Episode 105 Vignette
Donk took note of the linguist's advice, and this quest to open the treasure chest has a high reward, so naturally there will be a corresponding difficulty, so you can't be sloppy.
The three of them returned the same way, and the goblins still played the role of coolies. They talked as they walked, discussing what was next. Halfway through, One-Eye noticed that something was wrong, stabbed Tang Ke, and slammed his mouth behind him.
Donk understood, glanced back, and saw a group of people sneaking after them, all of them with sinister eyebrows and rat eyes, and all armed with weapons. Tang Ke walked forward quietly, secretly using several investigation techniques, and found that the people behind him were ordinary robbers, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
He laughed secretly in his heart, today is a thief meets a thief, and the robber has the idea of a pirate.
As a pirate port, the security situation in Red Rose Port is very poor, and the local government turns a blind eye to all kinds of conditions, and this port can only ensure that the military will not attack pirates, and ensure that the docks are in order, nothing more.
But it was this coexistence of chaos and order that attracted the pirates to rest here.
Tang Ke and One-Eye, both people who are not afraid of things, gestured and walked towards the small alley, naturally intending to clean up the group of robbers. The hearts of the two of them are like Spiegel, but Norman is still kept in the dark, carrying a treasure chest on his back, and his mouth is rambling.
They walked into a secluded alley and pretended to be chatting and laughing. In the alley, a leper dog was eating something dirty, and when he heard the movement, he raised his head alertly, and then ran away with the dirty thing in his mouth.
"Norman, after the fight starts, be careful yourself, don't interfere, just hide at the base of the wall with your head in your hands." Donk suddenly came up with such a sentence.
"Commander, what do you mean by that?" Norman lifted his grinning green face, and his big ears shook in the wind.
"You know what it means when you look at it."
Prompted, Norman looked forward and saw five smiling Terran men. When he turned around again, he was blocked by five people behind him.
"Commander, I see what it means!" Norman stomped his feet and said, "These people don't know how to live or die, if there is a magic cannon here, see if I don't destroy them with one shot!" ”
Donk grabbed Norman by the shoulder and motioned for Norman to take care, he was a little worried about the safety of the non-combat professional. One-eyed stands sideways, making sure that he can deal with both sides at any time.
The leader of the robbers is a tall and strong man with a full of ghost tattoos on his face, which is quite intimidating. He smiled maliciously, "Hello Captain Donke, you have been a hot topic in the port recently." ”
Donk turned around and glanced at the bandit leader, frowned, "I hope your topic satisfies me, but I guess it's unlikely." ”
"Hehe, I'm really going to disappoint you, I came to you to get some money to spend, it seems that this topic will not make you happy." The bandit leader said as he approached forward, and the ten robbers in front and behind blocked Donk and them in the middle of the road.
"It really makes me unhappy." Donk hated being threatened by others very much, and the murderous aura on his face rolled up, and he also crawled out of the pile of dead people, and when he was angry, he looked very terrifying.
The bandit leader saw that Donk was not easy to deal with, and stopped talking nonsense, and raised his gun to shoot, aiming at Donk's legs.
"Bump!"
The bullets shattered the slabs, and the people standing there were gone.
In the blink of an eye, Donk and One-Eye had already disappeared over the wall, and the speed made the robbers shocked. Norman remained where he was, but he wisely chose to raise his hands in surrender and stand against the wall to avoid being affected.
"Fuck, leave two people to watch this dwarf, and the rest of me will go over the wall and chase after me!" The leader of the robbers shouted angrily.
Donk and One-Eye fell behind the wall, and their bodies were steady. The alley is so narrow that it is easy to get injured if you start a shootout. They didn't want to be in the hands of this group of thieves, so they chose to avoid it.
"How?" One-Eye asked.
"All of them were killed, and only one was left alive to interrogate. Be ruthless and save us from attracting people's worries. After Tonk put down the harsh words, he turned and ran backwards, and One-Eye followed suit.
The robbers are still trying to clumsily climb over the wall. Because the walls are so high, only one person can use them as stepping stones underneath them, and another person can step on them.
"Don't bother, I'm here." Donk's slow voice rang out.
The robbers were taken aback, and turned their heads to find Donk standing in front of them, his face gloomy, and his sword in his hand. The bandits' hairs stood on end, and they jumped up from the ground, brandishing their swords to cut down the tinks.
At the same time, One-Eye appeared on the other side, raising his musket and his eyes becoming sharper.
This time, it was Donk's turn to outflank the bandits.
Tang Ke walked forward with the garden steps, took a step to the left, dodged the sword that was slashed vertically, turned sideways slightly, and watched a sword shadow pass in front of him, but not even a single hair of his hair could be touched. He fought back as he strolled, with a simple and graceful slash that split half of the neck of one of the robbers, and drew another circle with his sword, and another pirate was cut off at the waist.
After the swordsman reached the third rank, combat became a cruel art. Under their overwhelming sword aura, ordinary flesh bodies are not vulnerable at all, and once they get touched, they can only end up with flesh and blood.
Halfway from his wounds, he raised his gun and began to shoot, first lifting a long-pole musket and piercing the head of one of the robbers, then dropping his gun, drawing two pistols from his waist, and firing his bow from side to side, the bullets once again bursting from the enemy's body.
At this distance, he didn't miss a shot.
The scene of the one-sided slaughter was so exciting that Norman, who watched from the sidelines, began to mourn in silence for the robbers.
It was only a moment's effort, and the alley was already scattered, the ground and walls seemed to be painted with a layer of red paint, and the limbs were piled up on the ground, and the smell of blood mixed with a foul smell made people smell sick.
Suddenly, silently.
Donk dragged the already frightened bandit leader away from the scene, and under his careful care, the bandit leader was intact in the chaos of blades.
The bandit leader's eyes were bloodshot, his mouth wide open, and his cheeks trembled. He has killed people, and he thinks he is ruthless, but the number of people he kills can only be worth a fraction of the number of people Tang Ke killed.
The bandit leader sincerely regretted it, and if he had to turn back the clock, he would have chosen to roll up all his belongings and flee the place completely. He made a fatal mistake, the shadow of a famous tree, and the man whose head is worth ten thousand gold coins, is by no means easy to match.
Donk took a breath of slightly fresher air, threw the bandit leader to the ground, stomped on the robber's chest with his foot, and then slashed the robber's left shoulder with his sword, and asked, "Who ordered you to deal with me?" ”
The leader of the robbers wailed in pain, and said hurriedly: "No one instructed me, it is my ghost who wants to extort a little money from you, please, give me a good time." He had already given up the idea of survival, and he didn't think that the demon in front of him would be able to show mercy and let him go.
"There's really no mastermind behind it?" Donk asked aggressively.
"Nope!"
"Well, I'll give you a good time and teach you a hand before you die. The next time you ask for money from a wicked person, you should put yourself in a proper posture of wagging your tail and begging for mercy, so that you will be rewarded smoothly and will not die in vain. Donk glanced up at the bright sky, "How nice it would be to have some afternoon tea at this time." Just like the elf linguist. With that, the sword in his hand drew a bright red mark downward.
The bandit leader's pupils contracted suddenly, gradually losing focus, and in his eyes, the shadow of a white cloud slowly drifted by.
Tang Ke flicked the blade of his sword, and the dirty blood on it spilled onto the wall. One-eyed picked up his guns and put them on his body one by one, restoring his appearance as an arms dealer. The goblin clutched the black chest with one hand and pinched his nose with the other, and followed upside down, jumping over the severed limbs along the way.
This episode didn't affect Donk's good mood, and after leaving the alley, he forgot about the scene and started chatting with One-Eye.
Still with the intention of opening the treasure chest, Donk searched all the way and found a thief with a little reputation.
The thief was a goblin, and Norman intervened and made an easy deal.
They sat in a small private room in the tavern, undisturbed by outsiders. The black chest was placed on a table with many scratches.
"You're just going to have to see if there's a way to open it this time, but you don't have to really open it, you know?" Donk admonished, leaving a spot of blood in the corner of his eye.
The thief noticed this detail, and had a clear idea of who Tang Ke was, and he showed a friendly attitude comparable to that of a waitress in a five-star hotel, not wanting to anger Tang Ke.
"I understand that profit always comes with risk, and I am an experienced thief who has dealt with all kinds of mechanisms in treasure chests, such as poison mist, flying needles, explosions, and so on." The third-order goblin thief boasted.
Believing the goblins, Donk tapped the lid of the treasure chest and motioned for the thieves to get to work.
The thieves then went to inspect the treasure chest, which had a very good face, and was a valuable work of art in itself. He looked at the lock part of the box and couldn't help but smack his lips, he swore he had never seen such a beautiful lock. He opened his wide eyes and looked through the keyhole, his pupils constricting suddenly.
"This treasure chest is a good thing, it should be the Twilight Era, only that era has this lock-making technology. But you're going to have to do a lot of work to open it, at least not one of the thieves I know can do it. The thief shrugged helplessly, the business was not something he could take.
Tang Ke was not too disappointed, he found this third-order thief more to try his luck.
"Hush money, don't talk nonsense outside." Donk pulled out a gold coin and slapped it on the table.
"You're the most cheerful person I've ever met." The thief was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, we thieves are the most professional people in the world." And I don't think a treasure chest that can't be opened is a good topic. ”
Satisfied with the thief's cleverness, Donk parted ways with the thief, but was not discouraged. He continued on the road with his men, and next, he planned to try his luck with a famous dwarven craftsman, and always get some clues to open the treasure chest.