Night attack on the outskirts of the stronghold and on the forest trails.
"According to the intelligence, there were only eight bandits who attacked, but all the five outposts disguised as villages were attacked. This is not like what ordinary bandits do, so..." Tazmi thought about what happened just now as she galloped.
Information obtained: "It should be imperial spies who discovered the outpost, but were unable to determine whether they were related to the night attack, so they acted like bandits in an attempt to induce a night attack. Judging from the purpose alone, they did succeed - but
I don’t know if I can send the information back alive.”
No... it should be possible... Chitong's tricks seem...
Chi hum——
A cold light flashed out from the forest and went straight towards Tazmi's throat.
It was too late to slow down or lower his head, so Tazmi fell backwards and fell to the ground, avoiding the attack with a sliding shovel.
"Who is it?" After getting out of danger, he rolled to his feet and looked towards the direction of the attack.
"Ha, let me say, letting the 'villager' sneak away is definitely useful. Although there is no way to follow him, you can definitely catch the reinforcing rats by ambush in the direction he leaves."
Walking out of the forest was a shirtless man wearing white trousers and a white headscarf. His skin was black and shiny, his muscles were knotted, and his head looked like a tiger's.
"The leader is wise!" "It seems that we have come out on top this time."
The other two people who appeared behind him also had the same skin color and dress, but one had a head like a deer and the other had a head like a sheep.
"Nanban?" Tazmi put her hand on the hilt of the sword: "It's troublesome..."
"Boy, you are lucky. We need to survive, so we will only break your hands and feet." The tiger-headed Nanman stared at Tazmi: "If you are afraid, you can choose to surrender, then I will spare your hands and feet."
"You seem to have misunderstood," Tazmi lowered her eyes slightly: "What I mean by 'trouble' is that since you don't look like humans, I may not be able to hold you back."
"Ha! Since you are looking for death, we will help you!" The tiger-headed Nanman suddenly pulled out the machete from his waist: "Brothers, let's go together -"
Ding! Phew——
With the sound of swords clashing and sharp blades piercing, the tiger-headed Nanman saw the sheep-headed Nanman being knocked back several steps while holding the sword, while the deer-headed Nanman was stabbed through by the young man without even drawing out his weapon.
.
The tiger-headed southern barbarian was furious and tried to turn around and attack the young man, but found that he could not control his body at all.
No, wait, the two subordinates should be behind you, why can you look directly...
Boom, grunt...
The tiger's head landed on the ground, and it rolled twice to reach Tazmi's feet, with an expression of rage and confusion still on its face. At this time, the headless corpse standing in front collapsed.
"Ah, it seems you were the one who attacked me just now," Tazmi kicked the dead deer-headed Nanman down, pulled out the bloody long sword and turned to the sheep-headed Nanman: "It seems I want a sword
Three kills is a bit taken for granted.”
"You bastard, you're actually the Teigu user who wasn't on the wanted list..." The sheep-headed southern barbarian still raised his sword, but the trembling sword blade proved that he was no longer able to take another blow.
"Teigu?" Tazmi lowered his head and looked at his sword: "Is the sword I randomly picked up the Teigu? But there are a bunch of identical ones in the blacksmith shop."
"Damn it! I will never die here!" The sheep-headed Nanman threw his weapon at Tazmi, then turned and ran away.
"Ah, what about over there..."
Bang!
After running for more than ten steps, the sheep-headed southern barbarian suddenly flew back in an unnatural posture. On the way, its whole body was ignited in flames. When it landed in front of Tazmi, only a strange-shaped blackened skeleton was left.
"Hmm... Judging from the shape of the sheep's head and hooves, it's probably not human." Tazmi said, looking at the skeleton.
"[Young man, if you don't get rid of this habit of talking to yourself and talking to your enemies, you may die inexplicably.]"
Following a low and hoarse voice, a red heavy armor appeared from the direction where the sheep-headed southern barbarians were escaping.
"Well..." Tazmi looked at it carefully: "Mr. Brand?"
"[Oh?]" The red armor knocked on his shoulder, revealing Brand's resolute face and strange hairstyle: "It seems that I lost, you can actually recognize me directly."
"Did you make a bet with...the man named Lubbock? He probably saw the flaw in your words," Tazmi blinked: "After all, others won't call me 'boy'."
"Damn it, I have to go back to him to settle the score!" Brand put on his helmet: "[By the way, I have already taken care of the 'village' you were going to rescue in advance. You have already fought a battle, so go back first."
"
After saying that, he turned around and left without waiting for Tazmi to respond.
Hmm...it's strange. When they "warned" Alia's family, I should have seen that armor. Why would I bet on whether I could recognize him?
Tazmi looked at the direction Brand left and thought silently.
Could it be because...
Those golden threads, and black threads?
Step, step, step.
"Were these 'Southern Barbarians' killed by you?"
With the soft sound of dead branches and leaves being trampled, a red-eyed woman in black clothes and black skirt with black hair walked out of the woods in the other direction, looked at the three corpses with severed heads, pierced hearts and burnt bodies, and asked without any expression.
road.
"Well, yes, they tried to ambush me," Tazmi nodded and shook her head: "Mr. Brand helped just now."
"..." Chitong looked at Tazmi, then looked at the corpses one by one, and then began to be in a daze.
Ah, by the way, she just killed someone. Even though it was a barbarian, she didn't seem to feel any discomfort. Maybe this made her suspicious?
But these barbarians don't look like humans at first glance. When you kill them, you feel no different from hunting wild beasts and dangerous species in the mountains.
"..." At this time, Chitong suddenly nodded and pulled out her sword from her waist.
Although Tazmi didn't know what she was going to do, she still subconsciously took two steps back.
Click.
Without pausing, Chitong inserted his sword into the charred corpse of the sheep-headed barbarian.
"Speaking of which, this is the least likely way to fake death..."
Tazmi, who thought Chitong was doing some last-ditch damage to confirm whether he was pretending to be dead, was stunned on the spot mid-sentence.
Golden threads bloomed all over the black-haired girl again, and divided into three streams and rushed towards the corpses of the tiger-headed, deer-headed and sheep-headed barbarians. When the golden threads came into contact with the corpses, a large number of black threads spurted out from them.
Death death death bleeding beheading death——
Tazmi once again felt the unexplained dizziness and pain that night, but this time it was much lighter, and it seemed that the "quantity" was greatly reduced.
Sususususu——
After the black threads poured out from the corpse, they seemed to want to flee, but they were chased and intercepted by the golden threads. They used more and fewer to bully others, and they were all annihilated in an instant. After that, the golden threads swayed left and right as if they could not find their target.
Shake, then dissipate into thin air.
"Well..." Due to a headache and dizziness, Tazmi closed her eyes and shook her head vigorously.
The previous time at Aria's house, she seemed to have inexplicably heightened the family's original crimes. Now... Huh?
When he opened his eyes again, Tazmi discovered that the three Nanman corpses, along with the traces of battle and blood, had disappeared, and were replaced by three tigers, sika deer and goats that were fleeing hastily into the depths of the woods.
"It's really useless," Chi Tong looked at Tazmi and said, "Even hunting can make the prey run away."
... Is she so confident that her method of "modifying facts" will not be noticed by others?
"Ahaha..." Tazmi tried to talk nonsense: "Because I didn't have the task of fighting the invaders. I could only come to catch some game for the celebration banquet, but they ran away."
"Then, let's go catch fish." Chitong continued the words very naturally.
"..."
If the ability just now was activated by a Teigu, her Teigu must be a defective one.
