Chapter 81: The Fruits of Waiting for the Rabbit
In the southern part of the Opdoth Empire and the northern Mistrekares Forest, there is a road through the Empire, it is called the Jörmungard Corridor, it starts from the city of Goulds in the west to the city of Palamos in the east, this corridor not only communicates the two major cities in the east and west of the Opdoth Empire, but also transports the specialties produced only in the Death Swamp and Isenheim to all parts of the continent of Montimos, in peacetime, it is a road of wealth in the eyes of merchants, and in times of war, it will become an important transportation artery, It is effective in dealing with wars in both the east and the west, and it hovers like a serpent in the southern part of the Opdoth Empire. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Jörmungad promenade is divided into six parts, with 12 heavily fortified cities, of which each two cities are responsible for a part, which can not only effectively control the entire promenade, but also drive the development of cities along this promenade.
At this moment, the distance traveled by Kraser's group was a short section between the cities of Palo Alto and Tuscaloosa, and because of the dense forests between the two cities, they had to follow the main road all the way. In fact, they are not the only ones who move forward in a regular manner, except for a few super strong mercenary teams or chambers of commerce who dare to shuttle through the dense forest, everyone else has to honestly walk on the same road.
At the same time that Captain Leon announced that he would rest in place, at the front of the road, there was a caravan that departed first, hurrying even when night fell.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up! Cheer me up, as long as we get to Tuscaloosa before dawn, your mission will be done, and everyone will be able to eat and drink spicy food when the time comes. The shout was a bloated young man in his mid-thirty-five and sixties, dressed in expensive and gorgeous clothes, who sat in the carriage and made a promise loudly to the mercenaries gathered around him.
As soon as they heard this, the mercenaries gathered around the carriage suddenly came to their senses, and the complaints that had just sprung up suddenly disappeared, and they were like chickens beating them one by one, beating the horses under their seats vigorously, and quickly moving along the main road.
"Isn't it noticeable that we're so fast!" In the middle of the carriage sat a young man of about the same age, also dressed in splendid clothes, who was now looking timidly at the forest, which had completely fallen into the night, as if he were afraid that someone would rush out of it.
"It's just to attract attention, I want to focus the eyes of the people hiding around me, otherwise why do you think I want to invite so many mercenaries, including those two great swordsmen who want to pay sky-high prices, Lone Wolf Parker, and Pelli, the son of the Magister Wind, there are two of them who believe that we should be safe, not to mention how many mercenaries at the level of senior war masters, believe me, my friend will be safe." As long as this thing is done, I believe that my father will definitely be impressed with me, and I am not the waste he said. The bloated young man who took the lead in making a promise threw the wine glass in his hand and scolded angrily outside the car.
It's just that things will really go as smoothly as he expected, of course, the answer is no, because now he doesn't know that there are already people in front of him, and the pursuers of the elves behind him have also caught up, and there are many people and horses hidden in the shadows are also coming in his direction, everything is changing in an instant.
But on such a simple night, some people spent it in deep sleep, some people spent it in trepidation, and some people spent it in impatient waiting.
After a whole day and a night of waiting, after inspecting more than a dozen passing caravans, large and small, the six people hiding in the woods to block the road gradually lost their patience.
"What about the captain, do you have to wait? Will this trick work or not? We've been waiting for a day and a night, why haven't we met yet, we have to accompany the smiling face, just call it! The burly man waved his thick arm anxiously, and knocked on the trunk of the tree beside him with a muffled thumping sound, and saw that the trunk of the tree he had beaten suddenly cracked a large gap, and the whole trunk was almost broken in two.
"You give me a little honesty, it's just you who have a lot to do! How others don't complain! It's just that before the strong man with the two giant swords on his back could hear the four people who were honestly waiting on the side also shouting.
"Boss, Daniel is right, let's rush up and search directly, we have to smile every time, and in the end, we still have to solve it with fists."
"That's it, if I knew that it was the result, I wouldn't have searched it directly, why did I spend so much time!"
"Boss, everyone has run away like this, so you're polite, you can just block the way, anyway, no one here can beat us."
"Shut up for me, we are mercenaries, the dignified Golden Lion Mercenary Group, the second elite combat team has been reduced to the point of blocking the road and robbing like robbers, if this is spread, it will have to make those guys laugh and lose their big teeth, I am ashamed if you are not ashamed!" After scolding loudly, the strong man with the double sword on his back smiled as if he suddenly remembered something interesting, and looked at the five young men who had lost patience standing next to him. "Be honest with me, tell me that you have enough energy for me, the mercenary group ranking battle will start in two months, if any of you can't get into the ranking list, hehe, you just wait for the greetings of the group leader!"
"Boss, what's going on with that ranking battle you're talking about?" After hearing the strong man's almost threatening words, the five restless young men looked at each other for a moment, and only then did the mercenary named Daniel ask the doubts in the hearts of several people.
"That's a long story! This mercenary bar was not called a mercenary before, it was called a bounty hunter, I don't know since when, more and more bounty hunters feel that they can complete the task more efficiently when they are united, so there are so many like-minded bounty hunters united, this is the earliest mercenary group. ”
"It's just that where there are people, there is competition, some people are strong so the asking price is high, some people are weak so the asking price is low, this comes and goes, there is a disagreement, at this time, some people propose to divide the mercenary group into different levels of evaluation, so that the commission charged by the mercenary group with a high level is naturally high, but people always compare with each other, and sometimes the strength of two mercenary groups of the same level is also high and low, so some people continue to put forward the term "100 regiments for hegemony."
"Each mercenary group selects a minimum of two or three people to a maximum of thirty people to participate in the competition, the competition is divided into two modes, individual battle and team battle, the mercenary group recommends the contestants to participate in the ranking competition, win to participate in the next game, lose and eliminate, whether it is an individual battle or a team battle. Therefore, which mercenary group participants rank high, you can raise the ranking of the mercenary group, and everyone agrees with this level competition mechanism, after all, the higher the ranking, the more a symbol of strength, and now the ranking is a kind of honor and a symbol of status, for this kind of healthy competition, the head of each mercenary group is also obvious to all, so everyone also acquiesced to this ranking method. ”
"Alas! It has been ten years since the last time I participated in the Hundred Regiments Battle, by the way, the Hundred Regiments Battle, which is held every ten years, is also known as the title battle, which is the easiest way for you to obtain the title, as long as you can stand out in the competition, you can get the title, as long as you get the title, presumably the day when you become famous in the continent will not be too far away, this is a good opportunity for you to become famous! And in the last battle for the hegemony of the hundred regiments, because of a little mistake, our captain was very unwilling to lose to the old opponent, and only won the last place in the legendary mercenary group, and I think the strength of the regiment commander and our captains has not changed by leaps and bounds, this time, therefore, I estimate that this competition is mainly carried out among you newcomers, and now you should be able to imagine how important it is! ”
"Boys, after this is over, your good days will come to an end, and the head of the regiment will train you personally, ahaha!" The strong man with two giant swords on his back said as he looked at the five young men beside him with a wicked smile.
After the latter listened to the strong man's narration and the clear schadenfreude expression on his face, the five of them couldn't help but shiver, as if there was a sudden chill in the sultry weather. Just when several people were still immersed in this shocking news, suddenly the young man who stood on the tree and had been observing the situation on the road shouted with two daggers at his waist.
"Boss, there's another caravan on the road, it seems that it can't be wrong, you see that Xiangzi who is in a hurry looks like someone is chasing them behind."
"Looks like there's no mistake! Cheer me up and look carefully, as long as this mission is completed, I will tell you a method that does not need to be practiced by the captain. After hearing that someone was coming, the strong man with two swords on his back poked out through the gap in the branches, and with a hint of joy on his face, he turned back and made a promise to the five young men beside him.
Sitting in the carriage, the young man with a gloomy face and a bloated figure, leaned on the window of the car, looking at the vaguely visible Tuscaloosa city in the distance, and his heart hanging in mid-air gradually relaxed, and he could enter the city in half a day, as long as he entered the city of Tuscaloosa, he could breathe a sigh of relief temporarily. As he thought so, he looked somewhere behind the convoy from time to time, but at that moment he heard several angry cries in front of him, followed by the sound of ping-pong weapons striking together, mixed with angry shouts and wails from time to time.
Hearing this sudden sound, he suddenly screamed in his heart, and turned his head to look in the direction where the sound came from.
"Huh! Why is this brute cow, it's terrible now, the worst thing to talk about is him, it's really unlucky to drink cold water and stuff my teeth, it seems that I have to come forward. The bloated young man muttered to himself as he told the coachman to stop.
He moved his bloated body and stepped out of the carriage towards the mercenaries, who were already in a mess. "Ahem, ahem! Stop! Stop me, choke me! I knew you brute bull could only talk with your fists! Mr. Parker, Wizard Pelly let me come! I know the man in front. ”
The bloated young man coughed violently while fanning his hands in front of him, trying to disperse the dust splashed by the fight, and the two who were fighting fiercely with the strong man holding two giant swords immediately withdrew their hands and jumped out of the battle, looking at the middle-aged man who was choking on the flying dust and coughing with a little doubt.
"The famous second combat squad leader of the Golden Lion Mercenary Regiment, the madman Johnson, don't you know him?" The bloated young man looked at the two of them and said with difficulty.
"Yo he! Who do I think it is? It turned out to be the eldest son of the Henry family! You don't honestly enjoy your blessings in the imperial capital, why did you come to such a remote place? ”
"Stop! Stop it! Come and see, such a scene is not common, and the eldest young master of the Henry family, who is said to be tired of walking, actually appeared in this poor and remote place, which is really eye-opening for me. Seeing the bloated young man approaching, the strong man with the double sword actually pounced and laughed, and he stretched out his hand and smiled while signaling the five young men who had already beaten the forward mercenaries to stop.
"Boss, who is this fat man? Do you know? Then we can't check it yet? The dwarf with the pointed hammer on his back was the first to run over and asked curiously.
"Say it and scare you to death, their Henry family is known as the richest family except for the royal family, compared to his family, the so-called rich people you know are all poor ghosts, do you remember who he is?"
"Huh? It doesn't feel like it, does it? Then I'll tell you another piece of news, wasn't there a drought that swept through most of the empire a few years ago! It is said that during that time, the treasury of the empire was somewhat unable to turn, so in the end, it was the money that His Majesty the Emperor borrowed from their family to temporarily get through that difficulty. You said that the fat man in front of him didn't have no money? After carrying the two giant swords behind his back, the strong man known as the madman Dawn introduced the bloated young man in front of him to the five young people. Moreover, our Golden Lion Mercenary Group has contracted nearly forty percent of their family's escort tasks, and he is a big customer of our mercenary group! ”
"Shhhh Hiss... Hiss! Listening to the words of the madman Daoen, the five young people suddenly heard a sound of inhalation, obviously they couldn't believe that this fat man in front of them, who was not good-looking, could actually be the eldest son of the famous Henry family.
"Oh my god! I can't see that this fat man is so rich when he comes back, boss, if we tie him up, will we get rich? Daniel, a two-meter-tall strong man, seemed to be honestly suggesting, while his eyes kept sweeping around the fat man opposite.
As soon as they heard this, they were only surprised by the other four people who were the identity of this person in front of them, and their eyes suddenly shot a terrifying light, and ten sharp gazes were instantly nailed to the bloated young man opposite, and it seemed that as long as the madman Dawn gave an order, they would immediately rush up and take down this humanoid vault.