Section 13: Moonlight (2)
We are deserters on the northern line.
The gnome looked at the lights in the camp in the distance, and memories of the past suddenly flooded back to his heart...... It was hell there, and the whole company died, only Jock the dwarf survived.
He fled the line of defense and took off his uniform, everyone thought that his company had died on the ground, and Jock even saw the news of his own death because of the sacrifice of their company, and the Sidney Wehrmacht had wiped out at least four legions of the enemy in one fell swoop.
It was a brilliant victory.
Jock and his comrades-in-arms are only an insignificant number in victory.
Since that day, Jock has been dead, and he can't go back to his home, so he can only watch his wife remarry with his young children, and he can only watch the children suffer in his new home.
Nothing can be done.
Because Jock is dead, there is not a single coward in his company.
If he comes back alive, his wife and his children will be killed by each other's deserter father and deserter husband.
It is better to suffer more and suffer more sins than to become a child of deserters...... Well done.
So Jock fled his hometown and lived like a lonely ghost, until one day, Jock, who had fallen from poverty and illness, met Cohen and his companions.
"Seeing that you only have a dozen copper plates in your pocket, you don't look like a nobleman, just do it with us."
Cohen is a very righteous man, and his bandit group is not the kind of group that does all kinds of evil, they will do it when they rob caravans, but they will never attack villages.
We are robbers, but we are also reasonable, we are all poor, why should we hurt each other.
Because of this, Jock has been following Cohen.
To this day, he has received a big deal to pursue a target in a mercenary squad.
There are a total of 60 brothers in the group, and the bounty is 72,000 yuan, and each person can get at least 1,000 yuan.
After making this ticket, everyone can return to their hometown, take the money, buy some land, not to mention being a master, but at least they can live with peace of mind.
Cohen had a point, the brothers agreed, and Jock had to agree - even if he had a home and couldn't go back.
But...... If you have money, you can at least go back to see the child, pretend to drop your wallet in front of him, let him pick it up, come to him, or secretly put it away...... It's all good.
At least that's his own child, with this money, he can live better, and when he grows up and leaves that family, maybe he can use this money to live like a free man.
With this in mind, Jock carefully ruled out a trap - it was a round trap about the length of a normal human foot, like a pit, but it was full of spikes, and if he wore plate armor boots, he might break his ankle, but if he didn't wear it, the soles of his feet would rot.
If it weren't for the traces of the technique left here, Jock wouldn't have discovered the trap.
Jock was troubled by the discovery that the other party was proficient in traps - such traps were usually common traps in the military, which meant that there must be veterans among them...... Not a deserter like Jock, but a retired veteran.
This kind of trap is usually only dug by soldiers in the army, and Jock has never seen such a sinister trap in years, so he is once again afraid of who their target will be.
All this ...... It's a cake that fell from the sky, or a huge trap.
Thinking of this, Jock turned his head to look at Cohen who was looking at him in the long grass: "There are traps, I can only remove a few of them, I don't know what kind of traps there will be in front of me, it's very dangerous." β
ββ¦β¦ I got it, I'm going to lead the charge. Cohen nodded, then stood up and waved behind him.
The companions who were waiting at the edge of the woods began to move.
Jock turned his head, and here he could see where the long grass could not hide, and there, as several of his companions walked around the thorny spots, and the moment they stepped out of the woods, Jock keenly observed that one of them had suddenly sank in his footsteps.
In the next second, a branch 'drilled' out of the sand and stabbed him in the chest with the sharp object of the branch!
The sound of the branches waving in the air was so loud in the quiet of the night, and the battered companion didn't even have a chance to wailβhe had wounded his lungs, and the blood poured into them made him speechless, and without treatment, he would have drowned in a pool of his own blood.
Cohen didn't look back, but started moving forward.
Jock gave him his place, and when Cohen led the men through the rough where he was, Jock saw his companion rushing out of the rough on the other side suddenly fall, and this time he screamed without injury to his chest and abdomen.
There was movement on the other side of the camp, and Jock saw a fireball flying out of the camp.
Before he could react, the fireball landed in the long grass behind him, and in the next second, the entire long grass began to ignite.
Some of their companions rushed out, they rolled in the mud, and some didn't make it.
"Rush!" At this time, Jock could only rush forward: "Old Bill! Cover us with your fogging technique! β
Jock turned around to see the old man named Bill being overturned by a bullet that pierced through his left skull and flew off a large chunk of his skull on the other side.
Jock looked in the direction where the bullet was coming from, and in the distance there was a large tree with a dense canopy, and ...... Lots of killer bees.
A second fireball exploded around Jock, knocking him to the ground.
When he got up, he saw his companions pushing away the horses, and the simple rejections were not heavy, but he still saw someone suddenly convulsing and falling to the ground as they were pushing.
Jock got up, and he saw only about twenty of his companions, while a dozen of them fell to the ground.
Jock stepped away and watched his companions rush towards the camp, only to be swept away by the sudden explosion.
He saw his lieutenant lying not far in front of him, shot in the chest, and he was staring in his direction with ignoring eyes.
I saw the elementals stand up, and someone in his team roared...... It starts to twist, it starts to swell.
It's chaos! Jock stopped.
It's Cohen...... Jock grabbed his hair.
No! That's definitely not going to be Cohen!
He's definitely been replaced!
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When someone sneakily approached the camp, Marin had already been alerted by Milani, and he saw a lot of people with his scope.
They were armed with weapons, which was not surprising to Marin.
They began to outflank, which was not surprising to Marin.
When they began to charge against the fire projected by the camp, even though the only warlock had already been killed by Marin, he pushed away the rejection horse and rushed to the camp with scattered fragments, Marin only sighed at the death of man for money.
However, when there was chaos in the team, Marin had no choice but to put down his gun and crush the teleportation scroll that had been prepared, which would allow Marin to return to camp as quickly as possible.
"Chaos!" As soon as Marin came out of the cave prepared for him, he heard a warning from the dwarves: "There is movement in the north and west, too!" β
"Girls! Look north and west! Faye, come with me! Marin said as he took the shotgun and bullet pouch that Jessica had thrown over.
In the next second, two steel silver-seeping single-headed bullets and two arrow-shaped deer bullets had been loaded into the barrel.
The chaos howled and rushed toward the camp, and behind him, the yellow-skinned bandits let out the same howl as if they were crazy, and rushed after him.
"Wall of Fire! Fifty yards ahead! Marin shouted.
He and Faye set up several walls of fire in one fell swoop, but the robbers still rushed towards them, and even though several of them had already been ignited, they still howled and charged without pain.
"They must be controlled by Chaos! Damn it! The middle-aged mercenary captain said this, and pulled out the long sword at his waist: "Let's come!" β
Marin raised the shotgun in his hand at this time and pulled the trigger on the Chaos Giant, the steel one-headed bullet burrowed into its body, interrupting his steps, and as he wailed and tried to cover his wound with his hand, Marlin raised the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger on his face.
Deer bullets covered his entire face, soaked in holy water through its face and bones, before turning its head into a giant beehive.
Throwing away the shotgun, Marlin took the small branch into his hand, at this time the small branch had turned into a wand, which the mages of the Mage Guild usually used to increase the strength of the spell, Marin shook his hand, and a pure white ray hit the Chaos Giant.
In the next second, pure white flames erupted from the Chaos Giant's body, and then the entire Chaos Giant's body and the nearby bandits were engulfed in the divine flames.
Extremely superpowered, the divine touch in the five-ring blessing technique emptied half of Marin's psionic energy pool in one go, and the frenzied output spirit like a pouring made Marin a little tired, he turned around and picked up the shotgun with his foot, and looked at the mercenaries: "Go out and catch a few live mouths, and if there is a situation of chaos erosion, kill them." β
"No problem!" The dwarf was the first to run out of the line, followed by his halfling teammates.
"What kind of technique did you just have?" The middle-aged mercenary captain, as a soldier who could only work hard, was completely frightened by Marin's performance just now - so the huge shotgun still had a double trigger and a double shot, even if he was a descendant of the frost giant, but what was the technique just now.
The Frost Giant's technique was more of an innate ability, and he was obviously using a wand just now, and that ray was as thick as his arm.
"Divine Touch." After Ma Lin finished speaking, he noticed the confusion and confusion on the little healer's face, and specially explained to her: "My bloodline ability can turn many of the blessing techniques' contact techniques into ray techniques. β
"It's too much at stake." The little girl's eyes widened.
At this time, news came from the Mayan side that the robbers from the west and north had begun to disperse, and they had not even reached the position of rejecting the horses, but had already broken under the shooting of the girls, leaving behind a dozen corpses and fled.
"It looks like we've dealt with these enemies, and now the question is, who's going to ask these guys why they're coming to attack us." Marin said as he reached out his hand, and Milani, who had come out of the long grass, jumped onto his hand, and then jumped quickly onto his shoulder.
Marin's head is still Fio's world.
"I'll do it." The mercenary captain seems to have a knack for torture, so Marin gives him the matter.
However, in order to prevent the mercenaries who were arresting people outside from being attacked by the remnants of the bandits, Marin waited near the camp for a while, and finally the dwarves and halflings mended the knives of several seriously wounded people, and then dragged the dwarfs back one by one with bruised noses and swollen faces.
"Hand him over to your captain." Marin nodded, directing the earth elementals to get out of the way, letting the dwarves and halflings drag the captives into the camp, and then let the earth elementals block.
Then he climbed out of the camp and walked towards the big tree, where the gun was still on the observation post.
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After retrieving the gun, Marin returned to the camp, and the middle-aged mercenary immediately approached Marin - the dwarf was not as unyielding as Marin thought, but immediately told everything about it.
"You said your leader of the thieves received a kidnapping mission from the Dark Guild about a target in the mercenary group?" Marin asked, sitting down in front of the gnome.
"Yes, Your Excellency, I don't need to lie to you, I know what kind of situation Chaos is, we are definitely going to die, in this case, why do I need to lie to you." The dwarf's tired face looked like Marin instinctively felt that he wasn't lying - with his current situation, he would only inevitably die, and he would lose his head anyway, so there was really no need for him to deceive.
"1,200 yuan for one person, to be honest, I really can't imagine that 72,000 Sidney Union Standard Currency can buy any of them." Marin turned his head to look at the mercenary captain, who didn't say anything, just shrugged his shoulders and looked tired: "Seriously, Your Excellency, if any of us really is worth so much, it will definitely not be me." β
"I don't think you're worth the price." Marin smiled and sighed, then turned his head to look at the dwarf: "You have a callouse on your right index finger, and between your index finger and thumb, I ask you, have you ever been a soldier." Marin had been curious when he stood in front of the dwarf before, and now he simply asked.
The dwarf shook his head and didn't admit it.
"You have a calloon on the tip of your index finger and thumb, and a thick callus on the tip of your index finger, which looks like you used a gun." Marlin looked at the dwarf and smiled, "I don't think you can do any good by lying in this direction. β
The gnome was silent for a moment: "Yes, Your Excellency. β
"I'm a little curious, why did you become a robber, as far as I know, as an infantryman, you have a salary of 15 yuan a month, although it may not be as good as those merchants, but you also have a salary of more than 450 yuan a month, and you can live more decently than a policeman." Faye asked, following Marin's side.
The dwarf was silent for a moment: "The story about me is very long, I don't know if you have the idea to listen to it once or twice." He asked, looking at Marin.
Marin and Faye changed their opinions for a moment, and then agreed to his request: "Speak, we'll listen." β