Volume 2: Boundless Walker Chapter 5 Clues!
When the voice arrives, people arrive.
Under Swart's gaze, Goethe flashed out from the shadows, and the [Shadow Snake Dagger] in his hand swept straight across the neck of the deer-headed monster.
puff!
Blood spurted out.
The deer raised its head.
The body staggered.
Slowly kneel down.
call!
A cone of flames spurted out from Goethe's hand, completely covering the deer-headed monster.
Explosive-level flames quickly engulfed the monster's body.
Goethe turned his head and looked at the stunned Swart, reminding him.
"Explosives."
"Ah? F*ck!"
Swart came to his senses and slapped the fuse repeatedly, covering it with his blood-stained palm, causing it to gradually go out.
After doing all this, Swart completely relaxed and looked at Goethe with gratitude.
"Sure enough, I can always trust Goethe!"
Swart thought silently in his heart.
Then the sheriff sat limply in the cave, unable to stand up.
The roar just now seemed to have exhausted all his strength.
Now?
I just want to lean here like this, without moving.
However, when he saw Goethe start to inspect the cave, the sheriff immediately gritted his teeth and stood up to help inspect.
"This Wendigo is a little strange. It seems that it is not fully developed. However, it has plenty of food, so it is impossible for it to be so underdeveloped."
Sheila checked her surroundings and frowned.
Swart looked confused.
"Look at this cave, it's about 3.5 meters high, and a normal Wendigo is more than 5 meters tall. Such a cave is too cramped for a normal Wendigo."
Sheila explained.
"You mean to say that I met a sickly person?"
Swart looked unacceptable.
He was almost killed, but turned out to be a sickly person?
Anyone faced with such a fact would collapse.
"Not a sickly person."
“It should be…”
"Some kind of mutation?"
Sheila's tone was less certain.
Although she has been taught by her teacher, Sheila is not a true monster scholar. Being able to discover the differences of the Wendigo is already her limit. Does she want to know more information?
Basically impossible.
Having confirmed this, Goethe continued to scan the cave.
Nothing was found except the five hanging bodies.
There are signs of monster life here, but that's about it.
"Go collect the ammunition from the bodies."
As Goethe spoke, he opened his box - not a small box containing gold, but a large box that seemed to contain clothes.
After opening it, the explosives were neatly placed inside.
"You're just going to take this on the train?!"
Sheila exclaimed.
“They make me feel safe.”
Goethe said calmly and began to set up the cave.
Joining up with Swart was the first step in the plan.
But the second step is the most critical!
Turn passive into active!
Kill the pursuers behind you!
Seeing Goethe's calm appearance, Sheila really wanted to open Goethe's head to see what was inside. What kind of experience could allow a person to go out with a box of explosives without changing his expression?
Is he really crazy?
For some reason, wisdom flashed in Sheila's eyes.
However, when Goethe's eyes swept over, Sheila immediately began to help with the arrangements.
She opened her suitcase and took out a beautiful, exquisitely crafted ladies' box, similar to a cosmetic bag.
But there was no makeup in it at all.
Two metal cans.
What's inside is...
Kerosene!
"Are these two crazy?"
"Who would go out with explosives and kerosene?"
Swart looked at Goethe and Sheila, his eyes twitching wildly, and he tightened the explosives on his body completely subconsciously.
…
The afternoon sun is getting hotter.
Even in the north where it’s winter for half the year, the sunshine at the end of June still makes people feel hot.
Root led his men forward, and everyone was panting and sweating profusely.
Root, a tall man wearing leather armor, with scars on his face and messy hair, looks very ferocious.
He had a long sword and a revolver on his waist, a telescope hanging on his chest, and a spear in his hand. At this moment, Root was using the spear as a hiking stick.
The entire team, ten people, except for three people who had backpacks, were all dressed similarly.
The three men carrying backpacks also had revolvers on their waists, but they did not have swords or spears, obviously to reduce weight.
However, no matter how much they reduced the weight, the three of them were just like everyone else, gasping for breath from exhaustion.
However, no one dared to sit down and rest.
because……
The target person ran away!
When he thought of this, Ruth wanted to shoot the guy from "Harest" who was responsible for the surveillance. He couldn't even keep an eye on two living people, and he claimed to be an elite.
"What a waste!"
"If it weren't for the order from the Lord, I would have sunk these bastards into the Simlai River to feed the fish!"
Root cursed angrily.
None of the subordinates around him objected.
After all, this was not their mission in the first place.
They just cooperate.
Who knew those guys were so unreliable.
When they thought of this, the subordinates became more and more dissatisfied.
"Boss! Boss!"
"I've found something!"
One of the men in front ran back.
"How about it?"
Although his heart was filled with resentment, Ruth did not delay. He followed his men to the location where the Wendigo attacked. After a careful inspection, the leader's face became serious.
"Apply the potion!"
At the command, three men with backpacks on their backs immediately took out medicine from their backpacks and handed them to the people around them.
When the smear was finished, they followed the dragging marks and found the cave.
Ruth gestured to his two men, and they immediately put down their spears, holding a sword in one hand and a gun in the other, and carefully entered the cave.
About two minutes later, one of his men ran out.
"Boss, those guys from Harest were hung up by the Wendigo as food reserves."
"waste!"
"Did you find anything else?"
"Where's that guy with Goethe Wein?"
Root cursed again.
"I didn't find it. He must have run away during the chaos."
The subordinate shook his head.
"He's lucky!"
"Where's the Wendigo?"
Root continued to ask.
"They were probably killed - we saw charred bodies and some signs of fighting, but it was too messy for us to judge."
The subordinate told the truth.
"Leave two people to guard outside, and the rest of you, light torches and follow me in."
At Ruth's command, everyone took action.
Two men were standing guard outside with guns.
The rest of the people all entered the cave.
Then--
boom!
After an explosion, the entire cave began to collapse.
Ruth and others who entered were buried by rocks before they could react.
"roar!"
Root roared angrily.
An invisible force field formed on his body, blocking the impact of the gravel.
But it didn't work at all.
Because the real killer move is not these gravels at all.
The flames spread silently.
The next moment, Rutt was engulfed by flames.
Ruth, his whole body on fire, looked at his two men guarding the cave entrance, and a fierce look appeared on his face.
The next moment——
“Ahhhh!”
The two people guarding the door screamed and fell to the ground.
After a few quick twitches, there was no more breath.
This scene made Goethe, who was just about to capture a live person, frown.
"This... is a group of assassins, right?"
Swart couldn't help but gasp.
As the sheriff of Rooster, Swart has seen many desperadoes, but he is sure that no desperado can do what he sees now.
Of course, the dead soldiers are not scary.
What is scary is the people behind the dead soldiers.
Undoubtedly a big shot!
And now, they are facing such a big shot.
Swart's face turned pale again.
"Goethe, how about we run?"
"Luster isn't safe either."
"Going to Harest is a dead end. It turns out that Tesin can't stay here any longer. Let's go abroad, take a ship to Faber, and then hide our identities and wait for peace."
The sheriff expressed his opinion.
"waste!"
Sheila continued to make comments as usual.
Goethe examined the body.
His insufficient supernatural knowledge prevented him from confirming the cause of death of the corpse.
Fortunately, Sheila knew.
"It's a contract similar to a drug combination, where one person controls one or several people, and this person in control is also controlled by someone of a higher level. In Tesin , such methods are rarely used. Most of them are circulated among the traditional nobles of Fabol and Rudes Kingdom. Many people like to use such methods, especially Rudes, who regard it as a manifestation of 'loyalty'."
"Fabor? Ludes?"
"It's over. It's not safe abroad anymore ."
Swart looked desperate.
Goethe seemed to be thinking about something.
"If these people die, will the controller know?"
Goethe asked.
“Some do, some don’t.”
“This method is not cheap.”
"Every person who signs a contract needs a sum of gold grams as support. If there are additional conditions, the sum of gold grams will increase exponentially."
Sheila explained.
"is that so?"
Goethe muttered to himself and began to check the battlefield. After confirming that there were no survivors and no valuable information, he stood up and picked up the luggage that was hidden in a hidden place.
There is no need to stay now.
Of course, I will never return to the small town.
Nor will I wait for the train to depart again.
He wanted to take advantage of this finally appeared 'gap' and go directly to Halest.
Only in Halest can we find temporary safety.
If we stay here, the enemy will just keep sending pursuers.
After all, this place should be quite important to the other party.
Thinking about the identities of the assassins and the potion that had just been applied on them, Goethe narrowed his eyes slightly and quickened his pace.
This time, he didn't just smell a conspiracy.
Already in the middle of a conspiracy.
Goethe would never forget why he came to the North.
It is to inherit a legacy from Lord Scrooge.
And now?
He was led into this trap step by step by the people who tried to stop him from going to the North, which meant that the people who tried to stop him from going to Halest should be familiar with the people who set up this place.
And he believed that the power here could kill him.
In fact, it is very likely that it is just one person.
Of course, it could also be a case of using a knife to kill someone!
But none of this matters!
What’s important is…
Who could be the one who stopped him from going to 'Harest'?
