Chapter 54: Mercenaries
"Ever heard you're recruiting mercenaries?" asked a woman in a shooter's cotton vest, flanked by a thin, long-haired young man with black hair, both carrying a wooden shield and a one-handed sword. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe difference is that the man carries a light crossbow on his back, while the woman carries two bags of javelins.
"That's right, the daughter of a merchant in the town was kidnapped by a gang of robbers who demanded a ransom of 3,500 dinars in the village of Gami in the kingdom of Rhodoc, and he would pay 1,500 dinars if he could save his daughter. The mayor of the town said sleepily, it was still early in the morning, and he was woken up by his servant to have a mercenary to take the commission.
1500 dinars?If you don't pay the ransom, you will have 5000 dinars, and you will be rich~~~~ The woman couldn't help but laugh when she thought about it, "Sister, what are you laughing at?" The young man next to him smelled in surprise.
"It's nothing," the woman waved her hand and looked, "My name is Gamara," and pointed to the young man beside her, "This is my brother Rejek, and we are the mercenaries you are looking for"
The mayor of the town carefully looked at the two of them, Gamara wore a desert turban that covered her entire face, and only showed a pair of bright eyes staring at the mayor, her eyes revealed a fiery desire for the dinar, and the mayor was a little hairy when he was stared at, and quickly shifted his gaze, "Although it is not a new thing for a woman to be a mercenary, it is still quite rare, hehe..."
The mayor seemed to think of something, and asked, "There are only two of you?" Gamara smiled, looking arrogant, "There are 11 people in our team, and I am still the captain" The mayor was surprised, as if he couldn't believe it, "Oh? I didn't expect you to be able to lead your own team as a woman, it's pretty good, by the way, why don't you see the rest of you?"
Gamala: " There are two people who participated in the arena yesterday and were injured by a woman named Xie Rena and are recuperating from their injuries, and two people took the loot to the grocery store to sell, and the boss thought the goods were too bad and refused to accept them, so they went to the street to set up a stall and were arrested by the city management without a license, and they were waiting for me to make money and pay the fee to take them out, and there was another person who drank too much in the tavern and flirted with the boss's daughter and was arrested by the law enforcement team, and he was waiting for me to make money to pick it up, and when he was eating and drinking in the tavern, he found that his wallet was stolen, and he was washing dishes for the boss to pay off the debt, and two were also injuredOne accidentally slipped and fell down when he went downstairs in the tavern, and the other took over the task of herding cattle in Heibayi Village, but was blown away by the cow, and the two were also recuperating from their injuries. ”
The mayor of the town had a black line on his face: "What about the last person, was he injured or was he arrested in violation of the law?"
Gamala: "He doesn't have anything to do, but he recently saved a sum of money and went home to marry his daughter-in-law!"
The mayor fainted...... "Aren't there still just you and your brother, but there are 20 robbers"
Jia Mara said unconvinced: "What's wrong with the two of you, I'm amazing, it's very common for me to fight dozens of them at a time, but I'm low-key!, I don't say!, how powerful my swordsmanship is, but I'm low-key! I don't say it!" (borrowing the lines of the Journey to the West) As he spoke, he was about to pull out his sword and make a gesture, but the mayor hurriedly stopped: "Stop, stop, stop! I believe! I believe!" Jia Mara put away his sword and pointed at Rejek, "Look at my brother again, this body, this hairstyle, this temperament, how can I fight 10!" Brother show him your swordsmanship," the mayor thought to himself: "This body looks malnourished... Then he sighed and hurriedly waved his hand, as if he had compromised, "Alas.. Well, that's up to you. ”
On the streets of Sharitz, it was summer dawn, the sun had risen on the top of the east hill for more than a quarter of an hour, the sky was blue, there were no clouds, no wind, the sun was flat on the earth, many merchants had already set up stalls and shouted business, and the two brothers had just left the mayor's office to go to the city gate. "Sister, it's definitely not okay for the two of us," Rejek looked worried. "Why can't it be, isn't it just a gang of robbers, the reward is 1500, if we don't pay the ransom and rob people, there will be a total of 5000 dinars!
Reyeke shrugged helplessly: "You really think you can fight dozens of them at a time." ”
Gamala "Can't"
Reyek: "Do you have any plans?"
Gamara "No"
Reyek broke down and said, "Then we'll go to death" Gamara: "This is 5,000 dinars, hurry up, we will rush to the village of Gamici at noon tomorrow." "Twenty men in Rhodok gear were waiting anxiously, and next to them stood a girl with her hands tied behind her back and sobbing.
"Hasn't the ransom payer arrived yet?" asked one of the shirtless men, impatiently. It's summer heat, and the man's face is already covered with beads of sweat, and he is wiping sweat on his face with greasy hands. They are the robbers who kidnapped the merchant's daughter, and they are waiting for the mayor to send someone to deliver the ransom.
"The mayor of the town, this old gangster, actually lied to us, where is this ordinary robber, this is clearly a Rhodok deserter" At this time, the Gamara sister and brother were hiding in the bushes and watching, Reyek hurriedly said: "Sister, let's pay the ransom honestly, at least there can be 1500 dinars..." Why don't we just run away with the 3,500 dinars" Rejeke looked disdainful: "Sister, do you have any professional ethics?"
On the other side, the Rhodok deserter waiting for the ransom said, "Damn!
"We can't eat enough, do you want to raise another girl?"
"We'll sell it if we've had enough, and the young girl can sell it for a lot of money. On the other side, two Rhodok deserters argued.
The little girl next to her was obviously frightened when she heard this, and hurriedly begged: "Please, masters, my family will definitely pay the ransom, woo..."
Watching this scene, Rejek couldn't sit still, "Sister, what should I do" Gamala thought about it, she was really reluctant to give up the 3500 dinars, and simply said with a heart: "You wait here, I'll communicate, as long as I shout, you will shoot them with arrows" Reyek was trying to stop him, but Gamala had already walked over.
The shirtless deserter said impatiently: "Lao Tzu's patience has been..."
"I'm not here," the robber could finish when a woman's voice sounded in the woods.
The deserters hurriedly picked up their weapons and stared vigilantly in the direction of the sound, a woman in the woods wearing a shooter's cotton vest, wearing a Salander desert headscarf, covering her entire face and revealing only a pair of eyes, was slowly walking out with her hands behind her back, it was Gamara.
"Are you here to pay the ransom, why are you still a woman?" asked one of the deserters
Gamara looked at these people up close again, because they were deserters, so basically everyone was not fully equipped, but it was still enough to defeat their siblings, Gamala thought to herself: It seems that it is impossible to fight hard, so you can only pay the ransom. "Big brothers, I'm appointed by Mayor Shariz to pay the ransom."
Deserter "3500 dinars, pay honestly, and you will not be in danger." ”
Jiamara "What's that, get a discount"
Deserters "pay the ransom, how can there be a bargain"
"I rely on my parents at home and my friends outside, and if my eldest brother gives a discount, I will receive 1,000 dinars, so I should be a friend, how about it?"
"Who wants to make friends with you, and how do you cut the price in half like a little girl, no, you cut more than half, believe it or not, Lao Tzu directly slaughtered you and snatched the money. The topless deserter yelled.
Gamara thought about her 5,000 dinars, and then looked at the 20 Rhodok deserters opposite, and her heart was tangled, "Let me sit down and think about it" as she spoke, and walked to the big rock next to her to sit down. As soon as Gamara sat down, she jumped up, "Ah!! this broken stone burned me!!," Suddenly, there was a whoosh in the woods, and a crossbow arrow flew quickly, piercing the temple of a deserter, who opened his mouth and fell to the ground without making a sound.
"There is an ambush, pick up the shield!" The shirtless deserter hurriedly shouted, and then pulled out his sword and set up his shield and rushed towards Gamala a few steps, Gamala didn't know why Reyek suddenly released the arrow, and at this time he didn't have time to think about it, the enemy had already come to the front and slashed down with a sword, Gamala quickly drew his sword to block the blow, and the deserter fought, several deserters had chased into the woods to find Reyeke who released the dark arrow, and the other few surrounded Gamala, the two of them have come and gone a few ways" I can't imagine that you little girl still has two hits" The topless deserter laughed contemptuously, and stabbed with a sword again, and Jiamala blocked it with a shield and then fell to the ground and rolled, and saw a pair of feet that I don't know which unlucky ghost it was, and it was directly stabbed out with a sword. "Ouch, my feet!" the hapless man threw down his shield and fell to the ground, clutching his feet and wailing, as Gamara took advantage of the gap and quickly got up and ran towards the kidnapped girl.
"Damn, you bitch still use this trick of rolling on the ground, are you a dog?" the topless deserter scolded, "whatever he does, it works," Gamara shouted backwards as she ran.
Seeing that Gamala was about to run to him, the deserter in charge of watching the girl was about to meet him with his sword, and a crossbow arrow pierced his arm, and before he could wail, Gamala was quickly rushed over, and he wiped his neck with a sword and collapsed on the ground. Reyek ran out of the woods on the side, shouting as he ran, "Run, sister, there are several more after me." Gamala cut the rope that bound the girl's hand, took the girl's hand and ran. "Are you here to save me or kill me?" shouted the kidnapped girl as she ran, enduring the occasional sound of crossbow bolts bursting through the air.
Reyek replied awkwardly, "Of course we are here to save you, but it is an accident that we will be hunted down...", and then shot an arrow backwards with his backhand, this is a densely wooded wood, and Reyeke does not expect to shoot people.
Gamara was about to lose her breath when she ran: "Why did you suddenly release the arrow just now!" "Didn't you say that as long as you shouted, I would release the arrow?" Reyeke answered Gamala's question inexplicably.
Gamala remembered that she was sitting on a stone and was burned by the sun-dried stone, and exclaimed, "I.... I'm too lazy to argue with you, if we die here, it's all your fault!" Rejek was about to argue when the girl pointed ahead and shouted, "There's a river ahead!"
"Swim over. As soon as they got ashore, Gamala heard a "bang" behind them, and the crossbow arrow penetrated the shield behind him and inserted it into his back, and he almost fainted in pain, and Reyeke hurriedly helped Gamala to hide behind a tree.
A deserter jumped into the river and was about to catch up, but Reyeke behind the tree suddenly flashed and raised his crossbow to be an arrow, and in a hurry only shot the enemy in the shoulder, the deserter screamed in pain, and the two deserters took advantage of the gap between Reyeke's arrows and hurriedly set up a shield to pull the wounded companion back. Both sides were already panting after a chase in the woods, as long as someone went down the river, Rejek flashed out from behind the tree and shot an arrow, these people were deserters, naturally they didn't want to be injured or killed, so no one wanted to go down the river, Gamala was also injured and could no longer move, and now both sides could only face each other across the river.
"Hey, you two, as long as you are willing to surrender, lay down your weapons and come out, and pay the ransom, Lao Tzu will spare your life. The shirtless deserter on the other side shouted, apparently he was the leader of the group.
"You old fox, you are stupid to me, not to mention anything else, we have already killed the two of you, if you surrender and come out, you will definitely shoot you into a hedgehog!" Gamara cried out in pain.
"Little girl, don't be ignorant, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will arrest you and sell you to the kiln" "This little girl must be ugly, otherwise why cover her face" "Maybe it's buckteeth" "If you want me to see it, you must have a pockmarked face" The deserters thought of Gamara wearing a headscarf and began to discuss their appearance.
Jiamara's lungs were about to explode, "Auntie, I'm as beautiful as a fairy, you know a fart! Believe it or not, Grandma, I stripped you old gangsters and arrested them and went to Salander to parade the streets." ”
The head of the deserter said angrily: "Little girl, what do you call Lao Tzu?"
"Old Gang Cai! Come over here, see if your aunt doesn't kill you. Gamara continued to scold.
Obviously, the head of the deserter was also angry, and he was actually scolded by a woman, and threatened to kill himself, "You come out for Lao Tzu, see if Lao Tzu doesn't pick your skin!"
Jiamara "Old Gang Cai, you have the ability to come over"
The head of the deserter "Little girl, there is a kind of you to come out for Lao Tzu"
"Old gang!" "Little lady!" The two of them used to compete with each other with swords, and now they began to scold each other again, and they competed with each other. . .
"Sister, you're okay, your face is pale, don't scold. At this time, Gamara lost too much blood, and Rejek began to worry.
Jia Mara held the sword and slowly stood up: "It's okay, your sister and I haven't suffered any injuries, this little injury is simply not worth mentioning, go and bring my Fang Tian Painting Halberd, see that I can't go over and slaughter that old gangster." ”
"Sister, you still said that you were fine, you were already delirious and started talking nonsense! What is Fang Tian's halberd, you still want to go over and die?"
The girl on the side was full of black lines: "Are you reliable?"
The leader of the deserters on the other side could no longer sit still and began to order his subordinates, "Hey, you swim together, they only have one crossbowman, and they can't deal with more than ten of us at the same time", but no one moved. "Why don't you act?" said the head impatiently. The deserters hurriedly waved their hands: "It's okay to say on land, but you can't even lift your shield when you go into the water, and it's not good to flash more, we, we're not afraid of death, it's just that it's so embarrassing to die like this" "Damn! You are just afraid of death, a bunch of waste!"
The two sides are at a stalemate on both sides of the river.