Chapter 31: The Piercing King
On the road from Istanbul to the principality of Wallakia, three horses are jogging.
There was a man and three women on horseback, close to omnipotent, but only Sun Ran and Lan Xin, who couldn't ride a horse, rode together.
Sun Ran was in front, and Lan Xin was behind to protect him from falling off his horse.
At this time, Sun Ran was very comfortable, the horse didn't need him to control the direction, and there was a beauty behind him to make a cushion to lean on, which couldn't be more comfortable.
At this point, he held a ghost-seeking compass in his hand, and the pointer on it pointed straight in the direction of the Duchy of Wallachia, indicating that the vampire he was looking for was within the Duchy.
"Xin'er, contact the game administrator and see where that Jing Ke is? Don't wait for him to finish his mission, we're still stupidly rushing. Sun Ran stretched out his hand and patted the plump long legs of the person behind him.
They had been on their way from Istanbul for ten days along the Danube River all the way north.
"Don't do it." Lan Xin reached out and twisted the soft flesh on Sun Ran's waist as a warning, and then began to contact the administrator.
In the space station, Hao Qiang received an inquiry, so he zoomed in on the surveillance of the assassin Jing Ke.
At this glance, his brows suddenly furrowed.
Jing Ke was already in Targovishtay, the capital of the Principality of Wallachia, but he was in a bad situation.
Last night, he killed a mid-ranking officer in the Bat Legion in an attempt to extract a confession from the vampire saboteur, but naturally found nothing. This move alarmed the saboteurs, who in turn affected Duke Dracula. Now, the Duke has ordered the whole city to be cordoned off, and a net has been laid in the city, and a dragnet search is being carried out.
Since last night, Jing Ke has been hiding in the sewers of Targovishtai and not daring to move, let alone assassinate the saboteurs.
It seems that the Bronze Order can't be counted on for the time being, and his actions have alerted the saboteurs, greatly increasing the difficulty of the mission.
After thinking about it, Hao Qiang contacted Jing Ke: "It is recommended to wait for the opportunity to withdraw from the capital of the principality, join the Thorn Rose team, and wait for the turmoil in the city to rest for a while, and then assassinate." ”
After the message was sent, Jing Ke quickly replied coldly: "I'm used to acting independently, and I don't need help." ”
Hao Qiang's heart froze and asked, "Then what are your plans?" ”
"Strike the grass and scare the snake. Targovishtai has already moved, I just have to wait, after a long time, the saboteurs will naturally show their flaws. After Jing Ke replied, he fell silent.
The Order is in a mission, and the Game Master cannot interfere without permission. Hao Qiang had no choice but to contact the Thorn Rose team and inform him of the situation in the Duchy of Wallachia.
Sun Ran smiled bitterly: "This Jing Ke has muddied the water, it seems that we can't enter the principality normally." ”
The saboteurs have information about the four of them, and now that the whole city is under martial law, they will definitely be suspected as soon as they appear. No matter how strong the four of them were, they were still mortal in the flesh, and it was impossible for them to resist the thousands of vampire legions no matter what, let alone the help of ordinary guards in an entire city.
"So, we're going to have to split up and sneak in." Bai Tingxuan said.
The situation now is that the saboteurs have their basic information, but this information is transmitted directly to the mind. In the context of medieval technology, he certainly could not create a portrait of a vampire with a high degree of similarity, that is, the guards could not distinguish their physiognomy at all, only the most important feature of three women and one man. So they go their separate ways to minimize the attention.
Sun Ran was puzzled: "Can't you use your invisibility talisman?" "Incognito into town, relaxed and enjoyable.
Bai Tingxuan shook her head: "It's useless." The saboteurs guarded against this and set up a life detection spell at the city gate. At the same time, everyone who enters the city will be given a ticket to enter the city. Each entry ticket is on the record, making it difficult to forge. However, our weapons are non-living and invisible, and they will not be detected. ”
I see, the saboteurs are cautious enough.
Sun Ran put forward an opinion: "Then we will separate when we reach the outskirts of Targovishtai, the capital of the principality." I'm alone, Ke'er is alone, Xin'er and Xuanxuan are in a group. After entering the city, we used Xuanxuan's paper birds to connect with each other. ”
Kerr was an Assassin and was suitable for independent operations. Although Sun Ran is a mage, he has many means and rich experience, and he can ensure safety when he acts alone, such a detachment method is very reasonable, and the three women all agreed.
On the map, they were less than a hundred miles away from the capital of the principality, and the horses were galloping all the way down to Targovishtai in half a day.
The four of them walked slowly, getting closer and closer to the capital of the principality, and Duke Dracula's atrocities were becoming more and more visible.
From time to time, executed corpses would appear on the side of the road, pierced from the lower body by a sharp stake, through the belly, and out of the mouth. Under such a punishment, the inmate could not die for a while, and had to struggle on the stake for a long time before dying, so cruel that it was close to perversion.
The identities of these corpses were either criminals who had triggered the law or prisoners of war from neighboring countries, and if they angered the duke, they all ended up in this way. Because of this brutal method, Duke Dracula got the nickname 'King of Piercing'.
The group walked dozens of kilometers after another, and Lan Xin suddenly pointed to a pierced female corpse and said, "Look, this is a member of another team." She was the worst, she was caught red-handed and was impaled before she could exit the game. I heard that after she quit the game, she went to find psychological intervention. ”
Sun Ran sighed, there are also disadvantages in being sober-minded, if it is an ordinary player with memory shielding, this painful memory will be automatically erased by the brain.
After walking for a while, the frequency of corpses increased rapidly, and the smell of corpses was dense along the way.
These are executed prisoners of war, some time ago the Ottomans just attacked Targovishtay, Dracula ordered to pierce all the previous tens of thousands of prisoners of war on both sides of the road, this move directly frightened the imperial soldiers, morale close to freezing, and retreated before the attack.
Ke'er pointed to the two corpses on the side of the road and said hatefully: "Look, that's me, next to me is Sister Xuan, fortunately, we committed suicide quickly." ”
Sun Ran frowned, feeling that this Dracula's psychology had been distorted. For the average player, his being a duke is a real disaster.
This medieval game is really dark and savage enough.
He turned his head to look at Lan Xin and asked, "Xin'er, how did you get kicked out?" ”
"Me?" A trace of fear flashed on Lan Xin's face, and his face was a little pale: "I was chased into the forest by a vampire, and when I was seriously injured, I met a werewolf, and my body was torn by him. ”
The other three people who said this were silent, Sun Ran grabbed Lan Xin's hand, held it hard, and said softly: "This kind of thing will not happen in the future." ”
Lan Xin smiled slightly, leaned forward, and looked for solace from Sun Ran's back.
The principality of Wallachia was very small, and after a few hours on horseback, after crossing a few small towns, it was already less than ten kilometers from Targoviste.
When they got here, the four of them parted ways, the three girls rode their horses and drove separately, and Sun Ran marched on foot at the end, who told him that he couldn't ride a horse.
The three girls were divided into two groups and soon left, leaving Sun Ran alone at the end. Ten kilometers of road, walking for more than two hours, until the sky was getting dark, and the trail was approaching dusk, Targovishtai, the capital of the principality, finally appeared in Sun Ran's sight.
The city was under complete martial law, the city gates were not allowed to enter or leave, the guards at the gate were full of a brigade of more than thirty people, and the bulletin board at the gate was still posted, and the bounty for the assassins was already as high as one hundred gold coins.
Sun Ran settled down, and after getting the entry ticket for up to one silver coin on the city gate, he followed a caravan into the city.
The atmosphere in Targovishtai was similarly tense, with the streets filled with patrolling guards, and the occasional vampire wearing a black turtleneck cloak looking for the Assassin. If someone wants to make trouble, the guards will directly pull people to pierce outside the city.
Under such cruel measures, the whole city was so closed that not even a fly could fly out.
At this moment, Sun Ran really realized that vampires had become a big trend, and with the help of power, they got the cooperation of ordinary players, which was really difficult to deal with.