Mercenaries and Adventurers

The two of them walked slowly along the narrow street between the buildings while talking.

They were talking and pretending to be chatting, looking like two wealthy locals.

But they didn't expect that on the ground at the corner of the street, there was a young man wrapped in dirty and tattered fur curled up. The dirty and smelly animal fur covering the boy's body was picked up and stolen from no one knows where. There were a lot of parasites crawling in it, so the boy had to crush the little biting things one by one with his hands. The fur is also a little small. His feet are exposed, and his feet are covered, but his head is exposed. His head is covered, but his feet are exposed.

But unlike the image wrapped in dirty fur, this young man's eyes are clear and translucent, and even the gloomy night cannot block the young man's gaze and prying eyes.

He is a key member of the local thieves group. Although he looks young, he has been working within the thieves group for ten years. Not long ago, their deputy leader returned to his lair with a few wallet companions who had injured their fingers, and spread the news among the team.

"There must be a lot of treasures in that army passing through the border! I'm very sure." Although this man was in a bad mood when he spoke, his words attracted the attention and attention of everyone in the team.

treasure?

Everyone's ears pricked up in this band of thieves who made their fortune by stealing and traveling.

This is the big life!

So soon, this energetic gang of thieves took action. The leader of the experienced thieves sent out the elite of the team to detect the movements of the army, and at the same time sent people to find out the inside information of the caravan that came with the army to spend the night.

A two-pronged approach and full operation.

The young man dressed up like this and hid in a dark corner of the street. He lay down on the ground and pretended to sleep, so that no one would pay attention to him, a humble beggar.

Even if Knight Crow saw this person, he did not attract the knight's attention because the world was not good, no, the world had never been better. There were too many homeless people like this, and the knight did not pay attention at all. The weightless gaze of an ordinary person in the corner of his vision.

Although the boy didn't know who the two people wearing ordinary people's clothes were, walking out of the building where the army was stationed overnight, they must be people related to this army.

He moved his body secretly, and had specially chosen a dark corner of the street. He moved a few times and turned his body around the corner, avoiding all possible sights. He then got up and trotted across a street. Passing residents passed by with disgusted eyes and found another person nearby who compiled the tracking information.

"I saw two people walking out of the building where the army is mainly stationed. They were wearing ordinary clothes and carrying one-handed swords. One looked very ordinary, and the other looked like a rich young man or a noble son. They were talking. Walk towards the south side of Trinity Street."

The thieves group numbered all the buildings and streets in the square and square Wei Feng Town to facilitate their own people to quickly indicate their location.

The person who compiled the news was also dressed in a desolate manner. He was holding a large glass of ale in his arms at the moment, and a lot of alcohol was spilled on his clothes and chest. He was obviously pretending to be a drunken and desolate outsider.

"You're laughing so hard at me, why are you noble? Have you ever seen noble masters and their children? They are very grand, huh."

This man seemed to have had some conflicts with the nobles before, so he made a mockery.

"Okay, I understand. I will arrange for people from other places to follow and keep an eye on it. You return to the position at the gate and keep an eye on it."

The young man curled his lips. He happened to be a little thirsty, so he grabbed the wooden wine glass that was pretending to be in his companion's arms and drank the wine in a big gulp: "Anyway, if you don't drink, don't waste it."

The person who compiled the information allowed the other party to take away the props. After the boy finished drinking, he continued to mock: "You drink so much wine and you like it so much? I wonder how much of your skills are left? I'm afraid it's a knife. You can’t hold it with your fingers, can you?”

"It's up to you to take care of it. Taking out the wallet is the worst way forward. You don't know! If you can't clamp it, you can't clamp it. If I want to do it in the future, I'll do something big, just like this time."

After saying that, the young man turned around and left, throwing the wooden wine glass into his companion's arms.

When the boy passed the corner of the street, the person who compiled the information was still slumped at the corner of the street, but he whistled a playful tune, and soon, another person walked over from the side.

When the two of them passed each other, the man on the ground pretending to be depressed whispered: "Two people are walking south on Trinity Street. They are not going very fast. Let's follow them and have a look. Well, one of them is wearing fancy clothes."

"I know." The person walking by was dressed like a clerk from a chamber of commerce, and even had something in his hands.

After hearing what he said, he continued walking forward, turned directly at the street intersection, quickened his pace and walked quickly towards the place where he just heard it.

-

Kil and Knight Crow were talking while walking. If they didn't talk and just walked in the same direction with their heads down, it would be too purposeful.

Therefore, they quickly moved from Knight Crow's comments on the relationship between soldiers' combat effectiveness and their ability to obey orders to the cooking method of monster meat.

"Uncle Dowdle, should I make the monster meat myself from now on?"

Kil said with a wry smile. Blood-red smoke could still come out of his mouth when he burped just now.

"What? You think what I made is not delicious? You, that thing is not made to make you really think it tastes delicious. The key is not to let the flame and temperature destroy the effect of the material. As long as it is edible."

Knight Crow waved his hands, looking indifferent.

It's hard for Kil to have any more responsibilities. He has never cooked monster meat. The specific situation is not up to Knight Crow's discretion. But in order to accumulate life energy beyond ordinary people, these nutritious monster meats must be eaten.

After all, every time he eats it, the powerful nutrition keeps him from needing to eat normally for many days, and his life energy will increase significantly.

For the sake of strength, I endured it.

Keir secretly said to himself, and they soon reached the foot of the tall tower.

From the narrow gap between the buildings, half of the tower can be seen in the narrow sky through the moonlight.

"I've seen it from a distance before. There are people before dark, shifts are carried out when it gets dark, and there are people at night. Although the locals don't understand how precious this thing is, they use the weapons left by the previous knights. But I still care about it.”

Knight Crow whispered to Kil, and a caravan man carrying something in both hands happened to pass by.

Kil nodded. As one of the few defense facilities against the harpies, it was normal to have people guarding it day and night. Although it seems that the harpies have no intention of asking for trouble, I don't know if it is because the architectural design of Strange Wind Town comes in handy, or if the four towers with a range covering the entire Strange Wind Town play a big role.

Keir thinks it’s the former.

If it were the latter, the knights sent by the previous counts would not have died in battle against the monster lair deep in the grassland, including themselves.

The two turned around and began to circle around the building where the tower was located.

As he walked, Knight Crow pointed at the various chambers of commerce gates passing by and introduced his investigation results to Keir.

"There are people working on this house, and so is this one. By observing the design of the building where we spent the night, the Baron deduced that the entrance to the base of this tower is right next to the patio in the center of the building. There should be an internal passage directly connected to the security militia station."

After turning in the other direction, a closed door appeared in front of you.

The door was thick and tightly closed, but through the cracks in the wooden door, a faint fire could be seen inside.

Obviously, even if it is a place where luminous plants are raised, the chamber of commerce still arranges for manpower to guard the place. We cannot really trust that a wooden door can block people with ulterior motives.

Although luminous plants are not expensive, they are not cheap either. If someone steals them, it will cause a lot of losses.

"Uncle Dowdle, how do we get in? Break through the gate? Or go through the giant vines from the roof?"

Kil glanced for a few times and then asked.

Knight Crow slapped Kil on the head: "Idiot, look at that."

Following Knight Crow's direction, Kil noticed that there were several ventilation windows on the second floor of the building. However, these windows have been closed at this time, and the blue fluorescence emitted by the luminous plants is leaking inside. People who are not locals will be startled by this weird light.

"It's too early to leave through the gate. Now is not the time to take action. There is a lot of movement on the roof. We can only go there when we take action tomorrow. For reconnaissance, go here first. Pay attention."

Knight Crow stopped talking, and a man from the Chamber of Commerce walked past the two of them. This man had put down the things in his hands and seemed to be walking back.

After the man walked away, Knight Crowe continued: "Watch it."

He came under a selected wooden window on the second floor, jumped several meters high with a slight jump, and grabbed the depression in front of the wooden window.

He held it with both hands, then lifted it lightly, and the whole person rose up.

Knight Crow blocked the lower edge of the wooden window with one leg and supported the upper edge of the wooden window with one hand. With both sides exerting force, the whole person was directly fixed on the wooden window.

He flicked it from his waist and silently took out the dagger he asked for from Keir.

The sharp and thin dagger made a gesture at the wooden window opening, without trying to insert it through the wooden window opening and find a way to open the fixed wooden wedge inside.

A touch of khaki light shone directly in his hand, and then passed from the palm to the fingers, and then from the fingers to the dagger.

With a slight shake of his right hand, a khaki energy blade was emitted from the tip of the dagger, dullly cutting the gap in the middle of the wooden window. Knight Crow stretched out his hand and pushed again, and the wooden window opened smoothly.

It turns out that the energy sword just cut off the wooden wedge behind the wooden window.

Knight Crow looked inside for a while, but found no movement, so he ducked in.

Soon, a rope was thrown out.

"Just hurry up."

An order came from the wooden window, and Kil immediately stretched out his hand to grasp the end of the rope, and flipped his wrist a few times to grasp the rope tightly.

The rope contracted and tightened, and then there was an irresistible force that pulled Kil's whole body up.

Kil did not move, because although he could stabilize himself by stepping on the wall next to him, it would easily leave dirty footprints on the khaki mud bricks.

This is not okay.

When he reached the window, Kil reached out and grabbed the edge of the wooden window. As soon as the kettle propped himself up, and with the tension of the rope inside, he slid in through the wooden window like a catfish diving into a sewer.

Bang, the wooden window quickly closed.

You can't see anyone coming in or out from here.

-

At the corner of the building at the street entrance, the stalker pretending to be a clerk from the chamber of commerce called another accomplice.

"You walk from the intersection to the opposite side and see what the two of them are doing. I have shown up twice and I can't show up again."

The accomplice nodded and walked out pretending to be natural. While walking straight on the intersection street, I glanced to the right and was stunned.

"Where are the people?"

The stalker passed by the two of them within a short period of time, but then he disappeared?

"Could he be leaving?"

The man immediately walked over naturally and tidied up a few things out of sight.

Two,people,without,looking at,.

The stalker immediately stretched out half of his head from a low place at the corner of the street and took a careful look. Sure enough, the two living people were gone.

Then he stepped out and called his companions: "The person has disappeared. In this way, you go around from the left, and I go around from the right street. I will definitely find traces of the other party. He hasn't gone far yet."

"good."

Then the two of them quickly separated from both sides, chasing the two figures of Keir.

The stalker did not panic. He was not afraid that you would make a move, but was afraid that you would not make a move.

-

Kil fell down from behind the wooden window, but Knight Crow stretched out his hand to catch him, flipped him over, and landed on the ground gently and deftly.

"Shhh."

Making a gesture, Knight Crow suppressed the cry in Kil's throat.

Kil calmed down, looked around, and found that they had entered the chamber of commerce that sold luminous plants, a room dedicated to raising and growing luminous plants.

Blue-green light is everywhere around you. It's obviously night, and it's obviously inside a building blocked by most walls, but it's very bright and clear here.

There is also a fresh smell in the air that has been removed from the dust and animal excrement. It is the fragrance of flowers emitted by some luminous plants.

Including several of the fiery glowing plants he had seen for sale in the store before, there were several other smaller numbers of glowing plants planted in flower pots.

There are luminous plants that are similar to small fruit trees. However, the plants themselves do not emit light. Instead, their fruits have colorful patterns. These patterns emit flashing white light, flashing and flashing. It is hard to say how good the illumination ability is. At least it looks very bright. dazzle.

There is also a vine spreading on the wooden shelf, which looks similar to the huge vine growing on the top of every building in the town, but the vine itself can constantly emit weak fluorescence. The vines don't look like vines, but more like energy pipelines.

There was a metal cage next to it, which seemed to be the most important and precious thing. The contents inside immediately caught Kiel's eye.

It was a luminous bird standing in a wooden frame. Its whole body was no larger than the size of a hand, and its feathers and the crown on its head could emit light. Miraculously, the color of the bird's feathers was constantly changing, as Kiel discovered. As time passed, the feathers of this beautiful bird changed from deep blue to bright yellow.

The crest of the head is not tired like a chicken, but more like a horny look, and the shape is more like a crown.

"K, Uncle Dowdle, what is this?" Kil spoke softly and carefully looked at the luminous birds in the metal cage that were also staring at them.

But Knight Crow also shook his head: "I don't know, but in any case, this thing is definitely not cheap. Okay, Kil, this has nothing to do with us. Move gently and leave."

After giving Kil a tug, Knight Crow walked quietly on the wooden floor and walked inside. Kil frequently turned his head to look at the bird.

He felt a heat in his chest. Keir dug into his chest, and a wooden bird sculpture tied to a rope appeared in his hand.

The appearance of the wood carving seems to be slightly different from when Keir saw it before. Originally, after the unhappy breakup last time, the birds on this wood carving looked angry.

But now, its bird head, which was originally made of wood, showed an anxious look.

Kil rolled his eyes and stuffed the wooden sculpture back into his clothes. He just said softly to the wooden sculpture:

"Come to me tonight."

Following Knight Crow, Kil no longer cared about the wood carvings whose temperature seemed to have dropped.

-

The two carefully walked through the planting area full of various luminous plants, and then passed through the messy and unpleasant-smelling warehouse area, avoiding the plant fertilizers everywhere.

As we approached the stairs connecting the second floor to the first floor, an old man whispered dramatic lines from the door downstairs.

However, the ups and downs of the script, processed by the old man's aging voice, no matter how heroic the words are, become lifeless and devoid of passion and vitality.

Even less infectious.

After bypassing this place and coming to the corner of the house close to the corner of the building, there is naturally a water inlet and window close to the patio.

"Then what is the old man saying? I have an impression, but I can't understand it. It's so weird."

Kil complained to Knight Crow in a low voice.

Knight Crow glanced at Keir: "The battlefield drama "Dawn of the Empire", it sounds like the climax at the end. Have you heard of this?"

Keir slapped his head: "I remembered it, it was this. In the park opposite the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce, wealthy citizens who like drama performed once. I was so impressed that I remembered it."

The knight nodded. He had heard this a few times in the theater in the Kingdom's capital, but it was not just a love of dramatic performances, it was just a secret surveillance mission of the Knights of the Guards.

Facing the water well and the narrow wooden window in front of them, the two looked at each other in confusion.

"Uncle Dowdle, you see, we go through the water channel under the well and reach the patio in the middle of the building. Should we squeeze through the wooden window and get through?"

Knight Crow rolled his eyes and asked, since they couldn't walk by water, how could they go in to investigate when they were soaked.

The knight came to the end of the narrow water intake place, held several wooden barrels for watering backwards on the ground, then stepped on the wood and reached up to the wooden window high up.

I flipped the switch to open the wooden window, but this thing probably never opened after being closed, and it was somewhat stuck.

But this was not a problem for Knight Crow. His strength worked wonders. With a little force, he broke the stuck wooden wedge and successfully opened the wooden window.

First, he opened a gap, and then the knight grabbed the edge of the wooden window and lifted himself up.

After looking at the opposite side of the wooden window, I found that there was no problem and opened the entire wooden window.

The knight stood on the barrel and waved to Keir: "Come on, you go first."

Kil nodded, raised his leg and stepped on the palm of the bent Knight Crow. As soon as the knight lifted up, Kil's whole body was lifted up.