Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji was playing with the new dagger he just got, when the bandit who was tied up next to him began to wriggle on the ground, making Zhao Ji's attention come back.

Taking a closer look at the bandit's condition, Zhao Ji found that the bandit's eyes had become the same as those of the goblin who had taken mushrooms before, blood red and blood red.

The bandit was staring viciously at the bandit observing him with blood-red eyes.

Zhao Ji wanted to know how the bandit was doing, so he ripped off the rotten clothes stuffed in his mouth.

"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you! What did you eat for me? What!" the bandit roared viciously.

He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the other party, judging that the other party ate the mushroom, and after the effect was produced, he still had a relatively clear consciousness, but it seemed a little excited, the other party completely forgot that he was tied up, and he had no strength and strength. May come to take the initiative to question Zhao Ji.

Smiling, Zhao Ji just wanted to stuff the curved dagger in his hand into the opponent's mouth, but after thinking about it, he still stuffed his own steel dagger into the opponent's mouth. As for the dagger, which looked more expensive, it was put away first.

Although the bandit's eyes were bloodshot and he was nervous and mad, after the young man stuffed the dagger into his mouth, he was the first to bite the dagger with his loose teeth.

He bent down, stretched out his bound hands in front of him, and rubbed the cloth strips that bound him with the sharp edge of the steel dagger.

Zhao Ji took a few steps back, just watching the other party trying to escape, just put his hand on the hilt of the long sword at his waist, and made no other movements.

Seeing that the young man did not come to stop him, the bandit seized the opportunity no matter what the result was, and vigorously swung his bound hands back and forth. Soon, the cloth strips on his hands were cut, and the bandit picked up the dagger and cut the belt on his knees again.

The injured calf was simply bound to stop the bleeding. The bandit stood up, dagger in hand, and swooped on the young man who was looking at him.

Clang!

Zhao Ji drew out his long sword and swung away the dagger stabbed by the opponent.

The bandit fell straight down, and the dagger in his hand went straight to Kiel's lower third.

Not giving the opponent a chance to hurt him, Keir took advantage of his legs and feet, retreated a little and dodged the opponent's attack. After the bandit ate the mushrooms, he became more powerful.

Kiel counterattacked with a long sword, but the opponent held a dagger to block Kiel's random offensive. Sure enough, this bandit was much stronger, no matter in terms of strength or reaction. He had no ability to resist before, but just ate a mushroom. Not only was the opponent no longer afraid of him mentally, but he also seemed to have no resistance in terms of physical skills. Can keep up with his offensive.

Zhao Ji dealt with the bandits casually, and found that it wasn't that the other party's skills had improved. The effect of the mushroom did not improve the other party's skills. After all, it was not some kind of martial arts cheat book.

But the mushrooms increased the opponent's reaction speed!

Keel stared closely at the opponent's blood-red eyes, and found that the pupils of the opponent's eyes were dilated, and the entire eyeball was constantly swinging back and forth in the eye socket as the weapons clashed.

The opponent's breathing was also quite short, and it was unclear whether it was providing air for the body during the battle, or providing the breathed oxygen to the opponent's brain, or something else.

Different from the bandit's fast breathing, Kiel's breathing has been under his own control. When the attack is fierce, he speeds up the breathing rate. When he is dodging and defending, Kiel slows down his breathing and adjusts his breathing. The real person's physical strength distribution makes this battle rhythm under his control.

As Kiel gradually took the initiative in casual confrontations, he also saw the effect of this mushroom. This kind of mushroom can greatly improve the nerve observation and control ability of the eater. It is estimated that in the eyes of the other party, the flow of time in the whole world has a feeling of slowing down. But it was actually an illusion,

It is estimated that it is the kind of illusion produced after the brain activity is increased.

It's not that the world's time has slowed down, but that the bandit himself is getting up.

But just improving his thinking and nerves is of no use. His own body has been injured in one hand and one foot, and he himself has not mastered any effective fighting methods before, and the gap in physical fitness is too far.

The bandit couldn't hurt Kiel at all.

Keir felt that the situation was almost grasped, so he directly used the long sword to deflect the opponent's dagger. When the opponent's hand holding the dagger was opened, Kiel suddenly stretched out his left hand and caught the opponent's dagger hand. Hold, twist, so that the opponent has to let go of the dagger.

Kiel kicked away the falling dagger, let go of the long sword in his right hand, and put both hands together to subdue the bandit.

No matter how much the opponent resists, the difference in physical strength and strength between the two cannot be ignored by these improvements. The subdued bandit was tied up again by Kiel, his hands and feet were tightly bound, and his mouth was stuffed with the old clothes just now.

Because of the fierce battle just now, the wound opened and bled again.

Zhao Ji had to bandage the bandit tightly again to stop the bleeding.

Withdrawing the two weapons, Zhao Ji looked at the bandits who were tightly bound, and sat down himself. He didn't know how long the mushroom was effective, so he could only sit here and wait.

After sitting for a while, Zhao Ji remembered that there was another person in the bandit gang who was outside to investigate the target, and he didn't know when he would come back.

So Zhao Ji moved the bandit to the center of the camp, slightly covered the place where he was tied up, and made the illusion of lying on the ground to rest. And he himself hid in the bandit's little tent, covered his boots, and pretended to be a sleeping bandit.

Of course, in order to observe the situation of the bandit who ate the mushroom, he specially used a dagger to cut a big hole in the small tent of the bandits so that he could observe in the tent.

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The sky was rising from the sun and quickly turned to the afternoon sun.

The sun at this time can still feel a little warm, as long as you can be directly exposed to the sun.

Zhao Ji drank a small amount of writing water in the tent and ate some bread bought from the hotel. The bread was not as good as the clerk said at all, Zhao Ji could barely eat half of the dry and hard bread with water.

In any case, the bread here is at least made of wheat flour that has been repeatedly crushed by a stone mill, at least it doesn't hurt to eat it. In the wild, Zhao Ji was not so delicate. If he didn't know when the last bandit would come back, he would have been eating the food of the bandits by the campfire.

But thinking about it this way, he didn't have to worry about food at all when he came out to deal with the bandits this time. Just take the food from the defeated bandits and you're done.

As for drinking water, Zhao Ji is still worried about the water source in the wild. If there is no other way, he still doesn't want to drink the water in the wild. Mainly because he was afraid that there would be parasites and the like in the water.

Even because of the badge issued by the Saturnalia Church that has the effect of curing diseases, he doesn't want to suffer from any disease.

Because he didn't know the healing effect of this badge, and he was not at ease if he really put his chance of survival on this thing.

Just when Zhao Ji was thinking about these things boredly, there was a sound of undisguised footsteps from the other side of the dirt bag.

The opponent's footsteps sounded quite urgent, as if they were in a hurry.

The visitor hadn't bypassed the dirt bag, so he shouted: "Get up, get up, I've been staring at #￥ for a day, and finally found a better target, the other party is only two people, pulling a cart by manpower The goods are going to Kendall City. Hurry up, let's set off and stop them while I am the only one who finds them."

The eyes of the bandit lying motionless by the fire were still blood red. Hearing his companion's voice, he writhed anxiously on the ground, wanting to remind his companion of the danger and run away.

But his companion was quite urgent. After walking quickly to the camp, he saw one of his men still wriggling on the ground at this moment, completely ignoring the news he brought, and immediately became angry. A kick in the ass of a writhing man on the ground.

At the same time, he cursed: "%\u0026%! I've been staring at people for a whole day, and I'm carrying people's bags in the checkpoints to ask for news, and you guys are just sleeping in the camp! I'm so mad, are you still doing it? If you don’t do it, we’ll break up! Everyone￥#Go back to your hometown, watch other people live, and forget about dying alone!”

After kicking twice, the man felt that something was wrong. Because he said a few words himself, but no one in the whole camp answered his words, and the bad guys who usually like to be noisy shut up and didn't speak, which made him feel that something was wrong.

He lowered his head and took a closer look, the cunning guy who likes to take advantage of the most among his accomplices, his eyes were blood red, very weird, his whole body was tightly tied up, and a whole ball of meat that filled most of his mouth was stuffed in his mouth Dirty laundry.

The other party's weird eyes kept sending him messages to run away.

The man trembled all over, and then turned around to see that the figure who seemed to be sleeping in the camp tent just now had disappeared, and behind him, a young man he didn't know was holding his hands and looking at him with a sneer.

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Zhao Ji looked at the bandit and realized something was wrong, and then turned around suddenly to find him. He said, "Don't think about harming anyone anymore, just surrender obediently, and I'll just hand you over to the soldiers at the checkpoint. Otherwise, once you resist! If you get injured and die, you can't blame me!"

How could this person surrender directly? These gangsters are all doing things with their heads pinned to their belts. Bullying and intimidating others are commonplace for them. It is their nature to be cruel and cunning.

The bandit crouched down and wanted to run away, but Kiel took two steps forward, and after catching up, kicked the fleeing bandit down.

This kick kicked half of the bandit's body into the campfire. Since no one had fueled the campfire for a long time, it was not considered a hot charcoal fire at this moment.

But even these charcoal fires made the bandit screech and scream!

His fairly normal clothes were also burned, but because the bandit rushed all the way to the camp, the sweat from his body saved his life.

The bandit rolled a few times on the ground and wiped out the flames on his body with the dry soil. However, Zhao Ji had already come behind him at this time, knelt down on the back of the opponent's upper body, and twisted the bandit's hands behind his back to control them.

Zhao Ji then tied the man's arms with the hemp rope he had prepared, then threw the man aside and hit the ground.

boom!

"Be honest with me, your gang has been wiped out by me, just admit defeat obediently." Zhao Ji didn't want to ask this person anything, seeing that after this person was tied up, his mouth was dirty, Take off the other person's shoes, pull out the smelly burlap piece that the other person put in the shoe, and stuff it directly into the other person's mouth.

The person immediately writhed non-stop, and the reaction was very intense! Zhao Ji put his hand in front of his nose and sniffed it for a while, and he felt disgusted, so he quickly rubbed his hand on the ground to eliminate the stench.

Regardless of the last bandit who reacted fiercely, Zhao Ji generously came to the side of the bandit who was fed mushrooms before, looked at the other party's eyes, and found that after half a day, the blood in the other party's eyes had weakened a lot, but There is still a small and a half degree.

Checking the opponent's physical condition again, it was found that the bandit's physical condition was not bad, even slightly stronger than when he was just injured.

It seems that this mushroom can not only enhance the ability of the user, but also restore some physical conditions slightly. This is a rare good thing.

Just when Zhao Ji felt that this thing was good, he found that the bandit's spirit seemed to be a little slack. He patted the other party's face, and after removing the cloth covering the other party's mouth, the man asked for water in a hoarse voice.

Only then did Zhao Ji remember that this man was injured, fought, and frightened, and he hadn't even had a drink of water yet.

Thinking of handing over these two bandits to the checkpoint soldiers in the future, he couldn't carry them out of the forest. He had to let them be captured and follow him out of here.

Zhao Ji fed the bandit some drinking water from their camp, which were all packed in wooden barrels. Picking up the wooden bowl and scooping up a bowl of water, Zhao Ji fed the man.

Looking at the sun, it was estimated that he could return to Bingxun Pass before the sun went down, so Zhao Ji searched the camp for things, put them on the backs of the two tied bandits, pulled them up with ropes, and extinguished the campfire Finally, Zhao Ji pulled the two bandits and walked towards Bingxun Pass.

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Zhao Ji's timing was just right, and he arrived at the north gate of Bingxun Pass at dusk.

When they saw a young man walking over with two tied people from a distance, the soldiers guarding the gate were quite nervous.

These soldiers were uniformly wearing a leather half armor, a leather helmet with iron armor on their heads, holding spears and long swords, and some soldiers were carrying crossbows and half pots on their waists. Crossbow arrows.

But after Kiel took out a shiny blue Saturn badge from his chest, these soldiers were relieved. At least they knew that this person was not a strange person, and the other party should be a member of which church.

After Zhao Ji came to the north gate, he handed the two tied bandits into the hands of the soldiers, and pointed to the clothing of many people on each other's body, accusing them of being bandits who intercepted and killed business travelers. One of them is an inquirer who is active in the checkpoint, and the other three are hidden in the mountains and forests to get news and attack at any time.

Kiel asked the soldiers to check some of the scattered goods that the two of them had brought back. They were all blood-stained and uncommon goods. Some common things had been exchanged for money by their gang and squandered. blood-stained goods.

Many people gathered around the north gate to watch the sudden bustle. The onlookers did not expect that someone would boldly run into the mountain forest where bandits were infested, and wipe out a small gang of bandits by one person. Some people praised the young man Kiel on the spot, while others disdainfully slandered the young man as just a sensationalist.

More people don't care about this, they just like to watch the excitement.

Soldiers also liked to watch this kind of rare excitement. Usually, the caravan with sufficient force defeated some bandits who were not strong enough during the business journey, and escorted those bandits back to exchange for money.

Today they actually saw someone who might have gone out alone, defeated two people, and captured two people.

One of the captains of the soldiers was also troubled when he encountered this situation. He first asked the tax collector who was above him in the north gate. Under the instructions of the other party, Kiel was asked to follow his small group of soldiers and lead the way to check the bandit camp. First, to confirm the situation of the two people who were killed, and to clean up all the remaining things in the bandit camp. Bring it back for inspection.

Guessing that this might happen, Kiel led a group of ten elite soldiers to the previous bandit camp.

After thinking for a while, the soldier captain guarding the gate asked the soldiers to put the two bandits in the prison first, and asked all the soldiers at the north gate to be vigilant first.