As he spoke. Several hurried horses' hooves came from behind, and then, six people dressed as mercenaries rode horses to catch up with Ryan's carriage from behind, these mercenaries rode horses and Ryan's convoy side by side for hundreds of meters, then urged the horses to speed up, quickly overtook the past, and after a while, these people rode horses and disappeared in front.

Ryan didn't care, anyway, the road could allow eight carriages to travel side by side at a time, and he still whispered to Franna about how to impress the business alliance of Free Paradise, to be exact, that Franna's former idol Chilaviv.

This time, Ryan's group of eight plus Xiaobai sat in a total of three carriages, although a carriage can seat 4 people, but considering the comfort of the ride, as well as Faraz, the only woman in the group, the Wind Mercenary Group still provided Ryan with three carriages.

Originally, when he set off, Ryan was sitting with Faras, but Ryan was worried about his mission, so he asked Flanner to sit over and discuss it with him.

Ryan's convoy traveled for about half an hour, and a group of mercenaries rushed from directly in front of them, that is, in the direction of Paradise of Freedom, and this group of more than a dozen mercenaries hurriedly passed by Ryan's convoy, and the horses' hooves stirred up dust on the ground, making Ryan frown, and closed the window.

However, it was only 20 minutes, and the third group of mercenaries once again caught up with Ryan's convoy from behind, which aroused Ryan's vigilance, and he just said that he had barely met anyone after walking for most of the day, so why did he meet three groups of mercenaries one after another in such a short time?

Under normal circumstances, mercenaries do not gallop on horseback unless it is a particularly urgent matter, and even large mercenary groups rarely do so. Now that there are three groups of mercenaries galloping by, is there something unexpected happening?

After about ten minutes, the fourth group of mercenaries rode behind Ryan and caught up, Ryan opened the window a little, and saw the mercenaries on horses marching side by side with him at a glance, although the five or six mercenaries were dressed as mercenaries on the outside, but the look on their faces made Ryan feel similar.

Ryan listened to the sound of the horses' hooves of those mercenaries riding away from his ears, closed his eyes and recalled carefully, after a few minutes, Ryan suddenly thought of why he remembered such a look vividly, because it was a unique look for soldiers, in Thor's Fortress, in the imperial capital, those elite warriors had such a look on their faces, they were tenacious, persistent, and not afraid of sacrifice, only after strict military training would they reach such a level.

At this time, Ryan's carriage suddenly began to slow down, and there was a sharp sound of the wheels rubbing against the dirt on the ground, and Ryan's body involuntarily fell forward, but he reacted quickly, supported the carriage with his hand, and then pulled Franner with his hand, avoiding the latter's nose from making intimate contact with the carriage.

Before the carriage could come to a complete stop, Ryan pushed the door open and swooped out, and before he could see what was going on, he felt a slight movement of the air around him, needless to say, it was Alendor who came to his side.

On the west side of the road, directly in front of Ryan's party, a dozen spiked fences completely blocked the road where eight carriages could travel side by side, and about fifty men dressed in mercenary clothes were sent to stand in several rows behind the fence, and the horseback mercenaries that Ryan had just seen were also behind the queue, and what surprised Ryan and Allendo the most was that there were about ten shooters among these mercenaries.

"Target confirmed, execute it immediately!" The mercenary on the horse on the opposite side suddenly shouted loudly, and this cry became the order to attack, and the ten archers standing behind the wooden fence immediately pulled the shortbow string in their hands, and then shot feathered arrows at Ryan's side without hesitation.

"Hide!" Ryan yelled, and immediately ducked with Alendor behind the carriage. After hearing Ryan's warning sound, Franner, who had already poked his head out of the window, immediately retracted, and he very skillfully leaned his body in the direction of turning away from the mercenaries, and lifted the felt sitting underneath to wrap himself in several vital points.

Colin and the monster at the back of the convoy shouted, "There is also behind!"

This was followed by Faraz's voice: "Be careful, everyone, there is an ambush in the south." ”

As soon as Farath's words fell, he heard the sound of bowstrings, and dozens of feathered arrows shot towards Ryan and his party. "Bang, bang, bang!" the sound came and went, and the arrows of the feathered arrows slammed into the wooden carriage of the carriage and hung on it.

The coachmen of the carriage were from the Tempest Mercenary Regiment, and they were absolutely very experienced, and it was their timely reaction that allowed the entire convoy to stop at the farthest distance, otherwise the closer it was to the ambusher's blockade, the more dangerous it would be. Moreover, when the three coachmen saw that the other party began to attack, they immediately drew their short swords from their bodies without hesitation, and cut the ropes that bound the horses with force, so as to prevent the horses from being injured by arrows and pulling the carriage around.

However, these coachmen were able to think of this, and those ambushers naturally also considered it, and the focus of the first batch of feathered arrows they shot was not to shoot Ryan and his party at all, but to directly choose the three horses that pulled the cart and the coachman who drove the cart. After two rounds of fire, a coachman was hit by several arrows, he fell from the carriage with a scream, and the carriage he was driving also became the target of the attacker's archers, and the horse pulling the cart suffered several arrows, especially the fatal arrow to the head, which made the painful horse scream and run desperately towards his front.

Ryan's attention at the moment was mainly focused on the front of his group, he was leaning on the carriage to observe the enemy's situation, when he heard a scream of horses behind him, followed by Faraz's scream: "Ryan!" Ryan was shocked, he hurriedly turned his head to look, but saw that the carriage that Faraz was riding in was pulled by the startled horse, running at full speed towards the rapids river less than twenty meters north of the road.

From the road they walked on to the spacious whitewater river to the north, it was only more than twenty meters away, and due to the terrain, the position of the people in Lane was about five meters higher than the river, which was probably why the attackers did not place men in the direction of Ryan's north.

The horse galloped, and the carriage passed through a potholed wasteland, and Faras had to take care of Robin, who was a rough martial artist on the carriage, and Maia, who was still in a mess, didn't know what to do for a while, she just instinctively called "Ryan", hoping that her boyfriend could help her, but Faras forgot one of the most important things, that is, it was only a short 20 meters from the road to the river.

"Ahh

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a loud noise from the Rapids, and the carriage fell into the water with a thud.

Ryan's eyes were red, of course he knew that the rapids were fast, and Faras, who lived in the north, could hardly swim, and when he thought that his close lover's life was in danger, Ryan couldn't hold back any longer, he roared angrily, pulled his legs and ran to the river.

Ryan's eyes were only for the moment when the carriage had just fallen, and his ears kept echoing Faraz's exclamation. As he was running, Ryan suddenly felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, which caused him to stumble on his feet, but with Ryan's dexterity, he was able to stand on his feet again.

Ryan didn't stop at his feet and continued to run, while looking down to find himself with a bloody arrow on his left shoulder, needless to say, shot by an ambuster. Just now, Ryan rushed out desperately at the thought that Farass would be in danger, but forgot to give himself protective magic, and ran in a straight line, which was simply a moving target.

But Ryan didn't care so much, because he had already run to the edge of the Riptide River. Ryan strained his feet, and just like that, he plunged headlong into the river. A feathered arrow grazed Ryan's right leg, bringing a flash of blood, but Ryan's mind was so focused on finding Farass that he didn't feel the sharp pain in his leg at all.

The river was not very cold in early autumn, and as soon as Ryan fell into the water, he was immediately swept downstream by the rushing water, and he struggled desperately on the water, hoping that he would be able to swim towards the rapidly sinking carriage. However, it was just that the river of the Riptide River was very fast, and Ryan himself was not very good at swimming, so he could only watch as the carriage was swallowed up by the river little by little.

Ryan's heart sank with the carriage, but he quickly perked up, and Ryan took a deep breath and desperately sank his body below the water. Because the river was flowing so fast, he could barely see anything despite Ryan's desperate efforts to keep his eyes open, and he could only swim in a general direction from his own memory.

The further he dived, the greater the resistance to Ryan, he was not good at swimming, and at the moment he was even more impatient because of Farah's distress, how could he stay underwater for a long time? In just a few minutes, Ryan felt as if his heart and lungs were about to explode, he knew what the reason was, but Ryan didn't care about these at all at this time, he desperately sank his body hard, hoping to find Farah.

Ryan's efforts didn't last long, after all, Ryan was better at magic than diving, and after a few more minutes, Ryan's will began to blur a little due to his lack of breath, and he only felt as if his throat was being strangled fiercely, and his limbs slowly lost strength.

Finally, Ryan reached the limits of his body, and the huge buoyancy of the river forcibly lifted him up. When Ryan's head was exposed to the water, a burst of coolness flowed down Ryan's throat and his heart and lungs, which also lifted Ryan's spirit. Ryan floated on the water, gasping for air, but his heart kept sinking because he hadn't found the sinking wagon or rescued Farah.