Parallel Armies——The Sound of the Turning Tide Chapter 9 The Age of Steam
Opening up the stone slab, there are steps cut out with an ax below. Here is a wine cellar with many racks of pottery jars. You can smell the aroma of wine that is not strong but very fragrant. With the last remaining light before the end of dusk,
Alexander saw a few spots of blood on the last step.
"Well..." The stone slab was put down, and there were only a few blood stains on the steps. One possibility is that the survivors ran in and closed the door, and the attacker left them alone for some reason. Another possibility is that the attacker went in and killed someone.
Afterwards, he closed the door, but this possibility was unlikely. Alexander thought for a moment, and there should be a high possibility that there are survivors below. "Fageni! Hitz! Come here, there may be survivors here!" Then
She began to walk down carefully, "Is anyone alive? We are mercenaries passing by, don't do anything." The two of them also heard the leader's shout.
"The leader called us, Fageni, let's go." After hearing the voice, Hitz quickly walked towards the leader.
"Here we come." Fageni put down a beam he was carrying, clapped his hands and followed Hitz down.
There was no sound in the wine cellar. After the three people carefully searched, they soon discovered a gray-haired child no more than fifteen years old. He was covered in blood and holding a sharp knife, lying on the ground.
Fall into coma.
Next to them were two robber corpses that had been carefully dragged over, leaving no blood on the ground. Both corpses had been stabbed into the heart with a knife, killing them instantly.
"Captain, this man is injured. He looks very serious." Hitz said.
It seems that the robber did not notice this place. Alexander breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went up to check his injured state. "I know, Fageni went to guard the door. If those people turn around, please call us."
"Okay, I'll call you when the time comes. This kid is quite a ruthless person." Fageni glanced at the young man on the ground with admiration, then turned around and walked out of the cellar.
Alexander checked and found that there were no wounds on the gray-haired young man. It was all the blood of the robber, which was the blood stained during the murder and dragging the body.
"Well, it doesn't seem to be injured. Did you faint because you were too tired or scared? Hizzy, please search the corpses for anything." Alexander thought for a moment and patted the young man's face. "Hey, wake up.
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"Okay!" This was the first time for Hitz to touch a corpse. She blamed it on the bad thoughts that Moeng Nan had instilled in her, but it was useless to say so much at this time.
Alexander's call had no effect. Heath did not find any valuable items from these bandits, and it seemed that they were thin and did not have much muscle. They looked like they were running fast and were responsible for informing people, or they were squatting to obtain them.
The kind that provides intelligence, or else he is just a handyman in the gangster's lair. It is precisely because of this that the young man can successfully counterattack.
"Captain, these bandits are so poor. They don't have a single copper coin on them." Heath was a little unhappy. After all, his hand was stained with blood. Fortunately, he could clean it up with magic.
"Just to be on the safe side, I'm just searching it." Alexander tried to take the boy's knife away and handed it to Heath, but he held it too tightly, which cost Alexander a lot of effort in taking it off without hurting his fingers.
Hitz took the knife and held it in his hand. He said, "Oh, this village is too miserable."
Alexander put the young man on his back and sighed as he walked out of the cellar: "Fageni can't see things in the dark now. If we can, maybe we can still chase him, but now we can only forget it."
Fageni waited outside until it was completely dark. Only part of the charcoal in the building was slightly lit, and there was no burning anywhere. When he saw the two people coming out, he yawned and said: "There is no magic, you have to let
Heath will find a way."
Hitz glanced outside the village and said: "I can't learn a spell that provides dark vision just for you. Of course, if you can pay for it and buy this kind of scroll, that's another matter. But I think it's okay to chase.
Chasing. Summon a few fire snakes, they have fighting power and can also provide lighting."
"That's too unreliable." Alexander shook his head, walked towards the direction the group left, and began to follow the footprints on the ground. "Use a torch, I can carry this person without lighting. But light it.
Torch chasing is very dangerous, you must be mentally prepared."
Fageni didn't say anything, just pulled out the knife and followed him, and Heath didn't summon the elemental life.
The three of them chased for a while, but the methods of these robbers were a bit cunning. They deliberately covered up their tracks in the later section of the road, and the visibility was very poor at night.
However, Alexander's vision was sharp and he still discovered that the bandits were making a circuitous move to the southeast not far away.
Continuing to catch up, they divided into two teams more carefully. One team moved towards the northeast, and the other team continued to walk towards the original southeast direction. Another person stopped here for a while in a bush.
It left extremely shallow footprints on the still moist soil.
"These people were too careful. They first took a detour, and then divided into groups to ambush for a while. They looked more like an army than bandits..." Although Alexander continued to move forward, he felt a little discouraged.
"Why did they massacre the village? I'm afraid it's even more confusing now." Fageni whispered a little later and glanced at the young man on Alexander's back.
"Cheer up and be silent. If you hear any disturbance later, put out the torch quickly." Alexander did not hesitate and decided to set off.
Just when Hitz was about to open his mouth, he just nodded after hearing the group leader's words... Of course she was the last one, and she didn't know who she was nodding to.
"The ambush continues to the southeast. There are only about five of them. We may be able to handle it. Let's pursue this direction. It may be that the large force found something on the way and they are chasing it, or it may be the destination of the large force and these five people.
They were inconsistent, so they split up when the escort arrived here. In short, it should be right to chase the less crowded one first." Alexander conducted a route analysis and then took steps.
"After all, we can't defeat a large army." Hitz added.
"No, in fact, the possibility of not being able to defeat this side with fewer people is not small. But if there are few people, I think there is a greater chance of running away after being defeated. Moreover, if it is not a bandit but a feud, it may not be possible to fight.
." Alexander is a bit presumptuous. It doesn't matter if she is outnumbered. After all, she is also a good adventurer or mercenary. It's just that ordinary bandits can't handle her shooting. As for other situations... maybe she can still
It's really possible.
Along the northeast direction, the three people with the gray-haired young man arrived in the plain area early the next morning. When Alexander lost the trace due to the soil in the early morning, he saw a metal city in the distance that was not built with rocks as walls.
After a night of running around, the three of them were tired and hungry, but at least they didn't feel very cold due to their activities and their excellent physiques.
But I'm afraid that the frozen body of the gray-haired young man you saved may have some sequelae, but there's nothing you can do about it. If he hadn't been saved, he might have died in the village.
Alexander silently carried the boy on his back towards the city. If nothing else, he probably lost him. But there was a possibility of meeting those five people in the city.
Hitz dispersed, lit it on his fingertips to dispel the cold and said to the flames: "Captain, we seem to have arrived." Alexander had seen it before, but she only saw it.
The warmth of dawn made the boy behind Alexander twitch, but he did not wake up directly.
"Don't worry about that for now, let's find a place to put this man down." Alexander strode towards the extremely wide city gate.
"If my eyes are right," Fageni was gazing into the distance. "This city seems to be made of steel?"
Alexander urged: "As long as we don't plan to attack the city, there is no difference between sand and steel. Let's go quickly."
"Okay, Captain! No problem, Captain!" Hitz emphasized the title too deliberately.
"Hiz, you should call me Alexander. It's really uncomfortable to talk like this."
"Because Alexander, aren't you the leader of our mercenary group? There's nothing wrong with calling him that." As an elf, his understanding of common language is somewhat different from that of humans.
"Am I wrong? I said this makes me uncomfortable!" Alexander raised his voice, but fortunately he did not yell.
"Okay, Alexander." Heath compromised.
The three of them came to the feet of this steel behemoth. The travelers, the merchant's convoy, and the mercenaries all looked normal, but the bright purple armor of the soldiers guarding the city gate was very strange. They leaked out of the abdomen and chest, making them even more...
Pay attention to the protection of the limbs. In addition, there are some strange brass gears on the joints, which will rotate when their limbs move.
Alexander took a second look at the armor and started queuing up to enter the city. Fagni was waiting behind her, also feeling a little confused about this novel armor. The reason why Heath looked so unsurprised was because he suffered from amnesia.
I've seen it before, and now I recall some fragments of my memory.
The three mercenaries proved to be exempt from the fee to enter the city. Although it was only a few mel, the identity of this mercenary group was surprisingly useful in the Bakato Kingdom. The mercenaries of other mercenary groups did not have this treatment.
These soldiers did not even question the identity of the boy Alexander was carrying, allowing the three of them to quickly pass through the city gate.
After entering the city, Alexander glanced around, looking for a grocery store or the like and asking where there was a hotel. The buildings inside the city gate were basically made of wood, but there were also rotating brass gears in some key parts, and there were many risks.
There were steam furnaces, and even the sky above a distant city was filled with steam, which was really spectacular.
Looking at this structure, the mechanical devices of the Insects flashed through Alexander's mind. But now is not the time to care about this.