Otherworldly Apprentice Lich and Foot Knight

The townspeople let the old and the weak go first, so there would be no accidental injuries in the chaotic battle just now.

"I don't think that's good news."

"Sai Lun?!" Zhou Lingke just realized that there was another person standing beside him, so he couldn't help leaning over to Xia En and whispering, "Did he just be there?"

"You can rest assured that I'm not interested in what you do after you take off your pants." It was Sai Lun who answered him, but when he said this, the teasing smile on his face did not make people feel at ease at all.

"Crack!" This was the sound when Xia En's hand touched the back of Zhou Lingke's head again.

Zhou Lingke also really feels that he should fight, but when the adrenaline is rising, sometimes people really can't control themselves.

"Why is it not good news?" Zhou Lingke quickly changed the subject.

"Not for us, but for those who left, what do you think a smuggler would do to a group of women and children who lack male protection? Welcome them with open arms like family?"

"Actually, I still don't understand one thing. Walking underground costs more manpower and material resources than walking on the ground, right? After all, cars and boats can be used on the ground, but underground, a group of people walk slowly. Plus There must be a lot of sick people due to the lack of sunshine, so it will cost more, right?"

"There is no doctor in the slave trader's team." Sai Lun looked at Zhou Lingke, and it was clearly written on his face: He really is a young master, "Besides, the underground does not necessarily have to be used. The prisoner who was just interrogated, they say This is actually an underground river passage, which can even be used to drive large ships. In fact, we have to be thankful that from the discovery of this passage to the present, it has been used by smugglers, thank these tax evaders for their selfishness!"

A big ship that can transport slaves must also be able to transport troops, and this place is remote, but there is no guard force. If any country knew about it, Mang Tan would have ceased to exist long ago.

"Then we continue to chase?"

"No, we can only go on the road tomorrow morning." Sai Lun, who was still excited just now, sighed depressingly, "A battle has exhausted the soldiers' vigor, and their physical strength has been exhausted. And if we catch up, we will face It will be slavers who are prepared and familiar with the terrain, not traitors made up of hunters. Although I don't want to speak discouraged, chasing now will only bring us unnecessary losses."

"You are the military commander, we obey orders." As two laymen, Zhou Lingke and Xia En obeyed the orders of the experts unconditionally.

They are all well-trained (except Zhou Lingke), and they quickly set up a temporary camp with what they could find on hand.Zhou Lingke was so stubborn that he only got a task to bandage the wounded. He found the demi-human officer who was protecting him and was injured. There was no sign of animalization on this officer. In fact, he looked a lot like a dark elf. , with long ears, blue and dark skin, extremely handsome, but the figure is not too slender, as strong and burly as other soldiers.But what is depressing is that after Zhou Lingke finished bandaging his shoulder, he found that his skills were not as good as another wounded man next to him who had injured his arm and bandaged himself.These elite soldiers in the cold weapon era of the magical world, the training they received sometimes hit Zhou Lingke, a modern white-collar worker in the technological world.

In just a few 10 minutes, Sailun arranged for patrolling people, and there were people sleeping soundly around the piles of bonfires.Of course Zhou Lingke was one of them, and Xia En was lying beside him.

Originally, Zhou Lingke thought that he would not be able to sleep tonight, but in fact his consciousness was blurred not long after he lay down. very heavy...

"Hmm...pie..." Zhou Lingke's eyes were still closed, his body twisted, and he fumbled around in the quilt—the big cat has become smaller, especially after the winter is getting colder, what it does most often It is to get into Zhou Lingke's bed, and as long as it gets in, it will wake up Zhou Lingke at around six o'clock every morning. The problem is that when Zhou Lingke wakes up, it will get into the warm bed again with a happy face Go in and continue to sleep... Typically, only cats are allowed to sleep, and no one is allowed to sleep.

Zhou Lingke thought that he could no longer follow this cat today, and he would die from overwork if he woke up so early.However, no matter how he touched, he couldn't touch the little hair ball under the blanket, but the screams in his ears became louder and louder, and the connection with the summoned also sent some messages to Zhou Lingke: I Afraid of water!water!water!Water Meow!

"water……"

"Lingke? Do you want to drink water?" Someone gently touched Zhou Lingke's cheek, with warm hands and gentle force, it could only be Xia En.

Pie's deadly serial meow didn't wake Zhou Lingke up, but Xia En's gentleness woke him up instead.After seeing the surroundings clearly, he realized that this is not the town, this is the wilderness, and the pie has not come back, it is still following the fleeing townspeople, and now it is...

"under?"

"what?"

"Pie! It's right below!" Zhou Lingke touched the ground, "Maybe it's a little off, and it's moving, but it's right below, on...a boat? It's really an underground river..."

"What's wrong?" The movement here brought Sai Lun over.

"Can you wake everyone up? I think I still have a way to stop those slave traders." Zhou Lingke touched the ground with his hand, and the pie was underneath, constantly sending his dissatisfaction and flustered waves.

"no problem."

"You want to break through?" In this world, there is no one who knows Zhou Lingke so well except Xia En.

"I remember that lobsters can also dig holes, right?" Zhou Lingke nodded. Although lobsters usually dig in wet and soft underwater soil, with the size of pizza, it shouldn't be a big problem for them to dig into frozen ground." But we have to run forward and try to stop them in front."

Zhou Lingke guessed right. Although the pizza had no meat and internal organs, whether it was alive or now, the strength of the exoskeleton has not been weakened by death, but has become stronger due to the blessing of the magic power of the undead.After receiving the order, Pizza began to dig with his pincers with the greatest strength. On the hard ground in winter, even if humans use the best tool to shovel it down, there will only be a white mark, but for it, these lands are like heated butter. Same, easy to cut and dig.

After a few minutes, most of its body got into the hole it had dug, and a few minutes later, it could still see a hole with the tip of its tail, and suddenly there was nothing.From the side of the pizza, Zhou Lingke felt a kind of joy and joy—it had entered the water!

But the feeling on the other side of the pie is just the opposite. The emotions it transmits are unprecedented confusion and panic. This cat is hysterical.

Two completely different emotions collided in Zhou Lingke's head, making him dizzy to the point of nausea.

"Lingke?!" Fortunately, Xia En had been paying attention to him and helped him in time, otherwise Zhou Lingke would have sat down on the ground.

Salem led a lot of soldiers around, and now he can naturally guess that the lobster has entered the underground waterway, but Zhou Lingke didn't speak, and no one dared to go into the hole to see the situation.Now his face is livid again, and it is not easy for others to urge him.

Zhou Lingke retched a few times before recovering a little, adapting to the emotions in his head: "There is something in the water... not just a boat. Pizza is fine, other people's pizza can't protect it." Not to mention other people, even Zhou Lingke's pizza is protected No, "But Pizza has successfully stopped the slave ships and is driving them back. We're at the entrance... ah!"

From the hole dug out by the pizza, something shot out like a cannonball. With a sound of "Pa!", icy water splashed on Zhou Lingke's face, and everyone didn't react.When they were ready to attack, they realized that the thing was screaming "Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow!" Who else could it be but Pie?

When Zhou Lingke finally persuaded this little thing and peeled it off his face, the top of his head and chin, where the cat's paws had just grabbed him, also left a few deep bloodstains, which hurt him so much. Grinning.

Although there is no pie to travel below, they have recovered a lot of beasts, and they took the car along the road pressed by pie. Although the speed is slower, people are much safer.In the morning of the next day, they arrived at the entrance of the underground karst cave - Sean guessed wrongly that the white mountain and the black mountain were not the mountains behind the two lakes he was referring to, but walked northward along the lake, and soon You will find a ditch, this place is hidden by trees, unless you get close, you can't find it at all.Walking along the ditch for about 10 minutes, the ditch will become wider and wider, and then you can see two huge stones standing staggered, one white and one black. Below the stone is a cave with a radius of about three meters.

Sai Lun thought that there would be a hard battle here. Slave traders are fierce guys, not to mention smugglers and slave traders. These people are all out-and-out desperadoes.Although the waterway can't go, it's hard to believe that these guys will just wait to die. Everyone thinks that they will still resist.However, what was waiting for them at the entrance of the cave was a slave trader who had put down his weapons, tied up his companions, and sacrificed all the fugitive townspeople. He could be said to be a model of a surrenderer.

But looking at these docile and cooperative captives, for the first time, Zhou Lingke spontaneously felt a killing intent in his heart!

Those fleeing townspeople, what they offered were only heads, old people, women and children, even babies!

"It's all here, not a few." The leader of the slave trader said this. He was pale and thin, and one eye should have been blinded by cataract. He pointed to the neatly piled heads with a calm expression. , "In addition, I am willing to pay three times the fine according to the price of the goods, as well as all losses caused by your country's dispatch of troops."

Sai Lun looked at him and said nothing, but ordered the soldiers to take care of these people properly, and called the principals including Zhou Lingke and Xia En to the side.

"They seem to have misunderstood, thinking that what is here now is to hunt down traitors, or fight against smuggling." When he said this, he looked at Zhou Lingke, "After all, using a war beast is a big deal. Besides, I guess Their supplies should be low."

Martin explained that this is a transfer station for smuggling, or it would be more correct to say that it is a supply station.Before Zhou Lingke came, there were [-] soldiers stationed here, and then he came, and ran around in the dense forest, and after the blizzard, more people came after the blizzard.The slave fleet must not have had time to get supplies, or they wouldn't have waited until now.Lack of supplies, in the face of a powerful army, the slave traders are desperadoes but they are not fools, they will not make a loss-making business of killing their lives in vain, they made the most appropriate choice.

"Can we just accept their surrender?" Zhou Lingke actually wanted to say "Can't we kill them all?", but he still can't say such wild words.

"If it's just a small team of smugglers, killing them is not too troublesome. But behind such big bosses, there are usually some big lords standing behind them. They messed up things and fell into our hands. You can pay the ransom willingly. But if you kill all of their people... Although that saves him the cost of paying the ransom, it is also equivalent to spitting on the other party's face." Sai Lun seemed to be almost Now that I have figured out Zhou Lingke's character, his explanation is much more straightforward.

"understood."

"However, think about good things. Apart from fines, according to the rules, all the goods he smuggled belong to Mang Tan. The country gets [-]%, we get [-]%, and [-]% of them belong to you."

"mine?"

"Yes, you are the supreme commander. [-]% is shared equally with all officers, [-]% is shared equally with all combatants, and the extra [-]% is for those who died and were injured. Do you have any opinions?"

Although he had doubts just now, Zhou Lingke shook his head honestly now.This is already a practice. Zhou Lingke knows that the result of his resignation is that everyone will not be able to get his benefits at ease. That is not modesty, but making enemies for himself.

"very good."

The captives were indeed very cooperative, for example, they honestly handed over the account books.There were more than 1000 slaves on the five ships when they first set off, but more than 800 of them had no names, only numbers recorded according to the location of the cabins. About 300 people have names, and there are records such as gender, ability, and skin color.There are only a very small number of more than 20 people, but they use the most space to record.But now that many of the names have been blacked out, the total number of all actual slaves is only about 100 or [-].

Zhou Lingke, Xia En and more than 100 other people, led by extremely cooperative slave traders, entered the tunnel to obtain their own spoils.The two travelers thought they had made some psychological preparations, but the scene they actually saw was much more tragic!