The corpse lying in the snowdrift has almost been frozen into a popsicle, but you can still vaguely see what it looked like before he was born. He is about forty or fifty years old, upright and in his prime. His facial features are relatively regular, and his eyebrows and eyes can vaguely tell that he is a local.
Wearing thick fur clothing and holding a short bow in his hand, he looked like a hunter from the Llantonilan area.
Brando was actually able to confirm the identity of the other party, but before he could answer, Freya, who was squatting next to the body, said in a sad tone: "The fatal injury is the arrow wound in the back, and the body we found before
The same thing, but this one should have died at that time."
"——The injuries on the corpse we encountered before should have been sustained near here, but the hunter's injuries were relatively minor. After he escaped from here, he was attacked by a frost demon and finally died." Lao.
Lenna looked at the corpse in the snowdrift and said angrily: "You Eruin nobles have gone too far."
"Cruz's nobles are similar. What's more, our enemies are first and foremost cultists. You are also responsible for this." The black-haired female knight replied coldly on horseback.
Laurenna glanced at her and managed to hold back from speaking back.
"It actually makes sense." Brando thought, but he did not speak. Instead, he raised his head and said to everyone: "If the battle happened nearby, then this should have been Alec's
At the campsite, everyone should spread out and search left and right to see if there are any clues."
Before he finished speaking, as if to confirm his words, a whistle sounded in the forest. This was a signal for his guards to contact each other——
Everyone turned their heads over there and saw a girl riding a white horse trotting out of the forest. Hipamila was still wearing her linen robe in such a cold weather. She turned around,
He pointed in a certain direction in the forest with the wooden stick in his hand and said: "Sir, many corpses have been found here."
"As expected, Anlek took action." Nymesis shook her head slightly.
Freya's heart sank slightly as she stood next to Brando, and she couldn't help but grit her teeth. She originally had a sense of luck and hoped to save those hunters. But she didn't expect that the other party would be so decisive.
Beside her, the female knight Laurenna's face didn't look very good either.
"Take us there." Brando sighed and replied. He still remembered the worried and expectant looks of the hunters' families when they left Qianshui Town. For these families, their husbands and fathers may be a family.
The only pillar of support. Once the source of income is lost, the future life can be imagined; there are even some single-parent families. What is left are just helpless children. They are waiting at home for their father's return, but it is possible that he will wait for his father's return.
Messages that are never returned.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little cold in his heart.
Hipamila seems to have seen what her lord is thinking. As a priest of Himmelud, she originally existed in this world to protect the world. The girl is not the ones in the Temple of Fire who are not stained with dust in the deep palace.
Holy girl, she knows very well the sufferings of people's livelihood, so she can't help but lower her eyelashes slightly.
She pulled the reins, turned the horse's head and led everyone towards the woods.
After passing through a small sparse cedar forest, the view suddenly became clearer. A clearing that was thought to have been cut down appeared in front of everyone. But everyone couldn't help but suffocated slightly when they saw the scene in front of them, with various collapsed buildings.
The animal skin tents seemed to remain as they were on that day, and in this camp that seemed to have been trampled once, the tragic battlefield was restored in front of everyone.
More than twenty corpses were piled up in the center of the camp, with some scattered around. There were eye-catching traces of dried blood everywhere in the snow, and broken arrows were stuck everywhere in the camp.
Brando saw Metisa's unicorn standing next to the corpse, and the little silver elf princess held up the ice and snow on the ground with both hands. The ice and snow turned into crystal clear ice flowers in her hands. She put these bouquets on
Next to each corpse, the expression looked very calm.
"Lord," she saw Brando. Then she patted the snow on her knees and stood up: "I remember that in the last war, the Silver Elf would send a bouquet of lilies to all the companions of the heroic warriors.
Once on the battlefield, soldiers would wear these bouquets on their chests to avenge the deaths of their comrades."
Brando nodded.
"Don't worry, Anlek will pay the price for this. Some people regard other people's lives as nothing but ants. These people have long been abandoned by Martha." He replied coldly: "Chaos can't protect them.
, look at it, the bloodshed will be repaid with bloodshed.”
"Is there anyone alive?" Laurenna couldn't help but gasped when she saw this scene and asked in a low voice. But everyone could hear that this upright and kind-hearted lady from Cruz was just here.
Suppressing his anger.
Medisa shook her head, "At least in this camp, everyone is dead."
It was slightly quiet in the camp.
Although Brando, Freya, Nymesis, and even Akane have all experienced many battles, life and death on the battlefield have long been commonplace - but it was a fight in which both sides risked their lives, and what was in front of them was a
A naked massacre - these hunters from the area near Lantonilan each have their own families. They are the fathers, husbands or sons of their families. They may have entered this forest with longing for the future, but
It’s to let your loved ones live a better life. [*You]
But all hopes for the future were ruthlessly killed here. It was just for the inexplicable pursuit of some people, who did not understand the respect for life at all.
Freya looked at this scene and seemed to think of Butch burning in the fire. The people of the kingdom were struggling in the disaster, but his nobles just watched indifferently, and even contributed to the flames.
Everything that happens at different times and in different places is so similar.
She gritted her teeth and her clenched fists were almost white.
Laurenna on the side seemed to have noticed the mood swings of the future Valkyrie. She had a slight affection for Freya. She couldn't help but said: "Let's sort out the corpses of the hunters. It's best to think about it."
Bury them and take them out when you leave - at least their families have the right to know what happened here."
Brando couldn't help but be impressed by the words of the female knight from Cruz. Although he had known that Laurenna was famous for her integrity and kindness, after all, the other party was the daughter of a noble family, and he didn't expect that she could think about the problem.
So carefully.
He looked at the other party in surprise. But as if noticing his gaze, Laurenna turned around and explained to everyone: "Knights respect their fallen comrades, and at least they will not let their dead comrades expose their bodies."
Wilderness. Although these people are not our companions, we promise to take them back. Whether dead or alive, at least give an explanation to their families."
She put one hand on her chest and faced everyone and replied seriously: "I hope I can keep my promise."
"That's right. I support Sister Laurenna's view." After hearing these words, Medisa couldn't help but nodded for Wei Wei and expressed her support.
"Me too." Freya exhaled softly and replied a little lonely.
Brando looked at the other side of the Nouga River. In fact, there was not much time left for them. Her Royal Highness the Princess was heading to Wallundenburg, and Eco and Macaro had obviously arrived first. And in the south
, Count Jeandenelle and the army of the Blood Staff are converging - from persuading the Archduke Viero to form a coalition, to sending his troops south to ambush Count Jeandenelle as in history, there is only one month left for him.
.
This means that he can stay in the forest for up to two weeks.
The scorching summer sun, which has become very mild in the frost-stained forest, has moved past the center line above the head. If we delay for a while, we may have to spend the night here.
He looked at Nymesis beside him. The female knight expressed neither approval nor objection. However, he had gradually become familiar with her character over the past few days, and he knew that this actually meant acquiescence.
Brando finally nodded.
Fortunately, everyone present understood that they were pressed for time. Brando nodded and began to clean up the battlefield on their own initiative. Due to sufficient manpower, it was actually not difficult to dig some holes in the snow to bury the bodies.
And because it was expected that the bodies of these hunters would be retrieved and taken away sooner or later, the guards under Laurenna's command only dug a few large pits to save trouble, covered them with snow, and marked them conspicuously.
Others, Medissa and Freya, were looking for possible survivors further away. Although Brando felt that the possibility was not too high, he had earlier seen from the hunters’ arrow wounds that this time
Anlek brought along veterans who had fought with him for many years, so it was unlikely that he would make such a stupid mistake.
But just when Brando was thinking this, Charles's voice suddenly came from his heart.
"Lord, what do you think I found?"
"What?" Brando was startled, and then asked.
"A woman."
"Char, although the weather here is still relatively cold, it is summer now, and spring has passed for a long time." Brando was stunned for a moment, and then replied somewhat unhappily.
"No, no, you got me wrong. Lord, I mean I found a living woman." Charles quickly shouted that he was wronged.
…
Peia was found in the Nouga River, and Charles happened to see her being washed down from the upper reaches with the drifting ice, and hanging on a branch that reached into the middle of the river.
In this weather, the temperature of the river was close to subzero. When Charles found this woman, she was almost wet all over, soaked in the cold river water, and there was a long stab wound on her back. The stab wound seemed to have been caused by blood loss.
There are so many, the rolled skin and flesh are soaked and turned white.
Originally in this state, the young wizard's first judgment was that the woman was dead, but the fact turned out to be a joke. When he used magic to fish the woman out of the middle of the river, he found that the woman still had
Heartbeat.
Peiya already knew what happened next.
But for the girl herself, she could not remember anything that happened before she jumped into the river. She only remembered that the nobles turned against each other that day, and the eldest hunter in the team was directly stabbed by the middle-aged swordsman.
wear.
Then came the melee, the flash of swords and the shadow of swords——
It was a terrifying scene that seemed to only happen in a nightmare. The most powerful hunter in the team, who was said to have served as a swordsmanship instructor for the army in the Manowell area, and the team leader with silver strength, was actually no match for the middle-aged swordsman in one round.
.
She will never forget that scene in her dreams. The noble knights surrounded them with grins, and then the screams of familiar people came one after another.
She remembered that a knight wanted to hold her down and cut her hands behind his back. She remembered the knight's vulgar and angry voice, and he also touched her body with his hands unruly.
If it hadn't been for that ring, she really didn't know what terrible things would have happened after that.
What happened after that seemed to be running away, but the wound on his back hurt so much, and his body became weaker and weaker. But instead, he became more and more worried about his brother. The pursuers were getting closer and closer, and then there was darkness.
"Can't die..."
"Aruta..."
It seemed like a long nightmare, and every face in the nightmare was distorted. The faces of the townspeople who had hated their siblings were covered in blood. Then there was the face of the grinning knight. Finally, she saw herself
His younger brother was stabbed by a gun and nailed to the snow. Dark red blood spread out from under him like countless tiny red snakes.
"don't want--!"
The girl suddenly opened her eyes.
She was covered in sweat, and then she saw a female face clearly through the faint firelight outside the tent. She recognized the identity of the other mountain man at a glance. Only mountain people could have such long fiery red hair. The girl hugged her
He leaned on his knees, leaning on a spear, and looked at her motionless.
"You, who are you..." Peiya seemed to want to ask this question, but she immediately felt the pain in her throat as if on fire. In the end, she only uttered some meaningless hoarse syllables, but the severe pain made her
She couldn't help but moan.
"The lord said that it is best for you not to talk and take more rest. You are seriously injured, but the key is that you have been unconscious in the cold river water for who knows how long. Now you have a fever, but we don't have any herbs on hand."
Akane rarely spoke in front of strangers since she left the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group, but when she spoke, she finished her words in one breath as if she were reciting a boring report.
After she finished speaking, she still looked at the woman on the bed quietly, her eyes shining brightly as she reflected the firelight outside.
Peiya was slightly startled, but she felt the kindness of the other party. She lay back down again, her heart was in a mess, but she finally became quieter.
She frowned slightly, as if she was trying to remember what happened...Today's, 7k. Again, I've been a little busy lately, so I can only make up for what I missed yesterday, so I'll make up for 1k today. I'll try my best to make sure before the 20th.
Average daily 6k.)
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