As the afterglow of the setting sun faded, a lonely small room rose from the eastern slope of the Merlin family's Silver Pine Hills.

"Come, lad, try this. ”

Saiban took the roasted corn handed over by the middle-aged uncle and tasted it, and immediately gave a thumbs up.

"Brother Bud, your craftsmanship is really good, I'll send these to my companions!"

"Haha, if you like it,"

The middle-aged uncle smiled and instructed, "Pay attention to safety on duty at night!"

"Okay, don't worry, Uncle Bud. ”

Saban replied cheerfully, holding the corn and heading for his companion's place.

Ever since the last time Alan had played a raid with the Golden Spike Castle, he was afraid that someone like him would start a war against the Merlin family without any aristocratic war etiquette and without warning.

Therefore, Alan set up mobile sentry posts in groups of six people in the family territory, and also recruited some hunters who lived in remote areas to try his best to monitor the situation in the territory.

Of course, some of these mobile posts are patrols to identify themselves, while others are mixed up as hunters' apprentices, militiamen, and other identities.

Whether it is a patrol or a dark whistle, these jobs are very calm, and they are extremely boring and boring for Saiban who has a heart to pursue the strong.

However, Saban still became a patrolman, because he received inside information that these people would be reused by the lord in the future, and the runes to improve their strength would be given priority to them.

Although Alan tried his best to block the news, the selection of candidates and the soldiers whose strength skyrocketed attracted everyone's attention, so the runes were not a big secret among some of the soldiers involved.

But in private, it doesn't spread too much, because the fewer people who know this kind of thing, the better, and the fewer people who compete in that way.

Arriving at his destination, Saiban took out a whistle from his bosom and blew it softly, and in a few moments several figures emerged from behind the mound.

"Saiban, why did you come, my stomach has been screaming for a long time!"

"Big Brother Bud has prepared something delicious for us today. ”

Saiban laughed twice and unwrapped the hot package on his body,

"Look, roasted corn!"

The eyes of the other sentries lit up, apparently having eaten Bud's roasted corn, and they did not hesitate to pick up the corn and start eating.

"It tastes awesome, sweet and crunchy, and Big Brother Bud must have smeared honey on it again. ”

"Otherwise it wouldn't be so fragrant, but it would be better with another glass of wine......"

Before he finished speaking, the team leader slapped the patrolman on the head, "You are not allowed to drink alcohol while on duty, this is a ban, don't you want to do it?"

"I know, Boss, I'm just talking about ......"

The squad leader didn't speak again, glaring at him fiercely.

Feeling that the atmosphere was a little serious, Saiban hurriedly changed the topic,

"Why didn't the three teams that are the most active on weekdays move today, don't they often come to talk about this shift change?"

"Maybe we changed places today so they couldn't find a place anymore. ”

"Heh, there's a jackal in the third team, and that nose is more nerin than a dog!"

As soon as these words fell, everyone suddenly fell silent, and their expressions were a little serious.

"No, Lord, Lord Locke said that when it gets dark, there are usually no enemies......

"But the Baron also said that accidents often happen when they are impossible!"

The squad leader nibbled two mouthfuls of corn and put it down, standing up with his sword,

"York sent the corn to the fourth, and the three of you will go to the third team with me!"

"Understood, Chief!"

Several people hurriedly took a few more bites, wiped their mouths, and followed the captain in the direction of the third squad.

The distance between the two sides was not too far, and they were anxiously hurrying, and they arrived at the edge of the forest guarded by the third team in ten minutes, but no one found it.

"What's the matter, they're lazy?"

The squad leader didn't reply, frowning and sniffing the air, the faint smell of blood made him feel that the people of the third squad were probably not lazy.

"Look around!"

At the captain's orders, the three men began to rummage through the surrounding grass, and soon one of the patrolmen found blood stains on the leaves.

"Chief, here!"

The team leader, Saiban and the others turned around together, just in time to see a pitch-black dagger poking out of the forest!

"Be careful!"

As soon as the sound of the reminder fell, the dagger slashed sharply across the sentry's neck, and blood gushed out from the smooth incision in an instant!

"Saiban, blow the whistle!"

The captain roared with red eyes, and the long sword stabbed into the shadow behind the throat-cut patrol, but it stabbed into the air.

The speed of the shadow was extremely fast, flashing by the captain's side, and a short sound of entering the flesh sounded, and the team leader's body suddenly stopped, and then fell to the ground!

Almost at the same time, the shadow struck Saban who put the whistle in his mouth!

Boom!

The other patrol also reacted, and rushed up to knock the shadow down, but the shadow reacted far beyond their imagination, and instantly dodged out of place, turned around and slashed the throat of the patrolman!

It was the moment this whistle was put in his mouth, and there was only one person left in the team, Saiban was left, and he instinctively quickly retreated backwards, and at the same time puffed up and blew the whistle in his mouth!

However, as soon as the whistle sounded, a pitch-black dagger suddenly flew out of the shadow's hand, piercing Saiban's forehead and falling to the ground!

After all this, the shadow collapsed to the ground, and the face under the metal mask frowned.

It was not so easy to kill four patrolmen in a very short period of time, and Iron Man not only overdrew all his strength, but also resisted the patrolman's sword, and blood was trickling from the wound in his abdomen.

"I didn't expect there to be a ten-person patrol team in such a remote place. ”

Tetsuo grumbled as he tended to his wounds.

He originally wanted the Merlin family to spy on some information, but he didn't expect to encounter a patrol team as soon as he set foot on this land.

Does this Baron Allen have a place to spend his gold coins? Or are these militias on duty?

Iron Man shook his head, if the militia of the Merlin family were of this quality, then Viscount Estan really wouldn't be able to take the Troubled Stone Valley.

"Forget it, this kind of thing is still a headache for him. ”

The identity of the iron man could not be revealed, so he decided to give up this probe and let the viscount keep himself busy.

Anyway, even if the task is not completed, it is not that he is in a disadvantage, it is that the Gemeng family is too incompetent.

However, Iron Man didn't know that not only did he not help at all, but he also surprised the snake, causing Etans to lose most of his previous arrangement.

Although Saiban's whistle was very weak, it was still noticed by the half-elf of the second squad, the fourth child in the mouth of Saiban and others.

He didn't let York go over to check, and didn't even think about it, he directly asked York to send the news to the old hunter Bud, and it didn't take long for the second and third teams to be killed in Fort Mussen.

Iron Man is very professional in handling corpses, and his techniques are very skillful, and he can be called a killer master.

But Horn is not a fool, if he can quietly dispose of the two teams, then the strength of the other party must not be underestimated.

After what happened before, Horn is now very cautious, and after the incident, the entire territory went into a state of alert and began to detect suspicious people.

However, the people who killed the two squads did not find them, but they turned out a lot of sneaky spies, and they were also some novice spies who were not very capable.

These guys have no resistance at all, and the torture instruments in the dungeon are all recruited as soon as they are halfway through, and they are sold cleanly.

Horn's head was already flexible, and after seeing the few things that Allen did, the bottom line of the nobles also dropped a few points, and he set a trap for the leader of the novice scouts, and he was in a nest all of a sudden.

The spy leader's mouth was tight, and he was almost full of needles in his fingernails before he sold the Gemon family clean.

Horn looked at the report in his hand and frowned, the distance between Merlin and the Gemeng family is not close, and there has never been any grudges, why did he suddenly send so many spies?

And this style of doing things is obviously inconsistent with the reputation of the traditional nobility that has been spread by the Viscounts.

Later, Horn sent someone to investigate, and only then did he learn that Viscount Luo Lie of the Gemon family had died of illness a month earlier, and the entire viscount had just come out of the chaotic state of strife, and the successor to the title was Luo Lie's second son, Estan.

This made Horn's mind full of doubts, Raleigh's sixth-level strength, what disease could make him die violently?

At the same time, since the Gemeng family has just experienced the consumption of infighting, how can they still have the energy to plant spies in the Merlin family?

Unless, this Estan had planned to deal with the Merlin family from the beginning......

These two things felt like cause and effect, but Horn couldn't figure it out.

Rubbing his temples, now that Alan is not here, these things need to be dealt with by him, and he really has a headache.

The key is that there are not enough troops in the family now, and he has no way to hold the Gemeng family accountable, so he can only take precautions and wait for Alan to come back.

He had a headache in Fort Mussen, and Estan of the Gemon family was not feeling well, and he was sitting at the desk in his study, looking at the report handed in by the butler with a gloomy face.

Boom!

Estan picked up the teacup and slammed it on the ground, and the newly appointed butler shivered in fright.

He craned his neck and waited for the viscount's ensuing fury, only to find that there was no sound in his ears.

The butler opened his eyes and saw that Estan was back in his chair, but his face had not yet eased.

"Do you know why the Merlin family suddenly started searching for spies?" asked Estan in a deep voice, after a moment.

"According to the report, it was because two of their squads had gone hunting in the forest and lost their tracks, and Lord Horn of Fort Musen, suspecting that he had been murdered by robbers, began to investigate the territory thoroughly. ”

"These filthy pigs!"

A fierce look flashed in Estan eyes, and the hatred in his heart, which he had already hated for robbers, was even stronger in his heart.

It took him a month to put these spies in, and just as they were about to start working, they were all suddenly removed!

Now I just don't know if those guys have confessed to the Gemeng family, and Estan estimates that it should be more than lucky.

Since the grass has been startled, it is better to strike while the iron is hot!

"Order Bot to sort out the army, bandits in the territory have been rampant recently, and they need to be dealt with quickly. ”