Chapter 42: The Killing (1)
While everyone felt the tremors, the streets had already been swept away by the bounty hunters of the Astrolabe Guild.
Dust from the earth splashed up, turning the sky, which was already covered by haze, into a dim yellow.
The night watchmen of the Carlos family are surrounded by bounty hunters.
Panic began to appear on the faces of these chainmail-clad night watchmen, who were a little panicked for the first time in Salt Well Town when they encountered a scene where the enemy was more numerous than themselves.
And their young master showed a rare composure at this time.
Carlos had to face it calmly, he looked around at the huge crowd of bounty hunters with smirks on their faces, this was not a hunter at all, but a horse thief, and these people's eyes were full of greed when they saw people, which was not normal.
True bounty hunters only show such expressions to beasts and demons who can sell gold.
Daddy Rhodes, who also belongs to the astrolabe, is even more aware of this.
He knew that these people weren't just here to hunt for beasts.
Daddy Rhodes swallowed.
Oh my God, did Laurent bring this group of people over to plunder this town?
When the crowd was frightened by the sudden appearance of the terrifying hunters, and wanted to sneak away from the encirclement formed by the hunters of the Astrolabe Guild, the butcher's knife was raised above their heads, and then quickly fell without hesitation.
These murderous butcher knives are special scimitars commonly used in hunting, and there is a blood groove in the center of the slim blade, which can not only pierce the skin, but even completely penetrate into the bones.
When a few wanted to leave the onlookers, they were caught off guard and cut off their heads.
The town suddenly became dead and eerie.
Laurent proudly glanced around, looked at Carlos, and said jokingly: "As long as there is valuable prey, my hunter doesn't care about anyone's rules." ”
Carlos had a calm face, understanding that the other party must have made careful arrangements for Salt Well Town.
"What do you want?"
Laurent sneered, looked at the young man in front of him who didn't seem to be terrified by the blood, and said, "It's very simple, the Stevenson family get out of East Cyprus, and the fine forest city is not something that a down-and-out nobleman like your family can worry about." ”
Carlos nodded slightly, and sighed almost inaudibly, that's right, such a big battle is still for the big cake in Xilin City.
At this moment, some ghostly figures flickering forward in the alleys and rooftops, seeping into the houses of the town's streets from all around, and their tracks were unstoppable. These images end up on the roof of the tavern behind Carlos, or in the stables behind the tavern.
Carlos noticed all this, and a familiar figure gestured at him on the roof of the street opposite him, a hand he could understand.
It was the eldest brother De Ligt, and Carlos recognized the figure.
He quickly looked away, looked at the big man of the Cyprus Astrolabe Hunters' Guild in front of him, and said calmly, "Maybe you should ask my father about this matter, not me." ”
"Baron Mawrie's reputation for treachery is also a little heard of in the city of Cyprus, so controlling his beloved son will make the negotiations more effective. ”
Laurent kept his tone elegant, while Carlos tilted his head towards Charl and Daddy Rhodes in front of him.
"My friend Char was invited to join the Hunter Squad as part of the plan?"
Laurent smiled mysteriously, shook his head and said: "It's a step in the plan, it's just a plan, Rhodes has been in arrears for a while, and of course the guild needs to arrange someone to watch him." ”
As he finished speaking, the bearded trapper of the hunter squad suddenly laughed and walked out of the squad and came to Laurent.
"Pierre, you bastard!" Daddy Rhodes scolded, as if he were stunned.
The bearded man standing beside Laurent didn't even look at the captain of the hunter squad who he had shown great respect before.
Everything fell into place.
The situation also seems to have no choice.
Laurent was surprised to find that the young man in front of him still had no fear.
On the contrary, the groom behind him naturally slipped out of his cuffs with two assassination daggers, holding one in each hand, and waited quietly with bated breath.
Seeing this, the other Stevenson Night Watchmen also gathered around Carlos, their long knives, rope sheaths, and firearms all tightly held in the palms of their hands, ready to attack.
"Is this asking me to go on a killing spree?" Laurent looked at all of this coldly, and finally he waved his hand at the entire column of bounty hunters behind him, and said coldly.
Grant stared at the astrolabe guild bounty hunters who had pulled their weapons out of their bodies and were ready to go.
"Young master, you and a few of your friends will take shelter in the tavern for a while, the muzzle of those donkey grass is very crooked, and it always hits some unexpected places, and the old servant is afraid that he will not be able to prevent it. ”
Flint, an old man outside the tavern window, also said solemnly to his granddaughter Jeffrey, "Go and stay in the house." ”
"But I couldn't see anything in it. ”
"There's nothing to see about a dead man. Flint said. He stared at Carlos's place until he felt the figures around him who were constantly supporting.
"Who is that boy?" are you going to help him?" asked Jeffrey, the pretty woman.
"After the old man. ”
As soon as the words fell, a loud thud of fire was heard, and a round of killing of the Night Watcher by the Bounty Hunters of the Astrolabe Guild began.
Rows of fiery snakes erupted from the guns in the hands of the hunters in the front row, and the streets suddenly resounded.
The Night Watchman quickly fought back.
Grint sent Carlos and Sidis to the door of the tavern, and turned into a black shadow from the smoke-filled street, and soon the sharp dagger pierced the chest pain of a hunter who was about to be loaded in the front row, and refused to waste a moment of time to pull out the dagger, the dagger flashed with a flash of light and cut the man's chest pain, and turned to the side to hesitate at the sudden appearance of the killer Another hunter stabbed.
The bounty hunters of the Astrolabe Guild found that it was only after the first round of shooting that their movements became sluggish, and people kept jumping from the rooftops of the street into the middle of the crowded hunter line, and it was obviously impossible to fill the next round of ammunition.
Some of them discarded their firearms and pulled out their axes and scimitars behind their backs.
De Ligt leaped from the rooftop, sword in hand, into the most crowded part of the hunters.
This swordsman, who has experienced wandering in the wilderness, harvested the heads of people who were caught off guard one by one like chopping melons and vegetables in the hunters.
The Night Watchmen, all of whom had been dispatched from the Stevenson family, completed a counter-salvo from the rooftops that had been prepared for a long time, threw their hooks down the streets, locked them on the shoulders or backs of each bounty hunter, and pulled out the bloody holes with all their might.
The Guardian Night Watchman who stood in front of Carlos had been almost completely wiped out by the first round of attacks.
When Grant joins the fight, Carlos retreats to the bar door.
Laurent's servant, the blonde scarface man, locked onto Carlos's figure in the chaos, and he slashed down the Night Watchers with a few bounty hunters and rushed towards the tavern door.