Chapter 08 The temptation begins
In the lush mountains and fields, a small convoy is struggling to move forward.
There was no road in the mountains and fields, and mercenaries and hunters could barely walk on the road, while it became extremely difficult to cross the mountains and roads with a full load of trucks.
The two musk oxen trucks were walking very slowly and were often forced to stop. Mercenaries who needed guards to open the way, lay pits, and push the carts to continue moving forward. When Arthur and his team came, they took seven days to pick up the goods, but it took twice as long to transport these four trucks of goods.
The Blue Apes are different from the freedom and scatteredness of their arrival. They must be highly vigilant at all times, because they have become the target of some people from the moment they pick up the goods. In the Orlando Mountains, the same kind is more terrifying than the Warcraft.
We have to push the cart to open the road, and be vigilant at all times. At this time, the newly-promoted mercenaries such as Qiong and Princess Ten have just begun to experience the hardships of the profession of mercenaries. The leisure on weekdays and the large pieces of wine and meat in the bar are exchanged for the danger of death and the hardship of sleeping in the open during the mission.
In this world, no profession is easy to do in order to maintain a life.
Under a leeward hillside, the mercenary group set up a simple camp. Arthur sprinkled medicine to drive away snakes and insects around the outside of the camp, set up a simple warning device, and the mercenaries set up a simple tent, and four beast chariots were placed in the center of the camp.
With these simple arrangements, the mercenaries of the Blue Apes began to become more proficient.
Dinner was simply cooked a large pot of broth and dealt with the dough cakes brought. After the soup was cooked, the bonfire was immediately extinguished. The flames were extremely obvious at night, attracting potential enemies and powerful beasts.
There was no usual joke, fight, and everyone rested consciously after dinner. Everyone was arranged to take turns on duty at night. They must ensure that they had enough energy at that time, and dangers in the mountains at night might come at any time.
Arthur and Alia took the initiative to be on the first squad with two mercenaries. Arthur found a hiding grass more than fifty meters away from the camp, threw a mat and lay on, and patted the surroundings with vigilant eyes.
The temperature in the mountains was particularly cold at night, and Alia soon felt cold and unconsciously leaned her body towards Arthur to find a warm place.
Arthur turned his head and glanced at Alia, gently embraced her in his arms, but his eyes were still vigilantly looking at the periphery, and the two of them snuggled together quietly.
On a cool night, silent forest, and young lovers, life should have been so beautiful!
But beautiful times are always short, and figures of people tiptoed and quietly approached interrupted the time of intimate relationships between lovers.
Arthur's murderous aura, whose mood was destroyed, gradually showed his murderous aura. He had expected that this mission would not be so simple, but he did not expect that the other party would be so anxious and was about to take action on the first night they received the goods.
There were twenty or thirty figures slowly touching the camp from both front and back directions in the darkness, and they only waited for them to approach and launched a sudden attack.
Arthur discovered that although these people were large in number, they were just ordinary bandits. If a strong bandit or assassin organization really had to send powerful warriors who were good at stealth and assassination to find the warnings outside the mercenary group, instead of rushing up like this group of people.
After the bandits took more than ten steps forward, Arthur gave Alya a signal, and Alya shot a third-level "Bright Light Ball" into the crowd.
The dazzling balls that suddenly lit up in the darkness emitted a dazzling white light, and the light made the nearby bandits unable to open their eyes at all.
Arthur's arrow flew out immediately after the ball of light, and arrows wrapped in fighting spirit shot one after another on the bandit who was protecting his eyes with his hands. Screams rang out in the dark one after another.
"I've been discovered, rush in and kill them all!" A loud shout came from the bandits.
None of the mercenaries of the Blue Ape really slept well. When the light ball outside the camp lit up, they woke up instantly. They picked up the weapons around them and rushed out of the camp tent, and they were striking against the bandits who were about to pounce in front of the camp.
The first to launch the attack was still the mercenary group. The weapons of Elanni and the Tenth Princess were all bows and arrows. Two women shot with two bows quickly. The bandits fell one after another before they even reached the nearest.
Especially the elf girl Elanni, she was specially selected by the elf elder Thranyi to replace the elf queen. Although her small and exquisite figure, her real combat power is a high-level elf warrior who is comparable to that of a warrior in the human war school. Her fingers twitched nimblely on the bowstrings, and her long arrows flew out like beads, with a speed of firing more than twice as fast as the ten princesses. Moreover, the elf's arrow skills have always been fully fired, and arrows hit the vital points.
Joan followed Elanni and the Tenth Princess, and he rose into the air with the help of the flying ring and shot a large burst of fireballs into the bandit group. The bursting fireballs exploded and overturned two or three bandits around the landing point at the same time.
The firepower output of the three long-range attackers of the Blue Ape Mercenary Group is as fierce as a team of elf shooters or dwarf musketeers. No bandit can rush into the camp one step.
Huey and Toren each led four mercenaries to pounce on the bandits rushing up from both sides. They rushed up, and as soon as they fought, the bandits turned around and ran away.
The strength gap between the two sides was too big, and Huey and Torun were too fierce. Huey, who was already a level seven warrior, rushed forward and saw a afterimage. When the big gun was swung, the gun shadow flashed, and the bandits fell back and flew out. Torun waved the crescent battle axe he had made himself. The axe blade was the size of a wheel. After infusing the fighting spirit, he cut out a series of axe blades about a meter long, slashing all of these bandits who were generally only of level two or three strength.
These bandits rushed up not to fight but to die, so they turned around and ran away in fear. Huey and Toren were led by others behind, and they did not intend to let go.
Arthur was worried that the other party would be ambushed, so he chased them out for a hundred meters and called them back.
It was clearly a sneak attack launched by the bandits, but the Blue Ancestor's mercenary was not damaged at all, leaving the opponent with nearly thirty corpses and arrested three prisoners who were injured by arrows and did not escape.
Spence didn't take action at all during the whole process. Arthur had made an agreement with him before that as a warrior, he is now the trump card of the mercenary group and he would never need to take action until life and death are at stake.
Arthur interrogated the three prisoners overnight and easily dug out all the news.
They are a gang of bandits in this area with a scale of hundreds of people. They usually robbed small-scale mercenary groups, hunting teams and caravans. This time, someone took the initiative to reveal to them the Blue Ancestors' itinerary and the cargo information they escorted. They didn't expect that they would hit the iron plate after they were trying to get a bargain. As for whom the information was, they were not qualified to know.
Qiong said proudly from the side: "With this lesson, no one will dare to make any more decisions about us, right?"
Chapter completed!