Chapter 182: Hostages
What I fear is that my whole people will die compared to death—the wise
"Corpse, or strange corpse, where is it?" Luo Muye was stunned for a moment, and turned back to the visitor with some confusion and asked,
"Yes, my lord, just now there was a brother who was in a bit of a hurry, when he went to find the bathroom, he was surprised to find that the originally empty bathroom was locked from the inside, and he couldn't care about anything else in a hurry, so he forcibly kicked the door open, and then found that there was a miserable death in the bathroom, a strange corpse of a strange death, after receiving his warning, Frye ran over to confirm that it was the underground clan you mentioned before..."
"It's him, okay, lead the way, take me to see" Luo Muye snatched what Bartlet said,
"Yes" Bartlet had no choice but to answer, and hurriedly took Luo Muye to the bathroom that had been locked before, Luo Muye only confirmed at a glance that the corpse of the underground clan that fell to the ground was the underground clan guard that he had let go of because of his temporary soft-heartedness.
Different from the state that I had seen him before, the underground clan guard at this time, the body showed a strange twist, arms and legs staggered and circled, head down, in appearance, as if he was folding his body, and mechanically speaking, his movements could squeeze the body as much as possible, perhaps because of the racial characteristics, after the death of this underground clan skin has shown a cracked state, no moisture body, folded like a sore canyon, and like an unknown devil with external force to squeeze out every water in his body, the death is difficult to describe, the most puzzling thing is that even if he commits suicide, the guard of this underground clan is obviously not peaceful, The pain on his face shows that he suffered a great deal of torture before he died, but the remaining rags in his mouth seem to have all this chosen by himself, and the internal locks ruled him out from the first time to kill and seek death - it has to make people wonder why this guard locked himself in a confined environment and ended himself in such an extremely painful way,
"There was not a drop of blood on his body. Luo Muye shook his head,
"Not exactly, at least the door was locked, and he must have bitten the chains with his teeth to hold them in place," Bartlet said, pointing to the clear blood stains and pitted bite marks on the bolt behind the door.
"Damn, I still don't understand why he did this, I've already let him go, he could have lived and waited for everything to live again, why did he commit suicide, even if he wanted to commit suicide at that time, wouldn't it be better to resist stubbornly?
"Maybe he really wanted to save his life, steal his life, and live quietly after that, but then he should have thought of something, and it can be seen that he should have hesitated, but in the end he made a choice, otherwise the soldiers we passed by before would not have noticed that there was one less person here. As a witness along the way, Frye cautiously expressed his opinion,
"Then what was it that made him hesitate and then make a choice?" Luo Muye rubbed his chin for a while, still without a clue,
"Maybe I know, this is a little similar to an ancient dark ritual I once heard, as far as I know, that ritual requires the sacrificer to give his whole body blood in great pain, and the bad thing is that even if the sacrificer dies, the soul will not be redeemed after death, and there will be no possibility of rebirth, but as an exchange for the ritual, the sacrifice can specify the color or temperature of a thing, of course, this must be determined in advance, so as to play a warning effect, regardless of space, regardless of time... But this ritual is too harsh and painful, and I haven't heard about this ritual for a long time, and it's hard to say whether there is even one on the mainland. Hemo whispered on the side, instantly attracting everyone's attention,
"How painful?" Arryn raised his head and shook his head, as if laughing at himself,
"Life is better than death," Hemo bit his lip and said with certainty,
"Maybe we've already found the answer. Luo Muye pointed to the twisted corpse underground,
"What is it that deserves to be so guarded, to die in such a painful way, and to complete the ritual," Bartlet shrugged and muttered,
"Maybe this is his mission, and he may have a crucial message to deliver," Luo Muye said softly,
"Ah?" all the people were dumbfounded when they heard this.
"Think about it, why didn't we catch Niais, we have moved very quickly, even the captives are surprised enough, how did Niais know that we were coming? Niais mysteriously disappeared a few minutes before the raid, why did there happen to be a secret passage in the bathroom, why can I find this?"
"Well, now that the matter is clear, we should have no choice, let's leave quickly, Niaisis won't be unaware of our existence after the raid meeting, I think we will soon face encirclement. Erin glanced out and said hurriedly, everyone nodded in agreement, and then rushed out, they all knew that they must get out of the war zone as soon as possible, otherwise there will be big trouble.
"Wait a minute" Hemo braked suddenly, turned and ran back to crouch down, and pulled out a small piece of paper from under the underground guard, this small piece of paper was only a word of conversation, but it was enough to silence people - compared to the sacrifice of one person......I was afraid of the disappearance of my entire race,
"There is no shortage of warriors in any race, and we ..... the same. Erin seemed to see through Hemmer's thoughts, walked over and patted Hemo on the shoulder, smiled and explained, motioning for him to follow quickly.
Although it seems that a lot of time has been wasted on a corpse, it is not, and this discussion is not meaningless, after knowing that Neais has a special warning method in his hand, then the next possible operation against Neais will be more meticulous in planning, because the location itself is secret enough, and Niais did not escape from the tower as smoothly as they imagined, so Luo Muye and his party were frightened but easily escaped from the entrance, and the pedestrians on the street looked at the sudden increase in the barrier clan and humans, where could they not understand what was happening, and then think of the riot coming from the nearby tower, screaming and fleeing in all directions,
"Let's go, we don't have much time. Frye elbowed one of his fellow elves, motioning for him to follow the group.
"Captain Fry, can we really escape?" The expression of this elven clan seemed a little hesitant, more precisely, not confident,
"Hey, aren't we just running away? What if we don't escape? If we are caught by the enemy, what do you think will happen to us, roasted or fried, if it is fried, I would rather choose to boil. ”
"Captain, is it time to discuss eating?" the elf yelled at Frye with some annoyance after being teased,
"Ha, you also know it, then don't run quickly, give me what to yell here, how do you know if you don't try, besides, we are not without cards to play, I told you that our raid meeting is not a little gain, caught a number of big shots, believe me, the enemy does not dare to be so presumptuous, you must know that if we are in a hurry, we will kill all those captives, who hasn't ordered a killer weapon?"
"Well, hopefully we can actually go home. "Anyway, the elven archer straightened his clothes to make himself more decent.
Luo Muye They escaped very smoothly, but this smooth time was not long, in the north corner of the city that was originally scheduled to retreat, they unexpectedly encountered two city defense troops carrying heavy equipment, although the terrain could not be expanded, the two city defense troops were not able to successfully use heavy weapons, but with the huge size of heavy weapons, they successfully blocked Luo Muye's escape speed, and forcibly detained Luo Muye with their own lives for 1 prayer hour, which was this critical prayer time, so that Luo Muye They were successfully intercepted by the later underground clan troops near the magic tower only one block away from the north city gate,
"Damn, Lord Gru, there's an Underground outpost around the corner 200 yards ahead, an unknown number but a banshee. Bartlet hurriedly ran back and reported to Luo Muye in the middle of the formation,
"Then go around it!" Luo Muye, who was also in a bad mood, roared, God knows how he was so lucky to bump into two city defense troops carrying heavy equipment, but the leaders of these two city defense forces were both die-hard fans of the Restoration Society, and there was no possibility of compromise at all, so they simply fought all the two teams and forcibly blocked Luo Muye for a long time, although the enemy's team did not cause much damage at all, but this behavior still made Luo Muye very annoyed, and his tone was a little unpleasant,
"If you can't get around, the left side is a dead end, and if you can't go too far on the right, you will turn back and have a great chance of encountering new enemies. Bartlet shook his head and said,
"It's a hat-trick, I'll take a few people to get them away, you hide in the alley on the left, and when we get out of the way, you slip over at once, and we'll be there. Luo Muye only lowered his head and thought for a few seconds before coming up with a plan, I have to say that Luo Muye's improvisation ability is really good, the success of the implementation of the plan, when the search of the underground sentry, found the looming green cloak, and vaguely heard the unique elven language over there, immediately thought that they had encountered their target, called friends and friends to call others to chase in the direction of the right, this chase rushed to the right channel, and the large army dormant on the left side saw the time and slipped over, ten minutes Luo Muye panted and ran back with a few people to catch up with the previous team,
"Quick, find someone to replace, let the centaurs carry them forward, so that we can't run out of their encirclement at all, we will definitely be blocked at the mouth of the city wall, we must keep and use those hostages, use their influence to help us get out of the city, and these guys are just a burden, not only need to be taken care of, but also often cause trouble for us, and a few times almost let them slip away from the chaos. After saying a few words from Luo Muye, he stepped forward and kicked the minotaur Edgar, who was still struggling back and forth, and gained a resentful look, and he didn't care.
"Okay, what do you say, my lord?" asked Bartlet, leaning over.
"I have a plan, come, you look here, there is a house here, next to an alley, if you open the house you can reach the alley, and after passing through the alley, you can open a house, there are less than 50 yards left from the north gate, such a short distance If we can launch a wave of strong enough raids, then we will definitely be able to break through the enemy's defense line and escape from the city, as for the rest after leaving the city, what is left is personal ability, run as fast as you can, rush over, of course, there is a premise that we can't let the enemy guess our intentions, we must bind them to a certain area for a period of time, give them an illusionWe don't want to run away and plan to negotiate terms, and this needs to make good use of the effect of these captives in our hands. Luo Muye squatted on the ground and pointed to a few points on the map,
"My lord, I have nothing to object to in your plan as a whole, but I still have a personal problem, we have inspected these houses before, they are all stone houses, and it is really not easy for our current equipment to penetrate the stone houses, and it is true that if the construction movement is too large, the enemy will definitely find out and attack from both sides when the time comes, but the location will be completely lost. A dwarven captain pointed to the dwellings on the map.
"Then you go and figure out a way, how to carve out a road without making a loud noise, now I have a way to live, and I don't think those stone houses are difficult to penetrate, to give you one, personal advice, there is no need to be too obsessed with chiseling, you can start from the connection, with a whole collapse to dig the road, can not penetrate the wall, but we can choose to tear down the whole wall, of course, here also need to make some deceptive actions, we have to make the enemy feel that we are cornered before we plan to exchange hostages for our peace。 Luo Muye tapped the dots on the map with his fingers and ordered.
The captains nodded in understanding and turned to leave, the surrounding houses began to be renovated as much as they could, Luo Muye of course was not idle, he pushed out the few important prisoners and placed them very close to the front line, guarded by a special person, and he pushed the Edgar Minotaur to walk a few steps into the open area, so that the opposite side could see, and quietly thought about how to carry out the next escape.
A few minutes later, the garrison of the underground central city arrived, although there were not many of them, they still howled and rushed up, in a vain attempt to save the hostages, the miscalculation of strength, so that they were easily eliminated by Luo Muye, because the second underground army came quickly, the former rout after the return of the rhetoric, directly exposed Luo Muye's small number of disadvantages, and the subsequent several patrols realized the position of the Dao barrier army, on the one hand, secretly mobilized troops to surround and exert pressure to prepare to annihilate this presumptuous barrier army, on the other hand, they made a benevolent and righteous posture that they could negotiate peacefully, and constantly sent people to shout inside in lame elven language, trying to confuse Luo Muye and them.
"What? You say they're trapped? Okay, tell our people, hold them steady and I'll be there shortly. Niais, who was in the chamber, had slipped out a few minutes earlier, and looking at Nigel's body under the white cloth, he put on a very sad gesture, waved his hand lightly, and then said angrily to the messenger who came to him.
When it was learned that Niais was going to come in person, the city defense army immediately gave up the idea of offensive performance, but instead did their best to mobilize troops to surround Luo Muye and his party, in case there was a mistake, each squad leader secretly restrained his subordinates to tidy up their clothes, planning to wait for Neais's order to behave well, since the underground clan withdrew the preparations for the attack and shrunk the troops back, Luo Muye knew that things had taken a turn for the better, and he could see it clearly but not break it, and his heart was full of joy, he understood that they had more time to create a way to escape, but also for the purpose of confusing the enemy, he was still very
"Anxious" walked to the outermost battlefield and shouted: "Hey, the underground warriors on the other side, although we are our own masters, but life is precious, after our mission failed, our greatest wish now is to be able to live, so we don't mind surrendering very much, now I don't know if we can give a word, if you can guarantee our lives, we can also guarantee the safety of the hostages." ”
"Hmph, you can do it, there are no bad seeds in the underground clan. There was a very angry voice from the other side, responding angrily to Luo Muye, but before the words fell, someone came out to slap his face, Luo Muye took off the cloth in Delik's mouth helplessly and looked at him with a regretful face: "It seems that they don't care about you." Dai Rik didn't look at Luo Muye, but when he heard the words of the underground clan opposite, his expression was a little gloomy, and he poked his head out and shouted anxiously: "Hey, I'm Dai Rik in the alliance, you can't do this, you must launch a rescue operation against us, otherwise none of you can bear the consequences." The voice on the other side was unceremonious, and the commander of the underground clan was stunned and turned his head to his own soldiers and asked, "I know they have hostages, but who is Derrick?"
"Well, if I'm not mistaken, it seems that the young man who delivered us supplies is the uncle?" the herald thought for a moment and said with some uncertainty,
"Oh, logistics, well, this hostage is a bit of a hassle, hey, I don't want to take this task anymore, so you say I'm off work, I....grass"
"Hey, our commander said he was off work....oops" The herald screamed and was kicked down by the disgusted commander and closed his mouth,
"Okay, that's just a joke, the Barrier Clan on the other side, I know you have the character of Derrick, but this person's identity is not enough, please report the identities of the other hostages, and we can make a choice." The commander shrugged his shoulders at Luo Muye and said indifferently,
"The Restoration Society Julies, the Liberation Society Edgar, the Alliance Dulu, and Luo Muye reported three names. Hearing these three names, the underground clan was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily
"Damn, you killed Nigel, and you raided the meeting!"
"Well, yes, it's a pity that Nehes ran away, otherwise this war would have ended, and now the big guy of the Restoration Society is also inside, and the hostages are enough. Luo Muye pushed Edgar out and hid behind his broad body, and raised his head outside.
"Hmph, Lord Hiss is not something you can kill, well, I admit that the hostages in your hands are weighty enough, but they are too weighty, so big that I can't call the shots, but I can guarantee that after Lord Hiss arrives, according to your character and importance to promises, I personally think that you will have a great chance of survival, and here I swear by my honor. The Underground Clan Commander said solemnly, it seemed that the Underground Clan Commander's promise had some weight, and the Barrier Clan on the opposite side fell into a brief silence for a while, and then a crisp voice sounded.
"Okay, wait for your Lord Hiss to come over, but we also have a request, you must not attack during this period, we are tired of running, let us slow down, correspondingly, we promise not to touch a single hair of the hostages. After the negotiation between the two sides was completed, there was tacit silence.
"Hey, damn it, you promised not to move us a single hair. Edgar turned his head and breathed heavily, showing a sense of detached anger,
"Yes, isn't this leg hair? It's really not hair, don't worry" Luo Muye held a very hard hair and floated in front of Edgar's eyes,
"You....hmm" Before Edgar's words could be spoken, Luo Muye took out the rag again, stuffed it back accurately, and said with some unhappiness,
"Blame me, who told you that your leg hair is so long, I didn't say that I hurt to death when you pierced it. As he spoke, he lowered his body quite innocently and pulled out a few more,
Edgar's face changed, and his comrades around him let out bursts of low laughter, and the tense atmosphere was suddenly eased a lot.
Half a prayer hour later, when there was a huge commotion not far away, Luo Muye knew that the main thing had appeared, and many nearby warriors widened their eyes, wanting to witness what this enemy who had brought them all kinds of trouble looked like, but Luo Muye gently pressed down on his hand, and several phantom archers with the most superb archery skills moved forward silently and touched the quiver,
"Why didn't I want to kill you when you wanted to get rid of me by decapitation?" Mr. Gru. A row of heavily armored underground warriors covered a humanoid creature that was also covered in armor in the middle, and the humanoid creature shouted, his steps were firm and seemed not to be worried that Luo Muye would launch a surprise attack, Luo Muye glanced at it and found that he could not identify Niaisis through the armor at all, and hid behind him with some dissatisfaction and shouted
"Hey, you're dressed like a dumpling, it's really insincere. Luo Muye poked out his head and glanced at it, and found that the opposite formation had not changed, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed
"If you can remove the archers on either side and throw away the gadgets in your hands, I think I'll consider a little more sincerity. Niais smiled and unceremoniously broke it, standing in place with no intention of taking a step closer, Luo Muye secretly took a breath, he didn't expect Niais's observation to be so keen and fully aware of his purpose, he could only laugh embarrassedly, waved his hand to remove the preparation for the sneak attack, and poked his head out again,
"You know what? I have something to tell you, and I hope you won't regret it too much. Nihes smiled meaningfully and gently opened the mask.