Chapter 336: Missed
Hobbes was busier at night than he had been on the nights before, thanks to Kohler. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoA large number of guards and Assassins are searching the entire Hobbs area as quietly as possible. The search began from the east and moved irregularly westward along the main road and in some special locations, pulling the net in an attempt to find all the suspicious elements out of it, in an attempt to prevent all potential threats.
Of course, this is just an expectation, and no one knows if it will be rewarded, which is one of the most unpleasant things about this matter.
The second is that the situation is urgent, and I am afraid that I will not have time to sleep comfortably tonight. You have to put your heart and soul into it and find as much as you can.
For Matthew, this kind of task is actually nothing, and I have never seen anything of the arduous tasks of life and death in the era of being a mercenary, but it is just leading the team to cooperate with the guards to search all night, and it will not be life-threatening, but it is just a little time and energy, and it is nothing compared to the previous days. And the unpleasant feeling of myself is probably indeed the rest tube that was pampered after the war, and suddenly I am not used to it.
There were a number of squads like Matthew leading such a team throughout the Hobbes perimeter, a dozen Hobbes guards and a dozen other members of the team to check a place. Matthew, for example, brought a dozen of his brothers and guards to carry out the work, and the rest of the soldiers belonging to different units even mixed with a dozen Assassins. This kind of surprise investigation manpower requirements are too great, if the time is longer or the place is smaller, it is easy to deal with a little problem, but now these are impossible, what can be done is to increase the number of people, and use the manpower to go up.
Although the above requires the action to be as low-key as possible, how can this kind of full-process carpet search be low-key, in fact, all I can do is to bless my brothers to be quiet for me, don't shout nonsense if you have nothing to do, do what you need to do, report it immediately if there is an abnormality, don't mess around with yourself.
It's quiet, but the chaos it brings to the city doesn't diminish in the slightest, it's just that no one cares about these details.
By this time the sky had completely darkened, and the shops on the side of the road had lit up their lamps to illuminate the surroundings, along with the burnished stones beneath their feet. The air is filled with the smell of food, which makes people feel a little tired.
And Matthew and his men ran half of the town in a row, and he didn't even bother to eat dinner at this time, and the thought of a large area that had not been solved after that made him extremely irritable. After he commanded his men to search out, he impatiently paced back and forth on the street for two steps, and then looked up at the passes-by who were still sparsely populated next to the street, and muttered in his heart that he would have to check two large areas before he could make time for dinner.
The crowds at the gates are significantly smaller at night than during the day, and stricter population censorship has slowed people in and out. Several huge torches were planted on both sides of the gate, illuminating the surroundings, allowing passers-by and busy guards to pull out several narrow shadows on the ground.
And he couldn't completely lock down the city, and he couldn't sit idly by, the more Matthew thought about this search mission, the more he felt a little stuffy and lingering unhappiness in his heart. He calculated how long it would take for his subordinates to come back and report the results to himself after inspecting the surrounding area, and wanted to touch a cigarette from his body to relax himself, but unfortunately it took him a long time to remember that he had left in a hurry and did not take his cigarette pouch.
He is not part of Scaloa's regular army, and is not even Scalloa's army at this time, although Scaloa can now command Matthew's troops, but in reality he only swears allegiance to Karil. Andris is alone, and the current work is only because Scarloa has temporary command, and the current matter can be regarded as serving Carlil, so that Matthew's team can be called up. Compared with the regular army, Matthew has no many constraints, such as going out to bring cigarettes and smoking casually, and only he can have the right to be so casual in the army.
Before Matthew's unhappiness passed, the porcelain cup on his head broke through the window and flew out of the second floor of the house, slamming heavily on the ground and shattering. Immediately after that, there was a clanging sound in the room, which attracted several other guards around the room.
"What's going on inside!" Matthew looked up impatiently and shouted, but at the same time, the door on the first floor was directly broken, and a group of people rushed out of the house.
Before anyone could stop and explain, the other side chased them out of the house, and quickly scuffled with the guards outside the door, pushing the scene into another chaos at once. This moment seemed to have become an outlet for Matthew to vent his unhappiness, he shouted an order in a loud voice, picked up his sword and rushed forward in person, not caring about three seven twenty-one, and put down a person in three or two strokes. He turned around and killed another person.
The sudden chaos startled the passers-by around them, and they quickly fled far away to avoid being involved for no reason.
The guards at the city gate stopped their work, and the passers-by who were about to enter and exit the city gate were attracted by this sudden fight, until Matthew put down the three people on the other side in a blink of an eye, and the guards confirmed that there seemed to be no need to go to support themselves, so they drew their attention back to the passers-by at the city gate. Everyone has their own work, and no one can afford to delay.
With such a turn of the head, the few people who had just passed the review of entering the city had already hidden far away, and the shadow slipped away from the side path, and the group of visitors who followed made the guards guarding the city look around twice.
That's right, a group, a leading man, followed by a dozen or so guys who were about as strong as him, all neatly dressed and with extraordinary temperament, and the civilians who had just come in were not the same kind of people at first glance. Even if it's a good stubble, it's not the kind that ordinary people can afford to mess with.
"Ahem......" The man in the lead coughed lightly, reminded the guards to put away their looking eyes, and then Shi Shiran took out a parchment roll, and didn't bother to say a word, and directly handed the parchment roll to the guard.
The confrontation around Matthew here is generally divided into winners and losers, and those who scuffle with their own guards are just worthy of a tie with the guards, not at all Matthew's level, with him personally joining the battle, but with one force, he easily swept away this group of miscellaneous fish, and beat them all to the ground.
Only then did he put away his weapon contentedly, and began to call his men and tell him what was going on. He didn't think that the group of people who had just been put down could pose any threat at all, and he didn't think about them as dangerous elements at all, and it was impossible for this group of people to make any waves, and this sudden firefight was just a trivial matter.
And the report of his subordinates was similar to Matthew's own prediction, the searching guards had some small friction with these people, and then the two sides quickly provoked a dispute, which soon evolved into the use of force, and after the fight, things were simple, and immediately appeared in front of Matthew's eyes. These people are the relatives and guards of the nobles, and I don't know where the courage and Hobbes's men are arguing with each other.
In the face of people who are not high in IQ, there is no need to waste too much effort on them.
Just started to flip over a few made Matthew feel a lot happier, and sure enough, after venting his sulk, the whole person was relieved, and even the few areas that he had to search after thinking about it were not as unpleasant as just now. He waved his hand for the miscellaneous fish to quickly pack up with each other and roll back into the house, then turned happily and asked the guards about the current search progress in the area.
Then his eyes brushed over the ears of the soldiers, and he saw the men who were about to clear the gate in the distance.
Sixteen men about thirty-five to forty years old, with obvious characteristics of etiquette and combat training, with a calm and restrained expression without offensive intentions, and at the same time there is nothing particularly suspicious, they are some guys of a certain level, but compared with the real nobles, they are not enough to see, probably the same as the group of people who were overturned just now, what kind of aristocratic people are related to the people, at least more than the few miscellaneous fish just now.
The man in the lead was handing over something to the guards for inspection, still waiting for the inspection to be cleared into the city. The other party quickly noticed Matthew's gaze, and the two looked at each other from a distance, and Matthew clearly saw the slight disdain in the other party's expression.
Probably because his behavior just now was seen by this group of people, and in their eyes, I am afraid that this behavior is also like someone's dog legs.
Matthew smiled disappreciatively, he was in a good mood at this moment, and of course there was no reason to make any extraneous complications, he was going to pretend not to see them. After listening to the guards' report, he ordered the team to complete the search and reassemble here.
The group at the gate finally passed the examination, and the guards rolled up the parchment and exchanged it with the leader of the group, and the procession of a dozen or so people walked towards the road of Matthew, no different from the other leisurely passers-by except that everyone did not talk too much.
They passed the street and passed by Matthew, who was so close that he could even see the light gray scar on the leader's temple. (To be continued.) )