The monster army abandoned Lin Tao, as if they smelled bloody flies, or wild dogs that smelled carrion, one by one, running towards the dark night, towards the stars of flames.

The starry flames discovered the monster army and immediately fell into panic. They began to adjust their formation and take over the first wave of attacks from the monster army.

At the beginning, the army was barely supported and could compete with the monsters.

However, as the monster army became larger and larger, it rushed from all directions, and the army gradually became invincible and was swallowed up little by little by little by little.

The two sides kept fighting hard, fighting from midnight to dawn. Lin Tao and the others hid under the protection of the fortress, and did not dare to breathe for a moment.

They heard the faint sound of swords and swords colliding in the distance, screaming, and also saw the shadows of fire.

Lin Tao thought to himself that if that army of monsters attacked their fortress, they would never be able to survive tonight, or even half an hour.

It was the army that suddenly appeared that rescued Lin Tao and the others.

When it was dawn, the army of monsters faded like a tide, and then the sun slowly rose.

As early as the moment before the sun rose, the monsters completely disappeared and disappeared completely.

Lin Tao was worried that the group of monsters would return, so he lurked in the fortress for about an hour. Until the sun had illuminated half of the sky and the air gradually became hot, they slowly pushed away the boulders and stepped out of the fortress in fear.

They first surveyed around the fortress and found that after the melee last night, there were not many monsters under their hands.

This group of monsters has tenacious vitality. Even if they are severely damaged, as long as they do not damage the key parts, they will not cause fatal damage.

So, after the melee last night, Lin Tao and the others fought hard to fight to the death, but only killed more than a dozen monsters.

They ignored the corpses of these monsters for the time being and turned their eyes to the distance. On the clearing ground about one or two miles away, there was a messy battlefield left last night.

Lin Tao and others went to the battlefield together. At this moment, there were dead bodies, most of them belonging to humans, and a few of them belonging to monsters.

About every monster falls, about six or seven humans will fall down.

It's no wonder that the monster's vitality is stronger than that of humans, and it is absolutely crushing in quantity. There is no pressure to deal with these humans.

Although the battle last night was tragic, seventy or eighty people still survived.

Rather, the reason why these seventy or eighty people survived was because dawn saved their lives.

They survived by lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, using the bodies of their companions or the remains of abandoned carriages.

Only after these army of monsters gradually retreated did they muster up the courage to poke their heads out and observe the situation outside.

"Have all those monsters left?"

"Captain, our captain is dead. Who of you saw the captain?"

"The captain is dead, what should we do? Are the deputy captain here?"

Lin Tao came to a soldier. The soldier looked at Lin Tao with a confused face: "You, no, who are you?"

Lin Tao still felt a little guilty towards these people. No matter what, if Lin Tao and the others were not for these scapegoats who suddenly appeared, they would have basically been wiped out now.

At the same time, Lin Tao saw the remaining seventy or eighty people, and had an idea in his mind, that is, to let these seventy or eighty people join his team, although this hope was quite slim.

But first, he needs to figure out where these people come from?

"You don't have to be nervous. We are not hostile. We just want to figure out who you are and why such a mess suddenly appeared." Lin Tao tried to make his voice very calm, while arousing hostility from his opponent.

The man looked at Lin Tao and said slowly for a while: "We... are from the mercenary team, not or not completely. At least some of the people are from the mercenary team."

"November ago, we received employment to join this regular army of Zou State. We were originally going to go to the expedition to Yingcheng. However, Zou State's general was a novice who only knew how to talk about war on paper and had no practical experience. Regardless of our captain's dissuasion, he insisted on taking the risk of marching at night, saying that he would take an unexpected surprise attack, but he actually encountered these monsters."

The mercenary sighed long, he didn't care how many casualties were in Zou's army, but now their mercenary team has suffered serious losses, and the captain seems to have also been killed in this chaos, which makes their mercenary team's future future worrying.

You know, the mercenaries originally survived with a little remuneration. Originally, the commander of Zou State's army agreed to them that after they arrived in Yingcheng, they would pay them double the remuneration. If they unfortunately sacrificed in the battle, they would have to pay ten times the pension.

But now, the financial owners were killed first, and they could not find anyone to exchange their promises, so they could only send money to death.

The mercenaries quickly reacted and took about two seconds to get out of the sadness of their partner's death, then began to examine one corpse and one corpse, pulling out all valuable things, gold rings and silver rings in their hands, exquisitely carved bows and arrows, brand new boots that were not worn several times, money bags on their bodies, and even gold teeth inlaid in their mouths.

They only take gold, silver and leather products, as well as good materials. These things are not loaded with high weight, and are much more valuable than weapons made of ragged iron and the bulging and ragged armor.

Lin Tao discovered that among the seventy or eighty people, forty or fifty people first began to plunder the equipment from the dead. These forty or fifty people, both in terms of their clothes and behavior, could easily be seen that they were members of the mercenary team.

And the remaining twenty or thirty people were not so sensitive.

They stood there and stared for a while, and then followed the example of the mercenary squad and plundered the things of the dead.

However, their methods are much awkward, and it can be easily seen that they are not in this business and are both excited and repulsive of this behavior.

They were excited because they could take this opportunity to make a fortune, and they rejected it because they still had a little conscience in their hearts, and they felt that doing so might be a bit sorry for those dead companions.

Lin Tao quickly determined that these people with awkward techniques were survivors of the regular army of Zou Kingdom. Compared with those mercenaries who only saw rewards, these regular army were easier to win over, and a thought gradually arose in Lin Tao's heart.

"Stop it," Lin Tao shouted loudly, "Now you are not allowed to plunder the money here anymore, all the property here belongs to us."

The mercenaries and the regular soldiers of Zou State raised their heads one by one and looked at Lin Tao curiously.

Of course, Lin Tao himself did not have the courage and was not qualified to say such words. But now, there were nearly forty companions standing behind Lin Tao, each of whom had the strength to offset three or even more people, which was Lin Tao's absolute backing.

In other words, even if Lin Tao fights these people now, he may not necessarily fall into a disadvantage and is fully capable of destroying all of these people.

But in that case, his own companions may suffer losses.

These companions were all the best in the fairy world. After leaving the original large army, they chose to follow Lin Tao. Lin Tao could not let these people lose their lives easily.

"Are you... talking to us?" a mercenary asked with a narrowed eye, with a fierce look in his eyes.

But when he saw everyone behind Lin Tao, there was a little bit of fear in his expression.

Lin Tao raised his voice and tried his best to let everyone hear it: "I am talking to all of you, and now the things here are ours. You are not qualified to get them."

The mercenary was stunned for a moment, then laughed coldly: "We are not qualified to take it, are you qualified to take it?"

The meaning of this is very obvious. The regular army and mercenary team of Zou are lying here, and you don’t know where to fight, so why do you have to get a share of the pie.

Unexpectedly, Lin Tao shook his head and said, "We are not qualified to take it either, so they are qualified to take it."

Lin Tao pointed at the 20 or 30 regular soldiers of Zou State and continued, "You are optimistic. Most of the ones that fell here are regular soldiers of Zou State. But you mercenaries, what are your qualifications to take these soldiers and the things of the dead?"

Lin Tao's words were equivalent to completely opposing the twenty or thirty regular troops of Zou Kingdom and the forty or fifty mercenaries.

Those mercenaries were not fools, and they immediately understood Lin Tao's dangerous intentions.

They looked at the regular army of Zou State cautiously and looked directly at Lin Tao with hostility. The mercenary who was talking suddenly laughed and said, "You said so much, just to provoke the relationship between our two families and then benefit from it."

"Actually, as long as you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to see that the two of us have become hostile and have a conflict and conflict. In the end, the one who is proud of you outsiders. Do you think we will be fooled easily?"

"Also, this time we were attacked by monsters, not only were the regular army of Zou Kingdom killed and injured, but also a lot of them were killed and injured. The remuneration that Zou Kingdom promised us was not settled, so we could not get any compensation from other places? So, the ones who didn't speak the most here are you people of unknown origin!"

He directly labeled Lin Tao and the others with an unknown origin, and wanted to tell the 20 or 30 regular troops of Zou State indirectly. That means: "You have a good look at the faces of these people, don't be confused by their words, don't let him provoke the relationship between our two families. We are cooperative relations, and they are a group of outsiders."
Chapter completed!