Chapter 279: Road Encounter

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves shattered the silence of the night. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Nearly 100 light horsemen galloped and stopped when they reached the two mountain passes. A big man at the head waved his hand, and a small group of ten or so horsemen rode out, distributed around the guard, and the remaining knights dismounted and began to feed and drink their mounts, and began to rest briefly. An hour later, the more than 100 light horsemen remounted their horses and galloped away in the direction of the Wangcheng Plain.......

No one expected that there would be two less people when the more than 100 light horsemen returned to the road, and Lorist and Tagel got out of the bushes, listened attentively to the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, shook their heads slightly, and the two began to hit the road.

If you follow the road from the port of Nubit to the royal city of Hamidas, the carriage can arrive in the morning and in the evening, and it will take only fourteen or fifteen hours, and if it is a messenger, it will take ten hours for the horse. However, if you rely on two legs, it will take at least one and a half days, usually two days.

Lorist and Targar could not follow the avenue to the royal city of Hamidas, after all, the avenue leading to the royal city was now in the hands of the Norton family's armed forces, and a fool would be suspicious to reach the royal city of Hamidas on horseback and carriage. Lorist and Targar prepared to take a diagonal line in the hills, posing as fugitive nobles from the port of Nubit who had escaped the enemy's search and search, and climbed the hills to find their way back to the royal city.

Walked for more than two hours and rested twice. The sky was already dark.

Lorlist, who was walking in front, stopped, pointed ahead, and then outflanked Targer one by one.

It was a sparse grove, and not far away was a small stone mound, and on the other side of the small stone mound, the sound of running water and noise could be heard......

Below the small stone mound was a small stream with a strong current, and on the rocky shore of the brook there were several people resting, apparently nobles who had escaped from the port of Nubit.

In the middle of the stream stood a tall, tanned man, with his bare back covered with old whip marks. At this moment, he was bending down to catch fish from the thigh-deep stream, but he didn't seem to have much experience in catching fish, although his hands were like fans, he was always one step slower, and he didn't catch a fish when he was soaked.

On a big rock on the shore sat a richly dressed nobleman, about thirty or so, with a pale face, blank eyes, and the whole person was paralyzed on the big stone, and his bare feet were being held by an old man in gray clothes for a massage, and he was still cursing the big man in the stream with useless dog * and other swear words.

Next to this nobleman, there was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a brown leather armor and a long sword in his hand, staring at the stream with his eyes, echoing the nobleman's shouting or two from time to time.

On a large stone slab three or four meters behind the middle-aged man, there was a big man in bright silver chain mail, who was holding his hands behind his head and watching the farce in front of him indifferently, looking like he didn't care about it.

Tagar made a few gestures at Lorist, and when he saw Lorist's nod, he walked out from behind the hidden tree and walked towards the stream.

"Who?" The big man in chain mail lying on the big stone slab was the most alert, jumped up with a bone, drew his sword to make a warning gesture, and the golden light flashed, and the golden sword flashed on the long sword, it was actually a gold-level swordsman. It's just that although this big man in chain mail is a golden swordsman, his vigilant posture is really ridiculous, with his front feet and his center of gravity facing backwards, which is clearly a posture of turning around and fleeing immediately when he sees that the situation is not good.

The middle-aged man who was squatting and the nobleman who was leaning on the big stone also shut up, and the middle-aged man drew his sword and held it up as a guard, and the nobleman kicked the old man who was holding his foot, and said angrily: "Why don't you put shoes on me quickly......

The big man in the stream also straightened up, looking warily at the sound of the woods.

"Don't be nervous, Carrick, it's me. "Tagger appeared by the creek.

The middle-aged man with the long sword saw that it was Tagger and paused: "It's you, Tagger?"

"Your grandma, Lao Tzu was miserable by a few of you. If you don't force Lao Tzu to enter the inner city, what can you say that the inner city can be defended, damn that others haven't attacked you, you have given up the inner city and have to break through again, and you have to throw Lao Tzu behind the team and almost get caught. If it weren't for Lao Tzufu's great life, this life would be in your hands......" Tagger scolded and walked across the stream on a few big rocks and walked towards the middle-aged man.

Seeing that it was Tagger, the middle-aged man also breathed a sigh of relief: "It's you, Tagger, I thought Kremer was with you......"

"Kremer, he's dead, and he was with us when he left the city, but not far from the city gate came an iron bolt that nailed him to the wall, and scared us half to death. Then we continued to run, and by daybreak I was separated from Whitelop and Filinder, and then the enemy cavalry caught up with them......" Targar walked up to the middle-aged man while talking nonsense.

"You came here alone?" asked not the middle-aged man named Carrick, but the still vigilant Golden Swordsman.

"Pull it down, I don't have that ability. Tagar sat down with a tired face, reached out and took a few sips of water from the creek before replying, "If our chamber of commerce hadn't secretly sent three guards to follow us, I would have been captured or killed by those cavalrymen long ago." ”

"Locke, come out, it's all your own people, it's okay. Targer yelled twice at the woods. Lorist flashed out of the woods, and walked slowly on guard.

"He's the bodyguard of your Chamber of Commerce, why haven't you seen him before?" asked the middle-aged man named Carrick curiously.

"They were following me in secret, to keep me and El safe, and to report to the Chamber of Commerce what we had done on this trip. If it weren't for the urgency, they wouldn't have appeared in front of me. Targer explained.

Oh, everyone understands that this is a traditional behavior of many aristocratic families in Gaylintya, that is, secretly send people to monitor and protect the children of the family when they go out, and report back in detail the experience and performance of the children of the family along the way, so as to understand the character of the child of the family, and assess whether he inherits the talent of the family or whether it is worth spending a lot of money to cultivate. It's just that I didn't expect Tagger to have such treatment.

"Didn't you say there were three of them?" Carrick asked, looking at Lorlist.

Tagger scolded: "I don't know what kind of bad luck did the labor and management fall into to travel to your broken islands, and just happened to run into this damn war! Didn't you say that you have never had any enemies? You have all been beaten to the old nest! If the labor and management stay in the outer city and identify themselves as soon as possible, in the name of our Peterson Chamber of Commerce, they will not be treated as guests, at least they will be able to live without worry."

I was brought into the inner city by a few of you and followed you to break through, and ran into cavalry again in the middle of the night, they wouldn't have listened to my explanation and cut with their swords, if it weren't for those three guards to save labor and management, it would have been finished long ago. Now it's okay, three of the cavalry are hanging, two of us are dead, and those cavalry are still in pursuit. If it weren't for Locke's familiarity with the mountains and forests and his escape with me, would labor and management still have to endure such a great hardship by crossing the mountains and mountains?"

Carrick touched his nose stupidly: "Targer, we also want to protect your safety before we took you to the inner city, this is a kindness as a friend." It's just that we didn't expect the enemy to be so strong......"

Tagger shook his hand and shook the water droplets off his hand: "How did you provoke such a powerful enemy? I seem to have heard people in the Chamber of Commerce talk about this family with a bear on the banner, but I can't remember what it is called?"

Carrick squatted down again: "I don't know very well, I heard that two or three months ago, those nobles and slave merchants in the kingdom united and sent tens of thousands of people to the island of Hilovas in the Kingdom of Antinac for a big hunt, and captured tens of thousands of displaced slaves. However, they also suffered a lot of losses in that operation, and many people died. That island of Hilois seems to be the domain of the Norton family......"

"The Norton family?" Targar jumped up as if frightened: "Your grandmother, how dare you mess with the Norton family, no wonder someone knocked on the door......"

"Huh, you know the Norton family?" asked Carrick.

"I've heard that they are known as the Roaring Bears of the Northlands, the military nobles of the former Krisson Empire, who guarded the Northlands for the Empire. Before I went on my travels, I heard from the Chamber of Commerce that the Norton family in the Northland had defeated the 100,000-strong army of the Iberian Kingdom in a single battle. Are you sick in the brain to provoke such a powerful enemy? If such a military nobleman has a grudge against him, he will not die, and you are in trouble this time. It's just that I can't figure it out, isn't the Norton family's territory in the Northlands, and why is the island of Hilovas their territory?"

"To be honest, I don't know, I heard that Hilois Island is also the new territory of the Norton family, and the Norton family recruited fifty or sixty thousand young and strong homeless people to develop and build on the island, so the people above began to fight the idea of these homeless. As we said at the last meeting, we have been short of slaves in the kingdom of Haneyabada in recent years, so I heard that there are so many young and strong people who are not ...... to be red-eyed," said Carrick.

"Are you nobles of the Haneabada Kingdom idiots? Why don't you think about it a little, will it be easy to provoke an aristocratic family that has the ability to recruit 50,000 or 60,000 young and strong homeless people to develop and build on the family territory? Ordinary nobles can't even support 50,000 or 60,000 people! Besides, isn't it self-inflicted on you that your kingdom lacks slaves? Whoever told you not to treat slaves as human beings will know that they will be called to death, and if you die too much, it will naturally not be enough, why don't you understand that slaves are not consumables, they will create wealth for their masters, and treat them a little better? The more slaves die, the more they lose, and why don't you understand such a shallow truth?" said Tagger.

"Karrick, where did this friend come from? This sounds like a very disagreement with the nobles of our kingdom of Haneabada, why don't you please tell me how to train those slaves to work well?"

"Well, Lord Viscount, I'm sorry I forgot to introduce it first. This is the eldest young master Tagger, the vice president of the Petersen Chamber of Commerce, one of the seven giants of the business alliance, and he and another young master, Eric Burke, have traveled to our kingdom for a long time, and Enna is his guard, called ...... Call ......." Carrick forgot what Lorist's name was.

"His name is Locke, and he's a guard for our Peterson Chamber of Commerce. It is a great pleasure to meet you, and the honorable Viscount, Tagar of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce salutes you. Targar respectfully greeted the white-faced nobleman who was half-lying on the rock. However, the white-faced aristocrat put on a good stand, and snorted twice from his nose, indicating that this was the answer.

"Who is he?" Targar asked in a low voice as he took two steps with Carrick in his arms, and by the creek.

"That's Viscount Timba, one of the seventeen dukes of the founding of the country, but three generations have passed when it reaches him, and the title has been reduced from duke to viscount. However, his sister is the eldest princess of the current King Luther III, and has just given birth to a great prince to our king, so it is very likely that his title will be re-elevated to the rank of earl......" Carrick also replied in a low voice.

The seventeenth duke of the founding of the country, in fact, is the leader of the seventeen relatively large pirate gangs that established the kingdom of Haneyabada, and was named a duke, of course, the pirate king who established the kingdom is not a vegetarian, he made a rule, if the heir to the duke's title refuses to pay a relatively large amount of title inheritance money, then the title will be reduced to one level of inheritance, of course, the territory will not change, but the nominal title is a little unpleasant. From this point of view, the ancestors of this viscount were all misers and refused to pay the inheritance money, so the titles were all reduced to viscounts.

"What about that?" Targar glanced at the golden swordsman lying on the large stone slab behind him.

"That's the Golden Knight of Duke Gufman, I don't know what Os, I don't know, but we met him yesterday afternoon, and Viscount Timba paid a great sum of money to hire him to escort us to the royal city of Hamidas. Carrick said.

This Carrick is one of the fox friends that Tagger made in Nubit City, and served as a small steward in the city lord's mansion, responsible for overseeing the management of the treasury. After being invited to wine and gifts by Tagar a few times, the two became very good friends, and almost all the material reserves in the treasury of Port Nubit were revealed.

Targar had promised him a tenth of the dry shares if the Peterson Chamber of Commerce opened a trading site in Port Nubit. Therefore, for the sake of the life safety of the big financier, after the Norton family landed and defeated the more than 3,000 miscellaneous soldiers composed of slave catchers, he dragged Tagle into the inner city alive......

As a frequent visitor to the City Lord's Mansion, this Timba Viscount naturally knew Carrick, the little steward. After breaking out of Port Nubit yesterday, the Viscount Timba fled quickly in a carriage, but with bad luck, he was the first to run to this hilly area, and became the focus of the scout camp led by Josk and Yuri, this Viscount Timba commanded his guards and minions to launch the first charge to the defensive positions of the scout camp, only to die all his guards and minions, leaving two slaves by his side, one was a close-fitting old slave in gray clothes, and the other was the big man who was catching fish in the stream.

When he was in a hurry, he happened to see Carrick, so Carrick was arrested by Viscount Timba and became his bodyguard. Later, Duke Gufmann and others came, and Viscount Timba, who had died of his guards and servants, became the object of neglect. Afraid that he and the others would be designated as the target of death, Carrick went to charge ahead, so he suggested that Viscount Timba take a small road, avoid the main road, climb over the hills, and return to the royal city.

The golden knight named Oss Carrick suspected that he had escaped from the battle, so he went in the same direction as himself and the others. However, since Viscount Timba knew each other and hired him to escort him all the way, Carrick couldn't help it. Whoever calls someone else a golden knight, and he is just black iron, talking doesn't work.

Carrick secretly bit his ear with Targer: this golden knight named Oss is not credible, he can even betray the orders of Duke Gufman, who is the head of the family, and escape from the battle, then his own people are like a swarm of ants in his eyes. Had it not been for the fact that Viscount Timba had lost all his salutes and belongings, and had promised him a large sum of money when he returned to the royal city, Carrick doubted that this Oss would have been killed here for his fortune.

So Carrick was the happiest one to see Tagger, at least Tagger was a silver swordsman, and if something happened, he could resist a few more times to give himself a chance to escape......

"And what are you doing now?" asked Tugger, curious.

...... (To be continued.) )