Heart of the Castle

Chapter 54 The Repressed Human Nature

After resting for about an hour, Li Wei woke up from his own thoughts. The fatigue on his body had disappeared. Apart from being a little hungry, he felt pretty good.

Warren and Martha had finished talking a long time ago, and they were cuddling each other under the tree with their eyes closed to rest. The sound of Li Wei getting up immediately alarmed them, and the two immediately got up from the ground, seeing that the female thief did the same thing as Warren. With a respectful look, Li Wei was sure that Ranger had explained those conjectures to her clearly.

"How are you resting?" Li Wei asked calmly.

"Have a complete rest, and I will be at your service at any time, Lord Li Wei." Hua Lun and Martha bowed deeply to Li Wei together, and said in a very respectful tone.

"Okay, let's go there together." Li Wei looked at the refugee camp still shrouded in thick fog, and said suppressing the excitement in his chest.

The two former adventurers hurriedly agreed, Warren walked ahead to lead the way, and Martha stepped forward, trying to take the reins from Levi's hands.

The pony snorted uncomfortably, and Li Wei stretched out his hand to comfort the horse's neck, while shaking his head and rejecting Martha.

"A knight should not give his mount to anyone other than a squire, Martha, I am sorry that I cannot accept your kindness."

Martha withdrew her hand embarrassingly, and walked beside Li Wei.

Without Li Wei's instructions, the pikemen have automatically formed a defensive formation, protecting Li Wei in the middle, with their sharp spears pointing forward, ready to deal with any challenge.

"Hey, you guys, stand there and don't move!"

When approaching the gate of the refugee camp, a somewhat rude voice came from his head. Li Wei looked up and saw a man wearing a broken helmet leaning half of his body on a simple watchtower behind the wooden wall. , looking down.

"Yes, we, we have archers aiming at you." The second head poked out from behind the man in the broken helmet, and seemed to be holding a hunting bow or something in his hand. It seemed that the so-called aiming at Levi The archer of the group is probably himself.

The attitude of the two guards in the refugee camp was not very friendly, which made Li Wei feel a little disappointed.However, this also shows that the people in the refugee camp are very vigilant, so Li Wei raised his voice and shouted at the guards on the watchtower.

"My name is Li Wei. I come from the castle of Viscount Lane. I am the knight attendant of Lord Ston, the guardian knight of the castle. I want to talk to your leader."

The two people on the watchtower did not report to the leader of the refugee camp according to what Li Wei said, but talked softly with each other.Then the guard wearing the helmet showed a strange sarcasm smile on his face and said, "Li Wei? I haven't heard of it. Take your people and leave. You won't be welcome here."

This answer was somewhat beyond the boy's expectation. Li Wei frowned, and was about to say something more, when the guard with the bow and arrow suddenly pointed his finger behind him and started yelling.

"Look at his side, isn't that guy Hua Lun? Hurry up and inform the village chief, that damned bandit Hua Lun has brought someone back!"

The ranger's face flushed immediately, he gritted his teeth and roared at the wooden wall to retort.

"Nonsense, I've never been a robber, that's your slander against me and Martha!"

The guard with the bow and arrow didn't listen to Hua Lun's excuse at all. He waved his arms and shouted into the refugee camp: "Look, these guys in full armor, these Hua Lun's accomplices must want to sneak into the camp. Kill us all."

A group of guards boarded the watchtower in a panic. These people not only held a variety of weapons in their hands, but also wore messy things. The few in the front were wearing leather armor or rusted chain mail, and the guards behind were simply ordinary. Peasant attire.

"Quick, quick, get ready to shoot the arrow!"

At the end of the team was a middle-aged man with a big belly and gorgeous clothes. His fat face was covered with sweat, and he hurriedly gave orders as soon as he boarded the watchtower.

Maybe this person is the leader of the refugee camp, Levi thought to himself, and continued to shout towards the curtain wall.

"Listen, we don't want to make trouble, if you are the leader here, please listen to me..."

There was no point in the random arrows flying over, mixed with stones, and scattered all over the ground beside Li Wei.Li Wei gritted his teeth, and just when he was about to make a final effort, a sharp arrow flew over with a strong sound of breaking the wind, passing by the boy's shoulder.

A tall man holding a longbow appeared behind the middle-aged fat man, staring coldly at Li Wei's throat with sharp eyes, as if saying, that's where the next arrow will be aimed.

"Damn, how did this happen?" Li Wei felt a shiver, and a cold feeling ran down his spine.Of course he knew that the tall man had shown mercy just now, if that sharp arrow flew towards the vital point, he would either be killed or injured.

Taking a step back, Li Wei concentrated his mental power on the rune that belonged to the arrow protection in his mind. The rune flashed suddenly, and a very faint light emitted from the top of his head, and fell down into an oval mask. Protect everyone around him inside.

"That person is... the sniper archer Grace! Master Li Wei, step back quickly, Grace can hit the Lynx's eye within 200 meters." Ranger Hua Lun was relieved from the thrilling scene just now, Immediately yelled in panic, and at the same time blocked his body in front of Li Wei.

Li Wei was unmoved, and stood quietly, his eyes fixed on the watchtower.The tall man raised his bow to aim, but when his eyes swept over the oval mask that appeared beside Li Wei, he seemed to be slightly taken aback, then put down his long bow, leaned over and said something in the middle-aged fat man's ear.

The middle-aged fat man's face, which was already dripping with sweat, felt even more wet. His small eyes turned left and right a few times, and then he raised a hand and said, "Stop attacking, all stop."

The non-threatening random arrows finally stopped. Li Wei looked at the arrows made of curved branches and rough stones not far from his feet, and suddenly understood the hard work of these guards.Not to mention that they were country bumpkins working in the fields not long ago, even well-trained regular archers may not be able to shoot such arrows accurately.

The defense force of this refugee camp is really fragile.Thinking of this, Li Wei raised his voice and repeated what he had just said.

"My name is Li Wei, I come from Viscount Lane's castle, and I am the knight servant of Lord Ston, the guardian knight of the castle. Are you the leader of this refugee camp?

The name of the leader of the refugee camp obviously made the middle-aged fat man a little dissatisfied. He purposely remained silent for a moment, then wiped the sweat off his face with his fingers and said, "Mr. Li Wei, what you said is not correct, this is not a refugee camp." The camp, but the village I built. I am the village chief here, and you can call me Village Chief Huck, or Master Huck."

"Village?" Li Wei's eyes flickered. Establishing a new village in the Viscount's territory is not something that can be done casually. As the lowest-level manager, the village chief is more or less a decent person. .If it were changed to the usual way, without the consent and authorization of Viscount Lane, this Master Huck would have had his head chopped off by the viscount's guards long ago.But now that the evil disaster is raging, this kind of behavior is not a serious matter.

It was only a moment for Li Wei to turn around, and then he continued to say loudly towards the wooden wall: "Then, Village Chief Huck, please open the gate of the village, we want to go in and take a rest, and we won't disturb you for long Time."

"This is not acceptable. My village is a peaceful place. Armed fighters like you are not welcome, especially among you, there are these two guys who have been robbers." The fat and short fingers of Village Chief Hake He pointed to Warren and Martha, and refused politely.

"Huck, your words are all false. Martha and I have never stolen or robbed at all." Ranger Warren yelled.

"Really? When you were driven out of the village, within a few days, what did we see? You followed behind the rotten ghost Pulpo, and robbed a few wandering unlucky ones. The villagers who went out to chop firewood can testify to this A little bit, right?" The corner of Village Chief Huck's mouth twitched downwards, and the guards behind him clamored one after another, and a lot of obscenities were poured down the wooden wall, making the faces of Warren and Martha ashen stand up.

Although it was the first time I heard the name of the rotten ghost Pulpo, the image of the big leader he encountered at the Heihe outpost immediately flashed in Li Wei's mind. It seems that Village Chief Huck did not lie. There was indeed robbery and theft.However, the facts in front of him always seemed to be shrouded in a thin layer of mist, which made Li Wei hesitate for a while.

"Mr. Levi, you are a decent man from Viscount Castle, you don't want to bring two guys who were robbers with you? That's fine, if you are willing to remove these two guys from your team If you are expelled from the middle, I can consider letting you rest in my village for one night." Village Chief Hake sensed Li Wei's hesitation, trembling his fat jaw, trying to influence the boy's decision.

What Village Chief Huck didn't expect was that his words had the opposite effect.The expression on Li Wei's face moved slightly, and he quietly used the probing technique on the middle-aged fat man.

The dark yellow light curtain lit up, and Li Wei only looked at it for a moment, then turned around with a cold snort.

"It seems that we are really not welcome here, let's go."

Village Chief Huck's true attitude can be clearly seen under the probing technique, and the relationship column is actually hatred.This is not the same as what he showed. At the beginning, Li Wei thought it was at most indifferent.The attitudes of the rest of the villagers were mostly vigilant or disgusted. On the contrary, standing behind Village Chief Huck, the sniper archer Grace, who looked like a bodyguard, had a green light curtain representing neutrality, and the data on it were better than expected much.

Name: Grace.

Race: Human.

Life: 42.

Danger Level: Dangerous.

Relationships: Follow (50).

Seeing the figures of Li Wei and his party gradually disappear into the thick fog, Grace put away his longbow playfully and walked down to the watchtower.Behind him, the obese Village Chief Huck cursed in a low voice, and then said loudly to Grace, "Why didn't you show mercy just now and shoot them dead?"

Grace paused slightly, and then responded coldly: "I don't want to risk my life for a few pennies, Huck, think about it with your fat head, one A person who can use magic, whether it is a scroll or his own ability, is not something we can easily provoke."

(End of this chapter)