Chapter 85 Hidden Transaction
The next morning.
An old carriage was driving crookedly on a rugged mountain road.
The carriage slowed down as it approached the village, turned around and headed towards the woods.
The trees became denser and denser, and the carriage gradually became difficult to move. The mercenary who served as the coachman pulled the reins and stopped the carriage among the trees.
Four mercenaries got out of the car and searched around the carriage separately.
"Hey! Is anyone there?"
"Here we are!"
"come out faster!"
"Hey, guys, come and see!" The capable short-haired mercenary waved his arms in the direction of the carriage.
Three companions walked towards him.
The short-haired mercenary pointed to the trunk of a tree, "Look, there is a line of writing here. Jia Shi, can you recognize what is written?"
The short and thin Jia Shi stepped forward and squatted down to look at the slanted words carved on the lower part of the tree trunk.
"Under the tree...the leaves...buried...money...leaved...poison...the last word is not clear clearly. This person probably meant to say that there is money buried in the leaves under the tree. Let us Leave the poison glands behind.”
The last word is a haphazardly carved circle. Maybe the person who did the carving didn't know him, so he made a few random strokes angrily.
Anyway, I understand everything and know what to leave behind.
Jia Shi reached out and plucked away the fallen leaves under the tree, and took out a bulging money bag from a pile of damp and musty leaves.
He shook the money bag, untied the buckle, and looked into the bag, "22 silver dollars, 60 copper coins. The number is correct."
Jia Shi stood up and looked at his companions, cast a questioning look, and asked quietly:
"Then we keep the venom glands? But we didn't prepare so many venom glands. There are still many venomous snakes that were handed over to the Warriors Guild without killing them..."
The four mercenaries looked at each other a few times, each with a sad look on their face.
They came full of fighting spirit to round up the person who purchased the poison glands, but no one expected that the other party was far more cautious than they thought.
When Jia Shi was discussing the price with the other party, that person was still willing to show up, but why did he hide his face when the transaction was on the spot?
It seems feasible to lie in ambush and wait for the opponent to come to collect the poison glands, but if it is accidentally exposed, it is likely that the opponent will escape.
"Let's leave the poison glands behind. Then quickly go back and join the mage." The short-haired mercenary said with a hammer of both hands.
The four mercenaries immediately took action, carrying the water-proof bag containing the poison glands, burying it under the tree trunk with the words engraved on it, and then shouted to the packhorse and hurried towards the road.
Xia Zuo had actually been watching from the tree trunk high in the sky.
He turned into a gas cloud and was suspended on a tree branch.
I don't know if he is thinking too complicatedly, but Xia Zuo thinks that the person who acquired the poison gland is not simple.
First.
Leaving the money bag in advance for others to take seems a bit reckless.
But it actually reveals a hidden threat.
The person who purchased the poison gland may already know the identities of the four mercenaries. We are not afraid that the mercenaries will take the money and leave, but they will not leave the goods behind.
The four mercenaries were in the center of the whirlpool of the incident. Their heads were confused by a series of events, and they may not have realized the threatening intention behind the money bag.
But Xia Zuo, as a bystander, thought about it after a moment's thought.
second.
If the person purchasing the poison gland knows the identity of the seller. Then will he already know what the mercenary confessed to the Warriors Guild last night?
Xia Zuo had an unpleasant thought in his heart.
Prey may be more cunning than you think.
This time, if you come here to wait and see, there is a certain chance that you will return without success, and you may also catch a big fish.
Xia Zuo stood quietly on the branch of the tree, remaining motionless, patiently waiting for the person who might appear to pick up the goods.
The time came to noon.
When remaining still, Fengxing Technique consumes very little energy.
In the past two hours, only a few small animals had passed by. No movement could be heard from the leaf pile below.
Apart from feeling bored, Xia Zuo showed no signs of exhaustion such as fatigue or sleepiness.
Xixisuosuo
The trees not far away shook.
Xia Zuo turned to look over.
A brown squirrel looked around on the branches at the edge of the bush.
The squirrel's very human looking posture and expression suddenly made Xia Zuo alert.
He didn't forget Snake! The dark-skinned snake dancer can communicate with his little green snake and dance happily with it.
Could it be that the person who came to pick up the goods was a breathing method practitioner who could communicate with squirrels?
The brown squirrel jumped from the branch, jumped in the grass, and quickly came to the tree trunk with the carving.
It used its short forelimbs to push aside the leaves on the ground, dragged out the water-proof bag from under the leaf pile, then held the mouth of the bag in its mouth and dragged it with difficulty into the bushes.
Xia Zuo followed quietly, staring at the squirrel's movements from high in the sky, with more thoughts in his mind.
If you want to practice breathing techniques and develop your body's potential in the Kingdom of Starry Night, the only way is to exchange points from the Warrior Guild.
The members of the Warrior Guild are divided into four classes: trainee mercenaries, formal mercenaries, intermediate mercenaries and senior mercenaries.
Trainee mercenaries are promoted to formal mercenaries, and there is no requirement for strength.
As long as you stay in the warrior guild for three years and become familiar with the entire process of the guild, you will be automatically promoted to a formal mercenary. If you choose to serve in the military during the probationary period, you will have an opportunity to voluntarily retire after serving for three years.
When a formal mercenary is promoted to an intermediate mercenary, he must practice breathing techniques.
Xia Zuo doesn't know the requirements for promotion from intermediate to senior.
He only knew that the breathing method practitioner who controlled the squirrel was at least an intermediate mercenary.
Or perhaps, this person found an illegal way and obtained the secret medicine needed to practice breathing techniques.
No matter which situation it was, Xia Zuo felt that the situation was developing in an uncontrollable direction.
"Hey~" After the squirrel dragged the bag for more than ten minutes, a long whistle came from the front.
The gas cloud that Xia Zuo turned into hid behind the thick tree trunk, watching the squirrel drop the water-proof bag and run towards its owner in a bounding motion.
It was a man wearing a black cloak. Looking over from a high place, only the curly beard protruding from the collar can be seen.
The squirrel grabbed the hem of its owner's cloak, climbed up into the other person's hand, took a peeled pine cone, and then burrowed into the other person's cloak.
The cloaked man walked towards the direction where the squirrel came from and reached out to pick up the waterproof bag on the ground.
"Damn, these mercenaries who don't keep their word." The cloaked man counted the number of poison glands in the bag and found that half of them were missing, so he cursed fiercely.
The cloaked man looked around and walked back.
Xia Zuo cast a detection technique on his back from a distance.
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【Character Name】Unknown
【Identity】Unknown
【HP】? ? ? (healthy)
【Resistance】None
【Strength】6
[Agility] 6
【Endurance】7
【Vitality】3
【Perception】5
【Will】7
【Spirit】5
【Charm】2
[Character Specialty]? ? ?
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Xia Zuo followed the opponent from a distance, calling up the templates of the circus people in his mind for comparison.
The cloaked man's statistics are similar to Snake's. The total attribute values of the two are about the same. The cloaked man's spirit is 3 points higher, his willpower is 1 point higher, and his charm is 5 points lower.
The cloaked man had no idea that there was a secret stalker behind him.
He emerged from the bushes, left the forest, and trotted all the way to the carriage waiting on the forest road.
"Open the door, Serenv. Those mercenaries missed a lot of poison glands." The cloaked man slammed the car door and shouted.
There was a curse in the carriage, and a man with a hooked nose opened the door, waiting for the cloaked man to come up before closing it.
Xia Zuo took the opportunity to throw the detection technique at the hook-nosed Serenfu, and then floated to the outside of the roof of the car.
The carriage started moving.
A sullen man in worn leather armor steered the packhorse.
The carriage headed west along the less traveled mountain road.
Xia Zuo looked back and forth to make sure no one was around, then returned to his human form, sent a secret message to Mars on the roof of the rickety carriage, then turned into a gas cloud and lay on the carriage again, and followed the carriage farther and farther away.
The carriage turned into another forest and walked through the forest without roads.
There are more and more trees with white trunks around, and there are almost no brown trunks left.
This is already a deserted place.
The coachman was obviously very familiar with the surrounding environment. He skillfully avoided all narrow places and went around small ditches. He even knew clearly where the stones that would make the carriage rattle were buried.
From noon to night, the carriage finally stopped.
The hook-nosed Serenph and the cloaked man got out of the car, carrying several bulging cloth bags in their hands.
"Kakufu, I took Serenfu in first." The cloaked man raised the bag in his hand.
The coachman Kakufu nodded silently, flicked the reins, and steered the carriage to the other side.
The cloaked man Puev and Serenv walked towards the dark forest together, and their figures were swallowed up by the darkness between the trees.
Xia Zuo was still lying on the roof of the car.
The coachman Kakufu parked the carriage in a simple hay shed, untied the pack horse, held the horse with one hand, and used the other hand to camouflage the tree branches to cover the hay shed.
He first tied the packhorse to a tree, then leaned over and groped among the grass and trees.
Xia Zuo followed the other person as he wandered in the forest, and got closer to take a look at the other person's movements.
Karkuf is laying a trap.
There are three trip wire traps and three pressure traps. These traps are not aggressive and can only make noises to alert people deep in the forest.
Xia Zuo quietly noted the location of the trap and floated forward with Kakufu.
After a while, he returned to the hayloft.
Xia Zuo floated into the car to check, and then floated out.
There was nothing in it except bits of dry food. I think everything is in the cloth bags of the cloaked man and Serenfu.
While lying on the roof of the carriage, Xia Zuo overheard the conversation inside the carriage.
The man in the cloak who controls the squirrel is called Puev.
Puev and Serenv just met today. They talked about their respective experiences along the way, mentioning that they came as soon as they received some secret letter.
During the drive, Kakufu expressed his gratitude to the two people in the car several times and seemed to be particularly happy for their arrival.
There was no obvious identity mark on these three people, and their relationship with each other was unclear. They looked like strangers or some kind of long-standing friends.
There is a low wooden house with unknown purpose deep in the forest.
All kinds of questions weighed on Xia Zuo's mind, intertwining into a mess.
ah! I did something wrong! I understand the meaning of wrong V. I thought it was still free for book lovers who had read it, and only new book friends had to pay to read the first few chapters of the third volume. I didn’t expect that everyone has to pay. I was wrong. I asked why so many book friends ask questions
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