Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 73 Chapter 73 Unfortunate not to be destroyed

The ridges are full of summer wildflowers, yes Although it is not very fragrant, it is very tenacious and can make people see beautiful flowers for a long time. Red, yellow, pink, white, starved butterflies circle them, and they circle the racks on which the corpses hang.

The wood of those shelves may have been beams, uprights, etc. in the house before. They looked thick and large, so they could support a person on it. The people are fixed on the shelf with nails and wire, and their hands and feet are bent to the other side of the shelf, so the whole figure seems to be hugged on the shelf. Their heads were forcibly twisted to one side, the side facing the road. A total of twelve shelves, twelve people, that's twelve warnings.

The convoy came to a stop on a ridge, not a good place to park. Except for those who need to hold the reins to control the horses, the rest of the convoy read the warnings.

"Who are these?" Dagon asked, "What did they do wrong?"

"I guess they are robbers, you see they are all big and male. '" Toby said.

"It's all burned like this, can you still tell the size and gender?"

"For halflings, all human beings are big, all male, all Robbers."

"Let's talk about dead bodies." Dagon didn't understand what Toby was talking about, so he could only look ahead.

Gerlos and Maip stepped forward to check, covering their noses with a towel in one hand and holding a branch in the other. The vital parts of the corpses had cuts, punctures, and bludgeoning injuries, which they judged to have died from weapon injuries. Afterwards, the men were lit, and the flames engulfed their identities without letting the flames burn them all to ashes. In the end, the surviving body was tied to a wooden frame and stood upright on the ridge, and I don't know why.

"In such a high place, iron wire and nails are also used. Why didn't the thunderstorm cut them?" Geros threw away the branches dipped in corpse fragments, put his hands on his hips, and turned to look all directions . "Maipu, did you find that not only these bodies, but also the surrounding trees were not struck by lightning."

"This is really weird, do you want me to ask someone?"

"The team can't live without you now. The terrain will be better if you lead the way. I'll let Tess ride a horse to see her. She's a half-elf with better eyesight than us at dusk."

"Dwarves have better eyesight."

"Dwarves can't ride horses." Geros shook his head and said, "Besides, this is human territory, and everyone is wary of dwarves. And it's much better for half-elves."

"What about the convoy? Where should the convoy go?"

Gerros bit his index finger. If his mouth was big enough, he would definitely put his entire fist in it, not just one finger. He spun around, his boots splashing in the pit, like a cat that has lost its prey.

"These poles don't stand up during a thunderstorm."

"Yes, no." Maip shook his head and said, "No one can stand in that kind of weather. Come out and do this kind of death-defying thing."

"This is the closest to White Horse Town. Could it be that some robbers are trying to use this method to intimidate White Horse Town?"

" You mean the wandering knights?"

"I mean the robbers." Geros seemed determined. "Go, find a way to avoid White Horse Town, we won't go there. If I can turn around, I prefer Boar Castle now."

"The road is too narrow to make a U-turn, but I Can it go a little better, let's avoid White Horse Town?" Maipu frowned, said: "Last time we had a debt of about 500 gold coins in White Horse Town that has not been recovered."

" Safety first, go to the next town, and then ask about the situation. We can use the time originally reserved for Wild Boar Castle for the round trip to White Horse Town, right?"

"Yes, I will arrange it." Maipu nodded, and walked quickly to the front of the team.

"Tess, come here." Geros Beckons with the hand, and the half-elf jumped off the roof of the car.

"I heard it all. Where should I go?"

"We can only be sure that it is safe behind us now, so you go to Boar Fort, bring some gold coins, and ask Here's some news. At night, your eyes can see farther than we can, and you can ride faster by yourself, and maybe get in before the city gate closes."

"I can find a village around here. Ask about it."

"The news of the money will be more comprehensive. When you get to the Boar Castle, you can look for the mouse drawn by chalk..."

"I see. ." Tess patted Gerros on the cheek, and said, "Be careful of yourselves. I'll catch up to you."

The half-elf archer took her bow and arrow and hung her armor on the horse's back , and then leave in the direction from which you came. She put on her armor as she rode, but was quickly blocked by the undulating ridge and could no longer watch.

The convoy continued to move in the other direction, everyone was holding a weapon, even the horses felt the change in the atmosphere, all lowered their heads, and stopped acting coquettishly with the driver. The motorcade passed through the pillars where the charred corpses were hung, surrounded by the empty eye sockets filled with tears from the accumulation of rain and the gaping mouths silently screaming from pain, and buzzing flies followed.

The ridge begins to descend, then splits into two tracks. One side is a step, which is inclined to the south; the other is a carriage road, which is inclined to the north. The team could only choose to go north in silence, and then found two farmhouses at the foot of the mountain. There is a vegetable garden in front of the farmhouse, chicken coops and rabbit cages in the back, and a green vegetable field not far away surrounds an old water well, and there are no buckets by the well. One house has been swept away by heavy rain and another is being looted.

There were four corpses lying on the ground, from a distance they were two old women, a couple, their backs were blood dyed red. Three men in chain mail and three different tin hats were rummaging through boxes in the yard, and two men with hats around their waists were smashing furniture with axes to make fires. Five dead chickens were placed on the stone table in the yard that was originally used for resting and drinking, and their necks were chopped off with axes.

"Hey, look, someone's here." A fatty who rummaged through the cabinets raised his helmet and squinted at the ridge. "It's amazing, it's raining so hard that we all dare to hide, and there are people who can come over from the ridge? You're not afraid to see a charred corpse, it seems to be an outlaw."

"The outlaw is You should die." A thin man threw away the basket in his hand, squeezed his nostrils with one hand, and blew a pool of filth on the ground. "Our boss is coming soon? The adults above have to make up the number of people, isn't it just right?"

"Then hold them off and pack them up together later."

In addition to the robber who set fire to boil water to dehair the chickens, the other four came to the gate of the farmhouse with halberds, axes, and bastards, which happened to be on the road. One of them threw a grass rope to the ground and tied both ends to the air, acting as an iron rope blocking the road. Holding their weapons, they stood on both sides of the road, looking at the approaching caravan with playful smiles.

Gerros stood atop the first car, holding the golden dog caravan flag in his hand. "Please make way, we belong to the Golden Dog Caravan. We trade here and pay full taxes and are protected."

"Who protects you? Dead people?" that fatty laughed heartily, he said The gold teeth are backlit, but the model feels wrong, and it seems to be smaller than the other teeth. "We've never charged you any money, but we'd love to talk to you. After all, it's a long-term business. What price do you all give when passing by?"

"It depends on how high the mountain is. How deep is the water, how many trees are in the forest."

"This is all nonsense! It should be the mood of the old men." The fatty rolled his eyes and thought of an idea. "It just happened that the rain was over, and I was in a good mood and hungry. You guys went to dispose of the corpse, and I'm looking for someone to cook the chicken soup, so I won't charge you any more. I won't charge you in the future, how about that?"

"We are a caravan, we can give money, bury bodies and cook for you, but that's not acceptable." Geros touched his chin and said, "The market price is twenty gold coins, I I can..."

"Go to your code, I want money to directly rob you, don't you have any money? Come down and cook for Laozi, Laozi is hungry! These guys If you don't give me chicken, I will eat people! You want to be eaten by me too?"

"If you eat us, then a businessman will have to sell the stolen goods for you, right? I dare to say, If you rob us, you won't have any merchants from any of the Chamber of Commerce's caravans to sell you. "hmph huh, then you don't need to worry about it, I won't rob money today, I'll rob people. Let someone..."

Jeros spit out a miniature whistle from his mouth, and threw it as he blew it. away a throwing knife. The knife spun sideways into Fatty's Adam's apple, and the team pounced on the whistle.

The sound of ping ping ping pong sounded in his ears, fatty knelt on the ground and pulled out the blade, feeling the strength of the whole body is disappearing from the neck, the chest is hot and wet. Before he fell, he only had time to squeeze out a few clumps of blood from the corner of his mouth, and then... there was no more.

Dagon only felt that he was a little slow in his rush, and he didn't get the head in the end. No way, he didn't know that there was still the code of whistling and charging, and he was in the middle of the team, a little farther away, and his legs were a little short.

These robbers don't have a good martial skill. It can be seen from the resistance that they have practiced, but they have not really learned the martial skill from the master, but have practiced how to avoid being stabbed to death by their own weapons. The one who took the halberd actually took the middle, and when he switched gears, he thought he was holding the door panel, and was killed by both sides. The one with the shield would remove the shield when using the axe, so he was stabbed in the kidney by the dagger thrown by Geros, and painfully lost his combat capability.

"These robbers may have accomplices, let's leave as soon as possible." Geros retrieved his throwing knives and daggers from the corpse, and kicked the rope blocking the road. "Mip, Bart and Bucket Hoop, put these bodies in the dilapidated house over there, pour kerosene on them all and burn them all. We don't have time to bury this family, so we burned the robbers to bury them, maybe we can forgive us."

Dagon came to the outside of the looted yard and looked inside through the fence of wood chips, feeling quite unhappy. From the robber's dialogue, we can know that the family took in these robbers during the rainstorm, didn't expect them to requite kindness with enmity and kill the killer after the rain stopped.

Maipu was moving the corpse when he suddenly groaned, then left the others and ran in front of Geros: "Boss, I know these people, and I paid them a debt last time."

(end of this chapter)