Wild ghosts are unattached pawns who have been drafted but have left their allegiance knights or lords, perhaps because they have been defeated in battle or because they have been treated unfairly. They have given up their status as soldiers, they have given up supplies, they have given up castles, they are free people among the dead. Rangers are the same as ghosts, except that they used to be knights, and they had the power to speak directly to the lord, and could sell something or news to the lord in exchange for the sulfur or ice fruit necessary for survival. If the news is good enough, you can also get a small barrel of ice cider.

Freedmen are happy, but they also die easily. Without the protection of sulfur, they are quickly attacked by scavenging fungi, deprived of the replenishment of ice fruits and ice mushrooms, and even their own bodies are consumed to replenish energy for daily activities. Usually unfed pawns are unable to maintain their ability to move for months, and in order to keep themselves alive, many wild ghosts form alliances to raid villages and rob tax collectors who may carry ice fruits and brimstone.

At first, this method did attract a lot of wild ghosts to join, and some wild ghost alliances grabbed quite a lot of sulfur and ice fruits, recruited troops, and quickly became a force to be reckoned with. These alliances even allowed the minor lords to be secretly subservient at one point. But then the lords also formed a coalition and worked together to exterminate these wild ghost alliances, and even hunted down all the wild ghosts who joined the alliance to death. This kind of death is not a physical death, but a soul death, and the souls of the defeated are imprisoned and then sealed in the Soul Gathering Tower or the Soul Conjuring bagpipes.

When Sijiu was surrounded by a group of wild ghosts, he was sitting by the well resting, waiting to recover his strength. The first time he saw the wild ghost, he almost threw the ice mushroom in his arms to the ground. The young master said that when you see a group of wild ghosts, you can throw an ice mushroom on the ground and then find a way to escape. But as soon as he reached into his bosom, before he could take out the wooden box, the swords of six wild ghosts were pointed at him. Sijiu was sure that if he had taken out the wooden box at that time, the six swords would have stabbed directly into his body. So he decided to stand still.

"Slave, why are you walking outside alone?" the leader of the group of wild ghosts, a ranger, motioned for Forty-Nine to take his hand out of his arms. Sijiu obediently pulled out his hand and raised it above his head.

"My lord, I'm from the border village, and there is going to be a war over there, so the young master asked me to come back first. Sijiu said honestly. It would be unwise to lie in front of these wild ghosts.

"Fighting?haha!" the Ranger let out a grim laugh, "No way, in all these decades, that softass of Wensha has never fought against that bug of Ados. It's nothing more than a trick of me when you come. When he saw Sijiu raise his hand, he beckoned, and lowered his sword along with several other wild ghosts.

"You said that was in the past," Sijiu hurriedly explained for his young master, "Our young master has now taken over the taxes of Lord Bergo's estates, and the border village is an important village in Lord Bergo's estates. Our young master wanted to fight the tax collection team over there, so I left all the guards behind when I returned. ”

The ranger pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then an ugly smile appeared on his face, which had lost his skin, and said, "Your young master? Who is your young master?"

Sijiu said: "It's Lord Belgo's tax collector, is it...... It's a human being. ”

"Human?!, you just said, that human wants to fight that old bug in Ados's border village?" The ranger looked incredulous, and the other wild spirits exchanged a few glances, and burst into laughter. "A human who wants to fight Athos. If you kid us not, that's the funniest joke in the world. Wen Sha is a soft egg, but he is not as good as a human! That human dares to go to war with the old bed bug, but Wen Sha does not!"

Sijiu endured it and couldn't bear to tell the story that the young master was still a child, otherwise these wild ghosts would not be able to believe it.

"Slave, didn't you lie to me? That human, why did he go to war with the old bedbug? Although the old bedbug is a coward, I know that the four high-ranking knights under his command are all elite knights among the undead, and none of them are given for nothing. What does that human think?"

Sijiu shook his head and said, "My lord, I don't understand this." But if the young master said that he wanted to prepare for war, then eighty percent of it would be fought. ”

Seeing that he was so sure, the ranger couldn't conclude that this thing must be fake, and muttered: "I also know that guy Belgo, he is not very strong, but he is very good at licking Wensha's ass. What kind of men can he have to fight against the old bed bug of Ados. Slave, what kind of weapon does your young master use? He's a mighty guy?"

Sijiu said: "My lord, our young master uses his brain. He's not as strong as I am, let alone adults. ”

The ranger shook his head in disbelief and said, "This is impossible, it is impossible for someone weaker than you to have the courage to challenge Ados." "That's right. Give Lu Jingzhi ten more dares, and he won't dare to challenge a zombie, let alone the lord of Ados. The battle in the border village was only forced to fight because he couldn't run, and if he could turn back time and let him start all over again, he would definitely choose to escape in advance.

Sijiu said: "My lord, you haven't seen my young master, I heard that he fought with the undead soldiers under my lord before he joined Lord Bergo. And he broke the soldier's sword. "This matter is also hearsay, and the ghost rider Belgo regards this matter as a great shame and is not allowed to be mentioned. But when he reported it to his lord, Lord Windsor, there were always other ghost riders who didn't deal with him who heard about it, so it came out.

"A human, less powerful than you, can make an undead soldier break his sword?" the ranger gestured to the other wild ghosts and retreated while deliberating, telling Sijiu and the others to stay at the well and not move.

How could Sijiu be so stupid, seeing that the ranger ghosts were no longer surrounding him, and he no longer even paid attention to himself, he started to have the idea of slipping away. It's a pity that as soon as he moved, he was discovered by the rangers.

"It seems that you will not be obedient here, slave, come with me, and I will teach you to obey. With a single kick, the Ranger knocked Four-Nine to the ground, leaving a wild ghost staring at him with a sword. It should be because the "young master" mentioned by this human slave is more face-saving, and the ranger only kicked him down, but did not hurt him.

They took Sijiu to a dry, simple brown hut, the floor was specially raised, and a drainage tank was opened on the side of the shed. As soon as he entered the shed, he smelled a strong smell of sulfur.

"We're running out of stock, slaves. "I want you to bring us enough brimstone and ice fruit." ”

"I don't have sulfur and ice fruit, but there is sulfur in the border village, and the young master will also collect a tax from the ice fruit village. Therefore, if you can save the young master, you can ask the young master to help. "Forty-nine originally meant to explain that he was not capable of solving the livelihood of the rangers and wild ghosts, but the young master could. In the ranger's voice, it was Sijiu who was asking himself to lead troops to save his family's young master on the condition of these necessary materials.

"Slave, don't play tricks. We don't have enough equipment to fight that old bug. I've even lost my plate armor and mount. The Ranger said to Forty-Nine. He's telling the truth. Ranger will sell his mount as soon as possible, so that he can save a lot of money on breeding. The second is their spears and armor, after losing their mounts, these things will not be able to exert their power, but will become a burden on their actions, so it is wisest to sell these three things all at once.

"yes, I remembered, too. Sijiu squatted on the ground in distress, "If only you had horses." Or maybe you have enough knights. I don't think Lord Ados's side will send too many people to collect such a pitiful tax. ”

"You've got to have enough money to pay our appearance fee, slave. The ranger said.

Sijiu seemed to hear the doorway, stood up and asked, "My lord, how much do you want to appear for?" He remembered that the young master had dug up a treasure, and although it was not a great fortune, it was a lot of money for these rangers and wild ghosts.

"Twenty catties of ordinary ice fruits, plus two catties of sulfur. My men and I will fight for you, but only this one. After the battle, we are still strangers, but you can continue to hire us for this price. The knight offered a price that didn't look very high. These things are enough for them to survive for another six months.

"My lord, are you saying that as long as I pay, you will be able to fight?" Forty-Nine couldn't believe it, and asked the ranger in confirmation.

"That's right, slave. But we have to pay before the battle, and don't promise what will happen if the battle is won. The ranger said.

Sijiu hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Your equipment is gone, what are you going to use to fight?"

The ranger said proudly, "We don't need much equipment to deal with ordinary infantry. And I have three more brothers. My name is Baghdadi and they are Karongeang, Bonni and Bastoni. We are all knights who have lost their fiefs. "Four knights, take some infantry who have lost their supply, and fight a tax collection team, if they can't win, then they will collectively throw themselves into the soul pool.

Sijiu hesitated for a moment, took out a top-grade ice mushroom from his arms, handed it to the ranger who claimed to be Baghdad, and said, "If I pay for it with this, how far can you go?" A hundred-year-old ice mushroom is not unique in this land, but at least it is very precious. If you get it to a rich castle, it is enough to exchange for a few hundred catties of ice fruits, or dozens of catties of sulfur. In other words, enough for them to fight ten times.

"Slave, I won't swear allegiance to you, you're too humble. If it weren't for our agreement, I would have killed you and snatched this ice mushroom from you. "But we have an agreement that I will not do anything that is contrary to chivalry." So, I'm willing to swear allegiance to your master, the young master you spoke of who was willing to go to war with the old bugs of Ados. If our deal is ......" he glanced at the ice mushroom in Sijiu's hand with a fascinated expression, it was the ice mushroom's natural temptation to the undead, "I will take my brothers and serve under the command of your young master until the soul is worn out." ”

Sijiu was almost stunned, he couldn't imagine why things had turned out like this after he took out the ice mushroom. Could it be that this was also arranged in advance by the young master?

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.