Where the trade road passes through the woods, Ron, with the assistance of Lawrence, organizes a procession of homeless people to quickly pass through the woods.

When we came to the place where the battle had just begun, there were still a few barricades on the road, but there was not a single living figure on either side - the guy named Noi had already fled on horseback.

After Ron instructed the outcasts to remove the barricades, Lawrence led them to the ridge on the side of the road to find the corpse of a dead body that had been shot through the chest and back by an arrow, and a robber who had been knocked out unconscious by a heavy hammer. Ron drew his short sword and stepped forward and hesitated, but he was ruthless, and his sword fell, and he made up a sword for each of the fainting robbers and the dead body, so that the panting one would die, and the one who would lose his breath would die.

Behind him, the cold hair of the people stood on end.

"Brother Lawrence, you quickly collect the weapons on the ground, strip them of their clothes, take away all the useful things, and by the way, pick up some dead firewood and grass and load them into the carriage." Let's go back to the ranks of the homeless people and urge everyone to pass quickly......

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In the gently undulating woods from east to west, the boring chase scene continues endlessly. The two groups of people will stop and I will rest, and if you have enough rest, I will chase, and you chase me and run, and I am about to vomit blood, so they will both stop and rest.

Art had regained his composure, his and Otto's wounds had been bandaged to stop the bleeding, and they had regained some strength after running and resting, except for the annoying hunger in their abdomen, several of them were so numb that they couldn't detect the exhaustion.

"We're about to shake our tails." Art said to the three people who were slumped on the ground.

Buzz propped up and glanced at the pursuers lying on the other side of the woods, and asked, "How can you get rid of it?" That group of mongrels still follows so closely~"

Art swallowed a mouthful of melted snow water and pointed to the sky that had begun to turn gray, "Because it's getting dark~"

At the other end of the woods, the roar of the bowed leader sounded again: "Get me up!" If you can't catch up before dark, I'll shoot you in the head!! As he spoke, he drew a heavy arrow and aimed it at his accomplice, who had fallen to the ground and refused to get up.

He's already stunned!

"Kazak hurry up, those crazy people are chasing after him~" Baszak pulled up Kazak, who had kicked a stone and injured his foot on the way to escape, got up and continued to run west.

Art looked at the sky, looked around, stopped a few people from continuing to run west, and said, "Wait, let's not run west, run north, and then turn east!" The Otto didn't understand Art's intentions, but they followed.

When the bow-wielding leader arrived, the figures of the Artsians had already appeared in the north.

As he ran, Art glanced behind at the tail that had caught up, and urged, "Run south, faster, faster, we must run to the edge of the southern woodline before dark." ”

Art told the three of them to run south with the last of their strength, and that they would be able to shake off their tails if they were far enough away from their pursuers.

So everyone who saw a glimmer of hope seemed to have two more legs, running faster and faster, running faster and faster, and the distance between the two groups of people was getting farther and farther~~

"I can't see those guys anymore, what should I do?" A small minion licked his withered purple lips and ran behind the bowed leader. He meant that he couldn't catch up, and it was time for this farce to end.

"Are you blind!! Can't see the human figure, can't you see the footprints? You stupid pig, chase me quickly. The bowed leader stared at the minion with bloodshot eyes, and the minion ran away in fright.

In this way, the time for half a meal was accelerated, and the two groups opened a distance of nearly half a mile, and at this time the night began to spread in the woods~

The outline of the southern woods of the wasteland can already be seen through a few rows of birch and pine trees.

Art changed direction again, and ran parallel to the east side of the woods less than fifty paces away from the edge of the woods, and after running for a while, seeing that it was almost enough, Art yelled at the people beside him: "Odo, you and Kazak stop, hurry up and find a big branch, preferably with leaves." Bass, you and I continue to run a little further. Move fast and we're going to escape. ”

Otto and Kazak stopped, took their short swords from their waists and ran to the side of the pine to cut down a branch with a large thick pine leaf.

Art took Buzz and continued to rush in the direction of the north-east for a hundred steps, suddenly stopped, stopped Buzz who was following him, and said, "Go backwards!" ”

"Huh? Adult~"

"Go backwards, go back, quick!!" Art had already begun to turn his head and walk back from the footprints he had stepped on.

Bas somewhat understood what Art meant, and learned to turn his head and glance at the footprints behind him awkwardly back......

"Quick, go south, run out of the woods, out into the moor, Odo, you take the lead, and the others walk in Odo's footprints, quick!!" As he spoke, he snatched the branch from Kazak's hand, and used it to clear the southbound footprints in the snow as he retreated......

A moment later, from here, everyone's figures had been blocked by the dense forest, and only four rows of messy footprints were left leading to the center of the dense forest in the northeast.

After a while, the bow-wielding leader chased after him with his already runaway minions, and he could roughly distinguish the four lines of footprints on the ground by the reflection of the last bit of snow before the night, "Ran to the middle of the woods, chase !! Kill one and reward two hundred pfennigs. ”

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The sky was completely darkened, and the four of them had run into the wasteland a mile from the edge of the woods, dragging a large branch with pine needles behind them.

"Bastard! Bastard! Coward!!! Ah~~~"

A heart-rending roar rang out from the woods.

Art finally couldn't hold it anymore, slumped on the ground, and muttered: "Finally got rid of", and a gurgling laugh came out of his throat~

The strings in the hearts of several people broke with a "boom", and they all collapsed in the endless dark night, and the few people who survived the catastrophe laughed loudly......

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After lying in the snow for a long time, the melting snow took away the burning heat in their bodies, and the sweat began to freeze.

"Hmph~" Yate, who was huddled in the snow, was shivered by a chill, he looked around and struggled to get up.

"Get up, guys, we have to leave." He woke up the sleeping Odoji. When soaking wet, people who sleep in snowdrifts often don't wake up.

"Fuck! It's cold," Buzz woke up and began to tremble.

"My lord, where are you going? It was too dark for us to see the road. Otto took off his boots and rubbed his frozen unconscious soles with both hands.

"Yes, my lord, it's pitch black, and we can't see where we can go unless we have torches to light it." Bas and Kazak also learned from Otto rubbing his frozen hands and feet.

"I can see a little." Art stood up and sorted out his armor and weapons.

The three of them looked at Art and felt incredible, "My lord, you have eagle eyes?" ”

"No, I can't see it clearly, but maybe a little better than you, I can see the general outline." Art wasn't going to explain to anyone what night blindness was.

Art took the lead, Bas followed behind, Otto with a wounded arm and Kazak with a kick in the middle, and the group walked in a direction about southeast in the middle of the night.

So the footprints that had disappeared for a long time appeared behind everyone again......