Mercenaries and Adventurers

Claw Knight doesn't move like Kiel on tiptoe, his movements are light and agile, bold and rhythmic. It seemed to be able to see the situation of the landing. Wherever he walked, the ground did not have the usual crunching and deformation sound of wooden floors.

At the top of the spiral stairs, Knight Crowe leaned down and carefully moved his body and head down with both hands and feet. I don't know how he did it, obviously the whole person is lying on the downward spiral wooden stairs, but the whole person is very stable, like, like, uh, Sukiel is being rude, he thinks that Knight Crowe At this time, it is like a huge wall-climbing tiger.

Just not a tail that would snap off.

This impolite metaphor made the corners of Keel's lips curl up. He paid attention to the guard who was resting and snoring next to him, and secretly cheered for Knight Crowe.

After Knight Crowe climbed down the revolving wooden stairs for a while, Knight Crowe finally came back.

He still crawled back on all fours, and even the hunting suit and feathered hat on his body were not awkward or tilted. It didn't look like he just carried out a secret investigation, but more like he did an ordinary thing.

It's like going out shopping, or inviting a lady to dance an elegant dance.

With a confident and reassuring smile on the knight's face, it is clear that this adventure and investigation has yielded a lot.

After approaching Keir, he said softly: "Go, get out of here, go back and plan."

He asked Kiel to come to the shooting hole first, tied the rope around Kiel's waist, and then let Kiel climb out: "I will pull you, and shake the rope when you can reach the climbing point."

Kiel was a little nervous, but nodded anyway. It's convenient to go up, but it's a lot more troublesome to go back. When climbing down, you have to turn your head to look down. This is probably not an extremely difficult challenge for Keel.

But at this time, it's time to bite the bullet.

He stood outside the arrow tower with his feet dangling in the air, and he leaned on the edge of the shooting hole with his palm.

After confirming that Knight Crowe was holding the rope with his palm, he let go of his palm, and the whole person did not fall.

"Woo-"

Kiel opened his mouth nervously and let out a half-exclamation, but fortunately, the sound was mixed in the whirring night wind around him, so it wasn't too conspicuous.

Knight Crowe's hands are like steel machines, and he doesn't even shake Kiel while hanging him. He alternated left and right, bringing Keel down at a decent rate.

Fortunately, the top of the arrow tower is only about one meter away from the curved edge where the knight finally made a climbing bulge. Gere quickly swung the rope around his waist, but there was no response.

Knight Crowe is still lowering him at an appropriate speed.

Kiel was taken aback for a moment, and then he understood Knight Crowe's intentions.

The knight saw that Keir was afraid of heights, so he gave him some help to reduce the difficulty of getting down.

He didn't shake the rope any more, so as not to cause trouble for the knight. In this way, when the rope in Knight Crowe's hand ended, Kiel had already dropped more than ten meters in a row, right in the middle of the arrow tower.

Shaking the rope again this time, Keel looked up and saw that in the shadow on the top of the arrow tower, Knight Crowe leaned out half of his body, and the rope in his hand began to shake, trying to swing Kiel towards the surface of the arrow tower with climbing points .

The distance was not far, and after two shakes, Keel grabbed an arc-shaped protrusion with both hands.

Grasp these two places firmly with your fingers, and then use your strength to pull him over. Kiel didn't try to climb down, but instead used his hands and feet to climb up a section. After the rope around his waist was no longer straightened, Kiel stepped on the foothold, firmly grasped the bulge with the fingers of his left hand, and his whole body It leans against the curved outer wall of the arrow tower.

He used his free right hand to pull on the loose rope buckle around his waist, and the rope that had tightly protected him fell off his waist twice.

The Klau knight above felt his hand loosen. Seeing that Keir had officially climbed down, he turned his left and right hands and pulled the rope up in a circle.

After the rope was hung around his waist in a circle, there was a grunt from the guard who was dozing off behind him, and there was the sound of rubbing clothes. The knight didn't look back, and directly dropped his whole body head to foot.

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The guard of the arrow tower who was on guard at night yawned and opened his eyes, patted his cheeks with warm palms in his arms sleepily, and rubbed his stiff face.

He vaguely heard the rustling sound, but raised his eyes and looked around, and there was nothing on the top of the arrow tower except the ballista, which was still the same.

It is guessed that the nocturnal birds took a rest on the arrow tower, and the sound of flapping wings woke him up. The guard muttered something self-deprecating, and stood up from his resting place.

The stomach is slightly swollen, and I have to pee.

He didn't notice that a pair of upside-down toes were stuck in the shooting hole of the ballista.

If you look along the past, you will find the Crow Knight who is upside down.

Knight Crowe didn't move. He waited for the sound of the guards getting up to go down the stairs steadily, and then he reached out and grabbed the handrail that 'grown' on the top wall of the arrow tower for him to hold firmly while hanging upside down.

"Hey."

With a soft snort, the knight let go of his toes, turned over and swung his whole body, and under the fixation of his fingers, the front of his whole body was attached to the outer wall of the arrow tower.

He paused, and then slowly moved down. While moving, he used the tallest hand to wipe all the curved protrusions on the top of his head, and the protrusions created by him would obediently recede. Into the wall, disappeared.

There were only slight mottled marks left on the wall, indicating that these things had appeared before, but without a close and careful observation, these things were not expected at all.

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Knight Crowe moved much faster than Kiel, even though he was still responsible for eliminating the traces of the two climbing up, they were still at the bottom of the arrow tower, and the two of them were in a 'traffic jam'.

Knight Crowe grasped the bump lightly with one hand, and turned his whole body to look at Kiel, watching Kiel take a slow step and stop, move and stop.

He endured it for a while, but finally couldn't bear it anymore: "Joe, this is not very high, and you can't fall to your death. Can you be faster? How about it?"

Keir raised his head and smiled awkwardly, not sure if Knight Crowe saw it: "I'll work hard."

"At this height, how can I tell you that the Imperial Border Knights have a kind of training, which requires the knights to jump off the griffin flying at high altitude without protection. Think about it, you Can it be done?"

Keel just thought about falling from the sky unprotected, can a person live?

Oh, and a trained knight might survive and get into combat quickly. But is that kind of knight still considered human?

Those are livestock, what? Keel thought the same, and that was all right.

"So, don't be afraid of heights. This height is nothing. If I don't have to spy quietly, I can jump with all my strength on the arrow tower of this height, but it's not impossible to jump up."

"Uncle Doddell, so you plan to go up like this in the future?"

"Well, that's right, a sudden attack will be launched after dawn. When everything is unresponsive, complete everything needed, attack quickly, and evacuate quickly, simple but easy to use."

Keir nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and concentrated on climbing down.

When Kiel was finally only a few meters away from the board on the water surface when they came, Kiel seemed to have stepped into a safety line and moved quickly.

When he landed on the board with his front foot, the Crow Knight then erased the climbing bump and also fell up.

"Go back the same way." Knight Crowe said softly.

Kiel hummed, and gently pushed the base of the arrow tower made of stones, so that the wooden planks floated towards the window when they came under the push of the reaction force.

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Re-open the window and climb in. The place where the water is fetched is still quiet, only the blue-green light shines through the gaps in the house.

Knight Crowe carefully closed the wooden window. It will not be used here in the future, but the relevant clues can be concealed as much as possible.

The locals will inevitably search for clues after the accident. The dust scratches on the window sill here cannot be covered up, but such things are not certain.

He didn't know if the local security militiamen had the ability to find this place. Maybe some smart people saw it at a glance, or maybe no one investigated the wooden window leading to the central patio of the building until many years later.

"Back."

A brief explanation, the two of them returned the same way lightly.

Walking out of the room where the water was fetched, the two of them passed through the warehouse where the fertilizer was stored. The old guard downstairs was still imitating the passionate lines of the heroes in the famous drama with his broken gong voice.

When they walked among the countless glowing plants, the wooden bird statue on Kiel's chest became hot again, as if reminding Kiel.

But Keir pretended not to notice, ignoring the strangeness of the wooden carving, and walked softly and quickly past the metal cage of the luminous magical bird.

When they came to the wooden window on the outer wall of the building again, Knight Crowe turned his head, indicating that Kiel should go first.

Keir was very active this time. He opened the window and poked his head out to observe, only to find that there was no one on the street outside.

Also, on the side of this street where they are now, there is a chamber of commerce gate that grows luminous plants, and on the opposite side is one of the buildings in the outer town, which is not a place where residents live, but more of warehouses or warehouses of other chambers of commerce. Small workshops.

When no one was there, Keel rolled over and climbed out, turned around when he fell, and landed on both feet.

Afterwards, the knight closed the window deftly and it was done in one go.

The knight raised his chin, and the two of them pretended to be outsiders chatting side by side, and headed back the same way.

At a low corner of the street, a man with messy hair with only half of his head exposed shone back into the corner as if he had discovered something.

Then there were footsteps from a different direction from Kiel's and the others, and they hurriedly walked towards the distance.

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At the entrance of Knight Crowe's camp, Keel squatted next to the guards who were on guard at night, warming up by the fire.

The knight's personal guards didn't ask Kiel and Knight Crowe what they were doing just now. It was obviously not an ordinary thing, because as soon as Knight Crowe came back, he asked Kiel to wait for him here, and the knight himself went to find someone in the army.

Knight Crowe went to look for the manpower and tools needed for tomorrow's operation. The specific snatching plan has been discussed on the way back.

In the hands of people, the main tasks are Knight Crow and Kiel as the main body of the manpower, but several other people are needed to support them.

One of the key points is a carriage driver with the best skills, who can accurately steer the carriage to move quickly on the narrow 'street' of Weifeng Town.

In particular, it can turn well at the intersection of the street to ensure that after the thing is obtained, use the fastest speed and the shortest route to rush out of the strange wind town from the building street where the arrow tower is located.

As long as they rush out of Weifeng Town, this matter will be safe. The people in the town don't say whether they can react, even if they react, it will be difficult to catch up with them on the grassland.

In addition, two or three men were required to guard the extra horses at an agreed place outside the town. These horses were used for Knight Crow and Keel, and an additional cart horse for the carriage.

Obviously, when the wagon was moving around town, it was impossible to support a two-horse wagon, only a single-horse minivan. Fortunately, although the magic ballista is heavy, it is not particularly heavy, and the pony carriage can also support the weight.

The extra horses are to provide better traction for the carriage when moving quickly outside the town.

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Keir waited by the fire for a long time, and just when he was a little drowsy and had 'negotiated' with the unknown old **** in advance, Knight Crowe finally returned with the men he found.

Arriving together, there is also a pony carriage specially selected by Knight Crowe from the logistics carriages.

This is a carriage that has no obvious logo and can be seen everywhere. It is really suitable to play the main role in this incident. At this moment, the carriage had vacated space, and the empty carriage was being driven over.

Even the horses that other people needed were brought along.

Some supplies were specially prepared on the horses, and it seemed that Knight Crowe had considered all aspects.

There were four people who came back with Knight Crowe. There were town guards that Keel looked at familiarly, and there were also people who hadn't seen each other, or who had met but had no communication.

Keel got up and followed the crowd, and entered the camp of Knight Crowe together.

The four looked curiously at Knight Crowe in a hunting suit, and Keel in ordinary clothes. I don't understand why the two of them are dressed like this in the middle of the night, and what is the so-called calling them over overnight.

"Everyone, tomorrow morning, you will have an important and special task."

Knight Crowe waited for everyone to enter the tent, then turned and said to several people.

"There is no need to ask who issued this mission, everyone, you can go ahead and do it directly, and just perform the work in the mission."

Seeing that everyone has raised their spirits and their faces are serious, Knight Crowe smiled slightly: "Of course, there are risks in the mission, but not many. The main thing is that you need to keep this matter a secret in the rest of your life. It's not for nothing. Let everyone do it, after the task is successfully completed, there will be rewards, and the amount is not low, enough to make people keep silent about one thing."

A town guard under Crow Knight immediately said righteously: "My lord, please tell me what to do, I just need to execute the order. You don't need to say too much, no matter what task it is, we will complete it. As long as it is Your order."

The other two town guards on the side also took a step forward, hit the left chest armor with their fists, and said together: "As long as it is your order, we will carry it out."

The only outsider present was a little surprised, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he moved slowly, trying to get close to the other Kiel who didn't swear.

Kiel glanced secretly, laughing inwardly.

Knight Crowe was obviously satisfied when he heard his subordinates behave like this: "Everyone, please pay attention."

He pulled the table in the tent to the middle of the tent, and then spread the map drawn by Baron Kendall on it.

The knight pointed to the image of the arrow tower in the middle of the map and said: "Listen carefully, this is a part of the strange wind town where we are now, similar to the building where we are stationed tonight, but there is a towering arrow tower next to the courtyard in the center of the building, and the arrow tower At the top of the tower, there is an important item that we need to grab."

"snatch?"

The only outsider present asked softly.

Although the voice was soft, no one else spoke, so it was very conspicuous.

"Yes, it is a robbery. I have made it clear here that this item does not belong to our Kendall army, so this mission is a robbery similar to robbery. Therefore, you need to keep it secret in the future, and you must not keep this matter Inform others."

Knight Crowe looked around, sweeping left and right on the faces of the three town guards under him and another.

Needless to say, Keir, his apprenticeship on the road of knights, the entanglement of interests in it is far deeper than pure wealth interests.

As for the others, they have to tell the matter in advance, so that they don't be foolish. Of course, what should be said should be said, and what cannot be said should not be said.

Quit at this time, even if you think about it, you know it is impossible.

This truth was understood by everyone else present.

Walking into the knight's tent and wanting to go out without agreeing, that's a good idea.

So no one spoke anymore, and Knight Crowe continued to explain.

"However, although this is an act of snatching that is dishonorable, the root cause is for ourselves. I can guarantee this in advance and use my knight status to prove it."

Knight Crowe drew a khaki name in the air with his fingers, and the life energy floating in the air lingered for a long time.

"The process is like this. Kiel and I have already scouted this place in advance, including a plan for approaching and retreating. The thing that needs to be snatched is at the top of the arrow tower. I will grab it, and then use the rope to put it in the net. The items in the house are hung from the top of the arrow tower, and Kiel on the top of the building at the bottom will respond~www.readwn.com~ When the knight said that he and Kiel had scouted in advance, they originally wanted to get close to Kiel to get secret support The outsider suddenly shuddered, and then slowly moved the soles of his feet, keeping himself away from the seemingly harmless Kiel.

"Keel, do you still have that strong net from before?"

Keir immediately replied: "My lord, I'll get it later, the things are in the carriage."

"Very well, then you fetch a bundle of thick ropes and a metal hook from the carriage I found. This thing is a tool to help you let the things you **** fall on the roof. When I hang the things down Finally, you use a rope with a hook to hang the net or the hanging rope, and then pull it horizontally to ensure that the thing falls lightly on the roof!"

"Yes, my lord, promise to complete the task."

Keel stood to attention, beating his chest with his fist.

"Then you use your ax, give me from here." The knight clicked on the map, and then pulled his finger: "Here, cut all the giant vines out of a way. The chopped vines You can throw it in the courtyard, or the side, but not the street. Understand? And while I'm on the arrow tower, you have to take the opportunity to open the space for that thing to fall."

Keir thought about it for a while, and after making sure there was no problem, he replied, "My lord, there is no problem."

The knight nodded, and then he looked at an outsider here, and said to him: "Porlau, you are the best driver in the carriage, everyone knows this, I want you to drive the carriage outside the camp, Get to this location before we move."

Claw Knight stretched out his hand to a point on the map, and that place was the end of the road that Keel had opened on the roof.

side of that street.