More precisely, it was another gang that caught up with them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The same dozen horsemen, armed with weapons, rushed in the dust under the guidance of a few hounds, and soon approached, stopping not far from Argyll and Rod's party.

......

Pauli sighed, was he still being caught up, if it was just a dozen ordinary soldiers, with the skills of himself and the two young men, there was still hope of escaping, and now the number has doubled, what should I do now?

"Who dares to roam freely in the territory of Count Barian with weapons and dogs!?" Argyll asked aloud with a look of displeasure on his face.

"After chasing the suspect, the dog brought us to follow us. ”

The dogs were held back, but they still yelled at Rod and Ciri, and were about to pounce.

"It is not surprising that these travelers have been in contact with the fugitives and carry their scent. But you, why did the officials from Sardenburg requisition all the search hounds, but you hid a few that you didn't hand over?" Argyll asked, eager to show his manhood in front of Miss Lowy, "Even if the fugitive is really in my lord's territory, you can enter and arrest him, but with the consent of the master?"

The pursuers were silent for a while, and anyone who has ever had a hound knows that they will not confuse the innocent who tracks the target with the innocent who has been in contact with the target, and the person they want to chase must be in this team of Anteli soldiers.

Pauli was ready to be exposed to the identities of Rhodes and Ciri, but the visitor did something unexpected—he just stared at them for a while, then turned around and left.

"Count them as acquaintances. Argyle puffed up his chest and said to himself that he had managed to stand out from the intruder and make a comeback in front of Miss Roy, "Let's go, a little further on, and I'll be out of my family's area." ”

Argyle accompanied Rhodes and his party to the edge of the Earl of Barion's domain, and finally there was no excuse to send them again, and he said goodbye to the three travelers with a reluctant face. Although I subconsciously feel that such a beauty can't take the turn of my little knight, I always have some expectations, hoping that Miss "Roy" in front of me can leave some impression of herself, and maybe there is the possibility of goodbye.

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The two sides said goodbye to each other in a friendly manner, and the horses gradually moved away from each other. After leaving the knight's field of vision, Pauli immediately changed his face: "Turn left and accelerate, we are already targeted, now we have to reach Edelweiss Lake as soon as possible and cross the lake to get rid of them." ”

"What, who? weren't we unrecognized. ”

"Just now, the other team of people in civilian clothes clearly identified you, but pretended not to know anything. Pauli kicked the horse's belly as he spoke, forcing the two young men to speed up as well. "There are two possibilities, one is that they secretly left the hounds and were not afraid that you would run away. So I don't want to share the bounty of this hundred gold dragon with Argyle...... There's also a worse possibility - we know that there are likely to be people in the Antelli hierarchy who want your life, maybe he ordered the other hunting dogs to be taken away, but only equipped with his own cronies, in order to make sure that you don't fall into the hands of outsiders to stand trial! Those guys just now can't attack you in public, they were seen by Argyll and left a handle before they deliberately pretended not to recognize you, and now that we are separated from the stupid knight, they should be chasing you soon!"

"Makes sense, let's go. Ciri's eyes widened and he urged the horses to keep up with Pauli.

The knight who took a fancy to Rhodes generously gave them three good horses, but the "good horses" in the ordinary mouth of ordinary people are just young and healthy ordinary horses, and they are not a concept compared to the real good horses, such as the one that Dieter gave to Rhodes. Fearing that the horses would be exhausted to death, they galloped for a while and decided to stop for lunch.

After a simple deal with the jerky they had brought with them, they continued on their way, and finally arrived at the lake in the early afternoon.

On the map, the lake is a strip smaller than a finger, but when it appears in front of everyone, it is still a huge body of water with no view of the opposite shore, which is surrounded by mangroves and reeds, making it difficult for horses to enter.

"How are we going to get there?"

"Good question, of course, it's the wings that flew over. Pauli snorted weirdly, "Don't be in a daze, keep up!"

Urging the horses, the three of them continued to gallop along the path around the lake. They did not look for long, but soon came across a family of fishermen who lived by the lake, and they had a small fishing boat, which was not large, but it seemed to be barely enough for three men and three horses, and Pauli paid to rent his boat.

But they didn't get on the ship and set off right away, because there was something important.

"This is around here...... Are there any other fishermen with boats?"

Of course, there is, and it is impossible for such a large lake to feed only one family. At the direction of the owner, they found some of his neighbors and paid them to drive their boats to the other side of the lake to pick up a man who didn't exist.

When the last boat within a radius of a few miles that might have been used by the pursuers was also out of sight, the previous group also caught up.

Rhodes was the first to notice the ground tremble, and he also heard the barking of dogs in the air, and the three of them immediately got on their horses and rushed back to the boat they had rented first.

With the help of the owner, they got the horses onto the boat. Huddled in the slippery and fishy cabin of the perennial fish, watching the owner put away the ropes, they began to cross the lake.

As the ship slowly shored off the shore, they left the perilous land and slowly slid toward the wide, temporarily safe lake, where the wind blew in their faces, and the pent-up mood of a day and a night of flight was finally relieved.

"Let's do it together, we need to get to the other side as soon as possible. ”

Urged by Pauli, Rod and Ciri picked up the oars and prepared to row.

"Who are those?" the boatman stopped and looked to the shore.

Pauli looked in the direction he was pointing, and snorted - out of the dense bushes behind the fisherman's hut they had offshore, a group of horsemen had emerged, and in a moment the little wharf of planks and stakes from which they had set out was crowded with horsemen.

They were just one step away from being overtaken.

The pursuers began to shout loudly, claiming that the three men on board the fisherman were all fugitives, and ordered him to row back to shore immediately. The owner of the boat was visibly hesitant, but without saying a word, Pauli drew his sword and put it on his neck, and after a few fierce threats, he obediently continued rowing.

Rhodes felt sorry for the innocent fisherman involved in the incident, but knew that Pauli had taken the simplest and most effective method, so he paddled silently and watched the pursuers on the shore.

But the actions of the pursuers on the shore immediately frightened him - the pursuers, unable to catch up with the three who had left in the boat, actually took out their bows and crossbows, intending to shoot arrows at them!

"Be careful!" he shouted, and Ciri, who realized that something was wrong, also stood up from the ship, drew his sword, and prepared to deal with the threat.

The pursuers on the shore finally roared a few times and began to attack.

The arrows caught up with them in an instant, in a sharp whistling. A few arrows stuck in the boat, and many more fell over their heads and into the water. Two of them flew towards Rhodes and the boatman, and the boy lifted the oars and whistled them back.

"Oh my God. The boatman was so frightened that he threw down his oars, hugged his head, and cried, "Who are you?"

Pauli stopped an arrow from the horse with his sword, turned back and yelled at the boatman, "Keep rowing, or if I don't cut you, you will be shot to death!"

No one was hit by the arrow, but a horse was neighed and moved uneasily, so that Pauli had to free his hand to lead it so that it would not jump into the water and even affect the safety of the people on board.

"God, help me...... Help me......" The fisherman was numb with fright, and while praying with words and praying, he rowed his head heedlessly, and with the wind still strong, the boat became farther and farther away from the shore of the lake, and slowly withdrew from the range of the bow and arrow.

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