Death in the Rain

Chapter 10 Death in the Rain

saw the black smoke rising from the signal in the rain, Linde was not in a hurry. Instead, just like his previous hunt for mountain bears, he re-entered the woods where he had set traps and carefully checked the status of each trap. After adjusting and repairing some traps that might malfunction, he returned to the ambush point and stared at the narrow mountain road ahead leading to the smuggling passage.

  As time went by, the light rain in the early morning not only did not weaken, but fell even harder. The dense rain curtain fell, making it difficult to see things in the distance, and the sound of raindrops also covered up any unusual sounds, even if the forest De's hearing, which is beyond ordinary people's, can't hear any sound except the sound of raindrops.

  This is both a good thing and a bad thing for Lind. The good thing is that the heavy rain can help him cover up the traps in the woods, making it difficult for passers-by to detect. The bad thing is that he cannot use his already extraordinary hearing and visual understanding. enemy situation.

  I don't know whether it was because of the heavy rain or the battle had ended on the battlefield. Linde could no longer see the black signal smoke rising in the sky in the distance, but he was not affected. He just changed his posture and moved a bit. His somewhat stiff body continued to stay quietly at the ambush point, even though the rain had seeped into his clothes.

  About half an hour passed. Linde seemed to hear something in the rain. He turned his head slightly and looked towards the woods where he had set up the trap. He raised his ears and listened attentively. kind of sound.

  He didn't know whether it was his illusion or whether his extraordinary hearing was blessed by some kind of power in this state of concentration. He felt that the originally mixed sound of heavy rain suddenly sounded like a library being tidied up. , each different sound is separated with a separate entry, and he can clearly identify the details of each sound.

  However, this extraordinary state only lasted for a few seconds and quickly returned to normal. However, these few seconds were enough for Lind to understand the situation in the woods ahead.

  "There are twenty-three people in total, thirteen were injured, seven were seriously injured, and six more were caught in the trap and should be hopeless." Linde drew out the weapon from his waist and passed through the moment just now. After hearing the voice, he analyzed the information contained in it and murmured in his heart: "There are two people wearing plate armor. They may be real knights. They are a bit difficult to deal with." After a

  while, Linde saw from one end of the mountain road Some vague figures appeared. As the figures got closer, he gradually saw the people clearly. However, because of the rain curtain, he could barely distinguish the number of people and their equipment.

  As he analyzed from the voices he heard before, there were two warriors or knights wearing plate armor in this team. Their status should be high. They walked in the middle and were protected by these people. The others The clothes were ordinary, only a few people wore leather armor, the others wore ordinary clothes, and the weapons in their hands were all spears, and only a few people wore long swords.

  However, what was slightly different from his previous analysis was that the number of people in the team in front of him was different from his previous inference. There were a few missing. But he soon figured it out. The few missing should have been hit again. The trap in the forest has been folded in the woods.

  After the group of people emerged from the woods, they did not stop. Instead, they took a look at the surrounding environment and found the mountain road leading to the smuggling passage hidden in the weeds. Then they walked up the mountain road and quickly headed towards Walk in the direction of the smuggling channel.

  Perhaps they were only thinking about escaping to a safe place as soon as possible at this moment, or perhaps the experience of escaping, encountering battles, and escaping again all night had made them extremely exhausted physically and mentally. They did not consider at all whether the traps on the way there were It was prepared for them, and they didn't think about whether there would be an ambush on the way. They just lowered their heads and kept moving forward.

  Soon they had arrived at the foot of the hill where Linde was ambushing. Because of the cover of grass and trees and the cover of heavy rain, they did not notice that there was a person ambushing not far away.

  Linde did not intend to let these people pass, then follow them and attack them one by one from behind, because judging from the current state of this group of people, they were extremely tired and did not have much fighting power left. Address them completely head-on.

  So, when the two warriors wearing plate armor who were guarding the middle came to the front of Linde, Linde, who had already accumulated strength for a long time, kicked hard, and his whole body was like a sharp arrow leaving the string. He rushed out and in the blink of an eye he was in front of the two plate-armored warriors.

  Linde was too fast, and blocked by the heavy rain, the two plate-armored warriors did not notice the danger at all. When they noticed something abnormal, they just saw the reflection of the two sword blades, and followed the helmets and As soon as the throat area where the plate armor connected was cold, a sense of weakness spread throughout the body. Coupled with the fatigue of the body itself, they immediately collapsed to the ground, and their bodies twitched unconsciously.

  After successfully dealing with the two plate-armored warriors, the other bandits around him had not yet realized what had happened. However, Linde's attack did not stop. He spun his body half a circle with extremely exaggerated movements, moved his arms, and headed towards Several other bandits with long swords slashed at him.

  The rotating blade landed on the gap in the bandit's leather armor with great precision. The blade cut through the target's flesh like a hot knife cutting through butter, leaving an unhealable wound on the opponent's fatal vitals. , and before blood spurted out from the wound, the blade had already moved to the next target.

  As Linde fully absorbed the Peacemaker's combat experience, he gradually understood that the Peacemaker's fighting method can be summed up in just four words: weak point attack.

  In a head-to-head confrontation, Peacemaker's strength is only slightly stronger than that of ordinary people, but his extraordinary agility and speed, as well as his precise control of weaknesses, allow Linde to harvest lives as efficiently and quickly as a god of death, just like now In less than ten seconds, five fully armed soldiers were killed by his half-sword.

  "Enemy attack!" The bandits behind saw their leaders falling down in front, and a strange figure appeared where they fell. They immediately realized what happened and instinctively let out a horrified roar. It not only reminds those in front of me, but also embolden myself.

  However, their shouts did not affect Lind. At this moment, Lind was like a cold killing machine. According to the planned sequence, he clashed with the group of bandits holding spears behind him, holding half a sword in his hand. Swinging, he slashed at the weak spot in the neck with precision. Every time he swung the sword, someone fell down. These lives were as fragile as weeds on the roadside in front of him.

  Even though the bandits were aware of the enemy attack, they could not organize effective protection. Not only because the person commanding them was killed by Linde immediately, but also because the spears in their hands were not suitable for close combat at all. In battle, you can neither attack the enemy nor defend against the enemy's attacks. You can only passively watch the enemy's attacks fall on you.

  Moreover, the enemy's attack speed is so fast that all they can see in their eyes is the reflection of some metal, not even the complete sword body. Not to mention that their bodies are already exhausted, even when they are full of energy. It's hard to dodge such a fast attack.

  The five bandits who were walking in front to explore the road heard the shouts and movements behind them. They immediately clenched their weapons in a well-trained manner and turned around to check the situation. The scene in front of them shocked them all.

  I saw that in the heavy rain, a dozen of their companions behind them had all fallen to the ground. Blood spurted out from their wounds, mixed with the rain, and completely dyed the mountain road under their feet red.    

  Among the corpses, a figure holding two swords stood there. The heavy rain affected their sight, making them unable to see each other's appearance clearly. They could only feel the cold sight penetrating the rain curtain. That sight made them feel It felt as if he was being targeted by a legendary ghost.

  Fear instantly spread in their hearts, and they no longer had any intention of resisting. They all turned around like crazy and ran forward along the mountain road. They even pushed each other in order to let themselves run ahead. He thought that as long as he let the people behind him resist for a while, he would be able to escape smoothly.

  If these five people can cooperate with each other, with the spears in their hands, they may be able to create some obstacles for Linde. When they reach the narrow smuggling channel dug on the cliff, Linde may not take the risk to continue the pursuit. them, let them go.

  But now, they were not thinking about the front or the back one by one, and in order to escape, they attacked each other, exposing their backs defenselessly. This seemed to be inviting Linde to kill them.

  Faced with such an invitation, Linde naturally would not let it go. In the end, the five people only ran out less than ten meters before they all died under Linde's sword.

  After finishing off this group of people, Linde carefully checked their situation. After confirming that they were all dead, he relaxed a little. Then he took a rest, and without cleaning the battlefield, he got up and entered the woods. Check out the traps one by one.

  As a result, most of the traps he laid had been triggered, and all of them were fatal traps. Those who were hit had no chance of surviving. A rough count showed that fourteen people died in these traps.

  He did not clean up the corpses or restore the activated traps. Instead, he hid near the outermost trap and quietly waited for the prey to come.

  About half an hour later, two more groups of people escaped from the battlefield in front. The number of people was seven and thirteen respectively. It seemed that the heavy rain also affected the coalition's encirclement and suppression of the bandits. Otherwise, Joel would be in Fort Firm. It is impossible for the battlefield layout of each team in the meeting hall to have so many fish slipping through the net.

  Fortunately, these bandits were able to escape the fighting on the battlefield under the cover of heavy rain and fled to what they thought was a safe area. There were no pursuers behind them. As long as they passed through a forest that was not very large, they could reach the smuggling channel. Escape this dangerous place completely.

  But the moment they walked into the woods, they never came out of the woods again. Linde, who was hidden in the woods, appeared silently like a ghost at a location they could not expect. They kill them one by one, while driving those still alive into deadly traps.

  Because there were so many people dead, the forest was filled with the smell of blood, and the smell of blood also attracted some carnivores, making the forest more and more dangerous.

  Roman Webber is the son of Viscount Lyndon Webber and the cousin of Edmund Webber, the current lord of Coldhowl Castle. He has a long face and is nicknamed the Gopher in the Reach.

  The meaning of this nickname is that Roman Wieber would usually hide in his manor and live his life. He would only poke his head out to see if there was any movement outside, just like this time during the siege. Banditry is a profitable opportunity for him.

  Although Roman Wieber's name is not very pleasant, people who are familiar with him know that if anyone can underestimate him, he will definitely suffer a big loss in his hands.

  This time, his mission was to lead a team of 100 people to patrol the periphery of the battlefield and hunt for fish that slipped through the net. The core mission was to prevent the few escapees loyal to the Long family among the bandits who had had contact with the Weibo family from encircling and suppressing them. Escape.

  If everything went well, then they should have been celebrating the successful end of the siege against the Red Lake Forest bandits and the remnants of the Long family. However, the sudden heavy rain in the early morning caused many loopholes in the entire siege operation, especially on the offensive front because of Due to the muddy ground, the moving speeds of each queue were inconsistent, resulting in a large number of gaps.

  The leader of the bandits was also very good, breaking his men into pieces, spreading them out, and breaking out from various gaps.

  Although most of these people failed to break through successfully and died on the battlefield, there were still some people who were lucky enough to escape from the encirclement. Roman was supposed to clean up all the fish that slipped through the net, but because of the heavy rain, he His movement speed was also affected. After clearing out some of the bandits, some of them fled into the mountain forest near Fort Firm under his nose.

  If they were just ordinary bandits, he might have let them go, but he saw two of the bandits who escaped into the forest were wearing plate armor. Among the bandits who were able to wear plate armor, their status was definitely unusual. It could be someone who knows something secret.

  For this reason, he had to clean up some fish that slipped through the net, and without rest, he led his men to pursue them along the various traces left by the escaping bandits, and soon caught up to the woods where Linde had laid the trap.

  When they quickly determined that the bandits escaped into the woods, Roman immediately rushed into the woods with his people. He had to catch up with those people as soon as possible and eliminate them.

  However, not long after they entered the forest, they involuntarily stopped because they saw a corpse hanging on a tree with its feet off the ground, and a tree stump passed through his chest. From a distance, they could not help but stop. It was as if the trees in the woods had killed him.

  (End of chapter)