Chapter 971: Chance Encounter
Abel couldn't understand how a fat sheep could still laugh at this time. Suddenly, the boy broke out in a cold sweat, something happened two years ago in this dark wood, also on the edge of the Dark Lands. A bandit group called "Trembling Blade" stopped two knights passing through the Black Wood Forest, and at that time, the Trembling Blade was already known as a large number of people in this area of the Black Wood Forest, and was invited by a bandit group with a decent force in the Dark Lands to leave the edge of the Black Wood Forest.
But it was such an inconspicuous thing that caused this bandit group to fall apart.
At that time, Abel happened to pass by, so he hid under the canopy of dark wood to watch the excitement. At that time, he was regarded as two of the fat sheep by the bandits, and a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance also showed an inappropriate smile when he heard that the bandits asked him to leave all the money and horses on his body. At that time, Abel didn't know the meaning of this smile, but the next scene stunned the boy.
The middle-aged man didn't even make a move, just another young man who rode up and overturned the entire bandit group. All the bandits, including the leader, bowed down, and then the trembling blade also collapsed. It took a long time for Abel to understand the meaning of the middle-aged man's smile.
Bite off more than one can chew!
And now, the same smile appeared on the face of a fat sheep that was even younger. Abel gasped, isn't that a wolf in sheep's clothing? He tugged at Birek beside him, trying to persuade him to let the caravan go. But the old man pushed him away with one hand, stepped forward and held up his iron spear that had been scavenged, and shouted, "Are you deaf? Lao Tzu asked you to pay the poll tax, and you don't want to die! ”
Alan smiled and said, "Old man, are you going to take our lives?" ”
Birek was just a little uglier, and the scar on his head was not cut by fighting with people, as he usually boasted to others, but he accidentally slipped off a hill and tore his head out of a rock. In fact, everyone in the dark spear knows that this old man is also fierce, but he is more afraid of death than anyone else.
No, as soon as he asked the young man led by the other party, the old man shrank his neck, and he almost shook his head when he saw the group of old bandits behind him. Birek muttered a few times as if to embolden himself, and then stubbornly said, "Young man, we are not like those outlaws in the mountains, as long as you pay the poll tax, we will let you go, and we will not hurt your life." But those in it are not as good as us to talk about, pay the taxes, and I will give you a flag to hang. The guy inside will know that you have already paid the money here, so he won't embarrass you, understand? ”
"I understand, I understand, but I'm a little skeptical."
"Suspect what?"
"Do you doubt that your banner of the Dark Spear is so useful?" Alan pointed to Faress behind him: "Do you know who this is?" This is Lord Fares, the leader of the Ice Moon Mercenary Regiment, the Ice Moon Mercenary Regiment is also the number one mercenary group in Sardinia, and he has been walking around the dark places for many years, and he has never heard of any dark spears. ”
Birek frowned and muttered, "I haven't heard of any Ice Moon." Then he turned back to the group of young and old people behind him and asked, "Have you heard of it?" ”
The bandits shook their heads.
Faress looked embarrassed.
Alan laughed dryly, and whispered to the head of the group: "It's okay, when you arrive in the Northern Capital, Bingyue will definitely move the empire." ”
Faress shook his head and laughed.
Allen turned over and dismounted, clasped his hands and said, "I still think that you know that Bingyue is difficult to retreat, since you don't know, I don't want to waste time." Old man, for the sake of what you just said, you people can be regarded as having picked up a life. Now disperse, and don't delay our business. ”
Birek raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Okay, you kid, Lao Tzu shows you the clear way, you don't take it, you want to take a dark road, right?" Okay, if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you, he will cripple your legs. If you don't want to go over, just crawl over for me! ”
Allen's smile flickered, his eyes lit up, and immediately a wave of enthusiasm spread around him as the center. As a result, the seemingly nonexistent chill on this mountain road suddenly cleared up, and everyone felt that the temperature had risen sharply, and the space around the silver-haired young man was dyed with a layer of red light, as if it was red for the fire. The space where the person was located seemed to have erected a furnace, and there were sparks floating down, and some dark wood trees beside the road were even more smokeless, and then in the loud bang, the canopy of the trees burst into flames, like two rows of huge torches!
Billik fell to the ground, and the old man looked at the young man in front of him in a daze. At this moment, he was awe-inspiring, as if the whole world was going to be burned because of him, and Birek couldn't shout a word of hatred.
Faress next to him couldn't help but be shocked, he had overestimated this young knight who could withstand Hoy's test as much as possible, but until this moment he knew that he was still underestimating him. At this moment, the qi emanating from his body was as magnificent as an ocean, and the expanding heat and high temperature were even more domineering. It is obviously less than level 30, but the power that can be destroyed is not much different from the rumored ten holy powerhouses, they are all so earth-shattering.
Faress couldn't imagine what it would be like for such a person to cross the level 30 mark.
Probably immediately jumped to the first person of the Ten Saints, right? He was shocked by the fleeting thought of himself, which he felt ridiculous, but he also vaguely felt that this was the case.
Suppressing such a bandit with a qi machine, Alan smiled slightly, and only then did he retract the power of the heavenly fire. The flames of the black wood trees on both sides dissipated, and only green smoke rose up. The furnace-like red light and the vision of Mars also disappeared, and the mountains and forests changed back to their original shapes. It was only then that Billik took a deep breath and said with a sad face, "This lord, please forgive us for being blind. We won't collect this poll tax, we won't collect it, so please come over. ”
Alan smiled mischievously: "I've changed my mind again, old man, where are your bandits?" Take us on a tour? ”
Birek was stunned for a long time before muttering: "Lao Tzu has been here for so many years, and he hasn't bumped into a caravan visiting people's nest in the past." My lord, are you really a caravan? ”
Alan glanced at Fareth behind him and smiled, "Who's to say it's not." ”
Faress did not say anything.
Suddenly, a scream rang out, coming from the dark woods on the left side of the mountain path. Alan roughly judged that the position was three or four hundred meters away based on the strength of his voice, and he quickly said to Fares: "You watch here, I'll see what happens." ”
Stretching out his hand to catch it, an invisible force field swept away, catching the Red King hanging on the side of the horse in the air. Eren grabbed the long knife, his figure flickered, and he disappeared in front of the bandits. Birek's eyes rolled, and his hands were behind his back, gesturing to the effect that everyone was going to run. Seeing the old man's strange expression, Fareth was amused at the moment, and slapped the spear on the side of the horse and said in a deep voice: "None of you are allowed to leave until the lord returns." Whoever dares to run, I will keep a hole in one shot, and if you want to try, just come. ”
Birek wanted to cry without tears, and looked at Abel complainingly and whispered: "You kid hasn't kicked the board for a few years, and you kicked it until it was hard, and this time we will lose a lot." ”
Abel only smiled wryly.
Alan crossed the forest and trees, and was extremely fast, and after a few breaths, he had reached the place where the screams were screaming, and he saw a corpse. The corpse's entire face was blown to pieces, and it was a miserable death. The corpse was a man, wearing a dark suit and armor of the same color, the armor was well-made, the man also had a musket in his hand, and not far away was a war knife, and the equipment looked good. Judging by the corpse, this man did not look like a bandit from the Dark Lands. At this time, Alan saw that he was still wearing a chain around his neck, and when he took it out, he saw that it was a nameplate. On the front of the nameplate is the logo of the mercenary group "Chasing Shadows", but behind it is a name.
This man turned out to be a shadow-chasing mercenary?
Gunshots and shouting suddenly sounded a hundred meters ahead, maybe he had seen the trouble of Fareth and others in the posture of a snake in the ground, Allen had a preconceived idea, and he didn't have a very good impression of the mercenary group in this gun city. However, the other party always came out of the gun city, and thinking about Huo Yi's relationship, Alan put down the nameplate and took a knife to take a good look.
Alan moved silently, choosing a dense mass of grass as his hiding place. Looking through the gap in the grass, several figures flickered in a woodfield not far away. Those men are obviously also shadow-chasing mercenaries, judging from their movements, they are not simply attacking, but covering and relying on each other, but there are some rules. These dozen or so men formed an invisible encirclement network, and when Alan arrived, it was just when their encirclement network was closed.
Tightened in the net was a blue figure, probably feeling that there was no hope of escaping, and the man simply stood. Due to the angle, Alan couldn't see it really. He simply climbed up to a dark tree next to him, and looked down condescendingly, but his eyes fell on the blue figure, but he was stunned.
That person was actually in the small building of the Ice Moon Mercenary Group that day, and wanted to compete with him to hire the proud woman of the Ice Moon. At this moment, she was still dressed in men's clothes, blue robe and blue armor, carrying a silver short-barreled musket in her left hand and a long red whip hanging down in her other hand. Although the whip is slender, it shimmers with a metallic sheen under the refraction of the daylight in the forest, and it should be an iron whip. This is a rare weapon, after all, it is much more difficult to use a soft weapon like a long whip than a sword, a spear and an axe.
It's just that the scene at the scene makes Alan wonder even more, why did the shadow-chasing mercenaries besiege that arrogant woman?
The woman who was surrounded in the middle did not have a trace of panic at all, even in this bad situation, her eyebrows were still arrogant, this woman was already tall, and her expression was so proud. So her gaze always gives people a sense of condescending and unruly, and when she is swept by her contemptuous gaze, people will be angry for no reason. At this moment, I only heard the woman say: "It turns out that the so-called top three mercenary groups in Gun City will also do the business of robbing and killing employers, which is really eye-opening for me." I wonder how Huo Yi would feel if he heard this? ”
Allen's heart shook.