Captain Red Scorpion grabbed the whip, and with a light stroke, dragged the young officer off the horse and threw it heavily on the ground. The guards of the young officer were taken aback and drew their guns loudly, apparently preparing to shoot.
bang bang bang! Gunshots rang out with a clear rhythm.
Naturally, it is impossible for such a quick burst of fire to come from these private soldiers who have not even ignited a single force node. Before Qianye could make a move, a veteran soldier pulled the trigger, shot one by one, and killed all five daring guards.
"You want to rebel?" The captain coldly glanced at the private soldiers gathered around.
These private soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, but the hands that were pushing and loading the bombs did not stop, and there was a hint of intention to do something in their eyes, which made Qianye extremely puzzled.
People who can use the Force and people who have not ignited the nodes are completely creatures of two worlds. This cannot be compensated by quantity, just as a hundred sheep cannot kill a lion. The gap between these private soldiers and the red scorpion warriors is even greater than that between a lamb and a lion. Where did they get the courage and confidence to challenge the Red Scorpions
Is this task actually a trap
Qianye seemed to have realized something, and immediately took off the original force rifle from behind, started to charge the original force, and in a blink of an eye, it condensed into an original force bullet in the barrel of the gun. To deal with the strong behind the scenes, only the use of force guns can be a threat.
The young man on the ground almost lost his breath when he was thrown, he managed to slow down, and when he raised his head, he immediately let out a scream. He watched helplessly as Captain Red Scorpion lowered the muzzle of his gun expressionlessly, and then pulled the trigger.
With the sound of gunfire, the young man's limbs were all broken, and he passed out on the spot.
At this time, a middle-aged man ran out of the crowd, wiped the sweat on his forehead in fear, nodded repeatedly and bent down, and said, "I am the mayor in charge of this town, and I am also the former steward of the lord. The lord ordered I’m here to greet you, and at the same time, I need to report some information to you.”
The captain looked him up and down before saying, "Say!"
The middle-aged man laughed, took out a portrait from his pocket, handed it over, and said, "This woman is the fiancée of the lord. She was captured by the rebels. Please bring her back, sir, and try not to Injured her. The lord said that, in addition to the military expenses that have been paid, I also prepared a generous gift for you afterwards!"
The captain took the portrait and looked at it.
It was a fairly clear sketch portrait of a very beautiful young girl, her eyes were naturally charming with a touch of ecstasy. She looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, but she was wearing the clothes of ordinary people in the area.
The captain passed the portrait to every team member to read it, then put it in his pocket, and said to the middle-aged man, "I know about this. Do you have any last words to say?"
The middle-aged man was shocked, and lost his voice: "What... what last words! Are you joking, sir?"
The captain said coldly: "I never joke! I don't know who this young man is, and I don't know what conflicts there are between you, so I want to use the hands of our Red Scorpions to get rid of him. My respect to you There is no interest in politics among these nobles, but since you want to use the Red Scorpion, you have to pay the corresponding price! Killing you is just a warning to your master, the Red Scorpion is too powerful for him to play with If you play too much, be careful to cut off his own head!"
After the captain finished speaking, he drew out his pistol, aimed at the middle-aged man's forehead and pulled the trigger without pausing!
A blood hole immediately appeared between the eyebrows of the middle-aged man, and he fell down slowly with a face full of astonishment.
Qianye frowned, and asked a veteran beside him in a low voice: "Is this okay?"
The veteran said nonchalantly: "It's okay! We have casualty indicators for every operation!"
"Casualty indicator?" Qianye heard this word for the first time.
"It means that when we act, we can 'accidentally injure' people in some places, especially nobles." The veteran explained.
Qianye took a deep breath, not knowing how to react for a moment.
At this time, the arrogance of the local private army disappeared, and some people started to retreat secretly. Soon, several officers who had been hidden in the crowd began to give orders and maintain the team.
The captain sneered at them, "Red Scorpion will do this task by itself, and you don't need your cooperation. I don't want to be shot in the back."
The officers in the crowd were silent. Whoever dares to talk too much at this time is courting death.
The Red Scorpion team quickly disappeared into the vast forest. The traces left by the rebels were so obvious that even a rookie like Qianye would never lose them. In this way, the Red Scorpion team went straight to the rebels' lair, blocking all the rebels in the camp.
The camp of the rebels was set on a mountain peak, surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and only one side had a road in and out.
This place is very secretive, with low shrubs and chest-length weeds covering the natural path. If someone hadn't entered and exited recently and didn't know how to remove the traces, it would be really difficult to find. But the disadvantage of such a terrain is also obvious, that is, no one can escape if the way out is blocked by the red scorpion.
There were about a hundred people in the camp, and they all rushed out of the camp upon hearing the commotion. But when they saw the red scorpion warrior approaching slowly, their faces were immediately filled with despair.
This is the rebels? When seeing these people, Qianye couldn't help but ask questions.
Among the more than one hundred people, half are old and weak women and children. Their clothes were tattered, and they were all in shape. Most of them held primitive muskets and even iron-cast swords in their hands. Before seeing them, Qianye always thought that iron was only a metal for casting daily necessities, and as a weapon, it should at least be above alloy copper.
Qianye saw three warriors who had ignited the origin node, but they only ignited one node. There wasn't even a Force gun to be found in the entire camp.
Could such a team be the rebels? Those rebels who were able to drag Lin Xitang to the western border and couldn't open the situation
This is more or less a camp of refugees.
The captain seemed to have expected it, stepped forward a few steps, took out the portrait in his pocket, raised it, and said, "Where is this woman? It's best to come out by yourself!"
"It's me! What do you want?" A girl squeezed out from the crowd and stared at the captain angrily.
The captain took out the memo, looked at the mission description, and said, "Well, your father was originally the owner of the mine here, and it is said that he secretly funded a rebel team. Also, the lord here said that you are his fiancee?"
The girl was furious and shouted: "He is talking nonsense! I have nothing to do with him, but I was accidentally seen by him that day and forced me to follow him! I didn't want to, so he tried to kill my father and the real My fiancé said that our family is rebellious! Since the time of our great-grandfather, our family has served the imperial army, and every generation has died on the battlefield. Is this what we will end up doing in the end when we serve our country faithfully?"
The captain had no expression on his face, and said flatly: "Maybe the truth is what you said, maybe not. But since we are standing here, you should know that the nature and result of this matter cannot be changed."
"Could it be that a viscount can cover the sky with one hand in the empire?" The girl cried out in grief and indignation.
The captain was still calm, but the words he said were extremely cold, "At least in this matter, yes."
Despair appeared on the girl's face, she calmed down slowly, and asked, "Then what do you want now, are you going to kill us all?"
The captain pondered for the first time, and his eyes swept over the people in the camp. The old and weak women and children in front of him were obviously servants of the maiden's family.
He thought for a while and said, "According to the requirements of the mission, you should go back with me, but I personally don't recommend you to do so. Of course, if you insist and think that there may be a chance for revenge in the future, you can also try."
Of course the girl understood what the result would be when she went back, and immediately said firmly: "I will never let that pig touch me with a finger!"
The captain nodded, threw a finger-sized bottle over, and said, "Very well, then you can kill yourself. Drink this, and you will die painlessly."
He pointed to the other two people who had ignited the force node, and said, "You must die too. As for the other people here, I just pretended not to see them."
A moment later, three corpses were placed in front of Qianye.
"Pick them up and let's go. Mission accomplished!" said the captain.
Qianye picked up one of the corpses, silently followed the troops, and returned along the way they came.
This mission was completed with such ease that there was no real combat. But the atmosphere in the team was very solemn, including the captain, all the veterans were silent.
After returning to the town and handing over the three corpses to the local private army, Red Scorpion's airship took off and returned to the headquarters.
On the airship, Qianye looked at the sky outside the porthole, wondering what he was thinking. The bald captain also seemed to have lost his vitality, and the "Scorpion Tail" flew extremely smoothly, as if it had been replaced by a different airship.
At this time, the captain sitting next to him suddenly said: "Rookie, have you seen this? This is reality. There is only so much we can do. You will understand later that politics is not our domain. As soldiers, we It is just a knife in the hands of the empire. Wherever we are asked to stab, we have to stab. As for right and wrong, it is not our concern.”
Qianye breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was still heavy. The so-called politics is indeed an area that cannot be resolved with swords and force.
In this insignificant corner of the empire's frontier, Qianye has experienced the turmoil of politics. Isn't the burden of the man who is far away in the western border and suppressing the overall situation with his own strength even heavier
Back at Red Scorpion, Qianye immediately applied for a mission.
Only in the face-to-face confrontation with the dark race did Qianye feel able to find the value of his own existence. Compared with the so-called politics, fighting against the dark race is more simple.
However, the application was put on hold for a whole week before a reply was received. Qianye was transferred to participate in an important mission.
This is an important task marked as a first-level task by Red Scorpion. In a city in the western border of the empire, a secret base of the dark race was discovered.
Therefore, the staffing of the Red Scorpions was rare and luxurious. Colonel Wei Lishi personally led the team, dispatched a total of thirty Red Scorpions and two hundred Black Scorpions, and Qianye was the only rookie in the team. This arrangement is not surprising. As the first player among rookies, Qianye's record at this time can already beat many veterans of the Black Scorpion level.
The location of the mission is next to the two provinces guarded by Lin Xitang. Qianye has already heard that some rebels are secretly colluding with the dark race. Perhaps this mission can indirectly support Lin Xitang.