Paladin walked up to Chino's side, his eyes full of happiness for the rest of his life: "I didn't expect us to survive this attack..."

Chino put his hand in his arms and touched it, and found that he had run out of tissues he was carrying, so he handed the blood-stained dagger to Paladin and said, "Count the casualties, gather the corpses, and burn them to prevent the spread of the disease." ”

Paladin lifted the corner of his coat and wrapped the dagger, wiped it clean, and then handed it back, reminding him in a low voice: "My lord, we don't have time to do this, we should evacuate as soon as possible." Before dawn, the horse bandits are bound to strike again. ”

Chino put the dagger in the suit: "Why? ”

"The desert horse bandits believe in the "horse king", and they have a custom - after the death of the tribal warriors, they must be purified by the shaman, placed in the sanctuary overnight, and cremated the next day before returning to the arms of the horse king, galloping in the sky and grassland. So, unless they can't be defeated, they will definitely come back and snatch the corpses of their comrades. Paladin glanced at the miserable Shan Gu and said in a deep voice, "What's more, their brother Dadan died here." ”

Chino chuckled, "They're still quite religious? ”

"Pious bastard." Lugo twisted his neck and sneered, "These horse bandits make a living by looting, and they have an eye for money. If I have enough money, I can get their dardans to come to my OO. ”

Chino rolled his eyes: "Say these disgusting things again, I'll cut your tongue out." ”

Lugo scratched his face: "Not next time..."

Chino's gaze swept over the corpses, and finally fell on Shan Gu, with a deep meaning in his eyes: "Burn the corpses of the others, and leave the corpses of the horse bandits in place." ”

Paladin was stunned: "You want to use the corpses of horse bandits as bait to ambush them?" But we are not manpowered, and there are only 100 men left at most, including the wounded soldiers, and even an ambush will not be able to defeat them. It's better to retreat and let the follow-up reinforcements take care of these things. ”

Chino: "You want me to repeat the order again?" ”

Paladin's tiger body trembled, and he hurriedly lowered his head: "I'm sorry, my lord, I'll do it." ”

Under Paladin's command, the soldiers, who were not injured or slightly wounded, found carts from the munitions depot and began to carry the bodies.

At the end of the move, more than 1,500 corpses were gathered in the square, including soldiers of Shilin Town, civilians, infected people in the upper epidemic area, and epidemic beasts in the lower epidemic area.

The body of the horse bandit remained in place according to Chino's orders.

At this time, a Paladin trilled voice came from behind Chino: "My lord, they..."

Chino turned around and saw two familiar corpses, one large and one small.

Ramos and Luca were not spared.

Ramos was covered in knife wounds, apparently chased by horse bandits, and was cut to a bloody pulp.

Luca was protected by Ramos in her arms, with fewer injuries, but with a fatal slash to the neck, the bandit severed her carotid artery.

The bodies of the two fathers and daughters hugged each other tightly, and they did not let go of each other until death, but in the cruel war, the unswerving family affection was as small as dust and could not change anything.

Luca should have had a wonderful childhood like her peers, being a happy little angel, but she has been suffering from the epidemic since she was sensible, locked up in the upper epidemic area, working day after day for blood treatment, and the only leisure time every day is to look up at the sky, fantasizing about what the outside world is like, and all the colorful things in the world have nothing to do with her.

Her life was already so unfortunate, and the tragic fate did not let her go in the end, Paladin only felt depressed, drew his knife and slashed the body of the horse bandit, and roared: "Horse bandit of dog days! Dry! Dry!! Dry!!! ”

"Never hate your enemies, that will affect your judgment." Chino rubbed shoulders with Paladin and walked over to Luca's corpse, crouching down to look at her silently.

Suddenly, Chino noticed that Luca's hand was shrunk in front of his chest, clutching something tightly, and he broke her hand open to see that it was a silver moon hanging from his chest with a rope on it.

"At least, I know one thing now." Chino put the lucky coin back in Luca's hand, and his amber eyes were as deep as the sea, "There are no gods in this world. ”

Of all the people, I'm afraid only Chino himself and Paladin knew the meaning of this sentence.

Chino got up and looked at them silently: "Burn it." ”

The soldiers collected some remnants of the desert fire from the scene, threw them into the corpse pile with firewood, and threw them on the torch.

The flames ignited, and Ramos and Luca were gradually engulfed, never to be seen again.

The fire buried everything.

After burning the corpse, Paladin bowed his head and said, "My lord, the corpse is finished, let's evacuate quickly, the horse bandits will be coming soon." The rest is left to the follow-up force. ”

Unbeknownst to him, Chino gave him an astonishing answer: "Go away, I'll stay here." ”

"Your Excellency?!" Not only the mercenaries such as Paladin and Lugo, but also the other soldiers were stunned.

Chino turned his back to the crowd and looked at the night sky in the east alone: "I am the civil magistrate of Shilin Town, and I will live and die with this town." Depart. ”

For a while, Paladin only felt that his whole body was hit by electricity, he looked at Chino's back, and only felt that this slender body was so majestic, that he unconsciously roared in a deep voice: "Then I will stay!" I'm dying with you! ”

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"I know your loyalty, go away, it's a command. What's more, I'm not asking for death, but I have a plan. Chino turned to the crowd, "I need you to get out of Shirin, and go buy something." ”

Paladin stood up straight: "You say! ”

Chino: "What do you think... What smell of bath oil smells good? ”

Paladin had a question mark: "Ah??? ”

Chino: "Is that a difficult question to answer?" ”

Paladin and the others looked at each other, wondering if Chino was in a bad mind, and what did it mean to ask about bath oil at such a serious moment?

Lugo shrugged and added the subject: "I love rose essential oil, and using this woman in the bath makes me lustful." ”

Chino: "What else?" ”

Lugo scratched his head: "Uh... I rarely use essential oils myself, and all I can tell you is that sleeping with a woman who has bathed with lavender essential oil will make you sleep deeply. It would be refreshing if she bathed with peppermint essential oil. If it's strawberry essential oil, it makes you feel energized..."

Chino: "Then buy them all, and soap, buy some too." That's your job. ”

Lugo opened his mouth, stopped talking, and finally said in a deep voice: "For the sake of the final payment, I will do so, but I doubt your sanity. ”

After Lugo and the others left, Paladin stayed where he was, looking at Chino's back with complicated eyes: "I don't understand..."

"I don't understand either." Chino squatted down in front of Shan Gu's huge corpse, tilted his head and muttered to himself, "Say, how did he eat so fat?" Three or four of them were my age. My physique is rather strange, I don't get fat no matter how much I eat, I actually want to be taller. ”

"Your Excellency?"

"That's right, Paladin." Chino stood up, and his words were meaningful, "Leave the task of shopping to Lugo, and I have another task for you." ”