Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil rode on the blood-licking grass and waved his hand: "Let's go!"

Dozens of young people drove their carriages and horses, carrying some of the things they were interested in, and lined up in a long line to go out from the gate of the bandit camp.

The lighting torches were lit, and the torches in front and behind were like glowing snakes, slowly crawling down the hillside.

Knowing that there was no danger nearby, Kiel let the young man go ahead, and he held the line at the end.

He turned around and looked at the cracked cave entrance with billowing smoke and the wooden houses filled with the corpses of bandits that were set on fire. He breathed a sigh of relief. I don’t know how much sin and pain this place has produced.

Only burning it down is the final good result here.

He had just gone to look at the passage under the bandit leader's bed after ventilating it for a while.

The passage that is not often opened is connected to a cellar. To Kil's expectation, it is not the treasure room or anything he expected. It is simply a storage room where several heads are placed.

Several dried male human heads were carefully placed on a long table, each with a ferocious look. In front of the metal plates where the dried heads were placed, there were also pieces of broken weapons.

After looking around for a moment, Kil knew what this place was for.

It was a place to store loot.

Every dried head was probably a powerful enemy that the bandit leader nicknamed Fatty had defeated in his previous life. The broken weapons were obviously the enemy's weapons.

After questioning a captured Fat Man gang robber, Keir corroborated his judgment.

In this case, the place has no effective value.

Set the wooden table on which the heads are placed on fire and let them and the entire bandit camp be purified by the flames.

When the team's firelight was a little farther away, Kil then jumped off the horse and came to the wild python that he had killed before. He picked up the thick and heavy snake body. Kil'er disappeared, taking the long snake body with him. Followed and disappeared.

Then he appeared again, but he was alone, and the snake body he was holding was gone.

"Let's go, let's follow."

Kil jumped on his horse, ignoring the curious eyes of the licking blood grass, and knocked the horse's belly to let it follow the team along the winding mountain dirt road.

-

The fine raindrops did not disturb the oily torches, but only added a slight crackling sound to them.

But the rain still makes the air moist and cold after all.

Crowded on the creaking carriage, the rescued people ignored the smell of grease on the bandits' clothes. They huddled together one by one and wrapped themselves in thick animal skin clothes.

They complained softly, muttering, and the young refugees walking in twos and threes on both sides of the carriage couldn't help but glance at them. Although those words don't sound good, young people all know that these people have been tortured by evil and cruel bandits for a long time. They don't care about a few complaints.

But the eight bandits who were tied up while walking together began to curse.

"You guys are disgusted with sitting in a car. Why don't you change with me? Come down and do some exercise."

"I've been beaten and forced to walk. How dare you complain?"

"One by one, if I had known better, I should have killed you just now."

But the situation changed, and the rescued people were no longer afraid of the tied up bandits. A young businessman leaned back on a wooden box and taunted the bandits who were connected to the carriage with ropes: "You guys, just now Haven't you been spanked enough by me? Do you want to taste my urine? I'll stand on the carriage and pee all over your faces and see if you still complain!"

The faces of the bandits who were tied with ropes and walking behind the carriage changed greatly, and they immediately cursed. However, when they saw that the young businessman really planned to untie his pants, they immediately shut up.

The young refugees next to him saw it so funny that they all laughed.

However, the young businessman thought that these farmers were laughing at him, so he actually unbuttoned his pants and pointed his words at the young refugees on the side of the carriage: "What's so funny about you? If you laugh again, open your mouth and taste me!"

These words angered a young refugee who was closest to him. He raised his hand and grabbed the young businessman's ankle, pushed him into the carriage, and fell heavily with a loud bang.

The rescued people who had been smashed by their own people immediately cursed the young businessmen who made trouble and the young refugees who took action. However, more than a dozen young refugees around them gathered around and the people in the carriage honestly shut up.

This time it was the bandits' turn to laugh. They whispered to each other about everything that happened before them, and they still complained about the reason why they were defeated before. It was simply that they were unlucky to meet the knight, otherwise these young birds in front of them would have died. How could a dog be defeated? They must be escorting the captured people on the trade road at this time.

Speaking of this, the bandits looked into the darkness behind them.

Amidst the messy sounds of horse hooves and walking, the sound of weapons clashing from a bright place in the darkness in the distance was the culprit that caused all of this.

But they only dared to take a glance, and then turned back and continued walking. He surrendered, but whether he could survive in the end was still unknown.

Following the route given by the surrender of the Wild Snake bandit gang, the team reluctantly walked down the mountain on the south side of the trade road towards the headquarters of the Wild Snake gang, which was not far from here.

The fact that the two families are so close is one of the reasons why Huang She had to sneak attack on Fatty's lair before leaving this place to make a living.

Although the people of Huangshe kept snakes before, they were considered to be strange and poisonous, and they were best at using venomous snakes to sneak attack caravans staying overnight. However, due to the disparity in numbers, Fatty's team has been suppressing Huang She's gang.

There are very few new members in the Mountain Wolf team, and they always operate as a mature team with sufficient numbers. The White Wall King's team rarely accepts outsiders. They have a village stronghold in the mountains. They will only capture children during plunder and raise them themselves, or capture women to give birth to themselves.

Therefore, when outside bandits join, they often only choose smaller bandit gangs, or the largest one.

Fatty's people don't think there's any problem if the two's lairs are close to each other. It's Huang She and the others who should be afraid of being attacked and annexed.

"Parsel! How long until we reach your lair?"

A young man in armor who was leading the crowd asked the bandits of the Wild Snake gang who were being held behind the first carriage.

A bandit with a bruised nose and face opened his eyes wide, looked around, and then shook his head: "How do I know? The direction is correct, but the surroundings are pitch black. You have to get the marks on the trees in the forest to know where you are."

"I think you are dishonest! You are entrenched in these places and you actually tell me that you don't know? Beat him! Beat him until he tells me!"

Another young man with a bad temper went up and kicked the bandit, knocking him down and he could only be dragged behind the carriage.

The bandit who had been hit hard on his body gritted his teeth and did not cry out. He and the other bandits around him knew that the more they screamed, the more they would be beaten.

Because not long ago, they did the same thing.

If they can do it, others can do it too.

After fighting for a while, seeing that the beaten bandit did not speak, the irritable young man who felt that he was bored snorted heavily: "I understand that you want to survive, and you also want to rely on various news to improve your status in the heart of the knight, but Wheat Seed is Wheat seeds, beans are beans, they cannot be planted together, nor can they be planted against the season. Be happy, let us destroy your nest, and everyone, especially the Lord Knight, will be satisfied, and you will naturally survive!"

After kicking the butt of a bandit from the Wild Snake gang next to him, the young man tried to walk away, but he was stopped.

"Walking along the forest, a place where a stream flowing from the mountains flows through the woods is our nest. But be careful of snakes. There are several nests of venomous snakes that love to return to their nests during the day around the nest camp."

The irritable young man nodded and muttered: "If you had said no earlier, you wouldn't have been beaten, you are a bunch of old dogs." Then he walked to the front of the team.

The robber who spoke awkwardly rubbed his buttocks with his wrists bound by a long rope, and then worked with others to help his companion who was dragged to the ground.

They communicated quietly.

"Do you think you can survive?"

"Who knows, these mud-legged guys probably won't, but it's hard to say for that young knight."

"But he killed the most of us! If he kills so much, why don't he kill a few of us without blinking an eye?"

"Hey, judging from their appearance, they kind of want to take the opportunity to wipe out Shan Lang's gang. At least until this goal is achieved, we can survive and get beaten less."

In this way, the five bandits looked at each other, and under the flickering light of the torches on both sides, each of their faces looked like they were about to die.

So everyone lost interest in talking and fell silent, not knowing what they were thinking.

At the back of the team, Kil was chatting with the bandit who surrendered from the Mountain Wolf gang.

"Young master, if you continue to attack the lair where our leader has withdrawn tonight, you must be careful."

Kil was bored, wiped the visor of his armor with a red cloth, and replied, "What do you mean? Are there many traps inside and outside your lair in the forest?"

"There are traps, but they are all used to drive away wild beasts. The main reason is that there is a crony of the leader in the lair. He is very powerful! In all the years I have been a member of the gang, I have never seen that person defeated."

"Oh? Could it be that he is a knight-level warrior who is so destitute that he became a bandit? But can your leader still sit on the chair under his butt?"

The surrendered bandit quickly said: "No, no, no, not as powerful as you, but still very powerful."

"What nonsense, please explain clearly."

The bandit raised his tied palms and rubbed them hard on his face: "Well, yes, that's it. Although it doesn't look like much, that guy can win every time he fights with someone! No matter if the opponent is alone or Two people, or five people. Just like that, the long sword slashed back and forth, and the heads fell off like fruits falling from the trees. "

Keir raised his eyebrows, finding it interesting.

"Tell me his name, nickname, etc. Also tell me his height, weight, and the weapons and equipment he usually uses."

Faced with these demands from Keir, the surrendered bandit sneered twice and finally shut up his endless mouth.

"How do I know so much? That guy doesn't have a nickname, and we don't dare to give him one. Everyone usually just calls that guy Will. His weapon is a long sword, and he doesn't usually get close to his brothers. He likes to be alone outside the camp. So the leader often asks him to guard the entrances and exits of the camp."

"Oh, does he sound like a stylish hermit?"

Keir muttered.

-

After a while, the team slowed down and stopped. Keir rode up and asked what happened.

"Sir Knight, according to what the bandits said, we have found the bandit's lair called Wild Snake. The place is not too far from the previous bandit's lair, and there are creeks and woods, and the two are mixed together."

Kil looked around: "This should be right here. Well, everyone, please be careful, these snake charmers have released a lot of venomous snakes around their lair."

His horses are far more perceptive than humans. At this moment, including the blood-licking grass that Kil is riding, they all look restless.

Kil jumped off his horse and directed the team to pay attention to their steps and join together first.

"Be careful under your feet, in the grass, on the edges of shrubs, and on tree branches. There might be a venomous snake lying around somewhere."

Kil held the ax in his hand and used it to poke at the surrounding shrubs and other low trees.

Amid the sound of Shashasha's branches twirling, there was a sudden hissing sound, and then a black shadow struck at Kil's arm.

There was a crisp sound, and the long black shadow hit Keir's arm armor hard.

With a cold snort, Kil flexibly waved the blue two-handed ax with his backhand, jumping the long black shadow in the circle, and then slashed the ax, splitting his head in half.

The black shadow kept twisting and curling in the mottled and swaying firelight. Kil shined the glowing magic pendant on his body, and it turned out to be a one-meter-long brown-black venomous snake.

Kil continued to walk around the crowd, constantly attracting venomous snakes to attack, and then killed them smoothly.

The mouth corners of the people around him twitched when they saw this, and the bandits from Huang She's group were quite distressed.

"Tell me, you must have a way to prevent poisonous snakes from attacking people. As long as one of our people is bitten by a poisonous snake and dies, I will randomly kill one of you. One life for another, it's fair, right? "

Keir threw the chopped venomous snakes back to the front of the team. A bold young refugee immediately took out a large bag and picked the curled venomous snakes into the bag.

This is all meat.

After hearing the knight's blackmail conditions, the bandits who originally wanted these people to suffer some losses quickly said: "I understand, I understand. Sir, if there is a way, there is a way."

Another person quickly added: "We have a kind of powder in our pockets, which is made from the excrement of the big snakes raised by the leader. If you put a little bit on your legs, the poisonous snakes around you will not attack!"

Kil snorted coldly: "What are you doing in a daze? Everyone should apply it on themselves."

He didn't need it himself. After his men found a small packet of black ash dry powder for each person from the bandit's pocket, and spread some dry powder evenly on everyone, including the horses' hooves, they first let a bandit go into the forest to try it. .

Under the supervision of Kiel himself, it turned out that between him and the bandit, he was the only one who was attacked by a poisonous snake. The bandit who had applied the dried snake excrement powder was not bitten by the poisonous snake.

"Let's go! Leave half of us outside, and the rest follow me!"

Kiel mounted his horse, took twenty armed young refugees, and entered along the edge of the damp woods.

-

According to the information he had previously asked the bandits, Kil indeed found various markings on the trunks of big trees in the woods. These bandits are very talented in 'art' and like to hang beast heads on the trunks of big trees, or deliberately carve the bark of big trees to create various horrific patterns.

Every big tree around them has been turned into an 'art wall' to intimidate outsiders, but these things are fake after all. After just experiencing tonight's fighting, the young people under Kiel are not too afraid of these weird artistic creations. .

They are more worried about the enemy's real swords and guns.

Keir picked out the nearby big trees with human skulls hanging on their trunks and soon found a simple camp set up in the woods shortly after going deep into the woods.

The bandits collected a kind of water-loving vine in the forest, dried it and woven it into a net. After it was completely dried, the net-shaped vine turned into a strong and ventilated wall.

This kind of vine wall is buried between two adjacent tree trunks, fixed with soil at the bottom, and suspended with ropes at the top. In this way, this group of bandits, who are very imaginative and capable of survival, established a seemingly simple, but quite practical, simple camp deep in the wild woods.

The gate to the camp is closed, and a sentry vine basket hangs from a nearby tree. When Kil saw it, he smiled, drew out his bow and arrow, and shot the bandit who was looking at them to death with one arrow.

The bandit was hit by an arrow in the chest. Before falling from the vine basket, he tenaciously rang the warning bell.

Jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle.

The quiet camp in the forest was instantly awakened by the rapid ringing of bells. Some people asked what happened, and some cursed loudly whether the sentry was deliberately playing a prank.

But no one thought they were being attacked.

Keir knew that there were only a few people in the gang's lair, no more than six at most, so with a wave of his hand, he ordered twenty of his men to attack!

"kill!"

"Ahhhhh!"

This is what happens without trained hands. Kil gave an order, and the young man who took the lead shouted loudly, and then led the others who also shouted loudly, running and shouting at the same time.

They rushed to the entrance of the bandit camp and directly hit the camp gate, which was also made of vine walls, with their shoulders.

Of course, the light camp gate, which was only tied with a rope inside, could not stop the collision of so many human males. It was violently knocked back and knocked down a bandit who came forward out of curiosity.

The number of bandits left behind in the camp was not large, and their strength was not strong enough. Faced with the attack of No. 20 people, they only met each other and were chopped to the ground.

One guy threw a poisonous snake he carried with him, but the poisonous snake that fell at the feet of the young refugees did not attack them. Instead, it curled up in fear.

Kil rode slowly to the open gate of the camp and watched how the young man who was holding a torch in one hand and a machete and sword in the other was fighting haphazardly and captured the bandits who were fighting back.

The bandits were quite capable and could barely maintain their defense against the attacks of one or two young men. But the numerical disadvantage was too great. The two bandits on the left could barely hold on, but the two bandits on the right were chopped into pieces by a dozen young men in an instant.

Keir nocked an arrow and shot the guy who had been brought down by the gate before.

Soon, the remaining bandits were all killed by a swarm of young people.

"We took stock and killed a few remaining bandits."

Keir ordered.

The young man in leather armor responded loudly and gasped excitedly.