Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel's side.

At this time, he was walking in the mountains and forests with more than 40 young people and several captured bandits.

The night in the mountain forest is cool and cool, and the roars of terrifying beasts can be heard from time to time. But the young people in the team did not show much fear, because at this moment Knight Kiel was riding in the middle of the team.

Of course, Kiel's previous performance fell in the eyes of these courageous young people, and they also knew how powerful the Cavaliers were. Therefore, the roaring sounds of wild beasts coming from around them will no longer make them feel very scared.

At least that's the case when Kiel is around.

The faces of these young people were all a little pale. It wasn't that they all had some disease. It was just that Kiel had asked them to collect trophies on the battlefield. Faced with the bloody scene of seeing so many mutilated corpses for the first time in their lives, basically all of them Young people all vomited and vomited.

He vomited out all the food he had eaten not long ago.

Many people were so overcome by the smell of blood that they could not even vomit out the acidic water in their stomachs.

Kiel had to arrange these people in the open space to guard against possible bandit attacks. Although he didn't think it would happen.

In addition to the poor mental state of the young people, they were all wearing the thick clothes of the bandits at this moment. They were reluctant to throw away the old shabby linen clothes. Now they put on the bandits' smelly animal skin clothes and a few damaged leather armors. At least in terms of protection, they were much stronger than before.

What is particularly worth mentioning is that among the forty people following Kiel at this moment, ten young people have carried the bandits' short bows on their backs, and two bags of arrows. The team also has long-range attack methods.

These people all come from hunter families, which were not many in the original village. Although the number is small, the proportion in the team also shows that young people with hunter backgrounds are still braver than others.

Behind the blood-licking grass that Kil was riding, there were three horses following. Kil brought out all the horses he had in order to bring out more valuable things after breaking through the bandits' lair.

You can't carry much if you just rely on people carrying it on their backs and shoulders.

"How long does it take to reach your home base?"

Next to the blood-licking grass that Kil was riding, there were several bandits being escorted closely behind him. These people were tightly bound, but it did not affect their ability to speak or move.

At this moment, Keir was questioning a gang of robbers who originally belonged to Fatty.

The captured bandit was also in a miserable state at the moment. When Kil tortured this man before, he was still stubborn and refused to speak, and then he was literally repaired.

Some of the body parts on his face are missing, and at the same time, there are some extra things on his body.

Unable to bear the inhuman torture, the bandit finally took the pill orally when Kiel was about to trim some of the excess limbs from his hands and feet.

There is no other way. This bandit who often tortures gangs of bandits and defeats and robs passers-by knows very well that human beings can't do any work without their thumbs on their hands.

Although it looks like the palm is still there, it has lost the ability to work.

This is different from Kiel moving his ears and teeth. Without those things, he can survive in the future, if he still has a future. But once the knight really did what he said and would let him go after good behavior, then the bandit would have to weigh the weight of loyalty and betrayal.

Having said that, when the bandit heard Knight Kiel asking him, he immediately replied: "Master Knight, the route is correct. It is one of the three routes on the trade road that connects us to our base. It just needs to be walked for a while. "

Kiel often followed their route, which was the southward direction of the trade road, gradually heading towards the towering mountains to the south.

They had just passed through a sparse forest, and were now walking around among huge rocks two people high, generally heading east along the first mountain range to the south.

That's right, although the bandits are said to be entrenched here, they don't dare to go too deep into the uninhabited mountains.

Not to mention Warcraft, there are also some troublesome monsters that can probably slowly kill and eliminate some unwary bandit teams.

It is difficult to say whether the bandits entrenched in areas unsuitable for human survival were killed more by the soldiers responsible for security, or by the troublesome monsters in the mountains or forests.

"By the way, you bandits live in remote areas where there are no trade routes. What should you do if you get sick?"

Kiel was a little curious, not to mention material supplies, but how these people would deal with it after they got sick with a cold and abdominal pain.

Several of the bandits who were being held in custody looked at each other and smiled bitterly: "Master Knight, what else can we do? We must fight against the minor illness. At most, we can give the patient more good food, and at the same time, we don't let anyone come into contact with women. Be careful. Because of that, I lost my strength. As for serious illness, it can only depend on whether the person suffering from the illness is a confidant of the leader or whether he likes him or not."

"How to say?"

"If the leader likes it, he will take some money and have people carry him to a nearby town to see a doctor. We usually pretend to be small businessmen from other places and go to the town to treat the disease with our tail between our legs. If the leader doesn't like the sick person, then that person People can only wait for death. At most, a good companion can go out alone to get some useful herbs from villages and towns, and then rush back to give them to people."

"Hmm." Kil touched his chin with his finger: "Aren't there any priests who use magic to cure diseases?"

When he was sick and injured, except when he first came to the other world, he had to seek solutions from the church. He himself felt that the medical level in the other world was very high because of the magical healing skills.

But his speech made the young people around him speechless: "Sir Knight, let alone these damn bandits, we are the villagers and farmers in the village. If there is no church and priests in the village, it is usually difficult to treat the disease. You have to rely on herbal medicine to cure the disease. Go to other villages and towns to find priests to perform magic. That is too expensive. "

"Yes, I heard that the head of our village broke his leg while repairing the chimney two years ago. His sons carried him to a nearby town. They just asked the priests from the God of Wealth Church to heal his broken leg. I spent several gold coins! Hey, the village chief is still rich. He obviously has a broken leg and can stay at home for half a year. He has to use magic to cure the leg. But it is really powerful. Several people carried it when he went there. , I went there in an ox cart. When I came back, I drove the cart back by myself."

Keir knew as soon as he heard that, although each church had tried its best to spread its scale to the bottom, for the villagers living in remote villages, using healing magic to treat injuries and illnesses was a topic of conversation. matter.

Talking and chatting like this, the young people in the team finally relaxed their tense spirits.

There was blood on some people's faces. Under the light of the torch, several young people whose companions were not killed or injured were even playing with the weapons and equipment assigned to them in surprise.

The weapons used by the bandits were not sophisticated, and most of them used whatever they snatched from the caravans. But because Kil had previously defeated the bandit team of the King of White Walls, the forty young refugees he led at this time were at least stronger than the average bandit team in terms of weapons and equipment.

"Concentrate, don't be distracted. This is an uninhabited wilderness near the Mianmian Mountains. Be careful, don't be attacked by lurking beasts and monsters!"

Kil shouted, reminding the men around him not to be careless.

At this time, under the guidance of the captured bandits, they walked around the huge rock area that looked like a natural ecstasy. They faced a wide valley in front of them and had a relatively wide view.

At the bottom of the valley was a forest along the river, but Kil did not look there. Instead, he raised his head slightly and looked halfway up the mountain on the left side of the valley.

There, in the pitch-black night, blazing flames and columns of smoke rose.

"Is that direction your home base?"

Keir called to the captured bandits and pointed to a place halfway up the valley in the distance where there was a bright light from the flames.

The bandit looked up for a while, and then realized that it was the direction of their lair: "Yes, yes. But what's going on? Why is it on fire? It shouldn't be! The buildings outside the cave are all made of stones. ?”

The young men under Kiel could not see clearly at night. Outside the light range of the surrounding torches, they were all blurred. Therefore, they did not understand what Kiel and the bandits said about the distant situation.

Kiel smacked his lips and continued to ask: "How many people did you leave in your lair this time when you attacked us?"

"The dead leader has left more than ten people at home, but it's impossible for them to set fire on their own. Do they want to die? If the leader hadn't died, they would have peeled off their skins and thrown away the skinless people when they returned. Go into the death cave and feed the dead.”

Kil snorted: "You guys are having a great time."

Then Kiel told the people around him: "Everyone stop where you are and put out the torches!"

After Kil gave the order, the young people stopped in confusion, and then slowly and reluctantly put the lighting torches in their hands on the ground and covered them with soil. They were reluctant to put out the torches with their newly acquired animal skin boots.

Faced with this situation, Kiel shook his head helplessly. He had no choice but to compare with the Kendall militiamen who had gone through winter training and actual combat drills to eliminate bandits. These people were far behind.

But at least one good thing is that these people only obey Kiel's orders at this time and are considered his 'soldiers'.

With a silent smile, Kil then took out the newly acquired luminous magic pendant from the leather pouch on his belt, and the magic's white cold light illuminated the area around Kil.

Looking at the young people around him who were looking at him, Kil explained: "In this way, the situation ahead is unknown, so all of us will wait here. Before I come back, don't raise the torch to avoid being discovered by someone. Just stay where you are, I will go to the front to conduct some reconnaissance, and I will come back to join you after taking care of the enemies."

He looked at several captured and surrendered bandits: "As for these bandits, keep a close eye on them. Block their mouths and don't let them speak. At the same time, tie their feet up now. Don't beat them until I come back." They, they're still useful. Don't talk to them, or untie anyone."

"Hmph, even if they poop, they still poop in my pants! Do you understand?"

"Understood, Lord Knight."

Several young people nearby responded to Kil's words. They were all wearing damaged leather armor. They were among the young people who dared to fight. They were the ones with the best strength and organizational skills.

"You guys, the team is left to you. If there are enemies, fight, but don't leave the place. Supervise each other."

"We understand sir."

After the explanation, Kil rode the blood-licking grass out of the crowd, running along a dirt road often trodden by people on the ground, towards the woods at the bottom of the valley ahead.

As soon as Keir walked away, darkness enveloped the more than forty people.

After being quiet for a while, a young man in the lead said, "Let's all get together. It will be safer this way."

"good."

"that's all."

A few of them made a sound, causing the long team around them to gather together and form a circle.

The captured bandits who were named to be careful were in the middle. A guy was sitting on the ground twisting and making a whining sound. His mouth was blocked, and he didn't know what he was going to say.

But no matter how much the man squirmed and hesitated, the young refugees surrounding the bandit remained unmoved.

After a while, the bandit stopped moving, and a smelly hot breath floated out from the bandit's crotch.

"Hmph, Lord Knight said, even if you guys are in your pants, don't even think about moving. Just stay there."

The bandits fell silent.

Everyone was waiting quietly in the dark and quiet wilderness, waiting for Keir to come back.

-

Kil was riding on the horse, pulling the reins of the blood-licking grass all the way. Mainly because it was such a dark environment, it was not easy to identify the blurry paths on the ground.

It's much better to go all the way into the woods near the river at the bottom of the valley.

They probably regard this place as their own territory, so the fat bandits will extend the road to their lair, mainly into the woods. The two sides were specially cut down, and the cut wood was nailed into the soil on both sides of the road to clearly show the way to go.

There were many nocturnal birds in the forest. After Keir rode in, they began to chirp and fly up and down with their wings flapping.

Kil rubbed his teeth and knew that these nocturnal birds might have been raised by the bandits in the forest, and they might be part of their nighttime vigilance system.

After all, looking at the situation now, as long as someone walks along the deliberately reserved road to the bandits' lair at night, they will definitely be discovered by these birds that are only active at night.

Secretly being cautious, Keir rode his horse quickly through the road in the woods without stopping or wandering.

When encountering a fork in the road, you can also identify the direction of the bandit's lair and walk to one side.

Suddenly, a spear came towards Kil. Kil, who heard the noise in the woods nearby, had already moved his shield forward.

Boom, boom!

The projectile gun hit the shield, bursting out sparks, and then bounced away diagonally, but Kil regretfully turned the shield over and took a look.

On the surface of his shield, scratches and dents of various depths, large and small, were quite conspicuous, and some of them were left behind tonight. The latest dent and scratch were left just now.

"It's a bit small, and I need to find time to repair it and re-forge it."

With a complaint, Kil took out the hunting bow from the weapon rack behind him, nocked the arrow and shot towards the place that made the noise in front of him.

Whoosh——

The guy who had sneak-attacked Kil was gradually retreating after missing the target, but Kil made the blood-licking grass slow down and stop, and then continued shooting.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

After several consecutive arrows, the person who sneaked up on him had to change direction left and right, but he didn't know that such an action played into Kiel's hands.

After waiting for a while, Kil fired another arrow, then suddenly removed the luminous pendant from his waist and threw it forward.

The direction of the throw is exactly where the sneak attack person will move next.

The light leapt and moved in the woods, and Kil fell into darkness, but the person who sneaked into the attack was caught by the luminous pendant that hit him.

-

A young bandit wearing strange clothes and with some random tattoos on his body.

Most of his upper body was naked, revealing scary and weird tattoos. A brown venomous snake was surrounding the bandit's neck, hissing and screaming in the direction of Kiel.

But the next moment, the long sword Hunting was thrown over by Kil.

"Hit the enemy for me!"

Kil shouted loudly, but the rotating sword seemed to have a soul. It whirled and whirled, flying over the vines and shrubs, directly cutting the bandit in half who was trying to slow down and dodge.

Blood and bodily fluids splashed, and after the long sword hunted and cut off the enemy, it stopped on the trunk of a big tree. The hilt of the sword swung back and forth, making a buzzing sound. It looked like a loyal dog that had done what its master asked. After the incident, he seemed to be wagging his tail excitedly.

After the bandit who attacked Kiel was cut into two pieces, his upper body was still alive. He was lying in the grass, groaning, pulling the poisonous snake around his neck, and using his last strength to throw it in the direction of Kiel.

But after landing, the brown venomous snake was obviously more interested in the nocturnal birds in the forest. It made a hissing sound, slipped into the dead branches and leaves, and slid away towards the trunk of the tree.

Of course, Kil noticed the snake thrown by the opponent. After confirming which direction the snake crawled and slithered away, Kil made a half circle, jumped off the horse from the other direction and approached his attacker.

Pulling out the long sword to hunt, Kil swung it, put the sword back into the sheath, pressed the moonlight iron at the end of the sword hilt with his left palm, and slowly rubbed it with the glove with the steel armor.

He first picked up the luminous pendant he threw before and put it on his metal belt again. Only then did he check on the robbers who attacked him.

One look at the other person's appearance, and Kil knew that he looked similar to the first wave of bandits who attacked the refugees.

This is very interesting, because the bandits' lair that Keir and his men are attacking at this moment is the territory of the Fat Man gang.

The bandit named Huang She, his men are here at the moment.

He was obviously guarding the road to Fatty's lair.

Thinking about the fire in Fatty's lair at this moment, it's not difficult to guess what happened: "Someone got there first."

Keir murmured to himself: "But it's okay, at least two groups of people are fighting among themselves. I only need to defeat the remaining group. Hehehehe, haha, it saves me a lot of things. .”

He chuckled.

At the same time, Keir also gained a new understanding of the greed of the bandits.