"Robbery! ...... you"

Bang!

The thief, who had just emerged from the jungle, had his head blown off before he could finish his sentence, leaving only a headless corpse slowly lying to the ground.

"Run!!"

With a few screams that sounded even a little out of tune, the other thieves who had just jumped out together immediately screamed and ran towards the depths of the forest. His movements were so decisive and his actions were swift that even Zheng Shu was surprised.

"Do all the thieves of this age grow out of the ground? Or do they automatically refresh every day at midnight? Zheng Shu looked at the wild thieves who had just "refreshed" and began to flee around, with a helpless expression on his face.

Zheng Shu has been gone for several days since he set off.

Because of his strong legs, he walked much longer distances than ordinary people every day, and the only trouble was that he was attacked by thieves almost every day during these days.

At the worst time, he encountered three waves of thieves in one day, and Zheng Shu was so frightened that he thought that he had inadvertently stabbed some thief's den.

After teasing it a little, Zheng Shu suddenly twitched his nose, relying on the dragon's keen senses that far surpassed that of humans, he smelled something special, which made his originally somewhat relaxed expression sink immediately.

The thieves are pale, and in this world, they can make civilians fearful, but heroes can make thieves fearful. Even comparatively, thieves fear heroes more than civilians fear thieves.

For even among the thieves, there are not many murderous people who really like to slaughter entire villages, and in most cases thieves simply plunder their belongings and food. After all, they also know that they can't survive without the "fat sheep".

But for the heroes, they really have no mercy to cut off their heads and show them off to others, or to find villagers for payment.

The horror is that they will not be blamed by anyone for doing such a thing, because they are heroes!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

With several clouds of blood mist rising, Zheng Shu instantly appeared behind one of the thieves at the front, and behind him, all the thieves who escaped had their heads blown out.

"I ask, you answer." Placing the mace in front of the thief who sat on the ground out of fear, Zheng Shu looked at him expressionlessly.

"Good! Good! Please don't kill me, I was forced by them, if I don't do this work, they will kill me! The thief's face was pale and incoherent, and even Zheng Shu could see that his lower body was already a little incontinent.

Frowning, Zheng Shu forcibly ignored the smell he smelled, and turned his gaze to the thief's face again: "Since you are robbing here, it means that there should be a village around here, say!" Where is the nearest village? If you don't have a village, you can give up your stronghold. ”

"Yes! There are villages! Turn left along the side of the path, and you can see it after walking for half a day! I really ......."

Bang!

Before the thief's words were finished, his head had been smashed by the mace, Zheng Shu shook it casually, and the blood stains on the mace were thrown away.

Zheng Shu kicked the bodies of the thieves to the sides of the road with an expressionless face to prevent them from obstructing their progress, and pushed aside the bushes to come to the place where the thieves had escaped just now.

Here, several corpses lay on the ground, several of them had been stripped of their clothes, covered with various scars, and their lifeless eyes revealed fear.

Judging by the appearance of the corpse, it should have been dead for quite some time.

Zheng Shu looked at the scene in front of him and was silent for a while, but finally sighed, picked up a long knife on the thief next to him, squatted down and dug on the ground.

There are many tree roots in the underground of the forest, which are intertwined and quite hard, and it will be very laborious for ordinary people to dig up, but fortunately, Zheng Shu's strength is strong enough, and when he encounters a stubborn enough root system, he can also use the spirit of words to release highly compressed flame rays to cut off the roots, so it didn't take long for a big pit to dig out.

"May you have eternal rest in the underworld." After Zheng Shu buried the bodies of several of the victims, he put down some fried flour in front of the graves.

After placing the cooked flour on the grave and drawing a symbol representing Hades around it, Zheng Shu closed his eyes and bowed respectfully to the dough: "Dedicate this object to Hades and thank you for your maintenance of the underworld." ”

This time, he rarely did not worship all the gods, but simply chose Hades, the god who rules the underworld, as the object of worship. However, he did not put forward specific requirements for Hades, and the purpose of his worship was probably just a simple mentality of "many people are not to blame" as a countryman.

After doing this, Zheng Shu turned to the bushes on the other side, where he saw a horse that had been killed, and a carriage that had been almost decomposed.

With a frown, Zheng Shu decisively ran in the direction pointed by the thief.

Since no other property was seen, it means that there are other thieves alive besides these people. Although it is known that most of these thieves will only kill pedestrians on the road, they will generally simply loot the property of the villages that also live here.

But after seeing those few words of miserable corpses, Zheng Shu still had some uneasy feelings.

The human mind is very fragile, and in the face of such a simple power of life and death, it is easy to fall into the emotion of killing for pleasure for no reason. Zheng Shu was very familiar with this point, because he had experienced such a change of mentality in the dragon world.

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With Zheng Shu's speed, it didn't take long to reach the village that the thieves said.

Glancing at it from a distance, Zheng Shu breathed a sigh of relief, and the speed on his feet slowed down, because he didn't see the miserable situation in the village that he imagined.

As Zheng Shu slowly approached the village, he saw from a distance that the guards in the village suddenly ran inside quickly, as if to inform something.

When Zheng Shu walked to the door of the village, he found that a large group of people in the village were already waiting for him at the door to greet him.

"Welcome, hero, did you also come to our village to fight the thieves?" A trembling old man came out of the crowd, looked at Zheng Shu and asked very respectfully.

Of course, although he is said to be an old man, Zheng Shu estimates that his age is only about fifty years old, but his body is on the verge of collapse due to years of hard work, and his appearance has become very old.

Zheng Shu glanced at his dress, and did not deny the old man's speculation about his identity, after all, in this era, most heroes are dressed like Zheng Shu, holding a huge weapon, and wandering around like a street runner.

"No, I just passed by because I was traveling." Zheng Shu shook his head and looked at the group of villagers behind the old man who were obviously uneasy, "You should be the head of this village, I want to spend the night in your village, and buy some more food by the way, of course...... I'll pay. ”

As he spoke, Zheng Shu took out a few silver coins from the pocket he hung on his waist and showed them.

Although it didn't take long, Zheng Shu basically figured out that many "heroes" don't spend money on food and accommodation in the village.

Of course, it is not so much that the villagers volunteered to worship, but that they were forced to hand over the protection money because of the power of the "heroes".

Hearing that Zheng Shu was willing to pay, the villagers' expressions immediately softened a lot. After all, the heroes are all pot-bellied, and sometimes a team of heroes can have a banquet and wipe the food of the entire village for a week.

Therefore, in most cases, as long as the disaster in their village is not too severe, they will not take the initiative to seek the hero's help.

Just like this time, if it weren't for the fact that the leader of the bandit group around him didn't know what was wrong recently, and suddenly became extremely tyrannical, and even asked each village to take the initiative to sacrifice people, this village would not have chosen to pool a sum of money with several surrounding villages to go to the city and invite heroes to help them deal with the bandits.

"No problem, please come in! Heroes are the objects of our admiration, and naturally, we are willing to entertain you. The village chief cautiously invited Zheng Shu to the village.

The scale of this village is much smaller than the one Zheng Shu went to at the beginning.

Not only does the surrounding fence look very low, but the houses in the village are also very dilapidated, most of them are simply wooden houses made of some thatch and branches, and there are very few houses that can be built of stone and earth.

Taking Zheng Shu to the only few stone houses in the village, the village chief very respectfully led him to one of the houses: "This hero, as you can see, our village is not very rich, this house is one of the best houses in our village, I hope you don't dislike it." ”

Zheng Shu glanced at the somewhat dark and narrow room and didn't say anything, just nodded, and handed over a silver coin in his hand: "Yes, it's much better than when I was sleeping in the open air, please help me get some food, this silver coin is my accommodation fee and meal money." ”

Seeing that Zheng Shu actually paid for himself, the village chief was a little flattered and took the silver coin with both hands and nodded repeatedly: "Okay!" Good! Please wait a minute, the food will be delivered to you right away. ”

Seeing the village chief leave quickly, Zheng Shu put his luggage aside and sat on the only bed in the room and waited.

But before the food could be delivered, Zheng Shuji heard a commotion at the head of the village.

Seeing that the villagers had gathered towards the village again, Zheng Shu walked out of the room with some curiosity and followed, and then he saw a large group of strangely dressed heroes returning from the jungle.

The muscles of these heroes are unusually muscular, and they look in stark contrast to the emaciated villagers around them, and each hero has several bloody human heads hanging from their bodies, and the blood on the incision must have been cut off not long ago.

Far from being disgusted in the slightest, these heroes were very happy when they held the head, as if it were not the head but their own exploits.

"Hahaha! See, the village chief? I have fulfilled your commission perfectly, and from now on your village will no longer have to worry about being oppressed by this thief, and we have defeated the entire gang of thieves! The leader was an unusually strong-looking strong man, with his big knife in one hand, laughing and shaking the dead heads in his hands.

The blood that was thrown out splashed on his face, looking at the hideous heads in front of him, the village chief almost fell to the ground with a weak foot.

However, he still forced a smile, and took out a bag full of money from his back with a slumped body: "Thank you very much for your help, Heroes, this is the reward that several villages around us have prepared together, I hope you can be satisfied." ”

"Hahaha! Don't be so polite, it's our duty as heroes to help civilians! The strong man said this, but after seeing the money bag, he immediately threw the head in his hand and snatched the money bag in the village chief's hand.

After weighing his weight slightly, the strong man's face showed a satisfied expression, but after opening it, his originally happy face suddenly became gloomy: "Village Chief, your number doesn't seem right, right?" Why is there all copper coins in the bag? ”

Looking at the other party's sinking face, the village chief almost stopped jumping in his heart, and could only explain strongly: "Hero...... That's what we said at the beginning...... Of course! As a thank you for your help, we have an extra silver coin, which is the last money in the villages around us, after all, most of the belongings have been robbed by thieves. ”

Seeing that the face of the strong man opposite was wrong, the village chief immediately took out the silver coin that Zheng Shu had given him just now from his arms.

Looking at the face of the strong man in front of him, he looked a little better, in fact, he didn't plan to get anything good from this village, after all, he knew that these villages were ridiculously poor, and being able to scare out an extra silver coin already made him feel very profitable.

From the very beginning, he had his eye on the wealth that the thieves had accumulated over the years.

As for the fact that some of these treasures should have belonged to these villagers, the strong man naturally ignored them, after all, for him, these treasures were the trophies of his crusade against the thieves, and he deserved it.

"Village Chief, you're so polite!" The strong man laughed and took the silver coin into his hand, and waved his hand to the people behind him, "Brothers, go!" We're going to have a banquet tonight! ”

"Oh!!"

With the chaotic cheers, the strong man threw the head in his hand in front of the village chief and swaggered into the village. And the group of heroes behind him followed his example, dropped their heads, and walked to the village with captured treasures or weapons.

Looking at the "heroes" who walked into the village, the village chief's face was a little sad, since these people said that they were going to hold a banquet, then they must eat and drink.

But with the character of these people, they will definitely not pay for the food and drinks that need to be consumed for the banquet. The village chief and the villagers did not dare to disobey the orders of these heroes, so in the end they gritted their teeth and divided a part of their rations to "voluntarily give" them.

(End of chapter)