Chapter 17: The Wolves

"There was someone close to our employer who completely betrayed our trip. ”

The reason in Han Jun's mouth is not clever.

He did not directly tear up the whole truth, causing the mercenaries in front of him to riot immediately, thus making himself fall into the passivity of violating the employment agreement, but at the same time revealing part of the truth, so that the mercenaries quickly united unprecedentedly before the crisis, and even became obedient to him.

And in just one day after this departure, the team has been attacked by two waves of extremely precise attacks. Now, even the less perceptive mercenaries are aware of the slightest strangeness.

Therefore, Han Jun's proposal to change the route was almost undoubtedly supported by the mercenaries.

At this time, the driver who was on the employer's side was accused by Han Jun of bluntly saying that the employer had a traitor by his side. Of course, he could only cooperate with Han Jun's performance, pretending to be panicked, and completely lost control of the route.

But even so, Han Jun was still not at ease.

So much so that in the dark night when it was inconvenient to set off, Han Jun was kept silent and did not reveal the changed route to anyone.

Until dawn had already broken and both moons were swallowed up in the sun. Han Juncai finally gave his final decision at the last moment before departure.

And his decision, even those mercenaries who have been running around all the year round did not easily anticipate:

"There are only three or four ordinary trade routes leading to Maz City. And as long as the bandits who have come into contact with us disseminate our information in advance, no matter which route we take, we may be subject to new blockades. And if you want to go straight past all the encirclements, there is actually only one option...... Change lanes in the wilderness!"

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After leaving the place where I was stationed last night, there were large areas of saline-alkali land scattered within hundreds of miles ahead.

The striking feature of this type of landscape is that very few plants survive normally.

Therefore, what Han Jun proposed at this moment was to take advantage of the scarcity of plants in the saline-alkali land, and simply let the carriage leave the ordinary trade route and travel directly through the wilderness that could also be driven.

However, the plan proposed by Han Jun, on the premise that he had already controlled the mercenary group, still did not get an immediate response.

Of course, the reason why a business road is a business road is not just because of the smoothness of its path.

In fact, these routes that were chosen as trade routes were carefully avoided from the entrenchment of large delirium beasts, so that humans would not run into those powerful delirium beasts head-on.

Once the team enters the wilderness, they will face conflict with the delirium at any time.

Invisibly, it naturally adds countless risks.

But for everyone's worries, Han Jun obviously expected it.

Therefore, at this time, Han Jun had neatly pulled out a fragment of armor that had been cut off by a sharp weapon from the loot he had collected last night, and held this fragment high in the air.

"This is what I learned from the group of attackers last night, and although they all deliberately hid the symbols on them, the armor I cut off still reveals their identities. ”

Han Jun said as he slowly swept the fragment across everyone's eyes.

The symbol on the fragment was the head of a wolf-headed eagle, apparently a symbol of a specific organization.

"Wolves?"

Someone among the mercenaries quickly recognized this symbol, and the moment they recognized it, they immediately supported Han Jun's choice.

Seeing that there were still people in the crowd who didn't know why, the mercenary who had previously recognized the source of the fragment quickly added:

"It's a very prestigious mercenary group, and unlike the mercenary groups that usually take on escort duties, they are a mercenary group that specializes in looting and is on the black list of the Wanderers' Guild. ”

"And what's even more terrifying is that the Wolves didn't raid out of their own judgment, but were hired by others and others to raid their employer's targets. In other words, even if the first attack of the Wolves fails, they will definitely not give up and will still attack again after regrouping. ”

Speaking of which, the mercenary who knew the name of the wolf group was already full of fear.

Seeing this situation, Han Jun also added again:

"As he said, the group of people who are eyeing us to escort the goods are the so-called wolf group. If we go straight into the wilderness, we may only encounter a mighty beast, but if we still walk the trade routes, we will surely be attacked again by the wolves. ”

"Nowadays, we don't have a choice at all!"

......

After Han Jun threw out the huge threat of the Wolf Clan, the escort team finally entered the wilderness according to his will and directly broke away from the realm of the business path.

However, after being submerged in the wilderness, Han Jun did not go on a reckless rampage. On the contrary, it is still the archers in the five-person team who constantly feedback the information in front of the road, and always choose the route with the most wild objects.

Because the creature of the delusional beast is actually slightly similar to the predators in the real world, and it also has a strong sense of territory.

Therefore, as long as there are ordinary animals in the direction of Su Mu and his entourage, even if there will be delusional beasts here, it will not be a strong existence.

And at this moment, facing the escorted Qi-powered carriage speeding in the saline-alkali ground, and constantly raising rough dirt and ground ringworm. Su Mu also disappeared into a corner that was not noticed again, and secretly used his fighting skills to turn back and step back in the hurry, quietly gathering more Qi of all things.

And also benefited from Han Jun's move to coordinate mercenaries, at this time, in the eyes of all mercenaries, Su Mu actually belonged to the same category of people as Han Jun who had the right to dispatch mercenaries.

Therefore, when Su Mu is out of the crowd again, no one will come out to accuse him at will.

Su Mu was naturally more at ease, and while he was constantly strengthening his essence qi step by step, he also looked at this wilderness with his eyes flying, keeping an eye out for possible visions at any time.

......

With the one-day gallop from dawn to dusk, Su Mu and his party had deviated from the original trade route by nearly 100 miles.

At this time, even if the pursuers of the Wolf Regiment finally noticed that Su Mu and his party had disappeared out of thin air, they could no longer accurately locate the location of everyone.

And as long as Su Mu and his entourage crossed the saline-alkali plain and returned to the farther trade route, they had already crossed the ambush set up by the wolf group.

Therefore, it was not until this moment, after a day of galloping, that the mercenaries finally relaxed in the twilight.

Even while encamping again, the mercenaries rarely took out their own hidden ale wine, and began to enjoy the food in piles of dry food.

As the current leader, Han Jun, of course, did not stop everyone from relaxing for the time being.

Even on the way to set up camp, Han Jun specially took out some sacrificial wood from his bag, and in this saline-alkali land where there was almost no firewood, a small pile of flames of boiling soup and warm wine was also ignited.

Seeing this, Su Mu really couldn't see through Han Jun.

After all, this type of wood, called sacrificial firewood, is often a common item for hunters in the wild because of its extremely flammable and flame-resistant properties.

But as a mercenary who guards the regiment, few people will carry such a burden.

And at the same time that Su Mu was thinking about Han Jun's strangeness, Han Jun, who had lit the fire for the mercenaries, also looked in the direction of Su Mu, and even immediately walked over with a strange expression.

And when Han Jun walked towards Su Mu and whispered the first sentence to Su Mu, Su Mu could no longer be calm:

"Our group is still being targeted by some kind of delusional beast!"