Time goes back to twenty minutes after Livia and the others left and arrived at a hillside.
Following the team's stop, Livia looked at the steep hillsides on both sides of the road. It must be said that this is indeed a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are only two rugged mountain roads in front and behind that can lead up to the hillside normally. The roads are narrow and can only accommodate about two people walking side by side. In other words, only four or five people are needed to block the road to defend against a dozen or even more people.
Stopping at a relatively flat open space on the hillside, Honasan gestured to the two guards. The guards let go of the ropes they had been holding, took off their backpacks and placed them carefully on the ground, then separated and went to stand guard on a different road.
Livia crossed his arms and watched Honasan walk up to the two tied bandits. He knew that the interrogation was about to begin. In fact, if he had added the Axis Signet, it wouldn't be so troublesome. However, in order to effectively improve his combat effectiveness, he didn't plan to consider the Axis Signet so early. After all, it was too difficult to obtain the skill points for the Signet.
By the way, what is the basis for issuing tasks in this system? Whether I accepted this task or just fought against the robbers, there was no movement at all.
Livia touched his chin, without looking at Honasan, and opened the system interface in his mind. There was still no change, but he could see that Jim's physique and strength had improved a little, which should be the result of hard training.
Honasan tore off the cloth covering his mouth and looked at the two coughing robbers coldly.
"Tell me, who are you and who is behind this?"
“Ahem…
Sir, please let us go. We became robbers because we were forced to do so."
After the cloth strips that were gagged at their mouths were pulled out, the two robbers spoke anxiously with panicked faces, vying to tell each other about their previous tragic experiences.
bass!
Honasan drew out the knight's sword at his waist with an expressionless face. There was still some coagulated blood on the sword.
"ah!"
The two robbers screamed in fear, collapsed backwards and sat on the ground, moving backwards continuously.
They hit a solid "pillar" at the same time and turned their heads in confusion, "Ah!"
They were frightened again when they saw a burly man with black and red blood clots all over his body standing behind them.
Paros glanced at them with disdain and moved his gaze to Honasan.
"Leave it to me to ask. You knights are not capable of doing this kind of work."
Listening to his words, Honasan frowned. He could not deny that what Paros said was indeed true. As a knight, his code of conduct did not allow him to use torture to interrogate the two robbers, but he also could not bear to watch Paros deal with the two robbers in this way. This was pity for the unarmed captives. He could kill them with a sword without any burden, but his heart would not allow him to torture them or watch them suffer torture.
"Honasan, go a little further north. The map says there's a herb we need there."
Natalia suddenly spoke up, "Yes, sir."
Honasan sheathed the knight's sword, turned around, bowed slightly and nodded towards Natalia. He knew that Lady Natalia wanted to get him away so that he wouldn't be tormented.
Everyone watched him pull up a backpack on the ground and walk down the narrow mountain road to the north, and turned their attention back to Paros standing in front of the two robbers. They all knew Paros's methods. After all, the name "butcher" was not given casually.
The two robbers looked at each other in horror. After watching the knight leave, they also guessed something. "Sir, we will tell you!"
They hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy to Natalia, who was obviously the boss here.
"Oh, then tell me, who are you and who is behind this?"
Natalia found a big rock to sit on, looked at the two bandits who were kowtowing to her with an expressionless face and spoke.
They looked at each other, still very hesitant, as if they were afraid of something.
"Um?"
Paros got behind them, looking down at them with wide eyes.
"I, we don't really know. We all joined recently!"
Frightened by Paros, they spoke quickly.
"have no idea?
Paros, I leave it to you, take him somewhere far away, we have to rest here tonight."
Natalia raised her eyebrows and said to Paros calmly that she didn't believe that they really knew nothing. She could tell they were lying just from their eyes and expressions. This was not something she could tell with extraordinary means, but something she could tell with the keen observation of an ordinary person. It was too obvious.
Without giving them a chance to speak, Paros grabbed one of them with one hand and threatened to drag them down the northern mountain road that Honasan had just walked.
Natalia watched quietly, ignoring their pleas for her to give them another chance.
She no longer had the heart to continue talking to them. It would be better to let Paros stay and interrogate him. It seemed that they were not the kind of iron men who were extremely stubborn, but just some slick villains.
The others withdrew their gazes, and the old hunter and Anders began to check and repair the arrows recovered from the quiver. After all, the arrow shaft would inevitably suffer some damage when hitting the target, and the arrow shaft needed to be repaired or replaced. In this regard, the leader of the trio, Jeffrey, and the double-edged man Pierre went to the woods at the foot of the hill to collect some branches.
Caius was sitting cross-legged on the side, leaning against a rock and resting with his eyes closed.
Livia was thinking about where to invest the last of his combat skill points. After all, there might be a fierce battle next. After all, a bandit gang that could recruit more than 40 people as cannon fodder must have more than just this much strength. There might even be extraordinary people among them. He felt that his guess was very likely. Otherwise, how could there be so many bandits in such a remote and dangerous place.
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