There were probably four families in this team of more than a dozen people. They had only one cart-like animal-killing cart, which was covered with a large gray cloth and padded with some rags. Several children sat on the top of the cart in fear, leaning against their family members who were close to the cart.
Four strong young men stood at the front of the team, trembling with fear, holding wooden sticks or kitchen knives in their hands.
Some of the eight robbers who surrounded them were smiling, while others had ferocious eyes. The weapons in their hands were much larger and more intimidating than those wooden sticks and kitchen utensils.
"I say again, put down your valuables and food, and you can leave, otherwise you will all die here!"
The leading man had a hideous laceration on his exposed neck. He patted the sword in his hand and smiled horribly.
"If I chop you with this sword, even your bones will be cut. In your current state, if I chop you with just one blow, you will be doomed!"
As he said this, he took a step forward, and sure enough, the four men subconsciously took a step back.
Hey! All the bandits smiled knowingly, this team was basically made up at random.
"We can't give you all of it, or we'll starve to death on the way. Please, we can give you half of the money, but please don't take our food!!!"
A hunchbacked old man was speaking beside the animal cart, hoping that the robbers would be kind enough to show some mercy.
"Tsk tsk tsk... If we weren't seeing a bunch of old, weak, women and children among you, we would have just hacked two of you to death first. I guarantee no one would dare to talk back. It seems like you think we're too easy to talk to!"
The robbers nearby raised their weapons.
"Brothers, kill all their men, hehehe..."
The four men turned pale all of a sudden and took small steps back but did not actually run away.
Qin Xiaoxia floated between the bandits and the team and watched for a while, but found that Riva, who was behind the tree line a little further away, had not come out yet. The perception of this thought body was limited. He didn't know what the guy next to him was doing and why he didn't come out. He thought he would come out soon?
"Riva, hurry up and take care of those bandits!!!"
Riva froze behind the tree, his face covered in sweat.
"Me? Youyi, stop kidding me..."
"Oh, believe me, you don't need to fight at all. Those bandits are just for show. You can scare them off with your aura and win without a fight!"
"Well, they're going to fight that thing!!"
"Then fight! They are just ordinary people. You are stronger than them and your eyes are better than theirs. Defeat them! Do you want to see that team get robbed and killed?"
"Of course I don't want to!!! But, but I don't want to be killed either..."
Yui waved his little fist and grinned.
"Then go ahead, and you have nothing to be afraid of with me here, you won't die!"
When he came back and saw this scene, Qin Xiaoxia felt both amused and helpless. Could it be that this lone ranger was so timid?
"Didn't you say that those people who looked down on you before were wrong about you? Didn't you say that you were unwilling to be a small figure? Are you going to watch these people die when you have the power to help?"
Riva finally stood up, but he stood there timidly with his fists clenched.
"You can't even find the stars. You've died once, so what are you afraid of? Look at your right hand. Everyone with this symbol is a powerful hero. Are you going to desecrate it? Do you want me to look down on you too?!"
Youyi was really angry, and his tone was a little impatient. These days, he had told Riva a lot of heroes from ancient times to the present day. How come when the critical moment came, Riva's yearning when listening to the stories was gone!
Riva clenched his fists tightly, his teeth grinding, glanced at the angry Yui, then stepped out of the bushes at the tree line and walked towards the two parties in confrontation.
Rather than saying that a bunch of other righteous ideas played a role, it would be more accurate to say that Yui's words "Even I look down on you" were the most powerful.
His mind is blank now, and he has almost forgotten everything Yu Yi taught him before, but he still remembers that he must not show weakness and blink less. The more imposing and powerful walking posture has become muscle memory.
The distance between the two sides was actually only about forty or fifty meters, so everyone soon noticed that there were other people coming.
The long windbreaker swayed slightly behind him, and the broad hilt on the back was exposed on his shoulders, with a dark blood-stained cloth wrapped around it. The dark clothes were slightly folded around his waist, his left hand was in his trouser pocket, and his right hand was grasping his waist, with the dagger just a finger away.
He walked with steady steps, expressionless face, brown hair fluttering slightly on both cheeks, and a pair of lifeless eyes staring at the two opposing parties, getting closer and closer.
A strong aura came with the approach of the person. No matter if they were robbers or the hijacked convoy, they all understood that this was definitely a strong man!
"Who are you?! Stop, don't come any closer!!!"
The bandit leader yelled at Riva, but failed to stop him. Instead, it seemed to draw his attention to himself.
The pair of cold eyes stared straight at the bandit leader without blinking, as if he was staring at a dead object, making the bandit leader feel as if he couldn't look directly at the other person. He had to force himself to look at the other person.
In contrast to the robbers, the people in that team had hope. Although they had never really seen such a thing in reality, there were always many such characters upholding justice in heroic stories.
"Stop right there!!!"
The bandit leader roared and raised his weapon. Several bandits beside him turned around and pointed their weapons at him nervously. The other party looked so scary that they didn't say a word, as if they were going to kill people directly! !
Riva's heartbeat was now three times faster than usual, and he subconsciously stopped when several robbers raised their knives.
"Oops, I shouldn't have stopped. I can't make any mistakes next time!!!"
Riva broke out in a cold sweat on his back, as if he suddenly remembered some of the key points that Yui had told him.
His gaze remained unchanged as he swept across the faces of each of the eight robbers. All the robbers who made contact with his gaze subconsciously avoided his sight, which also gave Riva some confidence.
"I'll only say this once, all of you get out of here! Otherwise, no one will be able to leave!"
"You...you said let us go? You also..."
One of the robbers opened his mouth and was about to retort, but he stopped himself abruptly because Riva's unchanged eyes had narrowed. This subtle change brought tremendous pressure, which seemed to be a signal that the other party had lost patience.
This guy is different from us robbers, he doesn’t use threats or bribes, he doesn’t wait for people to get timid, he says something and if he doesn’t see results, he’ll fulfill his promise!
Sure enough, as Riva narrowed his eyes, he pulled out his left hand, which had been inserted in his trouser pocket, and slowly reached back to grab the hilt of the sword wrapped with dark cloth. The heavy broadsword was slowly pulled out at a constant speed.
This is a two-handed broadsword. Without professional training, ordinary people would not be able to hold it steadily even with both hands. However, this man used his left hand and drew the sword with ease.
The huge sense of oppression crushed these robbers the moment they appeared with the sword in hand. They only robbed the elderly and weak civilians and dared not joke with their own lives.
"Let's go!!! We'll leave right away!!!"
"Let's go now!!!"
"You are lucky..."
All the bandits breathed a sigh of relief when their leader showed weakness and trotted away around Riva. One of them even stumbled, which attracted Riva's subconscious "cold gaze". He was so scared that he dropped his weapon and crawled after his companions.
"call……"
Riva breathed a sigh of relief.
"call……"
Yui breathed a sigh of relief.
"call……"
Qin Xiaoxia also breathed a sigh of relief for some reason...
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