Chapter X: Boundaries
"Those people have been here before. ”
Standing still, feeling the message from the chip in his mind, the thought crossed Adier's mind.
He stood in the ground and frowned consciously, instinctively feeling that something was wrong.
"My lord, what's wrong?" Behind Adier, several attendants followed, looking at Adil standing in place and frowning, a little puzzled.
"It's fine. Hearing the shouting behind him, Adil shook his head: "Let's go." ”
He led the people to the place where the horses had been tied before, mounted the horses first, and left in a certain direction under the guidance of the guide, ready to go to the next place to explore.
In this way, Adil carefully explored the area for several days, but found no anomalies in the rest of the area except for the place where he first started.
After a while, apparently because nothing "anomalous" had been found in the area, Adil was sent to the border to join the rest of the knight's apprentices.
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Months passed.
In a jungle in the wild, several people are carefully exploring inside.
They were dressed differently, and they were covered in a bloody smell of sweat and blood, and they all looked like outlaws, but the expressions on their faces were very nervous and even a little frightened.
They walked cautiously and quickly, trying to run ahead, as if they were dodging something.
Sou!
The sound of an arrow piercing through the air sounded, causing a subconscious trace of fear to appear in the eyes of these people.
The sharp arrow, with great power, quickly and accurately hit the throat of one of them, nailing it directly to a large tree behind him, and crimson blood flowed directly.
"Run!" a cry of fear rang out, as if they had seen something terrifying, and for a moment their faces showed an expression of great fear, and then they scattered in all directions, away from here as fast as they could.
In an instant, several more arrows flew from a distance, hitting the chests of several people with great precision and speed.
Ahead, the figure of a teenager appeared under a large tree, holding a bull horn bow about two meters long.
He looked very handsome, but at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he was dressed in black leather armor, and he walked quickly from the front like a polite aristocratic boy.
But looking at this young man, the people around him seemed to see a devil, and there was incomparable despair in their eyes, and even their bodies trembled a little.
"Can't run! He's only one man! Let's go together!"
Looking at the figure of Adil in front of him, among these people, a man who looked like a leader gritted his teeth and shouted loudly to the people around him.
The next moment, an arrow flew at a rapid pace, piercing his chest and making him speechless again.
"Damn it!"
Watching this scene, some people gritted their teeth and hid behind the surrounding trees, ready to gather to confront Adiel.
These people are real outlaws, so they naturally know what to do at this time, and at this time, a mouthful of blood surged into their chests, and they picked up the weapons on their bodies one after another, preparing to rush towards Adiel.
Of course, there are also those who still ignore it and rush outside.
However, this part of the population also died the fastest. In order to prevent these people from escaping, Adil directly picked up the bow in his hand, and one by one sharp arrows rushed towards those people with strong strength, shooting several people who tried to escape to the ground.
At this moment, the people in front of him also gathered, with weapons in their hands, and rushed towards Adil with a loud shout.
The bow in his hand was directly put down, and Adier's right hand instantly pulled out the cross sword at his waist and slashed forward.
A human head fell from the sky in an instant, leaving a headless corpse in its place, which fell towards the ground beside it.
A battle ended quickly.
With Adiel's physical fitness, which is now nearly three times that of ordinary people, these people in front of him can't see his movements clearly, and he easily solves it.
Pulling his sword from a corpse, the expression on Adier's face did not change in the slightest, and then quickly walked to the front.
Some of the people who had been shot by the arrow before were not dead, and now they were lying on the ground, their bodies instinctively twitching there. The worst of them was the original man, who was directly nailed to a big tree by him.
Adil stepped forward and directly ended the lives of these people with a sword, and then looked in a few directions in the distance.
In the previous chaos, several people still took advantage of the opportunity to run out and were not left behind by Adiel.
With Adiel's speed, it's easy to catch up.
However, he eventually gave up on this idea and stayed quietly in place, waiting for the people behind him to come and deal with it.
He stood there for a moment, and the sound of footsteps gradually sounded beside him.
"Lord Adil!" there was a call from behind him, and a middle-aged man in leather armor came over with a group of guards, and was shocked when he saw the corpses all over the ground.
"Let's clean up the corpses here. Adil didn't say much, and said with a calm face.
With the order, the surrounding group of guards began to clean up the bodies.
It is said to be a clean-up, but in fact, it is mainly to collect loot. The clothes and leather armor worn on these corpses, the weapons they held, and the money they looted along the way were all a large fortune, which was carefully collected by this group of people and gathered aside.
For this process, Adil just glanced at it and didn't pay much attention to it.
As was customary, most of the loot belonged to Adiel, but Adil was alone, and it was useless to ask for the blood-stained shredded leather armor and rudimentary weapons, so he took only the gold coins and other things that were easy to sell, and gave the rest to the guards.
The surrounding guards also knew this, so they worked hard to collect at this time, and from time to time peeled off the leather armor and clothes worn on some corpses, without disliking the blood stains on them.
After collecting the loot, only a corpse remained.
There is no need to clean these up, and after a few days, there will naturally be wild beasts that follow the smell of blood to find this place and digest these corpses.
After some time, Adil and the others returned to their resting place, where several other knight apprentices were sitting, as if discussing something.
"Adiel, have you caught up with the robbers from before?" a familiar voice sounded in Adiel's ears, making him stunned.
It was Diel, who was wearing a leather armor and holding a giant sword in his hand at this time, looking at Adil's figure and saying with concern.
Looking at him, Adil had a smile on his face, looked at him and said, "Diel, you're here too?"
Dill nodded, and said helplessly: "No way, there have been more and more robbers on the border in this area recently, and the battle situation on the front line has become more and more tense, so I have to send all of us here." ”
"That's right. Adil remembered the situation in this neighborhood during this time, and couldn't help nodding in agreement, and then asked with some confusion: "Was this mess around here before?"
"Not really. Dill said casually.
"This is the border between our kingdom of Arrieux and the kingdom of Bod, which was originally a chaotic place, where some wild tribes lived, and a large number of criminals and robbers who had fled to this vicinity over the years, and it was a difficult place to manage. However, although there was chaos here, it was still relatively stable, and there were nobles led by Count Boria armed here, although these people were outlaws, but they did not dare to mess around. ”
"But recently you also know that the battle on the front line has been stalemate, and the nobles have no manpower, so these people have begun to be restless, and they all want to go south to plunder. ”
Dill sighed, and then slowly explained to Adil on the side.
"Understandable. Seeing him like this, Adil sat down beside him with a gentle smile on his face, then drew his cross sword and wiped the blood from it with a clean cloth.
After a while, one of the guards suddenly walked up to Adil and asked him in a respectful tone, "Lord Adier, someone is looking for you outside. ”
Adil turned his head and looked into the distance before he said, "Let him come directly." ”
The guard behind him nodded respectfully and walked quickly to the side, and after a while, a middle-aged hunter walked up to Adil's side.
The hunter stood quietly in front of Adil with a heavy animal skin robe, a large cloth bag in his hand, and a respectful smile on his face.
In front of Adiel, he opened the large cloth bag in his hand, which contained some green snakes.
This is the green-eyed snake, and it looks like there are more than a dozen of them in the bag. To avoid snake venom, the heads of these green-eyed snakes have been cut off and packed separately in a separate pouch.
Looking at these green-eyed snakes, Adier's brow furrowed slightly.
These green-eyed snakes have not yet been washed, and there is a strange stench in them. And among the green snake blood that had dried up, there was also some red dried blood, which was quickly discovered by Adier.
This is very fatal, indicating that someone was bitten while catching these snakes, and the blood would splash on the snakes. With the poison of the green-eyed snake, as long as an ordinary person is bitten, it means death, and there is no luck at all.
And the lack of a labor force is almost devastating for the families behind these people.
Thinking of this, Adil sighed a little.
He couldn't change anything about this situation, and he didn't want to change anything.
Regardless of the initial purpose, since these people choose to take risks, they should be mentally prepared to face this possibility, and whatever the final outcome is, it is their own choice.
He took out a money bag that had been prepared from the side and threw it directly to the hunter opposite, and then without saying anything, he directly motioned for the other party to leave.
The middle-aged hunter still had that humble expression on his face, secretly estimated the weight in his hand, and suddenly felt happy in his heart, and hurriedly left respectfully.
After waiting for him to leave, it was a little more time before Adil began to stand up, picked up the cloth bag full of green-eyed snakes, and walked to the side.
He took the snake stones from the snake meat, and then had the snake meat washed and taken aside for disposal.