Ye Yi handed the fifth uncle a modest but majestic look, "I make a statement as the leader of the Heavenly Punishment Mercenary Regiment, as long as your people do not resist and voluntarily lay down their weapons, they will definitely not be harmed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Rest assured, they're just asleep now, nothing serious. ”

Garin suddenly let out a beast-like heart-rending roar, glaring at his fifth uncle angrily: "Why, why do you want to collude with outsiders to deal with your own people?" ”

"No, it's not like that." His fifth uncle hurriedly waved his hand: "I didn't collude with outsiders, last night the commander of the Yeyi regiment attacked the camp, but he didn't do anything to us, but persuaded us to settle in Guna Town." Garin, Uncle is old, I really can't eat your mouthful of food, I just want to live the rest of my life peacefully, everyone here thinks the same way. ”

Hearing the fifth uncle's words, the women and children around them all nodded their heads. I think that although they had a hard time before, they were down-to-earth. But since the prime of the clan became horse bandits, these women and children became terrified, fearing that their husbands or children would find out something when they went on a mission, and perhaps one day the parting would become a permanent death.

"Mom, how can you do this?"

"Sister, aren't you framing our patriarch?"

"Sister, why are you here?"

……

The sons and daughters who had returned with Garin found their families in the crowd of women and children, and they were all angry and shouted one by one, and the scene instantly became a little chaotic.

"Okay, let's not talk about it." Garin, who had been still for a minute, suddenly spoke, his voice was not loud, but it was very effective in quieting the surroundings.

Garin looked at the old man he called the fifth uncle, then at the female clansmen behind the Heavenly Punishment mercenaries, and finally his gaze stayed on Yeyi.

"If you are a man, don't use old men and women as blackmails, and have the courage to stand up and fight me!"

Yeyi also looked directly at this dark-brown man, Garin's facial features were very deep, and he didn't belong to the handsome type, but he was very masculine, which made people feel stable and at ease inexplicably.

"It's okay to go it alone, but you have to make a rule, if I win, you have to agree to let the people move to Guna Town to settle down, and merge the Desert Fox into the Heavenly Punishment Mercenary Regiment."

Garin replied cheerfully, "Okay, so what if I win?" ”

"If you win, I'll leave immediately with my subordinates, and there will be a big gift from Guna Town."

"It's a deal!"

"It's a deal."

After hearing that the other party agreed to this bet, Yeyi's big eyes smiled into a crescent moon. It's really thanks to the blow arrows made by Ji Ran that can go so smoothly this time, don't look at these blow arrows seem to be very powerful, so that people can fall down in one go, in fact, there are many prerequisites for this.

One is the distance, the blow arrow relies on the chest cavity to inhale violently and then exhale the strength to exert force, and the attack distance is naturally not far. Fortunately, Garin and his subordinates were already in the trap, otherwise these blowguns would be useless in regular combat.

The second is the attack power, the iron needle in the blow arrow is as thin as a cow's hair, and the opponent can't get into it even if he wears a thick piece of clothing. Even if it is bitten on the flesh, it will not even have a drop of blood after pulling it out, what kind of lethality can this have. If it weren't for Ji Ran's extremely heavy anesthetic on these fine needles in advance, how could those people pour so simply.

The battle between Yeyi and Garin began and ended quickly, and the two of them were ruthless and merciless, and finally Yeyi's spear also pierced Garin's right arm. Garin couldn't use his right hand, and the battle ended in defeat.

Garin's head was covered with hot sweat, and unlike the outsiders watching the battle, he only knew how strong this man who looked a little bit of a mother was when he really fought against Yeyi. It can be said that from the first move, Garin has never had the upper hand, and he has always been fighting on the line of death.

As the so-called small peek at the big, it can also be seen from a person's number of moves that he is human. Garin himself has been a horse bandit for a long time, so his moves are a little ruthless, but this is also because the horse bandit profession itself is a profession that survives in death. In order to deal with the Heavenly Punishment Mercenary Group, Garin once inquired about the history of the development of this team, a mercenary group that has only emerged in the past two years and has been living in a calm and leisurely city of the royal capital, why their leader's moves are so vicious and spicy, almost deadly.

Recalling the resolute decision in Yeyi's move just now, Garin's heart felt a chill, it seemed too unwise to be an enemy of such a dangerous person.

……

Instructing his people to pack up their tents and salute and prepare for the long journey, Garin returned to his tent to rest and heal, and although Yeyi's shot just now did not hurt his veins, it also bled profusely.

The half-hung pharmacist in the camp had just tied up Garin's bandages, and the tribesmen had almost cleaned up. Seeing this, Ye Yi secretly smacked his tongue, the mobility of the nomadic tribes is really strong, no wonder the desert fox has been rampant in the spider web desert for so many years, and no one has been able to catch them.

As soon as Garin stepped out of the tent, someone came to clean up his things, and his sister Gaza finally appeared. Garin looked at his sister carefully, Gaza had no other wounds on his body except for the red mark on his wrist that was strangled by hemp rope, and his mental state was also good, which made Garin feel a lot more relieved, but he still asked casually: "How is it?" Are there any injuries? ”

Gaza looked up at Yeyi, who was talking to Azazel and Xavier not far away, and shook his head at his brother.

Garin followed Gaza's line of sight, but didn't see anything special, so he didn't get suspicious, just hugged his sister tightly and swallowed the bitterness mixed with saliva. After all, since the people were looking forward to living and working in peace, why should he bother to be that sinner again?

Although he had already told himself in his heart that he wanted to let go, Garin just felt a little out of breath.

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Guna Town, which is a town of 10,000 people made up of rammed-earth huts.

More than 100 years ago, it was a vast oasis called the Desert Bride, with abundant water and fertile pastures, and many nomadic tribes and caravans from the spider web desert would come here to rest and replenish, and the town of Guna was founded at that time.

However, with the changes of the world, the area of the once vast oasis has shrunk by four-fifths, and now only one-third of the area of the southeast of the town of Guna is still within the scope of the oasis, and the other two-thirds have all turned into loess.

It also became a land where water and pasture were scarce, and the people began to stop welcoming the nomadic tribes from outside, and the caravans were not adequately supplied here, so they slowly drifted away from the place, and the former glory was now reduced to loess, buried in the ravines and ravines.

The Lord's Mansion of Guna was originally built in the center of the town, but as the oasis shrank, a mobile annex was built in the southeast. Most of the future lords lived in the annex, but the main mansion in the center of the town was vacant.

The entire three-storey tower on the west side of the annex is filled with books, and the gray layers and cobwebs that can be seen everywhere make no secret of the true nature of these books - ornaments.

In the past two days, there has finally been a little more popularity in the book tower.

"Is the upstairs all clean?"

"Yes, my lord, it's all cleaned."

"Go to the town and find a few literate people, and according to the requirements I have listed, ask them to classify and put the books away, count them, and make an index."

"Yes, my subordinates will do it immediately."

The man waited a few more moments, and when he saw that there was nothing else to do, he quietly left.

The tower was quiet again, the sun was gradually turning west, and when the last glimmer of golden light disappeared on the horizon, a few more servants quickly but quietly walked into the tower, lit the lamp, and then knelt on the ground and bowed down to the figure standing in front of the bookshelf, and then left.

Not long after the servants left, there was a quiet sigh in the tower: "No, there is no book about it. What the hell could this be? ”

In front of a two-meter-high bookshelf, there stood a woman in blue, who was Ji Ran.

Now she is too different from the past, the smile that always hangs on her lips is gone, and the breath of the whole person has also undergone a earth-shaking change, and her childishness has faded and seems to have grown a lot.

He took out a thumb-sized green jewel from his waist and held it above his head in a daze, looking at the candlelight as if there was liquid flowing in the bead.

"What the hell are you?"

When Heavenly Punishment left the Ralbani Kingdom, Ji Ran was grieving Archie's death and couldn't bear to be separated from him, but the situation at that time made it impossible for her not to leave. Ji Ran did not entrust Archie's body to the temple according to the customs of this continent, but cremated it privately, and as a result, he got such a bead from the ashes.

According to the rules of this continent, the corpses of human beings after death are handed over to the servants of the gods they believe in, that is, the local priests. The priests would repent and pray to the gods for the wrongdoings they had done in their lives, and believed that if a person really believed in this god, he should offer to the god he believed in with what he had at the beginning and what was left of his life, that is, the flesh of that person.

And what will happen to those bodies when they are taken away by the priests, no one knows.

This is what Ji Ran has learned, the way people in this world deal with corpses.

Ji Ran asked all the people around him and rummaged through the books around him, but there was no information about this bead. After all, in addition to offering to the gods, the corpses of humans here were captured by wizards and refined into skeleton soldiers, and no one really tried cremation.

Ji Ran put the green bead back into the pocket of his waist and walked to a small table by the window in the room. There was a small blue cloth bag on the table, and Ji Ran untied the rope that tied the mouth of the bag, revealing the various colors of pearls and jades contained inside, and their size and luster were the same as the one Ji Ran put in his pocket.

"Everybody gets to have one of these after cremation, but what is it?" (To be continued.) )