Chapter VI: The Crusade II.
Walking to the entrance of the town, Gray looked back at the town of Plansville. He has also thought about it these days, it would be good if he settled in this town. In addition to the good geographical conditions here, the central south, and the basin is remote enough to stay away from right and wrong, and the "smiling Claire", there is always an urge for him to see with his own eyes whether everything is as he guesses......
However, the special appetite of the Awakened made him really not confident in his endurance, coupled with the exposure of his identity, the big sword might already be on his way to come, if he didn't want the same thing to happen like last time...... In the future, let's try to avoid those big swords.
Even if you take 10,000 steps back, even if you are just an ordinary person, it is not so easy to settle in a strange town. In this xenophobic and self-contained environment, unless there is an authority in the identification of demons (in fact, it is a big sword) as a guarantee, it will not accept outsiders casually......
Gray withdrew his gaze and was about to set off for the south, when he suddenly felt a tremor in the distance, and then faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves, not one horse but at least ten or more, and at the end of his sight he could already see a group of men and horses roaring towards this place.
Thanks to the Awakened One's sight and hearing, he could clearly see and hear the movements of those people even from such a distance, all of them were unkempt, dressed in all kinds of clothes, brandished with all kinds of weapons, and loud and noisy with foul language, there was only one kind of person in this world - bandits.
As this group of people got closer and closer to here, finally even the town behind them was alarmed, and they came out of their homes one by one, looking at this group of bandits in amazement. For ordinary people, facing the bandit gang is far more desperate than facing the demons, after all, the latter still has a big sword to count on, and the former has no choice but to use his own heavenly spirit to cover the hard top.
Gray, who had unconsciously stopped, looked back at the town of Plathville, and happened to see Claire from the panicked crowd at a glance. When I was stunned, I felt something, and when I turned around, I saw an arrow flying towards my face, if it was an ordinary person, even if I found it at this time, it would be too late, and I would definitely be pierced through the head by an arrow because I couldn't react.
But for the Awoken, this is not much faster than a frame-by-frame frame, and Gray easily grabs the middle of the shaft of the arrow as soon as he reaches out. The fact that he had just seen Claire, combined with the bandits, reminded him of some uncomfortable episodes, so he made a decision without much thought, and strode forward with the arrow in his hand to meet the bandits.
The bandit who took the lead was a bald head with a scar on his face, at this moment he was still maintaining the posture after archery, looking at the man who caught his arrow with his bare hands with a surprised face, without waiting for him to think about it, in a blink of an eye, the two were not far away, he hurriedly stopped his horse, and the bandits behind him also stopped one after another.
"Who is the leader among you?"
Gray frowned and looked at the group of bandits who felt more and more hateful, and asked not politely at all.
"It's my ......" who was still holding the bow's bald head, couldn't help but hide the bow behind him, and when he himself was still conscious, he honestly explained it. And the fierce horse under his crotch, which was originally restless due to the sudden stop, also strangely calmed down at this time, and began to want to retreat.
"You guys go somewhere else. You are not welcome here. Gray stared at the bald head and said in a commanding tone.
"What are you!" It turns out that there are always some bosses who jump out first to find their subordinates who are dead before they say anything, no matter in that world. As soon as the thief who was in a hurry to show his sword stepped forward, he felt a pain in his shoulder, and the whole person fell off the horse with a "poof".
Glancing at the bandit who was clutching his shoulder and howling in pain from the arrow on the ground, Gray withdrew his free hand and looked at the bald leader again. But at this time, the smell of blood on the unlucky bandit wafted in, which made Gray's body tremble unconsciously, and his heart was also indescribably panicked, and the tentacles behind him were about to be uncontrollable......
"Okay, understood, let's go now."
The bald bandit leader obviously did not have the consciousness of "Lao Tzu's X sword, invincible in the world", and after noticing the flash of gold in Gray's eyes, he was still worried about his "mission", but now he did not hesitate, and motioned to his subordinates to quickly pull up the guy who was hit by the arrow, and then showed a flattering smile to Gray, nodding his head as if in greeting, while controlling the horse to slowly retreat, after retreating for a distance, seeing that Gray did not move, he adjusted the horse's head and whipped the horse to run quickly. And at this time, no matter how stupid his subordinates were, they realized something, and followed the boss to gallop wildly without saying a word.
Looking at this group of bandits who had left the dust, Gray wiped his mouth, his hands were full of saliva, and the rich smell of blood in the air seemed to have condensed here for a long time.
Why did you let them go? The idea came out of nowhere, and it could no longer be suppressed, pouring out like a flood: this is a mob of evil, let them go, they will also plague other places, they can be said to be of no good to the world. The world is only better without them, and only dead bandits are good bandits! As...... That's right! Since they choose to burn, kill and loot, then they are no longer human! It's scum! Destroy the scum, what's wrong! And he is simply doing the right thing for heaven! It's heaven!
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The gang of bandits rode their horses and galloped on the forest path, and the bald bandit's mood did not settle down because he was away from that guy, but became more and more uneasy, even if he fled to this time despite the abandoned horses, he did not have the slightest feeling of escaping. You have to find that "man in black" quickly, and only if you find that person can you count as ......
The screams suddenly came from behind him, and the bald bandit turned his head to see that the two henchmen who had been following closely behind him were gone, and only two horses that seemed to be running away as if they didn't feel anything was missing.
"On the trees! In the trees! ”
The people who followed behind just seemed to see something, and looked up in horror and pointed to the tall primeval trees overhead, and while they were talking, a black shadow like a python suddenly appeared above their heads and grabbed it, and the bald bandit leader was frightened, desperately pulled up the horse's blood-stained back strands, looked at the fork in front of him, and shouted: "Run separately!" Let's run separately!! ”
Then he chose a random intersection, no longer caring about the constant screams behind him, and ******** trying to find the black-clad guy from the bushes on both sides, but until the strange crows behind him were silent, and there was no clue. And then the horse tripped over something and threw him out.
The bald head fell heavily on the ground, and after rolling several times with unabated strength, his face was covered with blood and he struggled to get up, and a pair of feet appeared in front of him, which made him freeze at once.
"It was just me who was wrong! Plentiful...... Spare me this time. ”
The bald head hit a spirit, and his movements quickly adjusted to a kneeling position, and he didn't even dare to look at the "person" in front of him, and he recognized his mistake first with a correct attitude, although he didn't know that he had provoked this person there. The bald head sorted out his thoughts and said, "You have to be forgiving and forgiving, you don't ......" Before he could continue, a steel claw-like object had already stirred into his abdomen.
"You goddamn monster!"
As if realizing that there was no possibility of survival, the bald head no longer pretended to be an innocent passerby, raised his head and stared at the pair of greedy and tyrannical beast eyes, ignoring the blood stains that would spurt out as soon as he opened his mouth, "Dead monster! Do you know! You're in big trouble ......"
"You're the monsters. Isn't it? ”
Gray wiped the stains on his mouth that had just been left by "eating", and the feeling of fullness from the nectar almost made him feel drunk, and restrained his desire to tear it to pieces, "Whether he is human or not depends on whether he has the will to be human." You scum are just monsters with human bodies, and even if I have the body of a monster, I'm still - human! ”
After saying this, Gray couldn't hold back any longer, and tore at it with a feverish expression like a child tearing off the wings of an insect......
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"Idiot."
Not long after Gray left, a man who seemed to be wrapped in a black robe walked out of the bushes on the side, looking at this hellish situation, two words came out of his mouth.
On this dangerous island, why do bandits still exist? Why can bandits still run around the world so chicly? And when demons and awakened people encounter this kind of "food" that is delivered to their mouths, they seem to turn a blind eye?
Isn't it too obvious that a town that can't afford to pay the commission should always be attacked by hordes of demons? Occasionally, some of them have to be destroyed by "man-made disasters", don't they? Isn't it too obvious that a disobedient soldier who refuses to die on his own always dies from the organization's "intelligence negligence"? There must be a few people who have "broken the ring" because they have made the organization have to cut it in tears......
I haven't seen such a fool in years! The black-robed man kicked the head of the bandit leader at his feet, originally he was waiting here for this group of bandits to "finish" in the town of Plainsville, and then "passed" here to let himself know this information "accidentally", but he didn't expect this result.
When the bandit leader was killed just now, he didn't come forward to stop it, firstly, because this kind of goods that are not even considered "temporary workers" are not worthy of being asked to come forward at all. What's more, he has a hunch that if he dares to come out, that idiot awakened person will dare to kill him together.
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Gray returned to the town of Plainsville again, he had come to get his backpack, just now because he was going to "transform" to chase the bandits, he just threw the backpack here, no one dared to steal it.
But when he arrived at the entrance of the town, he found that almost all the people in the town had come out. Gray approached them a little confused, although they all looked away, not daring to look at themselves, many of them seemed to be holding on not to faint.
"The ......," Calvin, the innkeeper, greeted him with his backpack in his hand, and said stubbornly, "Actually, my hotel lacks a helper, would you like to stay and help?" ”
Gray didn't come back to his senses for a moment. Now that they know they are not...... Ordinary people, why do you keep yourself now? Is it because you don't know that you have killed all those bandits, and you are afraid that the bandits will retaliate again? Also, the bandits may have come here just to seek wealth, but after such a stir, in their opinion, the bandits will be fatal if they come again.
So do you want to tell them that the bandits will never appear again? But why do you say it yourself? Isn't that exactly what you want? All kinds of coincidences have made this situation possible, and in addition to this, there will be active acceptance... of the town? Thinking of this, Gray glanced at Claire in the crowd, unlike the others who didn't dare to look directly, although she was also a little afraid, but she still seemed to be unable to resist curiosity and looked at herself from time to time.
Anyway, I don't have any other goals for the time being, so it's okay to stay here. And I won't ...... myself Hurting them can protect them in turn. As for that uncontrollable "appetite", as long as the time comes, just go find some bandits, and exterminating these scum is simply doing a good deed, isn't it?
The mayor of Plainsville breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Gray's somewhat unmoved look, and it was his idea to lure this "demon" into the town. When the "demon" went to chase the bandits, when he put forward this opinion, he was almost regarded as a madman by the whole town, but after he told him something about the fate of the town that relied on the big sword to organize the account, everyone was silent, and then gave the whole town a time to think, and finally held a town-wide referendum. This opinion was adopted by the majority of the people.
People are not stupid, how many people believe that the towns that are paying their debts are really destroyed because of "bad luck"? At first, when this "demon" appeared, they thought it was a sign of "bad luck", but they didn't expect that nothing happened in the end, until they just saw the bandit appear, and they realized that this was the real "bad luck".
However, the result was unexpected, and this strange "demon" actually stopped the bandits...... This time it was good luck. But next time? What about next time? The town of Plainsville is deadlocked. Since the situation has deteriorated hopelessly, both horizontally and vertically, why not gamble.
Besides, this "demon" is really different, and the law of action in the past few days is nothing more than shopping around the town during the day, and although he doesn't sleep at night, he also stays in the hotel honestly. Until today, they are leaving, and no one in the town has been killed.
Bet on the idea of this "demon": that is, this "demon" is very cunning, and wants to use this town as a hiding place, so he will fight the idea of "not eating the grass next to the nest...... As for the way it will come and go to other towns or something, in this world that cannot be protected by itself, I can only say: I'm sorry, what does this have to do with our town.