Chapter 671, hidden malice

Author: Yuan Zhen’s Fish

Chapter 671, hidden malice

Kil smiled and waved to his horse: "Come on, it's time for you to contribute."

The young man next to him had planned to pull the heavy tree trunk himself, but then he realized that Kiel was actually willing to let his horse help pull the trunk.

Many people were a little surprised that Kil cut down the trees himself, but they didn't expect that Kil, a young knight, could actually do things instead of whipping them with a whip to show his authority and status.

Bloodlicker approached excitedly, and was then greeted by Keir, who asked the young man to put a thick rope around the horse's neck and saddle bridle, and then moved backwards to tie it to the tree trunk.

Near the end of the trunk, a young man who had already cut down wood cut a groove horizontally on the trunk that could facilitate binding of ropes. Then the thick rope was rotated through and tied a few times, and it was firmly fixed.

"Come on, you push the tree trunk from behind, and I'll let my horses pull it in front!"

Keir said this. Except for the young people who were holding a bunch of scattered branches in their arms, the other people with empty hands gathered in the middle and rear of the trunk, leaning sideways to hold on to the mottled bark on the trunk, waiting for the knights' horses.

Pull.

Kil stood on the horse's head, stretched out his hand to pull the reins and signaled forward: "Lick the blood grass, go, move forward!"

The horses are very humane and immediately take steps and pull the rope forward.

The rope was immediately stretched straight, and then the entire fallen heavy tree trunk made a creaking and rubbing sound as it slowly moved forward.

It's not that the horses are weak, but that the resistance here is the greatest at the beginning. When the big tree falls, it creates a groove downwards. The ground is also very soft and the resistance is great. It should be much better once we leave the outskirts of the forest.

"Push harder! Push harder!"

Kiel shouted to the ten people standing beside the tree trunk behind him. Then the young people shouted and pushed with all their strength.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Push—!"

As everyone exerted their strength, the movement of the tree trunk accelerated, and everyone slowly pushed the tree trunk out of the forest.

Seeing that there were still a few people picking up fallen branches at the same place, Kiel let go of the reins and let the horses pull to the previous clearing. He walked back and urged the stranded people to follow the team: "Don't stay here.

Here we are, everyone has gone far, follow us! Be careful, there are monsters in the woods, it’s fine when there are a lot of people, but once there are fewer people, they might pounce out and eat people.”

These threatening words sounded a little funny to Kil himself, but they frightened these young people. So he immediately hugged a large pile of branches in his arms and ran out staggeringly to follow the others.

Kiel was walking at the end of the team, looking at the deep woods, chuckled, and turned away.

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"Brother, that guy in armor won't find us two, right?"

Behind the understory shrubs deeper in the forest, two people wearing colorful animal skins were lying on the ground. Because of the brown and black animal skins they were wearing, they were lying on the ground, almost blending in with the rotten leaves on the ground.

Without speaking, no one would have expected that there were two people here.

"Keep your voice down. If you can't see it, follow me."

The other person responded in a low voice, and then moved his body on his knees, his limbs slightly colliding and squeezing with the soft and moist dead branches and leaves on the ground, and a small gargling sound was heard.

The person in front moves, and the person behind follows the path of the person in front and continues to crawl. The two people are like alert wild rats, moving carefully, turning their heads every step of the way.

You have to be careful. In the woods close to the mountains, the danger comes not only from the targets they want to attack, but also from various dangerous and strange things in the soil and overhead.

The two quietly followed Kil, who was at the rear, to the edge of the forest.

The two men no longer moved outward, but squatted among the lush shrubs that could hide their bodies. They slightly moved the branches of the shrubs, revealing two pairs of cruel and alert eyes to watch the woodcutter go away.

"That blue ax must be a good thing. The forest guard trees growing on the edge of the forest are so dense and tough that they can be chopped down in just a few strokes. I guess they can be sold for a lot of money."

"Well, the other things look good. Not to mention other people, just selling this guy's equipment will be enough for our team to survive for a year if we don't work hard."

"Then do you want it?"

"What are you thinking! Can only about twenty of us take down that person? Go back first, explain the situation to the leader, and see if we can join the other teams who have recently lost their way, and let's work together to kill him.

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"The big ones? Those poor refugees who only have bones and flesh left in their bodies? They had already withdrawn money when they went to the checkpoint, so how much money can they get?"

"You don't know this, right? I heard from the boss that there is news secretly in the east, recruiting people, no, accepting people, one silver coin per person, these refugees are not human at all, they are all long-legged people who can walk.

Coins."

"Really? Then what are you waiting for? Go back to the temporary camp quickly. Let's tie up a dozen of each of us tonight. Won't we have the money and the future?"

After the rustling two people finished their discussion in the bush, they quietly retreated into the forest. After they could no longer see the scene outside the forest, they crawled down and got up. First they walked quickly with their waists hunched over, and then they got up and started running quickly.

He ran towards the undulating hillock not far away.

That's the place with the best view nearby, and it's the temporary camp their group uses every time they 'hunt'.

The distance was not far, and the two of them ran over quickly.

Before they even got close, they slowed down. On the road near the top of the hill, they relied on a set of patterns marked on the trunks of the surrounding trees that only their own people knew. They turned left and right, avoiding some traps laid in advance, and finally arrived.

Camp.

It's called a camp, but it's actually just a low cave specially dug out on the top of a small mountain.

There is even a net tied with many dead branches and leaves set up at the narrow entrance of the cave. This net blocks the entrance of the cave, and the mystery behind the covering net is not visible to the naked eye.

They lifted the net, and behind them sat a guard with a sword on his knee.

They are all a family. Although they have different responsibilities, they are all very familiar. The two people who entered and the guards nodded to each other.

"Look at the two of you in a hurry. There is a large group of people staying in the open space on the roadside in the distance. Do you have any goods?"

the guard asked.

They are all family members, so there is no need to hide it, so the two detectives in charge of the investigation nodded. They pulled down the colorful cloth covering their faces and replied affirmatively: "Not only is there goods, there is a guy inside, and we can eat all the equipment after selling it."

One year. The others are all refugees who were released some time ago and returned. Although they are probably so poor that they only have skin and flesh left, there are people in the east who are collecting them, and they are all money."

"Hey, if only the news had spread earlier, we would have stopped those refugees before they went to the checkpoints, stripped them of their belongings, and sold them and their belongings. These days wouldn't be so troublesome."

The guard answered: "Who says it's not right? Come in quickly."

The guard sat still without moving, with the long sword in his hand still unsheathed. He pointed to the low cave corridor behind him, and the two investigators quickly ducked in.

The passage of mud mixed with rocks sloped and twisted all the way down. After reaching the bottom, the terrain opened up, and a hole the size of a house appeared here.

There were no torches lit inside, but instead relied on some cracks in the cave roof to illuminate a few beams of light coming from the cliff on one side of the hill.

It smelled bad inside, with excrement mixed with body odor and the smell of smelly boots and feet. The two people who had just returned from the outside were shocked by the smell. After a while, they walked around the wooden bed set up in the small cave.

and hammock, and came to the only wooden chair with a backrest.

The leader of the bandit is sitting here, with a small table propped up in front of the chair. On it is a detailed map of the area. There are also some colored wooden chess pieces placed on the map to observe the situation.

As soon as the two arrived, their leader looked up from the map.

"How's it going? Can you see anything when you get closer? Who is he, what's his condition, is he fat?"

The two investigators immediately knelt on the ground, lowered their heads and replied to their boss: "We hid in the big trees by the road in advance, and in the woods where those people stopped logging later, we took a closer look."

"Most of them are the fleeing villagers who were paid to let them go. This time, I don't know why a large group of young people came out together and walked east. The leaders were two people, one was a young priest from the church,

Although I couldn’t see clearly because I was a little far away, I’m pretty sure it’s someone from the Church of Saturn. He’s riding a horse, and his clothes are different from those of ordinary Church of Saturn, and he’s carrying a long, glowing staff.”

"The other leader is wearing a suit of armor, wrapped tightly, but he doesn't look like a knight lord. The armor is neither gorgeous nor heavy, and the horse is an ordinary prairie horse. Boss, but this warrior

He's some kind of person. Not only is he wearing metal armor, but he also has a blue ax that glows, which looks extraordinary."

"what else?"

"Boss, is there someone in the east taking in people? Then those poor jingling refugees?"

Faced with the 'hint' from his subordinates, the bandit leader chuckled: "We can't even capture the five hundred refugees, including five hundred pigs and sheep. They all ran away."

The two investigators became depressed upon hearing this, as if the money they had received was about to run away.

"but."

A single word lifted people's spirits up again: "Boss, stop hanging on to us and come up with an idea! The lives of our brothers completely depend on you!"

As he was talking, two women's continuous screams of pain could be heard from the narrow wooden bed not far away, accompanied by the sounds of several young bandits laughing and scolding.

The bandit leader's expression changed, he turned coldly to look at the place where the sound came from, and shouted loudly: "Pay attention, don't play to death. After all, it was us who got the money and goods before,

Waitresses in the hotels I frequent, you used to fawn over me so much, but now you do this, where is your face? You have no shame, just driven by the middle leg, I want some face! When a person dies, you give it to your brother

How are you playing?"

The last question was quite destructive. Deep in the closely arranged wooden beds, the noisy movement immediately became quiet. Soon, several young bandits with smiles on their faces came over and held up their animal skin pants, half kneeling on the ground.

Complain to the bandit leader and apologize.

This group of young people are also scared. After all, they understand that it’s okay if the bandit brothers who live in the same cave now seem to have a good relationship. But if the leader really gives a punishment order, other people in the gang don’t mind whether they are male or female.

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A bunch of people, after nightfall, brother? Brother, take a photo! -

After dealing with several young bandits who had only joined for two years, the bandit leader continued what he said before: "However, if we join forces with several other gangs, it is not impossible to catch them all. And two of those people sound difficult.

Those who gnaw can just be pushed to other gangs to take action. Let's intercept them according to the situation. Refugees are just silver coins, and valuable weapons and equipment are also money, maybe even more valuable."
To be continued...