Annan fished out the gold coins soaked in blood, wiped them on his clothes and wiped away the water stains. He glanced at the mercenaries who were waiting gloomily. Just as he was about to stand up and leave with them, the knight girl suddenly stood up.
"I'm with you!"
The withdrawn man also stood up and showed his actions.
Are they looking for trouble?
Annan thought, and then saw that the knight girl became depressed, and her sunny eyes were filled with mist: "My family was tortured by vampires for hundreds of days, their blood was drained, their bodies were torn into pieces, and they were fed to pigs while they were still alive..."
Her tone was full of hatred and sadness, but Annan still doubted why the knight girl suddenly wanted to help him... After all, these mercenaries seemed ready to lead the way and then kill and silence them.
"You have to give us money."
The aphasic boy who Annan had always thought was mute suddenly spoke, and Joan followed closely behind, reaching out to disturb his hesitation.
"I'm going too!"
Annan grabbed the gold coin to avoid Joan's surprise attack, but she continued to pounce on her. The knight girl and the others followed closely behind, tearing and snatching the gold coin in front of the counter.
"We are going to investigate the village, not to play in the mud." An ugly soldier twitched the corner of his mouth.
When the competition intensifies——
"That's enough!" The White Wolf Warrior stopped the chaotic crowd and pointed at Annan and Qiong An, who was picking up the water glass and preparing to smash it down: "You two lead the way."
The knight girl and the lonely man stopped fighting and returned to the table with regrets. Astolfo shook his calf under the table. Joan was sent by Olmedo, and he was relieved.
…
"I didn't send anyone."
Olmedo said to Ingrid who came from Xingyue Bay:
"Annan wants to play in Betar City, why should I send people to keep an eye on him?"
Annan, the amulet of the mage tower, was still wearing it. But Olmedo thought of something interesting, and an arc emerged:
"But I told Master Yirelanze."
Ingrid is not worried about Annan, what she is really worried about is Xingyue Bay: "What about the threat of Gema?"
"Ignore him. You have walls, soldiers, and me...are you really afraid of a new territory that is not as rich and powerful as you?"
Ingrid remained silent, and Olmedo sighed:
"Ingrit, this is the reason why I asked you to go to Xingyue Bay. You are very organized when dealing with the past, but you are at a loss for what is happening. This is a flaw that hinders you from being an assistant to an official..."
"Go back. Even if you don't have confidence in me, you should believe in Annan."
…
Three warriors, one ranger, and one magician, a standard five-person team configuration.
Annan and Qiong An sat in a carriage and followed the mercenary team as they drove out of the city.
The subtle differences between the two cities brought a sense of freshness. When passing a textile factory, Annan heard the sound of the spinning spindles of the Susan spinning machine coming from inside.
This good mood disappeared when passing through a dirty street. Unkempt elves, dwarves who looked like briquettes, orcs with broken limbs, and even ratmen with their fur scalded... They were like slaves stuffed into a narrow prison.
Cages are placed for sale on the cold streets.
"Why were these elves and dwarves captured?"
They are not slaves, and slaves do not have that kind of undisguised hatred and resentment.
No one answered him, but the thin and mean female mage answered: "Because of the alien order."
Annan thought that the Alien Order was just to drive away the aliens...or rather, it was indeed to drive away the aliens, but the professionals realized the cruel business opportunities contained in it: a slave had tens of silver coins, a professional slave had a few gold coins, an elf slave had tens of gold coins, and a
Just a few hundred gold coins for the elf professional slave...
"The city lord's palace is indifferent?"
This time even the female mage didn't answer Annan.
After passing through this street that weighed heavily on Annan, he got the answer - this street imprisoned slaves worth thousands of gold coins, and it was only one day... This street can bring hundreds of gold coins in tax revenue every day, Betar City
Why refuse?
Queuing out of the bustling city gate, they speeded up and arrived at the village before noon.
The village located in the snow exudes tranquility, as long as you don't know what happened yesterday.
"Keep leading the way."
Annan was ordered to stop by the White Wolf warrior.
"This is part of Jinnar." Annan said. Just as he was about to ask Joan if she wanted to join him, she jumped down.
They didn't even know to let the rangers sneak into the village to investigate first... Annan, who had performed tasks with the scavengers, thought that the only street in the village was clean and empty, and they even collected the corpses of the villagers and cleaned up the blood stains.
Five mercenaries surrounded Annan and Qiong An, as if they were worried about them escaping, but they quickly ignored Annan because the villagers holding farm tools had already stepped out of the house.
"We are mercenaries from Betar City. Where is your village chief?"
The white wolf warrior said, quietly clenching his sword, and when the female mage released the greasy spell, the villagers rushed forward with roars as they slipped.
"Let's hide first!"
Annan shouted to them, pulling Qiong An, who was covering her mouth and squatting down, to run back to the carriage.
Joan climbed into the carriage neatly: "We must not let the vampires know that the princess of the Tatooine Empire, Joan Ecosela Jeanne d'Arc Behdad Claremont, is here!"
"Joan of Arc? Isn't it An Finsen?" Annan asked strangely.
Joan's face immediately turned red: "You, you, you, you, how can you remember it!" "I...I deliberately gave a false name. The real name will be cursed, just in case a vampire is eavesdropping!"
"Francois is not afraid of me."
Annan asked Joan to hide in the car and returned to the village. He walked over the corpses of villagers along the way and turned to the corner of the street - several trucks and naked frozen corpses were piled in the pig pen.
It seems that Annan and the others were not the only ones attacked by these villagers.
As a benevolent lord, Annan would not say that these villagers' evil deeds would be punished, he would say that these people's deaths were "worth the money."
The five professionals easily eliminated these villagers, searched for a hidden villager in the village, and learned what happened on the eve of Annan's arrival:
The day after the villagers went crazy, a woman came to the village and said to the villagers: "I want to drink something from your body."
Then the villagers shouted that the vampire would tie her to the stake and prepare to burn her to death.
"She is also a vampire?" Annan asked.
"She is more troublesome than a vampire. You should be lucky that you ran away in time, boy." The female mage deliberately frightened Annan and said, "That's a succubus."
Annan was upset as to why he had to evacuate the village at that time.
"There are vampires and demons... Is this village cursed?" The ugly warrior wiped the blood on his ax with snow.
The white wolf warrior looked down at Annan: "You have nothing to do here."
"Does this mean we can leave?"
"Um."
Annan didn't ask what to do with those trucks, and ran back to the roadside after saying goodbye.
"You shouldn't give them money, we haven't before..."
"Shut up."
The White Wolf warrior interrupted his men's complaints and stared at the turning carriage:
