Chapter 22: Cooperation
Between jokes, the carriage drove into the Blood Maple Forest.
The Blood Maple Forest, which stretches for nearly a thousand miles, is composed of thousands of waist-thick maple trees, and even the surrounding majestic mountains are covered by the maple forest. Whenever the sun sets, the sun shines on the maple forest, and as far as the eye can see, it is like a sea of blood. At the same time, there are often murders and bloody cases in this maple forest, so it is named "blood maple forest".
Although the Blood Maple Forest is notorious, this passage in the maple forest is the only way to go from south to north, and if you want to be safe, you must make a detour thousands of miles away, which is unbearable for many people, so you have to pass through here.
Ordinary people just pay it back, thinking that they have a cheap life, and they don't have much money on them, so they are not afraid of being robbed, but those rich merchants can't do it, and for the sake of property and their lives, they can only spend money to hire warriors to protect them.
At the same time that Ye Luo's carriage entered the Blood Maple Forest, several other teams followed, including ordinary people passing by, merchants transporting goods, and a team of seven or eight warriors.
That team of warriors, there were men and women, old and young, and most of them cultivated between the two-star realm and the three-star realm, each of them riding a tall horse, carrying swords and swords, and two archers among them. They had the smell of blood on their bodies, and their eyes were full of spirit and intimidating between their glances.
"Judging from experience, this should be a small beast hunting group specializing in hunting spirit beasts. Ye Meng glanced at the martial arts team a few times and said in a low voice.
For the martial artists on the continent, the spirit beast is a treasure. Its meat is delicious, far better than the taste of ordinary poultry and beasts, and it is often eaten, and it has unexpected benefits for enhancing the physique of the warrior and improving the strength of the warrior......
There are countless warriors on the continent who make a living by hunting and killing spirit beasts, but the spirit beasts are fierce, and it is not easy to hunt and kill, and there are countless warriors who die in the mouth of spirit beasts every year. Despite this, the high returns still attract a large number of warriors to join.
"Hunting a low-level spirit beast, even if it is the weakest low-level spirit beast in the tenth year, it can sell thousands of spirit coins, no wonder so many martial artists enter the deep mountains and old forests to hunt spirit beasts. Ye Xiu'er sighed and said, "Let's take our Ye family as an example, in order to make the clansmen live a better life, every half a year, the warriors in the clan will form a team to enter the Golden Dragon Mountain to hunt spirit beasts, and there are often clansmen killed and injured because of this, but for the sake of the whole family, no one complains, and they still go forward to ......."
The Ye family, where Ye Luo and the three of them are located, has a population of thousands and is considered a big family in the town, and usually only relies on small businesses such as planting medicine gardens and selling elixirs to feed so many people, which is really a bit stretched, so the family has to organize more than a dozen warriors in the clan every year to go into the mountains to hunt spirit beasts to subsidize the use of the clan.
The martial artists of the Ye family were originally the children of the Ye family of some major sects in the vicinity, and after they reached a certain age, they could not continue to make progress in the martial arts, so they would choose to withdraw from the sect gang they belonged to, return to the family, and dedicate their spare heat to the family.
The Ye family's martial arts team went into the mountains to hunt spirit beasts, and if they were lucky, they could hunt a few low-cost spirit beasts with ** in the middle of the class; if they were unlucky, they would not only return empty-handed, but they might also have clansmen killed or injured, and this situation happened almost every year.
"If I can't move forward on the path of martial arts in the future, I will also return to the clan and work with those martial artists in the clan to fight for a better life for the clansmen!" Ye Meng said with a wave of his fist.
Ye Luo patted Ye Meng on the shoulder and said, "Brother Ye Meng, I am optimistic about you, your future will be bright! When one day you become a powerhouse in the Moon Realm, and even enter a higher realm, at that time, our Ye family, do you still need to worry about life?"
Ye Meng's eyes lit up, and he said, "That's what I said! Okay, in the future, I will add monks to cultivate hard and work hard to create a better future for everyone in the family!"
After entering the depths of the Blood Maple Forest, the mountain road became more and more uneven, and the speed of the carriage had to be reduced, and the coachman in front of him cursed and constantly complained about the mountain road.
The team of warriors who followed behind Ye Luo's three-person carriage looked vigilantly into the maple forests on both sides of the mountain road, some even with swords in their hands, on high alert, as if there would be bandits rushing out from both sides at any time.
Ye Meng chuckled and said, "Look at them nervous! There are seven or eight of them, and they are all two-star realm and three-star realm martial artists, even if there are bandits, they are too scared to come out!"
At this moment, Ye Luo suddenly felt more than a dozen true yuan fluctuations, these true yuan fluctuations came from the depths of the maple forest, obviously there were warriors ambushed in it, he frowned slightly, and said to Ye Meng and Ye Xiu'er in a deep voice: "Someone is ambushing, you are careful!"
Ye Meng poked his head out, looked to the side, and said with a smile: "Where is there anyone!Ye Luo, are you scaring yourself......
Before he could finish speaking, he heard a "whoosh" sound, and a sharp arrow burst through the air and shot towards his poked head.
The speed of the arrow was extremely fast, and it was close in the blink of an eye, and it was too late for Ye Meng to retract his head, and he couldn't help but be frightened.
Ye Luo was about to make a move, when he suddenly saw a flash of black mang, and then he heard the sound of "dang" metal striking in his ears, and when he looked at it, the sharp arrow that came from the back was knocked to the ground by another sharp arrow from behind.
The person who saved Ye Meng was an archer in the warrior team in the rear. The archer is a woman, two years old, and she is also a three-star realm martial artist, between her eyebrows, there is a vigorous and heroic spirit, although her appearance is not as good as Ye Xiu'er, but she can be regarded as a beauty.
"Thank you!" Ye Luo stretched out his hand to pull the stunned Ye back into the carriage, and then bowed his hand to the female archer to express his gratitude.
The female archer nodded, smiled slightly, and then looked warily towards the maple forest on the left. The arrow that shot at Ye Meng's head just now came from that direction.
A rapid gong sounded on both sides of the mountain road, and with the sound of gongs, hundreds of bandits armed with swords, guns, swords, and axes shouted "Wow Wow", rushed out of the maple forest, and surrounded several teams on the mountain road.
"My mother, why did so many bandits suddenly appear?" Ye Meng's eyes widened, and his face was shocked.
"There are actually more than a dozen martial artists, most of them are from the three-star realm, and this is troublesome...... Ye Xiu'er's face changed slightly.
Not only them, but even the warriors in the several teams that followed behind also changed color.
Several teams on their side, the number of warriors adds up to about twenty people, it is a force that should not be underestimated, according to common sense, ordinary bandits, will never dare to stand in the way and rob, but at this moment, among the hundreds of bandits surrounding them, there are more than a dozen warriors, and most of them are three-star realm martial artists, no wonder they are so bold.
What made Ye Meng and the others even more frightened was that the dozen or so martial artists on the bandit side, the two leading ones, although one was short and thin like a monkey, the other was fat like a pig, and they looked strange, but they all had four-star realm cultivation, plus hundreds of bandits, the momentum was quite huge.
Ye Luo, Ye Meng, and Ye Xiu'er jumped out of the carriage, leaning on their backs, and the true yuan flowed, ready to deal with the attack of the bandits.
As for the coachman, no one cares about his life or death at the moment of the great enemy.
It's just that no one would have thought that just when everyone was nervous and confronted the bandits, the coachman sat there for a long time, and his eyes under the straw hat showed a touch of cruelty.
Ye Luo's gaze glanced at the coachman, intentionally or unintentionally, and his expression was a little more solemn.
The seven or eight warriors of the beast hunting group behind them, after exchanging glances with each other, quickly approached Ye Luo's side, one of them was a thin man in his forties, who seemed to be the leader of this martial arts team, his gaze directly locked on Ye Luo, and said to Ye Luo in a low and fast voice: "This little brother, the bandits are powerful, if we fight separately, I am afraid that we will be broken by each of us, and it will be difficult to escape death! At present, only cooperation can have a glimmer of life! What does the little brother think?"
The thin man has the peak cultivation of the three-star realm, and he is the strongest person in this martial arts team, but he secretly observed Ye Luo and the three just now, and he couldn't see through Ye Luo's strength, guessing that this young man's strength must surpass his own, so he naturally regarded Ye Luo as the most powerful one among the three.
There are many bandits, if they rush up, the others will just be able to fight back, and they will not pose a threat to Ye Luo and the others, but the dozen or so bandit warriors, especially the two four-star realm martial artists, are difficult to deal with, and among the bandits, there are still a few archers ambushed on the side, although Ye Luo is fearless and confident that he can fight his way out of the encirclement, but Ye Meng and Ye Xiu'er are difficult to say, if they are not careful, they may die.
"Okay! Those two four-star realm bandits, I'll deal with them! The other bandits, I'll leave it to you! Brother Ye Meng, Sister Xiu'er, be careful yourself!"
After Ye Luo finished speaking, he let out a long roar, and his body swept away, rushing towards the two four-star realm thieves, one fat and one thin.
The thin man was secretly surprised when he saw Ye Luo going to deal with the two four-star realm thieves alone, I don't know if he has that strength, but at this time, he also knew that he couldn't hesitate, otherwise it would only be a bad thing, so he shouted: "Brothers and sisters, kill!"
With an order, he and the seven warriors around him rushed out together, killing more than a dozen bandits with the strength of the Star Realm.
"Xiu'er, let's go too!"
Ye Meng's eyes burned with fierce fighting intent, the tiger roared, picked up his fist, and blasted away the nearest bandit with a punch, and then laughed "haha", rushed into the bandits, rushed left and right, and fought like a crazy fight.
There are about a dozen warriors hired by several other caravans, but these warriors are of average strength, and their purpose is to protect the property of the gold owner from being violated, so they do not take the initiative to fight with the bandits, but only sacrifice swords and other blades to guard the trucks around to prevent the bandits from robbing.
Although most of the warriors among the bandits were entangled by Ye Luo and the others, there were still a few people who led a group of bandits to dance swords and slash their swords and rush towards their truck, and the scene suddenly fell into a scuffle.