our family is gone

Chapter 3 Ambush and Conspiracy

Sure enough, someone rushed over soon, and as he expected, there were only four people in total, two of them were holding daggers, one was holding a long-barreled flintlock gun, and one was taller than the others. He holds a simple nine-tailed whip in his hand, and a flintlock pistol in his waist.

"There's no one in the big car." A bandit approached and inspected the car, and then shouted towards the rear.

"Quick! Catch up, they won't be far away." Hearing that, the strong man raised the whip forward without any hesitation.

It's just that the younger brother focused on the boxes and cabinets scattered on the ground. Obviously, they wanted to open the boxes to find money rather than looking for someone.

"Damn it! What's the use of this rags? As long as you kill that person, your benefits will be indispensable."

Under the urging of the strong man, the few people withdrew their greedy gazes, and when the team was about to move forward, there was a sudden thunder, and the musketeer standing in the back row fell directly to the ground, his life and death unknown.

"Who!"

The bandit shouted and looked around blankly, but there was only a dark forest. At this moment, Lance stood up as planned to make noise in the dense forest.

"Over there, don't let him run away." The brawny man rushed forward without hesitation, and he still encouraged him, "Hurry up! Whoever kills him will give him a hundred rewards."

Hearing this, the two little brothers who were hesitant at first were also excited to keep up, and even ran faster than the strong man under the encouragement of the bounty.

"kill him!"

"The bounty is mine!"

Lance was walking quickly in the dense forest, and was frightened when he turned his head to see the almost crazy actions of the bandits who were chasing him, so he had to quicken his pace.

For the bandits, Lance's reaction aroused their fierceness even more. They were enjoying the fun of hunting. They were hunters, and Lance was the prey who fled in a hurry.

Just as they were focusing on Lance, a figure suddenly appeared from the bushes and shouted.

"In the name of Holy Light!"

Leonard charged with his sword, like an indomitable spear inserted into the enemy's formation, and when they were unprepared, the long sword directly penetrated a bandit walking in the front.

Without any pause, Leonard directly put his foot on the unlucky ghost and pulled out the long sword, and charged towards the other with his backhand.

Leonard, who came out suddenly, caused the bandits to mess up. Looking at the other bandit who was pierced by him, the other bandit turned his head and wanted to escape, but just before he could turn around, he was headed by the long sword, his head flew into the sky, and his body was gone It fell after two steps.

The death of two subordinates in a short time did not make the strong man flinch, and even took advantage of the time his subordinates fought for with their lives, he had already drawn out the pistol at his waist.

And the gun was already aimed at Leonard.

"Be careful!" Lance yelled towards that side immediately upon seeing this.

His fear of guns has continued to this day, so when he saw this scene, his heart seemed to be tightened.

"Oh!"

The gun was in someone else's hands. No matter how worried Lance was, he couldn't change the fact. The gunshot happened at the moment the headless body fell down. What surprised him was that it was not Leonard who screamed but brawny.

His hand holding the gun seemed to be hit by something and became bloody, and the gun fell directly to the ground.

"It seems that I didn't come too late." Disma broke into the battlefield from the other side, the musket in his hand still seemed to be full of smoke.

At this time, Leonard had already reacted, and just as he swung his sword again to chop off, Lance's voice came from behind him.

"Stay alive!"

Leonard slashed and turned to smashing the strong man's head with the hilt of his sword, knocking him to the ground who was still howling.

"Why not kill it?" Disma looked at Lance who was coming and asked.

"Don't you think it's strange?" Lance raised his hand to comfort the two, "After seeing the collapsed carriage and the scattered goods, they didn't intend to stop, but continued to chase us with a strong purpose."

"Maybe they think we have taken away valuable things, and things won't escape here." Disma explained from their point of view.

Lance just smiled at this, picked up the dagger on the ground and fiddled with the two corpses.

"The clothes of a bandit who has lived in the wilderness all year round are so clean, there is no dirt on the nails of his hands, there are no traces of holding weapons for a long time on the palms, and there are no traces of wind and sun on his face."

"And look." As he spoke, he handed the dagger to Desma and signaled him to check it out. "The blade of this weapon is too new, and there are no traces of battle on it, as if it was just taken out of the blacksmith's shop."

After getting Disma, he found that it was indeed the case, but who would pay attention to these things in the dark?It was only when Lance mentioned the two that they realized it.

"You mean these people are not bandits?"

Lance searched the strong man, took out scattered coins from his pocket, and found a brass badge, and then showed them.

"It's a police badge!" Disma blurted out the origin of this thing.

But the person holding this kind of thing should be the sheriff who is responsible for maintaining the local law and order. How did he become a bandit who blocked the road?
For a while, the situation became more confusing.

"How is this going?"

"That's why I need him to help me answer some questions." Lance picked up the bloody pistol on the ground, and looked at the fallen strong man with cold eyes. "Tell me, who told you to kill me?"

"Can you live if you say so?"

Lance was not polite and pointed the gun directly at him.

"Are you making a deal with me?"

"Mayor! The mayor asked me to do it, and I have no choice but to obey."

Facing the threat of death, the strong man immediately gave up the last trace of hesitation and betrayed the mayor.

"Only the mayor?" Lance was very calm about this, as if he had expected it.

"There are also those farmers who are very dissatisfied with your lord's arrival."

As long as there is no bottom line for betrayal at the beginning, this person did not hesitate to tell the situation, and Lance was able to understand the situation in the town.

The previous lord died and bandits blocked the road, and the mayor secretly worked with the farmers to raise the price of grain to harvest ordinary people.

And when he heard that the heir to the territory was coming back, the mayor immediately arranged for him to bring a few gangsters to ambush here, intending to pretend to be a bandit and kill the heir, and then let him kill those gangsters, then the town would belong to the mayor.

"You didn't lie to me?"

"I've really said everything, and I didn't dare to lie to you."

"Then you can die."

As soon as the words fell, Lance pulled the trigger, and the flint on the hammer hit the fire door to draw a string of sparks.

It's just that there was no gunshot in his memory, but only sparks dissipated.

There are no bullets in the gun!

And at the moment when he was stunned, the strong man immediately got up and swooped over to hold him hostage.

(End of this chapter)