Chapter 51: Punishment
This person, of course, was Li Ang, who rubbed his fists in disgust and said with great disdain: "If you dare to insult your life-saving benefactor like this, if you are not thrown into the goblin pile, you will be worthy of you." ā
Then he turned his head and said to Jeff: "In the future, don't expect to defeat this kind of person with words, but use your fists like me." ā
Jeff was just taken aback, and when he saw the person clearly, he replied respectfully with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "The head of the regiment is right, I remember." ā
"You! You dare to use force against civilians, I will go to the mercenary union to expose your evil deeds!" said the elder Malken, who was so angry that he trembled his lips, and the villagers behind him also hula hula surrounded him.
"Whatever," Li Ang waved his hand, didn't bother to bother at all, and said, "Let's continue to clean up the battlefield, this time we have lost too much." ā
"Don't touch our things!" At the elder's command, another middle-aged man stepped out.
Li Ang turned his back to them and said coldly: "I don't know if I live or die, right? No matter who it is, if you dare to come, you will end up like her." ā
The woman who fell badly had not yet gotten up with the help of the two villagers, and the others were just pretending to be empty and shouting, but no one really dared to step forward.
The villagers watched in silence at the mercenaries who were busy cleaning up the battlefield, their eyes were disgusted, angry, or indifferent, except for the few young men who had fought with them in the big goblins.
When Li Ang put away the last long sword, the middle-aged man just now spoke again: "Hurry up and leave our village when you are done with it!"
Li Ang turned his head slowly, he had been adjusting his mentality when he was slowly cleaning the battlefield just now. From the beginning of the interrogation of Mir in the Gray Town, he could have imagined the stinginess of the "employer", but he never imagined that he would be so greedy that he not only ignored the mercenary who had just given up his life, but also wanted to take the spoils of war left by the enemy for himself.
Where did the courage come from, where did the confidence come from, where did the conscience come from, where did the conscience come from, and where did the conscience come from, so much to treat the mercenaries who repelled the enemy, and how to treat the saviors who were covered with scars!
He was almost out of wrath.
But after repeating the pick-up action of searching for the loot, he gradually calmed down. Yes, this is a different world where the law of the jungle is the strongest, this is a chaotic place of constant battles and strife, where greed and cunning are the main themes, and he is not qualified to dictate what others do, only to decide for himself.
Therefore, abandon all unrealistic sympathy, and if you want to stand higher and go further here, you must not rely on ability alone, and you must have the means to actively change, rather than passively accepting.
Li Ang raised his head, looked into the old man's eyes, and said, "Not to mention that I almost forgot about it, you still owe me a reward of 4 gold coins." ā
"How can there be such a thing!" said the old man angrily.
"Mir, sue him," Leon said indifferently.
Mir, who was hiding in the crowd and praying, shuddered and looked up in a panic, only to see countless eyes on his face.
"Mir, what's going on!"
"IāI couldn't hire mercenaries in Grey Town, and I finally found them and asked me to increase the price to accept them, so I had to ......"
"You're so incompetent! And you raise the price without my consent, wait to be punished!"
The elder's angry voice made Mir's face change all the time.
Facing this scene, Li Ang was very calm, and reminded in a flat voice that could be transmitted through the audience: "You will talk about your own affairs later, give me my money first." ā
"No way! We don't have any money, and if we have, we can't give it, and this is coerced by you, and it doesn't conform to the rules of the mercenary code at all!"
"Rules?," Li Ang's voice began to be low, and the gaze in his eyes fell on the old man
"Don't talk nonsense with me again," Leon slowly drew a sword from one of the trophies, "make up my honorarium, or I'll take it myself." ā
"You, what do you want to do!" the old man was shocked and angry.
"You want to threaten the elders unless they kill us first!" the middle-aged man beside him shouted: "Everyone protect the elders, they don't dare to do anything, otherwise the mercenary union will not let them go!"
Except for a few, many people hesitated to gather around the old man, and the seven or eight young men who had been armed by Jeff before were holding long swords and reluctantly blocking the front line under the urging of the middle-aged man.
At this moment, there was a small episode, and the girl who had been kicked by Leon suddenly said loudly: "Since Mir has admitted to reaching an agreement with them, why do you have to make it to this situation?
"Shut up!" the middle-aged man scolded: "Melissa, you don't belong to the village anymore, you don't have much to do with our affairs!"
"He's really going to kill! you don't want to die!"
"You are so alarmist, are you in league with them!" said Melissa unable to persuade him to continue.
Leon began to walk forward, and as soon as he took a step, Katerina's voice came.
"Leon!"
His steps paused, "Don't stop me, Katarina. ā
If the knight girl's sense of justice is attacked, this matter will not be easy to handle, and it is impossible to have a dispute with her companions who have fought side by side many times because of one thing.
"It's not to stop you, your actions are legitimate, I just want to say that it's okay to stand up and don't indulge in killing too much. ā
"No problem. ā
It seems that in this world, the knight's belief is not to be a bad person, Li Ang showed a smile. His smile fell on Melissa's eyes, and it looked even more strange and unpredictable.
"Oh no...... The madman actually laughed...... I'm really going to kill someone...... What can you do...... Do I want to ......" Melissa didn't know what to do for a while.
Li Ang didn't pay any attention to a young girl who was struggling, he strode close to the crowd, his eyes swept over the faces of every villager, and few dared to look at him.
"Oh, forget that you still have my booty in your hands. ā
He smiled coldly, suddenly accelerated, and bypassed the crowd gathered in front of him, only to hear a crisp sound, the long swords in the hands of the young villagers were all broken in two, and several people also made a sound of breaking their arm bones because the force they were bearing was too strong.
Screams rang out one after another.
Then Li Ang didn't even launch the "charge", and went directly through the crowd brutally, and more than a dozen villagers were knocked away by his body, and almost flew upside down and fell into the valley.
His target was the middle-aged man, but when the other party saw such a scene, he immediately stepped back in a panic and let the elder Malken out.
Li Ang didn't mean to slow down at all, the tip of the sword continued to move towards the old man's chest, and suddenly a person rushed to the front, opened his hands and closed his eyes and screamed, "Don't!"
It was Melissa, she was a head shorter than the old man, the tip of the sword was hovering right at her throat, and Leon said coldly, "Do you want to take another kick?"
Melissa's neck was stimulated by the power of the long sword, and she still closed her eyes, breathing rapidly for a while before she said: "I know a crypt that contains treasures, as long as you let them go, I will take you there, I don't want anything, can't I give it to you!"
"I heard that you are no longer from this village," Li Ang's sword hand was unusually steady.
"I ...... You don't have to worry about my business!" Melissa bit her lip, "As long as you agree, I'll take you there immediately!"
The tip of the sword moved away from Melissa's throat little by little, and Leon said lightly, "I hope you didn't lie to me." ā
"I won't lie to you, and I'll be your hostage until I get my money!" said the girl stubbornly.
The old man behind the girl trembled, he swallowed a few times but couldn't speak, Li Ang's sword just now really scared him, and experience told him that if no one blocked it, this sword would definitely stab him in the chest.
What a savage mercenary! The old man couldn't wait for Leon to leave with Melissa immediately, as for whether what Melissa said was true or not, what would happen after he walked away had nothing to do with him.
Leon returns to the team, where Sofia welcomes him with a hero's eyes, and Katerina looks appreciative.
Jeff just greeted him casually, and continued to lower his head and tie up a dozen long swords, he already really regarded Leon as a regimental leader to follow, so the most appropriate way to express it at this time is to do his own thing.
"This is Melissa, and she'll take us to get the rest of the pay," Leon told the group.
They all heard Melissa's words, and they were very fond of this little girl, who was far superior to all the villagers in terms of personality and courage, and Sophia in particular ran in front of her and began to comfort her.
"Don't be afraid, our head is actually very good!"
Melissa glanced sideways at Leon, clearly not convinced.
"Really, he is brave and smart, usually very kind, and most importantly, he is a warrior!"
Melissa was a little puzzled, did the warrior have anything to do with this?
Li Ang couldn't cry or laugh.
"How old are you, Melissa?"
"15-year-old ......"
"Wow! It's really younger than me, is it okay to call me sister?" the priest girl was visibly excited.
Melissa was speechless to Sophia, but she had to admit that the success of the other party's words made her feel a lot less nervous.
"You ...... Come with me first," she said, knowing that the villagers were still standing from a distance and looking at this side, so she subconsciously didn't want to talk to the mercenaries much, at least not now.
The members of the Dawn Mercenary Regiment did not want to stay in the village for a moment, and followed Melissa directly to the northwest, along the way Sophia still talked to her from time to time, at first the girl remained silent, but then gradually she was able to respond a few words.
Caterina was a few steps behind, her slower pace showing that she was in a good mood right now, and Jeff was following closely behind with a large bag.
At the back was Leon, the "spider thorn" in his hand, and behind him hung six or seven long swords, the bright blades of which were spread out in a row behind his buttocks, like peacocks on the screen.