The wind whipped up the yellow sand, and the team moved slowly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wheels of steel carry truckloads of goods, leaving ruts alone in this empty wasteland, accompanied by only a handful of human and horse footprints.

This is the Grand Canyon, one of several roads leading to the city of Bedford.

It is said that during the mythological era, there were several great battles here, and the powerful magic and the curse of sorcery made the distribution of day and night different from other regions.

The contrast between the short days and the long nights is also what discourages travelers.

Because...... Nights tend to be the most frequented time for Warcraft.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and there were only two hours left before the arrival of night, and it was certain that it would not be possible to get out of this canyon in such a short time, and Elgu ordered the whole caravan to stop and begin to prepare for camp.

The cold wind was blowing in Xixi, and the extremely low temperature made the people present shiver, as the leader of the caravan, Ergu unequivocally asked the guards to light the bonfire, and then looked up in the direction where the cold wind was blowing, there was almost no vegetation in this place, and even if there were, it would be flooded by the yellow sand rolled up by the wind, so seeing a piece of yellow sand rolling in the air, Ergu didn't feel strange at first.

Until the yellow sand is getting closer and closer......

"Is it a sandstorm?" Confused, Elgu muttered to himself, "No, no, how could there be a sandstorm in a place like this, could it be?" ”

With the advent of the "sandstorm", the ground shook strongly, and at the same time, the true face of the "sandstorm" became clearer and clearer.

In the rolling yellow sand, the green and red multi-legged monsters waved their hands and feet in groups, moving towards this place, and the dense procession was no less than ten figures.

"Warcraft!"

"It's Barefoot and Qingwei! All hands are ready to fight! ”

The warriors escorting the caravan reacted immediately, drew their weapons and prepared to meet them.

The merchants all hid in the carriage and watched in horror as they could not escape the catastrophe.

The monster attacked, the warriors responded, just a few minutes, the number of fallen warriors turned out to be nearly half of the original, listening to the sound of sorrow and roar in his ears, Ergu looked at this scene with a blue face, and the ambivalence of wanting to escape and taking into account the loss of goods made him tremble all over, but he couldn't move.

A centipede-like beast with a row of red feet broke through the defense line barefoot and struck Elgu's carriage, its sharp teeth emitting a cold glow, chiseling open the roof of the carriage and destroying part of the cargo.

"You monster! How dare you ...... my property! Ergu subconsciously scolded, his heart full of grief and indignation.

He was a money-worshipping businessman, and in the face of the sudden loss of his belongings, he forgot his fear for a moment and lost the best opportunity to escape.

It wasn't until Barefoot cut the carriage open with his teeth and turned his head towards him that he realized what stupidity he had done.

"Don't, don't come here...... Ahhhh ”

Ergu dropped the carriage and turned to run, only to fall to the ground after a few steps.

He ran so hurriedly that he didn't even see the corpses of his companions on the ground.

So, Barefoot easily chased him, and the sharp teeth aimed at his back, whistling away.

The next moment, red blood splattered.

However, it was not Elgu's blood.

Elgu fell to the ground, looked in amazement at the barefoot corpse in front of him, split in two, and slowly raised his head

In front of him, a young man in a robe turned his back to him, shook off the blood from his sword, turned back and asked, "Boss, are you okay?" ”

That's the adventurer he hired.

"It's too slow!" Ergu recalled the gaffe just now, and said angrily, "You, what are you doing!" Employers are in such danger! Don't hurry up and clean up the monsters, or I'll deduct your wages! ”

The young man blinked, seeming a little confused, but he nodded, and after shaking off the blood from his sword, he tucked it away in its scabbard, took a few steps forward, and then looked back at his employer.

"Didn't you hear me! I didn't tell you to go ......."

“…… We've got it clean. ”

"Huh?"

Elgu was stunned for a moment, and looked around, as the young man said, except for a small number of human corpses, only the corpses of monsters piled up in a small hill were left around.

Obviously, there were so many of them just now, and they were all killed in an instant, could it be that these demonic beasts were much weaker than they imagined?

Ergu thought in surprise.

Confirming that the crisis was over, the rest of the merchants jumped out of the carriage to thank God and comfort their frightened companions.

Only the soldiers, who had just been fighting bloodily, carried the bodies of the dead without saying a word and dealt with the injuries of the wounded.

"It's useless." It was the voice of the merchant community.

The warriors present froze, but they paused for only a few seconds and immediately returned to their work.

Seeing this scene, Erguleng snorted, his thoughts coincided with the voice just now, he spent a lot of money to hire these mercenaries and adventurers as escorts, but he still caused the goods to be lost, it was really annoying, but he was the leader of the caravan, in order not to affect his reputation, he carefully hid these complaints in his heart.

"Boss." The young man who had just killed the barefoot man walked towards Elgu and bowed in front of him.

The young man, with long black hair and a face that leaned towards immigrants from the Eastern Continent, rubbed his hands together with a sneer, and said, "I'm sorry that I can't help you immediately when you're in crisis, but I have something I want to discuss with you. ”

Ergu frowned and looked at the young man, although he was rescued by the other party, but thinking of the goods he had just lost, he didn't have any good feelings about the young man in front of him who was a guard, and he said coldly: "You...... It's called Summer. What's the matter? ”

The young man nodded: "The number of casualties on our side has just been confirmed, a total of ten people were wounded, fifteen were killed, and seventy percent of the wounded could be restored to battle." The remaining three are seriously wounded and confirmed to be irreparable, and we ask for your permission to allow the remaining three wounded who are unable to fight to rest in the carriage. ”

"Yes." With a wave of his hand, Ergu pointed to the car whose canopy had been destroyed by the demonic beast just now, "You guys just use that." ”

There is only one plank left on the wheel of the lost canopy, which is not only unsafe but also unable to protect it from the wind, sand and rain in addition to being able to move.

It's like a cart carrying a corpse.

Seeing this attitude, the young man secretly scolded the scumbag and silently gave the other party a bad review in his heart.

"One more thing." The young man coughed lightly, "We ask you to pay the honorarium to the deceased"

"What......?"

"To be precise, to ask you to provide a pension to the relatives of the deceased. After all, they are also desperate to support their families, this ...... Can you please do it? ”

Elgu's brows tightened deeply, and he said, "Don't be kidding, you even want me to give money to those dead people!" How can it be! How much do you think my side has lost because of your fault! ”

"Well, of course I do." The young man smiled with a smile on his face, but he had no intention of giving up in his eyes, "But boss, according to the Regulations on the Employment of Guards, in the event that a guard dies due to a work-related injury, the employer is obliged to pay a pension to the relatives of the deceased, which is clearly stipulated by law." Our demands are not high, we can do it according to the law, and we only ask you to pay twice the salary that originally belonged to them......"

"Rejected! Overrule! ”

Elgu shouted angrily, drowning out the young man's voice and attracting the attention of the others around him.

"Just let those garbage rest, you're still greedily eyeing my money!?"

"Boss, this statement is a bit unfair, we are just making reasonable demands."

"Ha, you're telling me what's reasonable? Get out, you get out of here! ”

Seeing that he couldn't persuade the other party, the young man shrugged his shoulders and turned to leave.

Although he had known that Elgu would reply like this, he did not expect that he would be driven away in the end.

But it doesn't matter, he has had enough of this team, if it weren't for the lack of money, the fastest way to get to Bedford is by horse-drawn carriage, he wouldn't be the escort of such a traveling merchant team, this job is not only low-pay, but also very simple meals, the only benefit, only to enter the city without having to go out of your way to get a city pass or something.

The young man just took a step.

Behind him was the sound of laughter.

The merchants pointed at him with malicious smiles on their faces.

"There's only one last day left, isn't that person going to do it, won't he be scared by the monster?"

"When this man joined the team, he still brought his sister here, and he must have treated the security work as a child's play."

"We are still willing to accept him, what a young man who doesn't know how to cherish opportunities......"

The young man shook his head and took two steps again.

Suddenly, a deep voice came from behind him.

It was the voice of Nick, the captain of the convoy, and although it was very brief, it was not long before the air around it became dead silent, except for the panicked cries of the merchants and Ergu.

"What! You, you even said you won't do it, isn't there one last day left! ”

"yes, there's only one day left, why don't you do it all of a sudden!"

"Explain it to me, it's a breach of contract!"

Faced with the merchants' questions, Nick said coldly,

"Unfortunately, there are too few people who can fight at the moment, and if the number of people on our side continues to decrease, the difficulty of escorting will be much more than we can handle, so I have decided to abandon this commission."

"Reduce? Do you mean Summer? He's a second-order early-stage warrior at best, and your strength is much stronger than him, right? Elgu exclaimed, puzzled, "What's wrong with missing him?" ”

"You misunderstood, it's not just Xia, all of us plan to give up the commission."

"What!?" Ergu was surprised.

"Don't you understand, we mercenaries are just a menial profession, gambling our lives for money, but also for relatives!" Nick snapped, "And the fact that you just refused to pay a pension to the relatives of the deceased makes us feel that it is pointless to fight for our lives!" Under such circumstances, do you think anyone would be willing to die for you? ”

When Nick spoke, his eyes widened with anger and his spirits were so full of excitement that for a moment he was so oppressed that Elgu was speechless.

However, Ergu is also a professional businessman, so he took a few breaths and immediately regained his composure: "...... Even if you ask me to pay a pension, I have to go through a court trial. As soon as I go back, I will sue you for breach of contract immediately...... Do you think you've won me in a lawsuit! I'm telling you, you're going to lose money! ”