Chapter 16: Accident after Accident
Although he was amazed at the strength of his psionic skills, Leo also knew that this was not a good place to think.
So, he walked up to the corpse of the throat-cutter, took the battle axe off the skull, wiped the blood from the axe on the corpse's clothes, and then, still with a calm look, looked at the old hunter, and said with a smile: "I think this matter should be over like this, because of a little thing, a man has died, and there should be no more to lose, Mr. Bourg, what do you think?"
At this moment, the old hunter did not choose to fight to the end, because the strength that Leo had shown just now had already made him sure that the person in front of him could not be provoked. Although backing down now would have some impact on his reputation, it was obviously nothing compared to dying at the hands of the other party in the next moment.
So, the old hunter showed an ugly smile, nodded, and said, "You're right, I think so too. ”
The old hunter's retreat caused an uproar among the people around him, and those people looked at the old hunter with a little more contempt, and some of the other gangs even quietly walked out, as if they were ready to publicize the matter and attack the old hunter's prestige.
The Bloodaxe Gang also seemed to be dissatisfied with the old hunter's retreat, but they knew better that if the bloody fight continued, then the next person to die would probably be any of them, so the dissatisfaction was not very strong.
Seeing that the old hunter was weak and retreated, Leo didn't have to move an inch, he just walked up to the owner of the Panir battle axe in his hand, and said to him who was already afraid in his eyes: "Your axe is very useful, I just lack a weapon with a symmetrical hand, can you give me another battle axe as well?"
"When, of course, of course!" the strong man had the courage to refute Leo's request, and hurriedly handed the tomahawk in his hand to Leo, and even handed the special hanging axe belt around his waist to Leo.
Leo picked up the two battle axes and belts, and gestured to Jason, whose surprised expression had not yet dissipated, and the two walked out of the tavern and returned to the inn room in front of everyone.
Back in the room, Jason excitedly told Nelson about what was happening in the tavern, and was extremely curious about how Leo threw the tomahawk and so on. On the other hand, Rabbitskin Town has caused a lot of waves because of this conflict in the tavern of the Tower Inn.
In Rabbitskin, the Bloodaxe Gang is not the strongest gang or power, but it occupies a portion of the valuable Black Forest specialty trade, which makes many gang forces salivate over this share, hoping to take it away from the Bloodaxe Gang.
It's just that in the past, because of the old hunter's own abilities and means, and the large number of outlaw hunters who dared to fight around the old hunter, those who coveted it did not dare to turn their ideas into actions.
When the old hunter was in the tavern and was threatened to back down, it was like a signal, an offensive signal to all those who coveted the Bloodaxe Gang territory.
Leo's matter is just a flashpoint, in fact, as the old hunter has begun to retreat into the background in the past few years, whether it is the battle on the territory of Rabbitskin Town, or the collection of special products in the Black Forest, he has never gone out in person, so there have always been rumors in the town that the old hunter is old.
Now the old hunter's retreat just confirmed this rumor, and when the news of the tavern was spread by those who had a good heart, five other gangs entrenched in the vicinity of the Bloodaxe Gang quickly gathered and invaded the old hunter's territory.
Although these five gangs that took the lead are not very big, and they are slightly weaker than the Blood Axe Gang, but after the five are united, their strength is far beyond the Blood Axe Gang, and behind these five gangs there is a large Chamber of Commerce force secretly supporting, and the gang's background is much stronger than the helpless Blood Axe Gang.
When the five gangs joined forces to attack the Bloodaxe Gang territory, the old hunter suddenly disappeared, and the person who commanded the Bloodaxe Gang to resist the Gang's siege was the second-in-command.
Many people think that the old hunter fled first when he saw that the situation was not good, and the big and small gangs in the town also thought that the Blood Axe Gang was going to be finished this time, and those big gangs and big forces were waiting for the Blood Axe Gang to be destroyed, and then they would take action and share the biggest piece of the pie with the smallest price.
However, to everyone's surprise, when the five gangs forced the Bloodaxe Gang into their headquarters and were about to wipe them out, the old hunter who had disappeared reappeared and brought back more than 200 musketeers, all of whom used special bullets.
After the old hunter appeared, he did not immediately lead people to rescue the headquarters of the Blood Axe Gang, but led people to end the stations of the five gangs as quickly as possible, and then returned to the headquarters of the Blood Axe Gang, and before the people of the five gangs had time to react, they attacked the gang inside and outside the headquarters, and all the people of the five gangs were solved.
Although the Bloodaxe Gang suffered heavy losses after this battle, and less than 100 people were intact, because the old hunters brought more than 200 musketeers, the strength of the Bloodaxe Gang not only did not weaken, but increased. With the collapse of the five surrounding gangs, the territory controlled by the old hunter has more than tripled, occupying about one-fifth of Rabbitskin Town, and has become one of the largest forces in Rabbitskin Town.
Everything is developing too fast, one moment there is news that the Blood Axe Gang is about to disappear, and the next moment I hear that the old hunter has led people to solve the five gangs, and before anyone can react to what is going on, I hear that everything is over, and the Blood Axe Gang begins to accept the territory of the five gangs.
From the five gangs besieging the Blood Axe Gang to the Blood Axe Gang swallowing up the five gangs, it took less than two hours before and after, and even if someone wanted to do something, they didn't have time to gather people.
Although the big forces in Rabbitskin Town, who were waiting to reap the benefits, did not want to see the growth and rise of the Blood Axe Gang, and wanted to do something when the Blood Axe Gang accepted the territory of the five gangs and the personnel were relatively scattered, but in the end, they did not do it, but sat back and watched the Blood Axe Gang swallow the victory little by little and absorb it completely.
The reason why they didn't do it was not because the Bloodaxe Gang had shown that they were already stronger than them, which made them feel afraid, but because they found that the more than 200 musketeers brought by the old hunter were well-trained professional musketeers.
Moreover, the bullets used by these musketeers were extremely expensive special rounds, and the number of bullets used alone was a thousand, and the number of unused bullets was probably not less than that.
In the entire continent of Veron, only the Franco-Empire has formed a professional musketeer corps, and most of the other countries are just ordinary soldiers who carry a musketeer using ordinary bullets when they go to the battlefield, which is not a special musketeer corps.
This musketeer of the French Empire has a weave of 3,000 people, because it is directly under the command of the emperor, and the financial expenditure is also the royal treasury, so it is also called the Royal Musketeer, or they are called the Royal Blue Guard according to the color of their military uniform.
Although the more than 200 musketeers brought support by the old hunter did not have any items related to the Blue Guards, careful people could see a strong shadow of the Blue Guards musketeers in the way these people attacked.
Then there is the special bullet used by the musket team, which is very expensive because it needs to add a rare stabilizer, and it also needs a special channel to buy, and it is not something that can be bought with money.
The general nobles of the French Empire will buy a dozen of these bullets at most for self-defense, and no more than a hundred of them will be bought, and only the army of the French Empire will purchase and hoard such special bullets in large quantities.
It's just that every bullet of the French Imperial Army will be recorded in the military department, and it is impossible to take out more than a thousand casually, and only the personal guard of the French royal family can silently take out so many bullets to use.
For a long time, the big and small forces in Rabbitskin Town have believed that the Blood Axe Gang formed by the old hunter does not have any backstage support, so when the interests of Rabbitskin Town tend to be saturated and it is difficult to find new interests from the outside, their first thought is to solve the helpless Blood Axe Gang and share the interests of the Blood Axe Gang.
But now they realize that the backstage of the Bloodaxe may be the Fran royal family, and the Bloodaxe Gang has changed from a fat fish that can be eaten at any time to a giant crocodile with a bloody mouth wide open, and they are the kind of prey who should worry about being devoured.
The big and small forces in Rabbitskin Town and the backers behind them are all thinking about how to deal with the expansion of the Blood Axe Gang and how to deal with the royal family's official intervention in the interests of the Black Forest when facing the new form of Rabbitskin Town, and many people are probably going to lose sleep in the near future.
However, compared to these people who cared about the interests of the Black Forest, Leo and the three of them who did not care about the interests of the Black Forest slept soundly, perhaps because they were too tired during the two-day escape, they slept deeply, and even the gunfire and shouting in the town did not wake them up.
Leo, who should have been the most alert, also slept very hard at this time, mainly because he activated his psionic energy and faced unknown existences and other things consumed a lot of his energy, even if his body did not feel tired, but his spirit could no longer support it, so he quickly fell asleep when he returned to the room.
It's just that Leo didn't know that when he was sleeping, he accidentally escaped a catastrophe.
After the final victory of the Bloodaxe Gang, it was proposed that Leo be eliminated from the incident, but this proposal was rejected by the old hunter on the grounds that he would take over the territory of the five gangs as soon as possible and consolidate the victory.
It is unclear whether the old hunter wants to swallow and fortify the surrounding territory as soon as possible, rather than make a fuss, or if he is still afraid of the power that Leo has displayed.
On the contrary, those who paid attention to the Bloodaxe Gang in Rabbitskin Town had the illusion that what was happening in the tavern might just be a play, a stage play that lured greedy people to do it and gave the royal family the opportunity to send someone to directly intervene in the interests of the Black Forest, which also made some people think that Leo might be a member of the French royal family.
Leo didn't know anything about the random speculation about his identity by the forces in Rabbitskin Town, and then again, even if he knew, he didn't care, what he was concerned about now was how much his personal data had changed after a night's rest.
So when he was woken up from his slumber by Jason, he didn't think about why he slept so deeply, nor did he think about what kind of countermeasures he would have to take to officially enter the Black Forest today, he immediately asked the subbrain system to open the personal data interface to check the recovery status of various attributes.
After a night's rest, the Constitution point has been restored to a complete state, the spirit point has also been restored to six points, and along with the spirit point, the spiritual energy has increased to sixty points. The willpower that caught Leo's attention the most was also restored to eighteen points, although it was not able to recover to the full value, but it was also beyond his expectations, which was a big surprise.
After checking the recovery of his personal attributes, Leo put his mind back on walking through the Black Forest, originally before activating the psionic energy, he was very sure that he could pass through the Black Forest, and now he has activated the psionic energy, and because of the psychic skill assistance of the spiritual net, it is no longer a problem for him to pass through the Lower Black Forest of the Foggy Moon.
Although Leo was confident, Nelson didn't know what to expect, and double-checked the various equipment he had prepared yesterday over and over again, and also double-checked Leo and Jason's equipment several times, until he couldn't find anything that made him feel wrong, and then left the room at Jason's urging.
The trio went down to the hotel's restaurant on the first floor for a breakfast, and Nelson packed some handy dry bread for a rainy day.
Neither Nelson nor Jason felt anything unusual when they entered the restaurant, but Leo quickly noticed that a lot of eyes swept over him, and after he sat down, some people even looked at him directly, as if they wanted to remember his appearance.
After a little tipping, Leo learns from the waiter why he is being so noticed, and is also surprised by what happened in Rabbitskin last night, and feels that Rabbitskin is not a place to stay for long.
While Leo isn't afraid of the Bloodaxe's revenge, he doesn't think he's psionic enough to keep Jason and Nelson safe and sound when they're being besieged. So after breakfast, he dissuaded Nelson, who was still going to visit the herb shop, and the three of them directly packed their bags and left Rabbitskin Town through the side door facing the Black Forest.
Not long after the three Leo left the town, a group of hunters with Panier's battle axe on their waists, muskets and crossbows on their backs chased them out of the town, following the route of the Leo three in the direction of the Black Forest.
Just as the group of hunter pursuers, numbering thirty people, left the town, the news reached the ears of the old hunter who was in charge of the Blood Axe Gang, and the old hunter's face became extremely gloomy when he heard the news, and the anger in his eyes seemed to ignite everyone in the house at any moment.