Chapter 605: Seeds of Hatred
"It seems that the Earl is already unlucky." The two knights rode to the place where the Captain of the Guard had been killed, and one of them spoke in a nonchalant tone, as if he did not take Count Arnold seriously at all.
The two men were clearly the ringleaders, and the others were so far away that they couldn't hear what they were saying.
"He's long overdue, I'll report to my lordship, and I'm ready to do it." The other knight's figure moved slightly, and suddenly a figure fell out of him, and the figure saluted him, then turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared.
"I just don't know who did it, even if we deliberately delayed it for a while, but it was done so quickly and neatly, and it was obviously not an ordinary force." The two knights rolled over from their horses and carefully looked at the strength of the guard commander, but the more they looked at them, the more confused they became.
Who the hell was this guy fighting with when he was alive?
Why are there all the paw prints and tooth marks on my body?
Then the men soon came to report it as well, and the result was much the same, the guards clearly did not look like they had died at the hands of man.
More observant people also found animal hair on the ground and corpses in the darkness.
"Go find the black dog!" One of the leading knights shouted.
Soon a black-robed mage was brought over, he took the black beast hair and sniffed it, frowning: "It seems to be the hair of a chimpanzee, and it smells like a Sikas forest." ”
"Isn't this, the Sicas Forest is 108,000 miles away from here, and you tell me that a group of Sicas monkeys came here to bulldoze Count Arnold's manor? You let me take one and explain it to the adults? "The Rider was furious.
"Subordinates don't dare to speculate!" The black-robed mage lowered his head, not daring to squeak.
"The horses in the stables are all there, there is a lot less food in the warehouse, some weapons in the arsenal are missing, and there is a treasure room, which has also been emptied, but it's a pity that the [Arnold Inheritance Spear] of the Arnold family." The other knight sighed.
There are only a few knight families in the Federation.
Arnold is one of them, and their Arnold Legacy Spear is a very famous weapon in knightly circles.
"I thought I could gain something, but I didn't, and I made a fuss, how do we report?" The Leader Snorted coldly.
"It is better to say that Arnold's subordinates rebelled and killed Count Arnold, and we pursued these rebels and killed them all. How is it? The other knight groaned for a moment, and then thought of his words.
"That's what the rebels do, let's just find a village and kill them as rebels." The leading knight tugged on the reins, turned his horse's head, and led a group of horsemen away with a shout.
Soon, a nearby village came into view.
The night was broken by the sound of horses' hooves, and the awakened villagers went out of their homes to see what was happening.
An arrow shot into his gaping mouth with precision, and the arrow was so fierce that it pierced the back of the head.
The gong was sounded, and the villagers came out to defend their homes with rudimentary weapons.
The world is not good, bandits are rampant, and the village has at least a certain amount of self-preservation.
It's a pity that they met the regular army, and they were the elite of the regular army, and under the charge of the cavalry, they soon became the ghosts of the cavalry guns.
Then the knights dismounted and rushed into the house.
The cries rang out, the hoarse pleading of the old man, the mournful screams of the children.
There was also the sound of knives slicing through limbs, the sound of blood spraying.
The village was baptized in blood.
Count Arnold's body was not found, but it didn't matter anymore, as long as he was to die, even if he returned to Tallinn intact, he would become a fake, or simply a corpse.
Su Mo didn't know that a village had become a scapegoat.
It wasn't until the next day, when he met Wallace and his brothers in the most remote corner of a tavern in Aeon Town, that he learned that the matter of Count Arnold had been decided.
A village near the manor was bloodied, and no one escaped.
All the people were killed, the heads of the young men were cut off, and the limbs were piled up and burned along with the old people and children.
"These damned nobles, damn knights, I hurt them!" Wallace seemed to have drunk a lot, he was drunk, his eyes were red, and tears flowed uncontrollably from his eyes.
His companions' eyes were red too.
The fate of the poor is like this, it is like fish on the chopping board, waiting for the moment when the knife falls.
"Wallace, no one can think of this, let's mourn and change." Su Mo still felt that this was just an NPC in the depths of his heart, and this setting pointed out the cruelty of the nobles at most.
Of course, he was angry and felt sorry for these innocent people.
"I have a brother whose whole family was killed, piled up and burned, and I can't tell the difference, and my brother digs with his hands, and he digs with his hands, and he wants to dig out his father, his mother, and his wife and daughter, and he digs like this!" Wallace slammed his forehead against the table with a thumping sound.
A waiter wanted to come over to take a look at the situation, but Su Mo smashed a few gold coins and drove away with a glare.
"Just digging like this, I also helped him dig, slimy, my hands were slimy, and now they are slimy, my brother bit off one of his fingers in front of me, and swore to avenge them, and I finally grabbed him, and didn't let him be impulsive."
What can Su Mo say, he can only pour wine for Wallace.
"Seventy or eighty-year-old people, they have escaped the war, they have escaped the plague, they have just been born, they still can't tell what is a poor person, what is a noble, and there are so many innocent people, there are corpses everywhere, why, why is this happening?" Wallace drank a little too much and began to be speechless.
"Wallace, you can't be so depressed, crying won't solve the problem, the nobles are too brutal, we must take revenge." Su Mo saw that more and more people were looking at them, and some even ran out of the town's guards, so he hurriedly pulled Wallace up.
"Yes, revenge, revenge!" Wallace gritted his teeth, his eyes red, and his whole body was full of irritable emotions.
"Get out of here first, we have to take revenge, don't be discovered." Su Mo pulled Wallace away quickly, and a group of town guards rushed over as soon as a few people left.
They were armed with weapons and murderous.
"Where is Wallace, didn't anyone see Wallace, the wanted man with a bounty of thirty gold coins."
Most of the people in the tavern were indifferent, and in their eyes, the guards were more disgusting than the wanted.
However, there are also good townspeople who think they are righteous, pointing out the direction in which Wallace is leaving.
Su Mo and Wallace left the town, and they didn't go far before they heard the sound of the pursuers behind.
Damn, how did it come so quickly.
Su Mo couldn't leave Wallace behind, so he could only watch the pursuers chase after him.
These guards were all on horseback, and as the enforcers of the town, they could requisition all the horses in sight at any time.
Provided, of course, that the horses don't belong to the nobility or any other person they can't afford to mess with.