Abel has long hands and long feet, and squats nimbly on the canopy. He is as nimble as a monkey in the mountains and forests, and once the dark spear offended a nearby thief group "Silent Fire", don't look at the number of the other party is not as large as the dark spear, but all of them are villains who dare to kill people desperately. When a swarm of bees came to kill them, it was the dark spear that beat them bitterly. However, Abel attacked the leader of the other party and blinded one of his eyeballs with a whistle arrow, and was chased in the mountains and forests for three days and three nights.

In those days, Abel spent almost all of his time in the trees, and walked around the mountains and forests with the silent fire, and finally ventured into the territory of a large bandit group, and while the two sides were fighting, the boy slipped back again. Birek, who originally thought that Abel would die, thought he had bumped into a ghost when he saw the boy come back, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

The sound of horses' hooves approached.

Abel stuck to the trunk of a tree like a squirrel, slowing his breath and blending naturally into his current environment. He did not deliberately observe the situation on the road, his eyes fell on that fixed point through the gap in the trees, which was his means of detecting the wind, and no one taught him, so he found it out on his own.

It didn't take long to hear the sound of someone talking, mixed with the sound of horses' hooves and the creaking of the wheels, judging by the sound, it was a small caravan, numbering less than twenty people, and it was the best target for the Dark Spear extortion.

The boy waited patiently and did not rush to report the news. He also had to find out the specific number of people on the other side, and even the number of guards. He didn't have to wait long, and after a few breaths he was caught in sight of two large horses, each riding a young knight. A slightly older one, dressed in fiery red armor and carrying a dark blue spear beside his horse, kept Abel on his toes. The other looked much younger, with very rare silver hair that reminded Abel of the snow in winter.

The two knights seemed to be talking about something, and soon passed Abel's gaze. At this time, the silver-haired knight looked back at the place where the young man was hiding, and Abel immediately stopped breathing. Fortunately, the silver-haired knight just glanced at it casually and turned his head away, and Abel breathed a sigh of relief.

This was followed by two carriages, one carrying people and the other carrying goods. There were guards on foot on the left and right and behind the carriage, and Abel counted them, and there were ten people in all.

Two carriages, ten guards and two knights in front of them opened the way, which was exactly the size of a small caravan. Abel smiled slightly, thinking that the old man Birek had been shouting that he had no meat to eat these days, and he would starve to death if he didn't get some oil and water. Now it's good, a fat sheep will be sent to the door immediately. He cried a few times in the sound of some kind of animal in the tree, and a moment later a black-haired raccoon came out of the grass, climbed up the canopy of the tree in three or two strokes, and scurried to the boy's side. This is Abelmon's pet, and the boy gestured at it, then threw it a nut and said, "Go, tell the old man that there is meat in his stomach." ”

The black fox tilted his head and glanced at Abel, then picked up the nut and ran away. Abel slid carefully down the tree, and the boy followed the caravan silently barefoot and on the soft mud, lest they leave his sight.

"Quite an interesting kid with a top-notch stealth technique. If it weren't for the fact that his body temperature was too ostentatious in that cold forest, I'm afraid I would have ignored it. Alan whispered, brushing his mount's mane.

Faress smiled and said, "It should be the guy who is watching the wind, do you want me to take him down?" ”

"No, let's see what fish we can catch." Alan shook his head and said, "Just help me understand the general situation of the Dark Lands." ”

Faress frowned, and stopped talking.

Alan smiled, "Alright, Captain Fares. I know what you're afraid of, but as I said, this trip north is not for sightseeing. We have to fight all the way up from the iron spear collar to the bulldozer and flatten all the stubborn rocks that block the road, so that the road can be cleared. When the road is smooth, we can have business to do. ”

"If I had known that the so-called trade route of my lord was not dangerous, I was afraid that I would hesitate a little, and I would never have dared to agree immediately as I did that day. No, now Rigal has begun to persuade me to quit immediately when I get to Sardinia. Faress smiled wryly.

Alan patted him on the shoulder and said, "But if you say that, it means you don't want to quit, isn't it, Captain Fares." ”

"The empire worships martial arts, and the north is the most. You don't often say that the northerners always look at the people in the south with their eyes higher than their noses, and if it weren't for the fact that there was an iron spear Huo Yi in the south, he might not be proud. Then I will let the Northland know this time that there is not only Hoy in the South, but now we are there. This kind of thing is useless just to say it, and only by doing it can you shut them up. So what could be better than hitting the Northland from here and shutting up those who were as proud as roosters? ”

Alan pointed forward and said lightly: "But if we can't even break through the dark place, what are you talking about going north, just go home." ”

Fares's eyes lit up a little, although he was not arrogant when he heard a few words from Allen, but he also had a little more confidence.

At this moment, there was a sharp whistling sound in the road ahead, as if something had blown it. The sound was harsh, everyone frowned, and the horses in the group bore the brunt of the roar, shaking their hooves uneasily, and it seemed that these whistling sounds could still elicit a reaction from the horses. Alan and the others hurriedly pacified the mount, and finally this long howl stopped, and then rushed out of the black forest on both sides of the road, holding a flagpole of seven or eight poles of less than a short length, and the gray flag cloth fluttering on it was painted with the pattern of a black spear.

Alan glanced at Faress and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Fares's face was strange, and he let out a sigh for a long time: "I don't know." ”

He added: "I know the names of the bandits in the dark lands. This one...... I really don't know ...... this one."

didn't embarrass the upright regiment leader, Alan smiled: "I don't know, forget it, maybe it's not a guy who can get on the stage, then it's no wonder that Captain Faress doesn't know him." ”

Then look ahead.

Something wasn't quite right with these so-called bandits, and they didn't look very strong. That's it, and these men are not young, the youngest looks middle-aged, and the older ones are simply hunched over. At this time, someone in the crowd coughed dryly, strode forward and said, "We are the Dark Spear, this is our territory. If you want to get through here, you have to pay a poll tax! ”

Alan narrowed his eyes, and it was an old man who spoke. There was an ugly scar on his bare head, and although he was a little short and fat, he was still somewhat imposing in the crowd. After the old man finished speaking, another young man came out of the woods, and he ran to the old man's side. Alan recognized him as the one watching the dark wood tree, and smiled at him.

The boy's face was full of doubt.