Chapter 600 Getting Your Hands Dirty
"Your Excellency, Lord Sin, there are also rebels in this town..."
Willow immediately walked to Lord Sin after getting the news. , whispered: "Just now our people intercepted five low-level thieves outside. Although they are not strong, they are all dead soldiers. They committed suicide immediately after realizing that there was no hope of breaking through."
Because the people in this team have adapted to being led by Willow and Varez, the scout who came to report the news just now also habitually reported the news directly to the elder sister, but did not report the news to the real Lord of Sin. The commander reported that this was not because everyone disliked seeing the latter, but simply out of habit. As for why they chose Willow instead of Varèse, it was simply because Willow was good-looking.
Of course, even if ordinary warriors ignore this point, Willow, who is delicate and considerate, immediately reports to the Sin Lord immediately. Firstly, she is unwilling to overstep, and secondly, even if Willow is allowed to overtake her, I don’t have any constructive ideas, so I might as well ask Lord Sin, who has never let anyone down at least so far.
"Really..."
The latter sighed, and nodded as if he had expected it: "Sure enough."
Willow was stunned for a moment, and then He asked rather puzzledly: "You have known it for a long time?"
"It can't be said that I have known it for a long time."
Suijue smiled bitterly and shook his head, borrowing the help of others around him. The lights that had not yet been extinguished looked around and said softly: "I just observed the layout of this town on the road. Although there may be a lot of errors, judging from the observation results, the normal layout of this town is The resident population should not exceed two hundred people. I think Mr. Varèse should have noticed this..."
Willow blinked in confusion, and then turned her gaze to Varez, who was also looking solemn next to her: "You also noticed it? Why can't I see it?"
"Because you are a girl from a wealthy family. ”
Waresgan She laughed, and quickly added after Willow's eyes gradually became unfriendly: "At least compared to a 'country boy' like me, she is a girl from a wealthy family."
Willow snorted. She made a sound without saying anything, but she knew As for the origin of Davarez, it is said that the latter was born in a very simple family in a border village. Later, because he was quite talented and unwilling to be ordinary, he left home alone and went out to work. As a result, he committed a crime due to his poor academic skills and impulsive personality. Something happened, in the process of being chased Fortunately, he met Duke Fosset, and with the help of him, he was able to escape unscathed, so he went directly to Fosset's command, and the latter also provided a lot of resources for Varèse, and later even used his own money to save Varèse's family. Received the settlement of Troon, and then disappeared.
If Varez was extremely talented and advanced to the level of a legendary powerhouse by three strikes, five divisions and two, this story would be more epic. Unfortunately, his talent would probably only stop at the peak of the high-level. Well, if we don’t have any great luck in the future, the epic threshold is hard enough to touch, so there really is nothing worth writing home about.
All in all, because he once grew up in such a small place, Varèse is quite familiar with this kind of "countryside". The precise analysis of the town where he settled earlier was also based on this aspect, and This time, he naturally came to the same judgment as Lord Sin...
So even after the soldiers gathered all the locals, Varese's expression was already a little ugly.
"I don't understand..."
Willow frowned. Although she would not be disrespectful to the Lord of Sin, she had no inhibitions when speaking to Varèse: "What on earth are you doing? What do you want to say?”
“Your Excellency, it seems that you and I have the same idea.”
Varez did not pay attention to Willow, but said solemnly to the sin lord who was standing there wondering what he was thinking: "Theoretically, this town will never have more than 200 residents, no... I think it should be There may not even be one hundred and eighty people, but now The number of people gathered in the square was..."
"Two hundred and sixty-seven people"
Sin Lord calmly finished speaking for Varèse and narrowed his eyes slightly. : "Even if we exclude children under ten years old other than the elves, There are also two hundred and forty-three people, which is a very subtle number."
Willow was always a delicate person, so she couldn't react when she heard this, and she was a little tired. His face suddenly darkened visibly. Go: "You mean, there are still rebels hanging around here?"
"Yes, although the strength will not be very strong, and there is a high possibility that they are just low-level professionals, but I This is indeed the case.”
The Sin Lord nodded slightly, looked at the 'townspeople' gathered in the square, and said calmly: "The thieves who were intercepted should have gone out to report the news after discovering our arrival. After all, even if they only have low-level strength , professions like thieves and rangers who can easily hide their bodies still have a chance to escape in the night."
"Thanks to Lord Sin."
Willow nodded with conviction. Said: "If you hadn't made arrangements in advance and asked our scouts and knights to surround this place, those few people might have completely escaped from here."
The Sin Lord just smiled faintly and said Without saying anything, Varez gritted his teeth and said after a few seconds of silence: "The key to the problem is, what should we do now?"
[What should we do now...]
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Realizing that she still couldn't get around this fact, Willow subconsciously clenched her fists, then turned her head to look at the expressionless Sin Lord next to her: "Your Excellency, what do you mean..."
However, Zui Lord, who had never let them down this day, let them down this time.
"I don't know..."
After a while, the young nobleman who tightly wrapped his cloak sighed softly.
Does he really not know?
Willow and Varez don't think so, because even they both know at least one way to solve the problem.
"But...I can do a little analysis..."
Seeing that neither of them spoke, Sin Lord was the first to break the silence and said in his smooth and soft voice: "First of all, the geographical location of this town of Risles is very close to the southern border of Kunda Territory. Even if we calculate based on the average person's journey, it will only take less than five hours at most to reach the rebels we have detoured before. In the control area, if it is a ranger, thief or other profession that is famous for speed, even if it is only a low-level level, the time will be compressed to one and a half hours. Even a slower low-level mage or knight will not be able to do it. It took three hours.”
Willow and Varez nodded silently, fighting off the nearby warriors.
“Secondly, as far as I know, if you want to identify the opponent’s strength, such as distinguishing between ordinary people and low-level professionals, the lowest threshold method must be high-level arcane [True Insight] and [Eye of Analysis] can only be mastered by high-level druids, but we only have two high-level professionals in this team, and you are a knight and a ranger respectively. Obviously, you cannot do it.”
There was a flash of struggle in Sin Lord's calm and indifferent black eyes, but he still continued: "Third, compared to the rebels who are just waiting for work and have enough manpower to rotate, our team of only more than 400 people is already running with high intensity. After a full half day, everyone needs to rest. Even if a night watchman is arranged, it is not easy to keep an eye on the entire 243 people. And in this process, as long as one person is missed..."
He did not say any more, and Willow and Varez did not need him to say any more, because both of them knew very well that if thousands of rebels who were less than three hours away from here got the news, , now more than 400 people are equivalent to being sentenced to death.
After running all the way, even the two of them with high-level peak strength felt a little tired, not to mention the majority of ordinary warriors who were only at the mid-level level.
What to do! ?
Looking at the frightened faces in the square and the bodies of those people shivering in the cold wind, Willow and Varez almost broke their teeth.
"We...we might be able to tie them up and let these people sleep in the square for one night, and at the same time send those soldiers who are in better condition to take turns to keep watch."
Willow lowered her head and came up with an idea. Her expression became darker and darker. It was obvious that even she felt that this method was too childish.
"Impossible."
Sure enough, Varèse shook his head the moment she finished speaking: "There are a group of people watching the night, a group of people guarding the night. There are only more than four hundred of us in total. There are dozens of seriously injured people, and even if it can be arranged, how can you ensure that the rebels inside can't escape and be tied up? Are you three years old? Only ordinary people will be tied up, and those who are inside will be tied up. No matter how weak the rebels inside are, they can easily break free of the rope, okay?"
Willow was silent, but the Sin Lord interjected softly: "Although you are right, Varèse! It makes sense, but Willow's idea is actually not completely unworkable. Even if there are many people here, if it can be ensured that the watchers can not miss any details, the rebels mixed in may not be able to escape easily, but... this is just It's just a possibility. Can we really afford to take the risk now? ""Of course we...can't afford it."
Willow lowered her eyes and whispered: "I'm sorry, I didn't consider it carefully."
"How about asking them one by one and forcing them to confess?"
Although Varez just rebutted Willow's rebuttal with good evidence, he also thought of a way and said solemnly: "Willow and I can be responsible for the interrogation work. I probably know how to play the trick. To put it simply, it means asking in a yelling and frightening manner. Even if we can't find out the rebels, it doesn't matter. We can let the ordinary townspeople identify them. There are only so many people in this town. Even if we are not that familiar with each other, as long as we let most people..."
"Most people?"
Willow interrupted Varez with a frown, shook her head and said: "Do you know how many people the rebels have sneaked in? Even if you can judge that there are less than two hundred people in this town at most, you can be sure that the rebels The number is the total number of people minus the number of people 'do you think' there should be? What if it’s wrong? What if the rebels confuse the situation? It’s the same as what I just thought, but it can’t be guaranteed.”
Varez clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. : "Then if we leave here now and find another... "
"Won't those people report the news after we leave?"
Willow sighed deeply and said with a bitter look on her face: "We have been seen, and Since the other party has arrangements in this town, other places are Is it safe? Maybe after we leave, the rebels don’t need to go to Kunda Territory at all, and they only need to contact their nearby companions. This is simply the worst way.”
“Then. ...What do you think we should do?”
Varèse looked at Willow with eyes wide open.
"I... don't know..."
The latter repeated what the Sin Lord had just said, pursed his lips and lowered his head.
The cold wind was blowing, and the night was getting darker.
The more than two hundred people gathered in the square did not dare to act rashly. The soldiers who had not received orders also stood there in neat formation. The knights and scouts surrounding the town were still standing at their posts.
Everyone is tired...
Willow and Varez endured an extra layer of mental torture.
They all knew that they could not waste any more time and had to make a decision, but they did not break the suffocating silence.
Another gust of cold wind blew by, and in the team, a pale-faced half-orc female mage from the Fox tribe couldn't help sneezing.
“This is not the answer.”
In the end, it was the Sin Lord who spoke first, but his next words made the two of them feel as if they were falling into the ice cellar...
"You decide, no matter what method the two of you came up with just now, I won't There will be opinions."
[We will decide...]
Willow and Varez looked at each other, and they both caught a hint of expected bitterness and sadness in each other's eyes. have no choice.
In the end, the responsibility will ultimately fall on the two of them.
Knowing that they were not completely sure, if they had used the strategies they mentioned before, with just a few mistakes, the more than 400 people would probably have been accounted for here.
But if they choose the safest and most appropriate way that they have always avoided...it is really...
"I know."
After a while, bite through Willow's mouth curled up and she trembled slightly and said: "I..."
"What are you, you are whining, go away!"
However, Varez held Willow's shoulders and pushed her to the side. He stared into the eyes of the Sin Lord and said solemnly: "Your Excellency, I have thought of a way to ensure safety..."
" How safe is it?"
The other party asked leisurely, which made Willow and Varez's expressions even more ugly. After all, both of them knew that it was impossible for the Sin Lord to know what could happen. What's the way to 'keep it safe'.
Varez gritted his teeth and squeezed out each word from his mouth: "I suggest that in order to ensure the safety and confidentiality of our operations, all the people here should..."
“That’s it.”
Unexpectedly, Zui Jue suddenly interrupted him, then walked slowly to the still neat team behind him, and said loudly: "Thank you for your hard work, I am your commander Mo during this period, of course you can also call me Zui Jue, in short, I want to announce something now..."
Everyone in the team swallowed subconsciously, especially those with good hearing.
"According to my observation just now, the town of Rislus has been completely controlled by the rebels."
The Sin Lord showed a chilling smile, but his tone remained calm and indifferent : "From my judgment, those innocent people have already fled here or were killed by the rebels. In other words, the people who are left in this town now, except for the rebels, are in trouble with the rebels. A treacherous rebel, so... Although Mr. Varèse and Ms. Willow criticized my proposal, it is a pity that as the only nobles present, as the commander personally appointed by Duke Fossey and His Royal Highness Arthur, Otherwise, I am qualified to ask you to obey orders. If you do not, you will be punished as treason and executed on the spot!"
"You..."
"Your Excellency, Lord Sin..."
Willow and Varez both widened their eyes in disbelief.
The sin lord, who had his back turned and his expression became increasingly grim, took off his gloves and pulled out the long sword from his waist with his backhand.
"Now, those of you who are not afraid of getting your hands dirty like me, please take a step forward..."
Chapter 597: The End
(End of this chapter)