The Lost People of Teyvat

Chapter 4: Requirements for Joining the Silver Wing Treasure Steals

"Tell me, what exactly happened?"

The thief leader frowned and sat on the cart with a big horse and a golden sword.

The stupid boy was dragged out and thrown on the open space in front of the small temple. He was breathing with difficulty, blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and there was a knife wound on his abdomen. He was breathing in more than out and looked like he was about to die.

The hammer bandit was smiling foolishly, the dagger bandit was looking at him in amusement, and the long knife bandit was holding the knife and looking at the scarred man with disdain.

A loser who has to rely on sneak attacks to cause trouble for fools with a knife is really not worth his attention.

"Boss! This morning I found this idiot sneaking around the car. Plus he's the cook. I'm worried that he might be tricked and secretly add something to the food. That would be terrible!"

Scarface smiled flatteringly, pointed at the idiot boy, and glanced at Chen Tianfeng with a sinister look: "I was planning to search this idiot again, but I didn't expect that the idiot was guilty and dared to resist!"

Scarface's tone was half angry and half pleased, "I felt something was wrong at the time! After I subdued him, I found a strange-looking herb on him! It was obvious that it was not a good thing! This idiot wanted to harm us, Boss!"

“Herbs…”

The thief leader looked at the well-preserved herbs in the small wooden box in his hand, his eyes moved between the stupid boy and the scarred man, and finally looked at the Dagger Bandit, as if asking a question.

The Dagger Bandit smiled and moved his lips to make a few mouthfuls of sound.

The thief leader understood that a fool is a fool and naturally would not think of poisoning people. However, someone who is neither stupid nor smart but thinks he is smart would come up with some frame-up.

If he remembered correctly, this thing should have been snatched from the fool. Scarface took the herbs first and then threw them in front of the fool. While the fool was picking up and hiding the herbs, he ruthlessly killed the fool... The thief leader closed the box with a "snap" and threw it into the cart. He felt that Scarface was really bringing shame to the Silver Wing Treasure Thieves.

Never mind. Silver Wing is short of people now, so this kind of trash can still count as manpower… The thief leader was too lazy to sort out this bullshit, so he waved his hand and said, “Since we have investigated it clearly and dealt with the fool, then let it be.”

"It's not clear yet, Boss!"

Hearing this, Scarface suddenly became anxious and said quickly: "Boss, think about it, how could a fool think of poisoning! This must be someone's instigation!"

"If you have to fart, just fart! I don't have time to waste on you!"

The thief leader looked coldly at the scarred man who seemed to be treating him as a fool.

"this···"

Scarface was frightened by the thief's gaze, and retreated timidly to the side of the stupid boy, kicking him viciously: "Tell me! Who ordered you to do this!"

The foolish boy groaned, but he didn't look at the scarred man. Instead, he stared at the cart with a distracted look: "...my...medicine...mother-in-law..."

"What a shitty old woman! What I want to ask is who ordered you to do that!" Scarface became more and more angry and kicked her twice, but he still didn't feel satisfied.

Chen Tianfeng half-closed his eyes, as if he couldn't hear or see the miserable plight of the foolish boy. After several seconds, he laughed softly, which gradually became louder: "Hahaha! Brother, I think this brother is probably going to say that I ordered the fool to poison him."

"Oh?"

The thief leader raised his eyebrows, and a smile appeared on his fierce face: "What do you think, brother?"

"Since ancient times, it has been common for the elderly to bully the newcomers. This brother and I have a close relationship, so it is reasonable for him to treat me like this."

Chen Tianfeng seemed helpless, spread his hands, and looked at the scarred man who had stopped beating the stupid boy: "It's just that you are a little too impatient, and your methods are... Tsk, too crude. But who made me not join the gang? How about you search my body to see if there is any poison hidden?"

Scarface was stunned for a moment, then became excited, rubbing his hands, and was quite interested.

"That's enough! We are all brothers!"

The thief leader's face darkened slightly, and he glared at the stupid scarred man who made people laugh: "Isn't this embarrassing enough?"

Scarface trembled all over, smiled ingratiatingly, closed his mouth and stopped talking.

"I do have an idea."

The long knife bandit held the knife in his arms, looking at Scarface with contempt and ridicule, but he became gentler when looking at Chen Tianfeng: "Since one of you thinks that the other wants to poison and harm your brothers, and the other thinks that the other is slandering you, then let's deal with it according to the rules of Silver Wing."

What are the rules of Silver Wing...Chen Tianfeng frowned slightly.

Scarface was a little flustered for some reason. He looked at the long-knife bandit with his triangular eyes, wanting to refute, but he didn't dare. He looked away timidly and finally came up with an excuse: "But, but this kid is not from our Silver Wing!"

"Then let's solve both the joining and the conflict at once!" The Long Knife Bandit said impatiently, half-squinting his eyes as he looked at Scarface: "Or do you want to follow the rules first and settle the conflict with me?"

“I dare not, I dare not, there is no contradiction, no contradiction…” Scarface bowed his head and smiled awkwardly.

The leader of the bandits didn't even look at Scarface, but looked at the Long Knife Bandit in surprise: "Do you think he's good?"

"At least not stupid."

The Long Knife Bandit nodded, looked at the puzzled Chen Tianfeng, and explained: "The rule of Silver Wing is that if there is a conflict or disagreement between two members, they will fight, and whoever wins is right. And the conditions for joining the gang are also very simple, there are only two conditions."

"First, challenge any official member of Silver Wings. If you win, you pass. As for the second one..."

The long knife bandit paused, glanced at the stupid boy without leaving a trace, and said, "I'll tell you after you win."

"I understand." Chen Tianfeng pursed his lips, then said with some doubt: "Then what about this brother who only knew each other after fighting..." He looked at Scarface. Although he didn't finish his words, the bandits present understood what he meant.

"Him? He picked the weakest one and used his face to catch the knife, which scared the brother. That's how he 'won' once." The Dagger Bandit sneered and whistled: "Guess where he got the scar on his face? Hehe, it's not because of his bravery in battle."

Scarface's face flushed red, his triangular eyes were filled with annoyance and resentment, but he didn't dare to refute.

"I see. That makes sense."

Chen Tianfeng glanced at the long knife hanging on Scarface's waist, then turned to look at the thief leader: "Brother, can you lend me a handy weapon? Or let me find a suitable branch."

The thief leader thought for a moment and took out a dagger with a blade that was almost as long as a palm: "Use this."

The bandits made way for them.

Chen Tianfeng held the dagger in his right hand, adjusted his breathing, and tried to calm his pounding heart. His hands and feet suddenly felt sore, weak, and out of control, but quickly recovered, trembling slightly, half from nervousness and half from unusual excitement.

As a fairly normal modern man, the bloodiest thing he had done with a knife was to kill chickens, ducks, fish, rabbits, and geese. He had never slaughtered even a dog. He was not allowed to hold the knife during the New Year pig slaughter, and he was not even allowed to draw the pig's blood. He could only watch from the side.

But now I have to hold a knife and fight with others.

But there is no way, he wants to survive, he has no choice!
Chen Tianfeng took a deep breath, his expression became more serious because of nervousness. At the same time, the blood in his bones gradually awakened, and his eyes became more ferocious.

Chen Tianfeng raised his eyes to look at Scarface, only to find that he was even more nervous than himself. His knuckles holding the knife turned white, and he even felt a little unsteady.

Haha... Chen Tianfeng grinned and said, "It's good to be nervous. When I see you nervous, I won't be nervous anymore."

"drink!"

Chen Tianfeng roared and rushed forward!

"what!"

Scarface was startled and panicked. He instinctively swung his sword at Chen Tianfeng without any plan, just like a child waving a sword around.

Chen Tianfeng's eyes flickered, and he stretched out his left hand. At the cost of injuring his forearm, he grabbed Scarface's right hand holding the knife. Then he followed up with his right hand, and when Scarface was panicking, he stabbed into his right forearm. The bloody tip of the knife emerged from the other side of his forearm!
"what!!"

Scarface screamed and the long sword, which he was not holding firmly, fell out of his hand.

Chen Tianfeng let go of the scarred face with his left hand and the dagger with his right hand. He caught the long knife, held it with both hands, and slashed at the scarred face from bottom to top!

"what!!!"

Scarface staggered back, his left arm and shoulder bleeding, looking extremely miserable.

Chen Tianfeng took advantage of the situation and did not show any mercy. He turned his long sword over and was ready to chop Scarface again from top to bottom and from right to left.

"Ding!"

The thief leader, who had come close at some point, raised his sword and blocked Chen Tianfeng's almost full-strength blow with the back of the sword. He grinned and said, "Brother, you are really strong!"

Chen Tianfeng endured the pain from the knife wound and the recoil on his left forearm, and noticed that the long knife in his hand had a gap, while the thief leader's big knife was intact. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and then returned to normal in the next moment, and took the knife away: "Brother, what is this...?"

"Hey, it's because I saw my brother won, and I thought we were brothers, so I wanted you to spare his life."

The thief leader also put away his knife and patted Chen Tianfeng on the shoulder: "But I was right about you. Brother and Silver Wing are really destined to be together!"

"I think so."

Chen Tianfeng agreed with a smile, and his left little finger twitched. He felt sad about the torn sleeve of his coat and the knife wound on his arm.

The thief leader turned and walked towards Scarface, first kicking him down, then stepping on his right wrist, ignoring his miserable howls, pulling out the dagger, and rubbing it on Scarface's clothes to wipe off the blood.

"Useless things."

The thief leader loosened his foot, took out a bottle of powdered medicine and threw it to Scarface: "Go and deal with it yourself, don't get in my way!"

Scarface didn't dare to be angry or say anything. He picked up the medicine bottle, endured the pain, and ran away in shame.

Chen Tianfeng weighed the long knife and was about to "sensibly" return it to Scarface, but was stopped by the bandit leader.

"It just so happens that I was thinking that it would be a waste to give this knife to that loser. If you don't mind, take it. Don't say that I'm stingy. You know that our Silver Wing is in a difficult period. When we get back on our feet, I will definitely buy you a good knife!"

The thief leader smiled and handed the dagger in his hand to Chen Tianfeng: "But now, what's more important is that you complete the process of joining the Silver Wing Treasure Thieves."

"process?"

Chen Tianfeng moved his left hand, but did not raise it. Instead, he stuck the long knife into the ground and took the dagger with his right hand: "The second condition, right? Just say it, big brother!"

"Very good!" The thief leader laughed twice, pointed his chin at the dying idiot boy on the ground, and said casually: "Then brother, go and see him off for the last time."

"The second condition for joining the Silver Wing Treasure Thieves is that the other members must have evidence of their crimes."

(End of this chapter)