Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keel and the others quickly cleared the bandit camp that the Wild Snake Gang was located in the middle of the woods and surrounded by snake nests for protection.

Useful things were taken away in the carriage, and all kinds of useless things were piled up with the corpses and set on fire. The wooden houses and tree houses of the bandits were also set ablaze. But before finally setting fire to leave, Keir also found a brave young man, used a torch to expel the hive bees in the tree house, and unloaded a hive that was half a person's height.

To be honest, Keel didn't expect such a large beehive. He didn't know how much honey this thing could produce, but honey is valuable no matter where it is, and it can be used directly as coins.

Commodities with similar functions include cloth and iron ingots. They are all indispensable living materials in life, and honey is the best thing to add sweetness and happiness to repeated daily life.

Even the aristocrats didn't get honey when they wanted it. Keir found a large wooden barrel, carefully put the honeycomb into the wooden barrel, and then closed the lid tightly.

The carriage couldn't fit this light but space-consuming wooden barrel, so Keel arranged for four people to carry the wooden barrel with wooden sticks and ropes alternately in twos and twos, and was going to rely on manpower to carry it back.

Not to mention selling honey for money in the future, as long as he wants to eat it himself and reward his subordinates who obey orders, he has to insist on taking this honey back.

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The flames ignited, first igniting the wooden house, and then the big tree in the camp connected to the wooden house. Of course, the tree house on the big tree was not spared, and the crackling drizzle was blown away and burned into white smoke.

On the forest floor, it seemed as if they could smell the smoke from the flames. The snakes, insects, and beasts were moving quickly out of the forest. They didn't care about grinning at the large group of humans, and rushed out with their heads lowered.

The birds on the trees were unlucky. The raptors who had been active at night before were smoked by the smoke, and their strong bodies wobbled and could fly out of the woods, escaping the black and gray smoke scattered everywhere on the treetops. And the petite and frail birds fell from the tree while whirling, their heads plunged into the ground, and they lost their breath after flapping their wings a few times.

As for the frightened flying over the burning wooden houses and big trees, the heat radiated upwards flew directly for a certain distance, and then fell to the ground, but it had already turned into a poor guy scalded to death by the hot air .

Kiel took a deep breath, and walked at the back of the team, taking care of the stragglers and bandit prisoners who were in a hurry.

Facing his own people, he would encourage them to catch up and hold the carriage with their hands to save energy.

As for the bandits who surrendered, Kiel was much more casual, directly hitting the bandits on the back with the tail of the metal spear, and forcefully urged them to go faster.

"Don't try to take advantage of the chaos and run away. You are all monitoring each other. If there are fewer people out of the woods, I will kill a few of the remaining people at will. Do you know? I remember clearly the number of surrenders. .And there are quite a few people out of the woods, so I will not do anything."

Keir added: "The guy who wants to survive, and doesn't want to be killed in a daze, pays close attention to the other surrender guys around him. I think, no one would gamble with their own life? After all, gambling money is not the same as betting life. "

These words made the bandits with different minds keep an eye on the other people around them. To be honest, walking quickly out of the woods in the dark was the most convenient way for them to escape. Especially for the members of the Wild Snake gang who are familiar with the surrounding environment, everyone saw several opportunities to escape, but often the other bandits around them stared at each other very annoyingly.

This made them give up their plan to take advantage of the chaos and escape.

"Master Knight, I don't quite agree with what you just said."

A middle-aged male businessman sitting in the carriage at the end of the line said this to Kiel in the rear. He was a little bit depressed, looking like a broken jar, at this moment he was vigorously brushing his wet, messy long hair, with an expression of indifference.

"Oh, which one? Betting money and life?"

"Yes, yes. In my opinion, money is life and life is money. There is no difference between the two."

Kiel replied: "There is still some difference. If the money is in your life, you will be finished, but if your life is in the money, you still have a chance to turn around."

But Keir's answer was met with ridicule from the middle-aged businessman: "Hahahaha, young knight, I came out this time and borrowed dozens of gold coins from the local chamber of commerce in my hometown, just to be able to survive in the chaotic south." The province made a fortune. But look now, what else do I have left besides my clothes and my tortured half-life? Oh, my hometown may be close to a hundred gold coins in arrears due to interest!"

"Oh, Gods! Everything is terrible. I have life now, but I have no money, and I dare not go back to my hometown. What is the difference between being dead and being dead?"

Keir snorted, but then fell silent: "You can find a way to make money, hey, forget it, when I said nonsense."

"You also realize that this is nonsense! I have been an apprentice to the chamber of commerce since I was twelve years old, and officially joined a chamber of commerce at the age of sixteen to become a clerk to run a business. Ten years later, I set up a caravan by myself and traded in my hometown. It is still managed by relying on the previous personal connections and interests. I am thirty-five years old, and all the efforts and efforts of the past twenty-three years are gone."

"there is none left."

As he said that, the middle-aged man bent down dejectedly, crouched into a ball, his body swayed with the movement of the carriage, and there was no response other than an annoyed whine from his mouth.

Another businessman next to him who was in a similar situation was the one who helped Keir call someone before. He also leaned on the bed of the truck blankly, and he didn't know what he was thinking. He chuckled from time to time, looking very strangeness.

It's kind of crazy.

Over the past 20 years, he has accumulated wealth of manpower and dozens of gold coins. This is still borrowed money, not counting his own wealth. You can take risks to do business in chaotic areas. Although you can earn excess profits in chaotic situations, the risks are obviously high.

I didn't see that these businessmen rescued by Kiel at this time were all losers in this risky business.

They may have overlooked the shamelessness and greed of towns in some parts of the southern provinces during times of crisis, and also overestimated the level of protection for their caravans.

This **** feast made up of the flesh and blood of the people in the southern provinces and outsiders, only powerful chambers of commerce and organizations can swallow it with blood dripping from the corner of their mouths.

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The convoy walked out of the woods, and everyone once again felt the drizzle of rain falling from the sky.

Kiel wiped his visor, and a few drops of water fell from his gloves.

"Count the number of people and sort out the team! Don't wander around, try to stay by the carriage."

The lighting torch was transferred from the young refugee to the torch stand next to the driver of the carriage, and the familiar young people gathered and stood beside the carriage. Someone, on the other hand, accepted Kiel's order and counted the surrendered bandits who were tied behind the carriage and followed.

"My lord! No one is left behind, the number of surrendered bandits is normal, and the ropes are all tied tightly! Yes, yes."

The man looked troubled.

"What is it?"

"It's just that Pam's dying. He's twitching all over his body, and he's not getting better in the carriage chair."

As soon as Kiel heard this, he hurried over on horseback, and found that besides a young man driving the carriage, there was also a young man with a pig's head twitching in the empty seat beside him.

Ah, it's a pig's head, because this young man is the guy who was stung by a bee and turned into a pig's head when he was investigating the tree house.

The torch was beside him, illuminated by the flickering light, the young man named Pam twitched his hands and feet, not only his face, but also his body, especially his arms, were swollen.

"Shouldn't it? It's just an ordinary bee. How could this be?"

But when Keir jumped off the horse and took a closer look, he discovered that there were many bees with their tails hanging on his arm where the young man's arm was originally covered by the sackcloth sleeve.

"Idiot! Idiot! I have been stung so many times on my arm, why didn't I tell you earlier!"

Keel quickly tore off a bee that was still alive with his hands, but there were tiny barbs on the bee's tail needles. The bees were knocked off, but their tail needles with part of their intestines were still hanging on their swollen arms .

He hurriedly helped Pam carefully remove the last bee tail needle on his arm, and at the same time checked whether the unconscious Pam was still breathing, or whether his breathing was affected by the swollen tongue.

Fortunately, the helmet is close to the nose and mouth, and faint breathing can still be heard.

"Okay, everyone hurry up, he can still be saved, hurry to Priest Batar's side as soon as possible, and he should be able to survive. It's really stupid. His arm was stung like this, and he crawled so many bees. Before that, he looked okay."

Keel returned to the horse, and then waved: "Let's go as soon as possible! Where are the bandits who know the way? Roll over and lead the way!"

The bandit who knew the way before was pushed to the front of the team, pointed in one direction without looking, and said, "Sir, let's walk in this direction like this, go around the forest, and find a stream and water flowing out of the forest." On the bank, there is a small river close to the commercial road, and you can find a place with shallow water to reach the main commercial road."

"Walk!"

At Kiel's order, the young man who drove the cart threw out the reins, urging the cart-horses to move on.

Sure enough, after a while, they found a stream flowing out of the woods, and then walked along the stream for a section, and found the nameless river next to the trade road.

But the team stopped.

Because of the old carts full of booty, it was impossible to climb up the banks of the creek with only one horse.

Even if the people in the car get off, there are young people pushing on the left and right sides.

Originally, at this time, all the horses in the team should be mobilized, and the three trucks should be pulled one by one to the river bank with three horses together.

But Pam, a young man severely stung by a bee, is dying.

Not only did his breathing become weaker, but the twitching all over his body had to be **** like a bandit. Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to sit in the best seat on the carriage.

"This won't work, you all get out of the way, let me come!"

With a cry, Keel jumped off his horse, and lay across the water barely above his calves, to the rear of the first wagon.

"The driver in front, sit still, help the wounded, listen to my orders and act!"

Kiel lifted his visor and exhaled.

"Yes, Lord Knight, I will follow your orders. By the way, what is an order?"

"Hey, forget it, I said you just do it."

Kiel was discouraged for a while, and then his left and right feet pushed aside the pebbles under his boots in the cold water, and stepped deeply in the sand to stand firm.

"Get out of the way, people in front, get ready. Go!"

With a loud shout, he grabbed the bottom of the carriage with steel gloves on both arms, then straightened his waist, and lifted the entire rear of the carriage. But that's not enough, Keel runs the life energy inside the body, allowing it to strengthen the legs and arms, mainly the strength of the waist. At the same time, the divine power brought by the magic spell also replaced the consumption of life energy, providing Kiel with power far exceeding that of the prairie horses pulling the cart.

"Go! Let the horses go!"

Kiel squeezed out the words from his teeth, and when the horses in front were climbing up the river bank vigorously, Kiel also took a big step forward, lifted the carriage and moved forward one meter.

The entire rear wheel of the carriage left the water surface of the creek and moved in the air.

Kiel took another step, and the surrounding onlookers shouted loudly: "My lord, halfway, the river bank is halfway up!"

Without opening his eyes, Keir also knew that after taking two more strides, the two front wheels of the carriage would be able to move to the river bank. At this time, the prairie horse pulling the cart had already rushed to the river bank with more than half of its body, and it was stiffening its neck. , Striding all four hooves vigorously, dragging the carriage behind him to climb up.

Kiel took another step, and he used his arms to lift the carriage from the waist and abdomen to his chest.

When Kiel was in such a critical moment, behind the crowd of onlookers, several bandits exchanged winks.

There was no need to speak, although the bandits who knew what they knew were **** and couldn't touch things from themselves. But taking things from others is no problem.

On the belt of the trousers, sometimes bandits will hide a copper coin for themselves to buy a piece of cloth to cover their crotch when they gamble.

This copper coin is somewhat rough and has no major effect, but it is very possible to break a rough hemp rope.

Sure enough, bandits, I will grind the rope for you, you will grind the rope for him, and he will grind the rope for me. In this way, they freed each other, and with the help of the tacit and secret watching of the people around them, the three bandits took advantage of Kiel's strength to lift the car to the river bank, and tore off the rope connected to the last arm, and then followed the side The people slowly changed their seats, and then suddenly jumped up from the ground, and the three of them ran towards the dark depths in three directions respectively.

They didn't care about the dangers they would inevitably encounter when running alone in the wild in the middle of the night when it was dark and raining.

Where are beasts and monsters and men and knights in danger?

It can't be compared at all.

"Someone escaped!"

"A bandit has escaped!"

The young man guarding the robbers was not blind either, but turned his head to see that the moment Keel lifted the car with incredible force, the three robbers jumped up from the ground and ran away. They noticed it the next moment, and they cried out aloud.

But the young man in charge of the guard was in a dilemma and wondered whether they should go after him at this time. After all, there were only three people who escaped, and the rest were "honestly" squatting on the bank of the river.

Keir naturally heard the shouts of someone running away, but he didn't look at them, and shouted directly: "Hunter! Shoot them!"

Among the young refugees, several young people immediately took off the short bows they were carrying, drew arrows and shot in the general direction where the bandits were fleeing.

Whoosh whoosh!

Several people shot in different directions, followed by the sound of two people wailing and falling.

"Good shot, two. I'll try my best too."

Kiel knew that he had shot the two of them just by hearing the sound, so he sighed in admiration, stepped on the slippery muddy river bank, and forcibly raised the rear of the carriage and pushed it forward.

bang bang—

A pair of rear wheels landed on the ground above the river bank, Keel pushed hard, and the carriage rushed forward for a long section, and then slowly stopped.

At this time, Kiel turned around and whistled, and the blood licks came from not far away, and the horses didn't stop. Kiel started to gallop on the river bank, grabbed the back of the saddle, and jumped onto the horse's back.

"Where did the rest go?"

When Keir asked, several people immediately pointed in one direction.

"Send three or four people over there and drag them back. Be careful."

The boots slammed into the horse's belly, and then Kiel pulled the reins, causing the Bloodlicker to rush in one direction.

Immediately, eight people stood up first from the young man's side, holding their swords and slaying towards the two places where the arrows were wailing.

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When the young people easily dragged back the half-dead bandit who was shot by the arrow, Kiel, who was conspicuous because he was carrying a luminous magic prop not far away, also rode back on horseback.

There was no expression on the steel visor, and his cold movements were as dangerous as ever.

The knight held and clamped the metal spear in his right arm, making a provocative movement. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

Immediately after approaching, he swung the spear, and with a snap, a lifeless bandit corpse fell to the muddy and slippery river bank. There was a fist-sized hole on the back of the corpse, and deep red blood was continuously flowing out of it, mixing with the mud and turning into blood red mud.

"The escaping bandit chopped it up. Take the corpse with you, and then return to the night sky for unified processing. Human corpses cannot be buried in the wild."

Kiel swung the spear twice, simply shaking off the blood stained on the head of the double-edged spear, put it back on the weapon rack, jumped off the horse again, and waved to the second carriage to prepare to cross the river and land.

The bandits who were sitting on the ground and didn't run away tremblingly watched the young knight's actions, then they turned their heads away and saw two wounded bandits who were being escorted to the ground, being slashed several times in the face by an exceptionally excited young man. The sword, cut off half of the face, and then used the dagger to go up and stab the person's brain along the broken gap in the face.

"Ah!" The four girls who were snuggling together were terrified, and the rescued people also subconsciously gathered together and hugged each other subconsciously.

"Come on, who wants to take the first carriage? If you want to sit in the front, just cross the river with me!"

A young man in leather armor came over and spoke to the rescued people.

This time, the people who had been coercing before all kept their mouths shut, and obediently followed the young man across the river and got into the car after knowing what was going on.

Everyone is much more honest.

Although many of the young people were just farmers before, but at this moment, wearing leather clothes and armor, holding swords and short bows, they have gained respect from other people for the first time.

Even if no one said this respect, everyone present felt it more or less.

After all, this night is so long, everyone has grown a lot.