Chapter 10: The Journey
Ouyang Yu walked alone on the streets of Gehe, his long red hair was braided into a simple ponytail rippling at the back of his head, a pale yellow coarse cloth short-sleeved dress wrapped around his petite body, a pair of strappy sandals with wooden soles were worn on his feet, and his cute toes were exposed, dressed as an ordinary civilian girl.
The gorgeous cursed armor is not suitable for appearing in the public's field of vision, no matter how it is outside, the city is still relatively safe, so Ouyang Yu did not wear leather armor, only wore a comfortable dress, but he still pinned a dagger to his left waist just in case, and the rush necklace was also worn around his neck.
There are several reasons why she returned to Gehe Nacheng this time, one is that she has been outside for more than a month, and the food on her body is almost eaten, the other is that she has scavenged a lot of luxury goods and goods from the bandits and needs to find a place to sell, and another is that some of the bandits near Gehe Nacheng have been eliminated by her, and some of them ran away after hearing that a necromancer appeared, and she was not interested in the two or three remaining kittens, so she wanted to scourge the bandits near other cities, and Ouyang Yu, who was not familiar with the road, hoped to go with the caravan escorted by the Double Sword Mercenary Group, so that he would not be alone on the road and too boring, and the last thing was to come back to see Mrs. Marne's family。
Ouyang Yu came to the shopping street to buy some gifts before coming to Mrs. Marne's house, and was warmly welcomed by Mrs. Marne and her daughter Christina.
Mrs. Ma took Ouyang Yu's hand and asked her vigorously if she had suffered outside, whether she had been bullied, how she ate, and whether she slept well. Just like a mother to her daughter, she was afraid that she would not be able to stand it outside.
Ouyang Yu was very touched that someone was so good to him, she responded with a smile to what Mrs. Ma said, Mrs. Ma nagged for a long time, and then cooked a hearty meal for Ouyang Yu.
The next day, Ouyang Yu came to the Shuangjian Mercenary Group, found the head of the regiment and explained that he wanted to take a ride to other cities, and the head of the regiment readily agreed, anyway, the mercenary group will also bring some people who go to other places when escorting the caravan, but these people have to charge and don't care about food, Ouyang Yu is free of charge for food and lodging, after all, the sandbag training ground still owes her a favor.
The mercenary group set off five days later, and Ouyang Yu has been staying at Mrs. Maen's house for the past five days, helping her with housework, chatting with her or sewing clothes.
On the day of departure, it was inevitable that there would be another tearful farewell, Ouyang Yu comforted Mrs. Marne for a long time before Mrs. Marne stopped her tears, and then got into the carriage arranged by the mercenary group and headed towards Binonde City in the territory of the Weigel Empire.
This time, more than 600 people of the escort Shuangjian mercenary group were dispatched except for the guards, and the number of caravans escorted was as high as 1,000 people, and more than 200 carriages formed a long convoy, and it was difficult to see the other from one end.
Ouyang Yu sat in a freight carriage in the middle of the convoy, six or seven male mercenaries around the carriage were surrounding her to offer courtesy, and the people of Ouyang Yu's mercenary group were still relatively familiar, when she was practicing swordsmanship, there were many people who had ideas for her in every way, singing, flowers, expressing determination, everything, but Ouyang Yu didn't care, and later she left the mercenary group to eliminate the bandits and didn't know where to go, and it also made many young people who had a soft spot heartbroken, and now the goddess appeared again, those sao years, no, it was a teenager, and he saw the opportunity, so he surrounded him, and Ouyang Yu was tired of it, but because of the face of the head of the mercenary group, it is not easy to refuse directly, so he can only deal with it in the name of Ha Luha.
"Miss Ouyang, this is the flower I picked for you, please smell it." ”
"Miss Ouyang, please let me sing you a song to relieve your loneliness on the road. ”
"Miss Ouyang, this is a family heirloom from my mother, please be sure to accept it. ”
Miss Ouyang ....... ”
Miss Ouyang ....... ”
"What are you doing here? It's the time of the mission, what kind of system are you all gathered around here! If you don't leave, all of them will be deducted from this outing allowance!"
Hearing this, the teenagers immediately scattered and disappeared into the ranks.
"Thank you, Uncle Brian. Ouyang Yu smiled gratefully at Brian, who had driven away those annoying ghosts.
Brian laughed and teased, "Hahaha...... Don't thank me, our Miss Vidnina is so charming that I've been attracted to them, and I'm going to have to get rid of them so I can talk to you alone. ”
Ouyang Yu was amused by Brian, and she said, "Aren't you afraid that I will tell Aunt Ram this sentence? ”
Brian is well known in the mercenary group for his fear of the inner mercenary group, he likes to drink and is always drunk, he is often chased and beaten by his wife Ram with a rolling pin, and after the beating, he will be punished to kneel on the washboard until midnight before letting him enter the house, this kind of thing will appear in the family compound of the mercenary group twice in three days.
Brian said nonchalantly, "Kneel and kneel, I'm used to kneeling a lot anyway, so I went out of my way to talk to the beautiful and kind Miss Vidnina." ”
"Ha Lu Ha ......!" × N, including Ouyang Yu, the people around him laughed when they heard this.
Brian was not ashamed, but proud, pretending to be arrogant and said loudly: "Laugh, you laugh, you are envious of the happy and beautiful life between me and Ram, I am not afraid of my wife, I love my wife, only a man who is afraid of his wife will really love his wife, he is a good man, you all have to learn from me!
"Haha......ha×ha
After a five-day trek, the convoy arrived safely at the nearest frontier city, the city of Barevy, the permanent fief of Marquis Cid Barevia, the commander of the Fourth Legion of the Vigel Empire, where the convoy would rest for the rest for a day, during which some short merchants would leave the convoy, but some local merchants would join the convoy.
On the third day of arriving at Barevi City, the convoy that had just opened the city gates set off again in the morning, heading for Graham City, which was a seven-day journey to the next destination.
The mercenaries of the Double Sword Mercenary Group were a lot nervous on this section of the road, constantly observing the surroundings, the section of the road that came to Barewei City before was almost extinct because of Ouyang Yu's sweep of the bandits, so the mercenary group seemed to be relatively relaxed, but there were many bandits on this road, and the mercenaries naturally increased their vigilance, and even Ouyang Yu was fully armed and put on leather armor and a Qingfeng sword around his waist.
A caravan of more than 1,000 people, the general small and medium-sized bandits do not dare to move, and the mercenary group is not afraid of these small fish and shrimp, what they are afraid of is those large bandit groups with thousands of people, every time they pass through the dangerous terrain, they will arrange scouts to explore the road first, and they will pass only after making sure that there is no problem.
Towards noon on the fourth day of departure from Barevi City, the convoy had just made a big turn, and the mercenaries in charge of reconnaissance in front of them hurried back to report that there were bandits blocking the road, and there were many of them, almost two thousand.
Hearing the news, the head of the mercenary group immediately rode to the front of the convoy to negotiate with the bandits, and Ouyang Yu also followed curiously.
The convoy was now at the corner of a wooded field, with a forest on one side and a meadow on the other, and the bandits had placed a lot of obstacles on the road around the corner, and then stood there blatantly.
The regimental commander rode close to the bandit and shouted, "I am the leader of the Twin Swords Mercenary Regiment, Samuta Keith, please come out!"
A large man in half-body armor and a heavy sword took a few steps forward and shouted, "I am Pierre Relo, the leader of the Forest Brothers Bandits!
Captain Keith dismounted and walked to ten meters in front of Lei Luo and said: "Commander Lei Luo stopped us presumably just to ask for money, brother, I will send fifty gold coins to buy the road, I wonder if Captain Lei Luo can get out of the way?"
Lei Luo said loudly with a big hand: "Fifty is not good! Fifty of my brothers is too little, at least a hundred! If you don't give it to ourselves, you will rob it, don't blame me for being ruthless under the sword when the time comes!"
Captain Keith smiled slightly and said unhurriedly: "One hundred is too much, sixty, the swords in the hands of the soldiers of our Double Sword Mercenary Regiment are also opened, if you don't believe Captain Lei Luo, you can try it." After saying that, his green vindictive spirit flashed for a moment, and then he turned his head and shouted, "Miss Widrina, please express yourself too!"
Ouyang Yu, who was shouted, inexplicably asked Brian beside him, "What does it mean?"
Brian whispered in her ear: "Please cast a random magic spell on the clearing, be careful, don't hit the bandits on the other side, otherwise this negotiation will really turn into a bloody battle." ”
"Oh......! I see, you just want me to deter and suppress the other party, right?"
"That's right. ”
Ouyang Yu thought about it for a while, pretended to whisper a magic spell that he didn't know, and then released a fireball of fire-type third-level magic beads on a small hill more than three hundred meters away on the right.
Sixty small fireballs appeared in front of Ouyang Yu out of thin air, and then under her control, they scrambled towards the small hillside, "Boom, ......boom, boom!" After the deafening explosion, the surface of the small hill was blown out of dense craters, and there was no intact place.
"Shhhh......h The bandits collectively took a breath of cold air, if these fireballs fell into the middle of their team, they would kill at least two or three hundred people, they didn't expect that this little-known little mercenary group would have such a powerful magician, and the mercenaries of the Double Sword Mercenary Group were also taken aback, although they knew that Ouyang Yu was a magician, but they all thought that he was a magic apprentice or a low-level magician, but they didn't expect that he would be a powerful high-level magician, which made many young people who were interested in Ouyang Yu extinguish their love for her, because they were just low-level warriors like weeds on the side of the road, and they were definitely not worthy of a high-level magician from a noble backgroundAlthough there are also love that does not take into account the identities of both parties, this kind of couple will be opposed by both families and the people around them, and there are very few who are truly happy, and most of them end in tragedy.
There are very few mages in the homeland continent, and the ratio of warriors to warriors is 1000:1, it is usually the object of competition between major countries or big nobles, and magicians need a lot of resources to learn magic or study magic, they are also happy to serve a certain country or big nobles to obtain resources, if the children of the noble family are tested to have magical talents, they will definitely find a way to give a magician to be an apprentice, if it is a commoner, it doesn't matter, there will be a lot of nobles rushing to help him pay tuition to take care of his parents, but after completing his studies, he will serve for twenty years for the nobles who help him pay for tuition.
The profession of magician is a promising profession, and it rarely appears in the field of vision of ordinary people, and all bandits would never think that a little girl in leather armor would be a powerful magician.
Seeing Ouyang Yu's move, Lei Luo's arrogance disappeared all of a sudden, not only was he not arrogant, but he cautiously accompanied the smiling face and said to the head of Keith: "Tolls and everything are all jokes, in the future, your group will pass through here without a single copper, and immediately move the barricades!"
Captain Keith, who took advantage of Ouyang Yu's majesty, was very aware of the world's feelings, and he said: "This is not good, the rules are the rules, and the toll must be paid, I think it will be sixty-five gold coins, after all, we will often deal with each other in the future." ”
"Alright, alright, do whatever you say. Lei Luo replied with a smile on his face.
The two returned to their respective teams after chatting a few words without nutrition, and the team was able to move forward smoothly.
When Captain Keith came back, Ouyang Yu asked suspiciously: "Commander, we can obviously beat this gang of bandits, why do we have to give them money?"
Captain Keith smiled and explained: "Miss Widnina, your achievements in magic are indeed high, but you are still young after all, many of you don't know what to do, our mercenary group is only 500 people, if you fight all the way to the past, where are so many lives to fight?" So six points in our line of work rely on connections, three points rely on face, and one point depends on fighting, and giving money to the bandits is also to have a good relationship with them, so that they will not kill us in the future, and besides......" Captain Keith whispered in Ouyang Yu's ear: " Besides, the money is not from us, it is from those businessmen, do you want to use their money to buy our face so good?"
"Hehehe...... Captain, you can be really bad. ”
"Aha...... Go ahead!"
After another three days of travel, the convoy finally entered Graham without danger.