Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji came to the passage that he came from before. Although he found a big crack on the top of the passage, he just thought that he could see the night sky from here. Apart from being pretty, there was nothing else. a feeling of.

It wasn't until he was reminded by Mr. Simmons Jr. that he realized that it seemed that more captured people could be taken out through here.

It seems too sad to save Mr. Simmons alone. Zhao Jiji himself was hired by the relatives of Mr. Simmons Jr. to rescue people, but who would think of a way to rescue those captured people whose relatives were all killed by bandits.

Coming to the crack opening, Zhao Ji found that the rock wall here should be often affected by the wind and rain outside. Unlike other places, the surface of the rock wall here is not so smooth, and there are some dry vines and Branches stick out.

Due to the mottled rock wall, Zhao Ji boldly tried to climb it, and found that the bottom of the passage was not affected much by wind and rain, and was relatively smooth, so it was not easy to step on and hold the rock cracks with fingers.

Zhao Ji thought about it, and felt that as long as a few wooden boxes were placed underneath for people to step on, they should be able to climb up.

As long as one person goes up, there is no problem. The rest of the people can use the rope to help, or the people above can pull the rope.

After thinking about what to do, Zhao Ji returned to the robber's storage room and the cave of the prison.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he came back, he saw that all the more than 20 people had come out of the prison. Zhao Ji immediately thought that it was Mr. Simmons who released the other people. It was probably because they were locked together by the bandits. They had a suffering experience and emotion between them, so Mr. Simmons was just rescued by him. He turned his head and released the other people.

"You're back. How are you? Can you get out from there?" Little Mr. Simmons looked at Zhao Ji nervously. He didn't know the name of the young man who was hired to save him, but he would save so many people at once. The burden is placed on the shoulders of the other party.

Being watched nervously by more than 20 people, Zhao Ji slightly raised his head back, swallowed, and nodded.

Seeing that someone was going to shout excitedly, Zhao Ji quickly stopped this behavior. He put his finger on his mouth, signaling that everyone should be quiet: "Quiet, everyone, please be quiet."

Mr. Simmons Jr. also signaled to be quiet, and the people became quiet.

Look at these naked people, or people who have been beaten a lot, or people who are hungry and out of shape. Zhao Ji signaled everyone to gather, and he explained the current situation.

"Everyone. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Joe Keel, and I am from Kendall City. I am currently employed by Mr. Simmons' uncle, Mr. Kendo Simmons, to rescue the kidnapped Simon. Mr. S. I slipped into this pocket-hole bandit den earlier this evening, slipping through the bandit patrols and the guards' carelessness."

Everyone looked at Mr. Simmons Jr. when they heard this. Some people thanked Mr. Simmons Jr. and his family, and some excitedly said that they would also pay for Keir to rescue him. Money is not a problem.

Kiel motioned everyone to be quiet and listened to him: "Right outside the passage behind me, there are bandits resting at least 50 people up, so everyone must be quiet, and don't make a particularly loud noise to wake up the sleeping ones." Bandits. Once the bandits find out that everyone has escaped, it will be over. I am confident that I can kill them, but you are definitely not good. Everyone has been tortured so badly by the bandits."

Hearing Kiel's explanation, the people finally knew that they were not safe now, but the situation was very dangerous. After all, even if they were imprisoned and humiliated before, the bandits at least wanted to use them, but once the bandits found out that the prisoners who had been locked up had murdered and escaped, they would definitely kill them all.

"I think I'm pretty good at it.

So I hope that from now on, until you leave here and escape to Bingxun Pass, you will obey my orders. This is a matter of life and death for everyone, and you must follow the instructions next, so that you can escape from this bandit lair alive. "

A middle-aged man asked: "Then this, uh, Keir. Hearing that there are bandits outside, is it possible for us to escape? If there is a way, please speak up and let everyone know, otherwise Everyone might as well grab a knife, rush out to kill a bandit, and avenge the dead family and friends!"

Keir and Mr. Simmons looked at each other: "There is a way, please listen carefully."

Everyone doesn't want to die. Although revenge is very important, if they can live, who doesn't want to live. Everyone came closer and listened carefully to Keir's explanation.

"It's like this. In the only access passage outside the storage room where everyone is now, there is a crack in the mountain at the top of a section of the passage. The size is several meters wide, enough for people to escape. I just went out to have a look. I also tried it myself, and it is possible to go up, as long as I make some preparations. This is our escape method."

Everyone was so excited to hear that there was a way to escape without fighting the bandits that some trembled with joy. Some of them were really too afraid of those ferocious bandits. The tragic situation of all their relatives and friends being killed and the repeated assaults and beatings by the bandits made them afraid to face those bandits head-on.

"It's winter now, and the night time is very long. Now I estimate that it's just past midnight. It will be a long time until some bandits get up and come over. Everyone must grasp this time well. Whether you can escape safely in the future depends on the time." Everyone's next move."

Everyone looked at Kiel. Kiel took a deep breath and began to direct everyone: "First of all, men and women should be separated first. Men have better physical strength, and they should eat some meat first, and then drink some water. Don't worry about digestion. Now, eat more jerky stored by the bandits, and there is water in the big stone tank next to it. After the men have eaten quickly, the women will eat quickly."

"After the man is full, move all these wooden boxes down and throw out the contents. I only need the empty boxes. Prepare the empty boxes and put them by the entrance of the passage, and then you go to collect the storage room All the ropes in it, don’t use the ones that are too thick, just use the ropes of appropriate thickness. It will be used later.”

"The women first stripped the three dead bandits naked, and at the same time collected all the things that can be used as clothes in this storage room, and simply made them into warm clothes for people to wear."

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Keir pointed to the clothes on his body.

Thick clothes, trousers and boots, as well as a warm wolf fur scarf and wolf fur cloak. Only then did everyone realize that it was winter in Kendall and it was very cold outside.

They don't feel in the cave, and they wear relatively thin clothes, and as long as they go out, the thin clothes can directly freeze to death from hypothermia in a short time.

"In addition to preparing warm things, the women also need to prepare food that is enough for everyone to eat for two days. There is no need for water. Everyone should drink enough water before leaving, and then run away at full speed for the next day. After getting far away from here, Try to find some water to drink."

"At the same time, the men should each prepare a weapon, not too small or too big. If you are not strong enough, choose a sword of ordinary weight. In addition, find a few wooden sticks that are as long as one person, and then use ropes and waterproof Thick cloth, like this, like that (Keil is demonstrating how two people carry a stretcher and how to make it), make at least three of these tools, don’t ask what they are for, let’s do it first, act now, little Mr. Simmons, please help the conductor arrange it."

Keir saw it, probably because Mr. Simon Jr. released other people, so other people attached great importance to Mr. Simmons Jr.'s opinion.

The other party nodded and began to instruct everyone to get everyone moving.

Keel saw that everyone was busy, and he himself had something to do. He pulled the corpses of the three robbers who had been stripped naked by the women to the material storage place, found some suitable materials, and started to work.

He hung the corpses of the three robbers on a conspicuous high place, and prepared a lot of flammable items behind the corpses. He used a dagger to plan some very flammable wood flowers and hid them behind the corpses, and fixed some Flint and steel rubbed together.

He found some lamp oil and sprinkled it on the wood flower behind the corpse. Keel looked around, it was very good, if he didn't pay attention, he couldn't see what was behind the corpse.

Kiel looked at the large amount of winter supplies prepared by the bandits, and moved some supplies with gloomy eyes. Some waterproof felt cloths are not easy to ignite, but once ignited by high temperature, they are easy to burn very vigorously.

He evenly placed these felt cloths in the middle of the separated cargo aisles, so that it would be easier to burn large pieces of fire that might be ignited later.

At the same time, Kiel also moved some goods a little bit, blocking the passage from the periphery of the goods into the interior. In this way, as long as the fire started, it would be impossible for the bandits to extinguish the fire in the cargo pile.

On his side, he was ready to surprise the bandits, and on the other side, the men had already vacated many empty wooden boxes. Keir saw that the quantity was enough, so he told them not to make any more, and just let them do other things.

He picked up the empty boxes two at a time by himself, and walked into the passage carefully without making a sound.

Carefully put the empty box under the crack. Since the ground is slanted, the box is also slanted. But Keir didn't care. He went back to the storage room, went back and forth a few times, and moved a lot of empty boxes and piled them under the escape passage.

Feeling that the height was right, Zhao Ji put the rope on and stepped on the empty box carefully with hands and feet. On the tallest box, Zhao Ji stretched his arms to keep his balance and stood up.

The two-meter-high foundation brought by the numerous empty boxes, plus his own height, Keir.

Keel put his hands on the rough, high wall with gaps, and after holding it firmly, his feet stretched out and rested on some slightly wider gaps in the wall.

After the whole person was lying on the wall, Kiel began to look for the gaps in the high places little by little by the torches placed on the ground and the oil lamps on the wall of the passage not far away, and climbed up.

That point is the most difficult to climb at the beginning, but the higher you go, the easier it is to climb. The wall gradually turned into a rock wall, and at the same time, there were more and more cracks, and the gaps between the cracks became larger.

After Zhao Ji climbed more than five meters, he finally came to the outside of this mountain.

Many vines hindered him from continuing to climb, so Zhao Ji boldly freed one hand and cut off the dry vines blocking the way with a dagger.

Not daring to let these vines fall on the empty boxes in the passage below, Zhao Ji had no choice but to repeatedly throw each severed vine far outside the mountain.

These tasks took him a lot of time, so in the passage below, Mr. Simmons came over carefully to check the situation.

Keir waved to Mr. Simmons Jr. from a high place, indicating that everything was going on normally, and Mr. Simmons Jr. excitedly went back to explain the situation to everyone.

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After a leap, Zhao Ji finally got himself out of the bandit's lair and came back to the cold outside world.

Taking a deep breath of the cold air, Zhao Ji quickly lifted up all the nearby vines and plants to make a suitable space. What is thrilling is that Zhao Ji also found several bandits set up here from the grass here. The iron trap for trapping animals made Zhao Ji realize that the bandits were not ignorant of the possibility of someone escaping here, and the other party was also on guard.

Coming out of the crack, you can't see the entrance of the bandits' lair cave. The location here should be on the side mountain of the cave entrance. Listen carefully, and you can vaguely hear a glib crooked song sung by the patrolling bandits not far away.

Zhao Ji thought about it, and felt that this place was not particularly safe. He observed it and found a possible route from this mountain slope to a forest not far away.

He first put the rope on the ground, and then walked the route himself, removing some obstacles that were not easy to walk on the road, and then returned to the crack opening.

Zhao Ji hung the rope down, and tied the top of the rope to a stone the size of a person and fixed it.

It was much faster to go down again, and he slipped down along the rope.

When approaching the empty box, Zhao Ji carefully kept his balance and stepped on the box. After the task of these empty boxes is completed, it will be a little redundant. After Zhao Ji landed, he took the first step to carefully remove these empty boxes, covering and obstructing the entire passage.

Put two loops on the bottom of the rope hanging from above that can accommodate people's feet. After Zhao Ji finished, he returned to the storage room where the people were.

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"It's back! It's back! Kiel's back!"

As soon as Keir came back, he was greeted enthusiastically by everyone, and everyone was staring at him. Kiel said directly: "No problem, I just climbed out along the crack in the passage, and the outside is relatively safe. But the exit is not too far from the bandits standing guard at the entrance of the cave, so after going out, everyone must not say In a word, you must be quiet."

"At the same time, it's still dark outside. Except for the light of the moon in the sky, there is not much lighting. Our luck is not good. The moon is almost gone early today. It is the first quarter moon. So let's hurry up and take advantage of the moonlight Help, leave the hillside as soon as you get out, and follow me one by one into the woods."

"As long as we reach the woods, our escape this time is considered half successful. After that, we just need to take advantage of the night and stay away from the robbers' territory in the bag hole. The farther we go before they find out, the safer we will be."

After Kiel finished speaking, all the people trembled with excitement, the hope of life was right in front of them, and their faces and eyes were full of fighting spirit to survive.

Seeing that everyone was very energetic, Keir began to prepare after the inspection.

He checked the warm clothing everyone was wearing. Since they didn't have enough clothes to wear, they also rummaged through the goods that Keir allowed them to rummage (mainly because they were afraid that they would trigger the mechanism, and it would be bad if they caught fire.), more of which were some sacks. The women had no choice but to use some small knives they could use to cut open these burlap bags, wrap them around each person's body layer by layer, and tie the outermost ones tightly with ropes.

Kilby scratched the sacks wrapped around everyone's body and found that the ugly was ugly, but the thickness was real. Everyone was wrapped up several times, so there should be no problem with keeping warm. Everyone's feet were even wrapped with a lot of burlap.

In addition, everyone is wearing a single piece of clothing. After going out, as long as they don't stop and exercise, they can probably resist the low temperature outside.

In addition to warm clothes, Keel checked the food prepared and everyone's drinking water. Seeing that everyone was full of water, Keel was the last to drink too, and then asked everyone to dump all the water in the tank on the ground.

Three simple stretchers were carried on the backs of the three people in the best physical condition.

In this way, after seeing that everyone was ready, Keir led everyone, quietly entering the passage hand in hand one by one.

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When he came to the hanging rope, Keel asked everyone to wait for a while. After he climbed up first, the person below stretched his feet into the two loops made by the rope and hung on, holding the rope with one hand. Rope, with the other hand pushing against the wall to keep distance between yourself and the wall.

Kiel stepped on the wall first, pulled the rope with his hands, and climbed up quickly.

Everyone below watched excitedly. If Keir could go up, they could go up too. The hope of life was right in front of them.

When Keir came up, he shook the rope. According to the arrangement, two strong men will come up first. If they come up, they will have to be pulled up by Kiel's own strength. After all, it is said that they are physically strong, but everyone is actually weak. It can only be said that their physical condition is better than other people.

Little Mr. Simmons had to be in the back because he was always beaten by bandits and suffered a lot of physical injuries.

Seeing Keir go up, the rope started to vibrate. This shows that Kiel above is ready. The first person walked over and stretched the call in one by one, grasping the rope tightly with his palms and arms.

The man shook the rope as well, and a moment later, Keel above started pulling on the rope.

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With his legs firmly planted on the ground, Keir moved his hands and grabbed the rope.

pull!

The rope rises by one section, more than 20 centimeters.

Keir grasped it tightly with one hand and stretched it down with the other. After clenching it tightly, he exerted force with his extended arm again, and pulled the rope up more than 20 centimeters again.

Just like that, Kiel pulled up one by one, pulling up the man dangling under the rope little by little.

If your fingers hurt, you wrap your palm around the tight rope, wrap it around once, and then lift up a section.

My palm also hurt, so I just wrapped my wrist around the rope, let the rope tighten into my flesh, and lifted a section upward.

When the wrist hurts, switch to the finger.

As long as the first person waits to come up, it will be easy for the next ones. Even if he can’t use his strength, the first man who comes up can wrap the rope around his waist, and then move backward by himself, pulling the rope like this .

In the passage below, everyone kept their mouths tightly shut. No matter which god they believed in, they all prayed strongly in their hearts that they must succeed!

Must succeed!