Chapter 321

The forest was covered with low and dense Hibiscus trees. Because there were no large organisms, the forest land was covered with a thick layer of humus and dead leaves, and leather boots made a rustling sound when stepping on it.

Barror and others held torches and walked in the woods for a moment to smell a pungent smell of blood. With the deepening of the team, the smell of blood became stronger and stronger, so that the unique putrid smell of Hibiscus forest could not cover it up.

Small oil wood torches spread light, dispelled the darkness shrouded in the woods, and gradually lit up a broken tree. The broken tree has the thickness of an adult's thigh, the section of the trunk is smooth, covered with crimson plasma, the tree crown falls horizontally on the ground, there are two blood depressions and some human tissue fragments next to it, but there are no bodies.

Barol's mind outlined the scene of the battle: a secret sentry leaned against the hibiscus tree to monitor the surrounding movement. The elite guards flew by, cut off the tree with a sword, and then rushed into the ambush point to quickly eliminate the enemy. After the battle, the elite guards cleaned the battlefield, searched for the remaining enemies, and gathered the enemy's bodies and items for inspection.

"Faster." Barrow whispered.

It's not far from Xiangye town. The enemy's identity is unknown, and it's not clear whether they have anything to do with the Lord of Xiangye town. So many people died at once. It's better to check and evacuate as soon as possible.

The crowd stepped up their feet and quickly came to a vast open area in the deep part of the forest. Dozens of bodies were arranged in four rows, lying on the ground, weapons stacked on the other side, some elite guards guarding the surrounding area, and some were digging holes with portable shovel.

Barrow looked around and found that the number of elite guards was wrong. He asked, "where are the other brothers?"

"Four brothers are on guard at the edge of the forest." The elite guard Badu replied.

Barol nodded with satisfaction, turned around and said, "check the bodies and items and move quickly."

"Head, don't worry. It won't take long." While the red wolf said, he put on mole skin gloves. Several other middle-aged people were doing the same thing. The difference was that they looked indifferent, as if they were doing common things. The thief red wolf was an excited expression of making money.

These bodies are "complete". The skin becomes pale and gloomy due to serious blood loss. The expression on the face is fixed at the last moment of life. Some are at a loss, some fear, some anger and some pain. The flame flickered, and the erratic shadow seemed to be the resentment and struggle of the dead, looking terrible and gloomy.

Barol's men are either villains he has carefully trained or former spy colleagues. They are not good people one by one. This scene can't scare them. In fact, the most common thing for ordinary refugees to encounter dead people is nausea, and then they will loot all their belongings.

"Sure enough, there are crossbows... A total of 15. What a big deal!"

"The coarse linen robes are half new and not old. Some of them don't fit. I can't see anything special. The leather boots are of high quality. Only two people's boots don't fit. Ha ha, it's interesting."

"Strong muscles, strong bones, old scars left by whip on the back, and cocoons on the hands are completely in line with the training characteristics of elite soldiers."

Crossbows can plot against trainee knights. They are controlled weapons. The thieves' Union and mercenary regiment may be able to get some, but the villains and hooligans in Xiangye town absolutely don't have crossbows. Fitting boots are related to the soldiers' ability to move. They can only be tailored and are valuable. Ordinary villains usually buy some old boots from grocery stores. They don't spend money on custom-made boots. Elite soldiers have honed their martial arts skills since childhood, and their movements are slightly deformed. Instructors will correct his mistakes with whips and leave scars on his back, while most mercenaries will not have admonition whips.

Various signs show that these enemies are not ordinary Gang thugs or mercenaries, but elite soldiers who have received systematic training. But why do elite soldiers ambush some outsiders? If mercury is exposed, why don't they send troops to encircle and suppress it? Are the two men who killed the elite guards trainee knights? But his face and skin don't look like nobility at all.

Barrow became more and more confused. A middle-aged man with brown hair and a hook nose dragged a body and a broken arm and said, "barrow, look at this body."

Barol took a picture with a torch and found nothing special. He frowned and asked, "sarge, what's wrong?"

"This man's face is thin, and his bones should be slim by reason, but his arm bones are much stronger and stronger than ordinary people. Don't you think it's strange?" Saji, with a hooked nose, handed barrow a severed hand.

Barol took the broken arm of the body, observed the exposed bones, and carefully fumbled for the facial bones of the body. As Saji said, the arm bones and skull of the corpse are very uncoordinated, as if they were not a person.

"What does that mean?" Barrow asked in a deep voice, staring at his former spy colleagues.

"I don't know." Saji gently breathed out, shook his head and said, "from the arm bone, this man should be 1.9 meters tall, but he is only 1.75 meters tall..." he paused and asked, "do you remember old Charlie, the body collector?"

"Of course, old Charlie's autopsy training was the most disgusting. No man passed except you." Barrol's eyes twitched, and the autopsy training was obviously not a good memory.

"Hehe, after the training, you run faster than rabbits. Only I am willing to accompany old Charlie to guard the cemetery." Saji smacked his mouth and said, "old Charlie told me a lot of secrets. He once helped the church restrain the body of the paladin. He told me that the bones of the paladin's hands and legs are disproportionately strong."

"What?! Paladin, are you right?" Barrol took Saji's collar and shouted in a low voice.

"What's so strange about that?" Saji patted barrol's hand, straightened his collar and said, "the strength of elite soldiers is 1.5 times that of young men, and the strength of paladins is twice that of ordinary people. They can carry 1700 pounds. How can they do this if they have strength without strong bones? I guess paladins must have the secret of bone training."

Barol walked back and forth with his hands on his back. "These people can't be paladins!"

"Of course." Saji agreed and said, "however, paladins have training secrets, and others may have similar secrets..." he nuzzled at the elite guards on one side, "the soldiers trained by the master are much better than these guys. I don't know how they train?"

"You shouldn't ask, don't ask." Barol looked around at all his men and said coldly, "do a good job. One day, the master will summon you in person."

Saji's eyes brightened and smiled, "we all know the rules. The master spared our life and let us follow you in our old business. We are very satisfied."

"If you're loyal, we'll talk about it later! Quickly check the leg bones of all the corpses to see how many people have been trained in secret arts?"

Counting the number of secret law warriors can judge the scale and potential of hostile forces. Barol's men understand this truth. They took out daggers and began to dissect each corpse.

Before long, when sargi finished his examination, he raised his head and said, "39 bodies, 36 bones are much stronger than ordinary people, and only three people are ordinary people... This guy is still an acquaintance." With that, he picked up a head and threw it at Barol.

This is a fleshy middle-aged man with a fear expression on his face. His left eye is intact and his right eye is wearing an 80% new eye mask.

Barrow looked and said, "it's the fork snake in Xiangye town."

Fork snake was originally the boss of the gang in Xiangye town. Barrol disguised himself as a refugee to take refuge in his subordinate Sven and encouraged Sven to challenge the position of fork snake. In the gang fight, the fork snake was defeated. His right eye was dug out by Barol himself. Swain succeeded in the upper position, but did not kill the fork snake.

The public security office generally does not care about the change of power of underground forces, but the new leader must submit to the authority of the public security office. The life and death of losers can only be decided by the public security officer, which is the survival law that hyenas must follow.

In fact, the sheriff will support a gang leader again when necessary, and then use the original leader as a scapegoat to the resident priest. Barol and the monkey had experienced similar things, so they became Victor's men.

The defeat of the fork snake was beyond the expectation of the Sheriff of Xiangye town. Because there was no need to let the fork snake carry the pot, he casually let the fork snake live. Swain just drove the fork snake out of Xiangye town. Now the fork snake came back and died on the spot.

Saji leaned over and said, "from the wound, the fork snake was kneeling on the ground and was severed by a sword from the back of the neck. The fatal wounds of the other two ordinary dead were also behind... Our people wanted to catch alive, so they were killed by their own people in order to kill them."

"It's not my own, it's the masked brotherhood!"

The thief red wolf came to barrow and handed him two copper badges. The front of the badge was engraved with mask and blood dripping dagger, and the back was numbered 79 and 103.

More than a year ago, Barol met his former colleagues, including Saji, when he developed the mercury outer line in the deep water city in the east of Gambis. At that time, Saji and others were attached to the thieves' Union in deepwater city. After a short test, Barol decisively led people to take away the nest of the thieves' Union. There, without waiting for barrow to ask, the red wolf took the initiative to say, "the number 79 badge was found on the body, and the number 103 badge is the prisoner's."

Barol turned his eyes to the wounded and unconscious prisoners, pondered for a moment, and asked Badu, the elite guard, "how are these two guys better than the double knife mercenaries in deep water city?"

Badu simply replied, "almost."

"47, 79, 103... The masked brotherhood is not an ordinary thieves' Union!" Saji shook his head and exclaimed.

Barol walked up to villain Peter without saying a word and said, "you're involved in something you shouldn't be involved!"

Peter also showed his bachelor nature at this time. He said miserably, "master Barol, I'll tell you everything I know. Just ask for a happy one." Seeing barrol nodding acquiescence, he stroked his injured shoulder, stood up and said, "a month ago, boss fork snake took these people back to Xiangye town. They killed boss Sven first and forced our brothers to stare at you. Boss fork snake said that as soon as you come back, he will kill you all to eliminate future troubles."

"What's the attitude of the sheriff's office when the fork snake kills Sven?"

"There's nothing going on at the sheriff's office."

"Where did the fork snake return to Xiangye town?"

Peter thought for a moment and said, "boss fork snake boasted to us before that his cousin downer is the leader of the Dengshi thieves' Union. I think he borrowed manpower from Dengshi."

Barol nodded, gathered several old guys together and said: "It's almost clear that forked snake went to Dengshi city to go to his cousin Donna. Donna must be the leader of the thieves' Union, otherwise forked snake would have gone to Dengshi City long ago, so Donna is likely to go to the masked brotherhood. The masked brotherhood is the behind the scenes boss of forked snake. Their tentacles have extended from the kingdom of Borui to Dengshi city of Dodo Kingdom, and Xiangye town is theirs Next goal. "

"In other words, the masked brotherhood is doing the same thing as us, so we will always bump into each other, whether it is deepwater city or Xiangye town... The difference is that we are very careful, but the masked brotherhood is very rough. It seems that they have the acquiescence of the great lord Marquis dwemik."

"The masked brotherhood is powerful, and their mercenaries are even stronger than elite soldiers! This organization obviously has the background of the Borui kingdom. According to reason, the Marquis de Wemmick, the great Lord, can't allow the Borui forces to run amok in his territory. It's difficult for the Wemmick family to do something inconvenient with the power of the masked brotherhood?"

"Barol, there's still time to think about this now? We've ruined the good deeds of the dweimick family. It's too late if we don't run away!"

An old spy glanced at the unconscious prisoner and whispered, "with him, you're afraid you can't find the answer? Just like the No. 47 mercenary in deep water city, you can ask anything if you pour a few bottles of Psychedelic medicine down!"

"That's what I said... Bury the body quickly and let's get out of here." As he spoke, Barol walked towards the prisoner.

At this time, a sharp cold wind quickly hit his side neck.

Barrow Erqin cultivates the secret shape of the monkey. Although he has not yet reached the state that the body moves with the heart, his sharpness and flexibility have surpassed ordinary people. At the moment of life and death, his hard study and hard training finally paid off. He bent his knees and pushed his legs vigorously, and the whole person jumped forward like a vigorous mountain ape. However, the cold killing machine is like a bone maggot, which makes him smell the smell of death.

Death did not arrive as scheduled.

A fierce wind rose out of thin air, blowing his cloak and hunting. Barrow looked back and saw that the elite guard Badu held a Black Dagger in time. The attacker's body was blurred, and the flying dark cloak was like a huge black wing, brushing fiercely at Badu.

Fight in a cloak? To be handsome is to die!

The monkey militia Badu was expressionless, raised his hand and stabbed out with a sword. The sword light instantly disappeared into the black cloak. With a "bare" sound, the cloth pieces flew everywhere. A ghostly figure stuck to the ground and rushed at the prisoners a few meters away.

Barol's face changed greatly and roared, "stop him!"

It's too late!

A blood mist spewed from the prisoner's neck. The attacker passed by and shot at the periphery of the forest like lightning. At this time, a figure like an iron tower blocked the attacker's way. It was Rusa, the Funiu militia.

Facing the tall and burly Rusa, the attacker did not flinch. He kicked and stamped, and the rotten leaves on the ground burst forward like flowers. A black sword light came first, and went straight to Rusa's neck.

The black sword was shadowless and fast as electricity. Rusa couldn't see clearly, and he didn't need to see clearly. The muscles surged like water waves, the joints crackled, and the power was transmitted layer by layer. The heavy hammer rubbed the air, issued a terrible cry, rolled up the dead leaves all over the sky, and hit the attacker's head straight.

Another counterattack of suicide?!

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Ziggy, the shadow warrior, didn't expect this to happen.

After the fork snake regained control of the underground forces in Xiangye Town, Qi Ge was going to lead the team to leave, but the fork snake begged him to get rid of a group of newly recruited exile thugs from Sven.

Of course, this is a small matter, but more than 20 people died in Xiangye town at once, which damaged the reputation of the public security office, so Zig arranged this field ambush.

Ziggy is a shadow warrior who specializes in assassination. He hates confrontation. It's really easy for two blood guards and 35 elite mercenaries to deal with a group of refugee villains. However, he doesn't need to take action at all. Before the battle, Ziggy hid under a bush of thorns in a color changing cloak to practice his lurking skills. Therefore, he witnessed a ruthless massacre and escaped.

When the enemy launched the attack, they did not make any cover up. Their footsteps were particularly harsh in the quiet forest, but they had sharp perception and amazing speed, and could accurately find every opponent in the dark. However, the mercenaries carefully trained by the brotherhood had no time to respond, could not organize effective defense, and were broken one by one.

The assassin's keen intuition tells Ziggy that the strength, speed and skills of these enemies have exceeded the limits of mortals. He may be able to deal with two, but he can't deal with so much, and the failure of the two blood guards also confirms this.

The blood guard tried his best to kill an enemy. At the moment when his body was cut open, the enemy stabbed one blood guard with his backhand, and the other blood guard was surrounded by several enemies. Although he broke out his bloodthirsty power, he was still pinched off his limbs and back by a strong enemy.

The basic strength of the blood guard is twice that of ordinary people, and the strength is doubled in the bloodthirsty state, which is equivalent to the joint force of four adult men. There is a huge increase in perception and speed. The biggest difference between shadow warriors and blood guards lies in the control of skills on power. There is no difference between their physical quality and bloodthirsty effect.

Somehow, Ziggy instinctively analyzed the enemy and summarized it into two categories.

"Barol, what are you giggling at?"

"Boiling blood potion, blood guard, shadow warrior, masked brotherhood,... Mercury has an opponent. Don't you think it's interesting?"

"What's so happy about this?" Saji widened his eyes and looked at Barol for a moment. They couldn't help laughing. After stopping laughing, Saji asked again, "what are you going to do with that guy?"

"Haven't you become an idiot? Just take care of it."

"I'm talking about Peter. Do you really believe him? Aren't you afraid of him betraying mercury?"

In the camp, the villain Pete was bandaged in his left hand and busy chopping firewood in his right hand. Barrow took back his eyes and said faintly, "who is not selling a rotten life? In terms of loyalty, what's the difference between you and him?"

"How can it be the same? I'm dead to mercury!" Saji patted his chest and said.

Barol's old face showed an admiring smile and said, "the master once told me that the most powerful place of mercury is not force, but the ability to absorb members and cultivate talents. One day, you will understand... I promise you won't regret joining us!" At the same time, he said in his heart, "because Mercury is only the tip of Lord Victor's iceberg."

"Now, what should we do?"

"Peter is a native. He can bring people into the thieves' Union in Dengshi city. Then we will secretly compete with the masked brotherhood." After a pause, Barol turned to Saji and said, "I'll leave it to you to infiltrate the thieves' Union. Is there a problem?"

"What can be the problem?" Saji shrugged his shoulders and said, "what about you?"

"Of course I'm going back to see my master!"