Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel casually taught these young people how to make some simple weapons, and guessed that there would be an empty carriage on the other side of the carriage. When the young people who set out had enough rest, they would stand up and move around.

He dug out a bag containing dried meat strips from his carriage, pulled out one, and broke the extremely hard dried meat strips into small pieces with his hands like breaking steel bars.

Hesitating for a moment, he stuffed a small piece into his mouth. A leather pocket at the waist also contained a few, and put the rest back into the bag and put them away.

"You just eat this? Don't you want to eat more food?"

Blood Fangster sat on the driver's seat of the carriage and was polishing his saber. Seeing that Kiel only ate these small things these two days, he asked.

Keir waved his hand: "That's enough, secret, don't ask. By the way, this thing is really unpalatable, bah."

He said, spitting out a small grain of salt on the jerky from his mouth. When roasting the jerky, Knight Crowe must have not melted the salt water properly.

"Take care of this side. I'll bring people back after destroying the last bandit lair. Watch the sky from your side. Organize people to cut wood at dawn. The corpse must be burned. The pit for burying the ashes must also be dug first."

Kiel checked the weapons and equipment on his body and horse, and Bloodfangs handed over the crossbow and crossbow: "Take this, shall we?"

"No need, it's the same with hunting bows. Some young people who can fight will stay here. You let them also take part in guarding and guarding."

Blood Fang nodded, and hung the crossbow arrow bag on his belt again.

Keir rode on the blood licking grass, turned his head and walked towards the direction of the carriage outside the open space.

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At this time, the place is full of various wooden boxes and goods that have been unloaded from the carriage. The middle-aged businessman Long Barford has already commanded the manpower to stack the big boxes in one place, and the others are smaller so that people can carry them on their backs. Or the goods carried by the shoulders are being reclassified and packed.

He himself simply divided the goods into two piles, one pile was recorded and processed, and the other pile was the original unloaded state. The businessman held a piece of wood and paper he found from nowhere, and was carefully recording the name and quantity of the goods with charcoal sticks. Next to him, there is a special young man holding a torch for lighting to provide the businessman with lighting for writing at night.

"How is it? Is there enough manpower? Is there any trouble?"

Keir came over on horseback and asked.

The businessman performed a courtesy, and it seemed that when he first met this person in the middle of the night, the same depressed mood and expression as other businessmen had disappeared from him.

It was already late at night, and many people looked sleepy, but this middle-aged businessman was full of energy, his eyes were bright and scary.

"Master Knight, I'm fine, I'm fine, and everyone who assists me is fine. The only problem is that the small items need to be carried by people, but there are not enough ropes and sticks! This is a problem."

Facing the businessman's request, Keir nodded: "My partner, Bloodfang, oh, he is an experienced caravan guard, and he is at my carriage. I have told you that after dawn, he will Take someone to log. When the time comes, you will ask him to help you get some wooden sticks that can carry things. As for the ropes, I still have some in the carriage. In addition, I will try to get some more ropes for you later in the bandits' lair return."

Speaking of this, Keir rode on his horse and looked at the other rescued people gathered by the fire not far away: "Your companions, why don't they come to help you? Isn't it faster to do it together?"

The middle-aged businessman smiled bitterly: "Many people's lives are over, and several people still owe a lot of debt. They don't have the heart to think too much. I will talk to them later, and I hope some young people can get back together. "

"So best."

After explaining, Kiel came to the carriage, where three carriages and twenty young people were ready.

In addition, there is also a surrendered bandit from the mountain wolf bandit gang. This man is also there, and he is smiling at Kiel with a flattering face at this time.

Laugh, laugh will not let him go.

With a wave of Kiel's hand, everyone set off.

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According to the guidance and statements of the bandits who surrendered, their gang's lair is somewhere in the woods to the north of the clearing.

If it is daytime, it is easy to find the location of the nest, because the nest is on a low hill protruding from the woods.

The gentle woods protrude a section, which is still easy to find during the day. Of course, no one would ever pay attention to what lies in the same woods if they don't know that it is the lair of bandits.

"Why did you choose a conspicuous place?"

Kiel was puzzled, and the bandit who surrendered replied like this: "There are big trees on the hill, and the terrain is high, so we can see far away. We don't have to run too far during the day. Just sitting among the branches, we can see a large commercial road in the south. Past trading conditions."

"Of course, other means of investigation will still be used. For example, we will arrange for people to follow in the hotels outside the checkpoint. At the place where the east trade road exits the north-south mountain pass, there are also acquainted friends who will help us keep an eye on the passing caravans."

In the end, the bandit shrugged his shoulders: "But these are all gone recently! The southern provinces are in chaos, and the number of caravans has been greatly reduced. This means that there are more bandits and fewer merchants. Everyone is lying in the woods and looking at the trade roads every day. Looking forward to a horse-drawn carriage passing by to get a vote."

The more this person talked, the more he babbled, and he literally uttered all the complaints these days: "Everyone begged all kinds of gods, the heavens, the earth, and the underground, but in the end they either didn't come, or they came. It is a large caravan armed to the teeth."

The bandits who surrendered shook their heads: "At that time, the big guys could endure it for a while, so the joint attack on the caravan proposed by our boss was not listened to by the other bandit gangs at all. Huh, everyone was poor and crazy later. Now, the caravans are coming less and less, and those who dare to run at this time are guarded by a large number of horse guards."

"Where's the inn along the road? What's going on?"

The surrendered bandit snorted twice: "Master Knight, you know that the hotel can be opened in this place, right?"

"Isn't it just a nest of snakes and rats? I guess the businessmen who come and go are also aware of it." Keel said disdainfully.

"Yes, yes, it is the relationship between snakes and rats. We are snakes, and those hotels are rats. If they are not useful, they can also provide some shipments or other entertainment. How can we not let such fat sheep go? Along the route The hotels on the commercial road are all covered by gangs like ours, and everyone knows it. As a result, some days ago, someone finally couldn't help it and attacked the hotels of other gangs. They killed and looted all the food. Drinks and valuables are taken away in the dark. No trace is left."

Speaking of this, the surrendered bandit licked his lips and smiled strangely.

"Everyone hasn't opened for a long time. It was hard to hold back the fat around the mouth, but someone opened the mouth. In less than two days, you attacked the hotel I was covering, and I attacked your hotel. Finally, the last bite of meat was not left at all."

Keir rolled his eyes and complained: "You said it was covered, what is it covered? Air?"

"How can it be, others don't know, at least our boss has pulled out the people in the hotel who were covered before. Although there is no time to keep the things, people have brought them out. Hehe, it's where we are going now That lair."

Looking at this person's appearance, Keir guessed that those people would not end well.

Bandits are guys who are not even as good as beasts, they use violence at will, and succumb to their own desires. Or grow bigger and bigger like a snowball, or fall apart quickly.

Twenty-two of them stopped and stopped all the way, basically walking along the periphery of the woods in the northern part of the commercial road. It was raining at night, and the vision was very poor. They had to rely on the special symbols left on the trees by the surrendered bandits to judge. position.

When the surrendered bandits identified the symbols carved on the trunk, they were also curious about this thing, so they asked, "What do you say about this set of symbols? Tell me, and I'll have someone untie you!"

Originally, the bandit who surrendered didn't want to reveal the intelligence knowledge that he could play a role after surrendering, but the knight said that he would be untied. This condition really moved his heart.

After all, his arms had been bound for most of the night. Those bandits were really not good at binding people. It was heavy and painful, he had reacted several times, but every time he reacted, all he got was a good beating.

He learned how to behave. Between the pain of being **** and the beating, he chose to be tied up.

Because the degree of damage to the body is something he can meet and judge, but those young refugees are not serious or serious, which is very dangerous.

Thinking about it, he still hopes to be more relaxed, especially when these people are about to attack their lair, there are many opportunities to escape. After his arms are loosened, his chances of escaping will increase significantly.

"My lord, I'll tell you right now."

The bandit walked to the trunk of a big tree at the edge of the forest, barely under the light of the torch, and pointed with his head to a symbol carved on the burl.

"My lord, you see, because our gang's territory is all around here, all the symbols have left a special image of a wolf's head!"

Keir sneered: "That's called a wolf's head? Why do I look like a dog's head?"

"It's enough to have a general meaning. The different positions of the wolf's head also represent the situation of our territory. The closer to the bottom of the trunk, it means that the closer to the boundary of our territory, the higher. For example, the position of the wolf's head is more than two meters high. On the burl of the tree. It shows our current position, right in the middle of the gang's territory."

Keir tapped his helmet: "So, at the junction of the two bandits' land, you can see two image marks at once on the root of a big tree?"

"That's what happened. Sir Knight, you are really wise!"

"Stop flattering. Go on, what else is there?"

The surrendered bandit who had been trained was not afraid. He kicked the roots of the big tree extending into the soil in several directions, and explained to the knight: "My lord, my lord. Look at this, count the roots There are marks too."

He couldn't see clearly on the horse, so Keel jumped off the horse, landed with a thud, and then came over to watch. The luminous magic pendant seized from his waist provided better lighting conditions.

Keel saw that, sure enough, the big tree marked on the burl also had something on several roots.

"What does it mean?"

The surrendered bandit used his leg as his hand, and gave a virtual kick in the direction of the tree roots: "This is a direction indicator, indicating that there is something in that direction. Look at this one facing southeast, facing the commercial road. A nested box is engraved, and there are two dashes. The meaning is to walk in this direction, and in about two hours, you can find a hotel built on the commercial road."

(Note: For the time unit, for the convenience of reading, I directly use the modern time unit. As long as everyone understands, the people in the story certainly do not use hours and minutes to express their speech. The same is true for distance units and length units.)

Keir nodded, and pointed to another mark on the root of the tree: "The vertical bar indicates the walking time and the distance at the same time. Then what is this? Three hollow dots? What about the three solid dots next to it?"

The surrendered bandit carefully looked at the mark on the tree root, then looked at the direction, and then replied: "The hollow dot indicates the water source, walk towards the direction facing the inside of the forest, and you can find a drinking water source. But we generally don’t fetch water from water sources in the woods.”

The bandit shrugged: "It's too dangerous. Not only are the ferocious carnivorous beasts, some monsters will also go there to drink water. It is specially marked for everyone to walk around."

Kiel snorted coldly: "If a person with a little knowledge really walks in that direction, they will be targeted by wild beasts and monsters instead? It's quite sinister."

The bandit smiled and said, "It's all arranged by the boss. The three solid dots next to it represent a special rock wall in a mountain. There are often big grazing animals that eat and lick stones, but they can't go there. dangerous place."

"Why?"

"Large herbivores easily attract the toughest predators, and when in estrus they can be more dangerous than a well-fed beast of prey."

Kiel nodded, confirming the statement: "So, which one is the sign pointing to your lair?"

"No."

"What? Nothing?"

The bandit who surrendered explained: "For safety, there is no sign pointing to our lair."

The young people around had been listening to the words of Kiel and the surrendered bandits. At this time, someone finally couldn't help but interjected, "Then how did you take us there? Did you trick us? You want to die!"

This grumpy young man was wearing a simple leather armor, and he was one of the four young men under Kiel who were regarded as small bosses.

Keir didn't speak, he also looked at the surrendered bandit to see how the man would answer.

The atmosphere suddenly became dangerous for this person, and the surrendering bandit immediately pouted and said: "I remember the terrain around the lair clearly, as long as you know the two dangerous places I mentioned just now, and the area we are in our territory now, you can You can find the specific lair at night without looking at the sky."

Keir reached out his hand to stop the young men who wanted to rush up and beat up the surrendered bandit: "Then lead the way, the time for pleasant conversation is over, let's go."

"Master Knight? Do you see this?"

The bandit didn't say it clearly, but Keir waved his hand~www.readwn.com~ Only then did the young men go up and untie the tightly wound rope, and added viciously: "We will all watch you, don't even think about running away. "

The surrendered bandit rubbed his wrists, with a smile on his face: "Of course, of course, I can remember clearly what happened to those guys who ran away before. Those who can't run far, no, I said I won't run."

So everyone continued to walk towards the east for a while, and soon stopped.

The bandit who surrendered approached two big trees that were very close together, pointed at them and said to everyone, "That's right here, two big trees that are very close together, because it's easy to climb, we often, uh."

"What often? Say it."

The bandit faltered a bit, but he still said: "We often strangle people who are about to be executed here and then hang them."

The surrendered bandit looked up at the upper part of the big tree, and then swallowed a mouthful of spit.

"Gah!"

The cry of a crow happened to be heard.

Like an emissary who wanted his life, under the light of the torch, not only could one see the red-eyed crow standing on the top of the big tree looking down, but also several pecked dead bodies with only skeletons and ragged clothes.

Keir grunted, he didn't know what he was cursing, but the young people under him were all startled by the sudden appearance of dead bodies and crows above their heads.

"Ah ah ah!"

"Ghost~"

"Is it the enemy!"

Kiel jumped off his horse, waved his hand to let everyone go away, then drew out his long sword, swung the sword forward and backward more than ten times, and chopped down the two hanging corpse trees together to the ground.

"Master Knight, aren't you afraid that you will find this noise from the old lair?"

The bandits who surrendered asked Kiel loudly amidst the roar of the big tree falling, and Kiel replied: "It's just right, the turtle's head can be cut off when it stretches its head."