Chapter 65: Murder in the Caravan Accompanying the Army (18)

Moments before the black smoke that could cover everything rose, Kil and Zambirus rushed to the door of the house at the back door. They directly used their strength with the tall guard companions, using their shoulders as impact weapons, and aimed at the tightly held people. The tightly closed wooden door hit him.

Fortunately, the Yisi Knifehead Gang did not build this wooden door as strong as the outward back door. The two of them just bumped into each other and broke the wooden pin at the door with a click, and broke into the house directly.

However, Kil couldn't understand the situation inside. The inside of the wooden door should be the entrance hall of a house or an open hall, but when it appeared in front of him and Zambirus, it was a dead end.

The description of the dead end was not accurate. In fact, although at first glance, there was an empty room no more than three meters in size behind the door, but after just scanning the traces on the ground, Kil discovered that the wall facing him should not be here.

There were messy footprints on the ground, as well as decorations that had fallen to the ground and been knocked over due to nervousness.

These things were abruptly separated by the wall in front of them.

"What the hell is this?" Zambirus scratched his helmet and looked around in confusion, saying that he couldn't figure out why this was the case after entering the door.

He thought that as soon as he came in, he would fight with the gang thugs who were entrenched here and confront each other through the back door, but as soon as he entered, it was a dead end?

Kil lightly bumped Zambirus with the elbow of his right arm, raised his hand and pointed at the messy marks on the ground in front of him with the tip of his sword.

Zambirus understood immediately, just as the two of them were about to take another two steps forward to check the wooden wall in front of them that shouldn't be there.

Suddenly, a plank on the front of the wooden wall lifted up, and under the light from the door behind Kil, a crossbow appeared behind the open plank.

Danger! Kil had no time to remind his companions. The moment the crossbow owner launched his attack, he took a step forward and put his shield in front of him.

Ding, ding.

Two rings at a time.

The hand crossbow actually loaded two crossbow arrows at once, but luckily, they were all blocked by Kiel's shield at that moment.

As if seeing that the sudden attack had no effect, the wooden board was suddenly lowered and closed.

But Keir's sword followed up with a heavy chop.

Boom - crackle, the long sword waved, barely splitting a lot of wood, but the other party was obviously very willing to spend money on the materials of this thing. Originally, the wood in the Western Province was a bit expensive because there were no big forests. The wood here It was actually made of more valuable and sturdy wood.

Seeing that Kil blocked the enemy's sneak attack and attacked the wooden wall in front of him, Zambirus also waved the sword in his hand and smashed the wooden wall with the mechanism in front of him.

However, traps are not limited to the front. The landscape paintings originally used to decorate the walls of Kiel's house on both sides of the house were suddenly knocked off, and then several long guns suddenly stretched out from behind. The fierce gunfire was accompanied by the gang thugs behind the trap. The sound of excited breathing hit both of them.

Ever since the wooden board in front of them could flip up and attack them, the two of them had naturally been extra alert. So when the paintings on both sides of the room fell, the two of them immediately went back to back, one to the left and the other to the right. Several spears came with the attack.

"How cunning!"

Kil yelled and used his shield to defend himself. At the same time, he charged up the long sword in his right hand and prepared to counterattack.

"They were prepared!"

Zambirus answered, and in response to his words, the particularly excited thugs' grins came from behind the wall.

"Suffer death, you skinned fellows."

Although the leather armor worn by Zambirus was not the uniform worn by soldiers in the local Grass Rat Town, the inexperienced gang thugs did not care so much and directly poured out all the anger they had received from the soldiers responsible for security over the years. The spear stabbed out in his hand was on.

The final result was not the same. Even if several of the spears that Kil faced were thrust into his chest at the same time, they could not penetrate Kil's light and strong shield made of elven metal. They could only hit the shield fiercely, knocking Kil's head apart. His left arm and shield hit Kil's chest.

Things were not going well for Zambirus. Although the leather shield also blocked the spears that did not have enough power to poke, the thick skin on the surface of the leather shield could only block the sword slashes, and the solid wood as the main body inside barely blocked it. The iron tip of the spear, but the spear tip with barbs, after piercing most of the leather shield, the barb at the top firmly fixed Zambirus's shield.

"Oops."

As soon as Zambirus realized that something was wrong, the thugs hiding behind the wall in front of him pulled their spears hard according to the method given to them by the boss before, dragging Zambirus forward and falling uncontrollably.

On Kiel's side, the shield blocked several spears that were thrust from the front with slight damage. Then Kiel waved his charged arm heavily, and the long sword in his right hand slashed diagonally towards the barrel of the spear.

Cracking, even though the gun barrel itself is made of strong and flexible wood, it is relatively thin after all, unlike the wooden wall that was used as a mechanism before. Kiel slashed down with his long sword, breaking the barrels of two spears with one strike.

Without giving the opponent a chance, Kil continued to slash, cutting off the barrels of all five spears before the opponent could put away the protruding spear.

Seeing that their weapons were destroyed, the thugs hiding in the narrow room on the other side of the wall panicked for a moment, not knowing what to do next.

Kiel's long sword poked several times through the hole where the painting was originally hung, but it had little effect. The thugs all backed away and hit Kiel's long sword randomly with the barrels of their guns.

Seeing this, Kil retracted his sword and picked up a small hand crossbow hanging on his belt.

This thing is a weapon he captured in a battle some time ago. It is small enough to hang on his belt and is not in the way, and it is also very powerful.

Unfolding the crossbow arm, a light click sound indicated that the crossbow arm had been fixed. Then Kil took out a small crossbow bolt pinned behind his back from the bag on his waist, manually pulled the crossbow string, and then put the crossbow With the arrow on the track, Kil sent the hand crossbow to the hole in front of him, took aim briefly, and pulled the trigger amidst the wails of several thugs in the room.

Whoosh.

At the slightest movement, a short and thick crossbow arrow pierced the abdomen of a thug.

The thug immediately leaned back against the wall in pain, covering the wound on his abdomen with his hand. However, the design of the blood groove on the crossbow shaft caused blood to continuously gush out from the crossbow bolt, and it could not be blocked no matter how hard it was blocked.

The other thugs were frightened, and the three of them immediately knocked hard on a wooden wall in the narrow space. After several knocks, a narrow gap was opened for a person to enter and exit sideways.

The three thugs slipped away from here in an instant. But there was another person who was probably a good friend of the injured thug on the ground and insisted not to leave. He wanted to help his companion out of here.

But then the crossbow string twitched again, and another crossbow bolt shot in, directly hitting the head of this somewhat loyal thug.

"Ugh." With a muffled grunt, the thug lowered his head and fell to the ground, motionless. The thug who was injured in the abdomen was stunned for a moment, then picked up the spear shaft on the ground, moved it a few times, and stubbornly poked the barrel of the gun towards Kil outside the hole in the wall.

But without the metal tip, the gun barrel was nothing more than a stick. When it poked Kil's armored body, he couldn't even push Kil backwards.

Glancing at the situation in Zambirus, Kil calmly cocked the small hand crossbow, loaded another crossbow bolt, and then raised his hand to aim.

As if he knew that his death was imminent, the thug on the other side of the thick wooden wall dropped the gun barrel in his hand, cursed Kil severely, and then was shot in the eye by an arrow, and the crossbow bolt entered his brain, and he died immediately.

"Hey, hey, hey, Kil, help, help!"

On Zambirus' side, the leather shield in his hand was poked and hooked by several of the opponent's spears. At this time, he was blocking the wall in embarrassment. The shield in his hand was pressed against the wall, and he was fighting with several people inside. Goons fight for control of weapons.

For a moment, he didn't know whether the opponents controlled his shield, or whether he used the shield to control the spears of the opponents.

However, both parties were so angry that they were talking obscenely. The people inside were cursing Kiel and others outside, while Zambirus outside was cursing and wanted to chop off the heads of the thugs inside.

"Come if you can! Cut off our heads! If you can't do it, just wait for death! Hahahaha!"

The few thugs inside were quite aggressive. They probably took advantage in the battle with the local soldiers just now.

"In a moment, I will treat you two like other dog soldiers. I will remove all the hard skin on your bodies and taste the daggers of brothers."

Kil turned around and observed the situation on Zambirus' side. He found that it was very difficult because the entrance and exit passages for the weapons of the two parties that could hurt each other were the small holes behind the landscape paintings on the wall. Blocked by Zambirus' leather shield.

The two parties are entangled, you can't hurt me, and I can't hurt you.

Difficult.

In this regard, Kil said nothing, but pointed to the leather shield on Zambirus's left arm, shook his head, and then pointed to the small hand crossbow in his hand that had been stringed.

Zambirus understood what Kiel meant and was a little embarrassed, because he felt that once he stopped exerting force on his side, it would be difficult to keep his leather shield under the strength of the other five people.

Because half of the shield had been pierced by five spears, and the shield was damaged by the barbs of the spears and the struggle between the two parties. Once he let go, the shield would probably fall apart soon.

But Zambirus only hesitated for a moment and made his decision.

He stuck the long sword in his right hand on the ground, then took out the dagger and cut the fixed belt on the back of the shield on his left arm. With a bang, the originally tight belt broke instantly, and he cut another one. Soon, the arm It came off the shield.

As expected by Zambirus, the leather shield instantly lost its balance of strength and was torn into pieces by the inward pulling force of several people inside.

With the sudden release of force, several thugs behind the wall fell to the ground in an instant. Taking this opportunity, Zambirus fiercely threw the dagger in his hand into the hole in the wall.

"ah!"

The dagger pierced one person's body.

Kil took a step forward, aimed his small hand crossbow at the head of the person inside, and shot an arrow directly. Due to the opponent's movement, the arrow hit the opponent's neck, directly penetrated the neck and nailed the person to the wall.

"what happened?"

The few people inside immediately panicked. Just when Kil was loading the crossbow and nodding an arrow, they felt something trembling on the soles of their feet. The ground at the front entrance of the house, the ground at the original gate, suddenly rose up. ground.

Accompanied by the chants from the underground gang thugs in the house and the trembling sound of the mechanism, the mechanism at the door gradually rose, apparently to lock the two of them inside.

"No! Get out quickly."

Kil yelled and immediately pushed Zambirus towards the door, but a section of the ground gradually rising at the door caused an obstacle. At the two-meter-high door, the ground had already risen one meter.

There was not enough time for the two of them to get out. Without hesitation, Kil grabbed Zambirus, who was much taller and stronger than him, and pushed him out of the remaining gap.

Zambirus hesitated when he was lifted up, but soon figured it out, no longer resisted, followed Keir's push, climbed over the raised mechanism, and landed outside the door of the house.

Boom.

The mechanism finally closed, and a wooden wall rising from the ground pushed hard against the top of the door, locking Keir inside the house.

Fortunately, the mechanism is not a perfect fit, and the two of them can still see each other through the gaps.

"Kiel, you wait here, I'll call someone over right now. Find an ax to chop this damn wood!" Zambirus knocked on the original wooden door with his fist, but there was a mechanism as thick as his palm. , it is like a wall, and there is no sound even when the fist hits it.

But Kil stopped Zambirus: "No, there is something weird here. There is more than one passage in this house. Go back and tell others not to attack here for the time being. First, go and deal with other parts of the opponent's lair, and finally let the Anvina Knight Break this place from the outside.”

Zambirus looked back at the knight who was fighting with a dexterous figure, and felt that Kiel was right. The thick wooden wall that they could not cope with was probably only one or two pieces in the hands of the giant ax in the hands of the Anvina knight. Next thing.

"Okay, I'll inform the others right now, please take care."

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Kil turned around and looked at the small, darkened room.

Because the door behind was blocked by a thick wooden wall rising from the ground, the light here instantly dimmed.

There was only light coming from the cave entrances that attacked him on the left and right sides.

The cave entrance on the left was particularly quiet. The people inside were either dead or had escaped using the passage in and out. There were still curses from the bandits coming from the hole on the right.

Kil thought for a while and realized that the wall in front was obviously raised from the ground, with opening and closing mechanisms on it, and there were obviously people behind him who were thinking of attacking him.

He cocked his small hand crossbow and came to the hole on the right. He raised his hand and fired an arrow, directly knocking down a thug who was treating his companions inside.

This sudden attack frightened everyone inside. They immediately knocked on a wooden wall. After a gap opened in the wooden wall, those who could still walk immediately slipped in.

The last bandit, who was stabbed in the thigh by the dagger thrown by Zambirus, moved too slowly. Kil reloaded the weapon first and shot an arrow in the head, killing the bandit.

Kil glanced inside. The thug he shot on the neck before was still fixed there. He was not dead yet, but he couldn't live either. His teeth were chattering and he was muttering as he waited for death.

He was shot directly in the back and in the heart by one of the thugs he had just attacked, and he was already dead. The thug he shot to death just happened to be stuck in the gap in the opened wall of the mechanism.

Keir's eyes lit up and he gestured to the size of the hole in front of him.

The hole that can be used to stab five spears is not small to be honest, but after all, it is only for weapons and cannot allow adults to crawl through. The width of this hole is much smaller than the chest width of an adult male.

But it doesn't matter, Kil can manually open its eyes.

Just use the long sword to hunt and chop them open.

He did what he thought of, but just after Kil cut the sword twice, there was a burst of shouting from outside the house. It was a sound that people would make when they are particularly frightened. Kil was very familiar with it. After all, his work often involves these things. deal with.

Stopping what he was doing first, Kil turned around and came to the door blocked by the raised mechanism.

There are gaps between the door mechanism and the wall, and a small part of the outside can be seen, and a small amount of light sources in the house also shine in through these gaps.

But when Keir looked over, he found that he couldn't see anything, it was completely dark.

He was a little confused and took another look.

It was still dark, as if it had passed from morning to night.

But it's obviously morning now.

Could it be said that there are also natural celestial phenomena such as solar eclipses here? Today is exactly the time of a solar eclipse.

Keir was a little confused.

He moved his head back slightly, and suddenly discovered that there was a stream of black smoke floating into the house where he was from the gap in the door.

Keir's eyes widened, he hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, and immediately took a few steps back, looking at the black smoke squeezed in from the gap.

The smoke is tangible and intangible, swallowing up sight wherever it floats.

Very strange.

Kil felt that the hair all over his body stood on end, and the ring on his chest where his heart used to be was also speeding up the blood circulation.

"It's not so unlucky."

Just when Kil was too nervous to get close to the black mist, he heard someone talking in the yard outside.

The opponent's voice was relatively clear amidst the loud noises caused by the knight's random attacks, sometimes left and sometimes right.

"The juice from the root system of the swamp glowing grass is mixed with the blood of the dark beast. After a simple adjustment, as long as it comes into contact with the air, a large amount of accumulated smoke will explode for a long time."

The voice slowly spoke with teasing information that explained the situation.

After hearing this, Keir breathed a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that the other party, a high-level thief from the Thieves Guild, had something that could destroy him. The situation is unfavorable at this time, and it may be released without warning, causing great casualties and chaos.

Fortunately, the thing in the opponent's hand can cause great chaos, but it doesn't seem to be lethal. Just listening to the sound, you can tell that the opponent and the knight himself are fighting in the yard.

And so were some of the surrendered gang thugs on the ground on the other side of the yard. Although their terrified wails sounded scary, the thugs' angry shouts let everyone know that this weird thing was harmless.

But the confusion caused by this thing of unknown scope is real.

After Kil was no longer afraid that this thing would hurt anyone, he clung to the gap in the door and paid attention to the situation of his companions outside.

The shouts of Rubis and Zambirus sounded one after another, and judging from the content, they occupied the house that was already under control. Even if no one can see.

Mr. Pavey and the others also calmed down from their panic, and were already shouting and groping on the roof of the house to find a way to get down.

Unable to see, naturally there was no need to stay on the roof and fight remotely.

Just when Kil breathed a sigh of relief, the sound of a mechanism suddenly sounded at his feet again.

"What's going on? Come again?"

He wailed helplessly.