Chapter 60: The Traveler from Coney
The white-haired man couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that the marksman had taken the initiative to abandon the bow and arrow in his hand. The man slammed the long sword in his hand, relying on the advantage of the long blade of the sword, and was able to block the figure of Vidia Vedia pounced on.
Vedia couldn't strike a blow, but he was not discouraged, but instead forced himself on the man as if he was desperate. The white-haired man's face changed a little, although the long sword was an inch long and an inch strong, but now in the woods, this somewhat suffocated terrain, he could not give full play to his advantages, but because it was too long, he fell into the lower cheng, and his strength did not make a place to go up. Vedia's sword beckoned either at the man's face or at his chest and abdomen, and the man did not dare to be careless, so he had to block Vedia's fierce attack while retreating behind him, waiting for an opportunity to open up the distance and seek an opportunity to counterattack.
Conan raised the sword in his hand, but he couldn't find the opportunity to intervene for a while, so he had to watch Errao fight with the dragon, and then he silently sweated with Vidia and himself. To be able to fight like this, Vidia is naturally a young swordsman, but the white-haired man's swordsmanship is also offensive and defensive, although he is retreating step by step, he is also seeing that he is regaining the initiative between the two. Vidia's size and short sword are better than agility, but if he loses the advantage of the main attack, the situation is estimated to be bad.
In a hurry, Conan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he remembered the two strange swords that the man had just made
This person must not be a farmer in his territory, although they have some armed conflicts now, but fortunately there is not any life-and-death hatred, if you can communicate with him......
Conan struggled to recall what he had learned as a child, and a foreign word popped out of his lips.
"Kony?"
I don't know if Conan's voice was too much, or if the man couldn't understand his words at all, the two in the fierce battle didn't pay attention to Conan, Conan had to take another deep breath, and then shouted loudly in the direction of the white-haired man
"You?Kone!!"
This roar used up all the strength of his body, like a thunderstorm in the flat ground, disturbing the life of everything in the forest, and even disrupting Vidia's swordsmanship. Vidia was closest to Conan, and he was naturally the first to suffer from the tower's poison. Even a person who is preoccupied with doing one thing, there is no way to be indifferent to the sudden shouting, Vidia almost subconsciously glanced at Conan with the corner of his eye, and at this glance, the pace of his attack was slightly slower by half a step, if the opponent on the opposite side can grasp this opportunity, Vidia will have to hit the sword.
Regardless of complaining about Conan, in the face of the opportunity for the man to fight back, he could only turn as far as he could and use his shoulders to withstand this inevitable attack.
The dew-stained sword hung across Vedia's shoulder, piercing the mist, and in an instant, Vedia smelled the smell of battleβa mixture of rust and blood.
Vedia had already foreseen the trajectory of this sword, the delicate leather armor on his body would definitely not be able to withstand the long sword in the hands of a warrior, the iron sword would cut through the skin and his muscles in one fell swoop, and knock his muscles and bones all the way, if the man really used all his strength in this sword, Vidia would not mind offering his shoulder, and even more scraped together a few points to buy himself time for the next attack.
But the white-haired man stopped moving his hand, and stopped firmly on Vidia's shoulder at the moment when the long sword was about to split the leather armor, and the man's light blue eye sockets did not have the madness in Vidia's eyes, only a thick sense of fatigue.
He opened his mouth and slowly uttered some words, which Vidia always felt inexplicably familiar, but he couldn't answer the meaning. However, the pronunciation standards of this language are quite consistent with that of the Great Prous, but the meaning of the combination is very different, which causes communication difficulties.
Conan didn't hesitate to take over the conversation, his was slower, and there was a bit of a stumble, but by observing the expression on the man's face, the two should have negotiated.
Seeing this, Vidia also lost his intention to continue to be the man's enemy, and he slowly withdrew the sword in his hand in front of the man. Judging from the hand when the man just collected the sword, the man did not keep collecting three points of strength and fighting with himself. Anyway, he is not an opponent of others, and now he is not an enemy, so he might as well be a single.
Seeing that Vidia had put away the murder weapon, the man shook his wrist slightly, and also returned the long sword in his hand to the scabbard.
"The Kony people. β
Conan explained towards the exit of Vidia. "This man claimed to be a traveler from Levitt, who had traveled far and wanted to borrow a horse from us. I'll give it back to us when I have the chance. β
"And what happened to you?"
Conan shrugged his shoulders and said, "I and his horse are yours, and I can't be the master." β
Only then did Vidia catch the white-haired man's eyes, and he finally turned to look at his sturdy foal and shook his head slightly, with some reluctance in his eyes.
Seeing this, the white-haired man's eyes suddenly became a little anxious, and then he looked at the long sword hanging from his waist as if he had pointed at it, but before he could finish his threatening move, his face was covered with an unnatural layer of blood, as if he was ashamed of his actions.
Vidia was amazed, he had seen thieves and robbers, they were all fierce and evil, even after being captured, they looked treacherous, he had never seen a bandit who blushed after mastering the situation.
The young traveler, who was about twenty years old, seemed hesitant to snatch a horse from the hands of two children, even though they already had good fighting skills, but in the end they were only two children.
But those two children didn't think of themselves as children. The one of them who was good at martial arts stretched out his hand to soothe his warhorse, and then handed the reins to the young man's hand, although his eyes were a little reluctant, but there was still a hint of a smile
"Take it! This is your trophy, and there will come a time when we will win it back with profit, and then we will fight it with real knives and guns. β
The young man couldn't understand the young man's words, but he could hear a bit of strong fighting intent in his words, and the current tense situation did not allow him to delay with these children for too long. The white-haired traveler bowed slightly, reaching out to take the reins.
This time, the horse did not resist like the first time, and did not throw him off the horse, but only rubbed his head slightly against Vidia's cheek, indicating its reluctance to the old master.
After mastering his balance a little, the young man tried to pull the reins on his horse's back and galloped away in the direction of the northeast. But he quickly walked around and said a word to Vedia and Conan, respectively, before leaving the jungle.
Vidia scratched her head in confusion, but Conan's face changed slightly.
"What he says to you doesn't matter, he just promises to repay you in the future, and you will definitely grow into a great warrior in the future. But what I was talking to me was to ask us to be safe, because there would be someone chasing him behind him. β
The two teenagers glanced at each other in the forest, with a slightly embarrassed wry smile on their faces, and after experiencing this, the two could be regarded as having made friends.
"Sure enough, I knew he wouldn't be a simple traveler. Vidia walked in the direction of the young man's departure, her eyes blazing, like a flame. "That's fine, it will be easier for me to ask him for my war horse again in the future. β
Conan had a sad face, he didn't know the price of firewood and rice, the young man was chased and killed, but the ambush soldiers were most likely scurrying around in his fiefdom, and he kicked a big tree next to him with some distress.
"You're all talking, let's think about how to get through the current level first! You just lost your horse, and there is an army of unknown origin around here, what if we run into it?"
"You and I will plunge into the woods, who will find it. Vidia rolled her eyes nonchalantly, as if mocking Conan's timidity. "Go to your manor to hide first, then get me another horse, I'll go to the city to find rescuers, and you can also organize a few households by the way, and this matter will be over." β
"You're not at home!"
Conan yelled at Vedia with some indignation, but then lowered his head and said with some embarrassment. "I'm new to the city, and I haven't built a manor yet. It's just living in one place, and then there are three or five families around. β
Naturally, this statement did not satisfy Vidia, and he squinted at Conan, as if he was looking at an anomaly.
"So where have all your people gone, and if any foreign enemy invades at this time, will you take the lead in leading them to escape?"
"Naturally, the people are scattered around the fiefdom. They are all experienced farmers themselves, and I don't have any reason to care where they go to farm, that's not a layman directing the internal association... So I told them to settle near their farmland.
As for your safety, I came in a hurry, and the mayor of Valuno City didn't give me a soldier or a piece of armor, even if I organized a forest resistance, so what? To build a solid castle ......"
"Stop!" Vedia heard the words, and only felt that one head was two big. He has never taken care of money since he was a child, and he doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are, but he only thinks that this person is a little unpleasant. "It doesn't matter if you live in a horse pen or a castle, we don't have much to go to now, so you might as well lead the way. β
Conan snorted, but eventually walked back in the direction of home.
Along the way, the two tacitly understood that they were never born again, but they just nervously observed the surrounding scenes, but fortunately, there were only thrills along the way, and the slight noises they made were only from animals, not from the ambush they imagined.
A short distance through the forest, a newly cultivated flat farmland appeared, and on the way I gradually met three or two families, but now their yards were empty, and only the farmers who were working could be seen faintly in the distance.
"Gather them together?"
"Gather and send them to death, for fear that those soldiers will not find anyone. β
In any case, after seeing the crowd, the two Rao's mental state suddenly improved a lot, and they walked along the country road towards a hill while arguing.
At the top of the hill there was a detached wooden house, not only small in size, but also without a yard, and if it had not occupied a fairly good position overlooking the surrounding farmhouses and fields, it would have been shabby.
Walking to the bottom of the low slope, the lord who led the way stopped.
"My horse is in the farmer's house, in the yard of the house on the left side of the front. β
The knight who followed behind was a little surprised and asked, "Could it be that you live in this kind of place, and you don't even have a stable?"
Conan lowered his face, coughed heavily, and then said, "I brought the road, I'll go back and change into decent clothes first, whether you go up and sit or go directly to lead the horse, then please take care of yourself." Then he hurried towards the house on the hillside.
Although time is quite short, Weidia did not speak out to stop Conan's seemingly time-wasting behavior, the so-called packing of clothes is obviously just an excuse, these years, the army has been a bandit, in case those people touch up the village, if they don't kill people, they will always collect money, in Weidia's eyes, Conan is how down, and he is always a lord, he still has to have a little savings, how can he be given some time to hide.
He walked in the direction Conan had described, intending to lead the two horses out first. Walking into the stinking farmhouse with his nose covered, there was no imaginary stable in the humble shack building, but in the yard stood a scrawny steppe horse, and it was only up to Vidia's neck. He frowned slightly, not because of the unpleasant smell in the courtyard, but because of the appearance of the horse.
And this Conan is really poor and only has one horse left, just this way of breeding, Vidia can find a lot of faults, such a horse does not go to the battlefield, it is a heavily armed knight to sit on it, can be crushed to death, compared to his previous riding of tall horses, I don't know where it is worse.
In any case, after Conan hurriedly "changed his clothes" from the house, Vidia led the horse to the foot of the mountain in time.
"How the hell do you know how to keep a horse, how can you make it look like this. "A good war horse can be described as a knight's second life, although this horse is not Vidia's, but when I see a horse that has been raised like this, I still can't help but redden.
Faced with this situation, Conan showed an embarrassed look again, and he muttered:
"This horse can't do much work, and it's a gift from your father to me at the time. It's a little shabby, and it's really necessary to pay attention to it in the future. β
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