Chapter XXVI Goods
readx;?“ What are you talking about by cargo?"
Bloom asked his current primary concern, what was the cargo that the bandits had to take so much trouble to get. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"We can be self-sufficient in military supplies, living supplies. ”
"Hmph, self-sufficiency, it's all looted, and it's stained with the blood of the common people, right?"
Captain Bloom snorted coldly, and then continued to ask, "What exactly are the supplies this time?" There are no military supplies in the caravan at all. ”
"What it is, it seems that only two magicians know better, and the others don't know, I only heard that this thing is very important, so we dispatched a lot of people this time, the only purpose is to get the goods, and the other materials looted are just incidental actions to disrupt the vision. ”
"You said you had a lot of people. That means that there are other people besides tonight. ”
Captain Bloom's eyes flickered, and one of his worst fears had arisen, if this cargo was really as important as the bandits said, they would definitely not give up so easily, and if they had other reinforcements, then their danger had just begun. The horse bandits were obviously bound to get this shipment.
"Of course, otherwise how do you think we took those cavalry without blood?"
The horse bandits certainly weren't lying at this point, and with their strength tonight, it was impossible to wipe out a squadron of cavalry.
"So where are the others now? Why didn't they go with you. ”
Captain Bloom continued to ask.
"I don't know, but I heard from the captain that they used knives to kill chickens, so after eliminating those cavalry, they just left first, leaving only us to pick up the goods, but I didn't expect to underestimate you, but if they knew that our mission failed, they would definitely come back to you. If I were you, all I have to do now is to run for my life, with all my might, or you will all have to bury our brothers. Haha!
The injured horse bandit said arrogantly, and in the end, because he was too excited, he pulled the injuries on his body, and coughed violently a few times.
"A few of you stay and continue to interrogate him to see if there are any valuable clues. Mr. Levins, please move over here. ”
"Just call me Levins. ”
Alan said, and Bloom looked at Allen's expression and nodded.
Captain Bloom got the information he wanted, and immediately handed over the wounded horse bandit to the other mercenaries for further interrogation, and he and Alan came to the side, and then ordered someone to call Mage Frank over.
Frank quickly walked over with the mercenary, but at this time, his expression swept away the arrogance he had had, although he did not take the initiative to talk to Alan out of fragile self-esteem, but he still bowed slightly to Alan, which was also a tribute to the strong.
"Captain Bloom, what did you call me over?"
Frank's arrogance was frustrated by Allen, and now he is much more polite to Bloom.
"When I interrogated the bandits just now, I learned that they have more powerful reinforcements nearby, and the escaped bandits must go to ask for help, so we must leave this place as soon as possible, and come to you mainly to discuss the next plan, where we should go. ”
Captain Bloom gave a brief overview of the current situation.
"The nearest safe place should be the border town of Hig, where a large army of Hig is stationed, even if the horse bandits are rampant, I believe they will not dare to confront the large force head-on. ”
Almost without thinking, Frank said that turning his head was indeed the best way to get rid of the bandits.
"I've thought about this location too, but there's an obstacle, because Higg's cavalry has been wiped out by horse bandits, and if we retreat the same way and run into the Hig border guards, we can't explain where the Hig army that followed us goes, and if we don't explain this clearly, we can't leave Hig at all, and even before the horse bandits can move, the Hig army will treat us as horse bandits and cut off our heads and ask for credit. So to the point of being cornered, we try not to choose this way back, but to go back from the other passes of the Hig Empire. ”
"So what do we do next?"
Frank's opinion was rejected, and he couldn't think of any other way but to ask in reverse.
"The bandit said they were here for a shipment, but I had seen the goods before, and there were no items in them that were so valuable that the bandits would have to pay a huge price, so I thought they must be hidden in other goods. We should find out the cargo first, and then look at how to evade the bandits, depending on the situation. ”
Alan had been listening to the sidelines, and suddenly he suggested something.
"That's true, Levins did a good job, and we started inspecting the cargo right away. ”
Captain Bloom said he would do it, and immediately ordered his subordinates and the men of the caravan to unload all the goods in the wagon and check them little by little.
The caravan owner Victor fled with the bandits, leaving the caravan men at a loss, and the captain Bloom didn't embarrass them, but just let them help find the bandits' target cargo.
But unexpectedly, all the goods in the boxes were turned out, and the mercenaries carefully checked them little by little with torches, and did not find any other suspicious items except for the goods agreed upon before.
"There may be something wrong with this carriage, you can check it. ”
Bloom tapped his finger on the carriage board and said.
The mercenaries listened to the order of several people to turn over the carriage box and check it carefully, the bottom plate of the carriage is not too thick, there should be no mezzanine, they had to smash the bottom plate and box board of a carriage, but still found nothing, which made a group of mercenaries a little confused. Could it be that they are mistaken, is the goods all this cotton and linen, fur and rum?
"Levins, what did you find?"
Just when the mercenaries were staring at each other and had nothing to do, Captain Bloom suddenly saw Alan spinning around the axle of the unloaded carriage, which not only made his eyes shine.
"Take the wheels off. ”
The two mercenaries heard the order of the captain Bloom and immediately stepped up and removed the wooden wheels wrapped in iron sheets from the axles and threw them aside.
"There's something in there. ”
The two mercenaries were surprised to find that the axles were hollow after the wheels were removed. They erected the axles and poured out of the holes some cotton-wrapped objects, large and small, about the size of a human fist.
Captain Bloom picked up one of his round objects holding a cotton cloth and removed the cotton cloth from its surface, revealing a crystal that reflected red light in the light of the dancing fire.
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