In Falcon Castle, Llewellyn, who came under the pretext of visiting, quickly stopped Ask who was about to collect his reward and asked him in detail about what happened.
"I don't know." Ask said seriously, "I just heard a gunshot in the distance..."
"How many?" Llewellyn interrupted.
"One? Maybe two, I can't remember." Ask said, "After all, we were still fighting the greenskins at that time."
Llewellyn was speechless.
"Then fog started to rise in the distance, very heavy fog," Ask said. "It was the kind of weather where it was sunny one second, and fog rolled down from the top of the mountain the next. Just by looking directly at it, you can feel a chilly and uncomfortable atmosphere. Well, although I don't know what it is, I'm sure it has something to do with supernatural powers. After all, I've seen a lot of abnormalities. You know the Night's Watch team, right? I had a lot of fun chatting with them."
The mist... the cold air... it was definitely the ability of the Styx Ferryman, and it matched the clues we found on the scene. Did the Ferryman trap the traitor by summoning the Styx
Llewellyn thought to himself and continued:
"Well, Captain Ask, after you saw the fog coming down from the mountain, didn't you try to go over and check what was going on?"
"Of course not." Ask said seriously, "First, we, the Blue Sword, were fighting a large number of green monsters in the city at the time and were completely unable to escape. We had no ability to get away to check."
"Secondly, the employment agreement signed between the Falcon Family and us is to recapture the city of Stuttgart and capture Count Württemberg alive or confirm his death. As for the mutation, what does it have to do with me? If I help them quell the mutation, will the Falcon Family pay me extra compensation for it?"
Llewellyn: …
Although the words were a bit rough, from the perspective of mercenaries, the risk of rashly entering the mutation zone was too high, and the benefits were unstable. In the absence of a contract guarantee, it was normal for a general mercenary group to choose to retreat in the face of mutations.
As for the battle with the greenskins that Ask mentioned, the School of Life also found traces of battle and the bodies of the infected in the city.
Judging from the clues at the scene, these guys should have been besieged by the infected and were finally trapped in a building.
"Does your team have a sniper?" Llewellyn asked suddenly.
"Of course." Ask answered without hesitation, "Which team doesn't train shooters now?"
"Not a gunman, but a sniper," Llewellyn corrected him, "the kind with a range of over two thousand meters."
"You're kidding." Ask laughed and pointed to the gun bag on his chest. "I'm a gun player and I know some basic knowledge about guns. The range of a regular sniper rifle is about 800-1500 meters. Beyond 2,000 meters, wind direction, humidity, gravity... will seriously interfere with and deviate from the sniper's accuracy."
"If you want to hit the target two thousand meters away, that's no problem. You can do it with a gun. But if you want to hit the target accurately, it depends on luck. Even if you have extraordinary abilities, you can't continue to control the trajectory of the bullet after it leaves the gun, and the trajectory is two thousand meters long. If you have that ability, who would still play with guns?"