Chapter 27, Abandoned Village

Groups of mercenaries guarded the carriage in the middle, and there were a few light cavalry walking in front of the carriage a few hundred meters away. It took more than an hour to arrive here. Unless he encountered a large number of enemies, he would always find his way ahead and leave a mark for the caravan behind.

When Ryan first came to this world, he used to think that wanderers were ninja-like guys, killing enemies invisible, usually hiding in the dark forever, coming out at critical moments to give the enemy a fatal blow. tail.

Well~ There are indeed such rogues, but those rogues have already advanced from rogues to shadow killers or even higher-level existences. Ordinary rogues are actually not much different from fighters. They are also exposed In the sight of the enemy, use simple weapons such as hand crossbows, rapiers, saps, short bows and short swords to fight, but they seldom face hard, but use more attacks and dodges.

The role of rogues in the adventure team is to detect traps, detect enemies, unlock locks and make props, and prepare for the killing blow. If they really want to go to the battlefield, the survival rate of these rogues is higher than that of soldiers. Low, they are too fragile.

Moreover, due to their occupational characteristics, rogues are the occupations that are most likely to argue with their companions when sharing money and taking loot. Extremely dangerous and necessary (for example, you can't move on if you can't pick a lock, or encounter a trap), rogues always like to sit on the ground, using their eloquence and bluffing ability to constantly emphasize how important they are to the team, What would happen without them, the core is to share more things (even if you have already hidden one more).

Although Lion doesn't like them very much, he is past the impulsive age (psychological age), and he admits that sometimes the strength of these rogues is necessary.

"The scariest thing is not the enemy who shows his weapon to duel with you, but the friend who shakes your hand with a dagger hidden behind his back."

——"Savior" Emperor Ludwig of the Empire.

"We're almost there!" Imperial businessman Oliver took out a roll of maps from the compartment of the carriage: "This is one of the rest points."

"Take a break?"

"Well, this is a map produced by Marienburg, which records mountains, rivers, towns and major commercial routes on the mainland in detail. As long as merchants who have been in Marienburg all the year round can get this map, as a price , we will also report the new road conditions and situation we have to Marienburg.” Oliver showed the map in front of several people, and sure enough, as the imperial businessman said, the map is densely marked with major towns and roads, as well as fields possible resting places.

Lighting up the torch, Ryan noticed that some trade routes were green, others were yellow and red, and so were the resting places.

"Green represents safety, yellow represents that there may be small threats, and red...represents business opportunities and opportunities to make a fortune." Oliver reached out and stroked his beard. The resting place for the night is yellow.

"Danger always coexists with opportunity. Didn't the first human to land on the empty island also make a fortune? Hahahaha~ If there is no danger, why would we come to Nord to take so much goods?" Ma Ci also laughed.

How can you make money if you are not willing to take risks?

An investment with both low risk and high return is a scam, unless Ryan is strong enough to participate in the game of the gods.

The convoy continued to move forward. After it got dark, the guards and mercenaries lit up torches. At around 4:30 in the afternoon, the convoy finally arrived at the rest point Estelle mentioned.

In the heavy snow and hazy fog, the dilapidated villages are displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

This village is very small. There are about a dozen houses, most of which have leaky roofs. The walls of the village are made of logs as the skeleton, and the bottom is built with mud and bricks. The height is less than three meters. The gate of the village has been destroyed. It looks like it should have been forcibly smashed open. In addition, the wall has been damaged in many places. The most serious part can accommodate at least two carriages. The forest is not far from the village, only 200 meters away. If you want to climb the mountain road of Hordaland Mountain, you must pass through this forest.

"The place is here, Nord's brothers, get out of the car and unload the goods, Falk, you take a few people, go to cut some wood nearby, and block the gap, Mather, take three of you to the nearby river Get a few buckets of water inside." Rost immediately commanded.

"Arrange a few people to guard, Estelle, and those gentlemen, follow me." Ryan waved his hand, signaling the half-elf and the wandering knights to follow.

"I'll go too." A long-legged man in black high-top leather boots came down from the carriage, and Teresa changed into a black combat leather jacket, with a white fox fur coat on her shoulders, holding a staff Walked among the crowd.

The female sorceress' long black hair shimmering down to her waist, her beautiful face is still so bright in the dark night, the sapphire earrings are shimmering, and the violet crystal on the staff illuminates the road ahead.

All the men present were stunned, and only Ryan could be sure that Teresa had recovered about 50% of her strength.

"Let's go!" Not much to say, the women of the Garland Council have never been vases. Ryan led a group of people to the gate of the village carefully. Estelle knelt on one knee and checked the footprints.

The dense footprints show that in the recent period, there have been many traces of entering and exiting this rest point.

"This footprint should be Birger." The elf's racial talent is dark vision. Half-elves can't see as far as elves, and it is more than enough to observe close distances. Moreover, there is a sorceress's staff to illuminate the road.

"What about these messy footprints?" Ryan also knelt down, identifying the footprints on the snow. These footprints were smaller and more messy.

"These should belong to the goblins." Combined with the known information, Estelle made the following judgment.

"Didn't the Pathfinder leave any message?" The wandering knight Ike said casually, but his eyes kept turning around the sorceress' long legs and chest.

Women are very sensitive to men's eyes, Teresa felt it right away, she tightened her jacket in disgust, turned slightly to avoid Ike's sight: "Then you mean... there will be goblins Hiding in the village?"

"It's okay, if there are those goblins, watch me cut them all in two for you! My lady, I will dedicate the goblin's ears to you!" Ike laughed loudly, he Pulled out his long sword and danced the sword flower, as if performing a beautiful dance.

"Yes, yes! My big sword is already hungry and thirsty!"

"And so is my long sword."

"We dedicate our victory to you, Lady Trovik!"

Several wandering knights booed one after another.

"That's a good thing, let's invite some of you to check those houses! I'll go and see the one in the middle." Ryan thought to himself that these rogue knights knew how to flatter the sorceress.

There is still a chance to perform, so Ryan assigned a task, who knows that Ike did not let him go: "If I heroically destroy the enemy, will the Lord Knight buy me a glass of Bagman beer?"

"I'm afraid you are living in a dream. I can only buy you horse urine." Bagman beer is the most famous beer on the continent, and it is a masterpiece of dwarves. It is brewed with malt and is the best and most refreshing in the entire continent Alcoholic beverages are not only nutritious, but can even be used as dry food. A few glasses of Bagman beer can ensure that you will not be hungry for a day.

The crystallization of this kind of dwarf brewing technology is of course expensive. Unless Ike is willing to use his savings, he must not be able to drink it. Ryan thought that this product is really thinking too much.

So several people split up, and Ryan held the warhammer on his chest with both hands, and walked towards the big house in the middle of the village. It is usually the place where the village chief or lord lives, and it is also the place where the most likely to hide dirt.

The steps were covered with snow, and Ryan's leather boots stepped on the wooden steps, making a creaking sound.

"Squeak~" The door of the house was not locked or tied. Ryan stretched out his hand and gently pushed the door open. The thick wooden door panel made a decaying sound, and he couldn't see his fingers inside.

"Light Art!" Teresa also followed, and the sorceress raised her hand to perform a zero-level trick light art, and the interior of the house was illuminated.

It was a mess, this was Ryan's first impression. If he had to describe it more specifically, it would be as if the room had been swept away by robbers and then eaten by dogs.

That's right, like being chewed by a dog, the whole house is full of signs of damage. There is nothing wrong with deserted villages that will attract adventurers and travelers passing by and looking for treasures, but it is unwritten to leave an environment for latecomers to stay. Common sense, so those holes in the wall are definitely not the masterpieces of adventurers and mercenaries.

Except for the broken wood left in the corner, Ryan didn't even find any furniture. The ground inside the house was fairly flat, but the walls were damaged in many places and leaked air. Waiting for the mercenaries to reinforce them with wooden boards, the night would be over.

"Wait... Ryan, what is this?" The sorceress made a new discovery in the room.

"Huh?" Ryan approached quickly, and found that the sorceress found a few "mushrooms" in a corner of the inner room.

It is actually quite reluctant to say that this thing is a mushroom. This thing has a blood-red skin, yellow and green spots, and it looks disgusting. Man has the face of a beast, with slender eyes and a maniacal laugh.

"Oh my god! What are these!" After seeing what this thing looked like up close, Teresa felt extremely uncomfortable. Like stepped on something.

Looking back, a similar mushroom had been stepped on by her heel. Dirty yellow mushroom juice splashed on her high-heeled boots, and a vomit smell filled the room.

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!

Ryan reached out and hugged Theresa's slender waist, feeling good: "This is the blood shade mushroom."

"Blood shadow mushroom?" The female sorceress took out a towel from the interspatial ring, but the disgusting mushroom juice was difficult to wipe off and gave off an unpleasant smell. She couldn't help but wailed: "My shoes!"

Ryan let go of the woman's waist. He reached out and used brute force to uproot the whole mushroom. Amid Teresa's complaints of "throw it away", he threw it out of the hole in the wall: "This is the masterpiece of Goblin, but are you interested in knowing how this thing was formed?"

"How did it form?" The sorceress was still wiping the surface of her leather boots vigorously with a towel: "Enough, don't stay in this room anymore, let's talk in another place!"

"As you wish, and, let me come!" Ryan stretched out his right hand, the light blue energy flipped in his hand, the water vapor in the air formed a water ball, and the pure water ball scratched the surface of the leather boots , and finally washed away the dirty mushroom juice, the sorceress breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this, and quickly pulled Ryan out of the room, and then waved her hand as a spell, and the discarded wood in the corner flew directly over, blowing away the inside of the room. The door was sealed: "That's all right!"

When the two of them came out, several wandering knights had checked several houses, and they also found some blood-shade mushrooms. Ike carried one of the largest ones: "Dear Ms. Trovik, I think I I can dedicate it to you... well, I was just joking, don't point the wand at my face!"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" The mercenaries and guards laughed loudly. Many people were repairing the damaged walls. They used felled trees and planks to reinforce the gaps, and some soldiers were already cooking. meal.

"What about the druid?" Ryan thought to himself that the druid didn't explode in place when he cut down the tree like this? very strange!

"That druid didn't stop, and went straight into the forest... Mather! Don't be in a daze there! This water is not enough for so many of us to drink, you take someone to fetch a few more barrels!" Rost walked up, The black-robed man seemed to be enjoying the cold and earth-shattering environment, and he then shouted: "Brothers, speed up, if you don't want to sleep in the open air at night!"

"No one wants to sleep in the open, boys, hurry up!" Wirth responded with a smile, and the mercenaries pulled up the tent cloth to cover the leaky roof.

"Well, Ms. Trovik, do you want to take a bath at night? If necessary, just ask, and we will fetch some water." Oliver's fat body swayed in front of the female sorceress, full of flattery He said, "Just let them make an extra trip. It's okay. The water source is not far from here."

"No need, just arrange a separate room for me, and more." The sorceress pointed at Ryan: "Arrange me with him."

"Yes, yes, we understand." Oliver gave Ryan an ambiguous look.

Ryan pretended not to see it, and the kingdom knight wanted to continue the topic about the blood shade mushroom just now, but the half-elf Estelle appeared: "Mr. Ryan? There is something going on here, can you come and have a look?"

"OK."