Chapter 857

"In this way, can your hand in heaven still gain a strong publicity advantage in the guild championship? I think... It's hard. "

Dak pinched the light staff in his hand, lifted it up and knocked it down gently: "entering the formal competition, I will let them know who is qualified to be the champion!"

Arrow turned his head and looked at dak with a curious look. His eyes showed some strange colors: "up to now, are you still worried about the champion?"

Somehow, he was taught a lesson by arrow again, but dak seemed a little nervous. He looked at ello like a child who had made a mistake. Without saying anything else, he was obviously crushed by his momentum: "I... why don't I care about the champion? With my strength, if I can play normally, I won't be afraid of the blue distance. "

"Hehe, let you play normally? Let me ask you, have you 'played normally' so far? "

Iris doesn't care about sprinkling salt on this guy's wound, but after sprinkling salt, she should change the topic as soon as possible so as not to spend too much time here——

"Look at the blue distance. Even if they are strong now, the more powerful they pretend to be, the weaker they are. They want to take these mountain bandits away, but those adventurers will not just give up. "

Dak looked down at the situation in the distance. Blue was at the front, and some guilds followed behind them. Then there are the mountain thieves. These mountain bandits, who seem to be no different from the villagers, help the old and carry the young one by one, pull each other behind the blue distant forehead, and plan to go out at one go and regain their freedom

"Ah --!"

But when these mountain bandits wanted to escape with a smile and gratitude, suddenly! Suddenly someone in the guild standing on both sides stretched out his hands and suddenly caught one of the couple like mountain thieves into the crowd! Just two seconds later, there was a commotion. Immediately, some adventurers with blood on their bodies ran out of the crowd, cheering loudly and running towards another channel here and above the pit.

"It's done! We're done! Let's go! Ha ha ha! "

If someone starts, then naturally someone will start to follow suit. These mountain bandits, who have been watched by all adventurers, are now pushing and crying like sheep suddenly breaking into a wolf's nest!

Soon, a gust of wind rose from these mountain thieves and blew two old women and a child into the crowd. Then their cries stopped abruptly and were replaced by other adventurers with blood on their clothes.

"Killing mountain bandits is the responsibility of our adventurers."

Seeing that the environment below quickly fell into chaos, several guilds of protectors and several guilds of attackers immediately scuffled together. Arrow, who was located on the ladder, sighed faintly and shook his head slowly.

Cocoa came up and said softly, "brother President... Don't we... Need to do it?"

There was no smile on ello's face, but he said faintly, "hand? If we do, which side do we help? Is it the attacker who wants to complete the task? Or do you want to help protect these mountain thieves? "

Cocoa couldn't speak, so she had to bow her head and stand by.

For dak, who was also nervous nearby, arrow pushed him and said, "Hey, as the president of the hand of heaven, do you know how all this is caused now? Why are there so many mountain thieves who look like civilians? Why do we adventurers come to destroy them? "

Looking at ello's clear eyes that seemed to penetrate the soul, dak half opened his mouth, but some could not speak.

His mouth opened and closed. After a long time, seeing that the following two sides were finally opened again and formed a state of confrontation, the president of the hand of heaven shook his head and said: "they... They robbed a lot of materials... All I know is this... These mountain thieves entrenched here and often harassed nearby villages. There were even several times... I put my hand on the royal family... "

The ground below was covered with blood and corpses. After the two sides separated, some adventurers took time to cut off many ears, and then left happily. As a result, the number of adventurers on both sides of the attacker and the protector tends to be the same.

Ailuo shook his head gently and continued, "put your hand on the royal family? What, they robbed the royal family? "

Dak exhaled, "that's not true. However, last year, when our Royal Princess celebrated her 15th birthday, the frontier brought a large piece of strange jewelry to congratulate her. But when passing through this mountain area, those jewels were robbed by these mountain thieves... President arrow, I know what I'm talking about and I know that I do have a lot of contradictions now. They robbed the Royal Princess's gifts, but at the same time, they also had many old and weak women and children... "

When dak looked sad, cream came up from behind and said, "I see. Was it the 10000 gold robbery? At that time, the count who was transporting did not expect to encounter such fierce mountain bandits so close to the capital, so there was no defense at all. This led to the mountain bandits killing many people who accompanied them. More than a hundred lives have been lost. "

The words of cream began to confuse Brad's eyes. He looked at the mountain bandits protected by the powerful guild, and his expression was obviously confused.

Arrow breathed out and said, "why didn't the mountain bandit gangs that caused so many casualties be eradicated immediately?"

Dak shook his head gently and said, "I've heard from my father that my father seems to have suggested to the nobles that he wanted to destroy these mountain thieves. However, the amount of money needed to exterminate this group of mountain bandits is a little huge. It seems that those nobles are not very willing to pay for cooperation. In addition, although the place occupied by these mountain thieves is very close to the capital, in fact, there is a plain from the forest to the capital. It is impossible for small mountain thieves to cross such a plain to attack the capital. They only dare to move in this mountainous area. Finally, with the exception of a very few people, this mountain area is not within the key road, so there will be no following for a while. "

With a Tink, a silver coin flew into the air. After making a crisp and pleasant sound, it returned to ello's hand——

"After all, it's still because of money. It takes money to eliminate mountain bandits and to maintain key traffic routes. When the expenditure exceeds the income, there is naturally no motivation to deal with things here. But... "

After a slight pause, arrow asked again——

"Now the land in poor villages is also favored, involving so many consortium landlords who want to compete with each other. Does this mean that there is no development value in this area, so we finally made up our mind to let us adventurers solve these mountain thieves? And these values... I guess, is it because there are a lot of magic crystal minerals hidden here? "

A little surprise appeared on dak's face. He looked at ello silently, as if he were looking at a completely unpredictable person——

"How do you know?"

For dak's surprise now, arrow couldn't laugh.

Now, he finally understood everything and several problems that had been bothering him in the battle of mountain bandit annihilation.

"So it is... Why so many mountain bandits gather, why so many mountain bandits don't kill them, why let us deal with the work here, why it is so close to the mountain bandits, but there is no sign of being harassed by the mountain bandits in the poor village... I understand all this."

"In the final analysis, it is because the so-called death forest and death mine itself are not on the traffic arteries of the Empire. In other words, the previous development here has no economic value at all. "

"If you say wood, there are several forest protection areas with good quality around Hanhai city. If it's stone, such a big pit shows that the stone here has been almost dug. "

"There is no use value at all, so you won't spend energy on maintenance. Without the patrol of the Imperial Army, it will naturally become a gathering place for all kinds of thieves and robbers. "

"Similarly, due to the lack of imperial care, this place, which is only three days away from Hanhai City, looks very barren, has no special products, and the output of goods is not much. In this case, as long as after the disaster three years ago, mountain bandits will naturally arise and gather here. "

"Then, the mountain bandits who came in admiration continued to gather, and everyone regarded it as a place outside the law. Because these mountain bandits know they are from villagers, they don't harass the surrounding villages with the same poor life. If we do not harass the surrounding villages, we will have little incentive for the surrounding villages to entrust adventurers to exterminate them. Even in these villages, some young adults will join the mountain bandit gang and become part of the mountain bandits. "

Having said all this, ello clapped his hand again, exhaled a long breath and said slowly——

"In a word, all this is because of economic problems. Just this simple economic problem came to an end after a large number of magic crystalline minerals were found here. These mountain bandits from the original can be ignored, immediately become the existence that must be eliminated and then quickly. Only after all these mountain bandits have been driven away or killed can the royal family take over this area in good faith, develop it and obtain magic crystals. "