"I thought to myself that this was a good idea. The contents of the Tomb of the Hero King are already ownerless, and being able to get the treasures inside can indeed alleviate our current difficulties, so we agreed. But the official said that archaeology was the business of the Sindmore government, and that it could only be done by people from the government, and that we people could not go. But let our captain accompany him, because although he is an alien, he used to serve in the army in Santa Vicia, so let us stay here and wait for their news. I thought I had no choice but to agree and let the brothers disperse to the nearby villages and towns to hide so as not to attract attention. ”

Ronis has always refused to say the names of those two people directly, wanting to save their reputations, but when Ying heard this, he already knew it.

Ronis looked at Shadow's expression and said, "You followed the royal mentor all the way here, do you already know who the two people I am talking about are?"

Ying took a sip of wine and said, "If you don't say it, I'll pretend I don't know." ”

Ronis sighed: "What else is there to hide, the captain's name is Joe, and his friend's official name is Garvas, nickname - Demon City Ghost General." Have you seen them?".

Shadow thought to himself, "Ronis doesn't know that Joe and Garvas died at my hands, so it's just right to save you unnecessary trouble." He shook his head and said, "No, but I heard from the mentors about it." ”

"After they left, I stayed in this village and waited for their news, and I didn't dare to enter the city at will. But after waiting for a long time, the two of them have not heard from each other, and some of the brothers are anxious, wondering if Captain Qiao has found the treasure and will not come back. Until two days ago, our two brothers had accidentally seen you in town, and also saw the Royal Mentor. The royal mentor is the leader of the archaeological team of the Tomb of the Hero King, and although they have not met, they also know. I thought that since the royal mentor had returned, the captain and Garvas should also be together, but I could inquire about ......"

Ying Dao: "But as soon as you inquired, you found out that they were dead." ”

Ronis nodded: "Joe and Garvas are dead, and we have been worried that the enemy will suddenly find them, and we don't have much money on them, and things are extremely bad." So we thought about it and simply put the idea on the caravan. While you were in town that night, our men found out what was going on with the caravan, and kept following it and setting traps along the way, waiting for you to fall into an ambush. Alas, it was a pity that it failed, I didn't expect you to have two magicians in your team. ”

Shadow chuckled, "I'm not very old, and it's easy for you guys to ignore me. However, I still admire your decision, in those situations you can give up on hijacking the caravan and retreat, not everyone can make this decision right away. ”

Ronis lowered his head, drank glass after glass, and took out a badge in his hand. The coat of arms of iron and blood was the eternal mark of the Iron and Blood Mercenary Regiment since its inception, and he should have hung on his chest as bright as new, but now it has dimmed.

Before he knew it, there were already four empty wine bottles, Ronis was a little drunk, he shook his head and stood up and pointed at the shadow and said, "Don't go, we have to continue talking, I'll go first to make it easier." ”

These days, he has been holding back a lot of bitterness in his heart, and as soon as the desire to talk is opened, he wants to talk about it happily and endlessly.

Shadow watched him stagger out the door, bowing his head and drinking.

It was late at night, and the people playing cards had long since dispersed, and the people of every household had fallen asleep, leaving only a few dim spars under the eaves that shone in the night.

Ronis burped slowly outside the village, he leaned against the tree, and after a long breath, he suddenly felt that the tree was wet, and the bark of the tree was soaked with water when he touched it with his hand. When he smelled it again, the air was also very humid, as if it had just rained, and he wondered in his heart: "Hey, it has been a sunny day for the past few days, and it has not rained, how can it be wet? Although the villagers often splash bath water in the forest, it is not so wet that even the trees are wet." ”...,

His cloudy consciousness gradually came to his senses, and he searched for the wet water marks on the ground and headed straight into the forest. After walking for a while, the ground became more and more wet, and in some places the water accumulated together and became mud. He was even more surprised in his heart, and suddenly there was a sound of 'ticking and ticking' water dropping leaves, and he sped two steps to run over, and looked up by the galactic starlight, only to see two wet corpses hanging on the branches, dripping water.

The village is located in a mountainous forest, and at night there are of course people who take turns to guard against attacks by monsters. Although Ronis couldn't see the faces of the corpses clearly, the leather armor worn by the two corpses on his head was the same as the villagers in the village, and he had been in the village for several months, and he had long remembered the appearance of everyone in the village, and the clothes and leather armor they usually wore.

"Who killed them?" These two men were obviously not killed by the beasts of the forest, and Ronis looked around, and was shocked to find that there were more than these two corpses hanging from the trees, and there were many hanging from nearby trees. It's just that these corpses are mutilated, and many of them have only half of their bodies hanging from trees, and the intestines and internal organs in the cavity of the corpse have fallen out and dangled in the air.

Broken limbs scattered on the ground, hands still holding blades. This blade is all too familiar to Ronis, these are the corpses of his iron-blooded brothers. He was suddenly hit in the chest, and he was shocked and shouted in his heart: "How can this be...... How so?"

At this moment, a corpse on the ground moved slightly, and let out a groan of pain.

Ronis hurriedly ran over and helped him up: "Brother, brother, are you okay?

The wounded man slowly turned around in his arms, and suddenly a terrible smile appeared in his eyes, and a dagger with a green light was plunged into Ronis's heart, and then a palm of light hit the handle of the dagger, stabbing the whole dagger into it, and the light wheel was reflected in the heart.

"You ......" Ronis fell to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of poisonous blood.

The wounded man giggled and stood up from the broken corpse: "I still wanted to go into the village to look for you, but I didn't expect you to come out by yourself." Ronis, don't you recognize me?".

Ronis looked at the person under the shadow of the tree, his pupils shrank: "It's you......"

Ying glanced at the wooden clock hanging on the wall: "Why hasn't he come yet?" ”

The silver pendulum hanging from under the wooden clock swung back and forth, and another minute passed.

Sensing that something was wrong, Ei put down the cup and rushed out of the room. He searched around the village for a while, and it wasn't long before he found the body in the woods, including Ronis's.

The face of the "dead" shadow changed slightly, and he first carefully checked the neighborhood to make sure that no one was hiding around, and then checked the body.

Ronis died in a horrible state, his body was white, his eyes were wide open, his mouth was open, and his mouth and nose were still overflowing with water, as if he had just been fished up after a day and a night. None of the parts below his neck could be considered a corpse, and his entire body was completely fragmented, with internal organs, fingers, and bones...... It's all cut off one by one, piece by piece, and the minced meat is torn to the ground, and it's impossible to put it together.

Shadow narrowed his eyes: "What a cruel method, a few songs completely dismembered Ronis, leaving only one head." Do you want others to know who was killed?". He examined Ronis's head carefully: "The skin is dead white on the surface, but there is a faint black gas under the skin, which must have been poisoned before death, there is water overflowing from the mouth and nose, which is the condition of drowning, the hair is scattered, the eyelids are black, and there is no blood in the broken place under the neck, which must have been soaked in water for a long time." But it's only been a few minutes since he came out, and it seems that he has been stirred back and forth in the water magic. There are traces of biting on the fragments of the corpse, which may have been left by the attack of the demonic beast, but the traces of the corpse being torn are different, and it should be attacked by more than one demonic beast. Isn't the murderer alone?"...,

He took a look at the nearby soil, the mountain soil had been blistered into mud, and many of the footprints were blurred by the blisters, but there were two lines of footprints that were relatively clear, and at a glance he knew that they were left by Zuihou after a blister. One of them is the shadow himself, and the other is naturally left by the murderer: "It seems that the murderer is a person, a person who has more than one magical beast to guard." ”

Ying looked at the other corpses nearby, and said in his heart: "Of all the corpses, only two are well preserved, judging from the clothes, these two people should be villagers in the village." The other people whose bodies were shredded should be members of the Iron and Blood Mercenary Group, and it seems that the murderer should be the enemy of the Iron Blood Mercenary Group, and the hatred is not small. In addition, there are only three corpses of demonic beasts nearby, which does not match the number of dead, it should be the guardian of two villagers and Ronis, so the other dead may have been killed elsewhere and brought here by the murderer. But ......"

Ying glanced at the corpses of the three demonic beasts, and he recognized all three of them, namely the 2nd-order fierce frog, the 3rd-order guardian spider, and the 7th-order fire-eyed predator. He said in his heart: "With the strength of Ronis and the protection of the Fire-Eyed Predator, he should not be killed without life. It's not far from the village, and I can hear the slightest bit of movement, not to mention that Ronis is a knight of seals, and the only way to kill him is to drain his liliang, or destroy his mind and heart at the same time. Unless the murderer's strength is very strong and has far surpassed Ronis, either the murderer has sealed Ronis's ability without his defense. However, the former is less likely and should be the latter. ”

He looked at the internal organs of a nearby stump, and sure enough, he found a fragment that resembled a heart, with marks from magic in addition to knife marks.

Shadow threw down the heart and said, "First hit and suppressed Ronis's heart with magic, then drowned him with water magic, and controlled him in the water, causing him to gradually lose his brain consciousness." Ronis's guardian is a fire-eyed predator, and his Achilles' heel is water magic, and the murderer should be a master of water magic, at least a magician or a water magician. And the murderer can suddenly sneak attack, either Ronis's acquaintance, or the murderer disguised as a corpse to fool Ronis, or both. ”

The situation is analyzed here, although I don't know who the murderer is, but the general situation is already in Ying's mind. Shadow lamented in the face of the corpse: "Ronis is also dead, the Iron Blood Mercenary Group can be said to be completely finished, I am afraid that from now on, even the five words 'Iron Blood Mercenary Group' will slowly fade from people's memory." He turned away, but he stepped on something under his feet, and when he picked it up from the mud, it turned out to be half a palm.

It was Ronis who was in his hand, and he still held the iron and blood badge tightly in his hand, and he would not let go of this honor that he was proud of, but he had paid for it all his life.

The badge and hands were thrown back into the muddy water, and the red of iron and blood was still as bright as new, but in the muddy water of this barren mountain, it would eventually fade its color and become a piece of scrap metal that no one cared about............ ，