Chapter 50: Homecoming
Austin extinguished the fifth cigarette on the floor, and finally came to his senses and saw the person next to him.
"Ah, here you are! I'm sorry to get distracted. ”
Anna shook her head, a change from the charm of the past, although it was a fiery red outfit outlining the beautiful curves of the body, but standing in the autumn breeze, there was a tranquil feeling, looking at her as if she could feel the sky high and the clouds light.
Austin was stunned for a moment.
"Austin! Austin!" Morrogie called twice, Austin came to his senses and turned his head as if nothing had happened, Davix sneered, and Anna blushed at the sight.
However, the slightly bleak atmosphere completely dissipated, and everyone set off laughing and laughing, and the men of Moroji at the city gate led out more than twenty iron horneed horses with excellent endurance from the dark horse, and everyone turned over and rode according to Austen's memory, and walked towards the town of Crow.
The temperature difference in the wilderness is always enormous, even in autumn at noon, when the temperature drops down and the cool breeze rustles the low bushes.
Austin and the others were sitting cross-legged on the ground at this time to breathe, surrounded by layers of wolf corpses, among which there were four or five huge violent bears, which had been torn into scattered flesh and blood by the furious source power at this moment.
The people went away from the main road in order to find a shortcut, and passed directly through the endless wilderness. This land is full of dangers for ordinary people, whether it is a hungry beast or a harsh environment, it is daunting.
However, such an environment is a paradise for Austin and others, and the fierce beasts are just wild pleasures in their eyes, and these people also have the ability of the second order at least, although the wolf meat is a little sour, but it can give everyone a tooth sacrifice. As for those violent bears, Moroji was able to tear them apart with a few shots, and even deliberately left a delicious bear paw.
"It's getting late, let's camp on the spot. Austin opened his eyes and commanded, dragging the still intact wolf and bear carcasses to a nearby water source to wash and skin them. On the other side, his subordinates set up stoves and lit high-energy fuels to raise the fire.
As night fell, the four fields were vast, and the sound of wild beasts roaring and winding was faintly heard. The entourage, mostly armed with shotguns and alloy crossbows, stood guard, and the four of Austin gathered around the largest fire, sucking grease-covered fingers, listening to Austin and Davids tell stories about their time before entering the Inquisition. For some reason, the two of them skipped Gwenny very tacitly.
As they spoke, the two fell silent, and naturally they didn't say anything about how they entered the court, and Moroji and Anna naturally didn't mention it tacitly.
The whirring wind swept by, and Anna spoke, "I didn't expect you to have such a past...... It is true that the lowly people born in the wilderness - commoners, it is indeed not easy to walk on this road. She almost told the pariahs, but Anna stopped just in time.
Austin smiled disappreciatively and said, "I'm also lucky, I have been appreciated by Lord Von Lantlin, and now I can be regarded as returning home." There are too many people who are more gifted and capable than me, but they have all disappeared into this wilderness without a name. ”
The next day, after a half-day journey, everyone saw the outline of the town of Crow.
Riding into the city, the simple walls, the houses made of earthen tiles, everything is so familiar, but it is a little unfamiliar. Riding past them, there were a few wandering idlers and beggars lying at the entrance of the town, and from time to time pioneers and adventurers passed by them, glancing with disdain at the men on the ground.
It is said to be a pioneer and an adventure, but in fact, it is to wear simple leather armor, hold a spear and a sword, try your luck in the wilderness, and sometimes you can make a lot of money, but most of the time you have to experience a fight, and even lose your life. However, in this martial era, this is a symbol of life, and strength and survival are the whole meaning of life.
Austin and the others slowly came to the gate of Crowe, and when the people inside saw it, they all showed a deep look of shock, and there was deep fear and horror in their eyes.
At this time, the homeless man and the beggar on the side of the road were awakened, and when they saw this scene, some people came forward with great courage, and stretched out their hands tremblingly, trying to grasp the reins of the horses.
Moroji and the others looked at Austin with a look of embarrassment in their eyes. In general, in this case, you can just step over the horse, and whether the person in front of you is dead or alive depends on luck. However, at this time, Austin's hometown ......
Before Austin could say anything, Davix pulled out his shotgun, and with a single shot, it directly shattered the person who dared to come forward into a mist of blood and shredded meat!
When the rest of the people saw this scene, they crawled towards the town, Davix sneered, his originally bright face was covered with frost at the moment, his hands were open, and two flames swept forward in the wind, and the few people who ran a little slower were instantly stained with flames. A few people rolled on the sand to extinguish the flames, but the flames were sticky but burned slowly, and several people wailed on the ground for a long time, but they could not die for a while.
The panicked voices in the town became silent for a while, and the residents did not dare to move as if they had been immobilized, and even those who were about to close did not dare to make any more moves, so they fixed themselves in that position, for fear of angering the nobles who came to them.
Austin was unfazed by all of this, and nodded in satisfaction when he saw the residents' reactions. Although some things have changed, the smart people in the town who know the times have not changed.
At this moment, there was an inopportune bang, breaking the silence. A fat, bald middle-aged man rushed towards Austin and the others at a rapid pace, and his speed was already a third-order. Davix raised an eyebrow and was about to make a move, when the man fell to his knees with a thud, right on the edge of Davix's bottom line.
"I don't know if you are coming, you are far away and you are far away! I am the mayor of our town, you can just call me a ground rat, I don't know what you are doing here?"
Austin and Davix flickered for a while, Austin has not been in a very high mood recently, and he was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he gave Davix a look, and Davix had to speak: "Dirt...... Rat, you're mayor, where's old Wolf?"
When the earth rat heard the name, he was stunned for a moment, and then he continued: "Do you know old Wolf? That's the former mayor of the town, who left his post two years ago, saying that he was going on a trip to the north. ”
Davix's eyes softened, and there was a hint of regret in Austin's eyes. However, they had heard from Worf, who had raised them, that his greatest dream was to save enough to settle in the north, and that in his early years he had seen the forests and the sea, and in his later years he wanted to see the grasslands, and now it seems that this dream has finally come true.
The fat body of the earth rat was almost lying on the ground, beads of sweat were rolling down his face, and he dared to look up and secretly glance when he replied. Seeing the change in the expressions of the two, he breathed a sigh of relief and wiped a cold sweat.
The mayor of the town needs at least a third-order ability to deter the beasts of the surrounding wilderness, as well as barely maintain the order of the caravans, although the earth rat is fat, but it already has a third-order speed and a fourth-order defense, but the attack is only a two-order, obviously putting life preservation first.
Although he barely crossed the threshold of the fourth order, he could see that he couldn't walk the three moves of the person who had just started, not to mention that there were twenty guards behind him, and he knew that he was an iron-blooded man at a glance at that temperament. The short shotgun on the holster beside him was faintly revealed, and the flickering patterns on it were about to blind his eyes, incomparably beautiful, and at the same time, it was an alchemical engraving, and the power brought by it was absolutely unquestionable.
What's more, the leader on the opposite side obviously didn't make a move.
Fortunately, this group of people didn't seem to have come to find fault, otherwise it wouldn't have taken more than half an hour to slaughter the whole town.