Chapter 42: The Secret Passage
The fire outside the house was getting closer, and it was clear that the robbers in the distance had surrounded the house. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ling Qi soon caught up with the Wood Elves and Antorell to catch up with the farmer's family, of course, not for revenge, but purely to find out what had happened.
The farmer's family staggered towards the entrance of the wine cellar, which made Ling Qi's heart move!
The old James couple couldn't get out of the clutches of Ling Qi in the end, and their speed could not be compared to that of powerful adventurers.
Just in front of the entrance of the wine cellar, Ling Qi suddenly stretched out his hand to hook the beam, borrowed the force, and jumped in front of them.
Turning around, stretching his bow, and taking arrows, a few actions were done in one go, and he directly blocked the way of the farmer's family.
Thump!
Old James was also bare-chested, and knelt directly on the ground and began to beg for mercy, muttering incoherently, not knowing what to say, probably not to kill me or something.
His reaction only made Ling Qi even more suspicious.
Without the slightest compassion, Ling Qi was silent, silently carrying out deterrence.
John Kid still wanted to resist, and with a low roar, he pounced on the seemingly weakest wood elf, only to be kicked to the ground by Leo.
didn't have time to ink with them, seeing that the shock was almost over, Ling Qi directly nailed an arrow in front of Old James, and the frightened old man trembled.
"What are the people out there! Why are they attacking this farm?"
There is also a reason for the robbers to act, and the Odile farm seems to be prosperous, but in fact there is not much oil and water at all.
Like those large bandit groups, it is completely possible to loot the caravans in the past, and those fat mutton oil and water are called rich.
Robbing farms, taking a few pigs, carrying several generations of rice back? Poor and crazy.
If you want people to speak, the best way is, of course, to know how to reason and move with emotion, the fastest way is nothing more than coercion and temptation.
Old James originally wanted to be perfunctory, and he didn't know it, but when he met Ling Qi's cold eyes, another arrow flew over his scalp, and he immediately changed his tone and screamed:
"Don't kill me, don't kill me! I say!
After a while, the rain of arrows outside the house gradually subsided, but the fire in a circle was getting closer and closer.
Peeking through the crack in the window, Nikolai's hand shook, and the dagger almost fell to the ground.
There were more than fifty robbers in two circles, and this was not counting the shadowy horses galloping in the distance!
Damn it!
Nikolai scolded!
In this world of 100 people, a thief group of this size, let alone robbing a small farm, if the opportunity is right, even if it rushes to the city and plunders the land, it may not have no chance at all!
He began to regret his Meng Lang, if he had known this and sneaked away, with the strength of the team, he might not be able to fight his way out of the encirclement.
Now, if you want to rely on a few stragglers to rush into battle head-on, you are simply looking for death.
"The front door doesn't work, what's going on in the back!"
Of course, there is only one door, but if you really can't help it, you can't drill the window.
Knock knock, the tiger man rushed back, this guy can't fight, he really doesn't run slowly.
"The back is also surrounded!"
His face was pale, his hands and feet were sore, and this bastard was about to sneak away, but he was scared back.
This is really a former wolf, and for a while, Nikolai regretted and blamed himself.
Just when Nikolai was at a loss, the figure of the wood elf suddenly appeared at the entrance of the corridor on the right side of the hall.
"Come over here!"
Leo shouted in a low voice, beckoned to the crowd, and turned to lead the way.
The tiger man didn't think about it, and just hurriedly followed. Then came the Moti siblings, and they didn't hesitate. Nikolai clearly pondered for a moment, and then caught up with Arnold. Finally, there was Jack, the old thief gritted his teeth, looked at the mess of arrows full of nails, and chased after him with a ruthless heart.
Before leaving, the old thief took out a handful of green thistle terrestris from his waist bag and sprinkled it on the ground indiscriminately.
On the other side, Ling Qi and the others had already entered the underground wine cellar, and sure enough, according to what Old James said, they found a lever-type handle behind a stacked wine barrel.
"Boom!"
Open the mechanism, and a secret door immediately appears next to the handle, and the wall slowly separates to the sides.
Outside, robbers numbering more than 100 people surrounded the largest house east of Aldi's farm.
The sound of slashing in the distance died down, and more and more torches were converging towards it.
At the head of the robbers was a bald man with a scar on his face, and he looked extremely ugly. I saw him with a gloomy face, his hand pressed the hilt of the knife, and a hideous smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
"Get on me!"
"Bang!"
The secret door of the underground cellar was slammed shut, and Moti, who had been forced to squeeze in, kept rubbing his arms. He was shirtless, and the specially made large armor was helplessly left outside.
Nikolai's face was full of rage, and the floor outside the cellar was covered in blood, several long streaks of blood that stretched straight until they disappeared into the depths of the hallway, clearly indicating some brutality.
Oil lamps were lit in the cellar and hung on the ceiling.
It's dim, but it's barely clear.
This is an underground space of nearly 100 square meters, with barrels of fruit and ale piled around, and the air is filled with a rich aroma of wine.
Perhaps because of the perennial closure, the walls and floors were covered with a layer of smudge, and there were still spots of mildew in the corners.
"Come over here!"
Ling Qi's calm voice came from the front, separated by a large pile of wine barrels. The sound echoed through the cellar, and it seemed a little hollow.
Leo had already taken the lead, and the second one to catch up was Nikolai.
The traveling scholar caught up with Leo in a few steps, and asked in an angry whisper:
"What about the James? What happened to the guys!"
Leo glanced at him coldly, snorted, and disdained to answer.
Nikolai was stunned for a moment, his face was pale, he clenched his fists, and did not say a word until Arnold came to his side, and then he indifferently caught up with the others.
The narrow tunnel had enough of Morty's sins, and the giant man was almost pushed all the way.
Fortunately, the tunnel is not long, probably less than a kilometer, and it is the end.
Pushing open a wooden hanging door, Ling Qi climbed out first, but he was already in a cornfield.
Due to the suddenness of the robbers, everyone left a lot of things behind this time, equipment, tools, food, medicine, horses, etc.
When the strongest Moti also squeezed out of the hole, Ling Qi looked back at the brightly lit Odile Farm and sighed helplessly.
He didn't dare to delay, and said directly: "Let's go, go to Kolore!"
The oil lamps in the cellar had been knocked over, the entrance had been simply sealed with nails and planks, and the mechanism had been dropped.
But after all, there are so many people that they must have left traces, so I don't know how long those arrangements can be delayed.
If it is against an ordinary thief group, there is no need to scruple at all, and Ling Qi does not mind being a hero once.
But with such a large-scale and well-trained gang of bandits, confronting it head-on is tantamount to seeking death. Two fists are hard to beat with four hands, and they are not blade guards who dominate local battlefields and basically ignore the difference in numbers.
What's more, there has already been an unexpected gain this time, and there is no need to fight the enemy again!
The group shuttled through the cornfield, and learned that Suosuo's movement was not small, but fortunately, the sound was louder in the distance, and it was late at night, which did not attract the attention of the bandits.
A quarter of an hour later, everyone stepped onto the official road as they wished, and looked back at Aldi Farm, where a few roars were faintly heard.
Hearing the roar of a beast's rage, Ling Qi touched his chest, a hint of inexplicable smile appeared on his face.
A group of nine people silently trotted in the direction of Koloel, and the wandering scholar lowered his head and looked lost.
At dawn, everyone came to a pass, with steep cliffs on both sides, and cliffs stretching from side to side, boundless, stretching for hundreds of miles.
It's like a piece of high ground, where a gap has been cut and the road goes up, taking at least a few more days to detour, passing through an entire primeval forest and a swamp where the legend says that the Hydra is entrenched.
Known as the "Throat of Hisser", this place is the most famous checkpoint east of Koloel, and it is also one of the important guarantees of the "Koloving" alliance known as Seredir.
It is said that after Sgramer led 500 Nord warriors to sweep through Skyrim Province, in order to consolidate the Nord royal power centered on Skyrim, he led his army all the way to the hinterland of the Tamriel continent - Seridir Province.
It was by virtue of the geographical advantage of the "Throat of Hissai" that Sgrammer repeatedly defeated the elven army from the "Platinum Tower" with an obviously inferior military force.
Although Sgramer still retreated back to Skyrim in the end, the battle of "Hissai's Throat" also significantly weakened the power of the elven regime. This is the rise of the "Slave Queen" Alyssa, who led the human counterattack, overthrew the enslavement of the "Platinum Tower", and successfully established the first human dynasty.
Now, a few epochs later, the "Throat of Hissai" has lost its legendary glory.
Xiao was like this, standing in front of this huge and deep canyon, Ling Qi still felt a pressure rushing over his face!
A road more than ten meters wide spreads through the valley, slowly ascending, and the length is several miles. Standing at the pass, there is only one line in the sky, and there is no end in sight.
The cliffs on both sides are at least about fifty meters, and it is impossible for ordinary people to climb them with their bare hands.
"Let's go!"
There was no hesitation, Ling Qi took the lead.
After the "Throat of Heatey", in half a day, it will be time to reach the city of Koloel.
As for the Abbey of Vernon, according to the news I learned from Nicholas the other day, it is just outside the city of Kolol to the southeast!