Chapter 15 - capture the king
Xia Ruize killed four ordinary barbarians, four barbarian elites and two barbarian leaders. The ordinary barbarians contributed three rolls of bandages, a barrel of mineral water and a barrel of sesame oil to him.
【Sesame oil: edible, easy to burn】
The barbarian elite donated two bottles of recovery potions, and Xia Ruize handed a bottle to Cheng Huaiqian. The teammates next to the effects of the recovery potions have personally proved that they are very powerful.
Cheng Huaiqian is already very skilled in reaching out to take the feeding from his teammates.
In the end, the two barbarian leaders donated a white middle-grade broadsword and an antidote to Xia Ruize.
[Antidote (white lower grade): It has a slight detoxification effect. 】
After seeing Xia Ruize’s harvest, Cheng Huaiqian was already numb. He killed twelve ordinary barbarians and gave him three rolls of bandages, a piece of barbecue, a barrel of mineral water and a barrel of sesame oil.
Compared with Xia Ruize, who had only one-third of his kills, there was only one more piece of barbecue.
The two barbarian leaders donated a white gem and a poison gem to him. There were no surprises, and only a bottle of recovery potion given to him by his teammates made him feel a little better.
After the “splitting of the spoils” was over, the two left the courtyard. Outside the courtyard, there is a dark alley.
Cheng Huaiqian hid behind a pile of firewood in the alley near the gate of the small courtyard, Xia Ruize hid in the corner of the alley, and the two waited patiently.
According to the time, the barbarian patrols should be switched soon.
Sure enough, more than ten minutes later, the patrolling team returned. A team of five barbarians, the first, the middle, and the last barbarians held torches to illuminate the road.
A few barbarians exchanged scolding and walked towards the small courtyard. They may be complaining that they were unlucky to be arranged to patrol tonight, so that they couldn’t drink and eat meat.
After the headed barbarian walked by Cheng Huaiqian’s side, Cheng Huaiqian suddenly stepped out and slashed at the barbarian. The unsuspecting barbarian didn’t have time to react.
The torches in the hands of the barbarians fell weakly to the ground and quickly went out.
At the same time, Xia Ruize has fired two arrows at the barbarians in the middle. The high-grade arrows and crossbows are much faster than the low-grade arrows and crossbows. It was difficult to achieve continuous shooting before, but now they can.
Another torch fell on the ground and was extinguished. More importantly, the little barbarian leader who was holding the torch at the end had already subconsciously turned around and rushed towards Xia Ruize, so the two men walking in front of him fell into darkness. Cheng Huaiqian, who didn’t see the approach clearly, was quickly dealt with one after another.
Xia Ruize calmly stared at the little barbarian leader who rushed towards him, and shot two arrows one after another without shaking his hand, and the last torch fell and went out.
Until the entire army was destroyed, the barbarians on patrol didn’t even think about it clearly. They had already shouted loudly.
After completely solving the entire patrol team, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize turned their eyes to the city wall and tower in the north of the city.
There, there are dozens of barbarians celebrating loudly.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian took advantage of the night to unknowingly returned to the barbarian camp below the city tower in the north of the city.
I don’t know if the Menghan medicine they had put in the wine worked, or if the barbarians had drunk enough and wanted to rest. In short, the camp was much quieter. In the camp below, some barbarians had fallen asleep.
After the two checked the situation of the camp, they went to the kitchen they had been to before.
The chef was still cooking honestly, but was startled by the sudden appearance of the two, and asked eagerly:
“Two strong men, how is my son?”
“Don’t worry, we’ve taken him away. If things get messy here, it won’t hurt him.” Xia Ruize looked at Cheng Huaiqian, took the initiative to explain, and then asked the chef, “You said you were from Bianlu City, then Do you know any other way to get to the tower?”
Compared with Cheng Huaiqian, who has always been cold and solemn, Xia Ruize, who looks tender, is more friendly and approachable. The chef looked at Cheng Huaiqian, hesitated for a moment, and replied:
“There is only one staircase to the tower, but I know that there is a rope left in one place, which is specially used to transport small items such as lunch boxes up and down, I don’t know…”
“Where?”
Cheng Huaiqian directly inquired locally.
The thief will be captured first, and the king will be captured first, and they plan to deal with the barbarian leaders on the city tower first. But they only found one stairway to the tower, in the middle of the barbarian camp.
There is no need to consider the stairs, but the seven or eight-meter-high city wall is really difficult to climb without any external force.
The chef opened the door and looked at it. He had already noticed the abnormality of the barbarians who were guarding him at the door. The barbarians who took the food from him had just left. He was very daring and said to the two people behind him, “Come with me.”
Then he took the lead and walked into the darkness.
“I’m the chef of the lucky restaurant in the city. The soldiers who used to guard the city wanted to eat something good, so they would let us transport things up from here, so I knew there was a rope here.”
The chef couldn’t see anything in the dark night, groping forward tremblingly while explaining to the two of them.
Cheng Huaiqian couldn’t bear to see him walking so slowly, he stretched out his hand to lift him up, grabbed the chef’s back collar and lifted him up easily.
Xia Ruize knew that Cheng Huaiqian’s strength value was close to 8, and it was a piece of cake for him to carry a single cook.
The chef was stunned, his whole body was stiff, and Cheng Huaiqian took him and strode forward. Realizing that Cheng Huaiqian was more powerful than he thought, he was even more afraid.
With Cheng Huaiqian as a humanoid walking tool, the three moved quickly. Following the chef’s direction, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize found a hidden corner on the edge of the city wall. There was indeed a hemp rope hanging there.
“I don’t know if the rope can bear the force?”
Xia Ruize tugged at the hemp rope, which is usually used to transport lunch boxes. I really don’t know if it can bear their weight.
“Try it.” Cheng Huaiqian also tugged, feeling that it was still securely tied, so he coldly ordered the chef, “You can go, be smart, and hide when it’s time to hide.”
The middle-aged chef was really afraid of Cheng Huaiqian, so he hurriedly agreed to come down, and then left with one foot and one foot in the dark.
“I’ll try first.”
Turning his head, Cheng Huaiqian’s tone softened when he spoke to Xia Ruize. After exhorting him, he grabbed the rope and climbed up.
This city wall is not completely flat, and the raised corners of the bricks just provide Cheng Huaiqian with a foothold.
Cheng Huaiqian grabbed the rope with one hand and clawed at the city wall with the other. After climbing a few times, he climbed up the city wall seven or eight meters high with agile movements.
Xia Ruize, who stayed behind, looked at Cheng Huaiqian’s movements, and then looked at his hands, and suddenly had two points of confidence in himself.
So, next, Xia Ruize learned Cheng Huaiqian’s movements, holding the hemp rope with one hand and climbing up the city wall with the other, not to mention that Cheng Huaiqian above helped to pull the rope up, Xia Ruize’s climbing speed was not slow.
During this process, Xia Ruize clearly felt that his power was greater than he imagined.
His arms supporting his entire body had become a breeze, so the process of his climbing up the city wall was far easier and simpler than he had imagined in his mind.
Shaking hands, Xia Ruize secretly decided that when he has time, he must do a comprehensive test of his physical fitness so that he can have a clearer and truer understanding.
After standing on the city wall, the two of them walked lightly in the direction of the city tower and approached slowly.
There are four barbarian elites guarding outside the hall gate of the tower.
Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize first walked around to the north side of the tower, tore through the paper pasting the window, and checked the situation inside.
Inside the tower is a hall, with candles lit around it, illuminating the entire hall, with tables and chairs in the middle, and a group of barbarians are looking for fun.
I saw a barbarian sitting in the top position. At this time, he was drunk and confused. Before he started, there were nearly ten barbarian leaders and ten or so small barbarian leaders. Many barbarians were already drinking. Falling down on the table, some barbarians forced a toast with the barbarian leader.
Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize saw that the two jars of wine they had added were half empty.
Come to think of it, nearly half of the barbarians lying down in the hall have nothing to do with their Mongolian sweat medicine, but because they drank most of the night, the other barbarians just thought they were drunk and fell asleep, and didn’t think much about it.
Cheng Huaiqian pulled Xia Ruize and was about to start action. At this moment, Xia Ruize’s eyes stabbed and saw an unexpected scene.
Among these barbarian leaders, there were some women who had been bullied, and what Xia Ruize noticed was one of the women who was hugged by the barbarian leader. She had long curly hair…
Cheng Huaiqian was about to leave, but found Xia Ruize standing in the same place, and immediately turned back, noticing that Xia Ruize’s expression was wrong, he touched the back of Xia Ruize’s head with his clean hand, and asked softly in Xia Ruize’s ear:
“What’s wrong?”
“That girl…the one I saw in the morning…the one in the white dress…”
Xia Ruize’s voice was astringent, and her expression was a little dull.
Cheng Huaiqian stretched out his hand to cover his eyes and turned Xia Ruize’s body in a direction, “Let’s go, hurry up, we can also try to save her.”
These words shocked Xia Ruize, and immediately left here in obedience.
The two turned to the side of the tower, Xia Ruize hid in a shadow facing the guard, and aimed the crossbow and arrow at the guard.
Cheng Huaiqian comfortably pressed his shoulder, then walked to the corner of the tower by himself. In the darkness, the two could still see each other, but the barbarians wouldn’t necessarily be able to see them.
A stone appeared in Cheng Huaiqian’s hand, and he threw the stone out against the open space beside him.