"Sister Luna!" Li Xiang poked his head out of the car and suggested loudly: "This road is too difficult to walk!" Shall we find a place to take shelter from the rain for a while and wait for the rain to stop before leaving? ”

"No." Luna Maria shook her head and said, "I know the situation in this area, there is nothing around here to hide from the rain. Let's bear with it, this kind of rain comes and goes quickly! But...... You also keep your people on the alert. Now let's enter the territory of Surrensola County, which is not a peaceful county, and there are many thieves and bandits roaming in this area. We don't have many people, and we have so many carriages, I'm afraid we will be noticed by them! ”

"Got it." Li Xiang also nodded solemnly. "And where do we rest?"

"There is only a village about twenty or thirty miles ahead." Luna Maria exclaimed, "Let's hurry up and get there, we'd better rest there." ”

"Okay. That's all there is to it. ”

The convoy struggled forward for another half a day, and the silhouette of a village appeared in front of it.

"We're here!" Luna Maria said. "The convoy is too large, let's camp outside the village tonight."

"Good!"

The crowd began to get busy. Luna Maria and another knight of the Order and his knights were scattered around the camp to serve as guards, while Li Xiang and his companions assisted in the guard mission. As for the caravan servants, the attendants and the accompanying guards, under the command of the caravan steward, gathered the carriages in a large circle, and then chained together to besiege a camp. Then they set up a tent in the circle and made a fire to make food.

Yang Qianyu stood on the roof of a caravan and looked out at the village not far away. I saw that the villagers in that village first made a commotion because of their own appearance, and several sturdy villagers with crude weapons observed the convoy from a distance, and after confirming that the comer had no malicious intent, they retreated to calm the commotion in the village. Yang Qianyu watched the every move of the residents in the village from a distance, and could vaguely feel their emotional panic.

"Why are they so wary of us?" Li Xiang also noticed the scene of the residents in the village, and pointed in the direction of the village and asked Luna Maria.

"They're afraid we're thieves." Luna Maria, who was standing on the roof of the car, also saw this situation and explained with a long sigh, "This area was originally a good place, but during the demonic invasion eight years ago, a group of demons that roamed into this area completely destroyed the stability here. Harudale County was destroyed into a scorched earth, and several surrounding counties were also affected to varying degrees, and until now, a considerable number of demons have been trapped in Harudale County and have not been cleared. The surrounding nobles therefore also migrated and fled. This area has become an 'outlawless place' without aristocratic power, and has become an area where thieves and robbers are active. The civilians who live here and are difficult to move away can only endure the bandits in silence......"

"Hmph, it seems that living under the exploitation of nobles is not much better, right?" Shi Jinxin sneered in a low voice.

"Maybe." Luna Maria shrugged. "However, after all, there is a limit to the exploitation of the nobles, and in order to maintain the territory, the noble lords will also protect the lords while demanding from the lords in the territory. Therefore, no matter how good the commoners in the noble territory are, at least their personal safety can be protected. The 'land outside the law' is different, these bandits loot everything they can get their hands on, and they live like locusts. The civilians they looted were really nothing. ”

Luna Maria said as she pointed to the village, "You see, this village is even like this. It was clear that they had recently been sacked by a group of thieves, and there were still many traces of fighting in and around the village. ”

"Human life is as cheap as grass." Yang Qianyu glanced at the villagers with sad and frightened faces, and sighed in a low voice.

"Human life is as cheap as grass?" Luna Maria listened to Yang Qianyu's whisper and repeated it in a low voice before revealing a look of empathy. "What a sharp but accurate statement. Isn't it a sad thing to exist in this world without power. ”

Yang Qianyu shook his head, turned around and jumped off the roof of the car to the camp.

Nothing was said all night. The next morning, the rain finally stopped after a day and a night, and the convoy continued on its way after packing up the camp.

It's noon.

When the convoy was slowly moving forward, Yang Qianyu, who was in the car with his eyes closed and pretending to sleep, sat up suddenly, poked his head out of the window and seemed to smell something.

"Old Yang, what are you crazy about?!" Yang Qianyu's actions startled Ma Jun beside him, Yang Qianyu ignored the dissatisfaction in Ma Jun's words, sniffed it carefully twice, his face changed, and said: "There is a strong smell of blood in the air!" ”

Ma Jun's expression froze, and he also went out and sniffed, and then his face sank. "It does smell of blood!"

At the same time, the guards in the convoy who had been fighting for many years and the soldiers of the Rogge Knights who accompanied them also felt the bloody breath in the air, and they all began to be secretly vigilant.

Luna Maria waved to stop the convoy, and the two Rogge Knights rode forward to investigate.

In the convoy, Li Xiang, Yang Qianyu and others gathered together to talk.

"I didn't expect that the human city-states of the Iber world would be so unsafe." Li Xiang was a little worried. "When we first entered the county of Surensola, we encountered the village that had been robbed, and now we have a group of robbers blocking the road!"

"Maybe worse." Yang Qianyu frowned and said, "I'm afraid that this time it's not just a robbery, with such a big smell of blood, there must be a lot of people who have died!" ”

At this moment, the two horsemen who had gone to investigate returned to the group, and after a few words with Luna Maria, they saw Luna Maria riding beside them.

"It's a bit of a hassle up ahead." Luna Maria said, "The scouts found the remnants of a looted convoy at the ramp ahead. We may be in trouble. ”

"Can you take a detour?" Li Xiang proposed.

"I can't." Luna Maria explained, pulling out a map. "There's only one way to go in this area, and if we take a detour, it will take us an extra day."

As you can see from the map, the terrain in this area is mountainous and there is only one access road to the next destination. In front of the crowd was the ramp where the robbery had just taken place. According to Luna Maria, the ramp is nearly 10 meters up and down the slope. With such a large slope, if there is a large group of thieves hiding at the bottom of the slope, it will not be visible from a distance.

"This is a place where thieves often ambush. We have to be careful when we go here. Luna Maria reminded.

A caravan steward next to him smiled and said, "Lord Luna Maria, don't worry, everyone in this place knows that there are often thieves in ambush, and they have been prepared for a long time. What's more, this place has just experienced a plunder, and even if there are thieves who attack us, we won't choose that place. ”

"It's hard to say." Luna Maria glanced at the caravan steward beside her, "Since there are often thieves ambushing here, it means that this is a perfect place for ambushes!" Since it is suitable for ambushes, there is no reason why the thieves and thieves should not do it here! Luna Maria looked at Li Xiang and the others next to her, and said in a loud voice: "Everyone, there are still five miles of land, this is the ramp, everyone has to be careful." ”

"Don't worry." Everyone said with a smile.

However, although he was full of confidence, everyone was a little uneasy in their hearts.

There is no other reason - although it has been months since the people crossed into the world of Iber, and there are many beasts and monsters that have been hunted. However, no one has ever killed anyone......

As the smell of blood grew stronger in the air, the convoy finally reached the vicinity of the ramp. Although they had been mentally prepared, the scene in front of them still scared the people who crossed it! I saw several carriages lying crookedly in front of me, and dozens of dead bodies lying on the ground, both men and women, old and young. It doesn't look like a caravan and more like a migratory family. The death of these dead was terrible, many of the corpses were blurred with flesh and blood, and they must have been slashed more than once! The body of an old man had his limbs amputated! And apparently he was killed by a severed throat after his leg was amputated first. And the women among them are even more defenseless, and it is clear that they have all experienced some ravages and devastation before they die. Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but hide their faces and couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and the female companions among them trembled slightly with fright when they saw these tragic scenes.

After passing the accident convoy, everyone became more and more silent along the way.

Yang Qianyu couldn't help but feel dizzy when he looked at this miserable picture. Judging from the current situation, the ironclad ones encountered this time must be a group of bloodthirsty bandits! Since coming to the world of Iber, although everyone has experienced several dangers, it has generally been smooth. Humans are either the kind and simple civilians living around the Rogue camp, or the passionate warriors of the Rogue Knights in the camp who are on a mission to eradicate demons and reclaim lost lands. And the dirty side of the shadows of this era is the first time to see it so intuitively!

"Beasts are not as good as beasts!" Xue Xiaojing vomited when she first saw such a bloody scene, and now she finally got used to it. She blushed and said, "This is simply a means that beasts are inferior!" Don't let this girl touch these animals! ”

"Huh?" Yang Qianyu's ears suddenly moved, and then he shouted: "There is an ambush!! ”

As soon as the voice fell......

"Whew!" An arrow burst into the air.

"Haha, everyone, let's stay!" A loud laugh came from a distance, like thunder in the air, only to see a large number of people and horses appear under the ramp, "You have no way to escape!" I didn't expect two teams of fat sheep to pass by here in one day today! It's time for our brother to make a fortune! ”

When everyone in the convoy heard this, their faces suddenly changed.

"Hurry up and get rid of them!" The steward of the convoy hurriedly shouted.

Suddenly, the grooms pumped their horses fiercely, urging them to speed up.

The wagon jolted violently, but fortunately the boxes had long been firmly attached to the wagon with ropes, and both the wagons and the wagons were rushing up at this moment. This is the time to run for your life, and no one hesitates. The sergeants of the Knights of Rogue were the queen, at the rear, to stop the thieves from pursuing.

"You can't run away!" The leader of the thieves laughed when he saw this. "Ten miles behind you, there are already hundreds of my brothers waiting for you!"