Chapter 14: The Ransacked Town
readx;? In the course of this conversation, Victor, the leader of the caravan, not only did not open his mouth to stop him, but squinted his eyes and watched the reactions of several people with interest, and finally he came to a conclusion: "The boss Uma is right, a child dares to be so rude to an intermediate magician, and he is really fearless! Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Mr. Levins, I'm sorry, today's accident may make your plan unrealizable, the cavalry behind has been monitoring us, if you leave early, I'm afraid it will not only cause trouble for the caravan, but also for yourself. ”
Victor said to Alan with a smile, but there was a hint of meaning in his eyes.
"I see, don't worry, I won't cause trouble for the caravan. ”
Alan is also a little helpless about the current state, but after all, after passing the level, he has already taken the most critical step, and then take one step at a time, anyway, they don't know the trace of the murderer, maybe their route is exactly the same as the caravan.
Victor seemed very pleased with Allen's reaction, and he walked back to the head of the group with a smile on his face, continuing to calm the emotions of the entire caravan.
On that day, when the sun was still high, the caravan arrived at the first town after entering the Hig Empire, which was slightly smaller than the town of Urang, with just over three hundred households. But to the surprise of the caravan, the entire town was full of patrolling soldiers, who seemed to be more heavily fortified than the border checkpoints.
Since it would be a long wilderness stretch beyond the town, it would be difficult to find a place where the entire caravan could rest for supplies, so the caravan decided to stay overnight and return to the road tomorrow, despite the fact that it was still early.
Because of the customs clearance documents related to the card and the Higg army in charge of monitoring the back, the soldiers patrolling outside the town did not interrogate too much and let the caravan into the town.
As soon as they entered the town, everyone immediately smelled a trace of unusual smell, a town with more than 300 residents seemed a little too quiet at this time, there were even few pedestrians on the street, some shops were even closed, even if occasionally a few people hurried by, the expression on their faces was dull and wooden, especially when they saw the mercenaries with guns and swords passing by, their eyes flashed with that panicked look, fortunately, there were also Hig soldiers patrolling the street, which made them not flee because of fear. Attentive people can even see dried blood on the stone slabs on the ground, apparently there were people who had been spilling blood in the streets not so long ago.
When passing through the square in the middle of the street, everyone saw a person kneeling on the ground on the black pressure around a platform in the square, and then everyone understood why there were so few pedestrians on the road, it turned out that everyone ran here, on the platform, there were several people in white robes, at this time they were looking up to the sky, their hands slightly raised, and their mouths were chanting something.
It was the first time that many people had seen such a strange scene, and everyone, including Allen, craned their necks and looked curiously in that direction, and the speed of the entire caravan slowed down.
"It's pastors praying. ”
An experienced old mercenary spoke. After he reminded them, everyone noticed that the chest of the white-robed man on the stage was embroidered with a yellow cross, and the cross was a unique symbol of the Holy See on the Noah continent.
Just when the people in the caravan were full of doubts, the mercenary who was in charge of finding out the news came back, and the news he brought back solved the doubts in everyone's hearts and made everyone's hearts sink at the same time.
It turned out that in the night three days ago, I don't know where a group of horse bandits appeared, sneak attack the town at midnight, although there are a small number of militia stationed in the town, but in the middle of the night, there is no time to organize a resistance, and the horse bandits were killed by the horse bandits.
The poor residents of the town, the peaceful life they had been living was suddenly broken, nine out of ten households had relatives killed and injured, especially the young women in the family, and the worst thing was those shops on the street, not only the stored materials were looted, many people lost their lives, most of the bloodstains that are still on the street are left by them, and some of the shops that have not been opened are because the whole family died under the butcher's knife of the horse thief.
After the defeat of the former Bols rebels, they became bloodthirsty and greedy horse bandits, and their relatives were slaughtered by the Templar Order after the destruction of Baden, and now the Higg Empire has pledged allegiance to the Holy See, and they are not in a position to retaliate against the Holy See, and even their former compatriots are carrying out inhumane revenge.
The frenzied bandits hurried away before dawn with their booty and disappeared into the hilly wilderness, only to be met with corpses and blood all they could see when the Hig border guards stationed in the direction of the checkpoint arrived, and the cries of the survivors in grief. When the border guards chased out of the town, they could not see any shadow of the horse bandits except the wilderness, and they circled around the wilderness twice, but they did not even see the shadow of the horse bandits, and the horse team of nearly 300 people seemed to have disappeared.
Hearing this story, Allen's eyes were glowing with hatred, and their fists were clenched, how similar was the tragedy that happened in Yuewan Village more than a month ago to what happened here, and a thought came to the minds of the four people almost at the same time: Could it be that those murderers were horse bandits? Judging from the route they walked, it was very probable, but it was just that five horse bandits traveled thousands of miles to a mountain village to massacre, were they crazy to be idle?
Alan pondered for a while, although he felt that the horse bandits really had no reason to cause the tragedy in Yuewan Village, but at present, it was indeed the most suspicious object.
Most of the people in the town after the sack of the horse bandits now kneel in the central square of the town, listening to the priests reciting scriptures to comfort the souls of the dead, hoping that the souls of the dead will reach heaven as soon as possible, and there will be no horse bandits rampant.
That night, the caravan chartered one of the only two inns in the town that was open, and the owner of the inn managed to escape by hiding in the cellar in the backyard of the hotel when the bandits came, but the men in the inn were killed, and the supplies of the hotel were also looted.
The caravan people nominally chartered the hotel, but in fact, the hotel was limited in what it could provide, not only did it lack cooks and men, but it didn't even have enough rice and food to start the fire, but fortunately, the caravan was fully supplied in Ulang Town, so using the hotel's kitchen, the mercenaries made their own dinner, although this dinner was neither hearty nor delicious.
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