Lucia tidied her clothes, walked to the door, and looked inside to ask where the mayor was.

Soon a fat old man walked out of the house. After seeing a group of young magicians, he was stunned for a moment, and then enthusiastically asked everyone about their purpose.

After hearing that everyone was on a mission to wipe out the bandits, he greeted everyone into the room with great enthusiasm.

After everyone sat down, the mayor began to complain.

It turns out that Tieshan Town was originally a town formed around a mine, and it was considered very prosperous.

Who would have thought that a month ago, a group of thieves came from nowhere and robbed the passing caravans, causing the town to quickly become depressed.

The mayor had no choice but to issue tasks through the mercenary union.

After listening to the mayor's story, several people looked at each other and finally turned their attention to Yuan Wei.

This left Yuan Wei speechless for a while.

Yuanwei gave a direct look and asked Chel to communicate. After all, Chel had the most experience here.

Chel understood and went directly to ask the mayor about the specific situation of the thieves group.

The mayor seemed to be really troubled by the thieves group. He told Yuan Wei and others about the thieves group's situation in detail, and offered to arrange for someone to lead everyone to search for the thieves group's traces.

Several people looked at each other and were very happy that the first mission went so smoothly.

After continuing to communicate with the mayor, several people got up and prepared to leave.

The mayor, who was very familiar with him, invited several people to rest at his home for a night, but Yuan Wei and others directly refused after they already needed to buy some supplies.

In an unfamiliar environment, it is better to be cautious.

The mayor did not try to persuade him to stay. He directly found a young man who looked like a servant and arranged for him to be the guide and let him leave with Yuan Wei and others.

After leaving the mayor's mansion, Lucia finally turned into the temporary squad leader again and took the initiative to communicate with the young man.

This young man's name is Luo Bo, and he is a servant who does shopping at the mayor's house. He has grown up in the mayor's house since he was a child, and he can be said to be a personal servant.

This is also the tradition of the Aegean continent. There have always been slaves here, serving their masters for life, and even being slaves for several generations. Only those who have made great achievements or are extremely appreciated by their masters can be released from slave status and become citizens of the empire.

Slaves do not have any human rights, cannot obtain any strength, and can only engage in the heaviest physical labor.

Although some advanced elements in free countries have been advocating the elimination of slavery, they have been strongly resisted by aristocratic forces.

In the end, the two sides compromised that any citizen of the empire could only be reduced to slave status if he committed an extremely serious crime such as treason.

Therefore, most of the slaves in free countries are soldiers or civilians captured from the empire during the war.

However, the lives of the citizens of this country are relatively comfortable. Even some bandits and refugees in the wilderness will be granted the status of low-level civilians after a certain amount of corvee work after being exterminated and integrated.

I heard from the young man named Luo Bo that his ancestors were soldiers of the Bright Empire. After being defeated and captured, they were sold here. After a few generations, he was completely integrated into the mayor's family.

At this moment, the young man felt flattered. Being sidetracked by Lucia, a young and beautiful beauty, he vaguely told everything he knew.

It turns out that the mayor's family is the largest ore trader in Tieshan Town. This time, he was greatly affected by the thieves group, so he couldn't wait to issue a task to the mercenary union.

After understanding the information clearly, they asked Luo Bo to take everyone to find a hotel to rest for the night, and then leave the city early tomorrow morning to search for traces of the bandit group.

Luo Bo did not return to the mayor's mansion, but directly found a corner to rest in the hotel.

Chel was still thoughtful and allowed him to live with her directly.

After a night of silence, Yuan Wei continued to meditate and meditate as usual.

As soon as the sky dawned, everyone walked out of the hotel, bought some dry food, and left Tieshan Town.

Luo Bo skillfully led everyone to search for traces of the thieves around Tieshan Town.

I heard from Luo Bo that these thieves came from out of town a month ago and were extremely careless in their work. They had already attacked and killed dozens of small caravans and made the area full of chaos.

Although the city guards also searched outside the city for a while, they only searched an area less than 10 kilometers away from the city. They had no choice but to leave after finding no trace.

Under the leadership of Luo Bo, Yuanwei and others began to search farther around the town. They searched several valleys or water source areas but found no trace.

Instead, Lucia and several other young magicians complained endlessly. They had already traveled all day yesterday, which exhausted the physical strength of these magicians.

The search all morning was extremely tiring, and everyone had no choice but to find a water source to rest.

At this time, Yuanwei and Cheer gathered together to discuss.

This morning, everyone searched around 20 kilometers around Tieshan Town. It could be said to be a blanket search. There were dozens of thieves, but there was no trace.

Rang Yuanwei and the others were indeed a little confused.

Suddenly, Yuan Wei thought that since these thieves were able to find the caravan in Tieshan Town and attack accurately, such a rapid and accurate attack must have an internal response in the local area.

Those who can meet this condition are either people with certain influence in the town or people from surrounding villages.

Now that all caravans have been hit, are these thieves hiding in the villages around Tieshan Town and using the villagers as informants?

Yuan Wei told the students their thoughts, and after discussion, everyone decided to search based on this idea.

Lucia directly asked Luobo about the situation in the surrounding villages.

There were more than 10 villages closest to the commercial road. Several people looked at each other and first asked about the smaller villages.

At this time Luo Boti said:

"There are some abnormalities these days in several villages called Xiaoshan Village, which are 15 kilometers away from Tieshan Town. This village has purchased a lot more goods recently than before, and it often buys some meat.

I encountered this a few times when I was buying groceries for the mayor. "

After hearing Luo Bo's words, everyone became excited and took the small mountain village as the main target.

So he let Luo Bo lead the way towards the small mountain village.

Half an hour later, several people arrived at the small mountain village.

This is a village built on the mountain. It occupies a small area. From a distance, there are probably dozens of families.

The crowd did not approach rashly, but asked Chel to search carefully. The others found a hidden place to observe near the village.

Not long after, Chelre came back.

He searched around the village for a while, and sure enough he found three hidden sentries near the village.

This allowed several people to determine that this was the target.

So a few people walked towards the village carefully.

Yuan Wei summoned two natal spirit corpses to guard the left and right.

The magicians were extremely curious when they saw Yuan Wei's summons.

But he didn't say much and quickly headed towards the hidden sentry area.

Chelze took the lead and went to clear the hidden sentry, and soon everyone was approaching the village.

Chel and the Zuo brothers took the lead, and everyone climbed directly onto the wall and entered the village.

It was mid-afternoon, and the village was quite quiet. Most of the villagers were taking a nap in the fields or resting at home. There was not a single soul in the entire village.

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