"Change of plans...or maybe we're in trouble."
At this time, the members of the Fool's Adventure Group were hiding behind the suspicious house, discussing with each other what would happen next.
"Are you sure you heard correctly?"
"Well, I should have heard you right." Duan Qing said to the other two people while squatting in the corner of the wooden house. Due to his injuries, Xiao Hongchen had to sit in the corner by himself - Duan Qing originally did not want him to participate in the next battle, but due to his own strong opposition, he had to let him handle it by himself.
"But... even if the leader of those bandits is really... Yasiqi, we can't be sure if he is the same person." Duan Qing lowered his voice: "The biggest problem now is... .....The situation is unknown.”
"That's the bandit leader. Are we really not mistaken?" Mengzhu also questioned in a low voice.
"In the Free Continent, what is the probability of having the same name..."
"And Nina's father is indeed a miner. When we fought before, they did use practical actions to prove that they are a group of miners." The smiling butcher said in a deep voice.
"So, the question now is, are they really bandits?"
"So far, only one group of people has clearly said that they are a group of bandits and asked us to help them kill these bandits..."
"Those people codenamed Aqiang, right?" Duan Qing snapped his fingers: "Then the key point lies with them."
"Let's summarize. The fact we can confirm is that a group of people who are hostile to outsiders built a...temporary house here." He pointed to the wooden wall behind him with a thumbs up: "Then he said Strangers who touched this place showed ill will. And those people..."
He gestured, and in the cave ahead, the fierce sound of fighting was getting closer and closer: "They identified these people as a group of bandits hiding here."
"Nina is so cute, how could her father be a bandit..." The little girl waved her fist and questioned with annoyance in her tone.
"It's hard to say, and the current situation is indeed very complicated." Duan Qing continued noncommittally: "If we want to confirm our own goals, there are two things we need to figure out: First, are they really mountaineering? Thief, otherwise, we might be taken advantage of and work in vain. Second..."
"The person who shouted to us at the beginning was the Yasiqi we were looking for."
"If you think about it carefully..." The smiling butcher whispered to himself: "These two facts seem to be contradictory."
"What do you mean, uncle?" Mengzhu asked.
"If that group of players deceived us, then these people..." He pointed at the house, and the shouts inside were getting louder and louder: "Probably they are not bad people, then the so-called leader is Ya The probability of Siqi will become very high."
He spread his hands, and the big shield behind him moved sideways with his movements: "Vice versa."
"Well, it seems to make some sense." Duan Qing touched his chin: "But... forget it, it's all just guessing now."
"So it's very difficult for us to deal with it now... We have killed so many of them." Xiao Hongchen, who was sitting on the side, scratched his head and said with some distress: "Now we don't even know who we should help. Know......"
"Do you want to help Nina find her father?"
"Think about it!" Mengzhu said without hesitation: "Otherwise, what would we be doing here?"
"That's right." Duan Qing clapped his hands: "Now the goal is very likely to be in front of us. As long as we can figure it out, we will..."
"Change of plans."
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"Okay, don't look at it anymore. What's so good about those broken knives..."
At the front door, Aqiang knocked down the last enemy with a sword, and then slowly straightened up.
"Keep one for your collection. You know, I like this kind of weapon better." The knife-wielding man behind threw away the knife stained with blood and mud on his hand, then walked forward and clapped his hands: "Sure enough, it's still better. It’s a lot of effort, no wonder the people from the Mage Council offered such a high price, but not many people accepted it..."
"Hey, if they don't have such ability, it's their own fault." Another player in khaki robes sneered: "Why don't they have a mage like me..."
"Hey, hey, don't put gold on your face anymore. You know your own worth, okay? If word spreads, be careful of people from other forces looking for trouble for you..."
"Hmph." The mage player looked disdainful: "Then let them come. With your level, I can fight ten of them..."
"What did you say......?"
"Okay, okay, stop arguing."
Aqiang put his sword back behind his back, and then shouted to stop the quarrel between the two: "Do you think those big forces are so kind? They only look at my face... If it were two days later, God, I guess this task will be divided among them."
"How is it possible? Could they be unruly?"
"The rules..." Aqiang sneered: "They set the rules, and naturally they have to change them themselves."
He took two steps forward and kicked the corpse in front of him away: "As long as the benefits are enough, they can completely ignore these so-called rules, tear us into pieces, and handle these things themselves so that they can communicate with the Mage Council. Building relationships is also called... building up your favorability."
"So... don't have this kind of thinking that 'if they don't accept it, they can't do it'."
Realizing that the atmosphere had stabilized, the leather-armored woman hiding behind cautiously came over, took Aqiang's hand and asked, "Don't be angry, let's go on..."
"Of course we're in." Aqiang took a long breath, as if he wanted to let out the tightness in his chest: "We have been killing for so long, there should not be many of them left. The enemies hiding in this last lair, No more than five.”
"Besides, the bandit leader should be here too."
"You mean, the one those people mentioned before..."
"Well, that person should be the boss of this group of people. There will be such a person in each organization area, responsible for organizing their actions." At the same time as the two subordinates came up, Aqiang explained to his girlfriend : "As long as we get his head, we can go back to Fenghua Town to do business."
"Okay, okay, I've had enough of this place, let's go back quickly..."
"I didn't let you follow me in the first place, but you insisted on following me. Do you regret it now?"
"No...I will follow you..."
Seeing that the two people were about to start endless flirting and flirting, the knife-wielding player who couldn't stand it quickly stepped forward and interrupted: "By the way, brother, the group of people from before..."
"Where are their traces?"
"I don't know. Yu Chen who followed them didn't come back either."
"Hmph, that guy Yu Chen, if he continues to be lazy..."
"Boss! Boss!"
Shouts came from a distance, and several people looked back and saw the last member of the team they were discussing running over from the hole in the back.
"Boss! Huh, uh, I'm exhausted..."
"You idiot! Didn't I tell you to follow them? Why did you come from behind us? Did you lose us? Huh?"
"No, no, listen to me." The player named Yu Chen quickly waved his hand and said: "I followed them... first to another passage, and then they fought with the bandits who followed them. shelf......"
"Don't talk nonsense, let's get to the point." Aqiang, codenamed, interrupted him impatiently: "Where are they now?"
"It should be, over there..." Yu Chen raised a hand on his knee and pointed to the corner of the house in front: "They took the path over there... After going around, everyone should be hiding there now, as if they were trying to sneak in... I thought about it, then went around in a big circle from behind, and came back to report to you, boss... ."
"Hmph." Aqiang finally let go of this subordinate who seemed to have been running away for a long time, and said to himself: "Could it be that they know something and want to take credit from us..."
"When they fought before, did they capture any prisoners? Did they ask anything?" The mage player suddenly interjected and asked.
"No, not really..." Na Yuchen finally took a breath, then raised his head and thought for a while: "They seemed to have a wounded person, so they fought very hard, and in the end there seemed to be no survivors. .....”
"It seems that their strength is average." Aqiang said: "I still overestimated them before..."
He turned around and walked slowly towards the house in front: "Let's go, let's rush in as soon as possible and end this battle."
"Don't let those people steal our fruits..."
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The last house was indeed as huge as it looked, but there wasn't much inside. It seemed that because it had just been built, there was no time to even place the furniture. And now, there are not many people in the house now, so as soon as you enter, the place feels empty.
In the empty hall behind the gate, there was only a wooden staircase located behind the wall on the left. When Aqiang and the others rushed in, they saw the back of a man guarding the stairs, running up to the second floor in panic.
"superior!"
The five people rushed to the second floor one after another, and sure enough they saw a rough wooden door there. Two people dressed the same as the previous enemies rushed up howling.
Although some people in the team are playing tricks, even a fair two-on-two duel is as difficult as a piece of cake for Aqiang and the others. After getting rid of them in two or two, several people ignored the stairs that were still extending upward and pushed open the door in front of them.
There was the sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground.
The leader, A Qiang, held a big sword and slowly stepped over the door edge and walked in. Opposite him, several enemies holding old swords were retreating from different directions. The ground was where they were sitting before. The chair is now knocked over.
In front of Aqiang, several square tables had been erected as temporary bunkers in front of them.
"Just this little battle, you still want to stop us..."
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
At the far end of the hall, the person who had asked Duan Qing before was sitting on a large round table that was still well placed, shouting to them in a sullen voice.
"We are adventurers sent by the Council of Mages." Aqiang held the big sword and said, "Accept the punishment of justice, you scum."
"You're very good at reciting your lines, boss..."
"I've told you so many times, how can I not be skilled..."
"It turns out to be the Council of Mages..." Unexpectedly, after hearing these words, the person opposite showed a sad look on his face: "Sure enough, it was the person Pari killed before... ..”
"But no matter what, we will not surrender without mercy." However, after a moment, the man's face became firm again: "Even if it is the Council of Mages, we will not surrender like this!"
"Brothers, come on!"
He waved his hand suddenly, and his men holding crossbows appeared from behind the obstacles and fired at them.
These attacks were then blocked by a sudden rise of an earthen wall.
Figures in leather and armor jumped out from both sides of the earth wall, and first attacked several bandits on both sides. Due to the sudden burst of high speed, the shooter's loading speed obviously did not adapt to the sudden acceleration of the rhythm, so even if two people finished loading the crossbows in their hands, they did not accurately hit their target. In the eyes of the three or two bandits in front, the figures of one tall and one short suddenly enlarged in their eyes.
They only had time to put up a defensive posture before they were split in half by Aqiang and Qianzui Lige.
"Such a simple routine...Does it really mean that we adventurers are weak?"
Amid Yuwen Baiye's words from behind, a figure also slipped behind a certain table at an extremely fast speed and slit the throat of an enemy with a dagger. In the chaotic scene, the enemy leader’s rather weak command voice came from time to time:
"Block them! Block them! Don't go up alone..."
"Lint, go support the left, oh no, Lint..."
"Dickon, come back here, don't go and die!"
"Pari! Where did Parry go? Damn it..."
The battle lasted only a few minutes and was over.
Although they suffered some injuries, the adventure team codenamed Aqiang still relatively easily defeated these final enemies, not only because they were strong, but also had some experience in fighting them before, and because at this point, The opponent's morale has dropped to the lowest level.
It seems that they were indeed a group of miners with very weak will to fight.
"There is no hidden boss, no plot unfolding, and no one coming to cause trouble..." Aqiang shook his head and walked to the big round table at the end: "It's really surprising."
The last leader standing in front of him seemed to have lost the will to live. He looked at his dead men with dull eyes and muttered something unknown.
"You... you, I..."
"Okay, you're the only one left now." He stepped forward and knocked the other person to the ground with a punch: "If there is anything else you want to say, while I'm in a good mood..."
"I......"
A crossbow arrow suddenly flew from above.
The fighting instinct saved Aqiang's life at that moment - he leaned back and dodged an arrow that was about to penetrate his Tianling Gai.
"There are actually people..." The others, who were immediately alert, quickly came over and protected the captain who had not yet gotten up. Bai Ye also raised his staff, preparing to release the next earth wall. Several people looked at the source of the arrow at the same time, but found nothing.
There was a dark ceiling.
"The response is good." There was a faint high-five, and a person walked out of the black shadow on the side of the room. Several people looked over there, and then... they all put down their weapons.
"So it's you." Aqiang stood up from the ground and sneered, picking up his big sword at the same time: "But what does this mean? Do you... have any objections? Want a share of the pie?"
"Oh, that's a good idea." Duan Qing stretched out his arms to show that he was not hostile: "But we are not so... mean."
"Really? How do I remember that at the beginning, some people were still negotiating terms with us..."
"Have it?"
Facing the other party's innocent eyes, Aqiang was speechless for a moment, and he no longer had the idea of arguing with the other party.
"Forget it, I don't care what you think." Putting the big sword in front of his eyes and studying it for a while, Aqiang said confidently: "But in this situation, you can't even think about it... From us Got even the slightest benefit.”
"I told you we have no such idea."
"Humph, maybe you want to delay time." Aqiang looked around, but saw no one except Duan Qing: "Then what is your purpose...?"
He stepped forward, raised his sword with one hand and pointed it at the opponent: "I only give you ten seconds."
"My purpose..." Duan Qing lowered his head, hiding his face in the darkness: "I do have a purpose... Hello!"
He shouted to the crowd over there: "It's you, the one hiding behind."
"...Are you Yaschi?" He grinned.
