Chapter 172

The earth season is a pleasant season. The soft wind mixed with the fragrance of plants and flowers gently blows through the mountains and forests, sounding the horn of the recovery of all things, but it can not disperse the haze in the heart of the hammer.

The Warhammer mercenary regiment walked along the periphery of the mountain forest for five days. Under the guidance of the alchemical crow, it finally found the first mountain village. The mountain village is not big. Behind the high iron oak fence stands dozens of huts. From the experience of hammer, there will not be more than 200 mountain people living here. However, there was no living person in the village, only scattered bones and collapsed huts. The originally peaceful mountain village became a ghost land.

Deputy head Fermi picked up a pale skull and looked at it carefully for a moment: "there are no tooth marks, no cracks, the food is very clean, and even his brain has been taken out. It's a snake headed vulture."

Snake headed vultures are common birds of prey in mountain forests. They have a wingspan of 2 meters and weigh more than 20 pounds. They are huge and clumsy. Therefore, they have no hunting ability. They feed on rot and sometimes prey on injured or dying animals. Their hooked beaks are strong and powerful. They can easily tear open tough animal skins and drag out heavy internal organs. Their long tongue full of barbs will lick the meat in the bone seam. The corpses visited by snakehead vultures will not leave even a little broken meat. Snakehead vultures can spit out highly corrosive gastric juice. Groups of snakehead vultures can even snatch the prey of other beasts, excluding mountain people. In front of the mountain people who are good at shooting, these heavy birds are the best targets. The hammer born in the mountain people is very familiar with the habits of these stupid birds. They can't attack the mountain people's camp. There is another murderer.

The tall and burly bull subdued militia bull came over and said, "commander hammer, I didn't find the footprints of monsters and large beasts, only the claw prints of red jackals. Those remains were dragged everywhere by red jackals. At least 31 people died, including 22 men and 9 women. From the size and teeth of the skull, there were 11 old people, 8 children and 12 young people."

The hammer nodded, pointed to the big hole in the iron oak fence and said: "The knight did it. It should have been three months ago. A knight and a team of soldiers washed the village. He broke the iron oak fence first, and then cut off the vines of the suspension bridge. The team rushed in and killed everyone. The village was unprepared. Many cubs died, and others ran along the back door. The team of soldiers took all the mountain goods they could take and left them behind The snake headed vulture ate all his body. The red jackal didn't find anything to eat when he came in, and took away a lot of bones. That's almost it. "

Fermi dropped his skull, dug out a handful of mud and rubbed his hands. "Killing children and women is definitely not a mountain people, and there are no footprints of monsters. That's a knight. I wonder why the knight didn't set fire?"

In order to punish the disobedient mountain people, knights often set fire after breaking the stronghold. The trenches around the stronghold can stop the spread of the fire, and the rolling smoke is a warning to other mountain people. It is very rare to kill, loot and do not set fire. The hammer asked with a gloomy face, "is that the Lord nearby?"

Fermi took out the sheepskin map, looked at it and said, "briart's collar is in the north and chebman's house is in the south. Hammer, what's the situation?"

The hammer frowned and said, "it's a bit like driving away the mountain people. Let's go. Just look for another village."

The businessmen waiting for news under the mountain village saw that the hammer came back with his men and surrounded them one after another.

"Well, are there any mountain goods in the village?"

"Will the mountain people trade with us?"

"It's better for them to bring things to trade."

The hammer shook his head slowly and said, "there is no one inside. This village has been washed."

"Ah? Who did it? Isn't this cutting off our wealth?"

"It must be a bandit, or a monster!"

The hammer said coldly, "the knight did it." The merchants suddenly became quiet. After a meeting, fat Weiqi asked carefully, "commander hammer, is this village a den of thieves? Will we be treated as bandits by the knight master in the trade fair with bandits?"

Most people think that the mountain people are ferocious bandits. In fact, the mountain people are neither bandits nor lunatics. They are tough and simple. They can rob passers-by, but rarely kill people, and often take in people in distress. The strong is the king and the spirit of mutual assistance is the way for the mountain people to survive, otherwise they would have died. Ordinary people's prejudice against the mountain people is deep-rooted, and the hammer is too lazy to explain.

"Let's get out of here and find a way to find the second village."

Four days later, the iron hammer stood in the stronghold, which was the third mountain village they found. The situation inside was exactly the same as that of the first two mountain villages. There were scattered bones, damaged huts and no food, animal skins, weapons and living people. This situation showed that the nearby lords no longer allowed the mountain people to stay in the forest.

"Damn beast, even women and children are not spared! Greedy Bastards don't even leave a hair! I must tell the priest to let the great lord of glory punish the crazy bandit knight."

Fat wedge waved his fist. The tragedy in the village aroused his anger. The most hateful thing is that he searched in the shed for a long time, but he didn't even find one.

The hammer looked at Vicky speechless. He really didn't know what materials these free people and businessmen were made of. When he just saw the white bone, they cried for their parents one by one, and then searched every shed desperately, even the collapsed shed.

Another deputy head Kidd hurried over and whispered, "hammer, I found someone."

"Go!"

In the evening, the Warhammer mercenary regiment found a group of survivors in a valley, more than 100 people, men, women, young and old. They used sharpened sticks to insert them obliquely into the ground and made a simple fence to defend ordinary wild animals. Before the hammer came near, several mountain dogs barked wildly. The people in the camp quickly took out bows, arrows and spears to make a defensive posture. When they saw the fully armed mercenaries, they immediately opened their hunting bow and pointed the tip of the arrow at the mercenaries tens of meters away. The mercenaries also aimed at the mountain people behind the fence with hard bows.

The hammer took a deep breath, took a shield, carried a fat yellow sheep and prepared to go forward alone, but was held by the bull: "commander, according to the mercenary regiment manual, I can't let you take risks." With that, the bull picked up the Yellow sheep and strode towards the mountain people opposite. Halfway through, he left the Yellow sheep and retreated back.

The mountain people were stunned for a moment. A moment later, an old mountain man came out with two fat badgers. He carefully placed the prey next to the Yellow sheep, looked at the disproportionate two kinds of prey, took off the necklace around his neck and threw it on the badger. Then he dragged the Yellow sheep back to the back of the fence.

"Amber necklace!"

Fat Weiqi pounced on the necklace left by the old mountain people with a agility not commensurate with his body shape, but was grabbed by the lingmonkey militia around him and slipped back. The hammer glared at the agitated businessmen and turned to the mountain people. Several militia followed him closely, but they didn't show their weapons.

When the hammer threw the badger and necklace back to the team, a tall and strong mountain man came over.

"Wood."

"Hammer."

The mountain people leader named Mu nodded to the hammer and said, "you know the mountain people's rules and are also the son of the mountain forest?"

Strange mountain people generally avoid meeting, and exchanging prey is a way to demand peaceful dialogue. Hammer has not used this way to communicate with mountain people for a long time.

"Once, now I'm a mercenary."

"Mercenaries are not friends of the mountain people! But you know the rules and can explain your intentions." The wood said coldly.

"See those people behind me? They are free businessmen and my employers. They want to exchange mountain goods with mountain people. However, you seem to be in trouble..."

The wood interrupted the hammer and said, "stranger, it's none of your business. We don't have mountain goods to trade. Let's go!"

The hammer shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands. When he was ready to leave, the old mountain people who first came out shouted, "wait!"

"Daddy!" The wood just wanted to stop the old mountain man, but he was pushed away. The old mountain man said to the hammer, "chief hammer, do you have salt?"

Hammer smiled, "of course. The question is what do you have?"

"Why don't you come and sit down? We have lost our home, but we still have some good things, such as amber loved by our friends."

The old mountain people said cunningly. At this time, the mountain people opposite put away their bows and arrows and pulled out the wooden thorns on the ground. The simple fence was like opening a door. The hammer turned back and made a gesture. The mercenary regiment also put away its weapons and pushed the unicycle into the mountain people's camp.

Regardless of the darkening sky, the free people and businessmen happily exchanged salt with the mountain people for amber and herbs, while the hammer sat around the campfire with two deputy heads and several mountain people. He asked the old mountain people, "what happened?"

The old mountain folk sighed and told the hammer what had happened to them. It turned out that three months ago, the mountain people had stored enough food to get through the cold water season comfortably, but the knight of the Buryat family raided their village. He escaped with the survivors, and then met the mountain people of several other villages. From their mouth, they learned that the Buryat family's army looted all the mountain strongholds in the mountain forest, More than 400 mountain people were driven out. The mountain people who have a way to enter chebman to earn a living, and they usually only deal with the village of the Buryat family. Now they can only hide in the mountains and survive.

"In the past, the village head of the Buryat family made a fair deal with us, so we basically ignored the village led by chebman. Unexpectedly, the master of the Buryat family no longer allowed us to occupy this mountain forest, and we were desperate. Head hammer, we are all excellent hunters and can fight for you. Please find a way to live for us and let us join your mercenary regiment. ”The old mountain people begged to the hammer.

"I'll talk to the guys." The hammer said quietly.

After several mountain people left, deputy head Fermi said to the hammer, "what do they mean, they will join the gang just after they meet?"

The hammer said with a bitter smile, "the mountain people's rule is to take refuge in other mountain people if they can't live. They usually take in women and children, even if they don't, and give them some materials to live and die. In their view, I'm a mountain people!"

Kidd whispered, "I've seen them. They have a hundred heads, most of them are old and weak women and children. Don't you want to do good?"

The hammer pointed to his nose and asked, "do you think I look like a good man?"

"Well, throw them something and leave tomorrow morning."

The hammer nodded and said, "well, ask the bull again."

Manniu is the leader of these alchemy militia and the first batch of Funiu militia made. For one year, his strength has been respected by the hammer, and Kidd and Fermi nodded one after another.

The hammer called the bull and told him what had happened.

"Bull, what do you mean?"

Manniu said: "Article 4 of the mercenary manual is to win over the mountain people who can be won over, so as to establish a stable stronghold and give appropriate help without endangering themselves. It is best to have a stronghold for the caravan every 15 days. The specific situation is decided by the head and deputy head, and others obey unconditionally."

Hammer and two old guys looked at each other and asked after a long time, "is that what you mean?"

"This is the will of adults!"

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Nicole and Edwin stood in front of a mud pit thousands of square meters and were dazed.

"Victor, you asked us to leave things behind in order to see the pit?" Edwin asked, pointing to the shallow pit.

Victor smiled and nodded

"Victor, did you dig this hole?" Nicole took Victor's arm and asked in a charming voice.

Victor smiled and said, "Baron fenicos, this is the pit I dug for your York family."