Chapter Twenty-Three: The Theory of Murder
[Successfully gain the trust of Minette, an important character in the world, and reward 1500 points.] 】
When Xue Qiong and the others walked out of the Sorrowful Cave, he and Xiao Yun received such a prompt, and even the bald head said afterwards that he also got the thousand and five at that time.
Xue Qiong and Minette each took out a two-person scout group before withdrawing. After all, those Imperials are going farther and farther in the intricate caverns, and even if they want to find a new target, they can't catch up with other Imperials after retreating.
And they themselves have no idea of entering the Cave of Sorrow ... After all, the Sorrowful Cave in the game is a level 59 place, and the old Sorrowful Cave is a dangerous center of more than seventy levels, even if the game becomes a real world, there will be some differences, but judging from the skilled potions brushed out of the mobile medical station, the average strength of the intruder team is equivalent to about level twenty-five in this world at most, so Xue Qiong definitely wouldn't want to do this.
In fact, minus the four people who were killed by Xue Qiong and Minette before, there are even more attritions in the entire scout team, indicating that they did encounter some dangers inside. Confirming this information also made Xue Qiong extremely glad that he did not continue to go inside, and at the same time speculated that although the imperial people did not know any means to contact them remotely, the large number of attritions was likely to be an important reason for them to withdraw.
After Xue Qiong and the others came out, they didn't leave immediately, but continued to hide in the darkness around them... When all the remaining Imperial people came out, these ordinary people who couldn't use supernatural powers all became the prey of the four.
After all, the cold weapons used by these people can't even break the protective force field on the bald shield...
Last time, the people of the purple mist group judged some information through the situation of the corpse, and this time Xue Qiong learned this lesson. The four of them turned the corpses beyond recognition, then doused the Imperials with their own oil (what kept the torches burning) and burned them all to charcoal.
Xue Qiong and the others didn't leave some purple mist to plant the idea of blaming the blame. But if you think about it carefully, the contradiction between the Imperial and the Void Ancestor has already intensified to the point that it will erupt at any time, and combined with the game, they will indeed fight in the Cave of Sorrow in the future... Then there is no need to do anything else.
With that done, the four of them walked some distance north until they found a suitable campsite in the forest, where they had spent the night the evening.
Unlike Xue Qiong and their happy eating and sleeping comfortably, this night's Grosinger was far more turbulent than the previous days.
"Oh?! So you mean to say that there was a group of people under my command who left Grosinger without my knowledge, and ran to where I was going without knowing it, and... Finally, after they lost contact, I learned... This whole thing? ”
In Grosingl's tavern, a young man with blond hair, gorgeous clothes and a sword at his waist said this with a smile as he looked at the middle-aged officer who was half-kneeling in front of him.
Obviously, after the autumn wind blows in October, the weather starts to get colder, and the owner of the tavern has not even started the stove because of the recent poor business... But the middle-aged officer's head and back were covered with sweat.
"It's... Yes, Lord Barn. I don't know what to say, the officer can only follow him like this.
"Tut-tut-tut..."Barn, one of the Four Sword Saints, knocked his fingers on the table with one hand and shook gently with a glass of red wine in the other, but he just hung people out like this, didn't say anything, and just kept making mocking tone words in his mouth.
The air is solidifying.
At this moment, a man with unkempt hair, who had been sitting at the same table as Barn, patted Barn on the shoulder and said in a very non-obtrusive Void Ancestor accent:
"What, Brother Barn, you're busy, let's go back to sleep first!"
Then he pulled the other three people on the table and left the tavern. And before leaving, I didn't forget to grab the wine bottle on the table and take it away...
Xilan of the Four Sword Saints.
Although in the history of Arad, the Four Sword Saints did go to the Cave of Sorrow at the same time, they definitely didn't appear here together because of their names.
Barn, as a rising star in the Young Heroes of the Dross Empire, came here as the supreme commander of these imperial armies.
And Xi Lan is the Void Ancestor Royal Family, in order to balance the strength of the Purple Mist Regiment and the official army, the official stationed in Grosiner, nominally a senior adviser in the army, but Xi Lan verbally said that he was purely here to play...
As for the other two Sword Masters, Forrest Gump and Buwanga, it was out of personal friendship with Xilan and a premonition of crisis... Of course, the righteous will take it as their duty to maintain the peace and stability of the whole of Arad.
In addition, there is also a dark elf ghost swordsman Luxi, who has an unclear relationship with Forrest Gump, needless to say.
And tonight's situation, it was originally that Forrest Gump and Luxi wanted to come to the tavern to have a look at the world of the two, but halfway through, it was Xilan, who was out of tune, and Buwanga, a rough man from the snowy mountains, came to the tavern to fight for wine, and after seeing the two of them... Needless to say, the ending is true.
As for Barn, he was included at the table purely because of a little self-expression on the part of the young man.
But in the end, there was only one person left in this table, and the final reason was because he was the only one among the Four Sword Saints who did not belong to the "pure martial artist".
His ambition is too big, that's why he's sitting where he is.
After Silan, Buwanga, Forrest Gump, and Luxie left, the other guests in the tavern did not dare to continue to sit here, and left the tavern one after another, and even the chattering bartender was very witty and retreated into the back kitchen... After all the idlers had retreated, Barn leaned down and said through gritted teeth to the middle-aged officer who had begun to tremble:
"Idiot! I'm sure you're not the one who gave this self-made clever order... So Mr. Scapegoat, please tell me, who should I kill with a sword to maintain the glory of the Empire, and the military discipline and military law of the Imperial Army? Who the hell should pay with their lives for our face, these losses, and the way we have been pushed to the top of the charts?! ”
But the officer just knelt there, unable to say anything.
The reason is also very simple, not to mention the momentum or anything, if Xue Qiong is here, he will see that there is a surging energy on Barn's body that is surging out wildly, and the officer is speechless, completely because he is pressed by these.
"Rubbish!" Barn straightened up, re-erected his legs, drank the red wine in the glass, and then said slowly, "I don't care who bears the greatest responsibility for this matter, anyway, you go and bring that person to me... Also, let me inform you that in the case that this kind of thing has already happened, we will set off with a large army tomorrow at noon, even if we are not well prepared, we will not let the group of countrymen from the northwest see the joke! Do you understand what I say? ”
"Ming... Got it. ”
"That's right." Barn must have thought of something interesting, and curled the corners of his mouth and said, "You swear a poisonous oath, and then after the death of the person I don't know, you will take his place." He should... The official is higher than you? ”
The middle-aged officer rarely picked up a small life, and he couldn't care so much at this time, so he immediately nodded his forehead to the ground and shouted loudly: "Swear allegiance to Lord Barne!" If there is disobedience, the villain will die without a place to be buried, and after death, the wife and children will not be able to die well!! ”
"No, no, no," Barn shook his finger, "It's too miserable to let your family die well, so let's live... How about you say that the world is a slave and a prostitute from generation to generation? ”
"Wait, this doesn't seem to be good, it's still..."
"The world... Slaves from generation to generation, prostitutes from generation to generation!! Fortunately, this man's face was still facing the floor at this time, otherwise Barn would have seen his iron-blue face. And the reason why he shouted it out first was simply because he was afraid that Barn would make some more vicious oath.
"Hmm... Not bad. Barn nodded in satisfaction.
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When the morning sun shone into the tent, Xue Qiong and the three of them also began their third day in the Arad world. At the same time as breakfast, Xue Qiong and Xiaoyun also started to make up for Minette.
Xue Qiong drank the gruel in the bowl and said, "Do you know why, you didn't make any sound, but you were found when you were about to approach the target?" ”
"Uh," Minette thought for a moment before saying, "Is it because I've been running too far to be sudden?" ”
"That's also a reason." Xue Qiong said with a smile, "But the more important factor is... You have a murderous aura. ”
Minette asked, "Murderous?" What is that? ”
Xue Qiong explained: "Actually, I can't say it clearly, but there is such a thing as murderous aura... In short, when humans want to kill humans, they will emit an aura, and this aura will be felt by the target. ”
Minette pursed her lips: "That's not right at all!" I'm going to kill them, how can I not be murderous?! ”
"Pay attention to the senior's words~" Xiao Yun touched Minette's head, "What the senior said is that when 'humans' kill 'humans'~"
"It's not going to grow tall!" Minette shook her head and broke free of Xiao Yun's hand, "And to emphasize humans, I'm not a dark elf?!" ”
In order to illustrate more vividly, Xue Qiong pointed to himself and said: "For example, I am a 'madman' who kills 'irrelevant passers-by'." ”
Then Xue Qiong pointed at Xiaoyun again, and then said: "Another example is your sister Xiaoyun, it is a 'pervert' to kill a 'toy'." ”
"That's right~" Xiao Yun didn't refute the word pervert, "There is also a handsome brother Fu, when he kills someone, it is the 'artist' who kills the 'work'..."
"Who is Fu Shuai?" Minette asked, confused.
"Ah, anyway..."Xue Qiong pondered for a moment before saying, "It's just a companion who isn't here now, our companion... And then on the basis of the qualities of ordinary people, his ability to kill is the strongest among us. ”