Chapter 4 Tracing
The crowd stopped the noise and looked at the four men who had just entered. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The leader is an ordinary-looking young man, he is of average stature, plainly dressed, simple in temperament, and there is nothing special about him.
The two people who followed him were different, one was a stunningly tall one-armed strong man, wearing tight linen clothes, and the muscles of the arrows on his body seemed to explode, the strong man's face was resolute, his eyes did not squint, he looked very serious, and he had the feeling of a soldier.
The other is a very thin and weak beautiful woman, she is also wearing ordinary linen clothes, but the ordinary size clothes are worn on her, but they look very wide and empty, and her temperament is also very special, with a very rare heroic atmosphere.
In the woman's hand, there was also a little girl about 7 or 8 years old, who frowned and had a worry on her face that was not appropriate for her age.
This kind of combination is very strange and rare, the average adventuring team will not bring children, and the average escort mercenary rarely brings the wounded, their combination is more like a family of three with bodyguards, but looking at the looks they look at each other, it is not very similar, and the four of them, none of them even carry weapons! In this way, even the most vicious-eyed old mercenaries can't see what these people are doing.
The young man in the lead walked to the bar and sat down, and he pressed a gold franc on the table: "Boss, give me a glass of barley wine." ”
In a few moments, a glass of barley wine was placed in front of the young man.
"A glass of barley wine is not worth a gold franc. The tavern owner picked up the gold coins on the table and looked at them.
"I've heard that the Orchid Tavern is the most well-informed place in all of Valenciennes, and I just wanted to ask for some news. "Young people are outspoken.
"Oh......" the boss lengthened his voice and put the gold coin back on the table, "If this news is concerned, there will be more than one gold franc." ”
The young man didn't care, and as soon as he pulled it into his arms, a money bag was placed on the bar, and the gold coins collided in it, making a crisp and pleasant sound.
The bar owner looked around, opened the money bag and looked at it, and then whispered: "Since the guests are so sincere, then come with me." ”
In the small room behind the bar, the able-bodied boss of Whitebeard asked, "I don't know what the guests want to know." ”
"News from the forest, I want to know, what is noteworthy, or unusual news or rumors in the forest or mountains next to me? "Young people are very broad.
"Well, the news from the forest and the mountains ......," the tavern keeper picked up a notebook and flipped through it.
"There are a few pieces of information, I don't know if it's what you want. It took him a moment before he stopped.
"Just say it, no matter what, the money will be yours. The young man said lightly.
The boss didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "First of all, the first one, the two groups of bandits who have been robbing on the nearby trade roads on weekdays are now gone, one group is called 'Timberwolves', about 40 people, and the highest strength is their leader, a martial arts master, who is good at using short knives." The other group, called "Rattlesnakes", has more than 100 people, and it is said that there are three martial arts masters. The two of them often entrenched in the vicinity of the trade road not far away, but they generally only look for soft persimmons, and they do not touch the larger caravans. The city also organized several sieges and suppressions, but they escaped by hiding in the forest, and they usually operate in the forest, and it is said that there is their stronghold in the depths of the forest. However, in the past few months, they have not made a single move, and even the few hellos who used to go into the city in disguise to purchase are now gone. It can be said that these two bandits are gone. ”
"Second, 20 miles north of the city, a small village near the forest was slaughtered, and the whole village was killed, not a single one alive, and the corpses still had signs of wild beast gnawing. This is a poor village, full of poor people, hunting and farming for a living, no money at all, generally few robbers, even if there are occasional ones, they will not do it so cleanly. ”
"Third, two months ago, a team went into the forest to hunt the baron of the city disappeared, including his men, there were nearly twenty people, all of whom were good at martial arts, and they disappeared like this, and the body has not been found now, and his family has been offering a heavy reward. ”
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One by one, the boss reported all the big and small news.
"That's all. The boss closed the notebook and looked at the young man in thought.
"Oh, okay, excuse me. The young man frowned and left the small room.
"We're almost done gathering information, let's go to the market to resupply first, and then we'll go out of town. The young man walked through the doorway and left the bar with the other three people.
Of course, this group of people is Zhang Ang, who fled Paris a few days ago.
In addition to Zhang Ang and Arnold, the other two are Albert, who has now become unexpectedly powerful, and little Susan, who pestered Albert to come together.
Originally, they didn't plan where they were going after fleeing Paris, and if they returned to Lyon, Zhang Ang was afraid that it would affect the Michelin Institute.
At little Susan's pleading, the group decided to help Susan find her father first.
To live to see people, to die to see corpses.
As they went, they first went to the small forest outside the city of Durand, which was actually very large, and across the river, it connected a larger forest, and the vast mountains behind the forest.
In such an environment, if you want to find someone, it is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.
They first went to find the original barracks, and then according to little Susan's suggestion, carefully searched for some places around that might have herbs, but of course, because none of them were masters of tracking and finding clues, except for a few places where the fight was suspected, they found nothing.
They had no choice but to ask around, and luckily, they found a hunter who lived in the neighborhood.
According to the hunter's account, there was very little prey in the forest during that time, and there was often no harvest for several days, and on the very day of the incident, he heard a very large number of wolf howls, one after another, almost all over the forest. This is a sign that there is a very large group of wolves passing by.
According to the hunter's speculation, Susan's father was most likely attacked by wolves.
After some hesitation, they paid the hunter to follow the wolves based on his years of experience to see if he could find the remains of Susan's father.
After a few days of tracking and searching in the forest, they unexpectedly found an abandoned campsite, and around the campsite, there were countless scattered wolf footprints.
"Werewolf-shepherds! Your friends have been captured by werewolves!" As soon as he saw this camp, the hunter instantly had a nervous breakdown, and even did not even want the other half of the commission, leaving the other half of the commission and leaving everyone to flee.
Fortunately, everyone also learned some of themselves along the way, and traced all the way to the north, and came to Valenciennes, the northernmost city in France.