Lord of War

  A team of about seventy people marched silently in the Xiadi Rift Valley.

  The whistling knife wind was fierce and cold. From time to time, you could see the surrounding mountain wall or the ground suddenly adding a scratch or the like. This is no longer weathering, but a real knife cut. But what is amazing is that when these blade winds blow in front of everyone, they just rippling past like a normal breeze, leaving no traces on these people.

  As for the scene in front of us, the people in this team didn't know if they were tired of seeing it, so they simply turned a blind eye.

  The atmosphere is somewhat depressed and low.

   even faintly revealing some kind of disharmonious atmosphere such as confrontation.

  Wames walked at the end of the team, silently scanning the entire team, but he sighed helplessly inside, and his mood was quite complicated.

He has nearly four years of experience in surviving in the wilds. For the wilds, where the climate is harsh, the environment is harsh, and things like black food often appear, it is never easy to live so long. Things. So this is why anyone who can survive in the wild land for more than two years will be hired heavily by those nobles who want to intervene in the slavery business. In the wild land, if you want to rely on the noble private army to capture slaves on a large scale, then you At least you have to have the strength of an elite army.

   And even if you have such an army, you still have to withstand an almost tragic battle loss ratio.

  Can't bear this kind of psychological pressure, then you can only play small-scale slavery.

  So here in the wild land, the number of slave hunting teams is usually maintained at about 100 people, and the highest number is only two or three hundred people. However, this number is actually nothing terrifying to the slave hunters in the wild, at least it can not form a quantitative deterrent, so even if it is black and black, there will never be any slave hunting. The team will retreat—in fact, in places like the Wildlands, there is no way to retreat.

  Because there is no way back.

  However, these are not the reasons for Varmis to sigh. He has been the leader of a slave hunting team for nearly a year, and the experience is naturally good. What he is really helpless is that this team is not the team he has always led.

In the last slave hunting mission, his harvest was not bad. He captured dozens of gray elves from a small tribe and a few orcs who are said to have the Bimeng bloodline. This wealth is quite considerable, to say nothing, hundreds of thousands. Entry of gold coins. However, for this reason, they clashed with the two slave capture teams, and finally relied on Watamis' rich experience and the strength of the team to finally avoid the end of the group annihilation, and smoothly brought these slaves back.

  It’s just that his team was on the verge of disbanding as a result, and the slave-catching team of a hundred people finally came back alive and there were fewer than 30 people. Slave capture is inherently very dangerous, so the slave capture team can only accept such a result. According to the rules, they can get at least a one-year rest period. This time is for Vamis to recruit new captures. Slaves, and then targeted nurturing, training, and a process and time of running in with the old team.

   But I don’t know why, but this time they didn’t get such a rest period. In the second month of his return, he was summoned by the lord he worked for, and then gave him another slave hunting team, asking him to integrate the two teams and immediately set off into the wild land to carry out slave hunting activities. This kind of thing has never happened in the past, so Vamis was naturally curious, but he could hear the lord’s voice very eager, and his attitude was obviously tougher, and he could not allow him to refuse, so he could only lead these two. The team set off immediately.

  In fact, this kind of thing is not unavailable for the slave hunting team, but generally there will be no lords doing it.

  Because a slave hunting team is a small group, the two slave hunting teams are forcibly merged together, so who is the leader? If this problem is not solved, it will inevitably cause internal problems. After all, the position of leader is not only a manifestation of power, but also has many other advantages, such as distribution rights-the slave trapping team is catching the slaves. After the lord sells it, he can get half of the reward, and the specific distribution of this reward is distributed by the leader.

  The one who contributes more and more will naturally get higher rewards.

  Two slave hunting teams are mixed together. Under normal circumstances, the leader will definitely favor the slave hunting team he has been leading. It is very difficult to be fair and just.

So if it is an inexperienced slave hunting team, Valmis will not have that headache, but this other slave hunting team also has more than two years of experience in surviving in the wild. They died because of the old leader. That's why the lord was dispatched to Valmis's command-according to common sense, this slave trapping team should select a new leader, rather than two slave trapping teams combined together.

  The situation is a bit complicated.

  Vamis felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart. He didn't know why the lord he worked for was so eager. However, he knows very well that if he still wants to gain something and leave the wilderness alive, then he must find a way to eliminate this barrier and make the two slave teams completely merge into a whole. Only in this way can he be able to survive in the wilderness. This kind of environment survives.

  The best way to solve this problem is to find a slave-catcher team after entering the wilderness, or attack a tribe, so that the two sides can exchange for a little war. Only in this way can the two slave hunting teams accept each other's existence, and then slowly run-in for two or three months, and Watamis thinks it should be almost the same.

  Of course, it is not without benefits that both teams are veterans.

  At least they knew what to do and what not to do, and they didn’t need Warmis to remind them.

   Soon, the team came to a huge cave.

  Several scouts stood in front of the cave and gestured, and Watamis sighed slightly. The gesture meant that there was no one in the cave. So the team walked into the cave in silence, and the scouts walked ahead with torches. The team followed up. They had picked a relatively clean place and set up a simple temporary camp in front of them. For things like boilers, there are piles of firewood in the cave, which can be used at will.

  These firewood are all prepared by other slave hunting teams, which is regarded as a default unspoken rule.

  Any slave hunting team must collect a batch of firewood back to pile up when leaving the wild land to pass through the rift valley, so as to facilitate other slave hunting teams passing here. And in this cave, there is an unwritten rule, that is, fighting is not allowed here, and the first provocateur will be attacked by other slave teams in the cave.

  Of course, such unwritten rules are also a lot of tricks.

  For example, at this moment, if there is a slave hunting team in this cave that has returned and it has gained a lot, and there are only them and another slave hunting team in the cave, then a fierce battle is very likely. It was here that Watamis had a conflict with the second slave hunting team, but he did not let everyone in the team sleep to death with his experience, so he succeeded in killing all the opponents in turn, but he paid for it. A heavy price.

"Everyone just rest here, the next day our schedule will be very difficult." Valmis lifted his hood, revealing a slightly vicissitudes of life, and said in a hoarse voice, "Everyone is a veteran. It’s not the first time to take this route, so if you know what the situation is, I won’t say anything.... Drink some wine to warm up, but you must control the amount. I don’t want to get up tomorrow morning to see someone Very drunk."

  ...Almost at the same time, Xiao En and the others, who accelerated their pace, finally joined the werewolf and gray elf in front of them who were in charge of the investigation.

   "What's the situation?" Sean asked.

   "The other party just entered Fire Hole No. 1 ten minutes ago." The werewolf who retreated from the entrance of the cave said, "I can smell the smell of food and wine. They should be warming up."

  This cave is what Andre said is the resting place.

Because of the mountain breeze in the Gorge Rift, there will be a long way in the middle of this raging knife wind, and in such an environment, there is naturally no way to rest and eat, so there are people in this section. Three caves were created in the mountain wind section. The slave trapping team can use these three caves for rest, but in order to prevent certain accidents, these caves do not have only one entrance and exit, but a road similar to a tunnel, and there are more than six entrances and exits. The slave hunting team randomly chooses where to leave, and using these caves can shorten the trip by about two days at most.

  You must know that the journey covered by the severe mountain breeze is seven days long, and it is not easy to shorten the two-day itinerary.

  But as the first cave that can be sheltered from the wind, there are not so many entrances and exits, only three. However, under normal circumstances, the slave hunting team will go straight to the third exit to leave the cave, and then walk about a day’s journey to reach the second cave. Naturally, it is impossible to stop to eat during this process, so when leaving You must be full before the cave.

And I don’t know why. The temperature in the cave is much lower. It is probably close to sub-zero. Even if the cloak on the body is specially made to protect against the cold, the effect is not much better, so it will be in the cave. The custom of drinking and warming up in the city, these are the experiences of the slave hunting team.

  Shaun turned his head to look at Andre, after all, he is much more experienced than himself.

As if he felt Sean’s gaze, Andre said: “You can cook food for ten minutes after entering the cave and start warming up. Judging from the other party’s approach, it should be a more cautious and experienced type, so he There will definitely be a shift to watch the night. But this also shows that he really wants to save time, otherwise he should let everyone relax after entering the cave, and then start warming up and chatting..."

   "They didn't chat, the cave was very quiet." A gray elf added, seeming to have known what Andre wanted to ask.

"In this way, either they are in a hurry, or the slave hunting team hasn't completely run-in." Andre said, "No matter what the situation is, it is good for us. We can wait outside here. Enter after two to three hours, and then launch a surprise attack to hit the opponent by surprise, because at this time those who have fallen asleep will fall asleep because of alcohol, and those in charge of the night watch will also start to fall asleep because of alcohol."

   "Very good, then let's do it!" Xiao En Dang even agreed to Andre's plan.