After passing the checkpoint, Bella asked, "What would have happened if we hadn't bribed that officer just now?"
"That's not bribery, that's deterrence. The result is not simple. Just send out your thugs to destroy the checkpoint. If that doesn't work, the boss will take action. By then, this small checkpoint will probably collapse." Gallo said.
Bella, however, was in no mood to joke with him and said, "That means they will take action and try to catch us, right?"
"Looking at the posture, he should attack. I saw the officer's movements. His hand never left the hilt of the sword. He looked like he was ready to attack at any time." Gallo said.
"What if we are not strong enough and get caught by them?" Bella asked.
"Locked up?" Gao Wen asked.
"Not likely." Gallo shook his head. "If they are really arrested, will they still be provided with food? Judging from the attitude of these people, they must have arrested a lot of people in the past few days. If they really want to hide something, those people may even be silenced."
Mo Yu said: "No matter what use these slaves have, they can be used for whatever purpose. Those strong adventurers are more useful, aren't they?"
"As expected of you, Boss. What you said makes sense. Maybe those people will be imprisoned at the destination of these slaves." Gallo said, "The lives of those adventurers are very worthless. Even if they have some strength, they are still like ants in the eyes of the nobles. Moreover, if there are fewer such people, they will not even attract much attention. I don't know how many adventurers die on the road of various expeditions every year."
Bella asked, "So will they also be captured and used as slaves to make up the numbers?"
They moved forward quickly for a while and caught up with the team in front. Sure enough, after walking about a kilometer forward, the slave caravan changed direction and turned east at a fork in the road.
After walking about two kilometers east, a patch of lights appeared in the darkness ahead. It was a large town. The town was surrounded by a high wall made of earth and stone. There were even taller watchtowers on the corners of the wall. I couldn't see what was inside, but I could see many people patrolling on the top of the wall. It looked like the town was on high alert.
"It feels strange to have such a fortress here." Gallo said while looking at the town. "Although I am not familiar with the terrain of the kingdom, it feels strange to have such a heavily defended fortress in such a remote mountain. Don't you think such defenses are almost catching up with Silver Sand City? But Silver Sand City is a trade hub for the surrounding areas. Why does this broken place in the ravine need such a fortress? This is obviously the direction where the slave caravan is heading. Do they need such a fortress to imprison the slaves?"
Mo Yu said: "We need to sneak in and take a look."
"Boss? This place doesn't look easy to deal with."
Mo Yu said: "Whatever the people of the kingdom are doing, it is closely related to the Tower of China. Don't forget, they are now trying desperately to regain the lost territory. So since you are here, let's find out clearly."
"Boss? Should we fight our way in, or sneak in?"
"Am I such a violent person?" Mo Yu smiled: "Of course I will try to get in first, and then kill them if they can't get in."
Barron regretted more and more that he had accepted the job of escorting slaves. The territory he was originally starting from was quite far away, and time was tight. It took him half a month to get on the road. Today, he inexplicably encountered a group of incredibly strong people who knocked down his subordinates and killed two of them.
After stepping into the kingdom, the strange atmosphere around him made him feel uneasy. Both the checkpoint and the destination ahead were strange. He knew that the less he knew about this kind of mission, the better. However, the feeling of being completely confused made him feel uneasy.
Fortunately, he could reach the strange fortress after walking a little further. He decided to leave immediately after delivering the goods and receiving the money, and return to the empire overnight.
But the slaves in front of me are already tired and are walking slower and slower. Should I whip them a few times
He had just raised the whip in his hand when someone pulled it back and he couldn't continue.
A voice sounded beside my ear: "It seems that the lesson you have learned is not enough."
Barron turned around and was almost scared to death. The man holding his whip was the man who questioned him. And several other people had surrounded him without knowing when.
Barron quickly released the whip and said, "My Lords, I am just a little anxious. It is getting dark soon. Many of these guys are blind at night. I have to hurry over. I wonder if you have anything to ask me?"
"What's your name?" Gallo asked.
"Barron."
Gallo patted his face and said, "Okay. From now on, I am Barron, and you are my follower. If you don't cooperate, you can forget about returning to the empire, understand?"
"Sir, do you want to get into that fortress?" Barron said in horror.
"yes."
"But it's really not a good place. I've been to this side of the kingdom with the army, and even to deeper places. But I've never heard of such a fortress here. Don't you think it's strange to have such a fortress? From a distance, the guards are so strict. It will definitely be dangerous to sneak in."
"That's why I want to go in. Tell me clearly who sent you here and how you will hand over to them later. Don't try any tricks. You will stay by my side all the time, and this will happen if you don't listen." Gallo's fighting spirit swept across the whip, and the whip immediately broke into pieces and fell to the ground.
Barron knew he couldn't resist, so he just nodded and said, "Yes, yes, sir."
Gallo dressed Barron as his adjutant, and Mo Yu, Bella and Ze Gaowen as the three guards. They covered their bodies with wide robes and were not very noticeable in the team.
The fire looked very close at night, but it took a long time to walk to it. They walked for nearly two hours before they finally arrived under the fortress.
The nearby fortress looked particularly tall. Gallo judged that the city wall was at least ten meters high. Although there was no moat, there was a soldier standing every four or five meters on the wall. The defenses were much tighter than those of most towns on the mainland.
The people on the fort also saw them from afar. When they were about to reach the city, the gate of the fort opened. A team of thirty or forty knights rushed out on horseback. They surrounded the slave team from behind, as if to check if there was any problem.
When Gallo saw these knights, his eyes narrowed. These were actually knights from the Temple of Nature!
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