"Hey, this other world is fucked up enough. I run into car thieves as soon as I go out." Chen Hansheng took out a pistol from behind him. It was issued by the school security department. It was a Type 54. Although it was an old gun, it was powerful and sturdy. Chen Hansheng had used it before and it was very easy to use.
Chen Hansheng pointed his gun at the knight, then covered the gun with his sleeve. He loaded seven bullets into the magazine. At this distance, he was confident that he could kill at least four or five people in one round of shooting.
"Are you sure?" Luo Ling's voice sounded softly in his ears.
Chen Hansheng glanced at Li Tianrui and his men. They looked good, but they had never seen blood before. Their expressions betrayed their nervousness. "No problem, but I can't say how much the loss will be."
"Don't be impulsive."
"I know my limits." Chen Hansheng nodded slightly, then asked, "What is that guy mumbling with his head held high?"
"This guy is a knight from a nearby castle. He wants to rob our goods... and others." Luo Ling gently supported her chin with her hand, squinted her eyes and said, "I wonder who will be unlucky today."
"These medieval lords are not good people. I specially read European history books. The armies in those castles will turn into bandits and robbers when they arrive at other people's territories. We encountered them today." A boy from the business group said not far behind Chen Hansheng.
"What will happen if they succeed?" asked another boy.
"It's worse than the worst you can imagine." The boy from before answered, "Throwing the body in the wilderness to be eaten by wild dogs, having the head chopped off to claim credit for suppressing bandits, being captured and sold as a slave... These are all in the books." He saw the robe on Luo Ling and pouted, "This is a magical world. Who knows what more terrifying things there are."
"Don't say anything. You two brothers don't have guns. If a fight breaks out, just be responsible for protecting Teacher Luo. Leave the rest to me and Xiao Li." Chen Hansheng reminded.
"That's right! We are not afraid of anything. We have guns. If we can't do it, we will take the initiative. Goblins and bandits bully us. If we don't make a name for ourselves and teach them a lesson, it will never end!" Li Tianrui said. Some of the cavalrymen were trotting around the periphery, while others had already stopped, pointing at them and laughing disdainfully from time to time.
An old soldier wearing tattered leather armor saw Li Tianrui's eyes, grinned and revealed a mouthful of broken yellow teeth, yelled a few words to his accomplice next to him, and made a gesture that was applicable to both worlds with his middle finger to Li Tianrui. Li Tianrui was so angry that he spat on the ground and wished he could shoot them all down right away.
"Don't underestimate these guys." Luo Ling said. Morey and Xi Luo both said that magicians are notorious, and most people would rather avoid them and try not to have anything to do with magicians. However, these soldiers who looked like a mob didn't look nervous. They were either well prepared or they were confident.
Chen Hansheng nodded in agreement: "These guys are veterans. They have been on the battlefield and seen blood. They are not elite, but we can handle them!"
Xiao Chen's attention was focused on the front, and he turned a deaf ear to his companions' words behind him. His eyes were like ice blades, piercing the knight. After a long stalemate, he realized that the other party would never give up easily. So, he slowly took out a scroll from his arms. This was one of the results of his and Luo Ling's second search in the magician's mansion, a mental blast scroll.
Morey told him that the normal effect of this scroll was to make people around him dizzy to a certain extent, and then the user could take the opportunity to knock them down. But he was not sure what effect it would have if Xiao Chen used it.
The ideal plan was to temporarily stun the person in front, and then his companions would take action behind him. However, just as he almost drowned himself while trying to put out a fire, he indirectly killed Professor Lin by setting a fire. Xiao Chen really didn't know what kind of mutation his violent mental power would cause to the magic. Would it explode the heads of the people around him at once? Or even explode his own head first? So Xiao Chen didn't want to try it unless it was absolutely necessary.
Luo Ling couldn't help but frown when she saw Xiao Chen's actions. This knight didn't know what kind of monster he had offended. By the time Xiao Chen opened the scroll, it was too late to regret.
This can't be possible! Her eyes swept over the ring on her middle finger.
Xiao Chen held the scroll in front of his chest, put on a "confident" face and said to the knight: "Friendship is always relative. Knight, you are annoying a magician, you will regret it."
"You are a fool who can only stare blankly, right? Your hands have been shaking since just now." The knight laughed contemptuously, "The cattle and sheep cry loudly because it is time to slaughter them. The magician's eyes are in the sky, so why would he talk nonsense to me like you? Little apprentice, you'd better surrender obediently. It would be a waste to give you the scroll."
The knight smiled sarcastically, waved his hand and threw the small fireball in his hand towards Xiao Chen.
The erratic little fireball was smaller than a fist. Xiao Chen could feel that it did not contain much energy. It would probably only feel like a burn if it hit his body. But how should he deal with it? Block it? Avoid it? A true mage might have a hundred decent ways to deal with this little fireball, and they must be as simple as flicking his fingers. However, Xiao Chen could not do it.
The sneer from the knight opposite was very hateful, as if he could see through him. Xiao Chen vaguely felt that today's incident was not as simple as intercepting and collecting taxes, and there might be other hidden reasons. But no matter what was hidden behind this matter, he had to get through this hurdle first.
Just as Xiao Chen was about to strike first and use his sword to block the fireball while taking the risk of activating the scroll, a slender hand passed over him and blocked the fireball. The moment the fireball approached the finger, it disappeared for no reason, as if it fell into the water.
Then, the hand pointed forward again, and a streak of light streaked through the air and hit the knight's hand. He groaned and his sword fell to the ground. He looked at Luo Ling who was walking forward with suspicion and reached out to touch the spare sword hanging on the side of the saddle.
Luo Ling was standing in front of Xiao Chen. With her five fingers spread out, four or five white snake-like whips flew up and surrounded the knight and began to whip him. The white light was invisible and intangible. Neither the knight's sword nor his armor could stop it. The knight tried to block it in vain, but was whipped and cried out in pain. He trembled and twisted, and finally fell off his horse and curled up on the ground with his head in his hands. Several people in the cavalry instinctively wanted to rush up to protect their master, but they were cut by Luo Ling's cold eyes and stood aside and dared not move forward. In the face of powerful magic, they had no courage to fight.
Luo Ling whipped for about a full minute before the light whip slowly disappeared. The knight had no wounds on his body, but he fell to the ground, trembling constantly, and couldn't even get up.
She actually knows magic? This thought flashed through many people's minds. Although the reasons were different, the manifestations were similar. Almost everyone, whether it was the subordinates of the middle-aged knight or the people on Xiao Chen's side, were stunned at this time.
"This is a lesson for you. Don't take the magician's kindness as weakness." Luo Ling didn't even look at the knight on the ground. She turned around and went back to the car. When she walked past Xiao Chen, she covered her mouth and coughed a few times and said, "Xiao Chen, no one can offend a magician like this. If it were me, I would hang them all on the tree. Remember! The dignity of a magician cannot be challenged!"
Xiao Chen did not look directly at Luo Ling, but stared blankly at the place where the white light flashed. Luo Ling blinked at him several times, but Xiao Chen ignored her. It took him a long time to come back to his senses. At this time, he looked around and saw that the cavalrymen around him were in a panic. Some jumped off their horses tremblingly, some simply lay on the ground, and some took advantage of their position on the periphery to whip their horses hard and flee up the mountain.
"Leave them behind!" Xiao Chen pointed at the people who were fleeing on horseback.
Li Tianrui was still hesitating when Chen Hansheng snatched the gun from him and fired two shots in succession. The two fleeing horses fell headfirst to the ground, and the two cavalrymen on the horses were thrown several meters away, fell to the ground, and cried out.
Seeing that everyone had submitted, Xiao Chen said, "I know you are just some country folk, brought here by a fool without vision to fight against the magician. So I have no interest in hanging you all. But the mastermind must be punished." He raised the burning sword, pointed at the two people who ran out to help the knight and said, "Gag the knight, tie him up and hang him on the tree."
Probably because the knight's usual prestige was still there, the two men looked around, hesitant, not knowing whether to take action or not.
Xiao Chen used his flaming sword to strike back, and a wave of heat pushed the two men back. Xiao Chen said, "If you don't do it, then prepare to be whipped like him and hung on a tree. There will always be others here who are willing to do it for you."
The threat worked, and the knight was soon tied up like a dumpling and hung on a tree. Xiao Chen then said to the rest of the people, "Remember, don't provoke the people from Frollo Town. Now, throw your weapons on the ground and get out!"
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The unfortunate knight was not let go until the convoy had gone a long way. He ignored his dirty face and mounted his horse to return to the castle. When he dismounted, he saw his master, Viscount Ruiz, who was in his forties, blond and a little thin, waiting for him outside the castle bridge...
"There is no doubt that they are real magicians. The information sent by the Earl was inaccurate, and I almost lost my life." The knight said angrily.
"No, no, Alfonso, the news the Count sent is that they might be powerful magicians. I lied to you." Viscount Ruiz's face remained calm when he mentioned the word lie, as if he didn't see Alfonso's liver-like face.
"However, if not for this, you would have been scared before you even went there. How could you find out their background? My loyal knight, you will be rewarded. Go find the butler to claim your reward. Let me figure out these strange people for the count." Viscount Ruiz said this with a playful smile on his face.