Chapter 12: The Ballad
Benson knows too well about his distant cousin, who grew up together, what the other party wants to do, what he wants to get, he will definitely get it by any means, if he can convince the other party, he will not be here to accompany the other party to suffer together.
Benson has been dealing with these mountain people since he can remember, but the number of passes through his own hands is not countable, but he is very aware of the danger here, even if it is well-planned and armed, every year a large number of slave hunters enter the mountain, and they are never heard from again.
Entering the mountains, they faced not only man-made disasters, but also natural disasters, and the changeable climate in the mountains was definitely not something that a ghost slave who had only lived here for a few years could control.
Bartley's fiery style of acting made Benson's final exhortation stillborn, the other party's order had already been given, and the possibility of wanting to change the other party's mind was zero, not to mention, it was very likely to lower his image in the other party's mind, it was definitely a loss-making business, and now he could only pinch his nose and admit it.
Of course, the most important point is that Benson is still relatively confident in his own strength, unlike Bartley, a novice, before entering the mountain, he made full preparations, not only using Heber, a senior ghost slave.
Although this ghost slave likes to play clever and small tricks very disgusting him, he has to admit that his previous performance was really good, and if you look at it from the perspective of the previous hunting team, this time the harvest can be called rich.
In addition, Benson also transferred a squadron of his father's elite marksmen, each of whom was carefully selected by his father and trained according to the standards of the Condor Shooters of the Andes Mountain Folk since childhood, and was also proficient in archery, tracking, wilderness survival and many other skills.
When it comes to hunting skills, these marksmen are definitely not as good as the Condor Marksman, but when it comes to killing efficiency, the Condor Marksman is no match for the Marksman.
This is not blown, but actually killed, and the last lesson of the marksman's training is to enter the Andes Mountains alone, successfully hunt three adult Andes mountain hunters, and retrieve their hunting bows to be eligible to join this team.
This also caused the number of this team to be small, and it took more than 20 years of painstaking operation to have a school guard, and it was this school guard who kept the Bastille standing in the Andes mountain pass for decades.
Before owning the Bastille, it was not they who went into the mountains to hunt these Andes mountain people, but these mountain people rushed out of the mountains and plundered wildly in the Manyu army, which was the unbearable day of every Manyu who had experienced that era.
Secondly, Benson also recruited some of the most experienced slave hunters in the Bastille, the youngest of whom had also been in the Bastille for ten years, and had been in and out of the mountain range no less than ten times, although it was not like visiting their own back garden, if there was any accident to the ghost slaves leading the way, they were the best old horses, and it was no problem to take them out of the mountains safely.
It is no exaggeration to say that their team is definitely the most luxurious and largest slave hunting team in recent years, if it is placed outside the mountain, it can be stormed and uprooted.
Don't look at their harvest this time, it seems that it is not small, but even if these slaves are all sold at the highest price, they will only be enough to pay the mercenary money of the elite slave hunting team, and this is because of the friendship price given by him and Bartley's identity.
After all, if they act separately, the harvest may be increased by three or four percent, and hunting slaves is also a technical job, not the more people the better, and only he and Bartley, a noble son, have the ability and will play such a big scene.
For Benson, who is afraid of death, even with this kind of force, he still does not have any sense of security, if it is not for the supply to keep up, he even wants to bring out the entire elite troops of the Bastille, for him, all the Andis mountain people who are not in chains are extremely dangerous.
It's easy to go up the hill and hard to go down.
This is most vividly reflected in the Andes Mountains, because there is no wide road that the Byronic people are used to walking, and even if there is a road, it is a sheep's intestine path that the mountain people step on one by one, and some are not even animal roads for people to walk, and more places there are no roads to speak of.
They had to make their own way out little by little, which made the originally slender procession even more winding, and the people on this side were already halfway up the mountain, and the other half was still on the ridge.
I don't know who sang an old Andes mountain folk song first, and it was quickly echoed by all the Andes mountain people, at first it was just a low chant, and in the punches and kicks of the slave hunters, the sound became louder and louder, and finally it became a loud chorus, as if the whole mountain was responding to them.
"God Almighty, shut them up, shut them up. "Even the inexperienced Bartley felt a little wrong.
Their formation is too long, and they have captured too many slaves this time, it is convenient to manage before, and all the mountain slaves and slave hunters are divided, and a small team looks at a small group of mountain slaves, when the formation is concentrated, there is no problem in doing this, but when the formation is thinned, the problem is a bit big.
Each squad of slave hunters would face twice as many mountain slaves as themselves, a situation that not to mention Bartley, a novice, did not expect, even veterans like Benson and the hired captains of the hunting team.
Like this kind of large-scale joint slave hunting, they are also experiencing it for the first time, and the previous experience is a bit inappropriate, and most importantly, they are just high-ranking employees, and their voice in front of the two noble lords is really weak and pitiful, and they have been left behind in the middle and tail of the team to maintain order.
When they made the decision before, they didn't know at all, and by the time they realized that the situation was wrong, the whole team had already begun to descend the mountain.
The young man whose face was already a vampire was even paler at the moment, unlike Bartley, who didn't understand Andes Mountain at all, after so many years of hearing and seeing, he could understand Andes to some extent, and he knew the name of this ballad and the story behind it - Faetwo.
The name of an Andes mountain dweller, originally a very common name, translated into Byronic means mountain, and such a name is called by one for every thousand people in the Andes mountain people.
But ten years ago, there was a mountain man with this name, with a bow and a group of hunting dogs, who spent more than ten days dragging to death a slave hunting team that destroyed his village and killed his wife and children, and finally died of exhaustion, this name has a special meaning for the Andis mountain people.
Then an easy-to-understand and very passionate song was born, which spread throughout the Andes Mountains at a speed even more terrifying than the spread of the plague, and even the newborn babies seemed to sing this song.
Since then, the difficulty of hunting slaves has increased exponentially, and many Andes mountain people would rather die than be caught as slaves and live in humiliation, so this song has a new name - Song of Resistance, Song of Death.
Now these Andes mountain folks are singing this song, and it goes without saying what they want to do.
"Merciful Lord, bless them, don't do it, don't do it. Bensen's whole body was tense, he was already pressed on the sword, and he secretly prayed in his heart, hoping that these Andes mountain people would not do stupid things, not that he pitied the lives of these Andes mountain people, but that the current formation was too unfavorable for them.
After a chaotic battle, their losses are absolutely indispensable, if the sharpshooters he brought lose a few, even if he brought back ten times more Andis mountain slaves, it would be a whipping.
What's more, no one can stop the killing in this case, and when the time comes, they will only be able to return empty-handed, and he will become the biggest joke of the Bastille - with an army, he did not capture a single slave.
"Don't do it, don't do it. At the same time, he secretly prayed for Sean, who was lying dormant less than fifty meters away, and every word in the song pierced his heart like a sharp arrow, making him feel inexplicably painful, and there was an illusion that these Andis mountain people would be killed by him.
Because this ballad is written by him, not only this ballad, but even the so-called young Andis mountain folk hero named "Faetwo" was also made up by him, and he doesn't want to think about who told this story when all the people in this story are dead?
At that time, Sean had just come to this world for a few years, and he had not really realized the cruelty of this world, looked at the reality of this world with an ideal vision from another world, and was indignant at the tragic experience of the Andis mountain people, and then such an inspirational and defiant story and song was born.
It's just that what Sean didn't expect was that this shoddy story and rigid ballad spread so fast, as if there was an invisible hand pushing it, or maybe the Andis mountain people living in endless hardship really needed a hero of their own nation and a song to inspire themselves.
In this process, both the story and the ballad have been enriched and beautified to a certain extent.
Especially that ballad, whether it is the style or lyrics, after simple fine-tuning and improvement, it has become very perfect, even if Sean sings it, it feels extremely impassioned, and it is better than the international song of the previous life.
I don't know if it's in the process of singing, after countless improvements, or a certain person's beautification, if it's a personal credit, that person's musical talent is definitely a master.
Since then, the sense of resistance of the Andis mountain people has gradually become stronger, and some even prefer to take their whole family to die rather than become slaves.
As this became more and more common, Sean began to question whether what he had done was right or wrong, and that without this song, many of them might have become slaves, but after all, they were still alive.
Sean has always believed that being alive is more important than everything, that only by living can there be a second chance, and that when you die, there is nothing.
Although he is the one who has lived again, but the process is too inexplicable, he can't say how much luck there is in it, or if other people also have such a chance, the cost of verifying this kind of thing is too great, Sean has never had the idea of exploring, at least not in the past and now.
But this kind of thinking does not prevail among the Andes mountain people, and even Marshall, who has been taught by his words and deeds for more than ten years, does not fully agree with this view, which makes Sean feel very defeated.