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Looking through the group of charred corpses, Su Wen was sure that no more enemies appeared on the drawbridge, so he breathed a sigh of relief and came to the middle-aged man who died first.

The middle-aged man's corpse and the sumptuous robe on his body were scorched by the breath of flames, and it was almost impossible to make out their original appearance, and Su Wen picked up the two steaming flint flint pistols from his hands and from the ground. In the recent explosion, the high temperature even ignited the gunpowder in the chamber, causing the two guns to fire together, and a small amount of gunpowder combustion products remained in the muzzle.

But that's not the point.

Su Wen played with the pistol for a moment, and found that it was indeed the principle he remembered—to use the sparks from the impact of the flint to ignite the gunpowder in the chamber, and then push the metal projectile out. These two flint muskets are very backward, and they don't even have the craft of rifling, and they will fly at a distance, but in any case, they are indeed the prototype of the mechanical firearms that were popular in ancient and modern times.

Thinking of Donald's words, Su Wen felt that this kind of firearm should have appeared on the Brilliant Continent hundreds of years ago, but it seems that it has not been able to develop and popularize until today, and there must be some reason for this.

Su Wen looked around again to make sure there was no danger, and then returned to Khrankimir and helped him up from the ground.

"Now that no one is bothering, we can talk. ”

Su Wen said with a smile.

He had come out of his cold-blooded state and returned to normal...... At least that's what he thinks himself.

Hrankimir's eyes were blank and he muttered, "What is there to talk about? ”

"Calm down, isn't there still you. ”

"Me?"

Khrankimir laughed miserably.

"What's the use of me as an old fellow? Why don't you just kill me, with your strange metal box, isn't it a matter of effort? Oh, I see, it's because I let you get off the bus, I was really worried about you being killed by the old man, he didn't do it once or twice, it's a pity...... Eventually, it will have to be repaid. ”

Su Wen shook his head, then took out a piece of cardboard from his arms, as well as a small pencil.

"That's not the main reason, you have to sign it and leave your fingerprints to prove that I have completed this mercenary mission, and then I can do it if you want to die or live. ”

“......”

After a moment of silence, there seemed to be a little more self-deprecation in Hrankimir's miserable laughter.

He silently took the mercenary mission report from Su Wen's hand, then signed his name according to Su Wen's words, and pressed the red fingerprint in the reserved area. So far, although there was some accident in the process, Su Wen still successfully completed the first mercenary mission in his life.

"Well, if it's all right, I'll go first. Su Wen put away the report, and seemed to be in a good mood, "I probably won't be able to go back tonight, at least I have to find a town to rest, otherwise I'll be in trouble when the sun goes down-oh, by the way, there shouldn't be any witnesses to today's events except you, but just in case, if I'm held accountable, I still need you to be a witness, at least tell them that I'm in self-defense." ”

Just in self-defense?

Khrankimir looked at the charred corpses, the blackened roads, and the burning meadows, and sighed, 'What a legitimate defense.' ’

However, despite the fear of the smiling young man, Khrankimir cried out to him as he was leaving.

"Mr. Su Wen, are you interested in helping me do one more thing?"

"Oh?"

Su Wen naturally stopped.

He had known for a long time that Hran Kimir would not let him go easily, because in his eyes full of grief, Su Wen saw no more despair.

There are also untraceable ambitions.

"Are you interested in the story here? If you can get me back to the farm safely, I'd be happy to have you sit in the highest specification guest chair and take your time. As if he had made up his mind, Herankimir struggled to his feet against the wound in his thigh, holding on to a half-man-high rock on the side of the road, "Please rest assured, there are not many private soldiers under the master's command - at least not now, they are all training outside. The forces left in the manor, apart from these corpses on the ground, were only five patrolling sentry posts. Other than that, the rest are all unarmed minions and slaves who pose no threat. ”

Su Wen listened quietly, and then asked, "What about the reward?" ”

"Ten thousand gold coins. ”

"The price is a little bit lower than what you get, so I'm afraid I can't give you the best service if you're sure. ”

"Fifty thousand gold coins, settle all objections for me. ”

Su Wen did not accept it, nor did he deny it: "I don't want anything." It's foolish to arbitrarily set a price without knowing the bottom line, and judging by the fact that your master has built a manor house like a mini-fortress, there must be some shady secret in it - a secret that even kills strangers who come close. So, do you think I'm short of gold?"

Khrankimir subconsciously shook his head.

"Why should I take this risk, if there is no shortage? Not only that, but the so-called secret here is not attractive to me, so why not give me another reason to accompany you into the farm?"

Hrankimir was speechless.

Su Wen chuckled: "You're not a person who is good at ambition, but after finding out that the only two people in the farm who are more powerful than you have died, you know what you should do, right?"

"Yes, it's going to be a business after all...... Those shady secrets need me to put an end to them. ”

"It's about the same as I thought, you are indeed not a natural villain, and you are loyal, otherwise such a rice bucket master would have been replaced by you a long time ago. Su Wen said, glancing at the charred corpse lying on his back in the middle of the road, "After seeing that your master and young lady are dead, you feel that you have a great responsibility, so you subconsciously put yourself on the opposite side of them - or on the opposite side of the farm, so you want me to help you get in, sweep away those discordant voices, and then get your rightful position." ”

Faced with such direct words, Heran Kimir sighed lightly, "You're right. ”

"But it doesn't work, if I were you, I would understand that someone has to take the blame for this kind of thing. Standing on the opposite side and forcibly suppressing it is tantamount to putting this pot on your own head, and may be able to temporarily suppress the deterioration of the situation, but unless you are the only one in this farm who knows about it, you will be overthrown sooner or later. Because as long as they are on the side of your dead master, they have a good reason to do something with you. ”

“......”

Khrankimir fell silent again, as if in serious thought.

"So, today's incident was actually done by a close high-level magician, as for the specific reason, you can just make it up, do you understand what I mean?"

Suven walked up to Khrankimir, drew his black semi-prismatic dagger, and stabbed the wound in his thigh under the latter's confused and horrified gaze, pinning the bullet between the flesh and the bone. While wiping the blood stains from the dagger with the latter's clothes, he continued: "You are a victim, you only survived because you were lucky, try to make yourself miserable, so as not to be seen that you can still be alive." ”

Hrankimir endured the sharp pain in his thigh and nodded heavily. After all, he is a person who has lived for most of his life, how could Su Wen not understand the truth when he said this?

"That's good. ”

Su Wen put away the dagger with satisfaction and left: "The consultation fee is free, even if I don't say it, you should be able to think of this, but now you haven't been able to calm down." ”

Ignoring Hrankimir, who was sitting on the ground with his thighs clutched, Suwen walked towards a horse grazing with his head bowed on the edge of the riverbank. The brown horse survived by breaking free from the reins of the carriage as he ran in fright, and his companion had already died in the fire.

Turning over his horse, he gave two punches to the brown horse, who wanted to throw him off, and the latter immediately trotted honestly towards the road from which he came.

......

Towns in the middle of nowhere are hard to find, especially since Suven hasn't had time to study the map of the province of Sirona Lando. However, since he could see a large area of farmland, it meant that there must be someone nearby, and Su Wen still found the nearest town smoothly under the guidance of local farmers.

Su Wen had planned to spend the night in the town and wait until daylight the next day to return. But if you think about it, it is only less than 100 kilometers away from Hongfeng Town, and it does take a long time to take a horse-drawn carriage, but if you ride a horse, it will take three or four hours at most. Coupled with the fact that he had told Laetitia to go back in the evening, he eventually changed his mind and set out on the journey back after a simple meal and feeding the horses in town.

Although he had earned 100 gold coins, Su Wen was still very distressed - even though he didn't know the value of the Three Fireball Rings, he knew that he must have lost it. The only thing to gain from the trip was probably two finely crafted flint muskets, but they were not much different from the flint sticks compared to the Glock 18 in the leather armor pocket.

With the memory of the road, Su Wen basically didn't go wrong, but by the time he saw Red Maple Town from afar, the time had completely reached night.

The sky was foggy, and the moon was barely visible.

I don't know why, when passing through the town, Su Wen suddenly felt some heart palpitations inexplicably, as if something bad was going to happen.

This is not the first time that this kind of unreasonable premonition has appeared, and almost every time it is accompanied by bad things, such as the one when he died that night and was stabbed to death by a robber in the suburbs, this palpitation is very strong.

Driven by this premonition, Su Wen clamped the horse under him, increased his speed, and soon returned to the door of the temporary residence in Red Maple Town.

The gate of the yard is open!

Sure enough, something happened!

Su Wen turned over and dismounted, and rushed into the courtyard in three steps and two steps, there was no sign of Laetitia inside, but he immediately saw a small cloth boot outside the main entrance, which was Laetitia's shoe.

Su Wen's mind was buzzing, and he pushed open the door of the house that was also hidden, and then saw the chaotic scene as if it had been looted—the floor cabinets had been overturned, and all the clutter in the drawers had been thrown on the floor, the original framed silver ornaments in the living room had been forcibly smashed down and all taken away, and Laetitia's neatly arranged coffee table had been lifted to the center of the living room, and the bottles and cans on it were shattered......

However, Laetitia is still not there.

Su Wen knew that in the glorious continent where the alien race was treated as a commodity, it was not uncommon for burglary to take slaves away by the way. But he never expected that such a thing would happen in the seemingly safe town of Red Maple, and that the other party would actually take Laetitia away.

An extremely dangerous aura gradually emanated from Su Wen's body, and he didn't have time to care about the chaos on the ground, and rushed directly to his room on the second floor.

On the windowsill, the bottle containing Xiao Shi was really still there, Su Wen grabbed the bottle and walked into the bathroom, turned on the faucet to the maximum, and then poured all the contents of the bottle into it.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, Xiao Shi, who was transparent throughout, quickly split apart in the bathtub, and seemed to be in the same hurry as Su Wen.

"Daddy!"

Soon, Su Wen heard a faint shout, which became clearer and clearer as the number of Xiao Shi's proliferations in the bathtub increased.

"Go and get my mother back, those bastards are going north in a carriage, and it's been less than half an hour now!"

Without even making an answer, Su Wen turned around and rushed out of the bathroom, and rushed straight out of the residence. He could only be glad that he didn't come back too late, that everything still had a chance, and that if he really stayed in the province of Cirona Lando he would leave tomorrow...... The consequences are unimaginable, and he will probably regret it for the rest of his life.

Anyway, Su Wen knew that this matter was definitely not over.

However......

He had just turned over and mounted the horse that had not yet taken a breath, and was about to gallop towards the north of Red Maple Town, when he suddenly saw two figures walking towards him on the street in the distance.

"Laetitia?!"

Su Wen shouted.

The sudden turn of events made him wonder if he had been teased by a prank, but when he saw that the person holding the sword beside her was the former Knight of the Adjudicator, he almost reflexively wanted to jump off his horse and turn away.