Chapter Sixty-Eight: Bloody Money
With the last rays of red glow disappearing in the sky, the entire Sentinel Arrow Jungle finally ushered in the night that some people had been waiting for for a long time. The dark curtain that covered the sky www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" seemed to absorb the brilliance of the stars, and only the remnants of the moon added dappled light and shadow to the woods, and in this thick night, there was a team marching towards the nightingale village.
By agreeing not to use torches for lighting, the group could not move fast, and every once in a while, the whole team would report from beginning to end to make sure that no one was lost in the unfamiliar woods.
"How old is your sister?"
After another round of counting, Wall, who was at the head of the team, suddenly bent his elbow and hit Hawk next to him.
"Twenty-three years old. Hawke, who was concentrating on leading the way, replied without thinking.
"Is your sister still single?" asked Wall sneakily again.
"Hmm...... Huh?"
It was only then that Hawke realized what two questions he had answered, and he looked sideways at Wall, only to see the young leader of the night owl grinning silly.
"Hilreth has to take care of the affairs of a village, she's not the kind of village girl who only sees men and housework in her eyes!" Hawke snapped at Wall with his eyes.
"Hell, why am I telling you this?"
"Uh-no, you misunderstood me, I didn't laugh at her age......"
Seeing Hawke angrily turn his head away, Wall had the urge to slap himself.
"Actually, it's amazing that your sister is single......! What am I talking about?"
"Ask yourself. Hawke replied without looking back.
Wall turned his head slightly, and saw that the guys behind him were listening to the conversation with their ears pricked up, and he couldn't help but slap his head with a headache.
"I'll get straight to the point! ”
Seeing that Hawke did not react to his words, Wall cleared his throat and said, "I have hired all my wealth, and now I count on your sister to give me a dowry!"
It's a scoundrel, but even a fool understands the meaning - Wall wants to marry Silris.
Hawke, who was a few steps ahead of Wall, suddenly heard such a nonsense sentence that he almost tripped over the root system next to his feet. He turned his head to look at Wall, who was smiling innocently, and then at the long line of fifty or so people, and suddenly realized that Wall's "joke" was not a joke at all.
During the day, Nightingale's pleas for help from the Night Stalkers were almost effortless and the elders agreed, but mobilizing the villagers became a different matter—Diredo and Wall took turns lobbiing and rarely responding. By dusk, they had only recruited about twenty men.
The thirty extra young men who are now naturally moved by money. And then, all these extra men were all the blood money that Wall had paid to marry Syrris?
"You've only seen Sirreth once!" Hawke's tone was rather agitated, and the subtext of the sentence was that Wall was crazy.
"So what?" said Wall.
"Hah, so what?"
"Well, don't you think I'm a good match for your sister? You see, I'm kind of the little leader of the village, and I'm the same age as Silris, and if she marries me, it's a great combination......! I'm pretty good-looking, right?" Wall reached out and pinched his chin, twisting his neck in a very stinky way.
"You'll ask Cyreth yourself in a moment. Hawke couldn't bear it. He now completely regrets being at the top of the team with Wall.
After a rather awkward silence, Wall suddenly pointed ahead and asked, "Hey, there's a fire over there, it's your village?"
He saw Hawke blindly looking left and right in the direction he was pointing, and hurriedly dragged him back a step.
"Maybe it's blocked by a tree, come over here. ”
"Oh, I see it. No...... No, it's definitely outside the village. A look of concern appeared on Hawke's face.
"Could it be the Drogris men?" asked Wall again.
"I don't know ......"
News of the possible discovery of the peregrine falcon reached the end of the team with a new round of reporting. After a while, the whole team stopped in the woods. Wall handed over his "blood capital" to Diredo and Implens, while he himself followed Hawke on his way to the location of the Nightingale village.
The cluster of fire that appeared in their eyes before gradually opened up as the two of them approached the village. Wall's casual guess was confirmed - the flames that rose in the forest were really bonfires lit by peregrine falcons. On the other hand, in the direction of the nightingale village, there was no light in the dark ground.
"Why is there no light in the village?"
The strong contrast that appeared in his eyes made Hawke tremble involuntarily. During the day, when Diredo tightened his collar, he had ignored Rillez's assertions, and now things were going in a direction he never imagined.
"Don't think about it, let's go into the village first. ”
Hawke exhaled deeply under Wall's comfort. The two of them hunched over the flickering fire that was jumping in the peregrine falcon's camp, and reached for the village that was almost sunk in darkness, and the closer they got to their destination, the more frightened they were by what they saw.
The trap belt that the nightingale used to defend the village had been trampled, and the pit in the ground was warped with thin planks to carry the floating earth, and the bottom of the pit filled with sharp stakes seemed to be stained with flesh, and the air wafting in the wind was full of the smell of blood, and there were arrows stuck in the trees and on the ground around it......
These signs undoubtedly prove that at least before dark, the peregrine falcon and nightingale had fought in the vicinity of the trap belt. But at the moment, there was no one here, and no one was talking.
"Why is this happening? Are we late?"
Hawke bit his lower lip and quickened his pace. What reassured him was that several traps near the entrance of the village had not yet been stirred and trampled on. He carefully led Wall around the traps, and walked a little further, until he finally touched the walls of the village.
To Hawke and Wall's surprise, the main entrance to Nightingale's village collapsed. The wall, made of the most solid logs, was also broken, and the top of the log stakes on which the monks stood on the ground were strewn with stone bullets and ......
Hawke suddenly vomited, and Wall coughed a few times with some impatience, and both saw a mutilated corpse hanging from the wall. In fact, there were some corpse parts scattered around, but because it was too dark and they didn't light the torches, they didn't check it for a while.
"These things seem to have been thrown over, and it looks like Drogris has a terrible weapon......" Wall said.