Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir approached the wooden chair, looked at it, and then kicked it over. Sure enough, he found a small metal box hidden in the wooden board at the bottom of the wooden chair.

He whistled proudly, thanking him for his training in video games in his previous life.

The metal box is not big and looks quite sturdy, but there is a metal lock hanging on it. You either have to find the key or break the lock to open it.

This thing is a trouble for other bandits in the same lair, but it is not a problem for Keir who has defeated the entire bandit gang.

First, he took out the small metal box and placed it in a relatively open place. Then he drew out his long sword and struck with a clang, and the lock and the fixed place underneath were cut open.

When he was about to bend down to open the small box, Kil hesitated, took a few steps back, and then took a wooden wine glass on the wooden bed and slammed it against the upper half of the metal box.

boom!

The upper half of the small metal box with a broken lock was smashed open far away, and then in the flash of fire, several metal flashes were excited and flew out.

With two ping-pong clicks, two metal flying knives bounced off the shield of Keir standing not far from the front. Other metal flying knives hit the surrounding wooden beds.

"My lord, my lord, what's wrong?"

The three young men heard the noise and ran over, but were blocked by Kiel with a wave of his arm: "Stay away, be careful. This thing has a murder mechanism."

The young people looked at the opened small metal box on the ground with wide eyes, and found that the upper half of the opened box was not filled with jewelry as they had imagined, but a set of torsion mechanisms that they thought were complicated.

Kil smashed another wooden wine glass that he had handy. The glass hit the complex mechanism hard, causing the thing to creak, but no more metal flying knives were ejected.

"This is the anti-theft trap that Barney showed off to me before."

Behind everyone, two women wearing simple clothes walked over, supporting each other and leaning on each other. The older one squinted at the metal box and said hesitantly.

Kil turned his head and looked at the woman deeply: "Burglary guard, isn't he the leader of the bandits? Hmm, that's really ridiculous."

This woman has long brown hair. Unfortunately, she must have been in a bad situation recently, so the originally smooth long hair is now dry and dull, and some of it has been deliberately torn off, and there is blood on the top of her head. Part of the hair is missing.

The opponent is not short in stature, but also has a large frame. Shorter men would probably not be able to fight with him as his opponent.

But the other party's slim and healthy figure shows that the other party does not rely on fighting and force to make a living.

In particular, Keir noticed that although the palms of the opponent's hands held together with his companions were injured in many places by torture, the opponent's nails were deliberately made long, and most of the nail paint was decorated with them.

Those are not the hands of a laborer. In this era, there are not many such hands. Only management leaders or people with a good life have such palms.

Not to mention the girls in the red houses in the town are like this. Come on, those girls also have to do menial work in the store.

"So, what do you do? Mountain Wolf Barney has been defeated by us and is now being held captive in the open space outside the cave."

When Keir said this, the woman's eyes became bright and her face changed: "Really, this is really great, that damn emotionless bastard. I want to look at him today. die!"

With a chuckle, Keir said, "Yes, it won't be long."

Kil listened to the news that the mountain wolf Barney had just explained. The real lair of mountain wolf Barney was not along the trade route, but a day's walk deeper into the mountains.

The distance there is just too far.

If there were only a few of him or Priest Batal, they could go there and pick out some things. But now that he has hundreds of people to manage, he can't afford to waste two full days for a special trip.

It is impossible to leave this matter to the young people under my command. The guys in this group are not yet warmed up, and they have no fighting skills at all. If they go into the mountain with a small number of people, they are afraid of being eaten by monsters and beasts in the mountain. . And if there are many people, leaving such a matter to others will not make him feel at ease.

So I'll torture Barney the mountain wolf later. If the lair is really that deep inside, Keir won't go there.

-

Keir approached the small metal box placed on the ground and found that the opened upper part was a complex metal spring torsion mechanism. Generally speaking, those who failed to open the box through normal methods would only open the upper part of the fatal mechanism first and be hit by dozens of sharp flying knives randomly fired.

He looked at this thing carefully for a while and felt that it should be reusable as long as the torsion spring inside was replaced and the flying knives were loaded.

"Did Barney the Coyote tell you where he got this thing?"

The woman who was clinging to her companion was silent for a while and then said: "I heard that it was found from the robbed goods. One of his companions died at that time. By the way, Sir Knight, my name is Fenia Duo. Zesia, my friends call me 'Kiss of Death', I used to be the manager of the 'Hot Kiss' hotel on the commercial road."

Keir was stunned after hearing this: "Oh, so you and Barney the Mountain Wolf had a cooperative relationship before?"

Hearing Kil's words, the young men who were only focused on searching were stunned. Subconsciously, they pointed their weapons at the two women sitting huddled on a wooden bed.

The woman being protected by Fenia was younger and was washing and shaking at the moment, but the brown-haired Fenia said directly: "Sir, the accusation requires evidence."

Keir scoffed at this: "There is no need for evidence in areas beyond the control of town law enforcers."

"But morality, conscience, and laws are actually in our hearts, aren't they? I still say that accusations require evidence, and the words of a bandit leader cannot be used as evidence in any case. Shameless guy, you can say anything. No one will believe it. Because those who believe it are idiots.”

Keir sneered: "I think you and your people are idiots."

Fenia smiled sadly: "Who says it's not the case?"

The other woman was led by this topic and started to cry again. This made Keir a little embarrassed. Fortunately, no one could see his face, but it made him not know how to deal with these two people.

To say that these people who run commercial hotels are not colluding with the bandits, even a normal person would not believe it.

But no one would believe them, specifically the two surviving ones, that they were not harmed by the bandits. After all, the sticky and suspicious smell on their bodies and the bruises of varying severity all over their bodies cannot be faked.

Here comes the question. People who collaborated with bandits before are now harmed by bandits. Can they be regarded as innocent persons?

Kil thought for a while and expressed his doubts.

The three young men had tangled faces. One of their relatives had died in a previous bandit attack, so this man said that anyone who colluded with the bandits must die. But the other two didn't think so. After all, the collusion between the staff of the business road hotel and the bandits had nothing to do with refugees like them. Even if it harmed the interests of the business travelers, it was still the business of the business travelers, and they were not the business travelers. Farming doesn't matter.

Moreover, when the whole village of refugees passed through here to go to the White Stone City Wall Checkpoint, they passed by these merchant hotels along the way, and people even gave some food to them who were begging for food.

How to calculate this kindness?

The three young men quarreled over this.

Kil looked amused. He fiddled with the small metal box on the ground for a while, carefully opened the deeper compartments, and then slammed it shut without saying anything.

It was full of valuable gold and silver coins. No wonder it was so heavy. It was hard to open it for others to see, for fear of something happening.

-

"Don't you have any intention of defending yourselves?"

While searching the surroundings casually, Kil collected the various small flying knives that had been ejected before.

Fenia seemed to be waiting for Kil to say this. She spoke directly, and her words seemed to have been organized for a while: "Sir, I still said the same thing. Accusations require evidence. There is no evidence to prove me and my people." I had a shameless collusion with Barney the Mountain Wolf. Yes, I know that guy, and we were lovers a few years ago, but the relationship ended long ago."

"broken?"

Keir was curious about other people’s emotional stories, so he asked.

"That guy didn't want to marry me, and even disliked my close relationship with some of the managers of the big caravan. Bah, I, I, uh-huh. He himself was not a good person, and he still slandered me at that time. Not to mention the days before. They deceived all my people and told them to find another place for development, but they killed all my people one by one! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!"

The more she spoke, the more excited she became, and in a hoarse voice she spoke out their miserable experiences: "Wes, the chef in the store, was the first to die. Because the soup he made was a bit bland, those guys poured a whole lot of water into Wes's stomach. jars of salt, and even fed his body to the wild beasts in the forest.”

The young people stopped arguing, and Keir raised his eyebrows: "This is quite a unique way to die."

"The two young waiters in the store only said a few words, and they were beaten to death by them. At that time, my people and I realized that this was not a place of refuge, but a devil's cave. Barney the mountain wolf, He just looked at it, coldly watching me and my sisters being dragged away by the laughing young robbers."

Kil snorted: "You can question him later and ask him what he really thinks."

"What do you think? I know him too well. He is tired of it and feels that he needs to start over. My men and my people will probably have to recruit again and even change their lives. Yes, the experience of being a bandit is that guy's. Life, he is too fond and satisfied with this kind of thing of destroying others."

Kil breathed out: "Forget it, let's all go up now. I am more and more curious about what you are going to say to that mountain wolf Barney."

"I'm not afraid of him, please let me go to him and I want to accuse, accuse that guy of what he did."

"Go, go, go."

Keir waved his hand, found a rope to tie the small metal box tightly, and took the people out with it.

-

It was awkward to climb out of the cave again. Everything was as usual outside. The crazy young man named Will was writhing on the ground and talking nonsense. The gagged bandit leader groaned in pain and looked at his broken leg with worried eyes.

It's such a pity for life, but it's a pity that this guy only cares about his own life.

Kil and the three young men put the things they carried in the open space, then said hello to the two young men guarding outside, and then they all gathered around Barney the mountain wolf.

Several people were looking at this guy, which made Barney the mountain wolf feel a little strange, even uneasy.

Sure enough, two women wearing ill-fitting clothes climbed out of the cave. Seeing one of them, Barney the mountain wolf felt something was wrong.

"Barney, oh, Barney, your legs, these, these are so good!"

Although Fenia was embarrassed, she still covered her mouth with her hands and deliberately taunted loudly. The joy in her words was too strong.

Two women helped each other and walked over. They gritted their teeth as they watched the captives with broken legs moving on the ground, trying to move slightly outward to escape.

Kil rubbed his hands and excitedly dragged back the prisoner who was trying to move away. Then, he removed the thing from the other person's mouth.

"Fenea? You%￥%, I just killed you cruelly before I should take action!"

As soon as he could speak, the bandit leader showed a lot of aggression, and he was truly worthy of being the leader of a brutal bandit gang.

"Oh, my life and death, you, an arrogant guy, can still remember it in your mind? When I was tortured by your men, I was no longer in your mind! Weiss! Little Angke! Little Tani! Bawa! Marlene! They were all deceived by your lies, abandoned by your indifference, and tortured to death by your shit-like subordinates!!!"

But the bandit leader was not easy to deal with. He glared fiercely at the two rescued women standing in front of him and raised his chin, as if he was the one standing taller: "Young knight, don't listen to her. That's nonsense, this snake-like woman has killed countless people with her words with her mouth."

"Hey, what's the name of your shop? 'Hot Kiss'? Or 'Deadly Kiss'? Oh, Deadly Kiss is the nickname given to you by your friends, right? Hahaha, look, Let me count how many lives your sweet little mouth has killed!”

After struggling for a while, Mountain Wolf Barney grinned and said loudly: "I remember when I met you many years ago, two young people from wealthy families died in a duel at your instigation. These two poor people didn't know they On the day of the duel, the person I write bullshit poems about every day was having a fierce 'fight' with me in the barn loft."

Feniya's face turned livid, her whole body was trembling, and she could not stand firmly. It was her sister next to her who held her tightly, which prevented her from falling to the ground.

"Let me think about it. When you were in Monta Valley City, you wanted to open a store, but we had no money. Who lured rich people one after another to remote and uninhabited places outside the city, and I cut them off one by one? My throat was broken. Oh, when I did it, I wonder who was still complaining all day that those guys’ wallets were too dry and flat?”

"A few years ago, you opened a hotel, and I brought out the team. Hehehehe, hahahaha. Who inquires about every caravan that comes and goes? And who arranges debilitating poisons in the food of the caravans? Let those guys crotch in pain while fighting my men? Seriously, you could just use poison, don't mention how strong the smell is when disposing of the corpse."

"Now, you want to take revenge on me in front of a knight. Oh, you just said a lot of bad things about me, right? Haha, young knight, you were not deceived by her, were you? Haha, be careful, After all, you don’t necessarily have to use a knife to kill someone, her teeth and tongue are much more powerful than those in a man’s hands.”

He probably knew that he would inevitably die today, so Barney the mountain wolf took it easy and revealed everything about sesame seeds and rotten millet.

Several young refugees nearby had long been dumbfounded, but Keir found the experience of these two people's partnership to make a fortune very interesting.

-

Seeing the young knight whose name he still didn't know, he turned his head. Even though he was half-infuriated by his old friend's words, Fenia took a few hard breaths to catch his breath before explaining.

"Sir Knight, this man is a bandit. First of all, his words cannot be used as any evidence. Is this right?"

Kil nodded of course and stretched out his hand to signal the other party to continue.

"Of course, I must admit that when I was young, I did do some wrong things that I had to do in order to survive. But the cause and course of things are by no means as evil as this guy said."

Kil nodded, found a comfortable position, and half leaned against the trunk of a big tree.

Please start your show.

"I have to admit that when I was young, I did have friends in my hometown who dueled for my love, but this is a normal thing after all, right? I did not instigate them as the jackal said, but young The young men are just jealous for the dignity and face of their respective families. The target is not me, it will be someone else."

Afterwards, Fenia pointed fiercely at Barney, the mountain wolf lying on the ground: "What this guy said about 'fighting', the real situation is that he used violence to force me. This guy pretended to be my relative and brought I tricked him into the barn and took possession of me by force."

Mountain Wolf Barney curled his lips and said with a proud face: "Then who will never be able to leave me without me?"

Kil rolled his eyes under his visor.

He noticed the young refugee men around him and found that the emotions and tendencies of these simple poor guys were like grass blown by strong winds. When the wind blew from the left, they seemed to fall to the right. The wind blows from the right, and they fall as if from the left.

At this moment, his face not only changed again and again, but his identity and position also jumped left and right. Before, he was glaring at Fenia with a look of pain and sorrow, but now he is pointing the sword in his hand at Barney the mountain wolf, wanting to chop this scum into pieces.

Shaking his head, Gil motioned for Fenea to continue.

The lady, who had also been staring at Barney the mountain wolf and the knight, continued her defense at this moment.