Chapter 78: Robbery and Murder (Medium)
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By the time Hammertower and Fayun returned to Moktok, it was already close to the afternoon, and they had spent nearly half of the day at Moktaw's fortress without even a hint of good news. Unable to obtain the protection of the patrol, they had to walk alone on the road to Frederik, that is, through the Great Isthmus of Mozaffi.biquge.info
"Are you saying that the patrol captain not only didn't give a reason, but also refused after you offered the favor? And then I blasted you out?" Xu Fei sat next to Chen Kai, figuring out a quill stained with spell ink in his hand, and drops of magic ink slowly sketched from the tip of the quill pen to the spell scroll paper along the tip of the quill pen. Although Xu Fei was talking in his mouth, it did not prevent him from copying the spell scroll, of course, only the stage of graphic sketching would not hinder him.
"Yes!" Hammertower didn't even think about answering directly, because it didn't require much thought at all, after all, this is the reality.
"Then we're going to be in trouble! According to what you said, the patrols here should be happy to help the merchants who paid the benefits. Now the captain has refused your request without even saying a reason, and the most important thing is that we pay twice as much as an ordinary caravan!! He doesn't do this kind of business, or he is a saint who is not greedy for money, and obviously he can't reach this benchmark at all. Then there is only one reason left, someone or a group of people are pressuring him, and then these people are targeting us. The most important thing is that these people will definitely not be robbers, because robbers do not dare to put pressure on officers and soldiers, and they will kill people. Xu Fei's words stirred up layers of waves in the hearts of Hammer Tower and Chen Kai, in fact, the two of them thought about it for a while and found that the reality was indeed the case. Then cold sweat oozed from the brains of the two of them instantly, because according to Xu Fei, they were simply too dangerous, in fact, Chen Kai could think of what kind of force was targeting them with his ass.
In the Rohan Empire, they basically have no one else to offend except for offending the forces of the noble senate, so this time the only force that can make a fortress patrol captain directly frightened and dare not reach out for money to help is the noble senate, one of the three major forces of the Rohan Empire. Although Hammer Tower moved out of the royal party of the Earl of Zaf. But it was only with the help of a little name from Count Zaf, for the noble senate, as long as it was not the emperor of the empire, then there was no one who could stop them from making a move against Chen Kai. As for whether His Majesty, the emperor of the Rohan Empire, would have a bad relationship with one of the three major forces in the empire because of Chen Kai, I couldn't think about it with my toes.
"It's a big problem!" Both Chen Kai and Hammertower felt that it was very tricky, but everyone knew that such news must not be passed on, and if those mercenaries knew, it was estimated that the mercenaries of the entire caravan would choose to withdraw from this mission. Although Chen Kai's remuneration is very high, no matter how high the remuneration is, he has to earn his life. These mercenaries don't want to take their own lives directly because they are greedy for payment, so that they will receive not a reward but a pension.
But Chen Kai and the others finally had to sue those mercenaries. Because if they are not told sù, once the battle begins, then what awaits them may be the defection of the mercenaries. Even Hammertower thinks that if the forces of the aristocratic senate really want to move in the Great Mozarfi Isthmus, then Chen Kai and they will probably be difficult to resist, and even his final outcome will be death. So Hammertower could imagine how the other mercenaries would look if they found out about this, because even he had the urge to back down now.
"Wait! If it were the aristocratic senate, it wouldn't have waited until now, right? You must know that we have passed through many places controlled by the aristocratic senate, although they are all cautious sneaking through guò, but there will always be traces. If the people of the aristocratic senate really want to do it, it is impossible to wait until now!" At a time when everyone is shrinking their brows. Fei Yun suddenly spoke, and his words directly opened the haze in everyone's hearts, because the truth was as he said.
"That's right! I didn't think that if the Noble Senate wanted to do it, it would probably be done in Disgama, which is the territory of the Disgama family, one of the four elders of the Noble Senate. Hammertower slapped his thigh and shouted, and as soon as Fei Yun said that, he immediately felt that the other party's words were right, but soon his face began to turn ugly.
"Even if it is not for all the forces of the noble senate to act together, it is estimated that the captain of a fortress patrol who can force a fortress patrol to throw a rat trap is also a big noble, and we still can't afford to provoke such a person!" Hammertower's words poured out a fact. In fact, even if it wasn't for the big nobles and middle nobles to do something to Chen Kai and them, they couldn't afford to provoke them. Because the group is full of more than 100 people, the patrol captain who can force the other party does not dare to help, and the strength is definitely stronger than them. More than a hundred mercenaries couldn't fight against the other party's forces no matter how much they thought, so Hammertower's face still became like a bitter melon.
"In fact, we can afford to mess with it! Fourth, load your heavy crossbow that has been sealed for almost two months onto the carriage! Boss, I need a little bit of money to buy spell crystals, and I think I'll need my spear staff in the next battle!" Xu Fei crumpled the scroll paper in his hand into a ball, just now he accidentally ticked a spell symbol wrong, and as a result, this fourth-order scroll paper directly turned into a waste product.
"Dumbo! You've wasted another 500 gold coins!" Chen Kai was very distressed when he saw the scroll paper in Xu Fei's hand that had become a waste product, if this scroll paper could be turned into a scroll, it would be a fourth-order spell scroll worth thousands. But the more advanced the spell scrolls, the higher the price at the same time. The lower the success rate. In fact, with Xu Fei's current spell level, it was already a miracle that three of the ten fourth-order scroll papers could succeed. As for the fifth-order scroll paper, he completely collected it and didn't use it. Because according to his current spell level, he couldn't control a fifth-order scroll at all.
"That's it! Brother Shui, isn't it five hundred gold coins! I've accumulated more than 500 gold coins!" Xu Fei clapped his hands, and then began to dig out Chen Kai's money bag, because his own money bag was already empty. All the gold coins have been turned into scroll materials and mana ink, and of course, they have basically become spell scrolls inside Xu Fei's scroll bag now.
"Why don't you talk about those spell scrolls that you wasted! Don't dig it, I have this little money left, even Yi Ya's private money is in it, if you plan to let us drink the northwest wind in Frederik, use it up! You really take all of it, leave some rent money for Lao Tzu! Damn it. Bastard!!" In Chen Kai's angry scolding, Xu Fei and Fei Yun took out Chen Kai's money bag and ran, and by the time Chen Kai's loud scolding came out, the two had already run away.
"These two bastards! Luckily, I still have two white crystal coins hidden, otherwise I would have gone to drink the Northwest Wind!!" After Xu Fei and Fei Yun ran away, Chen Kai carefully took out the only coins he had left from his backpack, which were already his last savings. In the hands of ordinary players, it is estimated that the game has not saved half of the money for more than a year, but Chen Kai has spent more than 100,000 yuan on the way. This is not counting the ones that were taken away by Xu Fei in the end. As for whether Xu Fei would run away with the money, Chen Kai basically never thought about this.
"Uncle Hammertower! Just mention the things you just said to all the mercenaries! If you are willing to continue the mission, I will give you another 5,000 gold coins as a commission when you arrive in Kazmodo. If you die in battle, I will give you a pension of 50,000 gold coins!" After Chen Kai's words were finished, Hammertower was directly stunned, because this was already a large amount of money. If you count the commission that Chen Kai gave at the beginning. The total amount of gold coins that Chen Kai invested in this mission basically exceeded 600,000, but thinking about the amount of money that Chen Kai earned after transporting more than three million goods to Hansting, Hammer Tower immediately understood. High investment also means high returns, and cross-border trade, especially luxury trade, is always the most lucrative.
After nearly two days of preparation, Chen Kai and his group of more than 80 people left Moktok in the early hours of the morning. In fact, they had already come out of the city in the evening of the previous day, but instead of going directly to the Great Mozarfi Pass, they had spent the night in the wilderness of Moktok. Since Hammertower told the mercenaries all the information, some of the mercenaries chose to take the money and leave, of course, they must have received much less commission. Because they are equivalent to ending the task early, they can only get one-third of the commission at most. However, those who left were all mercenaries who were recruited in Pezaros later, and those who were left behind were basically old men who had come all the way from the city of Cameras. In fact, these people are all staying for the sake of Hammer Tower, and in their opinion, as long as Hammer Tower does not leave, then it means that although the mission is dangerous, it will not be too deadly.
But the reality was that Hammertower himself didn't know that he could get out of it, but several times he swallowed it back as soon as it came to his lips. Although he lacked confidence, he still felt that he had a few chances of winning after seeing Fei Yun's terrifying heavy crossbow. Because he felt that such a heavy crossbow should be the most advanced heavy crossbow weapon in the Hansting Empire, even in the imperial capital of the Rohan Empire, he had never seen such an advanced heavy crossbow, which could be automatically assembled and attached to the spell to strengthen the structure, which was completely a semi-alchemy heavy crossbow structure. Although Fei Yun only said that the crossbow string of the heavy crossbow is only 500 kilograms of strength at most. However, Hammertower felt that such a heavy crossbow could exert at least 800 kilograms of pulling force. Of course, he also knew that it was the ultimate rally, and if he used too much of it, he would get into trouble. Even the crossbow arrows shot by the five hundred kilograms of rally force were not something that a ninth-order warrior like him would dare to hard catch, unless it was a weapon master-level powerhouse or a holy domain that dared to hard-catch the arrows fired by the five hundred attack heavy crossbows at a short distance.
The most important thing is that a heavy crossbow is not just capable of firing one or several arrows. Equipped with a crossbow arrow magazine, especially Fei Yun's own modified crossbow arrow magazine, it can shoot thousands of arrows in an instant. Thinking of the terrifying cloud of crossbow arrows, if he was killed by his own defenselessness, it was estimated that only a strong person who mastered the Dou Flame above the seventh order could survive such a terrible rain of arrows, of course, only in the case of a sneak attack. If it weren't for a sneak attack, it was estimated that as long as there was a defensive effect, it would become very poor, and even a sixth-order warrior could block it with a guò shield. But apart from Chen Kai and Hammer Tower, few people in even the mercenary team knew that such a peerless murder weapon was hidden in the carriage, let alone those enemies who were ready to rob Chen Kai and them halfway. As for the spear staff in Xu Fei's hand, Hammertower was extremely familiar, especially the terrifying arcane dissociation light generated by the full stimulation of the spear staff, which was a terrifying attack that even he could directly sweep into powder with one blow.
This is the most terrifying part of the spellcaster, basically after the spell level exceeds the sixth or seventh order, it has an extremely terrifying ability to kill melee powerhouses below the holy level. Although it takes a long time to prepare such a high-level spell, and even only high-level master-level spellcasters have the ability to quickly cast seventh- and eighth-order spells in fierce battles, but for melee personnel below the holy rank, as long as they are attacked by sixth- and seventh-order spells, it is basically a dead word. Even if you're lucky, you don't hit the nail on the head. But it is also the end of a serious injury.
Although Xu Fei's dissociation technique to activate the release of the spear staff with all his strength was only similar, Hammer Tower was sure that the power of that spell was definitely more powerful than an ordinary sixth-order spell, and it was basically equivalent to a seventh-order spell. As long as such a spell hits the target, as long as the enemy is not a holy rank, there is absolutely only one ending in death. It's just that Hammertower knows very well that although Xu Fei's weapon is powerful, it only has the ability to hit a single blow, and it is basically impossible to use it again if it is swept away.
But even with all his preparations, Hammertower was still apprehensive when he left Moktok. If it turns out that he can change the distance traveled through guò. If he had taken some remote path to confuse or even get rid of possible enemy tracks, there was no way for him to get rid of the enemy by switching paths, because there was only one way to get from Moktok to Frederik. No matter what they choose, in the end there is only one way to take the Great Isthmus of Mozaffi.
At around nine o'clock in the morning, Chen Kai and his convoy slowly passed in front of Mozarfi's fortress. Standing on the city walls, patrol captain Kabas? Ah Jielu sighed as she looked at Chen Kai's huge convoy, then turned to the guards beside her and said.
"Tell everyone not to patrol the Isthmus of Mozarfi for the next two days. After three days the patrol was allowed to enter the isthmus, and then say to the people of the Marquis of Zafaro and the Grand Duke Miranda, this is my Kabas? The only thing Aconlu can do for them is something!" With that, the patrol leader sighed and walked back to Mozarfi's fortress, while the guard passed the news to the messengers of the two nobles who stayed in Mozarfi's fortress.
They didn't know what happened in Modaffi's fortress, because they passed through the perimeter of the fortress from a long distance away from Modaffi's fortress, and then followed a side road directly into the Isthmus of Modaffi. Of course, although they did not pass the main citadel of Mozarfi's fortress, they passed through a secondary fortress. If this were not the case, the entire Isthmus of Mozafi would be completely in the hands of the city of Moktok.
Entering the Isthmus of Mozarfi from the auxiliary road, you will find that there are steep slopes on both sides of the highlands that are more than ten meters high, which are all artificial ground bulges artificially created by the legendary ** master with a spell that changed the sky and the earth. In order to create such a huge deformation of the ground. At the beginning, more than a dozen legendary ** masters worked together, and they also used a magic array that was so huge that it covered hundreds of meters to complete. This kind of artificially created natural barrier is a matter of labor and money, because the cost alone is as high as tens of millions of gold coins, but the effect is very good. Officially, because of the existence of this Mozarfi Plateau, Hansting would have to pay a greater price if he wanted to attack the Rohan Empire. As long as you hold a section of Mozarfi's pass, then even if there are millions of troops, you will not want to attack the hinterland of the Rohan Empire. After all, human armies are not undead and can climb straight steep slopes with their bare hands. Shaped by the spell, the highland rocks near Frederik's side were so strong that even a hammer could not smash them into a depression. Such straight and steep walls. Basically difficult to climb. Therefore, it is very difficult to walk from the high ground on both sides, and the most important thing is that Chen Kai and they cannot leave the goods in their hands and climb to the high ground.
Therefore, Chen Kai and the others could only walk slowly along the auxiliary road in the Isthmus of Modaffi. As you go deeper and deeper into the isthmus, the terrain around the isthmus becomes more complex, and the roads become wide and flat. Such terrain was slowly opened up later for the convenience of trade routes, and it could only accommodate two groups of horse-drawn carriages and caravans. If the two sides meet, one side has to give way at a wide place at the turn.
However, there is an area of more than 10 kilometers long in the entire isthmus, and the surrounding mountains are steep but climbable, and the terrain is extremely complex. If you don't have someone familiar with the road, you will probably get lost in this area, which is also the most dangerous place in the entire Isthmus of Morphes. All caravans knew that it was here that there were the most robberies. Some robbers would enter the area as caravans, robbing passing merchants and then dumping their bodies into various underground crevices in the isthmus.
Before entering this area, Chen Kai and the others had already put their vigilance to the highest level, because no one knew which direction the attack would appear from. In this state, the carriage slowly took shape, and the speed continued to decrease until it reached a state of almost turtle speed. T
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