Mercenaries and Adventurers

In the evening of that day, they had already moved away from the logging farm they met at noon, and arrived at this strange place no matter how it looked.

The mountain forest here became gentle, and before the afterglow of the sun fell into the horizon, Kiel, who had the best eyesight, could even see the gentle river valley area at the far end from the winding and gentle mountain forest in front of him.

But the people do not have the ability to travel at night on a large scale, so when the sun is about to set, everyone has to prepare for today's camp.

But in the past, the overnight camping basically did not require the intervention of Keir's command, but it got stuck at a very important step-the loggers equipped with logging axes were just a little closer to the woods beside the trade road, and they were caught by the terrifying scene on the edge of the woods. Frightened back.

"Wow wow..."

All of them are strong and strong young men, who usually talk and eat loudly in the team. It seems that the gangsters dare to pick up axes to do it, but at this moment, each of them is panic-stricken, with horrified faces. The neat logging team Unable to complete the formation, the swarm fled back to the camp from the edge of the woods.

The panic of this group of guys even made the people in the team think that they encountered a new group of bandits attacking, so everyone put down what they were doing and gathered together for safety.

Some clever people also shouted the names of the companions, relatives and friends of the armed team they knew, calling on them to come and protect everyone. More people began to call Kiel's name or Priest Batar's name according to their own judgment after being inspired.

Amidst the sound of pata pata's horseshoes, Kiel, who was riding a war horse licking blood grass, rushed over first.

"What's going on? What's going on?"

Kiel asked loudly, and when they saw him coming, the people here quickly shouted: "Master Knight! The gang of woodcutters fled back in panic. See if the bandits are coming!"

Kiel, who was on horseback, had the best view. He saw the loggers carrying axes and hiding in the unfinished simple camp first, and then rode his horse over.

"What's the matter? There are no robbers coming, why are you so panicked? Come out to me ￥￥%, what does it look like! Even if someone attacks, what you hold in your hands and what you carry on your shoulders are all Toys? Assemble! Lumberjacks assemble! I want him to look good, the timid one who hides!"

Accompanied by Kiel's loud shouts, especially after hearing his voice, I don't know if I feel relieved, or if I have a backbone again, the gang of loggers who caused chaos in some camps still ran out.

All of them gathered awkwardly in front of Kiel's war horse.

Many of these guys still had expressions of fear on their faces, and they kept turning their heads to look in the direction of the woods where they were going to cut wood for firewood.

Keel noticed the small movements of these people, so he stretched his neck on horseback and looked there too.

But nothing more was found.

It was getting dark, and Kiel, who didn't have night vision ability, couldn't see anything more even if he used magic to enhance his eyesight.

"Tell me, what's going on? I need an explanation, otherwise the food for all the loggers will be halved tonight!"

Keel said the above-mentioned punishment words with a cold face.

During this period of time, the lumberjacks who ate their stomachs every day certainly didn't want to go hungry, so when the knight asked, the group of people talked in a hurry, and the scene was very chaotic, because some people were still sweating coldly. Words are confused.

"Stop! What nonsense are you talking about, choose someone who understands to come out and speak alone!"

When Keir said this, these loggers looked at each other, and finally selected a logger who could read and write, barely a half-educated person.

The man stepped forward a few steps and was about to kneel on the ground to speak, but Keir jumped off the horse and helped him up: "You don't need to kneel, just talk normally. I'm not some noble lord, I'm one of us."

The man froze for a moment. It was probably the first time he had seen a knight say that in his life, but he usually saw other people in the team talking like that to Knight Kiel from a distance, so he understood. Especially before Keir liked to help with logging, and it was the same at that time.

"Okay, my lord, you have the final say."

Keir waved his hand and asked him to explain things quickly.

"It's like this. We were planning to go there just now and cut some firewood for burning at night in the woods along the road closest to the camp. As a result, we didn't find it when we were far away. When we got closer to the woods, we found the trunks of those trees. All, all red."

Kiel frowned: "What's the matter? The Kingdom of St. Holes has been established for less than a hundred years. There are some special types of trees in this area that are very common. Not to mention the red-trunk forests, I have seen big trees that will attack humans in anger. Well. You won't be frightened by this, will you?"

Faced with Kiel's contemptuous expression, the loggers next to him quit: "No, my lord, it's more than that!"

"Yes, it's terrifying!"

"What red, Tick, what are you talking about, it's not red, it's all red flesh and blood all over the trunks of trees!"

As soon as Kiel heard this, he realized that these loggers were not fledglings who had never dealt with those bandits head-on. Normally, they would not scare them at all. So Kiel looked at Tick who was talking to him, raised his chin, and signaled the man to continue.

"Yes, my lord. As the brothers said, it was just a red tree from a distance at the time. When everyone walked over and took a look, they realized that there was no red bark, and there were large pieces of flesh growing on the trunk. , as well as internal organs! Every tree is like that, every tree on the edge of the forest is like that! It's very scary, everyone was frightened at first, but suddenly a few guys covered in flesh and blood popped up behind the tree , shouted at everyone, and everyone fled to the camp."

As the man spoke, he danced and imitated the movements of the monster yelling at them. At this moment, several loggers around him were so frightened that they threw away the axes in their hands and crouched on the ground with their heads in their arms.

Kiel sneered a few times, reached out and tapped the loggers, and took a few steps confidently: "What are you afraid of! It's just a few monsters. I've killed too many monsters, so it's nothing. Besides, the weirdness here is still there. It’s not necessarily just made by monsters.”

After kicking the coward who was squatting on the ground with his head in his arms, Kiel then rode on the blood lick and said to the people gathered around: "Don't be afraid, it's just a few monsters, I'll kill them right now. Everyone should Eat and eat, everyone who needs to cut wood, come with me! This time, I will lead the team.”

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Soon, except for some cowards who really didn't dare to come out again, the other loggers lit up torches, followed the armed Kiel knight, and walked quickly towards the previously selected logging area.

Kiel didn't put on blood licking horse armor, but he was fully armed. Putting down the steel visor, the world was divided into two parts, and people became different from usual.

Everyone walked quickly, and Keir even rode a horse, so he came to the edge of the woods along the road closest to the trade road in a short while.

Before he got close, he smelled a faint smell of blood, which was also mixed with the disgusting smell of rotting organs.

"Big, my lord, it's the front."

The lumberjacks tremblingly pointed to the sprawling forest in the dark night ahead, and when everyone smelled the **** smell and approached the forest, the forest illuminated by torches finally appeared in front of Kiel.

In the bright light of the fire, the woods in front really looked very strange. The first thing that catches the eye is the red trunk, as the loggers said, it is covered with smeared flesh and glued internal organs.

At first glance, it is very visually shocking.

People who have not done psychological preparation suddenly see this thing, and they may vomit on the spot.

But Keel took a closer look and found that only the edge of the forest was smeared with red plasma and flesh, and the other trees further inside were just broad-leaved trees that are common in local forests.

Even for the scary trees on the outside, only the trunks have been carefully smeared with flesh and internal organs, and the branches and leaves of the trees at the slightly higher places are still in their original appearance.

Looking around, Keir even laughed out loud.

It turns out that not all the outermost tree trunks can be smeared with fresh blood and plasma. It is estimated that considering that the nearby forest is the closest to the commercial road, this forest has been artificially processed. 'After a while.

The unimportant places a little farther away are still the same.

"What is there to be afraid of? It's just a crude means of scaring. Come, who will give me an axe?"

Kiel jumped off the blood licking grass, turned around and stretched out his hand to the loggers behind him.

The next moment, several axes were handed over, and Kiel chose the one that seemed the strongest, and strode forward directly on his shoulders: "Look, there is nothing to be afraid of. These are just some local bandits It's just a scary thing to make."

Kiel fearlessly walked into the edge of the woods. Under the light of many torches behind him, he stood sideways directly, regardless of the logging position that needs to be considered when logging, and directly raised his ax to swing horizontally.

"Roar-"

Suddenly, from the shadow of a blood-red tree trunk not far away, a man covered in blood and flesh rushed out. Not only did this man have a horse's head on his head, but he also had several human faces on his chest. Yes, these human faces were like the horse's head on the man's head at the same time, and they all let out a huge roar at the same time.

The blood licking grass was startled, and immediately raised its front hooves and ran to the side. It seemed that the strange things that suddenly appeared in front of it startled it, especially the roaring horse's head.

The lumberjacks were even more flustered. Although Keir himself was present, they turned and ran without turning around, but each of them still shouted indiscriminately, and then a group of men gathered together.

Keir snorted coldly, and the ax that was swung to chop down the trees turned his hand and threw it at the roaring guy's head.

"What's the name of the ghost?"

The ax whizzed, and it seemed that it was bigger than the guy expected, and the original words in his mouth were swallowed in his stomach.

Puff—

The whistling and spinning ax hit the front of the guy's horse's head, but apart from the strange cry of the blood licking grass next to him, the guy didn't appear to be injured.

However, Kiel had expected it a long time ago. He touched his left waist with his right hand, and then threw out his long sword to hunt and kill.

The white light on the sword was like a white light belt connecting Kiel and that strange guy. After leaving a momentary scene in everyone's eyes, it immediately stabbed a face on the opponent's chest.

Different from the previous attack of the axe, the long sword seemed to have a huge force, and directly connected with this strange guy who appeared out of nowhere, and slammed into the blood-red tree trunk that the opponent had just avoided.

Duo, the long sword seems to have penetrated part of the tree trunk, directly nailing this guy to the tree trunk through his chest.

"Uh wow—"

"Pit vomit..."

"Ho ho, **** ho, **** ho."

Contrary to Kiel's expectations, the guy who was nailed to the tree trunk, but the other faces on the chest were still screaming nonsense, which made Kiel feel strange.

Because during the previous interrogation of the captives by the 'iron barrel' bandits, those guys actually said some information about the last bandit gang in the area - the 'hanging ghosts'.

Among the three gangs of bandits, the 'Iron Barrel' bandits are the most normal, most like bandits found in other places, while those in the 'Dead Spot', because the leader is a well-known mercenary, so although they have the least number of people, they are more likely to Hit some.

Only the 'Hanged Ghosts' acted strangely. Although they also did the work of robbing pedestrians and caravans on the commercial road, it seemed that their main purpose was to rob people. Not only that, but according to the robbers who interrogated, they heard that the people who "hanged ghosts" recently put their manpower and most of their energy into Yemei Town on the river valley plain ahead along the commercial road.

Even though the Yemei Town ahead had absorbed the population of the nearby villages into the town and was very powerful, the people like the 'Hanged Ghosts' still peeped in there and launched several raids that turned into captive populations.

However, Kiel also noticed that, in the interrogation of the robbers, the group of "hanged ghosts" were still ordinary human beings although they acted strangely, but the guy in front of him was quite weird.

The chest was pierced by a long sword and nailed to the tree trunk. Most people have already been seriously injured and endangered, but the faces on the torso of this weird guy are quite active, not like normal humans at all.

"call."

Kiel let out a breath, slowed down his thoughts, turned around and blew a whistle to call the blood licking grass over.

Then it waved to the huddled loggers behind it: "Whatever you are afraid of, come here and see what's going on with this guy."

After speaking, he strode towards the strange guy.

The lumberjacks looked at each other, and then cautiously huddled together and moved forward. It would be a lie to say that they are not afraid, but the curiosity in these people's hearts cannot be suppressed. After all, the Kiel knights have gone up, so there is no reason for them not to dare to approach.

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Kiel strode up to this guy, looked this strange guy up and down, confirmed that the loggers behind him were approaching, and raised his hand to slap the huge horse head on the guy's head.

As a result, Kiel knocked off the horse's head on the strange guy's shoulder with one swipe.

A human face covered in blood-red flesh was revealed underneath.

"Hmph, that's right. It's just a fake head. Did you see that? Although this thing is a real horse's head, it's just a scary thing to put on it."

Kiel kicked the horse's head that fell to the ground. This thing was not a fake made of cloth or a wooden frame, but the severed head of a real horse. No wonder Bloodlicker was startled just now.

Kiel said these words to reassure the loggers, but he had doubts in his heart, because although the man in front of him just put a horse's head on his head to 'scare', but on the neck of the horse's head, there was no There are gaps and holes for people to observe the outside world.

This man wears a real horse's head, how did he see things outside?

Immediately, he raised his head to look at the person in front of him. Although this person's face was covered with bright red flesh and blood, through the blood stains, he could see that he was actually an old guy in his 40s or 50s.

At this moment, the man was staring at Kiel angrily. The teeth in his mouth were quite white and strong, and he was biting. It looked like a sword piercing the chest. Although this guy was severely injured, it was not fatal.

Keir immediately realized that this man was no longer an ordinary person.

The pain and weakness of ordinary people after being traumatized, this guy, no, this monster has none of it.

Especially the other side's naked upper body chest and the front of the abdomen, except for the one face in the middle that was pierced through the chest, which was quiet, the other four faces on the left chest, right chest, left abdomen and right abdomen are still quite awkward at this moment. Mentally let out some random roars of unknown meaning.

"Be quiet!"

With four crackling sounds, Keir raised his hand and slapped the faces of these strange roaring people one by one.

I don't know if it was because Kiel had exhausted his strength, or it was the first time he was treated like this, the four faces were stunned, and they fell silent for a while, not daring to yell or rave anymore.

"Very good." Kiel looked at the Lord's face, stretched out his left hand to pinch the opponent's chin, and lifted him up vigorously, so that his eyes could meet Kiel's steel mask.

"Tell me, you were the one who frightened my logging team just now?"

The other party grinned, as if smiling, and then mixed the spittle in his mouth with the vomited blood, trying to smear Kiel in the face.

But Keir grabbed his chin to guard against this guy's hand, and directly exerted force, causing his mouth to change shape, and the brewing saliva and blood choked into his trachea instead.

If this person still has the original human trachea.

"Hmph, be honest!"

Keir clenched his fist with his right hand and punched the man's face on the left side of the abdomen hard, deforming the face on the left side of the man's abdomen. The blood that flowed out of the wound was abnormally purple.

The other three faces that had been quiet all screamed, but when Kiel raised his hand again, they fell silent again. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com looks very knowledgeable about current affairs, but he is much smarter than most people Keel has met.

The face on the left side of the belly was beaten, and this guy who had been too stubborn to communicate seemed to be in pain too. At least from the frown he made for the first time, it can be seen that this guy is not afraid of pain.

"You... you ask...."

He spoke intermittently, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.

Kiel grabbed the opponent's head, pulled him over and looked at him, and asked, "Are you a member of the 'Hanged Ghost' bandit gang?"

"Hanging...dead ghost? That...is...outsiders, people...from outside the village, called..."

The man spoke slowly and intermittently.

But Keel listened intently, and seeing that he was much more honest, Keel continued to ask: "That's it. How do you call yourself? And it turned out to be like this? Is it good? Uh, is it good?"

Keir grabbed the opponent's chin and neck with his left hand, and stretched out **** with his right hand to clamp the nose of a human face on the opponent's left chest. He twisted it left and right, and the painful face opened its mouth and screamed in pain.

The 'hanged ghost' bandit also had a slightly painful look on his face.

The lumberjacks behind Kiel stared wide-eyed. They never thought that the weird human bandit, who looked scary and weird in the eyes of everyone, would be bullied by the Kiel knight in this way.

They looked at each other left and right, thinking that they should hurry up logging. If the logging was delayed, Kiel Knight wondered if they would punish them in the same way.

After all, the knight's fist looked heavy, and if he twisted his nose at this moment, the nose on that face would be twisted off by the fingers protected by steel armor.

It looked so painful.