Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel was hot, and he didn't know if his eyes were red now, but his vision didn't turn red.

Everything around is a bit strange and unfamiliar.

It is obviously an ordinary winter forest, but under his current observation, it looks weird everywhere.

The bark debris falling from the branches blown by the wind slowly fell in Kiel's eyes, and after the fall, a few bits of soil among the rotting leaves on the ground were kicked up a little.

On the top of a tree trunk not far away, a little squirrel was hugging. The little thing looked at it curiously, its tail wagging slowly.

It seemed that a human being was staring at it. That usually sensitive little thing, in Kiel's eyes, slowly jumped off the tree trunk clumsily this time, and fell to hide in the branches below.

Watching the little squirrel's slow fall, Keel realized that it wasn't that everything around him became weird, but that he himself became weird after eating the mushroom.

The world seems to be slowing down?

No, Keel shook his head. It was his whole body that became sensitive.

That's why it feels weird. Although this situation is very good, Keel knows that this mushroom must be poisonous, but it may not be fatal.

Touching the Saturn badge on his chest, he hoped that this badge would cure him of the adverse reaction he had after eating mushrooms.

Knowing that the effect of the mushroom would last for half a day, Keel turned back from the other direction after running far away.

It was going to be dark soon, and it was dusk now, and it was impossible for the bandits who had killed three people to evacuate overnight. After all, they are not Kiel, and they cannot safely cross mountains and mountains at night.

So those bandits had no choice but to tidy up the corpses of their accomplices and bury them hastily beside the fire. They also happened to rest on alert by this fire.

"Are you sure that person ran away?" A bearded bandit questioned the three bandits who had gone out to track them down before. After Pope's death, among the seven surviving people, he was the one who had joined the bandits in Pocket Hole for the longest time. , several people naturally regarded him as the person in charge of the current team.

The three looked at each other and replied, "Yes, that person ran away after killing Dunrk. We were afraid that we would be attacked one by one by that person, so we retreated."

Touching the dead bandit's weapon in his hand, the bearded bandit looked at the people around him and asked, "What do you think of this man's skill? Where did he come from?"

The bandits discussed for a while, and they all felt that if they faced the other two experienced bandits alone, it would be difficult to keep themselves and win.

After all, everyone usually trains together for life robbery, and everyone knows their own combat levels. It is not easy to win one-on-one, let alone one-on-two. After the companions shouted out, they quickly returned to complete the battle victory in a very short time, and then fled.

Even while fleeing, he even killed one of the spear throwers among them.

Regarding this person's skills, everyone came to the same conclusion: If you want to fight, you must kill them all, and kill the opponent after you may lose one or two people.

It is basically impossible to capture alive, unless you are lucky enough to knock down the opponent's weapon.

Other questions followed, where did this man come from?

Why did those fleeing people lose their tracks when they ran here, and then killed such a highly skilled person.

The seven people discussed it, and felt that the most likely thing was that those fleeing people knew that there was that person here, so they came here specifically to seek help.

Judging from the fact that the three of them were killed, the idea of ​​those people has succeeded. It is impossible to find those people who are hiding nearby without eliminating this person.

Especially if they want to search for the people, they have to spread out to find them, but this will be broken down one by one by the other party. Once they lose two more people, the team sent out to pursue them will not be able to safely find and kill those fleeing people.

"It seems that those damned mud legs have found a way out. But why is there such a person hiding here?" Just as the bearded bandit was thinking about this question while buttoning the dirt on his beard.

The accomplice who was preparing to set up camp nearby made a new discovery, a small crypt not far from the fire.

Several bandits gathered around the entrance of the crypt and looked in. After a while, a bandit crawled out of the small crypt: "It's very small, but someone has dug it up and lived in it. There can only be one person, and it must be that person who lived there before." live here."

"Damn! Such a person hides here and helps the people he meets. He must not be a new bandit who came out into the forest. Could it be that he is a soldier specially sent by Bingxun Pass to investigate?" A bandit raised a possibility.

This surprised the bandits around. After all, although the militiamen would come to clear up the bandits who were raging on the county border every year, for the bandits who hid well in pocket holes, this has become their rise in recent years. Opportunity.

After all, other bandit gangs have to lose personnel and supplies every year, but they don't lose a little bit every year. This allowed them to increase their numbers every year. Except for those who were fighting with other bandit gangs or losing their hands during plundering, they had no other deaths.

Those who can come out to do banditry are young landless youths, either without jobs or wanting to make quick money. They are all young and middle-aged people, so there are basically no people who die from diseases every year.

At the same time, other gangs of bandits have to flee to the depths of the mountains when the militiamen are cleared up in winter. This time, many bandits died in the harsh conditions in the wild, and at any time they would encounter ferocious beasts and wild beasts. The monsters that appear in the story.

On the contrary, the robbers in Luobag Cave nest safely in their lair in the cave every year. As long as the entrance of the cave is well concealed and the number of times of lighting fires is reduced every day, they can avoid the clearing of the militia every time and comfortably nourish their essence. Store up your energy, and when the weather warms up and there is no rain in the spring, you will go out and rob.

The other bandits are still on their way back in the mountains, and they will be able to eat the first robbery bonus of the year.

With so many advantages and gradual growth, it will definitely arouse the jealousy of other bandit gangs, or make the mediocre soldiers and pass officials in Bingxun pass uncomfortable and feel threatened.

So, is the person hiding here sent to covertly spy on them?

Regarding this conclusion, the seven bandits all felt that this was the most likely. Feeling that the situation was not good, they spontaneously felt that they should tell their respective leaders about this kind of thing earlier.

So that the leaders can prepare ahead of time.

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Just after the bandits finished their discussion, they dug a half-buried pit along the edge of the fire with their spare weapons as a place to rest at night.

There were fleeing people hiding around, and there was also a good fighter, which made them rest if they didn't dare to be careless, so they had to rest with two people, and five people kept watch to rest in rotation.

Not far away, Keel was hiding behind a tree. He almost died laughing when he heard the bandits' whimsical discussion just now.

Because of the lack of information, these bandits randomly guessed the most likely direction from the angle they knew, and the result was naturally the opposite.

Keir felt that the most important point was that they didn't know that the people who were detained were rescued by him, and thought that the people killed the guards and escaped by themselves.

Gripping his weapon tightly, Keel looked at the bandits on guard in the light of the fire, and judged where was the best breakthrough.

He felt that these bandits probably didn't dare to chase him in the dark and fight him in the dark mountain forest. He also heard what those bandits said. Once they reached five people, they had to retreat.

After all, although five people are enough to deal with more than 20 people, there is also the risk of complete annihilation. After all, the similar reasoning that a trapped beast will still fight, and a fish dies and a net is broken, must be often encountered by these bandits who often rob.

Although I don't know how these bandits deal with that situation, these seven bandits definitely don't have that kind of ability. Once the personnel are lost, they must return first. Especially when they inadvertently learned a piece of information about the skilled fighter who'hidden' here.

Keel changed the distance position in the dark. He had to kill at least two bandits when the effect of the mushroom was at its maximum before the effect of the mushroom weakened.

It's impossible to rush out directly, after all, two fists are no match for four hands, let alone two fists are against fourteen hands.

Weighing the long spear in his hand, Keir remembered the spear throwing before dark. To be honest, it was really a blow by accident. He was affected by the mushroom for the first time, and he seemed to be drowsy and drowsy, but his fighting ability was surprisingly strong.

After judging the distance, Kiel was in the dark forest, aiming the tip of the spear in the direction of the bandit speaking in the firelight.

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The two bandits rested comfortably in the shallow pit near the fire, while the other five guarded the dark surroundings while chatting about the captured women who succumbed to them in their lair. Some women have borne children of regular bandits and are already counted among them. With these people as persuasion and 'example', the number of newly captured female captives has succumbed to more and more recently. This makes some young bandits without women quite excited, and they scream all day long. Those who went out to plunder migrant families and travelers with few numbers, regardless of those who plundered, gained little and lost a lot in battle.

A bandit boasted in the chat that the best thing to deal with is some caravans of a certain size. There is no need to fight. As long as those caravans are blocked on the road without people, those merchants will obediently leave a carload of goods behind and hand them over to them. Give all the money.

The bandit thought this kind of looting was the most efficient method of looting, and even the leaders thought so. After all, it is not very good to have to fight **** every time to get the harvest. Especially for those goods that are obviously worthless, those who resist desperately will bring them a lot of losses.

The bandit pulled open the fur clothing on his chest, revealing scars full of healed wounds. He proudly boasted to the other bandits that these were all left over from the **** battles of looting.

Among the scars on his chest, there were left by bows and arrows, cut wounds from machetes, and a clear bite mark from being severely bitten.

The bandit with a beard who was temporarily the captain gave a disdainful cut, and faced the firelight, he also uncovered the fur clothing on his chest, so that the other bandits could see that he also had various wounds. He also rolled up his sleeves and showed the Staggered wounds.

Just as he and the bandit were showing each other their wounds from the battle, there was a rush of footsteps from behind them.

The five of them reacted immediately, and each roared as agreed to wake up the two who were sleeping, and then held their weapons in unison and faced the direction of the sound.

However, the sound of footsteps in the dark woods suddenly stopped, and then something slightly reflecting the fire flashed past, and a long spear made a whining sound, directly hitting the bandit who first showed his wound.

Who told him to be the closest to the woods, and let his chest out.

The spear hit the bandit's chest squarely, the sharp point of the spear smashed the opponent's breastbone, and the sharp blade of the spear broke the opponent's ribs and lung lobes, and then pierced straight out from the opponent's back.

The thick fur on the opponent's back was useless at all, and the barrel of the long spear penetrated halfway before stopping and jamming.

The bandit wailed in a low voice, then lost his strength and knelt down, and his fallen body was just supported by the barrel of the spear.

Seeing the death of the accomplice who was still competing with each other for scars just now, the other four bandits yelled and rushed towards the direction from which they threw their guns.

After throwing his long spear, Keir retreated sharply. After leading the chasing bandits into the dark woods, he saw the four of them still chasing him next to each other.

Keel felt that the timing was bad, so he turned to circle around the fire, running in circles in the dark woods.

The two sleeping robbers drew their weapons, and when they came together, they saw an accomplice died, and rushed towards the place where the noise was made in the dark woods together.

As they rushed over, they shouted whether they were their own people, and if they were, they opened their mouths.

Keir was naturally not one of them, so he didn't speak. And the two bandits who came straight towards him also knew that the other party was not their own. One of them is a machete and a wooden shield, and the other is carrying a big wooden stick. The upper end of the big wooden stick still reflects the light of metal. Keel took a closer look at the feeling that the opponent's movement was slowing down. It turned out that the other party was giving the top of the wooden stick Two metal rings were hooped, and many sharp iron nails were stuck on the rings.

This kind of mace-like weapon is really useful against enemies without formal armor, but once it is injured a little bit, the clothes will be scraped off by those sharp iron nails, and the skin and flesh underneath will be scraped away.

The pain of the body being torn apart is not something humans can bear. Basically, a few blows can knock a person down and it is difficult to treat because of the bleeding wounds all over his body.

The bandit who used a big wooden stick with nails screamed strangely, why would he be satisfied by killing five or six people today.

Since the other party likes death and abuse, Keir will satisfy him.

With the long sword out of its sheath, he quickened his pace and rushed towards the bandit.

The bandit holding the machete wooden shield was more cautious. The wide wooden shield covered the front of his body, and only half of his head was exposed from the top of the shield. The machete was resting on his shoulder with his right hand, ready to be thrown forward at any time .

His footsteps were steady, and he followed the bandit in front of him unhurriedly. Since the two were not working under the same leader, this bandit deliberately let the bandit who was attacking in front try the soldier who killed the three of them. , how to reach out.

The two collided and approached each other in a very short time. Although the bandit with the wooden mace rushed forward, he still had combat experience. He was very brave in every battle, and he used the weapon in his hand to brutally kill those merchants who dared to resist. Therefore, he pushed the mace forward first, and used a sharp metal thorn nailed on the top of the wooden mace to test the unknown fighters who were fighting.

Kiel could see the opponent's movements clearly. He staggered his feet and lowered his body. At the moment of approaching, he slightly deviated from the opponent's weapon attack direction and approached beyond the opponent's unshielded side.

The long sword began to charge up and swing when Kiel lowered his body, because in Kiel's eyes, the movements of the two bandits were not fast, so he used all his strength in this sword, and directly slashed out with the sword. Cut off the leg of the bandit who fought.

Crushed muscle fragments and **** broken bone fragments flew out from under the blade, and what remained in place was the bandit's broken leg.

"Ah? Ah!!" With one foot in the air, the enemy in the bandit's eyes disappeared, and then he himself fell down inexplicably.

'How can I fall? ’ After he fell down, he saw that his foot was still standing on the ground where he took the previous step, and did not move forward with him. Only then did he realize that his leg had been cut off.

The bandit uttered a terrified cry.

After Kiel broke his leg with a sword, he jumped up a little, taking advantage of the surprise of the bandit with the sword and shield, and kicked directly on the shield in front of the bandit.

Kiel tensed his legs, allowing his entire body to become a whole at the moment of kicking.

The weight of his whole body, the weight of the weapon, the weight of the clothes, and the weight of the materials and props in the backpack behind him are all gathered on this foot.

Boom!

With a dull sound, the bandit who was kicked flew backwards, even his feet left the ground in a short time, and the whole person flew upside down for more than three meters, and then rolled continuously after landing, directly Rolled into the pit where he had rested before.

Kiel himself paused in mid-air after kicking the bandit who was wielding a sword and shield, and then stood firmly on the ground with the other leg.

He stomped his feet ~www.readwn.com~ to relieve the numbness in his legs, then turned and rushed towards the bandit whose calf had been cut off and was hugging his leg and howling.

Although the bandit hugged his legs and wailed in pain, he looked up and saw the soldier rushing, but his accomplice didn't know where he was. He frantically threw the wooden mace on the side towards the opponent, trying to hit it.

But in Kiel's eyes, the flying mace thrown by the other party was simply a juggling game flying in the air. The clown in front threw a barbed wooden club for him to catch, and all vicious thoughts came from the other party's eyes. out.

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Keel easily caught the flying wooden mace, then turned around, and after a circle, he threw the same mace back to the clown opposite.

"Now it's your turn." Before Kiel could finish his words, the bandit who was lying on the ground opposite him opened his eyes wide in disbelief. hit in the face.

In an instant, followed by the flames, Kiel had a clear view of the opponent's tragic image. The nose, mouth, eyes and cheeks were all hit squarely by the wooden mace that was struck hard and fast, and with the face to face The mace, his entire face is gone, only the hideous blood holes that were cut and smashed by the sharp spikes can be seen.

Knowing that the other party was finished, Kiel stood firmly on both feet and slowed down, then glanced at the four bandits who were about to chase in the dark bushes, regardless of the bandit who was kicked away. It's not easy to deal with. He also uses shields, so he knows it very well.

He quickly ran to the bandit who was killed by the spear, and found that the bandit was still breathing. Regardless of whether the bandit was still alive, he pushed him directly, pulled out half of the gun barrel, and held it in his hand. Run towards the dark woods.