Mercenaries and Adventurers

A new day will soon begin in Strange Wind Town.

As an important business road that must be repaired, every morning in Weifeng Town starts amidst the noise of business travelers setting off to the north and south of the town.

Including Kendall's army, a large number of carriages and people came out of the buildings around the town in a disorderly manner. Taking advantage of the dawn of the day and the monsters had to return to their nests to rest, merchants from south to north called together With the help of his own caravan, he carried the guards and guys who were drunk in the tavern in the town last night to the carriage, and drove the fat sheep into the cargo gap of the carriage.

Some small local businessmen who had been busy in the town all night and dozed off, pushed their carts and shuttled by the caravans, taking advantage of the last opportunity of the day to make another small sum of money.

Warm bread just out of the oven, soft oatmeal cakes wrapped in salty sauce, and a large glass of freshly squeezed goat's milk, this is the best breakfast.

There are also local small vendors who specialize in the business of managing various passing caravans. These guys who are never short of money will always pursue the quality of life in these places where they can't spend much money.

When the bread is baked, it is filled with salty and fresh cheese to increase the taste and flavor. Not only is the sauce wrapped in the oatmeal, but fresh vegetables have to be cut into granules and rolled in, plus a long strip of hot lamb just cut off the grill. The goat milk also dislikes that it may be unclean if it is not squeezed in front of them, so it is necessary to ask the vendor to lead a ewe and squeeze it out in front of them on the spot.

Of course, it's not just food and drink, some caravans are clamoring to buy as much as possible of the supplies that were not purchased last night.

Among the five human settlements along the trade route on the Guaifeng Grassland, they are also safe overnight villages and towns, and Guaifeng Town has the most abundant material reserves. The next half of the journey through the Strange Wind Grassland, the experienced caravan will try to keep the material reserves in their caravan at a high level to deal with various possible situations.

The work of purchasing materials was not only done by a group of people from Keir last night, but also more common consumable materials. The Kendall people had professional clerks leading people to buy them at a low price.

A driver flicked the whip to drive the car, and the first one was ready to set off on today's journey, and the others also started to set off one after another.

The Kendal army also headed south early in the first batch. They brought their own small caravans with the army and the larger local caravans in the western provinces. Taking advantage of the lack of wind at this time, They also set off early.

Two days ago, I saw the Kendall army defeating a whole group of harpies, and the local caravan that followed spread the news to a small extent in the business circles of Guaifeng Town last night.

Some people are afraid of causing trouble, and for the sake of safety, they decide to postpone their departure for a day, and they don't want to go with the Kendal people, so as to avoid possible crises.

But more profit-seeking caravans think this is profitable. After all, with such an army, at least among the caravans that set off together, the money allocated to buy the tribute sheep can be completely saved.

In addition, there are some people with other purposes also mixed into the larger local caravans.

Baron Kendall had no objection to this, but sent someone to propose that the newcomers need to provide him with a small sum of money according to the carriage and manpower.

This is a small fee for military protection.

Anyway, for the baron, one sheep is to chase, and two sheep are also to chase, why not charge a little more wool money to subsidize the maintenance expenses of the army in a small amount.

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After the chaotic and noisy caravan set off outside the town early in the morning, the local small businessmen returned to their homes with a cart, talking and laughing. And some teams in the town that organized people to go out of the town to mow the grass every day were also ready to leave the time for out-of-town merchants to leave. At this time, they would leave the town to rush to the grasslands that were not along the commercial route.

The local people have lived here for many years. Although the strong wind on the strange wind grassland blows disorderly, the harpies don't know when they will jump out of the tall grass to prey on humans.

However, the townspeople have already used their years of experience to find various 'safe' time slots to avoid danger.

You have to be productive and live, even at the risk of being insecure.

A long time ago, the locals discovered that when the business travelers left the town in the morning, the vicinity of the town was the safest during this period. They speculated that the monsters who had been staring at the bushes outside the town last night had already been attracted by the moving business travelers and horses, and went to hunt them down.

Especially after someone tried out a way to avoid monster attacks by offering tribute meat, the lazy and unwilling harpies would always pursue the caravan, completely ignoring the difficult and tough human gathering point in Guaifeng Town.

That's why they organized themselves and took advantage of this opportunity to go out and harvest a large amount of grass, whether it was used to feed livestock, or to dry and use as fuel, or to weave grass rope and beat it to make rough paper.

All are free sources of raw materials for production and living.

Just take some risks and be brave enough to go out and mow the grass.

In the low-slung building where the Kendalls stayed overnight, waiting for the two groups of people from other places and locals to leave the town, the gate of this seemingly empty building opened again, and carriages and horses hurriedly moved quickly at the gate of the unmanned building.

A couple of horses were ridden out of town by two plainly dressed men who looked more like overslept blunts.

An empty carriage was silently driven out of the town by the two, and then went around the town, as if they were going to go around the town to other parts of the town.

Finally, two well-built men emerged from the building.

One was very young, with golden-brown hair, and a big bag was carried on his back, and he didn't know what was in it.

The other was a middle-aged man, wearing a hunting suit, with a delicate belt buckle backpack on his back, which was bulging inside. After the two walked out of the building, they finally closed the door of the completely unmanned building, and then walked towards the town while talking with ease.

A beggar lying on the ground at a distant street corner waited for the two of them to walk away, then hurriedly got up, discarded the disguised dirty and smelly animal fur, and trotted towards the superior reception point.

A beggar like a boy is not a fledgling, he has wandered on the road of crime for many years, he can understand only by experience and intuition, although the rumors of treasures in this foreign army are probably nonsense, these few people must be real what to do.

Especially it has a lot to do with the place where the two disappeared last night!

What are these people going to do?

He doesn't quite understand.

So I turned two streets and immediately found the joint superior who was still lying on the ground pretending to be drunk.

"I can assure you, they made a move! Just where they disappeared yesterday. Three groups of people, one group rode several horses out of the town. The other group drove out of the town with empty carriages, but I heard the sound Knowing that they didn’t set foot on the commercial route, but walked around the town. The last group were those two people who were acting strangely last night.”

The boy rolled his eyes: "It's still the same route I took last night, it's the same as the street intersection I turned last night!"

The 'drunk man' who opened his eyes and stopped pretending to sleep licked his lips, and immediately laughed: "If you put it this way, the trajectory of their group of people looks really professional. Could it be the upper-level people from the north?" ?”

The young man curled his lips: "Even if the superiors from the north came to work on the territory of our thieves group, they didn't come to train us first." The youth looked at his superiors: "Is our boss very good among the superiors?" No face? Or is our small place just playing around? The people above don’t think we are our own people at all?”

The connector's complexion was not good, and he didn't know whether he was lying outside pretending to be a drunk and was frozen for half the night, or the teenager's triple questioning stopped him too.

"Hmph, how do I know, if you have the guts, you can ask the boss yourself! But there is no delay now, let's go, stop staring, report the news to the boss and let the boss make a decision."

The connector and the young man pretending to be a beggar walked away quickly, turned and turned, and came to the small stronghold of the bandit group in this part of the town.

Since the stalking was arranged last night, the thieves group has gathered all the people around here. Except for some young pickpockets under control, other people who are talking in the group have been scattered around.

This is the practice of a small organization like them. Every time there is a "big" operation, no matter whether it can be completed in the end, according to the knowledge that the leader of the thieves group has learned in the thieves guild, it is necessary to concentrate the manpower in advance to deal with it. The first condition for change in big life.

Due to the limitation of communication capabilities, if the manpower is not concentrated, it is difficult to send out manpower who can complete the task when needed.

Especially for their group of thieves who don't even have a name.

They also did several major cases in the past years. Last year, they stole dozens of good horses from a group of horse dealers at one time, and made a lot of money after quickly finding someone to sell the goods in the southern Cavan collar.

The year before last, they were even more daring. They stole an **** cash box from a large chamber of commerce in an overnight caravan, and the coins inside it made them rich on the spot.

Although the people from the big chamber of commerce also sent people to hunt them down in Guaifeng Town, and the stolen money was robbed back, which caused chaos. But at least they were famous that time.

Famous, their life in this line of business is much easier. The chamber of commerce that controls the power of the town is afraid that it will be a disaster. It completely no longer manages their pickpocketing behavior, but let the members of their thieves manage the town by themselves. Theft problem.

It's okay to make small troubles, don't make trouble for me.

As a result, the small thieves gang with several members turned around completely and incorporated several other small-scale thieves gangs in the town to form a thieves group. The boss who had studied in the Thieves Guild continued to be their boss.

until today.

So when the beggars and stalkers and the drunk splicers reported the information to the leader of their bandit group in the stronghold hidden in the residential area, the middle-aged thief couldn't hold back at all.

Unlike his subordinates who were just a little angry at the foreign 'superior' who did not notify them of their work in Guaifeng Town, as the leader of the bandit group and a 'official' bandit who had studied in the Thieves Guild, he felt that his face was hot.

Weird Wind Town is his territory and the place where he made his fortune.

Some secret things in the whole town are only operated by him.

This chamber of commerce wants to find trouble with another chamber of commerce, but it is afraid that the two chambers of commerce will initiate large-scale friction, so it will often secretly hire them to do some 'activities' that will lose face but have no real impact.

He will talk about the rules of thieves, talk to the other family before doing things, and try to have both.

Some people have conflicts with their neighbors, but they can't do it themselves, and they will find their pickpockets on the street, and pay them to teach their annoying neighbors a lesson. For the peace of the town and the friendship of the neighbors, they will also disclose the news to the neighbors who are going to be punished, and 'communicate'.

In short, although Guaifeng Town does not have many people and its power is about the same as that of an ordinary chamber of commerce, it is the "lubricant" for the complex machine of human settlements, the "balance beam" for adjusting the relationship between the chamber of commerce and its neighbors, and for foreign merchants. Town Tax Contributors who receive a 'pocket tax'.

It is an indispensable and important part of the town's various powers.

But today, his subordinates reported to him.

Although it is inconsistent with the army escorting the treasures mentioned last night, this is very common among the dark forces that are running around with fake news.

There was also a group of high-ranking people mixed in this group of troops, and without notifying him, they targeted some things in the town under his jurisdiction.

And is acting now.

What is this, this is hitting him in the face!

If he didn't do anything, how would he declare in front of his subordinates that he was an official thief who had studied in the Thieves Guild?

The boss of the thieves group wanted to understand this, so he didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately pulled out a dagger with a strangely colored sharp blade from his waist, and threw it on the wooden table in the center of the stronghold.

Boom, the dagger firmly pierced most of the wooden table. Obviously, this thing is not only sharp, but also quite heavy. It is a good weapon.

"Gathering people together and wanting to do things on my land, how is it possible? Brothers, let's mess up their actions first, let them know that Guaifeng Town is doing secret things, don't inform me, don't inform us , he can't do anything!"

Seven or eight young people in different clothes cheered immediately, and then some people hurried out to call for people, and assembled at the place where Kiel and Crow Knight were going.

And the boss of the bandit group continued to issue orders: "Scatter out the people who are watching, notify the people on the outside, find each group of people they scattered out, and if you find a group of people, you will be rewarded with three silver coins. If you have done meritorious service, you will be rewarded with three silver coins later."

"At the same time, tell the brothers to mess up the affairs of this group of people. Those who make meritorious deeds will be rewarded with a gold coin, and I will pay the money. At the same time, I will elect him to take over the pickpocketing business in a street in the center of the town!"

All the people present were moved by the latter reward. The former was not too much, but the latter not only received a lot of cash every year and every month, this was a matter of status and face.

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Kiel and Knight Crowe came to the storehouse street of the chamber of commerce where the luminescent plants were planted and raised last night.

The place is still deserted, but occasionally there will still be ordinary townspeople who are off work from other chambers of commerce next door and have done a night's work.

They may be curious about the outfits of the two of them as outsiders, but their curiosity is limited. What these townspeople need most at this moment is to go home and have a delicious meal, and then during the day in the real world, their 'Night', get a good night's sleep.

Fatigue makes them lose their curiosity. Human intelligence and mind are trapped and tired and hungry bodies. At this moment, only hot meals can revive them. They perk up.

After all, people often say that only adversity can make faith pure and pure, but the church has long understood that a rich and decent life, especially through the hands of the church, can make believers rich and decent, which can truly produce a solid and reliable true faith that does not depend on material things. Belief.

Although hope in adversity is a powerful spiritual impetus, the Goddess of Hope can testify to this, but more **** churches have proved in practice that the good life brought about by the religion of gods can inspire the support and enthusiasm of believers. Belief.

After all, compared with the illusory future promised by hope, human beings who have truly experienced a beautiful and prosperous life know better who to choose.

The source of belief is driven by interests.

The gods have long understood this, and the gods who don't understand will be gradually eliminated and forgotten over time. When His last support in the world disappeared, this outdated **** lost everything, and gradually closed himself up, gradually disappearing.

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Kiel and Knight Crowe pretended to be chatting at the corner of a street, chatting casually about the use of long swords.

The townspeople who were waiting to get off work just couldn't see this place from the narrow streets on the left and right. Knight Crowe reminded Kiel: "Are you ready? It's about to start."

Keel took a deep breath and nodded.

So the two pulled up the masking handkerchief around their necks to cover their faces. Then Knight Crowe trotted a few steps, and came to the second-story wooden window where the glowing plants had been planted before, and jumped up with a light jump.

Before jumping up, he kicked the wall with his toes to make a bump on the wall that could be climbed and stepped on, so that Keel could wait to come up.

The knight stretched out his hand and pushed, and the wooden window was already destroyed by the wooden wedge, so it opened directly.

It was still bright inside the house, even brighter than the narrow street outside where only a gap of sky could be seen.

The knight landed, and his movements quickly picked up.

When Kiel jumped up using his life energy and stepped on the raised window provided by Knight Crowe, Knight Crowe had passed through pots of glowing plants, and went directly down to the first floor from the stairs in the fertilizer warehouse. Enter the doorman inside the gate of the building.

It was just a simple tap on the back of the opponent's head with his finger before the old guard could react, and the person instantly fainted to the ground.

Knight Crowe even picked him up from the ground and placed him on a bed of sackcloth and adobe that was filled with hay. Then the knight rushed out quickly, returned to the second floor, passed through the fertilizer warehouse, and pushed open the wooden window facing the patio in the room where the water was fetched at the end.

Before Keir followed, Knight Crowe would not wait for him, and turned directly out and landed on the thick wooden board. But this time, the knight didn't need to take care of Kiel, he just jumped on the spot, and jumped a few meters above the arrow tower in the center of the courtyard.

The moment he was attached to the arrow tower, there was room for his feet to step on, as well as his fingertips. With this strength, he jumped up again. With just one click, he jumped up more than 20 meters in an instant, and came directly to the outside of the top of the arrow tower.

To be honest, if it weren't for the narrow streets outside, and the tops of the surrounding buildings are full of giant vines and spikes, the height of the arrow tower, Crow Knight could even jump directly from the top of the arrow tower.

Especially when he has not put on the knight steel armor weighing hundreds of kilograms~www.readwn.com~ and is holding a heavy magic material weapon.

Afterwards, Knight Crowe didn't care whether there was anyone in the arrow tower, and climbed in directly from the shooting hole.

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On Kiel's side, he didn't feel like building the roof as quickly as Knight Crowe had expected, to clean up the giant vines on the roof.

He knew that Knight Crowe had knocked out the guards guarding this place, so he strode towards the metal birdcage he saw last night, and went straight to the beautiful bird with colorful feathers all over its body.

In his chest, the wood carving was hot again, and a voice suddenly rang in Kiel's ear.

"Shall I repeat the ceremony and the patterns to be carved?"

Kiel was startled by the god's sudden words, but he still pulled out his dagger and cut off the metal lock of the birdcage with one sword, scaring the beautiful bird in the cage to flop. As if sensing malice, the colorful feathers on the beautiful bird instantly turned an angry blood red.

The crown-shaped crown on the head also turned blood red and glowed.

"Be careful, this colorful champion chick is gathering magic power."

Keel doesn't care about that, he only cares about one thing: "How did you suddenly talk to me directly? Why didn't you do it before?"

"Ga, this is my last strength, don't let me down. Humans, complete the ceremony, and I will reward you. You must complete the ceremony, for sure."

Then the sound ceased to appear.

Keir moved quickly, and while the beautiful bird was still gathering magic power, Kiel leaned half of his body into the cage, and grabbed the bird frame made of wooden branches with his left hand to obtain a stable fulcrum for leverage.

Then he swung his right hand forward, and the broken feather and a little colored blood splashed out.

A bird's head fell to the bottom of a cage covered with dead leaves.