Chapter 38 Punishment
"If you work hard and run away secretly, you will be dead. I will entrust mercenaries and adventurers to chase you all over the world." Panis acted like a vicious supervisor and said to the bandits who were cured by Lina and could not escape due to a fracture in the battle yesterday.
In the neutral land, the bandits are not really hated because most of them are robbed by small gangs, and they are more restrained when robbing. They only rob a small part of their property so that the past business travelers will not lose too much, nor will they lose their lives. The bandits in the other two human neighbors are completely different. Most of them not only rob money, but also kill people. In comparison, the bandits in the neutral land look particularly cute.
In fact, hundreds of years ago, the thieves in the neutral land of Reala were just like other places, even more brutal than other places. However, when the Free City was established, any large thieves committed crimes would often be wiped out by mercenaries at the first time. The strength of the thieves was completely unable to compete with the mercenaries, which eventually led to the large thieves having to choose between leaving Reala or being wiped out.
Later, these bandits discovered that small groups of thieves often were not encircled by the mercenary guilds because of their small targets, and would only be chased by various mercenary groups when they received the commission. However, their mobility was strong. Even if merchants and travelers entrust mercenaries to seek revenge and the thieves hid in the wilderness, the mercenaries often took a long time to play hide-and-seek with them. Even if they successfully found the bandits and killed them, they had wasted a lot of time and energy, and it was only said that the loss was not worth it. So gradually, the mercenary groups were not very willing to receive such commissions.
After hundreds of years, a unique pattern of getting along between bandits, mercenary groups and business travelers gradually formed. Large caravans would hire some small mercenary groups as protection, while small caravans would not afford mercenary groups. They would bring some cash on the road and pray that they would not encounter robbery. If they really unfortunately encounter bandits, they would only ask for 5% of the total value of the goods, and gold coins were preferred. Only if the gold coins were not enough, the goods would be snatched away. Sometimes the goods transported by a small caravan happened to be
What thieves need is that thieves often spend 5% of the cash they just got directly in the caravan to buy goods. Some even spend more than rob them. This leads to some caravans simply transporting a large number of daily necessities and wandering along the roads in the wilderness. When they encounter thieves, they directly sell the goods to them at a discount. After the thieves get used to it, they often know whether it is such a caravan. If so, they will not rob even if they don’t buy things.
After this unique relationship was formed, even if the business travelers encountered thieves, they would not lose too much, so they would not hate the bandits to the point of mercenaries chasing them. Although the bandits robbed less at one time, they won't be in danger of life. Moreover, over time, more and more business travelers are willing to pass here, and their income increases.
Therefore, for such a group of relatively gentle and cute professional bandits, even with a knight like Catherine who has a strong sense of justice, it is difficult to hate them. Even if they catch them, they will only teach them a lesson and will not kill people easily.
The same is true this time. Although these thieves were instructed to attack the marriage team, whether it was because of the client's strict orders or because they were used to rob money and not life. Anyway, no one died from beginning to end. Even if they wanted to set fire with tinder oil, they would wait until all the people stained with tinder oil ran out of the coverage area before ignition. With this detail, everyone could not bear to punish them. However, they were treated and let them go. Everyone was unwilling to give up, so they spent the whole night discussing how to punish them with the captives.
Finally, Panis was more experienced and proposed a solution that everyone agreed. Although the prisoners were not very willing, they could only agree aggrievedly under Panis's coercion. The punishment method was very simple, which was to solve the consequences themselves. Yesterday's battle did not have any impact in the early stage. The only one that really had a great impact was the last giant rock that fell from the sky. The giant rock not only smashed and created countless obstacles, but also smashed a large pit with a diameter of nearly 40 meters on the ground. If it was not handled in time, it would cause great trouble to the travelers coming and going. Even if someone returned to the Knowledge Capital to report the message, and when the Knowledge Capital sent a maintenance team to repair the road, it would probably take seven or eight days to waste. If these bandits were asked to fill the road with gravel, at least the commercial vehicles could barely pass through, which would be considered atonement for their actions.
"Yes, don't be lazy." Catherine rode on the horse and said to the prisoners: "We will return the same way in a few days. If I find out then that you did not fill the road as ordered, you will be responsible for the consequences."
A group of prisoners burst into tears. They failed to escape because they were all injured by fractures. Although Lina's treatment, the fracture location had healed, the injured area would have seven days to use too much effort. This sequelae would cause great trouble to their work today. It is conceivable that today will be a very difficult day.
"Sister, it will take at least a month to come back." As the convoy slowly moved away, Lina came over and said, "Even if they don't work, even if no one goes to the Shengdu to report the accident, they will be discovered and renovated by the monthly patrol team. Then we don't know whether they are obedient?"
"That's right." Catherine nodded and said, "That's why I scared them. I guess they dare not bet on whether I'm a lie. And they won't work too hard. I'm afraid that in a few hours, accomplices who escaped will come to find them. If there are too many people at that time, this job will be done quickly, so there is no need for them to break their promises and run away."
"Okay, they are lucky. If they meet a kind-hearted person like you, you, if I follow my ideas, they will not even cry." Lina put her hands on her hips, raised her chest and raised her head, and laughed proudly: "In this way, they can remember this lesson firmly and not dare to mess with us easily in the future, hahahaha."
Katherine had long been used to Lina's unique performance suddenly, so she shook her head helplessly, sighed deeply, and rode her horse a few steps to catch up with Vivian, who was also riding on the horse and was isolated from the outside world, too lazy to pay attention to Lina's intermittent disease.
"To be honest, Isabella's image is not suitable for you, it's too inconsistent." Only Panis, who kindly patted Lina's shoulder and said, "That kind of personality and behavior is only suitable for children. I'm right, she is still a child, right?"
"She is not a child. She was already in her thirties when she died in assassination." Lina said dissatisfiedly: "Although, although for some special reasons, she will always be ten years old until she dies."
"Look, I'll just say it." Panis shrugged: "So change one quickly, at least change one, at least change one doesn't have that many pranks, oh, no, I mean at least change one that suits your image."
"Ha, it turns out that this is your purpose." Lina pointed at Panis and burst into laughter: "You're done. Don't think of going over safely today. Wait for my revenge, hahahaha."
"Hey, you two." Catherine shouted in front: "Don't giggle like two fools, come here quickly, Captain Aerland has something to ask us for."
Lina immediately stopped laughing and glared at Panis. She looked like an angry child. She pushed away Panis and ran over first. Panis scratched her head and smiled bitterly, and with a helpless look, she could only follow her.
"We have a big problem now." As soon as we followed up, we heard the captain Airland say: "We lost four carriages before and gave up some supplies. Now the transportation tools are seriously insufficient. Although we can temporarily concentrate gifts on two passenger cars, it is always a bit inappropriate to squeeze all the staff of the wedding delivery team on the other three passenger cars. It is indeed quite crowded and the car is very uncomfortable. If it is just a temporary solution, there is no problem, but there is at least ten days left to go, so we can't keep squeezing like this all the time."
"So, what solution do you have?" Catherine asked.
"I'm wondering if we should send a few team members back the same way, buy a few temporary carriages and horses from the village outside the capital, and then catch up as soon as possible." Aerland replied: "We continue to move forward here. When they catch up, they are empty cars, and the speed will be much faster than us. If they are asked to travel as soon as possible, they will probably be able to catch up with us in three days."
"There is no need to do this." Catherine asked strangely: "Have you encountered many caravans along the way? If you meet a caravan again next time, discuss with them and just buy a few caravans from them. Even if a caravan cannot free up so many cars to sell to us, you can find a few more. On average, you can meet five to six caravans every day in these days. At this frequency, at most one day and a half, you can fill the gap in the vehicle."
"The problem is here." Aerland smiled bitterly, "I'm worried that the other party will tamper with the vehicles we bought. After all, our opponent is President Kara. Even if he doesn't come forward, the number of talents he can mobilize is quite large, and there are talents from all walks of life. If someone can set up a trap on the carriage, they might be successful."
Chapter completed!