Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keel came to the front of the team and yelled for everyone to rest in the open space in front of the ruined hotel by the roadside.

According to Xueyaster's simple explanation to everyone, the young people with combat power have basically been divided into four parts, and they are in the hands of four young people who obey Kiel's orders. It was those four from last night.

The four of them have good organizational skills, and they fought bravely the night before, and most importantly, most of the young people holding weapons can be called by their names.

Don't underestimate this point. After all, most of them come from more than a dozen villages. Everyone doesn't know each other very well. Being able to remember their names makes them more suitable than other brave young people to help Kiel control the team.

Besides, no matter how brave these young refugees are, they are far inferior to Kiel, a knight.

Keir commanded the team to spread out to rest in the open space near the ruins of the hotel, while the open space at the entrance of the central hotel allowed hundreds of other ordinary young refugees to sit and rest.

"Go and ask Ms. Feneya from the merchant group to come over."

Kiel told a few people in the small-scale team who listened to him from the beginning that this group of people was different from other teams. They were the first people to join Kiel. It can be.

After the two young men who were close to each other quickly memorized the name Kiel said, they went to find someone in the long line.

Keel rode his horse around the ruins of the hotel twice, and found that the well behind the hotel was barely half destroyed. He jumped off his horse and leaned over to check the well, and smelled a strong stench.

"￥%￥, someone threw a corpse. It's really not interesting. But didn't Ms. Feneya's staff be taken away by Barney the mountain wolf in advance? Where did these corpses come from?"

Although curious, Keel knew that it was difficult to get an answer to this kind of thing, so he gave up, walked to the ruins of the hotel, and greeted the refugees who had walked for a long time to sit and rest in the open space where a lot of new grass grew.

"Drink the water you brought with you. The well in the back is ruined and you can't drink it."

Kiel repeatedly explained, and then he saw Ms. Feignia with the only remaining sister.

Ms. Feneya did not know when she changed into a long linen skirt of an ordinary peasant girl, but her tall figure and plump body still allowed her to wear the same clothes, and she was far better than other ordinary peasant women.

Keel noticed that the woman had **** her loose hair and used hair from other places to cover parts of her hair that had been forcibly ripped out during the torture.

At least he seems to be in good spirits.

"Master Knight, this is my original inn."

Ms. Feneya looked at her original biggest property with regret: "When I evacuated, I already had people move the things that couldn't be taken away to the yard, and I will definitely be taken away by other bandits later. I just hope to preserve the general building structure of the hotel.”

Shaking her head, she continued: "But I didn't expect it to be like this. I didn't believe it when Barney told me before, but now."

Keel shrugged: "If you move the supplies outside, those other suspicious robbers will also suspect that there is something hidden somewhere in the hotel, besides, even if they burn this place, they will not leave it to the next person. That's what robbers are."

Waving his hand, Keir went on to say: "So, you said before that there is indeed hidden wealth, has it been found by the robbers later?"

Regarding this question, Ms. Feneya is quite confident: "Please rest assured, although the things are hidden here, they are not in the original hotel."

She pointed to a sparse grove along the river not far to the south of the hotel: "It's there, let's go there."

Kiel waved his hand, and immediately ten young people followed, and a dozen of them walked towards that place together.

It is only 50 meters away from the hotel. There are more than a dozen crooked deciduous trees growing sparsely here, and the ground is densely covered with flowering shrubs. But the interesting thing is that it should be a perfect habitat for small animals, but around these shrubs, there is no Small animals that love to burrow come and go.

When Kiel brought this up, Ms. Feneya smiled and said: "When I arranged it, I buried poisonous things in the nearby soil, and I often sprinkled the food crumbs of poisonous mice around for a long time. Weedrats, birds, and hares don’t come around anymore. I’m afraid they will bite through the box I hide and destroy the contents.”

Kiel nodded, feeling that he had learned another trick. If things are buried in the wild for a long time, we must prevent small animals from digging holes to find the buried things.

Therefore, preventive preparations must be made in advance.

"So, where is it buried?"

Keel looked around and saw nothing different. After the ground has not been excavated, the soft soil will collapse when it encounters water. There are also not enough dead trees or old trees with hollows to stand out.

Not even the marks on the tree trunks commonly used by bandits.

No matter how you look at it, it is just a very ordinary small forest along the river.

Ms. Feneya lifted her skirt and walked ahead of the crowd. She said as she walked, "Let's find three different fruit trees. Although they look similar, three of these trees are actually fruit trees."

"If you come to look for them in autumn, or after a while, when the fruit trees bloom, it's easy to distinguish them."

After walking for a while, she stopped and reached out and tapped three times: "There are three, three pear trees. Then, it is the midpoint between them."

After gesticulating for a while, Ms. Feneya walked to a plant with a beautiful flowering stem and sniffed the beautiful flowers on the branch: "Fresnel wild roses. They grow everywhere in my hometown. A kind of flower."

She took a deep breath: "Just like me."

Keir curled his lips: "Can we stop talking nonsense, it's under this wild rose?"

"Yes, Lord Knight. I dug it up every year to supplement and replace the hidden treasures inside. Every time I shoveled the wild roses on it, I replanted a new one. I planted this one last spring. .”

After finishing speaking, Ms. Feneya took out a small cloth bag she had prepared in advance, broke off the flowers of the Fresnel wild rose one by one, and packed them up.

Kiel waved his hand: "Come on, dig this place up. Everyone, move faster and try to get it done before the team rests."

"It's my lord."

They all knew what they were here for, and they were also curious and excited about digging for treasure, so they moved quickly. There were several sets of digging shovels in the Kiel wagon, which were handed over to them at this time. Others were not idle, holding woven baskets or small wooden barrels, and helping to transport the excavated soil to a distant place and dump it in the narration.

They have been busy for a while, because everyone's physical strength is still not as good as when they were in the village, so everyone's work is rotated. After digging about half a meter deep, the shovel underneath poked something.

"It seems to have been dug, my lord."

Kiel stepped forward and saw the top cover of a solid wooden box: "Expand around and get this box out."

After hearing the instructions, the young man cleaned up the soil on the top of the box, and then began to expand the excavation around.

"How big is this box? Did you make it all by yourself before?"

Kiel asked Ms. Feneia who was standing against a tree.

Ms. Feneya was taking apart the petals of flowers. After hearing the question, she replied: "The box is quite big. I only open the lid, and don't take out the box itself. I can't get it out, too. It's sinking. Oh, I did it all by myself before, I know what you think, no one knows, no one finds out. I'm an innkeeper, and they don't care or dare to care about what I want to do in a day."

Keel knew that before this fell out with Barney the Mountain Wolf, the backer behind him was the famous Mountain Wolf Barney nearby. Those guys and girls in the hotel did not dare to provoke and disobey this lady.

Even if she would come to the woods behind the hotel every year and mysteriously disappear for a day.

While speaking, the box in the pit showed its outline. It was indeed not a small box, and it would be no problem to stuff two adult men inside it.

"Master Knight, do you want to take it out and open it?"

"Lift it up first, if it's too heavy, just open it."

Keel said so.

As a result, the four bottom corners of the box were dug open, and the ropes brought were tied to the corners of the box, and then the four young men on top pulled hard, and the box rose up.

They kept changing hands and pulled the rope, and the box gradually emerged from the ground.

Keir stepped forward, opened his arms, hugged and lifted him up.

"What's in it, it's quite heavy."

Of course, Keir didn't open the box on the spot. After placing the box on the open space, he used the old method to wrap a rope around the unlocked box cover, and then dispersed the people around him. He also stood at a distance. Behind the tree on the side.

"Master Knight, there is nothing harmful inside, you don't have to be so careful."

Ms. Feneya sighed helplessly.

She just wanted to go up and open the wooden box directly, but was pushed by Keir violently and pushed to the ground aside: "What do you want to do? Let me tell you, I have the final say here. Stay behind and be honest, how to open the box, It's my power, and you don't need to step forward to do it."

Keir was afraid that the woman had indeed installed some dangerous trap in the box, and seeing that Kiel was careful not to be fooled, he even took the initiative to open the box if he wanted to risk his life.

It cannot be said that there is no such possibility, so Keir is not polite at all, even if he was quite polite before.

Ms. Feneya was not stupid either. After being stunned on the ground for a moment, she stopped saying anything, got up and stood obediently in the crowd in the distance, and let her sisters help her pat the dirt on her body.

Kiel prepared the shield in his left hand, and then pulled the rope in his right hand to tear off the top cover of the wooden box beside the excavated pit.

Nothing happened.

safe and sound.

Keir shrugged and said in a loud voice: "This is my previous adventure experience. Although it's nothing, I have to learn from it."

How could he have been so cautious before? When he was in Kendall County, the local productivity made it impossible for this kind of trap to occur. The bandits there are all straight-forward, unlike the bandits in the southern provinces, they have so many methods.

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After waiting for a while, everyone gathered around. Ms. Feneya only remembered the outline of what was in the box. After all, it is only flipped once a year, and it is usually impossible to record the contents on paper. She can only remember a few impressive things by recording in her head alone.

The inside of the large wooden box is relatively clean. Although there is a musty smell, there is no obvious mold in the box, and the box as a whole is also very strong and sturdy.

In one corner of the box was a rather large pottery pot. Keel opened the lid and found that it was full of coins, including gold, silver and copper coins. I don't know how much money there will be.

But Keir estimated that there would not be a lot of money, because there were copper coins mixed in, and the value of copper coins was not high, and the proportion must be the largest. Therefore, the real value of this jar of coins is limited.

Not even as good as a small stack of gold coins.

The narration was a square wooden box. Keel took it out and opened it, and found that inside was a gorgeous long dress made of expensive fabrics and decorated with precious stones.

Just unfolding it a little bit, Keel realized that this is not a complete set, but a combination of multiple individual pieces.

"Ma'am, is this yours?"

Kiel asked the lady standing next to him, and the young people around were all surprised to see this long dress decorated with jewels, and even Ms. Feneya's little sister had stars in their eyes.

On the contrary, Ms. Feneya smiled regretfully: "This is just a naive idea of ​​mine. I saved money to buy these clothes in shops that receive nobles in various places. It was originally intended to be in my It was worn at the wedding, huh, hahaha, now there is no such possibility."

As she spoke, she seemed to be leaning helplessly on her companion: "The man I expected has long since changed his mind, which is even more terrifying than dying in a certain battle. Take them away and sell them. Don't want to see them anymore."

Keir shrugged, simply folded the clothes and put them into the original square wooden box.

Then there was another long box, and Keel had a premonition of what was inside before he opened it.

Reaching out his hand to take it out of the big wooden box, after weighing it, Kiel judged that it was a long sword. It's just that the box containing the sword is so narrow, it may not be a long sword that Kiel likes inside.

Sure enough, when the box was opened, there was a long rapier sword used by men inside. This kind of weapon is generally often used by people related to the nobility. It has a certain armor-piercing ability, and it is also good for watching duels.

Don't even think about using it on the battlefield, their type of weapon is too light to block the chopping of any weapon at all.

But Kiel also likes it quite a bit, it is a weapon after all.

He took it out and held it in the palm of his hand to play with. The off-white slender scabbard is very elegant, and there are silver decorations on it. It is obvious that he wants to move closer to the elf style, but it is a pity that Kiel has been in contact with elves, although it is an ancient one. elf. Elves don't use long rapiers because they don't have the armor-piercing need to rely on weapon stabs.

Elves mostly wielded long, slender, elegant magic scimitars, at least in the ones he'd seen in his dreams.

Gently rubbing the weapon body with his hand, Kiel found that the palm of the steel glove could not use the weapon. He had to take off the glove and use a more fitting and lightweight leather glove.

Then he used his fingers to grasp the slender milky white hilt of an unknown material, and pulled it out.

The weapon was slightly jerky when it was drawn, but the reflection flashed, and the exposed slender sword was not rusted, probably because it had not been lubricated for a long time, and that's right, Ms. Feneya obviously couldn't use this weapon.

"How did you get this thing?"

Kiel easily held the hilt of the sword between his fingers and waved it casually. It is a lightweight, convenient, and useful weapon.

Not for him though.

Ms. Feneya smiled: "A gambler passing by on the business road lost to me at the gambling table. I heard that he himself said that he was a well-known noble heir. Heh, I don't believe a word of it."

After hearing this, Kiel carefully looked at the long thorn sword again. As he expected, he found an inconspicuous inscription on the sword body and scabbard: "Give the sword to the winner—Swift gaze"

"Swift Gaze." Kiel muttered the name of this weapon. Obviously, it was a competition prize for the winner of some competition. With his own name, he obviously has a lot of background.

Kiel didn't know, when he pronounced the name of the long thorn sword, the whole long sword had a hidden light flashing, but it seemed that the power was insufficient, and it was so dim that no one could see it.

Moreover, Kiel is holding the hilt of the sword with a steel glove, not holding it normally, so he missed the special blessing ability that the weapon can give the user when he recites the name of the weapon.

Clang, put away the weapon, and Kiel hung the small steel chain with silver decoration on the scabbard on his belt~www.readwn.com~ so that the swift gaze and the hunting can be accompanied temporarily.

In addition, there are more than ten books in the box.

"Are you still reading?"

Facing Kiel's doubts, Ms. Feneya looked strange: "Why can't I read books? I bought them with great difficulty. Although they are just introductions to some poems and local customs, this is a very normal thing." Bar?"

Keel coughed lightly, because he was not surprised by this, but that he had been in another world for so long. This lady was the first person he discovered had the habit of reading.

Of course, other big figures also have more books, but after all, they are people with a certain level of wealth and status. Looking down, the vast majority of people do not have the habit and wealth of reading books.

"It's a good thing, a good thing."

"Then, can you return them to me, my lord?" Ms. Feneya asked tentatively.

Keir made a serious face: "According to the agreement, they are mine now. Besides, I haven't seen what they are."

I took out one and found that on the newer cover, it said "Kadir's Popular Poetry Collection", and pulled out another one, and it said "What I saw around the Eagle City".

"Where is the Ring City?"

Keir opened the book and carefully flipped the not-thin paper with his gloved hands. There were illustrations and maps in the book. It seemed to be an introduction to a certain place, but it was limited to one city and one place.

The whole book is not thick, about 100 pages, each page has limited text and not much information, only the maps and illustrations have the most information.

Ms. Feneya thought for a while: "I remember, it seems to be the territory of a noble viscount on the southern border that is being contested now?"

Kiel narrowed his eyes when he heard that.