Mercenaries and Adventurers

The Anvina knight laughed and fell back into the black smoke that blocked his vision, while the thief whose right arm was cut off by the giant ax gritted his teeth tightly, and looked at his arm when he finally fell.

The right arm is strong and slender, and the slender and powerful fingers show that he was originally of good origin.

Those were supposed to be a pair of elegant hands manipulating paintbrushes or musical instruments, but now after so many years, they are mostly familiar with lock picks and daggers.

The right hand that was spinning away was still tightly holding the undead bone dagger, and because it was separated from the body, it became stiff quickly. Thieves Isi's shoulders still spurted out small streams of blood, but the blood on the section of the arm was strangely semi-coagulated into a dark black suspicious substance.

"Sure enough, I won't have any good results with this evil weapon, right?"

He thought so.

Afterwards, it fell heavily into the inner courtyard of the gang in the darkness.

The instinct brought about by long-term training allows him to miraculously land on his legs first, even if he has only been severely injured in the air.

After all, he is not a knight with inhuman strength. Although he landed on his feet first, and he bent his legs to absorb the impact when he landed, the knees of his legs still hit the ground heavily.

With a painful grunt, the thief Isi rolled forward, not only to relieve the impact of the landing by rolling, but also because of the knight's attack.

Rub-boom!

It is common for knights to fall from a high place, so as soon as the Anvina knight landed, he immediately spun and threw it towards the place where the voice of the thief who landed almost at the same time sounded.

The rotating giant ax rubbed against the stones on the ground to draw a not-so-shallow ditch, and flew forward a few meters quickly, and then flew back under the call of the knight.

It's empty.

The knight knew very well that he missed something just now.

"Cunning guy, die obediently!" Knight Anvina took a deep breath, and immediately smelled the other party's blood with an extraordinary sense of smell. Even though there were many casualties around him, he still smelled it from various blood The taste of that honorless fellow's blood.

Don't ask, it's a man's instinct to ask.

The opponent didn't lose his mind after being hit hard. After falling to the ground and rolling to avoid his axe, he immediately moved in one direction.

The knight raised his stride and chased away.

"Don't try to run! Go to hell!"

The two chased and fled. Logically speaking, it is impossible for a thief without inhuman strength to surpass the knight in terms of mobility, but after all, the black smoke around him that obstructed his vision has not dissipated, and the thief is not stupidly heading towards the target in a straight line. run away.

The thief Yisi moved left and right in a zigzag shape, changing directions back and forth so that the tall and heavy Anvina knight could not increase his speed due to the drag of his whole body.

"There are still a few steps, and the well in the corner of the house is coming."

The thief desperately dodged the spinning giant ax attacking from behind again, and after taking the night vision potion of the wagtail, he could barely see the well between the corners of the two houses.

The seemingly inconspicuous well is actually an emergency entrance and exit to the underground lair.

However, this hidden entrance has not been used since it was built. If he had no other better way, he would not have chosen this place.

It was more convenient to enter the underground lair from the house where his bedroom was, but he landed right in the middle of a nasty stupid bear rider. No choice but to choose the nearest and most unexpected entrance and exit.

Just as he was about to enter the well, there was another roaring and deadly sound behind him. The thief Yisi gritted his teeth and gave it up. He stopped turning and jumped straight towards the well with his legs accumulating strength.

He shrank and spun in the air, dodging the giant ax that spun obliquely from behind, and then stretched out his body, throwing his head and feet into the entrance of the well.

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"Where did it go? Huh? Come out?"

The Anvina knight couldn't see the existence of the well, so after the thief entered the well, he couldn't smell the opponent's blood immediately.

He threw the giant ax with both hands towards the place where the opponent disappeared at last, and there was nothing but the sound of the stone being smashed.

"Disappeared? Damn, where did he go!"

The knight got angry, but it was no use, the guy ran away as expected.

After stomping his feet heavily, the knight finally vented his anger, and then directed his subordinates around him.

"I'm Anvina, boys, please answer me and let me know where you are!" the knight said loudly.

The soldiers who had been fighting between the knight and the gang leader and the thieves because no one had said anything just now, responded immediately when they heard the call.

"My lord, we are in the front room."

"Master Anvina Knight, I'm Lubis from Kendall. My people and I are in the house on the west side to control the captured Yisi Knife Gang. There are a lot of prisoners. Please send someone to help." Rubis also responded immediately, and because of the activeness of Kiel and Zambirus, he defeated and captured many gang thugs.

Then, Pawei's voice sounded from the house on the east side, which is the house where the thieves came out before: "Master Anvina Knight, I took people to occupy this house, knocked down and captured a few Gang staff."

The Anvina knight nodded in satisfaction. Unexpectedly, his nephew would take the initiative to take down a house of the enemy in the black smoke that could not see anything. He did not lag behind the outsiders. He did a good job.

But then the knight frowned: "Furlong! Furlong? Where did you die?"

The local soldier captain Furlong was embarrassed to speak when he heard the knight's call, but at this moment he had to touch the side of the house at the back door, approach the inner courtyard from the carriage entrance and exit passage, and answer the knight's call.

"My lord, I'm sorry to disappoint you." Furlong awkwardly held a two-handed ax in one hand, and touched the outer wall of the side house with the other.

"Our attack here was thwarted, and the house by the back door was actually full of traps. Several soldiers were killed and captured. I and others were lucky enough to escape from the traps in the house."

Although he was very embarrassed, Furlong was a veteran. He knew that it was not because of his own face that he was not strong enough to take down the house at the back door. At this time, he had to let the Anvina knight play.

Holding on or justifying yourself will only delay the opportunity and time.

"My lord, I'm sorry, but please support this side."

"Hmph." Knight Anvina snorted coldly, but didn't say much. Winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs. This sentence doesn't exist in another world, but the same reasoning is the same.

The knight just felt a little ashamed in front of outsiders, that's all.

"Okay, you take your men, circle around the house, **** up your ears, don't let a gang member go away. Come and take down that house with my footsteps. Let me see them How can you stop my soldiers!"

The four soldiers who heard the call ran out from the house at the front door, carrying long knives and long swords, and immediately followed behind the heavy footsteps of the knight. Even if they couldn't see them around, the clear and heavy footsteps of the knights guided them well.

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"Whirring whirring."

Under the thief's mask, the thief Yisi was panting rapidly. At this time, he was hanging upside down in the middle of the well, unable to get up or down, completely relying on his upside-down and open legs to support his entire body.

With only one hand left, it was impossible for him to support himself in the well with one hand.

Fortunately, the inside of the well was not very wide, and the well walls on both sides were uneven. Although it was a little slippery, the leather pants and boots on his body had good friction.

The thief's legs are very strong, so even if this position is uncomfortable, he can still maintain it for a long time, but his primary goal at this time is to stop the wound on his right shoulder.

As he was lying down, blood was still dripping from the wound, making the thief's face gradually turn pale.

He immediately took out the dry powder of the hemostatic agent from the small hardwood box at his waist. This dry powder of the agent mixed with a very small amount of blood-coagulating snake venom can completely block the wound as long as it touches the wound, and the blood in the wound will still It solidifies quickly, and tightly blocks the broken blood vessel.

But the pain that this thing brings is just as powerful as its hemostatic effect.

"Hum, hoo, hoo, hoo hoo."

Even the sound-absorbing fluffy mask couldn't stop the painful cries from the corners of his mouth.

After the bleeding was stopped, he took out a small bottle of medicine again, and instead of using it, he put it in his mouth first.

After all, you can't swallow potions and potions if you lie down.

Stretching out his hand to support the slippery stone wall of the well, the thief took out a gold coin from his body and dropped it from his hand.

poof.

The gold coin quickly fell into the bottom of the well, and just by the time it took for him to fall into the water, the thief could roughly judge his height inside the well at this time.

"I have to go down a little more." Mumbling, the thief stretched out his remaining left hand and propped it on the wall of the well, then tried to slowly free up one leg, then lowered the vacated leg, and then stepped on it.

This frees up another leg, and then down, step on it. Freed his left hand again.

After doing this several times, the thieves found a separate wall made of wood on the stone well wall.

This is actually a wooden door.

The hidden pull ring is carved in stone, no worry about rotting. After groping, the thief found the pull ring he had installed himself, and when he pulled it hard, the narrow wooden door opened like a well.

The passage inside was narrow and damp, and when it was opened, there was actually the sound of frogs, which startled the thief Isi.

Well, just some harmless jumping frogs.

Waving away the croaking jumping frogs, the thief dodged into the passage.

Bang, the wooden door that was originally opened was then closed. Before closing, several jumping frogs were thrown out of the passage.

Unlike Kiel's awkward advance in the narrow passage, the thief bent over just right in the low passage, and at the same time moved forward with his legs quickly swinging.

The completely dark wooden and stone passage seemed to bring no obstacles to the thief. He moved quickly, and when he encountered a fork in the road, he chose the side without thinking. He quickly pushed open the secret door at the end of the passage and came to a safe house below.

This safe house is located directly under the wooden bed in his bedroom, and he can fall directly into it by flipping the mechanism on the bed.

The safe house is not big, and its shape is irregular. It seems to be a secret space 'stolen' from other facilities in the underground lair.

Although the space is small, it has everything in it. Sharp and strong swords and daggers, treasure chests and more than ten books for storing important supplies, as well as desks and lighting tools. There is even a small stove for lighting a fire inside, and there seems to be a reserve of grain in the stone pot next to it.

At this time, the thieves pushed open the secret door of Unicom, but there were already people in the house.

The man curled up on the wooden chair in front of the desk, his whole body was shivering, not from the cold, but a natural trembling from fear.

The secret door behind him was pushed open, and the little figure on the chair was startled. Just about to jump up and scream, the thief was prepared to take two quick steps up and covered the opponent's mouth with his only remaining hand.

"Calm down! Besides me, who else will come here? Calm down." The thief frowned, and quickly comforted the startled subordinate.

The subordinate was short, and after realizing it, he hugged the thief's arm tightly, but soon saw the empty right arm on the other side of the thief's body.

"Teacher! Your right hand! Right hand! Huh—" Tears came out of his eyes. This short thief's subordinate turned out to be a thief apprentice accepted by another thief Yisi in the local area.

The short apprentice thief was a woman, and she had never experienced what happened today. Suddenly, soldiers surrounded, fought and killed.

She was terrified.

Even if she learned a lot of skills from the thief Isi like the other senior brothers, skills and experience have nothing to do with each other. These fledglings were frightened by today's battle.

Even if some of them performed well, and some of them were extremely crazy, they were ultimately lacking in skills and experience.

"Huh." Sighing, the thief put his hands on the apprentice's head to appease him.

"It's okay, it's not a problem. The guild has a way to restore the severed hand." He paused: "The primary goal now is to retreat. Although I don't know what happened, the lord led the soldiers to attack menacingly, and the resistance has failed. Now, it's time to retreat."

Sniffing, the young female thief apprentice asked with sobs, "Are you leaving Straw Rat Town?"

Nodded: "This is inevitable, but not now. You have to evacuate from the vicinity of the gang and hide in other places in the town for a while, and you can only leave after they relax their vigilance."

He glanced around the safe house and saw that some important things he had explained before had been packed away, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "Very well, you didn't forget what I told you. Now carry these important items on your back, from here Get out of the gang."

After finishing speaking, the thief lowered his body and kicked the wooden wall under the desk, and it turned out that this unexpected place was also a secret door.

His female apprentice was also taken aback, but the surprise was nothing more than a surprise, half forced, she carried all the important items she had packed on her back, and was pushed into the secret door by the thieves.

"Remember clearly, I'll just say this once. There is a fork in this emergency evacuation passage. One side is life, and the other side is death. There are deadly traps inside. After entering, keep walking. When you encounter a fork, follow the left, right, left, right Choose the direction regularly. Left, right, left, right, remember. After you go out, it is the cellar of a resident. There are clues in the cellar, recording several other safe hiding places in the town. After you go out, find one to sneak in at night, wait Well wait for me."

"Teacher! Aren't you coming? Let's go together!" The female apprentice, her teeth chattering, begged the thief Yisi in a tone that sounded like she was asking for help.

But the thief shook off the grasped hand: "There are still some important things to take away. Those soldiers should not have entered the underground lair yet, and those things have to be taken away in advance. In addition, the others should still be fighting. I have to take them away." Let's go with them."

Hearing that the thieves were going to find other brothers and sisters, the female apprentice agreed.

"Remember, if, if I didn't bring other people to find you, you can go to other places to ask for a living. Don't come back, and don't go to the Thieves Guild. You are not that material. You have the talent to make potions. Figure out a way to live off of it.”

"Flowers should bloom in the sun and live well."

After finishing speaking, the thief pushed the apprentice, causing the short apprentice to roll into a ball in the passage, then he closed the wooden secret door, stood up, knocked down the heavy wooden table, and completely blocked the dark place underneath. Door.

Simply find a fine steel dagger in the safe house. The thief hangs the dagger on his waist, and then pushes open the secret door on the other side to enter.

He has to take away a set of scale armor that has not yet been made. It was bought after he finally sold the treasure he stole last year~www.readwn.com~ intermittently, and has not finished making it until now .

In addition, among the five apprentices, except for one who was arranged by him to go out of the town to explore the Jingshui Ranch by the Jingshui Lake outside the town, the other four are here. The female apprentice with the most potential has already been arranged by him. As long as she is not stupid, she is basically safe.

Of the other three, the one who wields double swords seems to have been defeated and captured, and the other should be with him, but he doesn't know what to do at this time. The last person is the apprentice who is very talented in mechanical engineering.

The agency's control room is underground in the house at the back door, and the terrain is complex and safe. It should not have been breached at this time.

He had to take this apprentice away too.

As long as there are people, forces like the Yisi Knife Gang can easily be rebuilt, much faster than when he established this gang a few years ago.

For financial issues, he can use his face to borrow some from other thieves in the guild. The two apprentices who can be rescued have unique technical talents, and favors and funds are not a problem.

While thinking, he carefully pushed open the mechanism at the end of the passage.

It was a colorful patterned corner in the corner of the thieves training ground.

Even if the entire training ground is lit up, this place is still unobtrusive. It is an exit specially arranged by him.

But soon, the thief looked at a cruising light in the training ground and narrowed his eyes.

Someone is here.

And at such an urgent and dangerous moment, gang thugs who knew this place shouldn't stay here.

I don't know that the hidden passage here is actually a dead end, not a good place to hide soldiers.

He hid in the darkness, and looked at the figure with the light in his eyes indifferently.