Chapter 15: The Robbers' Camp
The robbers who escaped the catastrophe hurriedly shot an arrow in the direction where the flying knife struck! Regardless of whether they hit or not, they quickly turned around and burrowed into the bushes! The remaining three robbers were already fighting with Bell!
After all, robbers are robbers who are not as good as soldiers' combat ability, three people and three weapons. The hatchet, spear, and dagger did not work together effectively, and brute force and ruthlessness could not gain any advantage in front of Bell, and he was soon stabbed to death by stabbing one of them.
The other two saw that the situation was not right, so they turned around and ran! Bell had just chased out two steps, and the robber archer hiding in the bushes suddenly fired a cold arrow! Bell stumbled and was able to avoid it! An Elsa waited for the throwing knife to shoot out from the side! Poof! The robber archer fell straight to the ground.
The two robbers who escaped also took the opportunity to burrow back into the dense forest and disappeared. Bell looked in the direction of the robber's escape, looked at the dead body in front of him, and waved his hand at Anesa who was walking away, "Are you okay?!"
"It's fine, but it's a pity that those two guys ran away. If I hadn't killed the archer with the first sword, I wouldn't have been held back by him. Anesa shook her head in annoyance.
Bell waved his hand, understandable for Annesha's behavior just now. Both long-range attackers are in the middle of a dense forest, and neither will rush to attack if they are not completely sure that they will kill each other. What's more, his comrades-in-arms are still fighting in the open, and the side that loses the advantage will inevitably bring great disasters to himself and his teammates.
"These damn bandits. Bell angrily kicked the body of the robber.
"I wonder if there will be more robbers ahead, huh?!Bell! She's not dead yet!" Anelsa walked to the little girl's body, and suddenly felt the corpse move, and when she looked closely, she found that the girl was still breathing weakly.
"What?!" Bell rushed over in two or three steps, leaning down and feeling the little girl's pulse. Alive!
"You hold on! I'll save you right away!" Bell hurriedly took out the herbs from his backpack, three bitter black neon grass leaves were stuffed into his mouth and chewed a few times, holding a dagger in his hand to cut the clothes of the part of the arrow, and gently smeared the chewed medicine mud on the side of the wound.
The little girl's mind was a little sluggish, and she kept saying something, and Bell, who was bent on saving people, didn't notice this at all, and when Bell went to give the little girl back medicine, Anesa, who was gently supporting the girl, reached out and patted him on the shoulder.
Bell froze there and looked up. Anesa was shaking her head helplessly at herself.
The two men found some rocks nearby and buried the girl's body simply. Standing in front of the stone pile, Bell had mixed feelings, not knowing where the last fugitives from the village of Loire would be, and if they met such robbers...... He didn't dare to think about it any longer.
"She is Enrui, the missing girl that the village chief said. Annesha touched her sleeve sadly.
Seeing that Bell looked at her very strangely, Anesa added, "You were too focused to hear it just now, she kept saying that Enrui didn't want to die, Enrui was so scared, Dad...... Daddy......"
An'esha, who didn't feel anything about human death, had tears rolling in her eyes. Bell's heart trembled suddenly! It was as if he heard Hertz's helpless voice, Keqi didn't want to die, Keqi was so scared, Dad...... Father......!
Ann's retelling kept echoing in his head, the tragic death of Herzmere, the plea coughing up blood, the disaster of the Loire!
"I'm sorry, Ann Essa, I'm going to do another risky thing. Bell's deep voice was full of murderous intent.
"As it happens, so did I. Ann Elsa held the iron sword she had captured the night in her hand, and her blonde hair fluttered gently in the breeze in the forest.
The two looked at each other and smiled, seeing each other's persistence in each other's seriousness.
No water bladders, dry food, or herbs were found on the robbers' bodies, and only a dozen silver coins were recovered from them.
"It seems that there must be a bandit stronghold around here. Ann Elsa is very sure.
"Let's go down this side and see if we can find their stronghold. Bell squinted and followed the blood on the girl's feet and looked forward.
Along the way, following the bloodstains and some clues left on the branches, the two who escaped did not bring anyone back, which made Bell more and more nervous.
There are only two reasons for not killing them, or there are only five people in this gang of robbers, and the camp must be temporary, and the two of them may be empty. Either these five people are insignificant minions, then there must be a fairly large bandit group here.
"Shhhh Bell, who was walking in front, suddenly leaned down. Not far in front of him, a little minion dressed as a robber walked over.
Ann Elsa quietly leaned over, "Do it?" ”
Bell waved his hand, "There must be a robber's den here, let's not rush, let's observe the situation first." ”
As they spoke, the two slowly retreated into the bushes, and looked forward through the branches and leaves, and there were faintly a few shacks. After figuring out the route of the minion's patrol, the two men moved forward again.
Roughly counted, there were twenty or thirty shacks, the largest and most luxurious of which was probably where the robber leader lived. And when I counted the robbers I could see, there were about thirty or forty of them. It's just outside, and I don't know how many are inside the shack.
Bell shook his head at Annetha, and the two cautiously withdrew from the minions' alert range. Snuggled up in a thick bush of grass and planned what to do.
"We need bows and arrows, and there are at least a hundred of them in such a bandit stronghold. It's basically useless to kill the little minions outside. Bell frowned.
"Why don't we set it on fire?" Anesa suggested.
"If there were other people like Enrui locked up inside, wouldn't that have burned them to death?" Bell shook his head.
Anesa pouted, "Then you have to sneak in first, release the prisoners, and then set them on fire." ”
"That's too dangerous, there are only two of us, and we're all going to die here. Bell glanced behind him, and a few hundred meters away were hundreds of rogue bandits.
An Elsa should be reconciled, but she was thinking that if she could reveal her true body, the more than 100 robbers in this mere would not be enough for her to kill alone. But what can be done to keep Bell from discovering his secret?
"I think we'd better kill the patrol first, then hide, and when they send someone out to investigate, kill another batch, and maybe capture some bows and arrows. After thinking about it, Bell felt that this method was more reliable, and when hunting a group of beasts, Orion usually used this method to disperse and disintegrate their power.
Of course, the most important thing is to hide the hunting method, otherwise it will be discovered by wild beasts and swarmed up, and it will definitely be ten deaths.