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In the night, everything was as quiet as a stone, and I slept soundly, and the little stars in the sky were all shrunk and shivered with cold.

Alleyne couldn't remember when he had fallen asleep, he was so tired that he seemed to have just squinted for a moment.

Then, he felt someone shaking him vigorously, and then he woke up to find what was standing next to him.

Mo Mocha's face was solemn, and he said briefly: "Boss, something happened." ”

At first, he thought it was a twinkling star, but then he realized that it was a torch in the hands of the people.

A group of centaurs came from far and near, the torches were evident in the night, and before Ellen woke up, the mercenaries had already circled the carriage and formed a formation to defend it.

Soon, Alleyne could see the crowd of men and horses coming towards them.

It wasn't the bandits one might have imagined, the flickering light of the fire illuminated their armor and fluttering flags, and it was clear that they were the army of the local lords.

The Swadia knight at the head grabbed the reins and shouted to the chariot formation: "In the name of Lord Walker of Tyrburg, report your name." ”

"Knight's Chief," Manid replied. "As you can see, we are mercenaries going to the city of Dehrim. ”

"Since it's a regular mercenary, let's check the cargo to make sure you're not carrying any contraband. ”

"What is the contraband?" asked Karadus, who had never seen the world, in a curious whisper to the horse thief beside him.

"It's all contraband. "What a tea spread. "The dodos in the sky are all the same dark. ”

"I say it one last time," cried the knightly sergeant. "Obediently open the car formation, let us check, otherwise you are the spies of the Virgians. ”

"He seems to have said he was a subordinate of the Lord of Tilburg," Jamila interjected in a low voice. "How could that Lord Walker have such a subordinate?"

"You don't think this is the knight's arbitrariness, do you?" said Tea, whispering in her ear beside Jamila. "I tell you, how dare a little knight be so bold and bold as to attack a caravan in the village on the King's Road, without the acquiescence of the lord, and how can he mobilize men? I have just counted the number of torches, at least a hundred. A hundred people, even the lord's wife does not have this power. ”

"How could it be...... Doesn't the knight abide by the Eight Virtues?" asked Jamila, puzzled. "How could they ......"

"Bah," Momo Tea spat on. "The knight also said to be kind to women and children, do you think any knight has not beaten his own wife and children?"

At this time, Wiggins, who was five big and three thick, suddenly climbed into the carriage, leaned out half of his body and yelled outside: "Who is making a lot of noise and affecting Lao Tzu's rest?"

"Savage Nords," the knight at the head was furious. "Remember who you are, you're talking to a noble knight, be careful, or I'll send you to the gallows. ”

"Knight?" Wiggins spat on the ground, grinning his yellow teeth. "What kind of character am I, it turns out that I am just a hunting dog on a leash, and I even have a barking face. ”

"Very well, you have insulted a noble knight, and I will promise to make your life worse than death. The knight at the head laughed angrily, waved his hand to the subordinates behind him, and ordered: "Kill them all, and leave no one behind." ”

"Wait a minute. Alleyne shouted suddenly.

"Have you asked for mercy?"

"Who begs for mercy is not necessarily. Ellen said contemptuously, "We are the messengers of the mercenary group hired by the Lord of Zenda of the Free City, the Count of Araciss, who have been ordered to go to the royal city of Paraven to deliver a secret message to the king of Harauth of your country, are you sure you want to do something with us?"

"Boy, you have to think clearly," Wiggins said with a smile, his figure suddenly growing taller, and even his withered yellow teeth seemed to reflect as brightly as newly created armor. "You may be able to kill all of us, but you can't stop the news from leaking. ”

The knight hesitated, he looked around, and what he saw was the same as the other party said, if he really gave the order to attack, it was difficult to guarantee that his subordinates would not leak the news.

Of course, if it were him himself, he would definitely go to King Haraus to inform, and then get a good reward from the king.

If you don't want to be used as a scapegoat in the future, you would rather be scolded by the lord as "incompetent" than act rashly.

The knight thought about it for a long time. Although he was very dissatisfied and unwilling, in the end, he had to leave some people to monitor the mercenaries' every move in the name of "escort".

The knight at the head returned with most of them and informed his lord of the emergency.

After the Swadia knight and his soldiers left, a middle-aged man dressed as a peasant ran from the tavern to their camp and whispered to himself.

When Mo Cha saw this, he was a little unhappy, and asked with a frown, "What are you muttering, hillbilly, say it." ”

"My lord," the peasant's eyes flashed with a hint of horror, and he pleaded in a dry whisper. "You look like someone who is good at using a sword, and should be able to help us, can you listen to my request?"

Mo Cha didn't think that the tattered peasant in front of him could afford to pay an expensive commission, and he was not interested in listening to a hillbilly's request.

Just as Mo Cha was about to say no, Alleyne interjected and asked, "What happened?"

"A gang of bandits has taken over our village and used it as a refuge for them," said the peasant, whose face turned pale and trembled with pain. "They robbed us of all our possessions and forced us to serve them and do all the bad things to us. ”

The peasant's expression gradually became sad, and his face was full of despair. "If any of us had said a word of protest, they would have killed the poor man at once, and our life there was unbearable, and I risked my life to escape and find someone to help us. ”

When Manid heard this, he suggested to the peasants: "You can ask the lord here to help you, and the Swadian soldiers who left just now, you should ask them to help you exterminate the bandits, not us." ”

"I've looked for it, sir," whispered the farmer anxiously. "But our lord's men didn't let me see my lord, saying that my lord had more important things to deal with, and that we should solve this problem ourselves. ”

"What's more important?" said Mo Cha sneeringly. "Treating us as Virgian spies like they did just now, and then killing us, and then taking all of our equipment and belongings, is that what they call more important?"

The peasant politely explained to him: "Recently, there has been a group of elite Virgian knights disguised as mercenaries who have infiltrated the plains of Arnwo, and they have caused a lot of trouble for our transport and supply lines. ”

Manid was no stranger to the name Rochebaspoye, and so was Ellen. Rochebaspoye, a prominent general of the Kingdom of Vegia.

Although Rochebas did not participate in the famous 'Battle of the Guardians of Zhivacheze', he captured the city of Zhivadin, which originally belonged to the Swadians, from the Nords.

"Since the beginning of the war, there have been fewer and fewer young people in the village, and there have been more and more robbers outside the village! They will come back when the wheat is harvested! They will come when the cattle are fattening, they will come when the weather is good, and they will come when it is windy and rainy! Oh my God! I will almost be able to hand over their names one by one!"

"I am the chief of the village, and the chief steward of the robbers, and they will carry me out into the yard while I sleep, when I eat, when I bathe, and they will compare and turn in front of me with knives, and I will tell the villagers to fill the pockets they have brought with me - yes, just because I am the village. ”

"In this way, the robbers beat me, the villagers despised me, and even my wife scolded me because the robbers took her dowry. I deserve it - who made me the village. ”

"Sir, you look like a valiant man, and a formidable warrior," said the simple-looking peasant sycophant. "There is no doubt that many friends and warriors here are at your service, and if anyone can help us, it would be you. ”

Eradicating bandits is a difficult task, and casualties are inevitable.

This should have been the duty of the lord to protect the safety of the territory and the people, they should send soldiers to exterminate these bandits, or they can spend a lot of money to hire mercenaries to solve this problem.

Mercenaries are willing to help anyone who needs help, and the other party must be able to afford expensive commissions in advance.

Manid was skeptical that the ragged peasants would be able to pay a commission, but that they might be able to get a more generous commission from the robbers, including the weapons.

After discussing with his right-hand men Wiggins and Manid, Alleyne turned to the farmer and said, "Okay, we'll help you with this." Now tell me, where is your village?"

"We shouldn't worry about this trouble now," Mocha whispered to Aren. "Why are we fighting these bandits? What do I get? We should keep on our way to Parabun. ”

Jamila, who was standing beside Ellen, glared at the horse thief viciously, "Shut your mouth, don't forget that your duty is to obey!"

"God bless you, sir," said the farmer excitedly. "Our village is called Tamnu, and it's a bit far from here, but you are all on horseback, and it only takes half a day to get there. ”

"We'll go as soon as it's daybreak," Alleyne told him. "You go back to the tavern and rest first. ”

"Thank you, if you can help us chase away the bandits, we will repay you. ”

The peasants didn't expect the mercenaries to help them exterminate the bandits, they only hoped that they would be able to drive them out.