Chapter 38: On the Road
Early in the morning of the third day, it was time for the caravan to depart. After breakfast, a few people came to the meeting place agreed by the convoy.
This time, the team was much larger than the last time, adding up to nearly twenty large carriages. In addition to the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce, there are a few merchants who accompany the team, and there are actually a few more mercenary professionals.
In addition to a man with a hood covering his head and a small child by his side, it was very unfortunate that the three bullies-like mercenaries he had seen on the street before were also among them.
Seeing that as soon as those people got in the car, they began to talk loudly and laugh loudly, Du Yuhan frowned, but it is better to go out more than less, he turned his head to look at the scenery outside and endured it.
Just because he can endure it doesn't mean that others can endure it.
"Made, it's noisy! How do you sleep? Heywood gave the other a hard look.
Hearing this, Du Yuhan couldn't help but support his forehead.
Emma! Young master, can you stop causing trouble for me?!
"Huh? What do you say, boy? The big man with stubble stared at Heywood with an unkind gaze.
"Yo, Dashan, other people's children think you're noisy." The young man glanced at the big man with a flirtatious expression.
"That is, a savage is a savage, and there is nothing left but brute force." The thin man next to him also laughed stupidly.
Laughed at by his companions, the man named Dashan was annoyed, and he reached out to grab Heywood's collar, but was quickly dodged by the other party.
Seeing this, the two people behind him laughed even louder, "Dashan, it's really an overestimation of you to say that you have brute strength, and you didn't even catch a little mouse." ”
"You bastard!" Dashan's face was red and white for a while, and he shouted, and he was about to stir up a vicious fight. But Heywood on the other side was still holding the grass roots, and looked at the other party arrogantly and yelled like a clown jumping off the beam.
At this moment, a member of a mercenary regiment came over on horseback.
"What's going on?" The member asked in a deep voice.
Seeing that someone was coming, the mountain's momentum suddenly retracted, but he still looked at the careless Heywood angrily.
"Hehe, it's okay, it's okay, it's just a misunderstanding." Seeing that the people of the mercenary group were brought in, the thin man no longer provoked, and played a round while laughing.
For the safety of the caravan, brawls are prohibited for all passengers joining the caravan. Violators, no matter who you are, will be killed. Although they are good, they are not stupid enough to challenge the authority of a medium-sized mercenary group.
Glancing coldly at everyone, the group member snorted coldly and rode up again.
Although I have known for a long time that this will be the result, these people are not good at stubble, who knows if they will secretly do it. Du Yuhan glanced at the bear child who was still unconcerned, and Heywood snorted and turned his head.
Dashan suppressed his anger, glared at the three of them fiercely, and sat down.
The young man hooked the corners of his mouth, "Walking the mountain, aren't you tired after watching it for so long?" This carriage will have to go for half a month, so save some effort and wait for the transportation of goods. ”
Speaking of this trip, even the absent-minded thin man couldn't stop his eyes from shining, "It is said that the quality of this batch of new goods is very good!" ”
"Who knows, the last batch of goods didn't say that they were all fine-skinned and tender-meaty, but I went back and looked at it, damn! It's all crooked melons and cracked dates! It made me sick for a long time. As if thinking of something, the big man snorted coldly.
"But it's still forbidden to play, and there is one of them I peeled off his skin alive, and it's not dead yet." The young man's face flushed and he licked the corners of his mouth excitedly.
"Your interest is disgusting." The thin man had a look of disgust on his face.
The young man glanced at him disdainfully, "What are you afraid of, isn't there still a mountain to eat the rest?" ”
"That's right, hehe." The thin man chuckled a few times.
After listening to it for a long time, it turned out that these people were a group of perverted traffickers.
Du Yuhan glanced at a few people with disgust, and was suddenly very glad that he let Kevin hide his face with a hood. Otherwise, with Kevin's handsome appearance, he was seen by these people, and he didn't know what trouble he was in.
Heywood also looked angry, but the group had just come to warn, and he scolded the scum and stopped talking.
"This group of people is disgusting." Suddenly, the hooded man sitting next to Du Yuhan said in disgust.
Du Yuhan tilted his head to look at the other party, and the man looked up from his hood and smiled kindly at him. The man is handsome and smart, with thick eyebrows and big eyes with a bit of wildness, and the smile on his face makes people feel more kind.
Du Yuhan was stunned, and smiled at him as a greeting. He looked at the man, except for the young man, there was no companion around him, not like a mercenary with a commission. He couldn't help but be a little curious, "This is your brother?" ”
The man nodded, and the boy noticed that the other people's eyes were on him, nervously clutching the man's sleeve. Seeing this, the man patted him on the shoulder soothingly.
Seeing the interaction between the brothers, Heywood's eyes sank.
When I was a child, I had some trouble, and my second brother also protected himself like this......
Looking at the belongings that the two of them were carrying, Kevin asked suspiciously, "Why don't you take the flight attendant?" ”
In general, very few mercenaries take small children on the road. Unless you are moving your family with large luggage, you will choose to take a bipedal flying dragon or a magic array to teleport. Although the price will be much higher, it is safe enough and fast.
But these two people didn't have much on them, so they chose the slowest carriage to travel, carrying a child along the way, no matter how powerful they were, it would add a lot of risks.
The man smiled bitterly and shook his head slightly.
Knowing that others didn't want to mention it anymore, Du Yuhan also turned the topic to another place with interest.
"You don't look like you're from here......" He looked at the other party's malt-colored skin, which was faintly similar to a tattoo, and his facial features looked more three-dimensional and well-defined than the others.
"Haha, you can see that I'm from the country of Parman." The man laughed heartily a few times, revealing his small tiger teeth. "My name is Bruno, my brother's name is Vic, you ......"
"My name is Du Yuhan, and this is Kevin, Heywood." Du Yuhan nodded, as if he said hello. With children, he is not usually a vicious person, and he has a good impression of Bruno, and he can't help but feel closer.
From Bruno's mouth, he learned that his hometown was very far away from here, and even the most convenient teleportation array would take a month to reach. And the reason why he came here thousands of miles away was to see his younger brother.
See a doctor? Du Yuhan couldn't help but look at the white little boy a few more times. This child looks very cute, with a pink and tender face, and no sick demeanor at all.
I don't seem to see it......
Sensing that he was being watched by others, the boy looked at Du Yuhan timidly. Seeing this, Du Yuhan hurriedly returned with a kind smile, feeling that the other party had no malicious intent, the boy blinked his eyes and showed a stupid smile.
Du Yuhan: ......
Bruno rubbed his brother's little head, his face full of bitterness, "Vic was born like this, our tribe's shaman said that he had a kind of soul loss and there was nothing he could do. I've heard that there are some skilled masters in Lindote who can cure him, so I take him here every year to look for it. ”
"Lost soul?"
Bruno nodded, lovingly touching Vic's little brain.
In this world, the human soul is a whole, the soul represents the soul spirit, and the soul represents the physical body. If a person's body is destroyed and his soul is still alive, and he can be reshaped through certain forbidden rituals*, then he will still have memories of the past; But if a person's soul is destroyed, then his body is just a body without any sense of personal behavior, although life is alive, it is still a walking corpse every day, which is meaningless.
And Vic's situation is that he doesn't know what the reason is, he lost his soul when he was born, which leads to his demented appearance now.
Du Yuhan understood.
It seems that this kind of lost soul is modern pediatric dementia.
Although he knew in his heart that this natural disability was difficult to treat, Du Yuhan still asked Kevin to check on his younger brother in the tent. But after watching it for a long time, Kevin just shook his head regretfully.
Seeing this, Du Yuhan scratched his head. Sure enough, this innate flaw is beyond the reach of even the almighty pastor.
However, Bruno was already expecting it, and he smiled optimistically, "If I really can't find a cure, then I should take him out for a walk." ”
Bruno is a bold person, and along the way, several people talk and laugh, and they get along quite happily. He has a wide range of knowledge, has traveled to many places, and will share interesting stories with them.
Du Yuhan expressed great envy for this. Before he crossed here, he planned to wait until he saved a little money and dreamed of driving around the world. It's so nice to be able to go to different places and make all kinds of friends!
Of course, he can only think about it, after all, he still has to make money to eat.