MTL - Mercenaries and Adventurers-v4 Chapter 193 , the darkest moonless night (16)

Keel here.

At this time, he was leading more than forty young people and escorting a few captured bandits to walk in the mountains and forests.

The night in the mountain forest is cool and windy, and the roar of terrifying beasts can be heard from time to time. But the young people in the team didn't show much fear, because at the moment Knight Kiel was riding in the middle of the team.

Of course, Keir's previous performance fell into the eyes of these courageous young people, and at the same time they also knew how powerful the Cavaliers are. Therefore, the howling of wild beasts from around them will no longer make them feel very frightened.

At least that was the case when Keir was around.

The faces of these young people were a little pale, not all of them had some kind of disease, it was just that Kiel had sent them to collect spoils on the battlefield before, facing the **** scene of seeing so many stumped corpses for the first time in this life, basically all of them Young people are throwing up and throwing up.

He vomited out all the food he ate not long ago.

Many people were so overwhelmed by the smell of blood that they couldn't even spit out the acid water in their stomachs.

Keir had to arrange these people in the open space to guard against possible bandit attacks. Although he doesn't think there will be any.

Except for the fact that the young people are not in a good state of mind, they are all wearing the thick clothes worn by the bandits at the moment. The original old linen clothes were not willing to throw away. Now that they changed into the stinky animal skin clothes of the bandits and a little damaged leather armor, at least in terms of protection, it was much stronger than before.

What is especially worth pointing out is that among the forty people following Kiel at this moment, ten young people have carried the short bows of the bandits on their backs, and brought two pockets of arrows. The team also has long-range attack methods.

These people were all from hunter families, which were not many in the village. Although they were small in number, their proportion to the team also showed that young people from hunter backgrounds were braver than others.

Behind the blood licking grass that Kiel was riding, there were three horses following. Kiel brought out all the horses in his hand, in order to bring out more valuable things after breaking through the bandits' lair.

You can't get much by relying on people's backs and shoulders alone.

"How long will it take to get to your lair?"

Next to the blood licking grass that Kiel was riding, there were several bandits who were being detained. These people were tightly bound, but it did not affect their speech and movement.

At this very moment Keel was interrogating a gang of robbers who had previously belonged to Fatty.

The captured bandit was also in a miserable state at the moment. Before Kiel tortured this man, this guy refused to open his mouth stubbornly, and was immediately repaired in a literal sense.

Some body parts are missing from his face, and there is something extra on his body.

Unable to bear being tortured inhumanely, the bandit finally opened his mouth when Kiel wanted to cut some extra limbs from his hands and feet.

There is no way, this bandit who often tortured and was defeated by bandit gangs and ransacked passers-by, knew very well that after the thumb was missing from the palm, human beings could not do any work.

Although it looks like the palm is still there, it has lost the ability to work.

It's not the same as Kiel moving his ears and teeth, without which he'd be able to survive later, if he had a future at all. But once the knight really did what he said and would release him after he behaved well, then the bandit would have to weigh the severity of loyalty and betrayal.

Having said that, at this moment, the bandit heard what Knight Kiel was asking him, and immediately replied: "Master Knight, the route is correct. It is one of the three routes leading to the commercial road that connects us to our lair. It just needs to go for a while. "

Kiel tended to their advancing route, which was the way of the trade route heading south, gradually heading towards the towering mountains to the south.

They had just passed through a sparse forest, and now they were walking up and down among the huge rocks two people high, generally heading east along the first mountain range to the south.

That's right, although the bandits said they were entrenched here, they didn't dare to go too deep into the uninhabited mountains.

Not to mention monsters, but some thorny monsters, it is estimated that some careless bandits can be slowly killed and wiped out.

It's hard to say whether the bandits entrenched in areas that are not suitable for human survival are killed more by the soldiers in charge of law and order, or by the thorny monsters in the mountains or forests.

"By the way, you bandits live in a remote area where there are no commercial roads. What should you do if you get sick?"

Keir was a little curious, not to mention supplies, what would these people do after they got sick with a cold and abdominal pain.

Several bandits who were being detained looked at each other and smiled wryly: "Master Knight, what else can we do? If you have a minor illness and resist it, at most you can give the patient some more good food, and at the same time prevent people from touching women. Be careful." Because of that, I lost strength. As for a serious illness, we can only see whether the person who is suffering from the illness is the leader's confidant or whether he likes it or not."

"How to say?"

"If the leader likes it, he can take some money and have someone carry it to a nearby town to see a doctor. We usually pretend to be small businessmen from other places and go to the town to see the doctor. If the leader doesn't like people who are sick, then that People have to wait until they die. At best, a good companion will go alone, go to the villages and towns to get some herbs that don’t know if they are useful, and rush back to give them to people.”

"Hmm." Keel stroked his chin with his fingers: "Are there any priests who use magic to cure diseases?"

He was sick and injured. Except when he first came to the different world, everything else was solved by the church. He himself felt that the level of medical treatment in the different world was very high because of the healing magic.

But his speech made the young people around him a little speechless: "My lord knight, don't talk about these **** bandits, it is the villagers and farmers in our village. If there is no resident church and priest in the village, it is generally difficult to treat illnesses." Herbal remedies are needed to cure diseases. Go to other villages and towns to find priests to perform magic. It will cost too much money."

"That's right, I heard that two years ago the head of our village broke his leg while repairing the chimney, and was carried to a nearby town by his sons. Just asking the priests of the God of Wealth Church to heal the broken leg, he couldn't help it. Spent a few gold coins! Hey, the village head is still rich. He obviously has a broken leg and can be raised at home for half a year. He insists on using magical magic to heal his leg. But it’s really powerful. When he went there, he was carried by a few people. , I went there in a bullock cart. When I came back, I drove the cart and walked back.”

As soon as Kiel heard it, he knew that although the various churches had tried their best to popularize their respective scales to the bottom, for the villagers living in remote villages, using healing magic to treat injuries and illnesses was something that could be called talk. matter.

Talking and chatting like this, the young people in the team finally relaxed their tense spirits.

Some people's faces were also bloodshot. Under the light of the torches, several young people who were not killed or injured even played with the weapons and equipment assigned to them in some surprises.

The weapons used by the bandits were not sophisticated, and most of them used what they had snatched from the caravan. But because Kiel defeated the bandit team of the White Wall King before, the forty young refugees led by him at this time are at least stronger than the average bandit team in terms of weapons and equipment.

"Concentrate and don't get distracted. This is a wild no-man's land near the rolling mountains. Be careful, don't be attacked by lurking beasts and monsters!"

Keir yelled out, reminding his subordinates not to be careless.

At this time, under the guidance of the captured bandits, they walked out of a huge rocky area that looked like a natural ecstasy array, facing a wide valley in front of them, with a relatively wide view.

At the bottom of the valley was a forest along the river, but Keel didn't look there. Instead, he raised his head slightly and looked towards the mountainside on the left side of the valley.

It was a dark night, but flames and columns of smoke rose.

"Is that direction your lair?"

Kiel called to stop the captured robbers, and pointed to the place halfway up the valley in the distance, where there was a place with bright flames.

The bandit looked up for a while before realizing that it was the direction of their lair: "Yes, yes. But what happened? Why did it catch fire? It shouldn't be! The buildings outside the cave are all built of stones. ?”

The young people under Kiel couldn't see clearly at night, and they were blurred outside the range of the surrounding torches, so they didn't understand the distant situation that Kiel and the bandits were talking about.

Smacking his lips, Keir continued to ask: "How many people did you leave in the lair when you attacked us this time?"

"The dead boss left more than a dozen people at home, but it's impossible for them to set fire on their own, what the hell? If the boss hadn't died, they would definitely have their skins peeled off and the skinless ones would be thrown away. Go to the dead cave and feed the undead."

Keir snorted: "You guys are pretty good at playing."

Then Keir told the people around him: "Everyone stop where they are, and put out the torches!"

Kiel gave an order, and the young people stopped in a mess, then dawdled, reluctantly, put the lighting torch in their hands on the ground, and covered it with mud. They were still reluctant to stamp out the torches with their newly acquired leather boots.

Faced with this situation, Keir shook his head helplessly. There was nothing he could do. Compared with the Kendall militia who had undergone winter training and actual combat drills to wipe out bandits, these people were far behind.

But at least one thing is good, these people only obey Kiel's orders at this time, and they can be regarded as his 'soldiers'.

Laughing silently, Kiel then took out the newly acquired luminescent magic pendant from the belt leather pouch, and the magical white cold light illuminated the area around Kiel.

Looking at the young people around him, Keir explained: "In this way, the situation ahead is unknown, so we all wait here first. Before I come back, don't light up the torch, so as not to be discovered by someone. Just stay where you are, I will go to the front to scout, and I will come back to join you after the enemy is dealt with."

He looked at the bandits who had been captured and surrendered: "As for these bandits, watch them closely. Shut up your mouth and don't let them speak. At the same time, tie up their feet now. Don't beat them until I come back." They, they're still useful. And don't talk to them, or untie any of them."

"Hmph, even if it's them shitting, I'll pull it in my pants! Do you understand?"

"Understood, Lord Knight."

Several young people who were nearby responded to Kiel's words. They were all wearing damaged leather armor. Among the young people who dared to fight, they were the ones with the best strength and organizational skills.

"You guys, the team is handed over to you. If there are enemies, fight, but don't leave the place. Supervise each other."

"We know my lord."

After explaining, Kiel rode out more and more on the blood licking grass, and ran towards the woods at the bottom of the valley ahead along a dirt road that was often stepped on by people walking around.

As soon as Kiel walked away, darkness enveloped the forty people.

After a while of silence, a leading young man said, "Everyone get together, it's safer."

"good."

"that's all."

A few of them uttered their voices, causing the long strips of teams around them to gather together and form a circle.

A few captured bandits who were named to be careful were in the middle, and a guy was sitting on the ground writhing, whining. His mouth was blocked, and he didn't know what the man was going to say.

But no matter how the man faltered, the young refugees who surrounded the bandits remained unmoved.

After a while, the bandit stopped moving, and a smelly hot air came out from the bandit's crotch.

"Hmph, Lord Knight said, even if you pull it in your trousers, don't even think about moving it. Just stay calm."

The bandits fell silent.

Everyone was waiting quietly in the dark and quiet wilderness, waiting for Kiel to come back.

-

Kiel was riding on the horse, pulling the reins of the blood licking grass all the way, mainly because it was such a dark environment, it was not easy to distinguish the blurry path on the ground.

It is much better to go all the way into the woods near the river at the bottom of the valley.

It is estimated that they regard this place as their own territory, so the fat bandits will extend the road to their lair, mainly in the forest. The two sides were specially cut down, and the felled wood was nailed into the soil on both sides of the road, clearly showing the way to go.

There are many nocturnal birds in the woods. After Keir rode in, he chirped and whimpered, and flapped his wings to fly up and down.

Keel rubbed his teeth, knowing that these nocturnal birds might be raised by bandits in the woods, and they might be one of their nighttime security systems.

After all, looking at the current situation, as long as someone walks along the deliberately set road to the bandit's lair at night, they will definitely be spotted by these night-active birds.

Secretly mentioning caution, Keel rode his horse without stopping to wander, and quickly crossed the road in the woods.

When you encounter a fork in the road, you can also walk to one side by distinguishing the direction of the bandit's lair.

Suddenly, a throwing gun came towards Kiel. Kiel, who heard the sound in the woods next to him, had already greeted the shield first.

Boom, bark!

The spear hit the shield, sparks burst out, and then bounced obliquely, but Kiel also turned the shield around to take a look.

On the surface of his shield, scratches and dents of various depths, large and small, are quite conspicuous, some of which were left over from tonight. And the latest dent scratch, just left.

"It's a bit small, and it needs to be repaired and reforged sometime."

Complaining, Keir took out the hunting bow from the weapon rack behind him, nocked the arrow and shot it towards the place where the sound was coming from.

Whoosh—

Missing the opponent, the guy who attacked Kiel was gradually retreating, but Kiel slowed the blood lick to a stop, and then continued to shoot.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

After several consecutive arrows, the person who attacked him had to change direction from left to right, but he didn't know that such a move hit Keir's arms.

After waiting for a while, Kiel shot another arrow, then suddenly removed the luminous pendant on his waist, and threw it forward.

And the direction of the throw is exactly where the sneak attacker will move in the next moment.

The light leaped and moved in the woods, and Kiel fell into darkness, but the sneak attacker was caught by the luminous pendant that hit him.

-

A young bandit wearing oddly shaped clothes and some random tattoos on his body.

Most of the upper body was naked, revealing scary and weird tattoos. A brown poisonous snake was wrapping around the bandit's neck, hissing and screaming, and demonstratively moving in the direction of Kiel.

But in the next moment, the long sword hunt was thrown by Kiel with a flick of his hand.

"Hit the enemy for me!"

Kiel gave a shout, but the spinning long sword seemed to have a soul, whizzing and spinning, flying over trees, vines and bushes, and directly cut the bandit who was trying to slow down and dodge into two halves.

Blood and body fluids splashed, and after the long sword hunted and cut off the enemy, it stopped on the trunk of a big tree. The hilt of the sword swung back and forth, making a buzzing sound. It looked like a loyal dog. UU Reading www.uukanshu After .com did what the owner requested, it seemed like it was wagging its tail excitedly.

After the bandit who attacked Kiel was cut in two, his upper body was still alive, lying in the grass, moaning, pulling the poisonous snake around his neck, and throwing it in Kiel's direction with the last of his strength.

But after landing, the brown poisonous snake was obviously more interested in the nocturnal birds in the woods. It made a hissing sound, slipped its body into the dead branches and leaves, and slid towards the tree trunk.

Of course, Kiel noticed the snake thrown by the opponent. After confirming which direction the snake was crawling and sliding away, Kiel made a half-circle and jumped off the horse from another direction to approach his attacker.

Pulling out the long sword to hunt, Kiel swung it, put the sword back into the sheath, pressed the moonlight iron at the end of the hilt with his left palm, and slowly rubbed it with the glove with the steel plate.

He retrieved the luminous pendant he had thrown earlier, and put on his metal belt again. Only then did he check the bandits who attacked him.

Looking at the appearance of the other party, Kiel knew that it was similar to the bandits who attacked the refugees in the first wave before.

This is very interesting, because at this moment, the bandit lair that Kiel led to attack is the territory of the fat gang.

The bandit named Huang Snake, his subordinates are here at the moment.

Obviously guarding the road to the fat man's lair.

Reminiscent of the fire in Fatty's lair at this moment, it's not hard to guess what happened: "Someone got there first."

Keir muttered to himself: "But it's okay, at least two groups of people fight among themselves, and I only need to defeat the remaining group. Hehehe, haha, it saves me a lot of things .”

He chuckled.

At the same time, Kiel also has a new understanding of the greed of the bandits.