Volume IV The Rule of Chaos 33 The Twilight Forest
Since that day, I have been dreaming almost every night, sometimes knowing that I am in a dream, half-asleep and half-awake to know my situation, and I can only do nothing to bear all kinds of stress and fear that will still arise even if I don't want to.
I knew I was asleep but not completely asleep, which made me feel less and less energetic during the day, and even one day I was so sleepy that I couldn't open my eyes during the day, and I didn't want to eat and wanted to fall asleep.
Until one day I was picked up on the side of the road, but they didn't pick me up, they just picked up my money, weapons and equipment and my horse.
When I woke up, a wild dog was sniffing my face. My wake-up startled the dog, and it jumped and dodged. I got up from the ground and found myself on the side of the road.
The overcast sky made it impossible for me to tell what time it was. Even looking at the surrounding environment made me wonder if I was dead for a while, but after touching my body and checking it and finding that there were no scars, I really wondered if it was the underworld where the dead came. Because I really can't find a horse, and I don't have any weapons and equipment, and only the dead can be so careless.
I looked at the wild dog, its green eyes staring at me, but I didn't see anything more in its eyes, it wasn't trying to eat me.
Smash, smash, smash, dry mouth, I tried to get up from the ground, my shoulders had no strength at all, my body was soft and tired, and I didn't want to move at all.
The dog saw that I stood up but did not go far, still twisting its head to look at me. I feel thirsty and want to drink some water, but where is there water around? Does it know where there is water? I looked at the dog and thought so. Maybe this thing can drink water from any puddle, huh...... You won't get sick if you drink it!
I walked slowly along the road, and my head was still groggy now. Until I saw a light not far away, it was people!
I walked briskly towards the light, I needed help!
It was people, a group of people on horseback. They saw me and walked over to me. When I was surrounded by them, one of them spoke, "Isn't this the guy on the side of the road?" He's not dead! ”
Just now...... They had only been looting me for a short time.
The man on the horse held a torch, "Kill him?" A man said.
No one answered, and everyone looked at one of the men.
"What do you do?" The man asked, tilting his head.
"I'm from...... Stormwind escaped. I said.
"Hmph......" The people around him let out a sneer of disbelief.
"You didn't answer my question." The man said. He should be the head of the group.
"I'm a member of the Brotherhood." I say.
This answer didn't make them hum and disdain me anymore.
"How do you prove it?" The man said calmly.
"I'm Edwin Van Cleef's brother." I say.
I saw the people around me look at their heads again.
"Hmph...... Edwin had no brothers. He said.
"Brothers in the fraternity." I say.
"You're an unsavvy liar." He said, tugging at the reins, "Kill him." So saying, he turned his horse's head.
As soon as I heard this, I leaned under the horse, and I didn't have time to think, I didn't need to think.
The horse I had gotten under me felt me, and the man above screamed to get out of the way, but I had already gotten out from under the horse, and I grabbed the strap from the saddle on the horse's right side, and grabbed the guy's clothes in the ribs with my right hand.
As soon as I pulled it hard, the guy was already twisting his body and was directly dragged down by me.
I wouldn't have been able to do it if the horses weren't huddled together, but I had taken advantage of them and it would have taken a few seconds to turn the horses, and by the time they were ready to make a move on me, I had already lifted my legs and stretched out my feet to knock the guy on the ground unconscious.
Leaning down and picking up the sword on the ground, I blocked the blow that was coming at me right away. By the time he raised his sword again, I had already put it on it, flashed to the side and grabbed his clothes, the horse was not so nimble, and I was slashing awkwardly as he was on the horse.
This only scratched the epidermis of my arm, and the depth of the cut was completely negligible. Yet my sword stabbed straight into his diagonal ribs.
Immediately the man screamed and fell, and the writhing body pinned to the sword in my hand. I tugged hard out, and the feeling came from the tip of the sword that this guy probably wouldn't survive.
Killing two people in a row made the group roar.
I can't get on my horse right now, but I did startle the man's mount when I pulled him down. The horse didn't stand up but stumbled, and the horse's jerk gave me a chance.
The foot of the man who fell down went into the pedal, and I grabbed the saddle bridge, and the horse ran straight away. I followed two steps and ran two meters away, and the one on the ground was dragged away.
The horses that were dragged down from the start didn't run very fast, which gave me plenty of time to roll over and get on the horse. But the people behind it are not stupid, they follow closely.
I was on a horse, and I only had one pedal to use, but I knew that the left pedal would kill another person if it was used, and the next person to be dragged on the ground would be me.
There was a man dragging on the right side of the horse, and I could clearly feel the instability of the center of gravity, so I hung on the left side of the horse and hid in stirrups. I tried to keep the horse on the left side of the road so that the people behind me had a chance to copy my left, but the man who came from the right was now clearly trying to kill me.
I don't know how many times the guy on the ground was trampled, but I had a feeling that he was going to survive, and the guy on the right began to cut down my horse.
When the horse was cut down, it no longer ran along the road, but burrowed into the nearby woods.
As soon as I looked up and saw the tree in front of me brushing my back, I was horrified, and I hurriedly rolled over and sat on the back of my horse.
As soon as I sat down, I felt the sound of horses' hooves behind me and the sword that was most likely slashing or stabbing at me.
I threw myself on the horse, turned my face and looked back, and the guy behind me had slashed at me. I tugged at the reins, and the force was so hard that the horse was pulled down by me.
I was overjoyed when I got off my horse, yes! I was too passive on the horse, but in the woods, once I had a tree, I had much more hope of survival.
After rolling a few laps on the ground, I got up and ran behind a tree. And the charge of the bandits who rushed towards me in the woods would be more than half neutralized by the trees.
Even if two people rushed at me, I would have dodged many attacks because of the protection and support of the tree. But I won't give them a chance, I have a sword in my hand and a stone on the ground.
Fighting and running, soon the group of guys were beaten by me, gave up their horses, and ran towards me with my back against the tree. I was instantly overjoyed to see this, and once they started dismounting, I had more chances.
Run while fighting, fight while running. I remember that seventeen people were dragged to death. The rest of the people started to run away when they saw that there were fewer and fewer people around them, but I didn't want to let them go.
I killed the two who were talking just now, and I grabbed a guy who didn't succeed in escaping and knocked him unconscious. The first thing I did after taking off his pants and tying them up was not to interrogate him.
Collect the supplies from the dead on the ground, and I have to bandage the wounds first.
He was stabbed in the left arm and left in the shoulder. The knife in the left shoulder was only a scratch, and the wound was not deep. The wound on his left arm was fleshy. I was stabbed in the back, and now it just feels slimy, and it hurts a little to move, but it doesn't hurt that much.
After bandaging it, my head still felt dizzy, and I stabbed him directly into the thigh with my sword, twisting it hard. He woke up and woke up screaming.
It's not too comfortable to interrogate in such a place, I'm not afraid of him shouting, he is begging for mercy at first, then angry, and finally angry and finally begging for mercy.
Then my question became very simple. I'm sure he's telling the truth.
He told me that the Brotherhood had indeed infiltrated here, that they were originally a gang of bandits, and that when the Brotherhood people came, they wanted to pinch them and make them bow down, but the Brotherhood people did not give them face at all.
And when I asked where the Brotherhood were, he said it was everywhere, especially near Brightwood, and on both sides of the River. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he had just plundered a village in front of him.
It's honest, but I don't want this honest guy to continue to exist in this world. I told him to go on his own until he returned to the village where he had been plundered.
The dozen or so peasants were so frightened that they didn't dare to move when they saw me and the bandit with their hands tied behind their backs. I pushed the man to the ground, and the man kowtowed like garlic and cried out for mercy. The group of peasants came to their senses.
The peasants looked at the bound bandit and did not show any more anger, I looked at them with some confusion, and they told me that there were about thirty bandits and that they would not give up. I told them that there were still their bodies in the woods, and that you might be able to retrieve what was rightfully yours.
The men went to the woods to look for the body, and the women welcomed me into the house and washed and bandaged me. I don't know how I fell asleep, but when I woke up again it felt like a long, long time had passed, and I had a long, long dream in between, or that intermittent voice spoke to me.
There was a slight cracking sound from the firewood in the house, and the house was quiet. I didn't know if it was day or night, I tilted my head and looked around, there was no one in the room.
I moved my fingers, and I was still conscious. Taking a deep breath, I felt that my head didn't seem so dizzy, I rolled over, and it didn't hurt in my back anymore, and it didn't hurt in my arms anymore. I pinched my skin-open left arm, and it seemed to have grown.
Sitting up from the bed, I smelled a strange smell in the room. Just then, the door was pushed open, and a little guy stood in the doorway, staring at me with two big eyes.
Then he suddenly turned around and ran and shouted, "He's awake!" ”