on the other side, a wild man discovered the blood hunter The situation here couldn't help but be horrified. They wanted to get closer, but they were all forced back by the men.

Finally, the psychological endurance of the wild people reached the critical point and they fled in all directions.

They are indeed not afraid of death, but they cannot do anything just for the sake of meaningless death.

Some people ran to the water tower in a panic, trying to escape from the side. When they looked up, they saw a large piece of bricks coming from the sky.

He was knocked unconscious on the spot.

Izumi panted and hid aside. She covered her injured arm and did not exert any force. Instead, she calculated the angle and used the bulge of the platform to push down the stone with her back.

Now he looked back at the tower, his face full of disbelief.

Lu Beiyou actually fought against the enemy alone and repelled them; he also placed people among them in advance, and finally captured the nearby Blood Hunter Yiba alive.

It seems that he had a plan in advance.

Lu Beiyou turned around and picked up Iquan, who was at a loss as he looked at the five-headed blood hunter being thrown to the ground until the man who captured him came forward to say hello.

It turns out that the man lurking among the wild people here is named Huo Buyang. He is an adventurer who has traveled to many places on the mainland and is best at surviving in ruins. Therefore, even if he sneaked into Aikang Town, it would not be out of the ordinary. Soon, Trust is gained.

I don’t know how I got involved with Lu Beiyou, a member of the aristocratic family, and they even acted together under his plan.

The most important thing about the identity gap in Union City was that one of his officers could have such a deep relationship with a low-level adventurer.

It can be said that both sides take it all.

"Do you think there is a possibility..." Seeing Huo Buyang playing with the mace a few times, Lu Beiyou said thoughtfully: "Are you more suitable for using blunt weapons?"

"Just my body and bones? It's too late." Huo Buyang paused, calmed down his chaotic breath, and threw the weapon in his hand to Lu Beiyou, "I think its material is not bad, and it can be used as a weapon forging for you. ”

"There will always be a way."

The officer took it, smiled and said nothing.

This time he went straight to the Scrap Master Group in Kaidun City, learned the inherited forging skills before joining the army.

He also built this armor for himself.

I'm afraid even the old master who led Lu Beiyou to get started didn't expect that this dandy boy who seemed to be just here for fun was actually as good as a top master craftsman behind the scenes, and he even used it to enter the martial arts - Blade Walker Leaving aside the fact that the weapons of the series require an intelligent core to unlock the technology tree, if Lu Beiyou is inspired by the armor, it is possible to create a masterpiece-level work, but there is no time to increase the probability.

Huo Buyang only thought that he was probably obsessed with the art of forging.

Not much to ask.

Izumi carefully stepped over the blood and corpses on the ground. She had long passed the age where she would scream when she saw the dead. In other words, such a time never existed. The girl came to the blood hunter in the wilderness and looked around. Suddenly Opening:

"What did they take?"

Hearing this, Huo Buyang looked at her in surprise, while Lu Beiyou gestured with interest: "Guess what?"

Izumi thought for a while: "Before you came, this group of people had always lived the best among the wild people. They could always get fresh food. Sometimes I wonder why...this group of people only relied on scavenging and blood. The power of hunting cannot be achieved.”

There is no need for them to rob the food transport team in Kaedun City.

People are always greedy - but after all, it involves the behemoth United Cities.

For the sake of this small profit, it would be bad if he gets burned.

Thinking of this, Iquan turned to Lu Beiyou: "When you sent people to escort them, you must not have let them reveal their identity in Kaidun City. Maybe they were a hunter gang, maybe they were shield guards... That's why the wild people and blood hunters dared to attack. ”

Huo Buyang still had a look of surprise on his face, but this time, he looked at Lu Beiyou with doubts in his eyes, as if he was saying how did you bring back such a smart little girl so casually - the details the other party said were basically unclear. Difference.

Of course, there is also his inner ghost in the middle who is instigating and adding fuel to the flames.

But Huo Buyang then thought about it: when the other party approached him, the two were strangers to each other, but Lu Beiyou had an inexplicable trust in him and saw his hiddenness and abilities, so he was relieved.

Perhaps this is also a talent.

"But after they succeeded, they realized something was wrong. In order to prevent Kaiton City's retaliation, they had to eliminate the evidence..." Izumi said, and suddenly frowned, and she realized that there were some unexplainable things.

The military supplies they had just recovered from the scene, even after the wild people's abuse in the past few days, were far from the number that Lu Beiyou told her before; and the bodies of the soldiers killed in Kaidun City were also far from the amount. I don’t know where it is; in addition, Lu Beiyou, as an officer of the United City, deliberately provoked the attack of the Blood Hunters. His motive...

"That's it for now."

Lu Beiyou slapped her on the head, woke up Izumi, and said with a smile: "After all, the information is still not enough."

"However, I can reveal one thing: Those people were sent here to monitor me. Unfortunately, they only thought that I wanted to harm them and refused to listen to the 'suggestions' I gave them. Instead, they thought that pretending to march in Aikang Town was a good idea. idea."

Hearing this, Huo Buyang shrugged, glanced at him, and said to himself that the soldiers and officers were right, but the real pity was that he didn't expect that this guy had already taken this psychology into consideration and used reverse provocation. The purpose was achieved.

"Furthermore, Blood Hunter didn't know that what he was robbing was 'military rations.'" After Lu Bei finished his explanation, Huo Buyang pointed at the white-haired officer and added to Izumi: "As for 'military rations being robbed'..."

"The purpose of blood hunting is not food...but the people themselves!" Before Huo Buyang could finish speaking, Izumi was stunned and suddenly realized, "The robbery of military rations is an excuse for you to report it to the United City."

"That's right, but I did plan to use food as bait at the beginning to create an opportunity to escape from Kaidun City and leave the military camp." The young officer nodded with a smile and kicked the unconscious Wilderness Blood Hunter next to him with his boot. , "But I didn't expect that compared to ready-made food...it seems that living people are more attractive to them."

"It's a pity that I didn't find out where the prisoners were." Huo Buyang said, "I am not the one responsible for escorting and trading."

"Plans can never be perfect." Lu Beiyou said nonchalantly, pulling Izumi over and saying sincerely: "I'll leave the rest to you..."

"What do you mean?" The girl was startled.

"Find the whereabouts of the prisoners and their trading partners." The officer looked innocent: "Otherwise, even if the bodies of these wild people and the recovered military rations are handed over, the robbery has already occurred, and at most it can be regarded as making up for the mistakes. "

But if we dig deeper...

"Then you have the foresight to play a big game of chess!" He turned to smile and said, "Looking back, this little twist in the middle is just a temporary difficulty, and no matter how much the loss is, it is just a bait -"

"Then what if you can't find it!" Izumi said anxiously, "And why me?"

"Forget it if you can't find it. At worst, you'll lose these clothes and become a drifter. There's nothing terrible about being wanted." Lu Beiyou didn't care, "This planet is so big, isn't there a place for it?"

Izumi subconsciously thought that the other party was being harsh. However, she glanced at Huo Buyang on the other side and found that there was no objection or disdain on his companion's face. It seemed that he really believed that he could do such a thing, and he also had a certain kind of attitude. It means "you should have made this decision long ago".

It seems that his achievements will be higher in this way.

Izumi was unreasonable for a moment: Is there really someone who would rather put aside his status as a nobleman of a United City family and an officer than to do it, but instead regard it as a layer of restraint? This is something that others cannot envy.

But what Lu Beiyou said next made her stunned:

"As for why you...don't you just have to ask yourself how you feel?"

Izumi was awakened by the words, and then suddenly realized: they were obviously strangers who had just met, but when he was with them, not only did he not feel nervous or unhappy at all, but he relaxed a lot, and he was not at all like himself in the past. style.

It wasn't because she lost her guard.

But under the guidance of this officer named Lu Beiyou, they went from being wary of hostility to trading calculations, and finally even thinking from their standpoint.

Step by step, I opened up my defenses.

Moreover, compared to the fear of hunting in the past, every time she returned to the home that was not dark but somehow always cast a layer of gray in her memories... At this moment, Izumi, as the samurai waved that gorgeous The sword light started, and even the state of mind was illuminated and appeared colorful.

This feeling.

Maybe it's called happiness.

"Go on!" The samurai picked up a bag of cheese biscuits distributed to senior officers from the ground, threw it to the girl, and pointed to the corpse on the ground, "Count it on their heads."

"Bait." Huo Buyang nodded and repeated what Lu Beiyou said just now.

He obviously meant their plan, and the losses caused during the period could be incurred at will, and United City would reimburse and foot the bill anyway... But when he mentioned it in conjunction with the situation, there was a hint of ridicule.

Izumi was stunned and smiled.

"good."

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"Compared to Kaidun City, your manpower gap is still too big. Can you keep up with their progress?" Lu Dai looked at the less than 100 people around him and said to Lu Meng worriedly.

Because of the high profile and solemnity of the Kaidun City envoys, even the high-wall shield guards gave them a high look. At this moment, they rarely left the city wall station and cleared the surrounding area in a form of half escort and half supervision.

Lu Meng and his party could go straight through the outskirts of the wild people's activities, and even the wilderness blood hunters would not dare to provoke them, but if they continued to go deeper, they might be in trouble.

Lu Dai knew that these people brought by Lu Beiyou were the elites of the Ember Order. Except for the slight difference in equipment, their strength, physical fitness and most importantly, their loyalty were no less than those of the personal guards of Kaidun City... However, the opponent has a numerical advantage after all.

Before setting off, Lu Meng, the Red King, for some reason did not mobilize them or say anything encouraging. He just looked at an abandoned water tower on the roadside in a daze.

Then he shook his head.

Wrong direction.

"You don't need so many people. I don't know that Tianxin Li Zhengqing doesn't know this." At this time, hearing the concern of Lu Dai who was with him, he said: "In fact, if we just go deep into Aikang Town, a few unknown people will It's enough."

Hearing the Red King's answer, Lu Dai subconsciously laughed: If it were in the past, she could quickly understand what the other party meant without any ambiguity - but it is precisely because of you that the meaning of the word "Unknown Man" has changed on the entire continent. Everything has changed, and I still have to react for a while after hearing it.

You are the only one who can do this.

How many more do you want?

However, since the other party was confident in himself, Lu Dai could not say anything more and felt relieved.

At this time, the old webmaster among the technology hunters appeared on the edge of the crowd at some point. He seemed to have struggled for a long time before making up his mind, and walked forward to Lu Meng's side to get closer.

An Iron Guard soldier stretched out his hand to stop him, but Lu Meng stopped him and signaled him to come over.

"I want to remind you one thing..." the old hunter said in a low voice, not without solemnity: "Don't eat the meat from Aikou Town."

"……I see."

Lu Meng nodded to express his gratitude, then summoned a clerk and asked him to pay a few strings of coins to the old hunter. Unexpectedly, the other party quickly declined. It was not until a thin woman walked out of the team and came to him and whispered a few words. The old hunter looked at the two of them in surprise, and then he accepted without saying a word.

But when he looked at Lu Meng's back, there was a hint of complexity in his eyes.

Late autumn has ended, and the whole world has officially entered the chilling winter. The temperature has dropped rapidly as if it had never been announced. Even in the fertile land of Auckland or the rainy, hot and rich swamp forests, people will not be able to do anything for the next period of time. If they continue to cultivate crops, each family will have to rely on the savings they have accumulated throughout the year to get through the next hurdle...or they may die.

This is especially true for the town of Aikuang, which is full of rocks and ruins.

But at this time, two groups of people, one large and one small, left their warm camp in unison and went deep into this post-civilization wilderness like a competition.