Chapter 41: Fishing in Troubled Waters
The thick clouds in the night sky dissipated somewhat, and a blue and red moon shone a faint light, illuminating the breakthrough of this wilderness a little.
A horse beast tethered to a low tree suddenly showed some fear, shook its head a few times, and suddenly roared in a low voice.
A member of the Brotherhood of the Dark Street hurried over to check if the reins were tightened, trying to calm the suddenly frightened beast.
"Boss Ken, I think something is wrong, is there any surprise that Mr. Justin the thief hasn't come back for so long?"
Ken poked the campfire in front of him, he had been worried about the situation, could the thief not catch Littlefinger and let him slip away in the dark?
The more he thought about it, the more worried he became, and finally got up and said, "Call everyone up, let's get on the horses and take a look, and hope everything goes well, and don't let Littlefinger run." ”
The less than twenty members of the Black Hand Brotherhood moved quickly, simply packed up, and immediately mounted their horses in the direction where the thief Justin had left, and a group of people urged the horses to gallop away.
As the clouds dispersed a lot, and a faint layer of moonlight was reflected on the ground, the elite of the Brotherhood of the Dark Street scattered on horseback to search, and soon found the thief Justin in the pool of blood.
The black hand boss said he was a master tracker, but he had become a cold corpse.
Ken is more sober-minded, and now that a member of the Thieves' Guild has died, the Brotherhood of the Dark Streets is in trouble. But he can only take care of the present, if he is killed by Littlefinger, he must search the vicinity as soon as possible now, find and capture Littlefinger alive, otherwise he may not escape to somewhere tomorrow.
At this time, the clouds and mist obscured the night sky a little, and the ground of the wilderness returned to darkness.
"It's hard to find someone in this environment, let alone that cunning little finger. ”
Kenn strangled the beast and sighed in his heart, but just as he looked up, he suddenly noticed a few lights in the distance, who was it?
Pointing to the light in the distance, Ken shouted to the remaining Brotherhood of the Dark Street elite, "Gather around and check on what's going on there." ”
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Ignoring the corpses of the guards on the ground, Loki found a rag blanket and wrapped the sidearms of the dead guards in a blanket.
With these weapons on his back, he quietly stalked and continued to walk towards the wooden cage of the carriage where the slaves were held nearby.
There is also a choice to free slaves, and the half-elf boy deliberately chooses those slaves who seem bold and calm to choose to be released first.
As the minutes and seconds passed, several adult male humans began to be released, they were like mountain people in the northwest of the Cooper River, who could barely understand the meaning of the half-elf, and they also chose to listen to his advice, divided some protective weapons, and each began to release the slaves separately.
In the darkness, Loki quickly shuttled between the carriages, and he used the key to quickly open the iron lock on the wooden cage of the carriage, and gently ripped off the iron chain on it, and inside was an adult half-elf and several young humans.
In a pair of stunned eyes, Loki quickly cut the rope that bound an adult half-elf.
Loki threw the adult half-elf a guard sword with him, and while telling him to cut the ropes that bound everyone, he also said quickly, let a few slaves help free everyone as much as possible, only by killing the guards, only by creating enough chaos, can he escape north to the Cooper River, and only in that direction will he not be caught.
The slaves were apparently in a state of six gods and no masters, and most of them would have heeded the advice to flee to the north.
Soon, more than half of the slaves were freed, but the sound of great chaos had already awakened all the guards.
But what the guards didn't expect was that many of the rebellious slaves had weapons in their hands.
Slaves fought for survival and freedom, and when a mountain slave was stabbed to death with a sword, the guard smiled and pulled out the bloody sword, but then a crossbow bolt was stuck in his neck.
An arrow in the neck was even deadlier than the head, and the slave guard quickly fell to his knees and died in pain.
A short-armed crossbow was quietly tucked away, hidden under the hooded robe, and under the hood, Loki's gray eyes calmly looked at the chaos around him, and some of the more powerful guards would be his first target.
There was a clear green scene in front of him, and Loki was glad that he had chosen to optimize his vision, especially the low-light night vision included in it, which made it easier for him to survive in this dark and chaotic environment.
In the dark night, the ability to perceive is stronger than the body of some low-level professionals, after all, those low-level professionals are also normal humanoid creatures, but their physical attributes are relatively strong, but the skin and flesh of low-level professionals are not enough to resist the crossbow in the vicinity, and in the dark chaos, they will also have shortcomings such as insufficient perception and poor reaction.
Loki quietly set fire to several tents, one of the most burning tents belonged to the rich and richly dressed slave merchants.
The first freed cat orc followed his example and secretly lit up a few wagons with goods, and although a small number of slaves had not yet been released, the scene was clearly chaotic.
There was a chaotic shout of rage, screams, and shouts of killing, and the metal clash of weapons was incessant, and many of the slaves were recaptured or killed, but there were also many casualties on the side of the guards.
However, those engaged in the slave business are generally powerful businessmen, and their guard strength is not given in vain after all, and there are even professional warriors among the guards, and some slaves can't help but flinch and flee.
"Snatch the horses and flee north. Everyone, who wanted to survive, fled to the Cooper River in the north. ”
Loki shouted, raising his crossbow and shooting one of the horseback guards to death, and he hurried over and slapped the horse beast on the ass.
The horse beast immediately galloped in fright, disrupting the ranks of the slave guards assembled in front of it.
Faced with a frightened horse beast, a fat merchant in rich clothes cried out in fear, "Gary, Gary, stop it, stop it." ”
Hearing this order, a figure dressed as a half-armored warrior next to the fat merchant rushed directly and quickly, and he jumped up and killed the frightened horse beast with a single axe.
A little melancholy flashed in the eyes of the half-elf boy in the dark, the axe-wielding warrior guard in front of him, the power of the visual image evaluation ≥ 1.85, even if there was no such set of evaluation numbers, it could be seen from the power of the axe he had just now that this was a professional.
But Loki still had a little doubt in his heart, since the slave caravan had this warrior professional named Gary, why didn't he just make a move on those slaves who caused chaos?
However, he apparently didn't have time to think about the answer, and the half-elf boy noticed another wave of centaurs in the distance.
Getting closer, he noticed that the men were dressed as members of the Brotherhood of the Streets, led by none other than the Brotherhood's senior leader, Ken.