Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir insisted that he came here only to retaliate against the bandits for the attack on the team he led, but he did not mention a few money boxes that he hung on the horses.

"Go and call those people over. I need some help from you. Go ahead."

Seeing the surprised and delighted look on this man's face, Kil knew that these people might have suffered a lot, so he clapped his hands and asked the middle-aged man to call everyone over.

It was only then that the middle-aged man realized that they had finally been rescued. Tears flowed down his face, with a wolfish smile on his face that was even uglier than crying. He wiped his face with his hands, and the dirt on his face turned into a ball mixed with tears, and the more he wiped it, the messier it became.

He was obviously a middle-aged man, and in the other world at least his children were expected to get married. However, when he ran towards the companions who were suffering with him, he not only cheered, but also ran and jumped, extremely happy. look like.

Kil smiled and continued to count the supplies that the bandits had looted.

In addition to the cash and valuables just now, some valuable goods stolen by the thieves were also transported out. Most of these goods are cloth and paper, as well as lamp oil and some light handicrafts.

"These are the valuable things you picked out?"

Kil asked the surrendered bandits. The bandits didn't know what Kil meant, but they still nodded.

Exhaling, Kil shrugged, feeling that the level of bandits was really limited.

He thought it would be better to search the cave where the bandits were lair later.

At this time, those who were kidnapped all rushed over. They originally wanted to get close to the knight Kil to thank him for his rescue, but after they came over, they were frightened away by the smell of blood and the blood all over Kil’s body. .

"Haha, I have seen everyone's kindness, but the bloodstains on me are really not good-looking. Can anyone bring me some water? I need to clean the armor and weapons on my body."

When Kil said this, he originally thought that these rescued people would take the initiative to help him, but these people looked at me and I looked at you. Finally, an old man nodded and said that he knew the water fetching point of the bandit's lair. Wherever he goes to get it.

Keir thought that these people were indifferent because of this reason, but later he realized that these guys who were kidnapped had at least a small fortune, and they had never done the menial work of fetching water and cooking.

"Come here, it's you."

Kil shouted to the middle-aged man just now, and the man came over nervously and asked what was going on.

"In this way, you take this dagger, take this luminous pendant with you, ride on my horse, carefully go down the hillside, go through the woods, and find my men. Call them over. There are so many things here. We have to get rid of it, and at the same time we have to destroy this bandit’s lair.”

"Lord Knight, I don't know which direction your team is in?"

"It's okay, my horse knows it, and it will take you there. But after you pass, you must first show me this dagger to convince them to let them come over. Hey, I still can't leave, otherwise I will go over by myself Call someone."

The middle-aged man resisted, but had no choice but to push the man directly onto the blood-licking grass. The blood-licking grass was quite unhappy, but Kil nagged in its ear for a while, so that it was not thrown off the horse.

"Don't touch my things, they are my trophies."

Kil finally threatened the middle-aged man, who nodded solemnly. So Gere slapped the horse's butt and let it go out.

As soon as the horses left the camp gate, a scream from the middle-aged man came from outside.

The men, women, and children who had just been rescued all around were frightened.

"It's okay. He was probably frightened by the fighting scene outside the gate. It's okay, it just looked scary."

Kil comforted him and shouted loudly: "Head crossing the water——"

Then the ax with the blue light flew back whistling and spinning. It circled above Kiel's head, and then landed on its own in Kiel's outstretched palm.

After hanging on the rack on his back, Kil faced the people who were looking at him with wide eyes, shrugged and said: "You are all hungry. Let's have something to eat. We still have to walk for a while before we leave here. .”

Some of these people must have been imprisoned for a long time, and they were all very thin. Keir was afraid that they would not be able to walk, so he offered to eat something. As soon as he spoke, there was a series of stomach rumblings all around. Apparently many people felt hungry as soon as they arrived in a safe environment.

Maybe the feeling of hunger has always been there, but these people didn't dare to complain about hunger before.

As soon as Keir said this, these people came to the pile of food that had been piled up in the middle of the camp and picked through it, looking for something to eat. A skinny kid, who was probably only ten years old, was holding a piece of dried salted fish and tearing it apart vigorously, not caring that the salted fish made him roll his eyes.

"If this doesn't work, find a pot, boil something thin and drink it, otherwise many people's stomachs may not be able to bear it."

When Keir said this, some young people reacted, put down the dry wheat grains in their hands, and ran to the surrounding houses, looking for things to cook.

At this time, the old man carrying water came over with a bucket of water. Kil stepped forward to take the bucket, casually tore off a piece of animal skin clothing from the dead bodies lying on the ground, and after getting it wet, he wiped the surface of the armor on his body.

The clear water contaminated by blood flowed thinly along the terrain at Kiel's feet, leaving behind a winding red stream.

"Please carry another bucket, and I'll wipe down the upper body of the weapons and armor as well."

After hearing what Kil said, the old man nodded and said, "There are still buckets in the cave. I'll get you another bucket."

Soon, the old man brought a new bucket of water over. Kil was not in a hurry to wipe the armor on his upper body. He first took out the hunting sword and inserted it into the ground next to him. Then he groped for the helmet and neck armor. Once, open the lock that secures the connection and remove the helmet.

"Phew, it feels much more comfortable. The helmet is good everywhere, but it feels a little stuffy after wearing it for a long time."

Kil shook his head and shook away the sweat from his long hair. When Kil looked at the old man, the old man took several steps back in fright: "Young knight, your eyes?"

Kil lowered his head and curiously looked at the reflective surface of the water in the bucket. On his overly young face, a pair of green eyes were very dazzling: "It doesn't matter, it's just the changes brought about by powerful blessings."

He didn't expect that more than an hour had passed and the infinite energy effect brought by the blessing of the 'source of grass and trees' had not faded away.

This led him to speculate that this blessing could either provide the user with nearly unlimited divine power to compensate for the consumption of support within a short period of time, or it could provide an upper limit to the divine power that ordinary people, even knights, could not use up.

Considering that blessings are said to fade with regular use, he thinks it's likely the latter.

The so-called unlimited energy is not really unlimited, but it just cannot be used up, which gives people a feeling of unlimited energy.

Just like the water in a well, it seems that it will never be exhausted, but as long as there is no rainfall in the place for a year, the well water that originally seemed to be inexhaustible will also become thirsty.

"Blessing? Are you a knight of the church?"

The old man seemed to have some knowledge, but Kil shook his head: "No, he was just helping the church with things. He was afraid that I was not strong enough, so he just provided me with a blessing. Do you know about blessings?"

The old man nodded: "Of course I know. I'm not unfamiliar with some young people. They have been to several provinces in the kingdom. Hey, I didn't expect that they turned somersaults here in the winter. Ask the bandits to catch them."

Kil smiled: "After hearing that the southern province was defeated on the battlefield last year, it gradually became chaotic. The knight lords responsible for local governance and management all led their troops to the provincial capital in early spring to assemble. Recently, there have been more changes here. It’s a mess.”

The old man found a place to sit down and slapped his back: "I am still greedy. I thought that after the war, the prices of local goods increased a lot, so I wanted to get involved and make a fortune. Unexpectedly, many people had the same plan as me. All the merchants are trapped here."

He spread his hands: "The situation in various towns is really bad. They ate our goods, but then drove out many businessmen from other places without paying."

The old man shook his head: "It's good luck. They didn't try to eat all the foreign caravans." He raised his chin and pointed at the young people who were eating not far away: "Those young men are unlucky, not only in When I suffered a loss, I didn’t endure it in time, and I had a conflict with the local town officials. Not only was the goods that were finally transported lost, but the people who ate them were also lost.”

The old man refers to carriages and other items used for business.

"Even the guy who was eating was confiscated. Well, all he had left was the clothes he was wearing. Those robbers saw that he was well-dressed and didn't care whether he had money or not, so they picked him up. Instead, he was given free money by those young people. I prostituted myself for food and accommodation for a while.”

Just now, Keir thought that these businessmen who came to do business and make money were full of risks, but he didn't expect to hear such a funny story in the end.

"Didn't the robbers realize that the kidnapped people had no money?"

Kil asked while wiping his armor and weapons.

"Those who come out to do business don't mean that our families really don't have money, but most of us are not locals. We are from other provinces. Even if we are kidnapped and extorted, it will take more than half a year at least."

"Haha. So they were lucky enough to meet me?"

"It's good luck."

The hungry young businessmen who were kidnapped carried out tables, chairs and iron pots from the rooms in the bandit camp. After pouring water and food into them, they picked up the bandit weapons on the ground, cut off some wooden furniture, and raised the On fire.

Most of the rescued people gathered around the fire and the iron pot. Of course, the bandits would not let the kidnapped people eat enough to have the strength to escape, so some people had not eaten for a long time.

They didn't care about the good food they had eaten when they were doing business. Now they just put whatever they had, a handful of wheat grains, a handful of wheat flour, a handful of beans, a handful of smashed dried meat, and half a salted fish for seasoning.

Gurgling, the food was put down and quickly boiled into a pot of turbid soup.

Keir didn't want to taste something that he knew was not delicious at first sight, but the hungry ex-butchers around him all ignored their original identities and went to get the soup with the wooden bowls in their hands. I couldn't wait to pour it into my stomach.

"Young knight, don't you go and eat some?"

The old man sat up and planned to go have something to eat, so he asked Kil, who was carefully drying his armor.

Keir shook his head quickly.

He didn't want to eat the soup that he didn't know what it tasted like at all.

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The middle-aged man Patsy Edwin is riding on a tall horse, surrounded by dark woods.

The constant flapping of wings sounded in the surrounding darkness, accompanied by the sounds of birds that were either pleasant or hoarse.

But he was not afraid. He held high the magic pendant that emitted light, and clutched the precious gemstone dagger in his arms, using these things to bring him a sense of security.

Although the horse under his legs was only trotting, it was running at the same speed as other horses. As soon as the clattering woods made a strange sound, they were left far behind.

Speaking behind him, Patsy couldn't help but look towards the place where the horses placed weapons and luggage behind him.

A set of hunting bows was inserted there, and a metal spear was also fixed on it, but that was not the point. The point was four small boxes tied with ropes.

He knew what was in it.

Money, money. money! money! ! money! ! !

￥% of the total is money and small and valuable things.

‘With this money, maybe I can organize a caravan to go back? ’

Together with this thought, it is like a weed that has taken root and cannot be cleared away, and becomes more and more lush.

His hands couldn't help but grab the reins on the horse's neck that were swinging wildly as it ran, and his breathing gradually became heavier.

Turning to look in the direction of the bandit's lair on the hillside, he murmured to himself: "This is what the bandits owe me. They tied me up and threw my goods in the wild. This is the bandit's property. , it’s also the property I lost!”

The more he talked about it, the more it made sense, and now he turned to look at the bandit's lair in the woods. He thought the burning tower was very hot and dazzling before, but now he couldn't see clearly.

And there was no one around except him.

In other words, he has a chance.

An opportunity to reverse a period of bad luck.

The reins were pulled hard, trying to change the horse's original running direction.

"Turn around! Change the direction!"

The middle-aged man Patsy Edwin's face twisted.

-

The rescued person eats his first unlimited meal after being rescued.

After Kil reminded these people not to overeat, which would lead to death, he began to search the bandits' camp.

In addition to the burning tower, there are five or six wooden houses of different sizes in the semicircular bandit camp. The construction of these houses was very haphazard. It was probably because the bandits did not have the manpower for construction, so even if they had a forest very close by, the houses were built in a mess.

Either the house was built too high or too large because the wood was too large, or it was too small and too short. Kiln had to lower his head to get into the door, and he had to keep bending down the whole time when searching the house.

Most of these houses are where bandits usually live. That's right, after all, who would live in a dark cave when they have nothing to do? Although these houses are built randomly, at least they can see the sky when going out, and they can also get sunshine on weekdays.

Keir threw many of the bandits' smelly clothes outside the house. These things were a little dirty, but at least they kept warm and warm. Keir could also tell that many of the clothes were stolen by the thieves from merchants. The materials were good, but It just looks dirty if it's not taken care of properly.

He doesn't wear it himself, but it's fine for many young refugee people who only have linen clothes.

Get rid of the parasites on it and wash it well before wearing it.

The residence of the bandit leader, who was only known as Fatty, was also in the camp. It was the largest wooden house.

Perhaps to show his status as a bandit leader, the height of this guy's house is that of the aforementioned wooden house that is too large for even a ladder to reach the roof.

It was a mess, and it had been looted and rummaged twice, but there were still the most good things. The iron pots used by the rescued businessmen to cook food were found here, and the furniture and chairs that were split and used as firewood were also found here. from.

It is not difficult to see that the young businessmen who were cooking had a sense of revenge when they did this.

Kil laughed when he thought of this.

He first removed the large piece of animal skin hanging on the wall of the wooden house for decoration and warmth, rolled it up and threw it outside the house, and then found several spare weapons of the bandit leader. These weapons were heavy and made of steel. Huang Snake and the others felt they were too heavy to carry away, so they left them where they were. At first glance, Kil felt that after melting it, he could modify his armor or forge a new suit of armor.

After a period of use, this armor had no fewer than dozens of large and small injuries, especially the bows and arrows fired by the King of White Walls before, which caused many scratches on the right side of his body.

Although it looks like a warrior who has experienced battles, for Kiel, clean and good-looking weapons and equipment are more in line with his feelings.

The main thing is that it looks good and has momentum.

Lifting the particularly heavy and wide wooden bed of the bandit leader, Kil thrust his sword hard into the wooden floor.

Sure enough, I found a secret door that was not easy to find.

This thing was blocked by a wooden bed. Not to mention whether Huang She and the others knew this place before, but without the strength of Kiel, they would not be able to lift this heavy wooden bed in a short time.

This thing is as heavy as a piece of wood. There were traces of rope binding on the wooden bed. Apparently the bandit leader had used this hiding place before and had to summon his men to use ropes to pull outside the door to pull the wooden bed apart.

Unlike Keir, he just lifted it up and threw it aside.

When he opened the secret door, a musty smell came out. Keir didn't rush in. He walked out of the house and used the downward passage to ventilate the inside first.

"Lord Knight, what are you doing in there?"

A middle-aged woman who was rescued curiously asked Kiel that after eating something, no matter whether it tasted good or not, these people at least regained their vitality and energy.

At this moment, several young men were whipping the corpses of the bandits who had been left here before, venting their grievances about being bullied. It is estimated that they have been tortured by these bandits before.

Keir took one look and let them go.

"It's nothing. Just look through the belongings hidden by the thieves. Look, this is it."

Keir shook a money bag in his hand, and there was a crisp sound of metal colliding inside. He found all these from various cracks in the bandit's house. There was no extra money hidden in the bandit leader's house. Obviously, the four boxes containing property before were found from the bandit leader's house. .

"These are all our original properties!"

When the other party said this, Keir shrugged: "The coins all look the same, so who can tell which one is yours? Right?"

Several older businessmen hurriedly pulled this gullible guy down and whispered something to him. The middle-aged woman was discouraged, sat on the ground, hugged her head, and started to cry. come out.

Several middle-aged and elderly businessmen advising her next to her also sighed. They all suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, this one was captured because he had money when he was fleeing from the southern province to other provinces. Although I also lost a lot of personal belongings, compared with some people who borrowed money to do business, it was already much better.

Because this person just doesn’t have any property, but at least his wealth is a positive number, and some of them borrowed money to run a business before. Not to mention that the business failed, and they were robbed by bandits. It goes without saying that so much time has passed, and it goes without saying that the family is guessing that this time I had to sell my house and land before I could repay the loan.

For a moment, the young people were beating the dead robber's body in revenge, while the middle-aged man was lamenting in a low voice and wiping his tears.

Kil shrugged again and ran to talk to the old man who was in a good mood.

At this time, the old man was sitting on the only remaining intact wooden chair, and a child of about ten years old was sleeping in his arms.

"Is this your grandson?"

Hearing the young knight's question, the old man shook his head and whispered: "He is a child of a rich family captured by bandits. The little guy is so pitiful. If I hadn't taken care of him, he would probably not have survived until now. Those The robbers are too careless, the children are prone to illness, and the rich life in the past was not a hardship, but they have caused a lot of sins."

Kil leaned down and took a look at the ten-year-old boy. He had a dirty little face and food residue at the corner of his mouth. He was very thin. Generally, children of this age could be helped in the fields by farmers. .

But at this time, the boy was not only as thin as a stick, but also had several fingers missing.

"His finger?"

The old man shook his head: "When I first came here, I asked the rats in the cave to bite me off."

Keir pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.

"And he didn't come alone. There seemed to be a sister of the same age. But not long after he was captured, the little girl was tortured to death by the bandits. Hey, I heard that he was thrown into some death cave and fed A dead body that can move."

Kil took a breath and nodded: "I'll go take a look in the cave. Pay attention to the young people venting their emotions, and don't let them kill the bandits I captured. If something happens, find someone to go in and call me."

The old man nodded and gently touched the head of the young man who had woken up at some point and was pretending to sleep, but was sobbing quietly.

He murmured in a low voice, not knowing who he was talking to: "Don't cry, don't cry, kindness needs to be repaid ten times. And hatred often needs a hundred times to be eliminated and calmed down."

The young man hummed quietly, but no one heard him except the old man.