Chapter 40: The Robber and the Family
When the day was completely bright, the team finally finished what they had to do and rode their horses on the rest of the road. As for the more than ten people who surrendered, Roland and the others did not embarrass them, and let them go and stay except for asking them to bury the dead. From them, as expected by Roland and the others, they did not get much useful information. According to what the dozen or so people said, this group of people came from Tumrak City, their leader was called West, Orange Halo went down the stairs, originally a bunch of them were happy that night, and observed the people in the auction, in order to look forward to a good job after the auction, but in the evening the leader ordered everyone to gather, saying that it was to pursue a dozen people, and the country had no combat power, and asked them to go out of the city immediately to pursue, after the end there were rich rewards, and someone would lead the way after leaving the city. There are not a few teams like them in Tumrak City, and they usually do some stealing, kidnapping, etc. Although everyone's martial arts skills are not very good, but the victory lies in the large number of people, the average team of more than a dozen people can win even if it is of the red halo level, even if there are occasionally one or two orange halos, they can also be successfully won under the control of the leader and several captains. It can only be blamed for their bad luck that day, first of all, after leaving the city, although someone led the way in front, but halfway through the reception, that person seemed to have received some task and told the whispering team the direction of the people and then rushed back towards Tumlak City, so they delayed a little along the way and did not find the team for the first time, and then needless to say, the orange halo personnel who usually think that it is rare appeared more than ten people at once this time, and their leader did not know what was going on and refused to enter the grove, and then collapsed under the various bullying of the team members。 One of them complained: "You have such a strong combat power, you can beat us head-on, why do you still have so many tricks, as soon as your orange halo halo is opened, it will be over, what else to fight!" In this regard, Roland and the others can only sympathize, since the establishment of the team, Roland has been relatively uninstilled with the idea that he can try not to expose his strength as much as possible, so under the education of this thought, this team is the second so pitiful, the first is the group of robbers outside the town.
It was ten noon when the team arrived in the next town, and after hastily finding an inn, after lunch, everyone went into the room and went to sleep. But the people didn't know that something that was very related to them was happening on the road before.
"Old man Cedlos, leave the ginseng chicken and you and your team to go. At this moment, in a pass in the small mountain range that Roland and the others had walked before, stood two groups of men, one of them was a caravan of men, and the other was a group of robbers. At this time, one of the leaders of the bandit side was playing with a small piece of paper in his hand, and said to a person in charge at the front of the caravan with a fierce expression.
If Roland and the others were here, they might have exclaimed. The bandit's outfit was the same as the one he had eliminated before, and there was a man in the middle who had withdrawn before, and the caravan, especially the person in charge, remembered the team even more vividly, the merchant who had been arguing with Sora Occam for a long time and refused to sell the two ginseng chickens.
"Zeda, it's not the first day we've met, I have two of them, but do you think I'll give them to you? And if you just want ginseng chicken, I don't think you will stop my caravan here, although ginseng chicken is rare, but it is not so important to you. As the leader of the caravan, the man named Cedros did not give in because of this, and at the same time secretly warned this group of robbers that the caravan was easy to mess with, but the forces behind it were not easy to mess with.
"I'll show you something, although the Entos family is a little troublesome, but it's not an existence that can't be messed with, it is said that their future successor has recently experienced a little accident, and urgently needs useful things to recuperate, and it seems that his own internal situation is not very stable now. The leader named Zeda didn't care much about what Cedros said, but gently scratched the piece of paper that he had been playing with in his hand to where Cedros was, Cedros didn't care at first after taking the paper, but when he saw the words on the paper, he was full of puzzlement and anger, what Zeda meant to himself, and what he was angry about was that someone seemed to have betrayed him.
"I have already sent someone to inquire, and you are the only one in the town who refuses to buy and sell your ginseng chicken, and I wonder how my unruly nephew has offended you and made you kill him all. In Cedros's confusion, Zeda explained lightly.
"Your nephew, who is he? Over the years, you should also know that the Entos caravan and the bandits are generally connected, even if there are people you don't know will retreat after seeing the sign of the Entos caravan, and the Entos caravan never takes the initiative to attack the bandits. Cedros was still puzzled and said, the fact is that the caravan doesn't seem to have clashed with the bandits and robbers above along the way.
"It's the person in charge of the group of people on a mountain pass in the mountain range in front of you, it seems that you were killed after you left, tell me, what's going on, don't blame me Zeda for not talking about the friendship over the years. Zeda, who was standing on a high place, looked at Cedros with a smile and said.
"Hmph, I did see the young man in front of me, but we didn't have any conflicts, and it wasn't our caravan's business who assassinated him. Besides, if you want to trouble my caravan with this piece of paper, you are underestimating your own IQ, this is obviously a little trick to set up blame. After questioning his men, Cedros finally remembered the handful of thieves on the mountain pass, and knew that no one in his team was going to clash with the gang, and after secretly ordering him to prepare for battle, Cedros looked at Zeda and said with contempt.
"I also know that this is not very realistic, but the only one who has clues to this is your caravan, besides, even if someone wants to frame you, it must be related to you, it is possible that other people in your Entos family made the ghost, can it be said that my poor nephew died in your fight? I still don't dare to attack the Entos family directly, but I still dare to pack up the caravan like you as theirs. Think about it, what's missing, can't think of anything anymore, it's really not a monster, you're welcome, I've known each other for so many years" After speaking, a faint green halo lit up around it, and the robbers who were originally standing around began to prepare for the attack. And Cedros frowned at everything in front of him, and a green halo lit up from him, not much weaker than Zeda. But as a businessman, he still values peace, although he is not afraid of this group of robbers when he fights, but once he fights, there will be some losses, and there are important tasks on this journey, if he loses too much here, the next journey will be even more dangerous.
"Boss, do you think it could be that guy?" said to a member of the entourage next to Cedros after looking at the handwriting on the piece of paper and meditating for a long time.
"Which guy?" asked Cedros, puzzled.
"It's the guy who the young man wanted to buy ginseng chicken with you that day. Seeing that his boss hadn't reacted yet, looking at the robbers who were ready to attack at any time, this guy was probably in a hurry, and the tone of his words was not so natural. But Cedros didn't care about this, and when he heard the man's reminder, he finally remembered the boy who had been arguing with him for a long time, and then he met at the gate of the town, and at that time he had something to do and didn't want to pay attention to him, so he led the people to go first, and their gang seemed to have something to do with the Blair Mountains, and stayed at the gate of the town for a long time. The pass was the only road north of the town, so it was most likely they did it.
"Wait, Zeda, I'm reminded of a couple of people. Without further thinking, the robbers seemed to be unable to wait, so Cedros immediately shouted forward.
"Who?" Zeda asked in a low voice, staring at Cedros.
"A team of eleven people, I came here because they and I had a festival because of ginseng chicken, and they seem to be going north, and that mountain pass is also going to pass. So......" Cedros said his thoughts to Zeda.
"San'er, roll over to Lao Tzu and tell me about the events of that day carefully. Without waiting for Cedros to finish, Zeda shouted to one of his men in the distance, and the one named San'er was the one who had gone to ventilate the news.
"Yes, it's the boss, that, that day the leader and the little ones were ambushed in the old place, that, that day there happened to be, there was a team with a fresh face, passing by..."
"Give me some profit!" Perhaps it was excessive nervousness under the gaze of the two big guys, the robber named San'er stammered, but Zeda really couldn't stand this speed, and couldn't help urging.
"Yes, boss, boss. It was a squad of more than a dozen people, and the exact number of squads was too far away to count, but they were all young. Although the leader scared them at the pass for a long time, they didn't seem to care, and at the same time, someone in the team said that there were ginseng chickens in the town, so the leader told me to go to the camp to inform the contact, because the leader was worried that he would not be able to take the team with ginseng chickens. It seems that the urging has an effect, and San'er has spoken quite smoothly except for some stuttering at the beginning.
"Is there a woman in the group, and the leader of them looks to be about 15 or 6 years old. There is also one person who is particularly fluent. That's when Cedros asked.
"Yes, there is a special person who is more slippery than us, that is, he told the leader that there was a chicken in the town, and their leader didn't pay much attention, but there was a woman in the middle of the team. After hearing the description of the flow of anger, the man named San'er replied very affirmatively, and he didn't feel that the description of his own personnel made everyone remember him fiercely.
"You mean you originally planned to rob this team first, and then get ginseng chickens?" Zeda, who had been listening for a long time, asked.
"Yes, yes Boss. The team looks young, and the outfit is also like a mercenary, so the leader doesn't really care..."
"Cedros, this time I, Zeda, can't stand you, it looks like you and I have been tricked. As a token of apology, I will protect you from this mission until you return to your Entos family. But as you and I, we have been tricked by others, and I hope you and I can unite and clean up this group of people. Otherwise, neither you nor I will have the face to mess around in this place. Before San'er could finish speaking, Zeda apologized to Cedros.
"With your escort, I'm more sure of this mission, thank you, Zeda. You're right, we've got to find this team and clean them up. Hearing that Zeda would escort him, Cedros let out a sincere smile, but when he thought of the person who was angry, Cedros, who was originally smiling, gritted his teeth again, "This bastard, isn't he just not selling your ginseng chicken, and I feel that I am making trouble for the Entos family, you are finished." In his heart, Cedros roared viciously.
At this time, the protagonists of our event are still sleeping sweetly, unaware that a huge net is enveloping everyone.