03 Attack
From the Holy City of Fields to Pudala, the journey is long, with a total of more than a dozen cities of large and small. In addition, there are almost no villages or settlements between these cities.
Because living in the wilderness and without towering walls, in addition to being robbed by robbers, once the winter tide comes, they will also be attacked by sudden monsters.
Living outside the city is very dangerous.
However, there are still some poor people who cannot settle in the city and can only go into exile. These people are called "savages".
They live in unprotected fields and rely on hunting or planting to make a living, often unable to fill their stomachs and are all skinny.
Their short lives may end up with hunger, disease, or the hands of robbers and monsters. Only a very small number of lucky people can escape those dangers and survive in harsh environments for a few more years.
When Muri followed the Golden Lion Mercenary Group to receive goods to Fields Holy City, he passed by this area. There were more than a dozen savages living here, and they opened several small fields here to grow some vegetables and food.
Now, they came here again, and this small savage settlement had been destroyed.
"It should have been robbed by a robber group. Judging from the knife marks and footprints, it should be a small robber group."
The mercenary group checked in the destroyed settlement for a while and came back to report to the leader, "The things were basically taken away, and only a little rotten vegetable leaves were left in the fields."
"Are those robbers crazy?"
"Hahahahaha! Those little bandits are not crazy, they are not much different from the savages!"
The regular mercenary group never misses the small robber groups that plunder savages - they are basically all savages, and if they are a little braver, they will become robbers. At least robbers are a little better than ordinary savages.
On the barren wasteland, humans are prey that can be hunted like other animals. Compared with those who are wary of animals, savages are the best hunting type.
Therefore, there was not even a single body in this destroyed settlement, and they were taken away as prey.
"Closing, I'll be here to rest tonight. I'll light up my eyes. Don't give those wild dogs a chance to get close to the goods."
Wild dogs also refer to those robbers.
It is not a medium-sized large robber group, and the leader of the mercenary group didn't care much, so he directly ordered someone to rest here tonight.
The others were used to it, and they demolished the broken sheds built by the wild people as firewood. Some people went to the field to find some undestroyed vegetables and took them back to stew some soup.
Anyway, they don't eat it, and the dishes in the field will only make the surrounding beasts cheaper in the end.
Meli followed them to eat meat for several days, but could not digest it well, and her stomach hurt for a day. She had been quiet all the time, curling up in the cage without making a sound, and enduring the pain silently. After all, this kind of pain is nothing compared to the pain of being infused with magic by her mother infusing the life of the fairy.
During the break yesterday, Muri, who was guarding her, handed her the barbecue as usual. Seeing that she hadn't answered, she was a little confused. After thinking about it, she helped her to tear the barbecue into small pieces and handed it to her.
Meli, who was suffering and could not eat at all, had to say to him: "I can't eat it, you can eat it."
Then he ate it without saying a word.
Since yesterday, I haven't eaten anything, and Meli can feel hungry, but it's so painful that I can't eat it. It's time to rest and eat, Meli covered her stomach, thinking that today is probably barbecue.
If this has always been the case, she might die.
Muri went to get food as usual, and the rest had seen how terrible his appetite was, but seeing him keep picking up barbecue on the plate, he still couldn't help but be shocked.
After picking up the barbecue, Muri saw someone stewing soup nearby, so he paused in place and took a bowl over.
"I want a bowl of soup."
When the soup cooker heard this sound, his hands shook. He turned around and saw his tall figure. The corner of his mouth twitched again. He scooped him a big bowl of soup without saying anything.
When Muri left with the soup and meat, the man stirred the soup and the person in his hand and muttered, "No wonder Muri doesn't like to talk. His voice is too inconsistent with him."
"Crack." Meli heard the cage door open, and opened her eyes, and a bowl of hot soup was placed in front of her.
Small pieces of meat, green vegetable leaves, and white rhizomes are mixed in the hot soup.
She threw the thoughts about death in her mind aside and barely got up and drank the bowl of soup.
Finally, the little meat left at the bottom of the bowl was indeed eaten by Muri again. After only a few days of getting along, Meli discovered that he would not waste any food.
This is a world with difficult survival. People's lives are much more difficult than that of her before. Food is hard-won.
During the break, members of the mercenary group still ran here to see her.
"I said Muri, how did you take care of the goods? Look at her face, is it covered with plaster or something? It's dirty, and I can't even see clearly!"
"Yes, you're just wiping her face. Can you see this?"
The two men who came made the same complaints as yesterday.
Since Meli deliberately touched her face with black and gray and made herself dirty, fewer and fewer men have come to see her. Muri, who is responsible for guarding her, has a cold attitude and looks disregarded to anyone, and is also to her.
He would not be sympathetic or protect her, but was just looking after her for the purpose of not letting the goods be damaged.
The leader of the regiment also came to see him. He was different from those mercenary members with women's bodies. His eyes were a kind of assessment and attention to valuable goods.
"When you are about to arrive at Pudala, remember to change her clothes and wipe her face, so as not to lose money if it is not good."
At night, Meli couldn't fall asleep because of a faint pain in her stomach.
She heard the crackling sound of bonfires in the camp, the breathing of Muri leaning against the cage, the snoring of nearby mercenaries sleeping, and... the footsteps slowly approaching.
Someone came to the cart that placed the goods here.
She got up and saw a few fingers stained with oil and blood, lifting the curtain and placing it on the chrome silver railing.
She was startled and was about to remind Muri who was sleeping on the side, but when she looked up, she saw that there was no one there on the other side where Muri was leaning against, and the fingers that were pulling the railing rolled into the cage, spilling blood all over the ground.
Someone outside shouted in pain, awakening the mercenaries in the entire camp.
"It was a sneak attack by the robbers!"
"Get up!"
"The bandits attack!"
The awake mercenaries pounded their shields and iron swords hard, and the entire camp woke up.
Screams kept ringing outside the black cloth, and Meli stared at several broken fingers in the cage, and remembered the scene of her mother, Mrs. Peg, killing someone to take the heart.
She covered her mouth and pressed down the desire to vomit, kicked the fingers out of the cage, and then shook her hand and lifted the black cloth and looked out.
It was very chaotic outside. Her vision only saw the robber in front of her, holding a knife with a fierce look on his face - he was wearing tattered clothes and a torn leather armor, shaved with his head, not like a mercenary at all, and was undoubtedly a robber.
The robber was slashing at Muri with his knife.
The man as tall as a hill raised his hand to catch his knife, and easily broke the blade like a branch. His wide palm pressed forward with the robber's head and slapped forward on a nearby tree.
Meli heard the sound of fruits and fruits being broken.
She put down the black cloth and covered her mouth harder.
After the battle outside, the torch was lit in the camp and it became lively again. Someone was cleaning up the bodies, and the men who were dealing with the bodies let out a few low cry and discussions under the nearby tree.
"Muri killed? He is too strong!"
"No, just that, the man's head broke with the tree."
Afterwards, someone came to check whether the goods were intact.
She was also checked, and Muri, who sat back to the spot, said, "It's okay."
No one dared to ask him to lift the curtain to take a look.
In the second half of the night, Meli was also unable to fall asleep. Her body had a sharp sense of smell and could smell a strong smell of blood. The smell still lingered at her nose until she left the camp for a long time. Then she realized that the smell of blood was coming from Muri and that blood was stained on his cloak.
After the blood dried up, it was usually integrated into his black and gray cloak, like an ordinary stain.
The night attack by the robbers happened more than once. A few days later, they encountered another robbers, probably a small robbers. The battle ended not long after.
This time, because the robber didn't touch this place, Murry didn't take action. He sat outside the cage and slept. Meli listened to the screams and hid behind him, and heard him making a small squeal.
Halfway through the journey, Meli began to adapt to the journey and there were not delicious foods. If it went so smoothly, she would be sent to a noble mansion in Pudala in half a month and become a pet or other consumable.
This seemed to be the ending she could not resist.
On the 16th day of the road, the Golden Lion Mercenary Group encountered a monster.
It was a crazy meat mountain. Suddenly, he stood up from the woods and rushed towards the mercenary group. The mercenary group had no defense at all. On the spot, two people and horses were stepped on by the monster and turned into meat paste.
"It's a monster! How could a monster appear at this time?" The commander's eyes were so bitter that he shouted in his heart. Generally, the monsters would only cross the polar range in winter to the near city where people live.
They have encountered an unexpected situation!
"Watch the goods, whoever dares to run away will die!" The regiment commander pulled out his long sword and shouted, "Use bows and arrows! You wastes! Stop it quickly!"
A dozen people held up their bows and arrows to shoot, but they only slightly stopped the terrifying monster's footsteps. Seeing that several more people were dead, the regiment commander could not bear it anymore. He turned his head and shouted, "Muri, where is Muri? I'm not here to help?"
In just a moment, he thought of a way to let Muri stop the monster. They took the goods and sacrificed Muri and the rest of them to survive.
Even if a large mercenary group encounters something like Warcraft, it will suffer heavy losses. They are just small and medium-sized mercenary groups, and it is hard to say that they will have their lives here.
He only knew that Muri was powerful in killing robbers, but he didn't know whether he could stop the monster. Now he could only pray that this young and scammer could stop the monster for a longer time.
Although he thought well, he turned his head but didn't see Muri. He thought he had run away, and the commander immediately started to curse.
Only Meli knew that Muri had already quietly entered the woods and touched the monster when everyone was not paying attention.
Muri, who came behind the monster, pulled out two white bone spurs from his waist with both hands, which were his weapons.
Two bone spurs were pierced on the beast's hard scales and inserted them accurately through the gap. He quickly climbed onto the beast's shoulders with these two bone spurs, crossing his hands, and cutting open its neck.
His movements were so fast that it was dazzling.
The group leader and others went from seeing him suddenly appearing behind the monster to finding him cutting the monster's neck, which was just a blink of an eye.
Some people were shooting arrows foolishly, hitting the heavy scales of the monster and bounced back.
The monster's neck, which was also covered with scales, suddenly spewed a bloodline under Muri's hands. Muri jumped off the monster's shoulder in the blood rain. Half of his body was stained with the blood of the monster, and a winding blood mark on the white skull flowed down.
Shaking his blood-stained cloak and inserting his weapon back to his waist, Muri walked back to the car that was loaded with a cage under the shocked gaze of the regiment commander and others, and sat back to his position silently and steadily.
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The heroine of the previous story was Meili and Lizi.
The heroines of this story are Meli, Lily, Little Bear and Lily.
It's not the same person, why are there anyone confused?
Chapter completed!