Planeswalker My Plane War

Chapter 188 Bandit 1
A long distance away, but the greed in Gray Wolf's eyes is still clearly discernible.

Winter is a difficult season for any animal, and wolves are no exception.Moreover, as we all know, animals such as wolves do not move alone in winter.The colder and harsher the environment, the more wolves will gather in groups to hunt those large prey that are usually afraid to offend in order to survive the severe winter.For example, bears, and humans.Going alone into the deep mountains and being eaten by wolves unfortunately was a common occurrence in ancient times.

Of course, bipedal erectus is not easy to deal with.Not to mention this world, on Earth, wolves have finally learned to be in awe of humans after experiencing countless contests.Usually wolves run away from people when they see them.And the world is even worse.With the help of magic, the biped erectus is far more powerful than its contemporaries on earth.

Of course, if you are completely cornered under the relentless pressure of hunger, that's another matter.Dogs will jump over walls when they are in a hurry, let alone wolves.

But hungry wolves generally look very thin.This was clearly not the case with this wolf.At least from this distance, it should be in good condition.

It was not clear whether the wolf was after a man or a horse, but at least it stayed there for a long time and refused to leave.It wasn't until Zhang Cheng walked over there that Gray Wolf realized that his whereabouts were exposed, and immediately jumped out of the bushes where he was hiding, and ran to the rear.But he didn't run very far, turned around after walking a short distance, and continued to look at the normal side with greedy eyes.

Zhang Cheng chased forward for a certain distance, and then the wolf turned around unwillingly and disappeared at the end of the wilderness.

"Master Zhang Cheng, something is wrong." Jia watched the wolf run away, feeling a little uneasy. "This place is not far from the Xia Ruins, this kind of beast would not come here under normal circumstances."

"But they are here." Zhang Cheng said.

"There must be a problem. There should be something in this place that attracts these beasts," Jia said.

Hu Chen pulled out a long scimitar from somewhere, "Why don't I go check the surroundings first and see if there is anything unusual."

"Alright," Zhang Cheng said.He has complete confidence in Huchen's strength. "Go back quickly."

Speaking of this, he immediately thought of another thing.I knew that I should buy a drone. At this time, when I fly into the sky, I can see everything in a radius of dozens of miles.

Depressing this thought for a while, Zhang Cheng began to set up camp with Jia.In fact, their camp is very simple, just set up a few tents, then put on a warning magic, and finally set up a fire pool in the middle, bring some water to prepare dinner.Today, there is no need to look for water sources, just get a jar of clean snow around and turn the snow into water.In this era without heavy industry and pollution, there is no need to worry about the water quality of snow water.

Zhang Cheng has a dimensional bag with a very large capacity, basically all the equipment needed for camping is complete.So it didn't take long, they had lit a fire and started boiling snow water.

The sky was getting dark, Huchen came back at this time, and he walked to Zhang Cheng's side.Whispered a few words in Zhang Cheng's ear.Although the light was dim, both the little girl and Jia noticed an obvious change in Zhang Cheng's expression.

"Brother Zhang Cheng, what's wrong?" the little girl asked.

"No, nothing." Zhang Cheng replied. "Then we found something, Huchen and I will go and have a look." After speaking, without waiting for an answer, he took out Xiao Huihui from his backpack.

"Xiao Huihui, watch the camp here and protect everyone." He said to Xiao Huihui.Xiao Huihui immediately wagged her tail, and replied vigorously, "Wow!"

After finishing this matter, the two left from the direction Hu Chen had come back from before, and their figures quickly disappeared into the night.

"What happened... what happened?" the little girl asked reluctantly in the local language.But Jia didn't answer, and at the moment he looked bewildered and lost.After a long time, Jiacai turned his attention to his injured leg.His injury has not healed, and it is not a problem to walk in a short period of time, but he can't support long-distance walking, and he can't stand strenuous exercise. It is really not suitable to go with Zhang Cheng.

After a long time, so long that the little girl thought that she used the wrong language, so that Jia couldn't understand at all, so Jia suddenly opened her mouth to answer. "I don't know. But... there must be something unexpected."

There are indeed surprises here.Zhang Cheng looked at the remains of people and horses lying quietly in the snow in front of him.The blood in the snow is still fresh, which proves that the killing took place not too long ago, either in the morning or at noon.The corpse had been bitten to pieces by the wolves, making it difficult to identify, but the broken bow and arrow next to the horse corpse proved that the real murderer was not these wolves.

Next to the wreckage was an overturned vehicle with its wheels off and its contents long ago looted.And the number of horses is wrong.This is a two-horse cart, and there is only one horse corpse at the scene.The belt on the shaft was clearly severed with a sharp weapon.In other words, someone cut off the reins and took one of the horses with them.

Zhang Cheng still had a certain impression of this car, he had seen it in the trade area of ​​Xiaxu.This is a traveling merchant's car.Zhang Cheng once bought a piece of wood (not a card) next to the car.Although we haven't been together for a long time, we still have some memories.The owner of the car seemed to be a middle-aged man, but compared to other traveling merchants (such as Xia An) who were eloquent and familiar, this car owner seemed a bit taciturn.But although he was taciturn, his offer was much more affordable than Xia An's.

It's a pity that such a good businessman died here... Well, in fact, everyone knows that traveling businessman is dangerous.Most of the time, traveling merchants travel back and forth in the wilderness. Wild animals, diseases, bandits, etc. are all huge threats.

"Master Zhang Cheng, it's not just that." Hu Chen led Zhang Cheng to a place tens of meters away from the scene of the tragedy.The dry grass here is covered with a layer of snow... But even with the dry grass, you can feel that the grass in this place seems to be particularly dense.

Hu Chen casually picked up a dead branch from the ground and used it as a wooden stick. He pried open a bit of dry grass and soil at will, and dug out a piece of bone almost instantly.There seems to be some sticky substance attached to the skeleton.

"This should have been a month or two ago." Hu Chen had a lot of experience and talent in this area.After all, just by looking at it, you can tell that Hu Fang's sense of sight, smell, and hearing are all superior to those of the bipedal erectus. "After the wolves finished eating, they buried them in case they were hungry. But it seems that they didn't think it was necessary afterward."

The situation in the underground...you can't justify the death of more than a dozen or dozens of people.this is……

No matter what Zhang Cheng said, he also grew up in the information age on earth, so of course he knows what this situation is.This kind of thing, in the terms of the earth, is called a bandit.Although people usually compare robbers, bandits, and bandits, there is actually a slight difference.For example, bandits rob houses and houses, and robbers take the initiative to attack and rob with violence, while bandits occupy hills and do everything they can to rob and rob houses.

"It's not far from Xiaxu." Zhang Cheng said softly to himself.How far can you go in a carriage for most of the day?It should not exceed 70 miles, right?This kind of place actually has such a situation?

But calm down and think about it, this seems normal again.It is not daring to attack Xia Xu, after all, the existence of wizards should be taboo (although wizards are no longer there).But outside of the Xia Ruins, even the wizards couldn't control it.And with so many business travelers here, it is naturally the best hunting ground.It is normal for bandits to make their homes in such places.

"But why did they attack the merchants?" Zhang Cheng asked.Things are still a little unclear. "Bandits and the like need traveling merchants to sell their loot and provide supplies." To put it bluntly, robbers and traveling merchants exist in collusion.

"They don't need traveling merchants," Hu Chen reminded. "They can directly go to Xiaxu to trade."

I see.Having said that, Zhang Chengcheng completely understood.

"Tiger minister," Zhang Cheng said. "Where do you think they should be?" He didn't want to be attacked at night.

"They failed to take the carriage this time," Hu Chen said. "I think everyone has to go back to the camp with heavy burdens. Once they come and go, they are definitely not here now. If the young master doesn't want to meddle in his own business, then we can ignore it and leave the camp early tomorrow morning."

"No," Zhang Cheng said. "I want to mind my own business!"

The night was dark.Zhang Cheng took out the clock from the card and looked at it. It really didn't take much time for him to come all the way just now.According to the watch, about 25 minutes.Of course, this is because on the one hand, Zhang Cheng is lightly dressed, and on the other hand, he has magic to assist him.For example, spells such as oiling the soles of the feet are not generally helpful to people's feet.

If there is any advantage of having a watch, it is that he can clearly know that the time in the two worlds is not equal.In this world, a day is not 24 hours.If it is mandatory to stipulate 24 hours a day, then there is a difference between one second here and one second on the earth.

Ahead is a camp.

It was not the small camp of three or five people that Zhang Cheng had set up just now, but a fairly large camp.This camp is located in sparse woodland and covers a large area, with at least three to fifty people, or even more.But this is not a military camp.According to Zhang Cheng, he had also seen Dr. Kunwu's army, and he himself served as a commander, so he had seen the army camp and the camp setup.In an army camp, even if the number of people is small, there are naturally rules in it.This camp, on the other hand, looked disorganized and disorganized, obviously not an army.

One corner of the camp was flat ground, where a dozen or so horses gathered.The horse was tied to a tree casually, and then a pile of green grass and hay was randomly piled on the ground for the horse to eat.As for the rest of the camp, it can only be said that all kinds of tents were randomly placed in a mess.But in the middle of the camp, not too far from the horses, there was a larger tent.You can tell at a glance that it is the residence of the chief.

By this time it was dark.But for Zhang Cheng, with the magic of "dark vision", his field of vision will not be affected.Not far in front of him, a few wild wolves were tearing at something.Seeing Zhang Cheng approaching, the wild wolf let out a threatening "woo hoo" sound, bared its teeth, and tried to prevent him from approaching.But when the tiger came over, the wild wolf didn't dare to confront, and ran away whining.

Animals know better than humans how to judge the strength of their opponents.In front of humans, they dare to threaten and try to resist, but in front of Rakshasa, they dare not even block.

Now Zhang Cheng could see that what the wild wolf had just bitten was a human corpse tied to a tree.

Not an ordinary corpse, but the naked body of a human female.The deceased had no wrinkles on his face and looked not very old. He was completely naked and his hands were tied behind his back to the tree.Her legs were bitten by wild wolves until the bones were exposed, but her body was also full of various wounds.These wounds are not left by the minions of wild wolves. Only tools used by intelligent creatures such as whips, sticks, or flames can cause such wounds.

Was it brutally tortured to death?Zhang Cheng walked over and looked at the expression on the face of the deceased at the end.There was so much pain and despair frozen in this expression that even a person like Zhang Cheng, who was used to seeing life and death for a long time, found it unbearable.

Then Zhang Cheng noticed that there was more than just a corpse.Not far to the side, there are the bodies of two other women.The condition of the corpse was basically the same as here, naked, tied to a tree, and the part of the body that was not eaten by the wolf was also full of scars.Fortunately, they died of torture and cold before encountering wild wolves.So the face is condensed with the last expression before death.

"Tsk..." Zhang Cheng made an unintelligible sound.

"Master Zhang Cheng, why are you laughing?" Hu Chen asked.Intelligent creatures don't feel the same kind of empathy for the death of other species, but Huchen also knows that Zhang Cheng shouldn't laugh.

"Laughing? I didn't laugh." Zhang Cheng said.He took out the "Dark Lich" from his body.After thinking for a while, he took out another "Shadow Hunter".

This is an opportunity to try whether the tactics I originally imagined are feasible.

Above the clearing, a dark lich in a black robe appeared.Through the spiritual link, Zhang Cheng told Lich his thoughts.

"This old man takes orders." Gong Bo immediately obeyed.I don't know what he did, but with just a wave of his hand, several ghouls have been summoned with blue flames and ran towards one side.

This is not a summoning spell, no spells are required, and no preparations are required.Even such a waving gesture is just a habit rather than a necessity.I saw ghouls being summoned continuously, and under Gongbo's order, they surrounded the camp from all directions.Ice and darkness are no problem for the undead.When the encirclement circle was formed, Gong Bo himself took the initiative to move forward, heading towards the camp.

Zhang Cheng also gave the shadow hunter a mental order, and the shadow hunter sneaked into the darkness.

He and Hu Chen stayed here to observe the situation.

This is the orthodox way of fighting for a planeswalker - it is not the style of a planeswalker to charge into the battle and capture the flag.What the planeswalker has to do is to strategize and win thousands of miles, that is, to send out his own creature cards to siege the enemy in an absolutely safe place.After victory, go to patrol the battlefield, even if you fail, it will never affect your escape.

It's like after the rise of aircraft carriers on earth, battleships with rough skin and thick blood will fall behind the times.An aircraft carrier does not need to confront the enemy face-to-face, all it has to do is release its own carrier-based aircraft.

(End of this chapter)