Avi rode a war horse and led two others, and one of the horses seemed to notice that the man who had ridden it had just been ridden was dead, and the horse became reluctant to go on for a moment, and the two front hooves held on to the grass, stopped, and stood on the great plain. The black-brown mare under Avi's seat also began to slow down as if sensing the sadness of his companion, which forced Avi to jump off the mare and soothe the reluctant horse.

He quietly stroked his horse's back as he looked back. The morning sun shone on the entire Great Plains, and in front of him was an endless green grassland, and the small village could no longer be seen when he looked back, but now Avi could no longer raise the mood to appreciate such a vast world. He began to fantasize that if he could turn back time, he would definitely stop the two seniors from going to that village, and he began to wonder if it was because of one of his own knee-jerk shouts that killed the two seniors. Maybe I'll explain it to the boy and we'll all be hurt?" thought to herself.

"Horse, horse, take him back, we can't stand still here. Avi gently swept the horse's sideburns, the black and white sideburns were not supple, apparently having experienced a lot of wind and sand, and unfortunately the person who had gone through the wind and sand with it had died.

No matter how much Avi tried to "persuade him" or pull the reins hard, the horse remained motionless, its hooves as if they were stuck to the ground, and he was unwilling to take a step forward.

Avi looked at the horse's eyes, it just looked at the outside world silently, but didn't say a word. Avi decided to lift the corpse that was lying across the horse, and then turned the corpse ninety degrees and sat upright in the saddle, as if there was really a rider sitting there - except that the upper body of the mounted mercenary naturally fell forward, and Avi had to let the mercenary's head be pressed against the neck of the warhorse, and let the corpse's hands wrap around the sides of the horse, so that the corpse of the senior would not fall to the ground.

At that moment, a horse's cry came from the great plains, "Hiss!" but this ordinary horse's cry did become a clear meaning to Avi's ears—"Thank you." ”

Avi rubbed his ears, he looked at the horse that had barked and then began to step forward again, and he knew in his heart that he had heard the horse's whisper. He posed the corpse of another mercenary on horseback in the same way, except that he didn't hear the horse's words. Maybe it's because the horse didn't stop and wouldn't take a step forward.

He kept his eyes in the direction of Disha Castle and galloped quietly across the savannah. Although Avi's heart was sad, wasn't it always his dream to be able to gallop like a horse on such a vast grassland?

It's just that the seniors who had been together for a while died all of a sudden, which also made him feel the fragility between the vast world and the world. And the two war horses sitting on the corpses also followed behind the black-brown mare under Avi's seat, running on their own, no longer needing Avi to hold their reins at the same time.

It was almost noon when he returned to the castle, and an hour earlier, Eddie had sent a group of mounted scouts who were supposed to take over from Avina. Sherry sat on the side of the drawbridge, soaking her feet in the cold water of the moat, but when she saw the horses carrying the two corpses, she immediately stood up and trotted barefoot in the direction of Avi.

"These two people!" Xue Rui placed the bodies of the two horseback mercenaries on the ground, and some of the Moon Shield mercenaries guarding the door immediately ran down, pulling the arrows without arrows from their foreheads.

Avi lowered his head in frustration, he didn't know how to explain it to Sister Xue Rui for a moment.

"What the hell is going on today?!, our cavalry squadron is really unlucky!" Shelly snarled dissatisfiedly. It turned out that the reconnaissance cavalry sent out this morning had encountered some situations, and after hearing Avi tell him about the situation in the village, Xue Rui said to Avi helplessly: "Your luck is good, there is still one person who came back alive, Captain Eddie sent seven teams to reconnoiter before dawn, and now it is known that one team has been completely wiped out, one team has been captured, and there is no news from two teams!"

When Avi heard this, he was also surprised, it turned out that it was not only they who had been attacked. But he remembered that his two companions had been killed by the handsome robber boy because they had asked the village chief for something, and that they might not have been killed if they had not been blinded by greed.

"Who attacked the seniors? are they soldiers of the Kingdom of Kosai?"

"I don't know, anyway, I only know that the dead are dead, and the ones who were captured are taken away, and I'm very annoyed now!" Several of these horseback riding mercenaries are guys that Xue Rui has worked with for several years, so Xue Rui is very annoyed now, and suddenly she has lost her companion, which is not a good feeling.

At this time, Eddie, the captain of the cavalry squadron, also walked out of the gate of Disha Castle, and with him was the senior of Field.

"Sure enough, there are enemies all around here" After Eddie learned about Avi's group of scout cavalry from Cherry, he half-crouched down and carefully examined the corpses of the two men, the fatal wound was the arrow wound on the forehead, and the guy who shot the arrow aimed very accurately.

"It seems that one of the reconnaissance teams that was completely wiped out also found this arrowless arrow. Eddie touched the forehead of a corpse, the wound was deep.

Fed, on the other hand, picked up the two arrows without iron arrows with great interest, and studied them carefully.

Eddie walked over to Avi, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said, "You go and rest first, I'll take care of it." ”

"I'm sorry, it's actually me" Avi also told the details of his own shouting "be careful" to the handsome boy, and now in Avi's heart, there is a little bit of thinking that he killed his companion.

"Since that robber can shoot three arrows and hit them all, and since he can kill two of them and let you go, it proves that it is not your fault at all." He snapped the arrow and studied its interior, but found nothing out of the ordinary.

"Is it really a bandit and not an enemy army?" Eddie also took an arrowless arrow and looked at it carefully, "It seems that we have to stop before we can find out who is attacking us." ”

Avi gently brushed the black and brown mare's sideburns, and the sadness engulfed her heart, as if the washed fruit had been sprinkled with a layer of sand. He had even forgotten his mission to infiltrate the Moonshield Mercenary Regiment - his mission was not to "save the other mercenaries".

Carrie and Bignose Fan received the news, and took advantage of the gap in the morning when their respective squadrons had not assembled, and together they went to find Avi near the castle stable, but Avi looked sullen and did not even take a bite of the stewed pork assigned to him.

"Don't forget, the lives of these people have nothing to do with us. With his hands crossed over his chest, Fan sat on a beam and whispered.

And Carrie sat with Avi, she whispered, "Brother Avi, we really want to know exactly who we are and what we are going to do," she stretched out a hand and gently brushed Avi's yellow hair, she knew that Avi was different from herself, this was his first attempt to complete the task, "As long as we complete the task, we can return to Miss Delia's side, maybe you can also take a lot of money back to your family." ”

Avi looked up at each other blankly, while Carrie shook her head and said, "Although those mercenaries who go out with you are miserable, this is the life of mercenaries, they may die at any time, and they may suddenly be attacked, which is an impossible thing to encounter." ”

Avi was speechless, remembering what he had said to Miranda in the backyard of Uncle Charric's house about wanting to be a mercenary. Looking back now, I realized my ignorance and naivety. Avi lowered his head and clenched his fists tightly, but soon he raised his head again, and said to Carrie with a determined look in his eyes, "I will, I will return to my hometown, and I will go back with the completed mission!"

He has clearly understood that the most important thing is to go back alive, and from today on, he must live!

Earlier, after Avi left the village.

The handsome boy had been walking east along the river, and after an hour's walk he saw the little wooden boat he had hidden in a pile of weeds. He pushed the wooden boat into the river, put the short wooden bow on it, sat on it, and then used both hands as oars, and gently paddled the waves, so that the boat floated forward in the direction of the river.

After another half an hour or so, the river flowed to a rocky place, far from Disha Castle, and almost to the junction of the Principalities of Majni, Noo, and Kosai. The altitude in this area is relatively low, but you can still see dense forests. The boy walked into the forest, and walked a little further, until he came to a rocky cave surrounded by a cluster of underground rocks, and from the outside it was not inhabited at all.

Then the sentry man at the entrance of the cave said to the boy, "Ayana, where have you run again?" and the sentry called out a girl's name.

The handsome boy didn't even look at each other, walked into the cave and said, "They all say that you want to call me Aya! I don't want others to know that I'm a girl!" It turned out that this person who looked like a handsome boy was actually a daughter, but Ayana, who had short hair and was wearing boy's clothes, couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman when she stood with her peers. And those who know her know that Ayana deliberately made others think she was a man.

The sentry man smiled, and he squinted at the forest in front of him, where the birds were singing and the ants on the ground were hard at work building their homes, and everything was full of life.

"By the way, the mercenaries of the Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment have arrived at Disha Castle," the delicate girl Ayana seemed to suddenly remember this, she turned to the sentry and said, "If Uncle Russell comes back, remember to inform him." ”