September twenty-sixth, dawn.
The convoy of "Jitter Firm" slowly drove out of the Cobb Forest, the four carriages still maintained their original formation, and the mercenaries and the undead dressed as servants looked at the city of Houlier, which looked like a crawling monster in the distance. On the city wall, the originally slack expression gradually became serious.
Derby's bald head is very conspicuous in the dim light. He is running back and forth after busy work at this moment, and he is constantly receiving the information reported by the Pathfinder mercenary—although his performance is low in front of Magda, it is not It means that Derby is a simple dog leg. In fact, if Magda hadn't participated in the mission at the request of Ansardin, this powerful assassin would have enough ability to complete the assassination of Angmar.
But now that Magda, who was three or four levels higher than him, took the shot, Derby was actually glad that his mission was the lowest risk in decades.
"Master Derby, the curfew has just been lifted in Houllier City, but only the west gate is open. After some inquiries, it has been like this for the past three days, as confirmed before."
"knew."
Magda sat in the carriage with her eyes closed and rested, she was not surprised by such news. Derby felt relieved after getting the confirmation, and he waved to his subordinates while riding on the horse, and said very crisply: "Go directly to the west city gate.
"Yes, my lord."
The team turned and marched for a few more minutes, the noise of the carriages reverberated a little due to the proximity to the tall city walls. Derby rode on his horse and looked around—three lazy soldiers were standing guard in front of the open city gate not far away. The torches used for lighting were stuck on the city wall, and they seemed to be about to go out because they had been burning for a long time. From the post near the city gate, there was a peculiar smell of horse dung. The farmers who were driving to the market from the nearby villages were passing through the city gate. Occasionally, a few soldiers thought they were raw, and made a lot of noise. Those who were dragged to pay a few copper coins in tax were allowed to pass...
Everything in front of him was no different from what he imagined, and with Derby's keen observation ability, he didn't find any abnormal situation worthy of vigilance.
"Lord Magda..."
"You don't need to ask me about this kind of thing. It's just a few trivial things. Just go to the city and finish it early."
A cold and emotionless voice came from inside the carriage. Although no tone could be heard, the slight sense of reprimand still made Derby a little nervous—he wanted to end this task as soon as possible, so he quickly let the team speed up slightly. speed.
"Where did it come from in front? Is it a caravan?"
When a large group of people approached the city gate, it immediately attracted the attention of a soldier at the gate. Derby was relieved by the other party's yelling—he replied with a unique accent in the northwest of the kingdom: "We are the 'Git Company,'"
"The caravan stop and don't squeeze in all at once, do you have a letter of introduction from the chamber of commerce?"
The soldiers who walked over were flimsy and swaying, no matter how you look at them, they are third-rate soldiers who don't pay the army's salary, but Derby knows that this type of man is the most difficult to deal with, so he quickly got off his horse and took out three silver coins with a polite face. , without a trace and handed the letter of introduction to the other party.
The soldier thought about it for a moment, his greedy eyes suddenly lit up, he nodded, patted Derby on the shoulder and said: "The letter is fine, I will let you go there immediately, but in the past three days, His Excellency the Duke has clearly ordered a strict investigation. , you also understand..."
"I see…"
Derby stuffed three more silver coins in the past, and the other party immediately smiled and made an expression of "you are very good", then turned around, and shouted at the city gate: "Hey, hey, give this team a pass for Saud Lorruger, go and chase those blind people on the road away."
"Thank you for taking care of me"
Thank you politely, Derby was about to let the team in, but when he turned his head, he saw the soldier looking towards the carriage, and quickly explained: "That's the vice president of our chamber of commerce...he has a weird temper, I There was a lot of scolding along the way, you see..."
"Oh, it's okay, I'm just curious."
Waving his hand, the soldier pointed to the inside of the city gate and said, "By the way, the lord has an award ceremony today. The army has sealed off part of the streets, and some roads cannot be walked. I will go to the people in front of you." Point out the way, save trouble when the time comes—”
"Then thank you very much"
After some hypocritical politeness, Derby felt that these human beings were really greedy—if a few silver coins were dropped, they would look like different people... If he threw a few hundred gold coins, would this guy be able to work hard for himself
The messy and nonsensical thoughts made him laugh out loud, but the soldier who had walked to the front and led the way would not notice his contemptuous chuckle. Derby looked up at the tall city wall and the peaceful Street, I can't help but think of the result of the Duke's assassination and death...
It is estimated that there will be chaos in the city for a few days immediately, those weak humans are really fragile.
The marching team did not show any abnormalities from the beginning to the end. The originally silent mercenaries were talking and laughing at this time. After slowly passing through the city gate, the whole team turned around under the leadership of that soldier. On a slightly narrow street.
Derby looked around, because it was only dawn, and there were very few people on the road, and because of the soldiers driving away, the caravan was almost completely empty at this time, and the windows and doors of the houses on both sides were tightly closed , Only the guy who led the way and his other two companions called "Soderol" and "Rug" were left in the field of vision.
With Derby's keen hearing, he could vaguely hear the sound of horseshoes and footsteps in the distance, but the guy in front also said that it was just the Duke's preparations for the award ceremony, and it had nothing to do with him...
Derby, who was led into a misunderstanding by inertial thinking, never thought that everything was just an illusion created by the soldier in front of him.
Rody looked back at the team following him, the titles on the heads of these guys in his vision were all orange red, and the guy in the lead was even brighter red—so from the first moment they appeared, Rody was basically sure of these Guy is the expected undead assassin
When unprepared, it is difficult for human beings to find undead in disguise like Mel, but if they really look for it with suspicion, this kind of camouflage is actually not without traces—Rody, who has an "environmentally sensitive" fighting stance It has been confirmed through a few minutes of monitoring...all the people in front of them have not breathed at all.
Roughly counting the ranks and numbers of these people, Rody smiled and chatted with the mercenaries in front of him, but he kept leading them into the prepared road without stopping, and his face turned slightly serious as he glanced into the distance He made a gesture of "identity confirmation" calmly, and then stopped and said: "Everyone, just keep going forward, and I will lead the way here."
"Thank you so much"
Derby greeted Rody with a smile, and then followed the team and continued to move forward—Roddy swaggered past the team, then trotted and shouted into the distance: "Go back and see if there are any tax evaders." The Duke's order cannot be neglected."
Others heard this as a very natural sentence, but after hearing this sentence, Suo Deluoer, who was a hundred meters away, immediately picked up the bow and arrow beside him, hitched a Ming Dynasty arrow, and shot it into the sky go out
The sharp whistle immediately resounded through the deserted streets, causing Derby and everyone in the caravan to turn their heads.
"What is this..."
Derby on the horse didn't realize what it meant at all, but in the next moment, the sudden sound of undisguised footsteps made him feel that something was wrong—and just at this moment, the mercenary in front of the team looked at him. After turning a corner in the road, I suddenly turned around and shouted: "My lord is ahead... a dead end"
"What did you say?"
Derby pulled the reins suddenly, and then heard a muffled sound coming from a distance. Turning his head, he saw that the west city gate was...closed
"not good"
He immediately cursed, turned over and jumped off the horse. At the same moment, the closed doors and windows around them suddenly opened, and at least fifty short bows pointed their arrows at his team.
"put"
"Damn—"
He only had time to turn over and jump off the horse, when he heard a large group of arrows whizzing past his ears, and all kinds of sounds after the body, wooden carriage and stone road were hit by metal arrows suddenly rang out.
Although all members are undead who can ignore pain and injury, the arrows equipped with armor-piercing arrows still caused them great trauma, and even caused seven or eight people to fall directly to the ground and die from the arrows. no way to get up...
This is just the first wave of arrows, the second wave and the third wave came almost one second apart. Obviously, these shooters have at least two groups of members in rotation—in just four seconds, the thirty-odd The people's caravan was poured with more than two hundred arrows, and the entire team was flooded by this terrifying arrow rain in just one meeting.
Most of the undead who drew their swords to fight back in a hurry were directly shot into the appearance of hedgehogs. Due to the terrain constraints, most of them didn't even have a place to hide, and could only watch the arrows shot from all directions piercing their bodies...
These undead are not weak. Except for Derby, each of the remaining undead is above the basic level of 16, and four of them have the level of advanced professional level 6. In the past, it would be difficult for ordinary soldiers to resist. Roddy’s tyrannical role—but war is not a one-on-one duel. Roddy didn’t intend to talk about "morality" from the beginning. At this time, he simply used the crowd tactics to block the opponent here.
Derby, who was hiding in the gap between the horses and the carriage, immediately understood that he was being counted. He wanted to scold and resist, but under the suppression of such firepower, even he couldn't go out to resist—but when the arrow rain gradually weakened, He still shouted loudly: "Get out of here!"
As soon as the words fell, his body suddenly jumped sideways, and the rest of the undead immediately moved together with him—now you can immediately see the difference between the undead and humans. Arrow stood up, and then roared out of the alley