"Phew!"

Unexpectedly, this halfling's temper was quite hard.

He spat out a large mouthful of blood at Chen Xuan's front door.

Chen just turned his head slightly and dodged this sudden "attack".

Even during interrogation, he maintained a state of openness and supersensory vision.

The guy in front of him, who had thick hair on his hands and feet, but was only as tall as his waist, had a generous and righteous expression on his face, and even grinned, showing his blood-stained teeth.

This made the atmosphere of the scene a little weird.

Chen Xuan seemed to have changed from a counteractor to a vicious villain in an instant.

He dropped the halfling scout at Beria's feet and gave her a look.

The next moment, Beria walked out of the ruins with a halfling.

Soon there was a scream outside.

At this time, Chen Xuan looked at the black-hat scout Marcelo whose arms had been cut off.

Took out a sixteen-inch two-stroke gasoline saw that had not been used for a long time.

After the pull, slowly approach his head.

"What about you?"

"Answer the question, or do you carry it?"

His tone was slow, and the chainsaw in his hand alternated and stalled.

The tungsten steel chain stirs up air currents when it turns on the guide, and there is a faint smell of blood on it.

"Uhh

Marcello groaned, his face pale.

A severed limb is not so easy to bear.

If you are an ordinary person, even blood loss is enough to kill you.

"I... After I said that, can you let me go? ”

Chen Xuan shook his head and replied softly.

"No, but you can die a happy death."

"Ahh Kill me! ”

The halfling scout outside let out a scream of pain, then was interrupted again, and could only make a sound begging for death.

To be soft on the enemy is to be ruthless to oneself.

Chen Xuan did not have too much psychological burden on this.

Of course, he was not interested in torturing himself, so the matter was left to the professionals.

The twin flowers from Zerican, Dora Beria will surely solve this problem perfectly.

Different customs and personalities shape different worldviews.

Perhaps the cruelty in his eyes was just a sparse and ordinary thing in the eyes of some fighting peoples.

Screaming, screaming, begging for death.

The movement from outside quickly broke Marcelo's will.

Marisol, who was beside this guy, chose to close her eyes and wait for death to come.

"I say! Please give us a good time! ”

"Entrusted us with spying on her..."

When Marcelo said this, his eyes looked at Ophelia, who was standing behind.

After a pause, he continued.

"It's... It's Ansetus Axo! ”

As soon as these words came out, the half-elf eldest lady was immediately stunned.

Her body trembled, her mouth slightly open, and she staggered to collapse.

Fortunately, Rebecca and Yucca were quick to hold her in time.

Chen Xuan could understand Ophelia's feelings.

She lost her mother at a young age, lived in the shadow of her stepmother in her childhood, and was harassed by her perverted brother when she was young.

Her father, Ansetus, was her only support.

It is a solid mountain in her heart.

What Marcelo, the black-hat scout, said was clearly a landslide for her.

"Are you sure?"

Chen Xuan asked again with a chainsaw.

At the same time, observing his detailed reactions, lies are most likely to be flawed after repetition.

Therefore, for many liars, the first lie is the most firm and natural.

"I... I'm pretty sure! ”

"If you don't believe me... You can flip my chest. ”

"There's a raven letter in the pocket there that hasn't been sent yet."

"Ansetus also... Others were also hired to track down his wife. ”

Marcello's breath was a little short.

Chen Xuan didn't think he was lying.

But it doesn't matter, you just need to see the evidence to know the answer.

Without him having to rummage through it himself, the little cat lady had already stepped forward and used the tip of the rune dagger to pick open the belt of his leather armor and open the hidden pocket inside.

Sure enough, there was a raven letter and a raven whistle.

After Rebecca checked it, she handed over the letter scroll and whistle to Chen Xuan.

He held the gasoline chainsaw in one hand and the whistle in the palm of the other, pinched the letter scroll with his fingers, and smoothed it out with his thumb.

As a small message transmitted through ravens, it is long and narrow, and can only record simple messages.

The above is simple:

【Itinerary from the 1st to the 3rd Water Clock of the Dawn: Eastern District Adventurers Association, No. 12 Glen Commercial Street, Bangcheng Blacksmiths Association, Water Spirit Baths, ......]

This is a travel record, a rough account of Ophelia's trip today.

There is nothing about Ansetus on the credible volume.

But soon Chen Xuan remembered the crow whistle.

This thing is usually one crow with three whistles, and each raven will only be attracted to the fixed whistle that he has been accustomed to since childhood.

The whistle is inscribed with a simple induction rune, which, when blown, will cause a reaction from the rune tag worn around the crow's neck, and the trained raven will follow the induction.

The closer you get, the more intense the reaction to the tags and crow whistles.

But the effective distance is only twenty or thirty kilometers at most.

This is the answer given by Insight, and there is no possibility of deception.

So Chen Xuan stuffed the whistle into Marcelo's mouth.

"Blow it."

Willing to take the initiative to explain, Marcelo knows what to do.

He blew it directly, and at the same time as the whistle sounded, the runes engraved on it also shone slightly.

The next thing to do is to wait.

Less than a minute later, the flapping of wings could be heard outside.

Soon a fat raven landed on Marcelo's shoulder.

It stared blankly at the crowd and piggybacked on a mouthful of red flesh from Marcelo's shoulder wound.

The kitten mother quickly grabbed its neck.

It can be seen that it has colchicum markings on its leg rings, as well as single-digit markings.

There was a new reply scroll on the letterbox.

[Watch out for her friends, don't hurt her]

Ophelia's expression immediately changed from sluggishness to sadness when she saw the familiar handwriting.

Tears flowed down her cheeks, but there was no hysterical crying.

The raven is pinched to death, and it will be disposed of later along with the other corpses.

Chen Xuan then asked him a few more questions.

Got a lot of information.

The scouts' remuneration was settled by one of the stewards of the Colchicum Merchant Order.

They were employed by two Naroa days, after Haward's accident.

It was at that time that Ophelia discovered the Stalker.

In addition, Marcelo also explained that the two Naroyazhne colchidian merchant groups recalled all the guards.

They also used secret channels to secretly gather mercenaries and adventurer squads in several taverns run by the merchants.

In addition to the four urban caravans of the east, west, south and north, the colchicum merchant group.

Its core, that is, the caravan named colchicum, is the essence of the entire caravan.

All personnel movements and accounts are in the hands of Ansetus.

It has four exclusive trade routes, 17 open trade routes, more than 300 horses responsible for pulling carts alone, and countless vehicles and vehicles.

Originally, Harward Akso would first train in the caravan in the southern district, and when he got married, he would inherit the main inheritance of the colchicum caravan.

In comparison, the Caravan of Region 4 could not even reach a tenth of the size of the core caravan.

Needless to say.

Chen Xuan asked Rebecca to give them a good time.

During this time, Beria also returned from outside.

The halfling scout was clicked by her.

And she also brought back a small money bag and storage bag, a crossbow, two rune steel cones,

Touching corpses is a good habit, and the two sisters don't need to be trained in this regard at all.

After all, they were Zerican women.

In that place full of ferocious species, the people began to learn hunting knowledge at the age of six, formally began to practice swordsmanship with wooden knives at the age of eight, changed to real knives at the age of ten, and participated in hunting at the age of twelve.

The monsters failed to defeat Zerikan, but instead fought like a gadfly-like slave catcher, which did bring great trouble to this clan country located in the Eastern Desert.

This shows that human beings, driven by profits, are far more difficult than monsters.

They don't have rules, they don't come out of the cave like monsters.

On the contrary, they are good at lurking, and as long as they find an opportunity, they can take advantage of the opportunity to rob the population.

The warriors of Zerikan slew down scavenging scavengers of slave catchers.

However, this not only failed to curb the trend of slave hunting, but also exacerbated the situation.

Because as the difficulty of catching slaves increases, the price of slaves will skyrocket.

This will lead to more slave hunting gangs.

The Zerikans, as strong as they are, are a minority and cannot stand alone against a multi-ethnic alliance.

So the situation faced by Zerikan is undoubtedly very embarrassing.

No matter what, the two Dora sisters are the most qualified fighters under Chen Xuan's current command!

"Master, something, I'll leave it to you!"

Beria took all the items with both hands.

Chen Xuan didn't want to waste more time here, so he directly put it away first.

In addition, two storage bags were found from the bodies of Marcello and Marisol.

Among them are some commonly used low-grade potions, deodorant powders, and some things that eliminate traces.

Their corpses were easy to dispose of.

Piled directly in the ruins.

Chen Xuan took out a few small gas cylinders from the storage compartment and threw them on top of the corpse.

These are used in gas nail shooters.

After finishing the matter, everyone retreated away, and Chen Xuan cast a spell to build a [Burst Fireball] to bombard the gas cylinder.

When the scorching fireball exploded, several gas cylinders detonated one after another, and the flames expanded and spread along the jet of flammable gas, engulfing everything around them in an instant!

After the deflagration subsided, the pile of corpses burned.

The air was filled with a pungent scorching stench.

"Get ready!"

Chen Xuan greeted.

Three bikes were brought together.

In another red-doted minefield in the ruins, there are still four or five broadsword mines that have not yet been detonated.

Just as everyone was staying by the wall behind the ruins and had not yet had time to set off, they suddenly noticed the sound of the garrison running forward in small formations.

The sound of military boots hitting the ground converges and is still quite crisp and eye-catching.

Luck was shattered, and the ubiquitous garrison still came!

The situation in the North District is similar to that in the West District, which is not a popular direction in the city.

The last time I was in Stinky Mouse Alley, there were poor people living nearby.

The reason why the garrison came late this time was relatively late.

The main thing is because of the ruins that burned down half a block.

Therefore, Chen Xuan and others have more time and room for buffering.

After all, not every garrison in the city was a rider on a lightly armed horse.

In fact, the light cavalry battalion in Magdam did not even have one-twentieth of the total number of garrisons.

I also have to go out a lot to investigate monsters.

Including the destruction of the farm, it was also the light riders who took the lead in the investigation.

Military horses are a money-burning thing.

It costs more than raising a sergeant.

As for the infantry team, Chen Xuan didn't pay attention to it.

More than ten minutes have passed since the first M18A1 Broadsword mine was detonated.

It is enough to prove that this place is indeed a dead end in the North District.

In an emergency, Chen had to take special measures to run away.

I saw that he quickly collected the three bicycles.

Then he pulled Rebecca and Ophelia to flash five hundred meters away in a straight line.

It's a no-man's corner of another laneway.

After that, he quickly returned to the same place and picked up the two sisters.

Although the distance of [Same-Domain Flash] can reach up to 800 meters, not all places are suitable for rash flashing.

This is not the end, after Chen Xuan picked everyone up.

He took out the radio detonator that was left in the minefield.

After a few "clicks" and all of them detonated, the bike was taken out again.

Three vehicles and five people quickly drove away from the scene along the new roadway.

As time went on, both of his storage compartments began to run out of stock.

Chen Xuan had too many supplies to store with him.

He thinks there is a way to improve another wave of goldfingers.

As far as storage compartments are concerned, plug-ins are no longer able to keep up with his developments.

……

The five of them rode from the North District to the West District, and found a decent tavern at random, and asked for a quiet private room for a temporary rest.

Entering the private room, Chen Xuan first released his spiritual power to sweep every corner.

After making sure that there was no hidden rune or anything like that, I beckoned everyone to sit down.

Ophelia's expression was still a little dazed.

She no longer shed tears, just silence.

Rebecca sat beside Chen Xuan and obediently reached out to wipe the black ash from his face.

The Zerican sisters hid on the other side, pulling out their previously unused pistols and disassembling the magazines as if they were playing.

"Knock knock!"

Chen Xuan suddenly reached out and gently tapped on the tabletop.

Ophelia, who was sitting across from her, raised her head.

The face with the beauty characteristics of the elf looks a little numb.

"Cheer up."

"Your father sent someone to follow you, probably aware that you have some unusual 'friends', from the previous Demon Tears, to the death of Harward, and the destruction of Moore's green leaves."

"As long as his mind is normal, he will be suspicious."

"And didn't you notice that in the raven's reply, he specifically told you not to hurt you?"

Chen Xuanyan pointed out the key points.

Judging from the behavior of tracking and surveillance, it cannot be concluded that Ansetus must have malicious intentions.

And the scouts said it, and a few others were in charge of keeping an eye on Eusula.

On top of that, the colchicum caravan is using channels to recruit troops.

This is a sign that Ansetus is accumulating force.

Whether this was aimed at Ophelia or Ursula is unknown.

His rational analysis successfully alleviated the mood of the half-elf lady.

"Master, you're right."

“……”

"Then it's time for me to report back to you."

Ophelia's tone was still a little bitter, but at least she could communicate normally.

Chen Xuan didn't say anything more, just bowed his head lightly and motioned for her to continue.

"You already know about the order of the Blacksmith Guild."

"The formation of the caravan is nearing completion, and the cumulative cost is about 9,700 crowns."

"However, the caravan cannot undertake the trade route trade in a short period of time, and can only undertake the distribution of local traveling merchants."

"The temporary workshop has also been prepared, and if you just sell magic tears and aluminum castings, there is no problem at all."

Both of these were good news, and he didn't care that the caravan couldn't trade on the trade routes, anyway, the focus wasn't there yet.

It is enough to be able to streamline the process and get the prototype of a caravan that can carry out local distribution as soon as possible to meet the short-term requirements.

In the future, we can slowly optimize and expand the size of the caravan.

Any caravan is so big, Chen Xuan has no objection to this.

After he bowed his head again, Ophelia continued, "In terms of adventurer commissions..."

"There's not so good news!"

……

(End of chapter)