Chapter 42, falling short
Erwin hurried to the city gate with Susan, and along the way met a number of mercenary-looking men who were collecting things scattered all over the street—some weapons and armor that were still in good condition, and the corpses that had fallen to the ground, after being touched with the little money they might have, were dragged to some square.
Erwin had seen smoke rising into the sky from afar, caused by the burning of corpses in the square—of course, they were burning the corpses of the black barbarians, and the soldiers who had died on their side would be sent to the cemetery for burial.
Erwin just glanced at the square from a distance and took a detour, where the mountains of corpses would make people so disgusting that they couldn't eat for days, and the mountain of corpses was also the source of the plague, there were many famous plagues in history because the piles of corpses after the war did not have time to be properly disposed of, but unfortunately Elwin did not have the custom of cremation at all, Erwin did not dare to risk trying to see how his immunity was, and he also saw several groups of patrolling legionnaires in the square, and he did not want to meet these people now.
Dagger City has only two gates, north and south, the north gate is facing the Black Eagle Grassland, and the south gate is the main road connecting to North Sunderland.
After turning a cross-shaped street, the towering city gate appeared far away from the end of their line of sight, and in the doorway, several soldiers were slowly opening the closed gate.
Seeing this scene, Erwin was stunned for a moment, and then his face changed, and his whole heart began to sink down, he realized that he had made a big mistake just now - he shouldn't have told the middle-aged man just now that the two of them had just come from outside, because since the black barbarians attacked the city, the gates on both sides of the dagger city will definitely be closed, and they will not be opened until now, so the question is, how did the two of them come in from outside the city in the morning?
And once the middle-aged man shows up with the problem, he will definitely have doubts about the identities of Erwin and Susan, and then report it to the Legion, then things will be bad, and the soldiers will not even need evidence to arrest the two with suspicious identities.
Erwin suddenly had a headache, he looked back, there were no pursuing soldiers on the empty streets, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, it seemed that the middle-aged man had no problem for the time being, but it may not be possible to wait a while.
"Let's go, we're running out of time." Erwin said to Susan, and quickened his pace, but he couldn't let the soldiers guarding the gate see the difference, otherwise he would have run long ago.
Susan seemed to sense Erwin's uneasiness, and likewise quickened her pace to follow him, asking, "What's wrong?" ”
"It's nothing, it's okay when you get out of town." Erwin replied that he didn't have time to explain to her at this time.
The two of them were getting closer and closer to the city gate.
The tall gate only opened a gap, and the two soldiers below were still trying to wrestle on the winch, while outside the doorway was a group of mercenary-looking people waiting, probably planning to leave Dagger City like Erwin.
Erwin led Susan to the back of the crowd, and just as he wanted to squeeze in, a mercenary turned his head and glared at him dissatisfied: "What squeeze?" Come first and come first, don't you understand, little ghost, wait later. ”
Erwin exhaled slowly, then took a step back, he didn't bother with the mercenaries, he didn't want to cause trouble now, it would be bad if he got the soldiers' attention.
Susan stood beside him, and looked curiously at the group of people in the same profession as her, the average age of them was around thirty years old, and of course there were many young people, and both men and women.
The men were dressed in different garments, but the only thing they had in common was probably exhaustion and numbness on their faces, and only the creaking of the gates as they turned could attract their attention.
"These people are leaving?" Susan asked quietly.
"Yes, I probably can't stand the war, after all, the black barbarians will come again." Erwin nodded and said, this group of mercenaries may have just wanted to fight the enemy who invaded North Sunderland - but in the face of war, individual life and force seemed too fragile, some people were reborn under the baptism of war, gained valuable courage, and some were frightened.
The wait was always long, and it might not take a few minutes to open the gates, but in Erwin's sense, it seemed as if more than ten minutes had passed, and he waited uneasily, still quite worried that a large group of soldiers would suddenly come out of the street behind him and shout to catch the two men.
Fortunately, a few minutes was not long after all, and although the city gate was not fully opened, it was enough for two people to pass through at the same time, and the waiting mercenaries began to slowly walk towards the door under the shouts of the soldiers.
Erwin breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he got out of the city gate, the sky was high and the birds could fly, and no matter how many soldiers he was, he didn't want to catch the two.
But as the saying goes, what you are afraid of comes, not long after the soldiers opened the city gate, a large group of soldiers really burst out of the street behind, about twenty people, and the sound of running in unison suddenly attracted the attention of everyone under the city gate, including Erwin and Susan, and the two recognized at first glance that among the more than twenty soldiers behind, the person running in front was the middle-aged man they had just met.
"Let's go."
At this moment, Erwin was no longer in the mood to complain about whether he had the talent of a crow's mouth, he pulled Susan, who was stunned, and then slammed his body forward, nearly eight times the body of ordinary people, and directly knocked the two mercenaries in front of him away, and then squeezed through the crowd and rushed towards the city gate.
When the non-commissioned officer in the back saw this scene, the more certain he was in his heart that there was something wrong with these two people, he shouted loudly, but instead of grabbing the two, he shouted: "Close the city gate."
The soldiers guarding the city gate did not know what was happening, but they could hear the shouts of their comrades clearly, and the two soldiers immediately wrestled the winch back.
This kind of gate was designed to be difficult to open and simple to close, and with the efforts of two soldiers, the gate was closed more than ten times as much as when it was opened.
Erwin, who was squeezing through the crowd, couldn't help but curse in his heart, and then reached back and grabbed Susan, and at the same time activated the skill of [Iron Swordsmanship] to increase the degree to the fastest, and the crowd in front of him was immediately easily knocked over by him, and he squeezed out a passage.
As soon as he squeezed out of the crowd, a soldier guarding the door immediately rushed up, brandishing his iron sword and looking down at Erwin's shoulder.
But at this time, Erwen's degree was already so fast that ordinary people could hardly react, and when the soldier just raised the iron sword, Erwin, who had no crowd to resist, rushed to the soldier in the blink of an eye, stretched out his hand and pressed on his chest and pushed hard, and the powerful force directly pushed the soldier backwards.
Another soldier guarding the gate also shouted and rushed forward, but Susan threw it out with the bow arm of the winged bow and knocked it over.
At this time, the two of them were less than five meters away from the city gate, and the crack in the gate was closed enough for one person to pass through the city.
Erwin gritted his teeth and pulled Susan forward, and the distance of five meters was fleeting, but with the sound of the city gate closing, the two could not escape in the end.
"!"
Erwin was so angry that he kicked the city gate, and the huge force made the entire city gate bang with a loud bang, startling the mercenaries blocking the doorway.
The pursuing soldiers quickly squeezed through the crowd and surrounded Erwin and Susan in a semi-circular circle.
The non-commissioned officer standing at the front looked at the two soldiers who fell to the ground, his bearded face was expressionless, he looked at Erwin and Susan with cold eyes, and said coldly: "Put down your weapons, you can't run away!" Then he whispered to the soldiers around him: "Arrest it, and if you dare to resist, you will be killed!" ”
Then, the non-commissioned officer turned to the mercenaries around him and shouted, "These two people may be spies of the black barbarians, you must help us capture them, don't let them escape." ”
This guy is not simple!
Seeing that the non-commissioned officer blocked his retreat with a word, Erwin couldn't help but sigh and had to give up the idea of taking the opportunity to escape after creating chaos.
To be honest, with his current strength, more than twenty soldiers are not too much of a threat, even if you add this non-commissioned officer who should be an elite soldier.
But if you count these nearly a hundred mercenaries, it's different, he is not strong enough to ignore ordinary people.
Seeing more than twenty soldiers quickly approaching, Susan's face sank like water, and she took a step back, her right hand was already holding the armor-piercing arrow in the quiver, and her cold gaze crossed the soldier to lock on to the non-commissioned officer standing in front.
She was sure to shoot the other party in a split second, as long as Erwin made a move.
The non-commissioned officer's brows jumped suddenly, as a veteran who has been on the battlefield all year round, his sense of danger is as keen as a beast, and as soon as Susan's gaze is locked, the non-commissioned officer immediately seems to be targeted by a poisonous snake, and his body almost subconsciously wants to make defensive movements, this feeling is completely like being targeted by the enemy's marksman on the battlefield.
And the next moment, the non-commissioned officer saw the young man in strange clothes waving his hand to the girl next to him, and the girl looked at him unwillingly, and the snake-like feeling finally disappeared.
The non-commissioned officer secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"Don't do it Susan, if you kill someone, there will be no way to undo it." Erwin whispered.
"But......" Susan bit her lower lip unwillingly, the two of them were so close to the city gate that they were only one step away from escaping.
Erwin shook his head, now he was weaker than humans, but he was far from despairing, and he was more willing to face these same living humans than the monsters in the Shadow Mountains who couldn't even communicate.
And now the most important thing is not to let the contradiction continue to deepen, the problem can be solved best, and the worst thing is not to let the other party invest more strength to deal with him, Erwin does not want to be hostile to the wolf army with nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses.
Even if he is caught now, Erwin has countless ways to escape, and then take one step at a time.
He slowly drew the iron sword at his waist, and the ordinary shape did not make people recognize that it was a sword of excellent quality.
Everyone held their breath as Erwin moved, but the next moment they saw Erwin throw his iron sword directly on the ground with a crisp clang, and then make a look of restraint.
This made many people breathe a sigh of relief, the monster-like power of this young man when he kicked the door just now was seen by many people, and no one wanted to fight with such an opponent.
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