"Drop the weapons in your hands! I will spare your lives for now!" Wu Lai said loudly after he stood still.

Tours was already panicking at this point, and with so many arrows pointed at him all around, he dared not resist. However, he knew that he was doomed tonight. Besides secretly hating himself, he couldn't help but feel a little sad - just like the moment when Bill didn't die.

Tours was the first to throw the dagger in his hand, and seeing this, his four men also threw their daggers out.

"Very good! Your lives are saved for the time being!" After Wu Lai said this, he waved his hand lightly. Behind him, Ma Long led several guards and rushed up with ropes. In a few seconds, they tied up Tours and others tightly, and they could not move at all.

After sending the archers away, Wu Lai walked up to Turles with a smile and lifted his mask...

"Why is it you?!" Wu Lai's face was immediately filled with surprise, and the few people who followed him also exclaimed in surprise. Among them, Baker was the most exaggerated, with a look of stunned.

Turles was startled and was about to say something when Wu Lai moved his hand and actually lifted his mask back. At the same time, he took a step and leaned close to Turles' ear: "You did a good job. I will ask you three questions now. You don't need to speak, just nod or shake your head."

Turles was stunned again, wondering what was going on. "Do you want to continue to be your salt official in Yanma Town?" Wu Lai asked.

Tours hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded. Although the environment in Salt Marsh Town was harsh, he made a lot of money as a salt official. Apart from the dividends from Lovington, he smuggled dozens of trucks out every year. Once he turned over the pieces, he could make a lot of gold coins.

Moreover, Wu Lai's question seemed to indicate that the other party was willing to let him go. As for the price, that was a matter for the future. At least he had to overcome the current difficulties first.

"I let you continue to be the salt official, and you have to listen to me in the future, but I won't make things difficult for you in Lovington. You can do the same thing as before, but you must do what I tell you to do first. Do you agree?" Wu Lai asked again.

This time, Tours thought for a shorter time than before and nodded. He could keep everything he had and not have to worry about Lovington's anger. He only needed to obey Woolley secretly. There was nothing unacceptable about this.

"The last thing is that you have to write a confession admitting that you killed Bill. I have to keep this to guarantee your loyalty. Do you agree?" Woolley asked.

Tours nodded readily. If Wu Lai had not made this request, he might have suspected that Wu Lai had other intentions in what he said before. Now that Wu Lai mentioned it so bluntly, he was completely relieved.

"Good job, from now on, you are mine." Wu Lai smiled slightly and showed something in his palm.

When he saw the object clearly, Tours was almost shocked, because the object in Wu Lai's palm was exactly the black flag badge he had seen after nightfall.

"You are from the Duncan family..." Tours couldn't help but look at Wu Lai with wide eyes. The person he and the people behind him had been deliberately dealing with turned out to be the core figure of the Duncan family?

"Yes, I am. You will follow me from now on." Wu Lai said softly, patted Turles' shoulder lightly, and suddenly raised his voice, "Oh, so that's the case, Turles, you are too impulsive."

Turles was stunned, wondering what Wu Lai meant by saying this, when Wu Lai turned around with a smile: "Although the situation is a bit awkward, Turles has told me the reason why he is here. After knowing that Bill was the traitor during the meeting, Turles was filled with righteous indignation. After thinking it over, he decided to kill the traitor and avenge the warriors who died in Salt Marsh Town."

Pompey and the others immediately showed expressions of realization on their faces.

Turles was startled again, thinking, "Come on, untie Turles." Wu Lai waved at Malone, turned around and said to Turles in a low voice, "Come with me to the office in the official residence later. Also, I don't plan to keep your four men alive. Do you understand me?"

The reason why Woolley deliberately set this trap for Tours was naturally to win him over - judging from the current situation, winning him over was far better than driving him away, because if George and Job were to be pissed off, and if he sent a smarter and more cautious confidant to serve as the salt official, some of his subsequent plans would be difficult to carry out.

"Sir, I understand." Tours nodded quickly. After being in a daze for a while, he finally figured it out - the black flag badge in Wu Lai's hand was the same as the one shown by the "big shot" who asked him to kill Bill.

But for some reason, even after Turles figured this out, he couldn't hate Wu Lai. In fact, he was a little excited.

Afterwards, Turles followed Woolley back to the Governor's Palace. In Woolley's office, Turles wrote everything Woolley needed him to write, and said everything he thought he could say. Of course, he immediately felt goodwill from Woolley.

Not only did Wu Lai drink with him, he also generously lent him the Black Flag badge to play with for a while, and even gave him a sword. It was originally Bill's sword, very exquisite and luxurious, but there was a small flaw - two of the six gem slots on the guard were empty.

In fact, it was still full during the day, but when Baker saw the trophy, he took the initiative to cut off the two sapphires on it, one for himself and the other as a gift to El. Although he knew that El was just a maid, Baker believed that the relationship between El and Woolley was unusual because Woolley brought such a maid to his post.

Even so, Tours was still too excited to control himself...

It was almost dawn when Turles left the mansion happily. Although he was extremely tired, Woolley still found Malone and gave him detailed instructions before going to bed to rest.

Near noon, Wu Lai left Salt Marsh Town by car. In addition to Marlon and other guards, he was accompanied by Sares and thirty archers.

The reason why Sares went with him was because he was really worried about letting Wu Lai take the risk alone - the place where Wu Lai was going was the Fox-Wolf Valley, and his purpose was naturally to make Osus's Fox-Wolf bandit gang collapse.

While Wu Lai was riding in a carriage, Sales followed beside Wu Lai on horseback. As a knight, he preferred to ride a horse rather than ride in a carriage like Wu Lai.

"Lord Wu Lai, you don't take care of your body at all. This is very bad." Sares said to Wu Lai through the car window.

"Knight Sares, we are almost thirty miles away from Salt Marsh Town. Haven't you given up trying to convince me yet?" Wu Lai replied with a smile while wiping the telescope in his hand with a cloth.

"If I were you, I would choose to stay in the town for the next few days, recuperating from my injuries while supervising them to get things done. You know, you have arranged a lot of things." Sares said with a smile. He was right. Putting aside the construction project in Salt Marsh Town, they had just resisted the attack of the Fox and Wolf bandits yesterday, and there were many more things to do. Sares felt that Wu Lai was so anxious to suppress the bandits, it seemed a bit too radical.

"With Elaite and Baker here, and so many people helping out in the chores and town management, I don't have to worry too much." Wu Lai said, "Besides, once I wipe out the Fox and Wolf bandit gang, other bandit gangs won't dare to act rashly, and it will be much easier for Elaite to write the report."

"You're taking a risk." Sareth smiled bitterly and shook his head. "With seven guards and thirty archers, and you're injured, I think I'll continue to dissuade you."

"No, you shouldn't dissuade us, Knight Sares. Quality is more important than quantity. And to tell you the truth, the thirty archers and seven guards are just covering forces. There is only one main attacker, and that's me." Wu Lai laughed and said.

Sarres was stunned for a moment, but thought Wu Lai was joking and didn't take it seriously. He smiled and pointed at himself: "What about me? What am I?"

"You? You are a spectator!" Wu Lai answered loudly and couldn't help laughing out loud.

While the two were chatting and laughing, in an office in the governor's residence of Salt Marsh Town, Elaite was leisurely writing a draft report for Wu Lai - "...After the thieves opened the city gate, the tribune Bill Hill fought bloody battles, killed and injured six thieves, and unfortunately died on the job..."

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When he heard the noise outside the tent, Osius opened his eyes, and immediately, a woman's face with a distorted expression appeared in front of him.

Osus frowned and kicked the female corpse beside him off the bed - at least when Osus was awake last night, she was still a lively young woman, but judging from the bruises on her neck and her half-loose tongue, Osus might have strangled her neck at the most excited moment.

This kind of thing happened more than once, so Osus was not surprised at all to find a female corpse beside him. Besides, this poor woman was just a peasant woman he had kidnapped on the road, and there was nothing to regret about her death.

What Osus felt sorry for was naturally the losses in Saltmarsh Town. Although he had returned to Fox-Wolf Valley and spent two indulgent nights with his brothers, Osus was still upset - he brought 800 brothers to attack Saltmarsh Town, thinking that he could raze the place to the ground with a fire. Not only did he expect the opposite, but even the brothers who were guarding the rear did not come back. More than 400 men, more than 300 horses, and nearly 300 weapons, such a loss was enough to turn the Fox-Wolf Bandits into a second-rate gang. In other words, Osus had now lost the qualification to sit opposite the dignitaries in Lovington, and the decent "big business" in the White Fruit Town Tavern would no longer have anything to do with him.

Of course Osus didn't want this to happen. He had been thinking about how to replenish manpower, horses and weapons these two days, but after thinking about it, he couldn't find a quick and good way. Moreover, the old routine was no longer feasible because four years ago, the bandit groups had agreed not to invade each other, and kidnapping civilians to act as bandits was tantamount to touching the reverse scale of Lovington.

Perhaps I can only think of a way to buy more slaves - Osus finally thought helplessly.

After turning over and sitting up in bed, Osus picked up the robe hanging on the edge of the bed and put it on hastily. He was too lazy to even put on his boots, so he walked barefoot on the ground. The noise outside the tent was getting louder and louder, so he had to go and take a look.

"What's going on?!" Osus angrily pulled open the curtain.

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Several bandits who were arguing stopped immediately. You know, their leader was in a very bad mood these past two days, and if they annoyed him, they might lose their lives.

"Speak! What are you arguing about so early in the morning?!" Osus frowned and asked. If the casualties this time were not so exaggerated, he would not mind cutting off one of these guys' arms.

"Boss, it's like this. Rashad said he saw someone on the top of the rock peak." A bandit pointed to the cliff not far behind him.

"Yes, boss, I think I saw it." The bandit named Rashad said hurriedly.

"Nonsense! Who would be so stupid as to crawl up there?!" Osius walked up and slapped Rashad in the face, "I think you've had too much to drink. Get out! Stand guard!"

Rashad touched his burning cheek and didn't dare to argue anymore. He trotted off to stand guard, not caring about the laughter and ridicule behind him.

Am I really drunk and dizzy? Rashad wondered as he ran.

Rashad was not dazzled, because there were indeed people on the stone peak at this moment, and there was more than one. The reason why no one believed Rashad was also very simple -

First, there is no one in sight now.

Secondly, this stone peak is three hundred steps away from the camp, and it is more than four hundred cubits straight up and down on all sides. It is so steep that it is almost impossible to climb by human power. Therefore, even though it is the only commanding height in the Fox-Wolf Valley, Osus is too lazy to manage it because there is no value in garrisoning there. Although the Fox-Wolf Valley is called a valley, it is located on a high mountain. Although it is impossible to explore whether it was a drying up lake before it was like it is now or whether it has always been like this, the Fox-Wolf Valley is famous for being easy to defend and difficult to attack, because the road leading to the outside world is a narrow and winding canyon. Apart from that, there are towering circular cliffs on all sides. Apart from this stone peak connected to the cliffs, there are no other obstacles.

In other words, even if they reached the vicinity of the Fox Wolf Valley, if they could not break through the valley, they would have no chance of causing any impact on the camp of the Fox Wolf Bandits - the stone peak was the closest area to the camp, but it was also far beyond the range of bows and arrows.

Thirdly, none of the visible and invisible sentries in the direction of the Stone Peak sent out any warning signals. If someone really was heading towards the Stone Peak, the sentries would certainly not have failed to see it.

So, no one thinks that Rashad was unjustly slapped.

The people on the stone peak were Ma Long and Wu Lai. Wu Lai, who was injured, had a hard time climbing up the stone peak. Fortunately, in addition to his agility, Ma Long also had excellent physical strength and power, and was very experienced in climbing cliffs. In addition, Wu Lai was well prepared, so he did not give up halfway.

However, Malone's concealment awareness was obviously a little lacking. After dragging Wu Lai to the top of the stone peak, he actually stuck half of his body out of the stone peak to observe the bandit camp. Fortunately, the only person who discovered him was Rashad, and it was also thanks to Wu Lai's quick eyes and hands that he pulled him back.

The rest of the guards were naturally on guard below the stone peak. Two of them acted as the bandits' visible and invisible sentries. As for the original sentry, he was knocked unconscious, tied up and thrown into the bushes after being questioned.

"Master, they are very focused." said Ma Long.

Wu Lai nodded, put away the telescope, and opened the large wooden box at his feet.

"Master, are you tired?" Ma Long asked, glancing at Wu Lai's hair on his forehead that was wet with sweat.

"It's okay, we can hold on." Wu Lai said as he assembles the hunter.

"Master, there shouldn't be any problem with Knight Sares, right?" Malone was a little worried, because Sares and the thirty archers had a difficult task. Wu Lai arranged for them to ambush in front of the canyon to stop the bandits from running out of the canyon, because once these bandits came out and surrounded the stone peak, Wu Lai and Malone would have no chance of climbing down.

"The canyon exit is wide enough for only three people to pass through side by side. With thirty archers and 1,200 arrows, it won't be easy for these bandits to break out..." Wu Lai was speaking when he suddenly felt a pain in his chest. He subconsciously pressed it and frowned because he could feel that the wound under the leather armor had turned wet.

Apparently the wound had reopened while he was climbing just now.

"Give me a bandage." Wu Lai said to Ma Long while taking off his armor while enduring the pain. If a wound has cracked, it must be treated in time. It would be no fun if it gets infected.

"Master, are you okay?" Ma Long quickly took out a bandage bag and handed it over, asking, "Master, you are still injured. Why don't you rest in the town for a few more days? It's still in time before you come back."

Wu Lai took the bandage bag with a smile and said, "Ma Long, I actually want to rest for a few days, but I have to be quick and hard to do things. How can I rest and recuperate peacefully if I don't beat this Fox Wolf bandit gang to pieces?"

Malone nodded immediately. No matter what Wu Lai said or did, he subconsciously thought that it must be right.

"Ma Long, I'll show you what 'the power of thunder' means later." Wu Lai said with a smile as he untied the bandage.

"The power of thunder?" Ma Long was stunned and couldn't help scratching his head. He thought, isn't thunder the wrath of the legendary god Amon?