Chapter 015: Wiggins
Then two more figures appeared in front of them in the woods—their companions—Jodah and Jager. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Desaivi held the dagger in his hand and looked warily at the two figures that appeared on the opposite side.
When Wiggins saw this, he spoke, "Don't be nervous, Ms. Sedeville, they are my companions. ”
Mo Cha hurriedly stuffed a few money bags in his hand into his pockets, for fear that Yager on the other side would want to get a piece of the pie, or that Yoda would ask him to pay back the money.
The thief did not remember how many dinars he had borrowed from Yoda, and he had not intended to return them.
Wiggins walked up to his pirate brothers and asked, "Why are you here?"
Seeing this, Yoda opened his mouth to explain: "You haven't moved at all for so long, the boss is worried about what trouble you have inside, let's come in and have a look." ”
"We're fine," Wiggins glanced at Merck behind him. "It's our new partner who is a little injured!"
"It's a little injury!" Merck smiled at his new companions.
Jager's piercing gaze scanned the corpses around him, as if looking for something, but he quickly withdrew his gaze and looked at the hidden tea on the other side.
"Who are they?" Yoda asked, looking at the corpses and scattered weapons and equipment around him, "What happened to these corpses?"
"It's a long story—"
- That's a long story short. ”
Wiggins frowned slightly, took a few steps forward, leaned over to Yoda's side, and whispered a few words in his ear.
I saw Yoda's brows furrowed, and he gasped, thinking: You said it easily.
"Oh, damn it, you killed these Swadia soldiers," Jodah grumbled worriedly. "How do you think they'd react if the Swadia soldiers outside who were watching us found the bodies here?"
"So we need to get out of here as soon as possible, so as not to arouse the suspicion of those Svadia soldiers outside. Before the words fell, the figure of Mo Cha had already run hundreds of yards away.
Jager walked alone, and Merck quickly followed, as if she wanted to walk side by side with Jager.
Julia and the injured Desay Villa also left the woods with them, with Wiggins and Yoda walking behind and putting some distance from those in front.
"How can you be ashamed to accept their employment?" said Yoda muttering as he walked beside Wiggins on the woods path. "The boss just asked you to come in and check on the situation, and didn't let you stand up for others, which may have caused you some trouble. ”
"I'll explain it to the Boss," Wiggins said firmly. "If there's any trouble, I'll take it. ”
"Can you take it?" Yoda reminded the other with a frown. "You were once a noble child, you should know better than anyone else the consequences of offending those powerful gentlemen, right?"
"I'm just helping two people in need. Wiggins' tone was rock uncompromising. "As for the consequences, I don't care, I won't run away, and I won't affect everyone. ”
"Damn, you stupid boy, crazy to be a knight?" Jodah curried as he looked disgruntled. "Tell me, who are you?"
"I'm a mercenary. Wiggins blurted out a non-thinking reply. At the same time, he silently remembered in his heart: he was once a pirate.
"What is the mercenary's creed?"
Wiggins said word by word: "The responsibility on my shoulders is heavier than yours, give me the back, I will guard, I will not look back, I can only move forward, mercenaries do not need to declare, only loyalty." ”
From the moment he first entered the profession as a mercenary, he kept this sentence in mind. In addition to the mercenary's creed, he remembered the rules used to restrain pirates.
"My brother, remember that I have a heavier responsibility on my shoulders than you," Jodah said categorically. "And don't look back, just keep going, give me your back, and I'll guard it. ”
As he walked out of the woods and returned to the group, Wiggins briefly told Alleyne about what had happened in the woods.
A strange look flashed across Alleyne's countenance, but he didn't blame Wiggins for it.
Because any bloody mercenary has his own sense of justice. He is no exception.
Julia and Desaivi were arranged to ride with Jamila in a carriage carrying supplies. Yoda was in charge of driving the car, which attracted the envious eyes of many mercenaries.
"Huh?" Tea's little thief eyes looked around. "Why are the Swadia soldiers watching us gone?"
"A cavalryman arrived, and then all the Swadia soldiers withdrew. Kradus replied.
"Didn't you hear what the cavalryman said?" asked Mo Cha.
"I mean a detachment of Virgian knights disguised mercenaries have been found near the town of Tosdel," Karadus replied. "I heard that a team of military supplies sent to the front line was burned. ”
Hearing this, Mo Cha hesitated for a moment, and then shouted hysterically at his companions around him, "Do you have any partners to go with me into the woods?" ”
"What are you going to do?" asked Karadus curiously.
Mo Cha laughed twice and replied, "Of course there are good things, don't say that I have benefits and didn't tell you in advance." ”
"What's the good stuff?" asked Kaladus.
Mo Cha grinned. "Dozens of suits of armor and sophisticated weapons, do you want them?"
Kradus frowned slightly, and said suspiciously, "Then why don't you guys bring these good things out? Why do you all come out empty-handed?"
"We're worried that the Swadia soldiers watching on us will find out and cause a fight," Mocha said truthfully. "Now that they're gone, we can just go into the woods and rip those armor and weapons off the corpses. ”
"Karadus, Rohr, Jager," Alleyne commanded, gesturing to the mercenaries beside him. "A few of you, go with the tea, and the rest of the people continue on their way. ”
Suddenly I had an inexplicable feeling that the boss was planning to reuse me? Maybe I also had leadership skills.
I saw that Mo Cha took Karadus and the rest of his companions into the woods beside the road with a happy face.
The rest of the mercenaries, led by Alleyne and Merck, continued on their way, with Wiggins riding at the back of the group with Mark.
With the exception of a few ladies and Yoda, who was in charge of driving the car, each mercenary in the party rode a horse, looking like a squad of guerrilla cavalry.
"The injury on your arm is nothing serious, is it?"
Merck, who was lost in thought, came back to her senses and tilted her head to look at Alleyne, who was riding alongside him.
"Boss," Merck asked. "Between cruelty and cruelty, what would you choose?" he said, rehashing the question Desay Vid had asked him.
Aryne's gaze paused without a trace, and he replied slowly: "Patience should be endured, and impulsiveness should not be acted upon unless it is absolutely necessary." ”
"But......," Merck asked. "What if you can't bear it?"
"As a mercenary, if you don't know how to forbear, you will invite disaster, at least your head will be broken and bleeding, and at worst, you will lose your life. There was no ambiguity in Aren's answer, but there was a faint pain in his heart.
"But, no matter how stoic the mercenaries may be, their hearts are bleeding the same. This is undoubtedly a cruel injury to self-esteem and to life-"
But it is also a necessary choice under certain conditions. Alleyne picked up. "If the mercenaries can have the right to speak and choose in this world, they don't need to endure at all. ”
In front of the noble lords, whether it is a soldier, a mercenary, or a knight, there is no other choice but to obey, even if he is humiliated, he must endure it.
And this is the world ruled by the so-called aristocratic lords of the continent of Calradia.
Due to the constraints of the environment, the situation, or the strength of the individual, many times, in many cases, the mercenaries cannot resist some people or forces that attack them.
Instead, they would rather choose to forbear, which is both a need and a tactic.