Chapter 134, the Local Thieves Group and the Robbery Operation Begin!

Strange Wind Town soon ushered in a new day.

As an important trade road that must be repaired, every morning in Qifeng Town starts with the hustle and bustle of business travelers setting off to the north and south of the town.

Including Kendall's army, a large number of carriages and people came out of the buildings in a circle around the town. Taking advantage of the moment when the sky was just getting light and the monsters had to return to their nests to rest, the merchants coming and going from north to south gathered together. With his own caravan manpower, he carried the guards and guys who were drunk in the town's tavern last night to the carriage, and drove the fat sheep into the cargo gap of the carriage.

After a busy night in the town, a small local businessman dozed off, pushing his handcart to and from the caravans, taking advantage of the last chance of the day to make a small amount of money.

Warm bread freshly baked from the oven, soft wheat pancakes rolled with salty sauce, and paired with a large glass of freshly squeezed goat's milk, this is the best breakfast.

There are also local vendors who specialize in taking care of the passing caravans. These guys, who are never short of money, always pursue the quality of life in these places where they can't spend much money.

Salty cheese is poured into the bread when it is baked to increase the taste and flavor. The wheat cake is not only rolled with sauce, but also fresh vegetables cut into pieces and rolled in, plus a long strip of piping hot lamb freshly cut from the grill. The goat milk also disliked that it might not be clean if it was not squeezed out in front of them, so they had to ask a vendor to lead a ewe and squeeze it out in front of them before they could drink it.

Of course, it's not just food and drink, some caravans are noisily taking advantage of this opportunity to buy as much as possible of the supplies they didn't purchase last night.

Among the five human settlements along the trade route on the Qingfeng Grassland, Qingfeng Town has the most sufficient supplies among the villages and towns where it is safe to spend the night. During the next half of the journey through the Strange Wind Grassland, experienced caravans will try to keep the material reserves in their fleets at a high level to cope with various possible situations.

The work of purchasing supplies was not only done by a group of people from Kiel last night, but also for more general consumable supplies, the people of Kendall had professional clerks lead people to buy all the supplies at low prices.

A driver shook the whip of driving the carriage, and the first one was ready to set off on today's journey, and the others also started to set off one after another.

The Kendall army was also the first group to go south early. They brought their own small caravan with the army and the larger local caravan from the Western Province. Taking advantage of the calm wind at this time, He also set off early.

Two days ago, we saw the Kendall army defeat an entire group of harpies, and the local caravan that followed spread the news among the merchant circles of Strange Wind Town last night.

Some people were afraid of causing trouble and decided to postpone their departure for one day to avoid a possible crisis because they did not want to go with the Kendal people.

But more profit-seeking caravans think this is profitable. After all, by following such an army, at least the money spent on buying tribute sheep can be divided among the caravans that set out together.

In addition, some people with other purposes also mixed into the larger local caravan.

Baron Kendall had no objection to this, but sent someone to ask that the new arrivals need to provide him with a small sum of money based on the carriage and manpower.

This is a small fee for military protection.

Anyway, for the baron, one sheep is a herd, and two sheep are herds, so why not charge a little more for the wool and subsidize the army's maintenance expenses to a small amount.

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When the chaotic and noisy caravan departure outside the town ended early in the morning, the local small businessmen returned to their homes while pushing their handcarts with laughter. Some teams in the town that organized manpower to go out to cut grass every day were also ready, leaving time for businessmen from other places to set out. At this time, they would leave the town and rush to the grasslands that were not along the trade routes.

The locals have lived here for many years. Although the strong winds on the strange wind grassland are blowing disorderly, the harpies do not know when they will jump out of the tall grass to prey on humans.

However, the townspeople have long used their years of experience to find various 'safe' time periods to avoid danger.

You have to produce and live, even at the risk of instability.

A long time ago, local people discovered that when business travelers leave the town in the morning, the area around the town is actually the safest during this period. They speculated that the monsters that were eyeing the grass outside the town last night had been attracted by the moving merchants and horses and went to hunt these people.

Especially after someone tried out a way to avoid monster attacks by donating meat, the lazy harpies who didn't want to hunt would always pursue the caravan, completely ignoring the strange wind town, a difficult and hard-core human gathering point.

That's why they organized themselves and took advantage of this opportunity to go out and harvest large amounts of grass, whether it was to feed livestock, dry it and use it as fuel, or weave straw ropes and beat them into rough paper.

They are all free sources of raw materials for production and living.

Just take some risks and be brave enough to go out and cut the grass.

In the low-rise building where the Kendal people spent the night yesterday, after waiting for both groups of foreigners and locals to leave the town, the door of this seemingly deserted building opened again, and carriages and horses hurriedly moved in front of the deserted building.

Several horses were ridden out of the town by two men dressed in ordinary clothes, who looked more like dull guys who had overslept.

An empty carriage was driven out of the town silently by the two people, and then went around the outside of the town. It seemed that it was going to go around the outside of the town to other parts of the town.

Finally, two muscular men emerged from the building.

One person was very young, with golden brown hair, and he was carrying a big bag behind his back, and he didn't know what it contained.

The other man was a middle-aged man, wearing a hunting suit and carrying a delicate belt-buckle backpack with bulging bags on his back. After the two people walked out of the building, they finally closed the door of the completely deserted building and walked towards the town while talking relaxedly.

A beggar lying on the ground on the far corner of the street waited for the two of them to go away, and then he quickly got up, no longer wearing the disguise of dirty and smelly animal fur, and trotted towards the superior reception point.

The young beggar is not a fool. After many years of wandering on the road of crime, he can understand with only experience and intuition. Although the rumors of treasures in this foreign army are probably nonsense, these people must be real. What to do.

Especially it has a lot to do with the place where the two people disappeared last night!

What on earth are these people going to do?

He doesn't quite understand.

So I turned two streets and immediately found my superior, who was still lying on the ground pretending to be drunk.

"I can guarantee that they took action! It was right where they disappeared yesterday. There were three groups of people. One group rode several horses out of the town. The other group drove an empty carriage and also left the town, but I heard the sound. I knew I didn't set foot on the trade route, but walked around the town. The last group were the two people who were acting strangely last night."

The young man rolled his eyes: "It's still the same route we took last night, and it's the same street intersection we turned last night!"

The 'drunkard' who opened his eyes and stopped pretending to be asleep licked his lips and immediately laughed: "When you put it like that, the actions of these people look really professional. Could it be that they are people from the north? ?”

The young man curled his lips and said, "Even if the superiors from the north come to work on the territory of our thieves group, they don't contact us first." The young man looked at his superiors: "Is our boss very good among the superiors?" No face? Or are we just having a little fight in this small place? The people above don’t think we are one of their own at all?”

The contact person's expression was not good either. He didn't know whether it was because he was lying outside pretending to be drunk for half the night and was frozen, or because the boy's three-part question asked him too.

"Hmph, how do I know? If you have the guts, you can ask the boss yourself! But there is no delay now. Let's go. Stop watching. Report the news quickly and let the boss make the decision."

The connector and the young man pretending to be a beggar walked away quickly, swerving and turning, and arrived at the bandit group's small stronghold in this part of the town.

Since arranging surveillance last night, the thieves group has gathered all the people around this place. Except for some controlled young pickpockets, other people who can talk to the group have been scattered nearby.

This is the usual practice for an organization like theirs, no matter how big or small it is. Every time there is a 'big' action, no matter whether it can be successful or not, according to the knowledge learned by the boss of the thieves group in the thieves guild, concentrating manpower in advance is the best response. The first condition for change in life.

Due to limitations in communication capabilities, if manpower is not concentrated, it will be difficult to dispatch manpower that can complete the task when needed.

This is especially important for their band of thieves who don't even have a name.

They have also done several major crimes in the past year. Last year, they stole dozens of good horses from a group of horse dealers at once, and made a lot of money after quickly finding someone to sell the goods in Cavanland in the south.

The year before last, they were even more bold. They stole a large chamber of commerce's escort money box during the overnight caravan, and the coins in it made them rich on the spot.

Although people from the big chamber of commerce later sent people to hunt them down in Strange Wind Town, and the stolen money was taken back, which caused great chaos. But at least they were famous that time.

Having become famous, their lives in this industry are much easier. The Chamber of Commerce, which controls the power of the town, is afraid of causing disaster, so it no longer controls their pickpocketing behavior, and instead lets the members of their thieves group manage the town themselves. Theft problem.

It's okay to make a small fuss, but don't cause trouble for me.

As a result, the petty theft gang of several people was completely transformed and incorporated several other small-scale theft gangs in the town to form the Thieves Group. The boss who had studied in the Thieves Guild continued to be their boss.

Until today.

So when the beggar stalker and the drunken contacter reported the information to the leader of their bandit group in a stronghold hidden in a residential building, the middle-aged thief couldn't stand it anymore.

Unlike his subordinates, who were just a little angry at the outsiders who went to Strange Wind Town to do business without informing them, as the boss of the thieves group and an 'official' thief who had studied in the Thieves Guild, he felt that his face was burning.

Strange Wind Town is his territory and the place where he made his fortune.

All the secret affairs in the whole town were run through his hands.

This chamber of commerce wants to find trouble with another chamber of commerce, but is afraid that the two chambers of commerce will initiate large-scale friction, so it often secretly hires them to do "activities" that damage face but have no actual impact.

He would talk about the rules of thieves, talk to the other party before doing anything, and try to take advantage of both sides.

Some people have conflicts with their neighbors, but they are reluctant to take action. They will also find pickpockets operating on the street and pay them to teach the annoying neighbors a lesson. They will also disclose the news to the neighbors who are going to be punished and 'communicate' for the sake of peace in the town and friendly neighbors.

In short, although Wei Feng Town does not have many people and its power is about the same as that of an ordinary chamber of commerce, it is the 'lubricating oil' of the complex machine of human settlements, the 'balance beam' that adjusts the interpersonal relationships between the chamber of commerce and its neighbors, and its influence on foreign businessmen. A town tax contributor who collects the 'Pocket Tax'.

It is an indispensable and important part of the town's various powers.

But today, his subordinates reported to him.

Although it is inconsistent with what was said last night about the army escorting the treasure, this is very common among the dark forces spreading false news.

There was also a group of people from above mixed in this group of troops, and without informing him, they were eyeing some things in the town under his jurisdiction.

And is in action at the moment.

What is this? This is a slap in his face!

If he does nothing, how can he claim in front of his men that he is an official thief who has studied in the Thieves Guild?

The boss of the thieves group wanted to understand this, so he no longer hesitated. He immediately took out the dagger with a strange color flashing from his waist and threw it on the wooden table in the center of the stronghold.

Boom, the dagger firmly penetrated most of the wooden table. It was obvious that this thing was not only sharp, but also quite heavy, making it a good weapon.

"How is it possible to gather people together and want to do things on my territory? Brothers, let's disrupt their actions first and let them know that Qifeng Town is doing things secretly without notifying me or us. , he can’t even try to accomplish anything!”

Seven or eight young people dressed in different colors immediately cheered, and then someone quickly went out to call the caller, and gathered where Kiel and Knight Crow were going.

The boss of the thieves group continued to issue an order: "Spread out the people you are following, notify the surrounding personnel, and find each group of people they dispersed. If you find a group of people, you will be rewarded with three silver coins. If you keep an eye on them, If you have accomplished your meritorious service, you will be rewarded with three more silver coins."

"At the same time, tell the brothers that if you mess up the affairs of this group of people, the person who commits the crime will be directly rewarded with a gold coin, and I will pay for it myself. At the same time, I will choose him to take over the pickpocketing business on a street in the center of the town!"

Everyone present was moved by the latter reward. The former was not much money, but the latter not only received a lot of cash every year and every month, this was a matter of status and face.

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Gil and Knight Crow came to the street where the Chamber of Commerce Warehouse was growing luminous plants that they had visited last night.

The place was still deserted, but occasionally there would still be ordinary townspeople who had finished their work at other chambers of commerce next door and had been working all night. At this moment, they were walking past the two of them, feeling groggy and hungry.

They may be curious about the outsiders' appearance of Kiel, but their curiosity is limited. What these townspeople, who have worked hard all night, need most at the moment is to go home and have a delicious meal, and then in the daytime of the real world, their 'Night', have a good sleep.

Fatigue made them lose their curiosity. Human intelligence and minds were trapped in the tired and hungry bodies. At this moment, only hot meals could cheer them up. Even the gods could not help them with just spiritual comfort. They cheer up.

After all, people often say that only difficulties can make faith pure and noble, but the church has long understood that a prosperous and decent life, especially through the hands of the church, makes believers prosperous and dignified. This can truly produce a solid and reliable true faith that does not rely on material things. Belief.

Although hope in a difficult situation is a powerful spiritual driving force, as the Goddess of Hope can attest, more churches of gods have proven in practice that the good life brought by the religion of gods can inspire the support and support of believers. Belief.

After all, compared with the illusory future promised by hope, human beings who have experienced a beautiful and prosperous life know better who to choose.

The source of belief is driven by interests.

The gods have long understood this, and the gods who do not understand are slowly eliminated over time and gradually forgotten. When His last support in the world disappeared, this outdated god lost everything, gradually closed in on itself, and gradually disappeared.

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Kil and Knight Crow pretended to chat at the corner of a street, casually chatting about the use of long swords.

When the townspeople who were getting off work could no longer see this place from the narrow streets on the left and right, Knight Crow reminded Keir: "Are you ready? It's about to start."

Kil took a deep breath and nodded.

So the two of them pulled up the face-covering handkerchiefs around their necks to cover their faces. Knight Crow then jogged a few steps and came to the second-story wooden window where the luminous plants had been planted. He jumped up with a slight jump.

Before jumping up, he also kicked the wall with his toes, making a protrusion on the wall that could be climbed and stepped on to make it easier for Keir to come up later.

The knight stretched out his hand and pushed. The wooden window was already broken and the wooden wedges were broken, so it opened directly.

It was still bright inside the house, even brighter than the narrow street outside where only a gap in the sky could be seen.

The knight landed and his movements suddenly became faster.

When Kiel used his life energy to jump up and stepped on the raised window provided by Knight Crow, Knight Crow had already passed through the pots of luminous plants and went down the stairs in the fertilizer warehouse directly to the first floor. Enter the old guard on the inside of the building gate.

Before the old guard could react, he simply tapped the other person on the back of the head with his finger, causing him to faint and fall to the ground instantly.

Knight Crow even picked up the person from the ground and placed him on a bed of earthen bricks with a linen mattress filled with hay next to him. Then the knight rushed out quickly, returned to the second floor, passed through the fertilizer warehouse, and opened the wooden window facing the patio in the water room at the end.

Before Kil could follow him, Knight Crow wouldn't wait for him. He flipped it over and landed on the thick wooden board. But this time the knight didn't need to take care of Kil. He jumped directly on the spot and landed several meters high on the arrow tower in the center of the patio.

The moment he attached himself to the arrow tower, there was room for his feet to step on, as well as for his fingertips. With this strength, he jumped up again. With just one jump, he jumped more than 20 meters in an instant and came directly to the outside of the top of the arrow tower.

To be honest, if the streets outside were not narrow and the tops of the surrounding buildings were all covered with giant vines and spikes, the height of this arrow tower would make Knight Crow even jump directly from the top of the arrow tower.

Especially when he has not yet put on hundreds of kilograms of knight's steel armor and is holding a heavy magical weapon.

Afterwards, Knight Crow climbed directly in through the shooting hole, regardless of whether there was anyone in the arrow tower.

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As for Kiel, he did not build the roof as quickly as Knight Crow expected and clean up the giant vines on the roof.

He knew that Knight Crow had knocked out the guard guarding here, so he strode towards the metal birdcage he saw last night, and went straight to the beautiful bird with colorful feathers all over its body.

On his chest, the wooden sculpture heated up again, and a voice suddenly sounded in Kil's ears.

"Do you want me to explain the ritual and the patterns that need to be carved again?"

Kil was startled by the god's sudden words, but he still pulled out his dagger and cut off the metal lock of the birdcage with one strike, making the beautiful birds in the birdcage flutter in fright. As if sensing malice, the colorful feathers on the beautiful bird instantly turned an angry blood red.

The crown-like crown on his head also turned blood red and glowed.

"Be careful, this colorful champion bird is gathering magic power."

Keir didn't care about this, he only cared about one thing: "How did you suddenly be able to talk to me directly? Why didn't you do this before?"

"Gah, this is my last strength, don't let me down. Human, complete the ritual, and I will repay you. You must complete the ritual, definitely."

Then the sound stopped.

Kil moved quickly, and while the beautiful bird was still gathering its magic power, Kil leaned half of his body into the bird cage, and grabbed the bird frame made of wooden branches with his left hand to gain a stable fulcrum to draw strength from.

Then he waved his right hand forward, and broken feathers and a little colorful blood splashed out.

A bird's head landed on the bottom of a birdcage covered with dead leaves.