The sounds of dogs barking and shouting were all in one.
"Traveler Sui Xiong MK5" gasped for air, leaning under a big tree, and sat down regardless of the snow on the ground.
He took out a leather bag filled with spirits and washed the wound on his left arm. The severe pain made him grin.
After washing the wound to ensure that it would not be infected, he took out a clean cloth and carefully bandaged the wound.
These things will waste a lot of time, but they are essential in order to maintain good condition.
If he wanted to escape in this ice and snow for a long time, or even run out of the Gold Coin Federation and into the Ash Forest, he had to ensure that he was in good condition, otherwise he would die on the road sooner or later.
"It took so much effort to travel back and forth, how could I die here!" Even on the brink of despair, he was not discouraged and encouraged himself with a smile, "Sui Xiong, Sui Xiong, you want to be a hero, but you are being beaten by a bunch of bastards. If you chase me and die in the forest, I will be so sorry for this name!"
He wiped his face with snow to refresh himself, and ate some dry flour cakes with the snow. Feeling that his body had recovered a little, he continued on his way to the north without further delay.
He has to pass through this forest to reach the northern part of the Gold Coin Federation. As for how to cross the interceptor that may already be waiting for him after arriving in the northern part of the Gold Coin Federation, and go to the Ash Forest, the paradise of adventurers, that is a matter for later.
Walking alone in the mountains and forests, with injuries on his body and lack of necessary equipment, was a very difficult thing, but he had to persevere.
"This guy is a monster!" A few days later, about twenty or thirty miles away from him, a group of adventurers looked at the footprints in the snow and looked at each other.
They are bounty hunters who specialize in hunting down criminals. They have captured the guys on the bounty board countless times, dead or alive, and exchanged them for bounties. They are considered masters at this. The criminal I planned to chase this time was not a professional habitual criminal. It should not be difficult to deal with, but I didn't expect that after chasing him for so many days, I couldn't catch him!
"Those noble soldiers can no longer hold on." A very thin adventurer said, "The knight leading the team said that they are ready to withdraw and leave the task to us."
"What? Their lord's son was killed, and he wants to go back without catching the murderer?" The adventurer leading the team was surprised, "Isn't he afraid of being beheaded after returning?"
"This army is also very important to the Viscount, and he cannot afford to lose it." The oldest adventurer said, "If we lose this army, the Viscount will suffer a big loss. He has three sons, but this is the only one. Elite troops.”
"No, no, no, you are wrong. The army must be his, but the son may not be his."
The bounty hunters laughed maliciously.
After laughing for a while, the leader pointed forward and ordered the chase to continue.
Whether the Viscount's damn son is his own son or not is someone else's business. For them, the most important thing is to catch up with the fugitive who killed the nobles and collect the reward with his head!
At this time, the lord of Gerten Territory, located on the east side of the forest, Dame Gerten, was looking at a letter she had just received.
The letter was sent by a viscount from the west. The letter said that his second son was killed by a brutal gangster not long ago. The murderer may have escaped into the forest. If the murderer escapes to the Gerten Territory, I hope he can help hunt him down.
"Is this guy's second son... the one who likes to raise wolves?" Lord Orian asked after pondering for a moment.
"Auntie, you have such a good memory!" Her secretary, who is also a member of the Gerten family and is one generation younger than her, exclaimed after hearing this, "You even remember that guy's things. He is indeed a 'great educator' of voters!”
"Great Educator" is a title that the God of Knowledge, Wall, has just received in the past two years. Compared with previous titles, this title is obviously more understandable and has been quickly popularized and promoted. Now it has become his most common title. pronoun.
Orian smiled slightly, looked at the letter, and frowned again.
The letter was very brief, but her intuition told her that things were not that simple.
How could an adventurer kill a lord's son? Even though he is only the second son, he is still a nobleman!
It is an unpardonable capital crime for civilians to kill nobles. If that adventurer didn't have an absolute reason, he would definitely not do such a thing!
"Go check it out," she said to her nephew. "I always feel like there's something wrong with this."
The nephew left in response and came back during dinner time to report the results of the investigation.
It turned out that the second son of the viscount got a very rare wolf some time ago. She is not big, and her whole body is as white as snow, as if she were made of snow. She is very beautiful. He liked the wolf very much and often took it for walks in his territory. Not long ago, for some unknown reason, this wolf got into a fight with a local dog while walking. Because of its small size, it actually fell behind and was bitten several times. Although the guards arrived quickly and killed the wild dog, the little white wolf had been bitten on a key part and was probably alive. However, it was impossible to expect it to breed and give birth to a large group of wolf pups.
The lord's second son was very angry and hanged five members of the native dog owner's family in the name of "damaging the lord's property". As a result, the next day, when he was taking his wolf for a walk as usual, he was grabbed by an adventurer who suddenly rushed out from the roadside. The knife was held around his neck and he was dragged to the wolf that was still hanging on the gallows. In front of his family, he was kicked and knelt down. A white knife went in and a red knife came out, stabbing him to the core.
Of course, the guards immediately attacked the murderer, but the murderer was indeed a figure who had reached the main round of the world's best martial arts competition a few years ago, and his skills were unimaginable. Although he suffered several injuries, he managed to break out of the siege and walked away.
Of course, the Viscount could not let go of his son's murderer. He not only sent out elite troops to pursue him, but also recruited a group of famous bounty hunters. The two sides should still be chasing him in the forest.
After hearing this, Dame Orianne was silent for a while and sighed.
"Look," she said to her relatives who were dining with her, "even nobles, if they do something outrageous, will encounter brave assassins. In this world, there will never be a shortage of people who are willing to sacrifice their lives for justice. hero!"
"But what he did was wrong." The secretary said, "No matter what the reason is, it is not okay to assassinate a noble!"
Dame Orianne nodded and sighed again.
"What a pity for this man!"
A few days later, "Sui Xiong" who was tired and hungry finally walked out of the forest.
He arrived at a small village, stayed at an inn, and slept all day.
After waking up, eating something, and tidying up a little, he left and continued heading north.
However, this time he didn't get very far.
When he reached a fork in the road, a knight who seemed to have been waiting here stood up and blocked his way.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time." The knight said, "Have you rested well?"
Looking at the white scale and shield symbols on the opponent's chest, Sui Xiong sighed.
This is a paladin who believes in the God of Justice and Law. When facing lawbreakers, they have special magical skills that can greatly increase their strength and greatly reduce the enemy's strength.
More importantly, he had an impression of this man's face. He had seen this person at the last martial arts competition at Mask of the Void Playground.
"I saw you at a tourney," he said. "You won one, didn't you?"
"What a good memory!" The paladin nodded, "When you said that, I also remembered that you also participated in that martial arts tournament."
Although he said this, his posture did not change at all, and it was obvious that he did not relax at all.
Sui Xiong sighed deeply and asked, "I have several adventure partners, will I implicate them?"
The paladin of the God of Justice frowned, and after a while, he said: "Your friends will be in a lot of trouble. Strictly speaking, even the owner of the previous hotel will be in trouble."
"That's not right." Sui Xiong smiled, "I killed the person. Before that, I had already broken up with them because of a quarrel while drinking. As for the boss, he was deceived by me and is also a victim. .”
The paladin looked at him deeply, and after a long moment, he sighed heavily.
"I understand." He said, "This testimony has been recorded, don't worry."
Sui Xiong smiled and stretched out his hand: "Then, do what you should do."
The paladin saluted him and bound him with the magic ropes he had prepared.
Later, Sui Xiong was tried in this territory. This criminal shocked the lord, especially his smiling and calm look during the trial, which made the lord dumbfounded.
In his impression, after the criminal was caught, he always looked frightened and uneasy. How could he be so calm
Also, aren’t those criminals trying to bite others in order to alleviate their own crimes, or at least drag others to die with them? Why did this guy deliberately take all the blame on himself
"What's going on?" he asked doubtfully.
The guard captain who had grown up with him—that is, the paladin—sighed heavily again: "A good man, but it's a pity that he violated the law."
The lord thought for a while, understood, and sighed heavily.
"Hanging!" he announced, "No need to send it to the victim, it will be executed here!"
Sui Xiong seemed very calm until his death. When the executioner put the rope around his neck, his hands and legs were shaking slightly, but he still had the mind to joke with the executioner.
"Brother, I'm stuck." He said, "Don't throw me off."
He thought the word "trap" was funny and couldn't help but laugh.
Later, the smile solidified on his face and did not disappear until his death.