One day after Kiel's team left Dorne, at noon on the third day, they saw a village in the distance.
This village is not big, and it was built beside a bridge in this plain area. When looking at it from a distance, Keel felt that there was something wrong. Because even in the daytime, the smoke from the chimneys of the buildings in that village seemed to be too little.
"Where is there?"
Keir was riding on horseback, pointing to the sparsely populated village in the distance and asked. Beside him, some people who had fled and passed by before explained: "Kiel Knight, there is a waterwheel village, because there is a big waterwheel in the village that has not been built for many years. It seems to be a certain The land of the nobility is coming."
But Kiel didn't see anything like a big waterwheel in the village.
After the team approached, about a few hundred meters away from the village, people saw that the original buildings in the village were covered with black and ash traces of the flames, and some fruit trees planted by the villagers in the village, They also didn't grow green leaves and flowers this spring, and there were a few black carbonized branches hanging on most of the bare trunks.
The village was built along the commercial road and a river flowing through this place. On a wooden bridge leading to the commercial road, even most of the wooden bridge deck here was scorched black, and the whole wooden bridge was crumbling.
"The village looks like it was set on fire, and I don't know if the villagers inside are okay? But the problem is, I haven't heard anything happened in the nearest southeast village in Dorne Town?"
Keir rode to ask Bloodyaster, who had inquired about the news, but the other party had never heard of the disaster here in the town.
It seems that either the disaster in the village is a recent event and the news has not reached the town, or no one has escaped the disaster at all. Or, the things in this village are not what they saw and guessed at this time.
"Everyone be vigilant, armed squads, keep your weapons in your hands and pay attention to the surrounding situation! Mao Mao? Mao Mao!"
Kiel rode through the long queue of people, shouting with a huge voice, and the people who heard it all spontaneously retreated from the commercial road to the wasteland on both sides, allowing the armed forces of the team to pass quickly.
The young people in several armed squads were all excited, as if they had a premonition that a battle was about to take place. Some people's teeth chattered continuously with excitement, and their hands and feet became stiff.
But at this moment, no matter how stiff your hands and feet are, or your mind is dizzy, you have to follow other people to act together. Either follow the Kiel knight to the front of the line, or guard left and right on both sides of the long line, or rush to the back of the line and guard the direction for everyone.
After more than a hundred people capable of fighting were in place, the long and scattered team gradually shrank in size under the hectic command of Priest Batar and Bloodyaster, bringing everyone together.
And when Kiel called out to the aliens, the Fuzzies popped up from the top of the wagon with the empty boxes. After shaking for a long time, although they were not in good spirits, they still responded to the call of the Kiel knight immediately.
Courageous Mao Mao jumped out of the carriage with seven other Mao Maos who were capable of fighting, and followed the voice of the Kiel knight through a large number of panicked crowds, and finally found the Kiel knight near the waterwheel village in front of the team .
"Maomao, here we come! Maomao, here we come! Powerful, human, possessed, what, order?"
Courage Maomao doesn't know what these humans are panicking about. It's not that there are powerful and invincible monsters, why are they all nervous like that?
Keir was expressionless, he was still wearing the clothes he usually wore, and he didn't put on any armor. The main reason is that it is daytime, and although the village not far away looks like it is in distress, there is no obvious danger.
"You came just in time, and now I have a task for you."
Keir pointed to the small village along the river that seemed to be devastated by a fire not far away, and looked deserted and dilapidated: "Go and investigate the village for me. You only need to confirm one thing, that is, whether there are a lot of people in it." Humans ambush."
If there are unknown enemies, but there are not many of them, then there is no reason for Kiel not to go up and meet them for a while.
Of course, if there are many enemies and the village lays an ambush to resist them, then there is no reason for Keir to bring people across the river to this village. It is only noon now, and he can completely let the team continue to walk southeast along the trade road. Completely ignore everything here.
Whether it was attacked by bandits or captured by the defeated army, it had nothing to do with him. As long as the team is walking on the commercial road, the opponent will not be able to catch up with his team unless he chases him directly.
"Okay, okay!"
Mao Mao doesn't care whether the task is dangerous or not, they only care about the amount of reward metal they can get in the end.
Courageous Mao Mao led the team, and soon the eight Mao Maos rushed out of the tense human team, exchanged a few words in a low voice, and then divided into two, one team walked along the trade road and the dirt road leading to the village towards the wooden bridge crossing the river , the other team turned a corner and ran towards the upper reaches of the village along the river. After a few plops, the pair of Mao Mao jumped into the not so fast river and swam directly across the river.
Kiel turned his horse's head around, took the opportunity to return to his carriage, got in, and when he came out soon, he had already put on a metal armor. Similarly, when Kiel was wearing the armor, several people who were in charge of taking care of the horses also took off the blood licking grass special horse armor hanging on the carriage, and hurriedly replaced the blood licking grass with combat armor.
It was the first time for the people who took care of the horses to put armor on the horses in such an emergency. Not only were their faces sweating from anxiety, but they were quite stiff in performing simple and quick movements in the past.
However, none of the guards who were in charge of guarding Kiel criticized and laughed at them. Everyone was very nervous. Everyone knew that they had encountered a village that seemed to be in disaster. At this time, everyone was anxious, and no one laughed at them. People at work nervously blunder.
"Take it easy, take your time."
Kiel walked from the side with a bang, his combat boots stepped on the solid business road, making a loud sound.
Seeing that Knight Kiel put on his armor and was armed, these people were anxious, but Kiel opened the steel mask and comforted these people in a relaxed tone: "Really, I don't know what's going on ahead, so, Don't be nervous, take your time. Maybe the news brought back by the aliens who were investigating in the past will not be bad. According to my judgment, the village has been burned for a while, and it may not be dangerous."
"Is that so, my lord?"
A young man asked hesitantly while putting a metal armor on the blood licking grass.
"Can I still lie to you? Besides, if you really want to fight, being nervous will not make things better. Things will still happen. What's the use of worrying or being afraid? In the end, it's not about delaying yourself."
Keir shook his head, and helped the other party lift the heavy horse with the metal chest armor, allowing the young man to hang the fixed belt and buckle on it smoothly.
After a shake, feeling hung up, Kiel casually helped the others put on the armor.
"Come on, let me lift it for you."
"It's a little tight here, let's loosen the fixed lock a bit?"
"How is it? Blood licking grass, why do you feel uncomfortable and scream?"
The blood licking plant didn't feel uncomfortable in the new clothes it was wearing, so it lowered its head and gave its owner a hug. But the horse's head covered with metal armor made a loud impact against Kiel's shoulder metal armor.
pong! !
Kiel moved his right arm with a wry smile. It wasn't that his arm was hit, but he was worried that the armor of his right arm would be deformed by the heavy blow.
Fortunately, although the sound was loud, neither of the impacted people was injured.
Finally, the horse's armor rack was also installed behind the saddle, and Kiel's weapons and equipment were also installed: a hunting bow and two bags of arrows, a set of crossbows and two bags of crossbows, and a heavy all-metal double-edged spear.
Kiel hung the newly bought cloak on the shoulders of the metal armor coquettishly. He jumped on the horse and flicked the black and red cloak again. It's handsome and good-looking.
"Everyone take care of yourselves and obey the priest's orders."
Kiel finally confessed to these subordinates who directly obeyed his orders, and then slammed on the stirrups, so that the blood lick, which was protected by two layers of armor, felt the urging, and ran towards the front of the team.
The rumbling and heavy hooves of the horses resounded through the air. This extremely powerful sound of galloping the horses, on the contrary, made the people who saw Kiel relax.
'Look, the Kiel knights who protect our team are so powerful, what do we have to be afraid of? '
Thinking about it this way, everyone was no longer so nervous. Instead, they stood on their toes, stretched their necks, or stood directly on the supplies of the team, watching the Kiel knights who passed through most of the team, and marched forward.
I don't know who suddenly shouted this slogan, and the others were taken aback when they heard it, and the next moment, more people shouted.
"Wonderful! Knights of Kiel, all victorious—"
Kiel laughed out loud, and he knew that the first call was made by Bloodfang, the old caravan guard who always brought new tricks.
In response to what everyone was shouting at this time, no matter what was ahead of him, he must not fail.
Only Wansheng, only Wansheng.
Kiel put down his steel visor, his strong body protected by the solid armor heaved up and down slightly as the horse ran, his breathing was steady and powerful, his spirit was high, and his fighting spirit was surging.
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Courageous Maomao and his three companions crossed the half-burned bridge across the river with hands and feet.
It's a pity that such a good wooden bridge was scorched black by the fire. If it was in his own tribe, with so much solid wood, he could add hundreds of new wooden houses to the tribe.
Due to the size of the pets, their house is not big. For human beings, some big wooden boxes, the pets feel quite comfortable and qualified.
Unlike humans, their houses are not only small, but also do not require indoor lighting, but require safety and shading. Fuzzies don't like spacious sleeping places, which make them feel insecure when resting.
A room that is too bright will also make them feel restless when they are resting.
As for the various facilities needed in life, Maomao live in groups and share. Not only that, the female Maomao will also take care of the cubs who are familiar with each other. Their internal hierarchy is strict, but they are united and cooperative. Such intelligent beings survived in the world, following a valid tradition that survived.
They walked across the unobstructed wooden bridge deck in broad daylight. Of course, their figures were spotted by the people in the village.
But the expected attack did not happen. It is not known whether the people in the dilapidated village saw the hundreds of people behind the Mao Maos, or they had other plans. However, this relieved Mao Mao, who had been paying attention to turning and jumping at any time. What they are most afraid of is the sharp arrows shot by humans. Even if the team it leads are elite warriors in the tribe, it is still very dangerous for humans to shoot arrows continuously. .
Slap, slap, slap, slap.
The four of them quickly ran across the final bridge deck, and after rushing across the bridgehead covered in black carbon ash, they turned around and hid under the wall of a family at the bridgehead.
The fence is only one meter high, and the furs use their tails to support their bodies, so they can poke their heads out under the fence to investigate.
But reconnaissance can't just poke your head out in front of the enemy. Isn't this creating favorable conditions for human hunters to shoot in the head?
So Courageous Maomao led his people around the wall of the villager's house along the river at the bridge head, and after half a circle, he carefully and slowly poked his head out to observe under the cover of a temporarily broken scorched bush.
The villager's house at the head of the bridge has been completely burned down by a fire. The beams and pillars of the house that were originally built with rough wood are now only a few half-broken wooden pillars inserted into the soil.
The walls made of stone flakes and mud have already collapsed, and even the roof of the house has completely covered the entire interior of the house under them. The fruit trees and livestock pens in the yard had been burned by flames, but there were no smelly and rotting corpses of livestock, and even the remains of chicken coops that were likely to be there were also missing.
Brave Momo didn't understand what these meant, but it sniffed carefully, and found that in the mixed smell of the ruins of the house, there was indeed no smell of decaying corpses, and some only had the strong smell of burning objects.
It discussed in a low voice with its subordinates for a while, but they couldn't agree on anything, and they had to go deeper into the village.
So the Mao Maos tiptoed along the base of the wall to the village, constantly looking for human scents in the village by sniffing.
The other team of Mao Mao crossed the river by swimming. They avoided the wooden bridge in front of the village, and walked around a certain distance to touch in from a low hill on the back of the village.
The side of the low hills facing the village was obviously burned by flames not long ago. Many shrubs and small trees that should have flourished in spring were burned by the flames and turned into black ash.
But the tenacity of life is far from being extinguished by flames. On the land that was originally burned by flames, new plants absorb sunlight and rain, as well as plant remains turned into ashes, and grow rapidly.
The four furs wiped some dirt and black ash from the ground on their bodies, and the mottled fur that they cherished was directly stained. It was impossible to see how long the furs would spend combing and licking their own hair when they were resting.
After all, these furs are the elite warriors in the tribe. Compared with their shiny and smooth hair, they are fighters who pay more attention to concealment.
Most of the Fumao with warrior blood have complicated fur patterns on their bodies, which are not bright and conspicuous. This kind of natural hair allows them to easily cover their figures in the wild woods. Whether they are standing still or walking slowly, their body The colorful hair can make them invisible to the enemy.
But this doesn't work on the gentle slopes of the hills that have been burned by the flames. If you want to be undetected, you have to make yourself dirtier and more integrated into the background of this environment.
It has to be said that these furry fighters in charge of close combat did the right thing. They were covered in ashes without attracting the attention of anyone in the village, so they just sneaked in from the side of the village.
Unlike the courageous Mao Mao who entered the village from the front to investigate, these melee Mao Mao soon heard human voices after climbing over the low walls of two peasant houses.
It sounded like the old voice was begging for something, while the young human voice was throwing a tantrum.
Along with the whipping sound and the sound of the body falling, a house in the village that has not been completely burned gathers the few remaining humans here.
Sneaky and furtive, four fluffy black and gray soft cat heads sneaked out of a fence.
On the opposite side of the wall was a small building on the second floor that hadn't been burned down. There were seven or eight people gathered in the yard, but five of them were old humans. The remaining three young men kept pushing and shoving the old men with an anxious look on their faces.
"Go %￥% for me, do you hear me, don't think about those people coming to save you. They are all human, you old guys are going to be ordered to work."
While threatening in a low voice, a young man flicked the short leather whip in his hand.
But the five old men who were intimidated by him just sat on the ground full of black ash, holding each other's arms with their companions, without any intention of getting up. Even if the young man whipped them on them before, he didn't get up.
At this time, another young man with a bald head looked at these old people who were determined not to leave with disgust, and said to the young man holding a whip: "Since they don't want to leave, let them stay here, it's a ruined village anyway. One, the treasures unearthed these days are enough for us to travel to the nearby town of Dorne for a long time."
The last young man with a shovel in his hand paused for a while: "That's right, but in order to prevent others from knowing our appearance and name, it's best to kill these old guys. Move faster, Maybe the team passing by will send people over to investigate. It is best to leave a few dead people for them, so that they can't figure it out. UU reading www.uukanshu.com"
The young man with the whip in his hand was a little entangled: "No, murder? It's not worth it, just take a few of them to avoid this team. To be honest, we have only dug a few yards in this place..."
"Hey, you young people have really gone astray. Fortunately, we still find food for you! After eating the master's meal, the guests should not draw their swords and force them."
An old man coughed, spit out a spit, and sprayed it fiercely on the face of the young man holding a whip.
The young man was spat in the face, and immediately swung the whip, and lashed the old man's head, leaving a whip mark with hair and skin immediately: "Guest? Who is the guest? Just those rotten beans Is it food?"
Seeing that his companions were still going to be beaten, the bald head directly pulled out his dagger: "What are you talking about, kill these people, let's retreat first, come back after a while, and dig out the treasures left by the villagers who escaped in the village!"
Seeing that the tragedy was about to happen, the melee Mao Mao looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
But fortunately, at the other end of the yard, Courage Maomao came over. Although he didn't know what happened here at this time, he let out a loud "meow" and jumped up from under the wall with three companions.
The sudden strange cry and the four unseen monsters leaping up the fence startled all the humans in the yard. Not only were the three young men who were about to kill panicked, but even the five old men who were sitting on the ground screamed strangely: "What monster!"
At the same time, there was a loud meowing from the other side of the yard, and four dark-skinned maomao also jumped onto the fence, following the leader to intimidate the humans in the yard.
"Meow meow meow?"
Courageous Mao Mao stared at him for a long time, why did the four companions become black like this?