Chapter 780: Faded Blood
Ronis said: "I thought this was a good idea. The things in the Tomb of the Hero King are ownerless things, and being able to get the treasures inside will really relieve us. Due to the current difficulties, we agreed, but the official said that the archeology was a matter for the Hindmore government and could only be participated by people from the government. We couldn't go, but we could let our captain go. , because although he is a foreigner, he once served in the army in San Bikoya, and asked us to stay here and wait for news about them. I had no choice but to agree, and let the brothers disperse to hide in nearby mountain villages and towns. So as not to attract attention. "
Ronis has been unwilling to say the names of the two people directly, wanting to preserve their reputations, but when Ying heard this, he already knew it.
Ronis looked at Ying's expression and said, "You came here with the Royal Tutor and the others. Do you already know who the two people I mentioned are?"
Ying took a sip. Jiu said: "If you don't tell me, I will pretend not to know."
Ronis sighed: "There is nothing to hide. The captain's name is Joe, and his friend the official is named Galvas, nicknamed - Devil City Ghost General. Have you seen them?"
< br>Ying thought to himself: "Ronis doesn't know that Joe and Galvas died in my hands. This is just right, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble." He shook his head and said: "No, but I heard my mentor and others talk about this. thing."
Ronis said: "After they left, I have been staying in this village waiting for news about them. I don't dare to go into the city at will. But after waiting for a long time, there has been no news from the two of them. There is brother We were anxious, wondering if Captain Qiao had found the treasure and would not come back. Until two days ago, our two brothers accidentally saw you in the town and also saw the Royal Tutor's Tomb of the Hero King. Although they have not met the leader of the archaeological team, they also know that since the royal mentor is back, the captain and Galvas should be together, but if I inquire..."
Yingdao: "But once. Only after asking around did you know that they were dead."
Ronis nodded: "Qiao and Galvas are dead, and we have been worried that the enemy will suddenly come up and kill them. We didn't have much money, and things were extremely bad, so after much deliberation, we decided to focus on the caravan while you were staying in the town that night. We followed you secretly and set a trap on the road, just waiting for you to fall into an ambush. Alas, it failed. I didn't expect that there were two magicians in your team."
Ying chuckled and said: "I'm not very old, so it's easy for you snoopers to ignore me. But I still admire your decision. Under those circumstances, you can give up robbing the caravan and retreat. Not everyone can do it right away. Make this decision.”
Ronis lowered his head, drank one cup after another, and took out a badge in his hand. The coat of arms of iron and blood has been the eternal symbol of the Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group since its establishment. It should have been hanging on his chest as bright as new, but now it has dimmed.
Unknowingly, there were four empty wine bottles. Ronis was a little drunk. He stood up and pointed at the shadow and said: "Don't leave, we have to continue talking. I'll go first for convenience." "For a moment."
These days, he has been holding back a lot of depression, and when the desire to talk opens up, he wants to talk endlessly.
Ying watched him stagger out of the door, then lowered his head to drink.
It was late at night, the card players had dispersed long ago, and people in every house had fallen asleep, leaving only a few dim crystals under the eaves that illuminated the night.
Ronis walked slowly outside the village while burping with wine. He leaned against the tree and took a long breath to get comfortable. Suddenly he felt wet on the tree. He touched it with his hand and found it was wet. It was the water that soaked the bark. When he smelled it again, the air was also very moist, as if it had just rained. He wondered in his heart: "Hey, it has been sunny these days and it has never rained. How could it be wet? Although the villagers often think it is wet. The bath water was splashed in the forest, but it was not so wet that even the trees were wet."
His muddy consciousness gradually came to his senses, and he walked straight into the forest looking for the wet marks on the ground. . After walking for a while, the ground became more and more wet, and in some places the water accumulated together and turned into mud. He was even more surprised when suddenly there was a sound of "tick-tock-tick" water dripping on the leaves. He ran over two steps faster and looked up by the starlight of the Milky Way. He saw two wet corpses hanging on the branches, dripping water. .
The village is located in a mountain forest. Of course, people take turns patrolling at night to prevent attacks by monsters. Although Ronis couldn't see the faces of the corpses clearly, the leather armors worn by the two corpses on their heads were those of the villagers. He had stayed in the village for several months and had already known the appearance and appearance of everyone in the village. I remember the clothes and leather armor I usually wear.
"Who killed them?" These two people were obviously not killed by wild beasts in the forest. Ronis looked around and found that there were more than just these two bodies hanging on the trees. There were also many more hanging on nearby trees. few. However, these corpses were all mutilated. Many corpses only had half of their bodies hanging on the trees. The intestines and internal organs in the corpse cavity fell out and were dangling in the air.
Broken limbs scattered on the ground, hands still holding weapons. Ronis was very familiar with this weapon in his hand. These were the corpses of his iron-blooded brothers. His chest suddenly felt like a heavy blow, and he was shocked and yelled in his heart: "How could this happen...how could this happen?"
At this time, a corpse on the ground moved slightly and groaned in pain.
Ronis quickly ran over and helped him up: "Brother, brother, are you okay?" The injured person slowly turned around in his arms, and suddenly a terrifying smile appeared in his eyes. He inserted the shining green dagger into Ronis's heart, and then struck the handle of the dagger with a light wheel. He inserted the entire dagger in, and the light wheel reflected on his heart.
"You..." Ronis fell to the ground and spat out a mouthful of poisonous blood.
The injured man chuckled and stood up from the broken corpses: "I wanted to go into the village to find you, but I didn't expect you to come out on your own. Ronis, don't you recognize me?"
Ronis looked. Looking at the person under the shadow of the tree, his pupils shrank: "It's you..."
The shadow glanced at the wooden clock hanging on the wall: "Why hasn't he come yet."
Wooden clock The silver pendulum hanging below swung back and forth, and another minute passed.
Ying felt something was wrong, put down the cup and rushed out of the room. He searched for a while near the village, and soon found the body in the woods, including Ronis's body.
"Dead!" Ying's expression changed slightly. He first checked the area carefully to make sure no one was hiding around, and then he checked the body.
Ronis died in a terrible state. His body was white, his eyes were wide open, his mouth was also open, and his mouth and nose were still overflowing with water, as if he had been soaked in water for a day and night and had just been fished out. Same as up. The parts below his neck can no longer be considered a corpse. The whole body is completely in pieces. The internal organs, fingers, bones... are all cut into pieces. The pieces of flesh are torn all over the floor, and it is difficult to put them together. It's possible.
Ying narrowed his eyes: "What a cruel method. Ronis was almost completely dismembered, leaving only one head. Do you want others to know who was killed?" He looked carefully again. Checked Ronis’s head: “The surface of the skin Deadly white, but there is a faint black air under the skin, which must have been poisoned before death; there is water overflowing from the mouth and nose, which is a drowning condition; the hair is scattered, the under the eyelids are black, and there is no blood in the fracture under the neck, it should be He was soaked in water for a long time, but it was easy to get out. It has only been a few minutes now, and it seems that it has been tossed back and forth in the water magic. There are bite marks on the broken pieces of the body, which may have been left by the attack by the monster, but there are no traces of bites on the body. One, it should be attacked by more than one monster. Is the murderer not the same person? "
He looked at the nearby soil. The mountain soil had been soaked into mud. Many of the footprints were blurred by the water, but two lines of footprints were relatively clear. He knew it at a glance. Leftover after the last soak in water. One of them belongs to Ying himself, and the other one is naturally left by the murderer: "It seems that the murderer is a person, a person who is protected by more than one magical beast."
Ying looked at other nearby ones. Corpses, he thought: "Of all the corpses, only two are well preserved. Judging from their clothes, these two people should be villagers in the village. Then the other people whose corpses were cut into pieces should be He must be a member of the Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group. It seems that the murderer should be an enemy of the Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group, and he has a lot of hatred. In addition, there are only three corpses of monsters nearby, which does not match the number of the dead. It should be. The two villagers and the guardian of Ronis, the other deceased may have been killed elsewhere and brought here by the murderer, but..."
Ying looked at the corpses of the three monsters. He recognized all three monsters. They were the level 2 ferocious frog, the level 3 guardian spider, and the level 7 fire-eyed predator. He thought: "With Ronis's strength and a guardian like the Fire-Eyed Predator, he shouldn't be killed without any chance. This place is not far from the village. I can hear even the slightest movement, not to mention Ronis." Ness is a sealed knight, and the only way to kill him is to exhaust his power, or destroy his brain and heart at the same time, unless the murderer is extremely powerful. It is already far stronger than Ronis, or the murderer sealed his ability without him being prepared. However, the former is unlikely, and it should be the latter case."
He then checked the internal organs of the nearby stump, and sure enough he found a fragment that looked like a heart. In addition to knife marks, there were also marks left by magic on it.
Shadow dropped the piece of heart and said: "First severely injure Ronis' heart and use magic to suppress it, then drown him with water magic, and control him in the water, causing him to gradually lose consciousness. Ronis His guardian is a fire-eyed predator, and his fatal weakness is water magic. The murderer should be a master of water magic, at least It’s a magician or a water demon. And if the murderer can attack suddenly, he’s either an acquaintance of Ronis, or the murderer disguises himself as a corpse to fool Ronis, or both.”
At this point in the analysis, although I don’t know who the murderer is, the general situation is already in Ying’s mind. The shadow faced the corpse and lamented: "Ronis is also dead. The Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group can be said to be completely finished. I am afraid that from now on, even the words 'Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group' will slowly fade from people's memories." He turned around and left, but something happened under his feet. He picked it up from the mud and saw that it was half a hand.
It was Ronis's hand, and he still held the badge of iron and blood tightly in his hand. Even to death, he was unwilling to let go of this honor that he was so proud of, but had paid a painful life for. .
The badge and hand were thrown into the muddy water again. The red color of iron and blood is still as bright as new, but in this barren mountain and muddy water, it will eventually lose its color and become a piece of scrap metal that no one cares about...
(End of this chapter)