Surdak strapped an old horse to the carriage and reversed the direction of the carriage on the mountain road.

Miss Hoyle's eyes were bruised and the left side of her face was swollen so high that her otherwise youthful face looked very embarrassed, and she sat on a cushion beside the trail, wrapped in a somewhat rough woollen blanket.

The leather cushion was supposed to belong to the coachman, and it was stained with blood, and she had been immersed in grief a moment ago, but now she couldn't believe her ears, and the knight in front of her actually asked her if she would drive the carriage, she was the noble lady of Hoyle Manor, and she stared at the young knight who had been busy all the time.

His body was splattered with blood, the scabbard of the Roman sword at his waist was almost soaked with blood, and he laid the bodies of the robbers side by side on the rocky ground by the roadside, which was full of rocks, and it was difficult to dig a large pit to bury the robbers' bodies on the spot.

Twenty-three horses were also gathered together by Surdak, who looked honest, and Surdak tied all the reins together and prepared to take them back to the village of Wall.

Surdak found a piece of black bread and a piece of black jerky from the robber's bag, and brought it to Miss Hoyle along with the leather bladder, and said to her: "If you can drive the carriage, go back along this mountain road, and you will probably return to the city of Highlandsa before it gets dark." ”

Miss Hoyle looked at Surdak helplessly, with a hint of pleading in her eyes.

Surdak didn't have any expression on his face, just handed the water bladder in his hand again.

She silently reached out and took the water bladder, but instead of drinking it, she soaked a rag with water, and then wiped her face earnestly, and then took a sip, which she was accustomed to drinking in the manor, freshly squeezed juices, milk, and tea, raw water with a strong smell of leather, which Miss Hoyle would not normally use to wash her face.

Surdak scratched his head a little helplessly, and said to Miss Hoyle, "After arriving in Highlandsa City, you can tell your tragic story to the Supreme Archon of Highlandsa City, and I believe that he will be able to give you some justice. ”

He sat down on the floor, shoved the jerky in his hand into his mouth, and continued:

"And I can't get you out of here right away."

Then he pointed to the corpses of the robbers on the side of the road.

"As you may have seen, there are so many things to deal with here, I can't just leave these robber corpses on the side of the road, otherwise in this weather, these corpses will quickly decompose, I need to dispose of these corpses, and hopefully use this to warn the other bandit groups around the city of Highlandza."

Disposing of the robbers' corpses was only one thing, and Surdak didn't want to take the horses to the city of Highlandza, otherwise it would be a big loss to be confiscated by the guard battalion.

The horses are considered their own trophies for now, but if they are brought to the city of Highlandza, the guard battalions will detain them under the pretext of investigating the bandits, and then they will have no place to reason.

In the Grimm Empire, horses are a very valuable animal, especially war horses that can go to war, and sometimes one horse can even be exchanged for five cows.

Surdak thought about it seriously, and felt that it was indeed difficult for a strong man to let a noble lady who had been persecuted by robbers return to the city of Highlandsa alone in such a situation, so he said to Miss Hoyle: "If you cannot drive back to the city of Highlandsa alone, then I will wait until I am done with the business at hand, and then I will send you back to the city of Highlandsa, and you may have to stay in the village for one night, at least tomorrow!" ”

"Can't you send me back to Hylanza right now?" Miss Hoyle felt that she was already so pitiful, that the knight in front of her, if she had even the slightest sympathy, should send her back to the city of Highlandza, and if it was the kind of knight with a strong sense of responsibility and mission, perhaps she should help herself complete her revenge, and then rebuild her home, and finally impress herself and marry him.

However, the knight in front of him did not seem to have such thoughts at all, and Miss Hoyle hinted to Surdak: "Mr. Knight, I will give you some good reward, and I would like to return home as soon as possible." ”

Surdak shook his head with a serious expression.

“…… Well, I can try! Miss Hoyle looked at the long whip on the carriage and said with great confusion.

Miss Hoyle sat in the carriage and looked at the endless mountain road, and wanted to sit in the carriage and cry.

The old horse did not wait for her to swing his whip, and pulled the wagon slowly in the direction of the city of Highlandza, and the coachman was entangled like a mummy, lying unconscious in the carriage.

Originally, she thought that after being rescued, all the catastrophes would be over, but now, Miss Hoyle felt that her bumpy life path in the future might have just begun......

……

Watching the carriage slowly move towards the city of Highlandsa, Surdak breathed a sigh of relief.

The perfect end of a battle, licking the bag is of course the most important thing, the corpses of the twenty-three robbers turned inside and out, and even stripped off the leather armor on their bodies, along with the weapons on their bodies, most of these robbers wore dark red scimitars, only the bandit leader with the strength of the one turn could afford the punishment hammer.

For Surdak, the only value of these weapons is that they are sold on the black market, but the silver-handled daggers and hunting bows that the thieves carry with them have some value, these daggers are ordinary in style, and they can be bought in any weapon store, although they are not brand new, but Surdak thinks that they can be given to the villagers, and the Vol Village Lizard Hunting Regiment needs to have a few well-crafted hunting bows. As for daggers, who goes out hunting without a dagger?

To Surdak's surprise, he found a magic belt bag from the bandit leader's waist, which was almost full of gems, jewelry, gold and silver coins, in addition to some commonly used life magic scrolls and three emerald green antidotes.

These robbers are so rich......

Surdak suddenly remembered that Karl had said last night that this group of robbers had just sacked three noble manors on the outskirts of the city of Highlandza, and it seemed that this was true!

Then he found some sturdy canvas pockets on the horses, stuffed all the jerky nuts and fried noodles in the pockets into two canvas pockets, and left the rest of the canvas pockets empty, sorted the iron parts in the two large wooden boxes, and dismantled all the slats of the wooden boxes and nailed them into more than twenty wooden crosses.

Surdak single-handedly drove twenty-two horses and carried the robbers' bodies to the mountain range next to the badland pass.

He nailed the wooden cross into the crack in the stone at the top of the mountain, and tied the bodies of all twenty-three robbers to the cross, and the head of the robber leader was cut off by Surdak, so he sharpened the top of the wooden cross and stuck the head of the thief leader in it...... By the time this was done, the sun was about to set.

The setting sun shone on the robbers' corpses, and a scavenging bird hovered in the sky, refusing to fall.

The bodies of the twenty-three robbers stood alone on the barren hill until nightfall......