Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 4 4 Who's Not a Smart Man?
"Deal!" Wes also thought for a moment, then nodded and agreed to Tang Mo's bargaining price: "But... on the way there, if you encounter robbers or other troubles, I won't guarantee your safety."

"I'm an adult now." Tang Mo didn't expect the other party to protect him at critical moments, and they haven't established enough trust between the two.

In fact, what Tang Mo was more worried about was that this seemingly powerful man would start murdering and stealing goods halfway, so he looked at him and continued, "I'll take my people with me."

"Actually, I have two purposes for coming here." Weiss said noncommittally: "The first purpose is to facilitate the cooperation between the Earl and you."

"Another purpose..." He elongated his voice, looked at Tang Mo and said, "I'm also very interested in you, how about it? Do you need a mercenary with some skills to work for you?"

"Aren't you from Earl Fischero?" Tang Mo didn't answer his words, but raised his eyebrows slightly, looking into the other's eyes and asked back.

"No, no, no! I am a free man, sir." Weiss made an innocent gesture: "Count Fisherolo gave me gold coins, and I will naturally work for Earl Fisherot. After seeing you, I think you are a person with great potential, if you are willing to give me gold coins, I am more willing to offer you my loyalty."

"Your loyalty is really cheap." Tang Mo twitched.

"Maybe." Weiss tilted his head disapprovingly: "However, as long as I collect the money, I can still guarantee my loyalty."

"It depends on the situation. If Earl Fischero is really willing to purchase my weapons, then I think it is appropriate to give you a reward." Tang Mo didn't say anything, he neither agreed nor rejected Wes's desire to join idea.

"It doesn't matter, Master Tang Mo." Weiss bowed slightly, then turned and walked out: "I'll feed my horse first...it's been running all night, my poor pony..."

In the evening, Tang Mo, who had only slept for more than three hours, knocked on Roger's door.This man who looked a bit like Uncle Tang Mo had just gotten out of bed at this moment.

"Northern Ridge?" Roger met Tang Mo's eyes in surprise, and reminded Tang Mo to pay attention to safety issues: "The northern part of the kingdom is sparsely populated, and the roads there are not easy to walk."

"I have seen the map. There are iron mines, coal mines, copper mines and various minerals. More than half of the materials we buy are shipped from there... If we can communicate with Earl Fisher With cooperation, all difficulties will be easily solved." Tang Mo caressed the fixed-load revolver on his waist, full of confidence in his new weapon.

"The old man, I will accompany you for a walk!" Roger pondered for a while, and then said, "When are you leaving?"

"Let's go tonight." Tang Mo touched the revolver on his waist, and said to Roger: "We must hurry up, otherwise the workers will all be hungry."

"Let's go then!" Old Roger didn't talk nonsense, and went back to find his clothes.Tang Mo knew that he still had to prepare a carriage, so he went to the stable to find Wes.

The composition of the three-person team is not complicated, and Weiss is the driver, responsible for driving on the road.Tang Mo and Luo Jie were recuperating in the carriage.

This time, due to time constraints, Tang Mo was not able to prepare another exquisite box, so he could only temporarily make an ordinary wooden box and put the carefully carved sample of the K1 fast gun in it.

When getting into the car, Tang Mo saw the flintlock pistol on Weiss' waist, and a long sword on the other side.This is almost the highest weapon configuration for a ranger who walks alone in the rivers and lakes. From these details, it can be seen that this Weiss should have good skills.

"I didn't expect you to travel late at night. To be honest, the border between North Ridge and here, that is, the vicious forest, is not so easy to travel at night."

Wess lit the gas lamps hanging on both sides of the carriage, and warned the old and the young who were about to get on the carriage: "The thieves there are not moral, and they are so poor that they will rob everything."

"You'd better pray that we can reach North Ridge safely." Tang Mo looked up at Wes, who was sitting in the carriage driver's seat: "Otherwise your two achievements will be in vain."

After he finished speaking, he got into the carriage, and Roger followed him into the carriage and closed the door.Wes had a smile on his face and shrugged his shoulders indifferently.Immediately afterwards, he shouted loudly, and shook the reins with both hands at the same time, urging the two fast horses to gallop towards the road that extended to the end of his eyes.

The carriage left the town at the end of dinner, and under the last rays of sunlight, it galloped towards the north.The road was not very smooth, so the carriage shook slightly with the potholes on the road.

Tang Mo fell into a drowsy sleep after getting into the carriage. He had been traveling for too long these two days, so he needed to find time to recover and rest.

The vicious forest lingered in the north-central part of the Wright Kingdom, stretching all the way to the North Ridge. The terrain of this forest was complex and vast, and countless lives were bred there.It is coveting the minerals of North Ridge, so the Kingdom of Susas intends to use a war to annex North Ridge, and re-revise the border between itself and the Wright Kingdom on the front line of the vicious forest.

There are not many roads traversing this forest, and most of the time they are uneven.Road robbers often appear in this area, so most of the caravans coming and going will go together.

Tang Mo and his party had no time to waste waiting for the other caravans to assemble before passing through the forest, because there were more than 100 people in the workshop waiting for him to bring back good news.

Soon, when the sun finally dipped into the horizon, the vicious forest was like a monster with its mouth wide open, lying at the end of the road.

On both sides of the road, there were caravans gathered and set up camp. They didn't plan to pass through the forest at night, so they stopped at the edge of the forest, lit a bonfire to rest for the night, and set off together at dawn tomorrow.

A carriage with two gas lamps on sped past the road between these caravans. When the carriage began to slow down slightly, Wess swung his whip again, slammed the air, and made a crisp sound.

His not-so-sharp eyes stared ahead. The road was illuminated by gas lamps, and he could only vaguely see the road conditions within a dozen meters in front of him.In this era, driving at night is actually very dangerous, and this danger comes from various aspects.

The road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, and even Wes had to control the carriage to slow down the speed.He tapped the carriage twice with his hand, and when the small window under his feet was pulled open, he warned: "The road conditions here are not very good, our speed has slowed down! There may be Dangerous, be careful."

"The moon is really good tonight." Tang Mo praised in the carriage. He had slept all the way until now, and just opened his eyes.The bumpy journey for three or four hours allowed him to regain some energy.

The carriage continued to move forward, and the two gas lamps became more and more conspicuous in the dark forest.And on a high ground, a pair of eyes are also staring at the two frail lights running through the forest at this moment.

As the saying goes, looking at the mountains and running dead horses, the two lights that seem to be close in front of us have been half an hour since they really got close.

On the rugged mountain road, a strong man stood up suddenly, aimed at the man driving the carriage with his bow and arrow.

Wes drove the carriage and galloped on the road, and suddenly felt a chill coming.His sixth sense from years of walking in the rivers and lakes made him instantly vigilant, and subconsciously tightened the reins.

"Dang!" A powerful bow and arrow was nailed to the carriage of the carriage, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were still trembling uncontrollably.

Attacking a fast-moving carriage itself is not very accurate, and whether you can hit it depends entirely on luck.What's more, there are not many Robin Hoods who have painstakingly practiced arrows these days, begging for a hundred steps to penetrate Yang.

Bandits use bows and arrows mainly because they can't get muskets, and they can't make bullets in the deep mountains and old forests, and they don't have parts to maintain, so bows and arrows that are more convenient to maintain have become the first choice.

However, due to humidity and poor storage, these bows and arrows are often not very accurate, and it is almost the limit to hit a target the size of a carriage.

Wes had to stop the carriage because there was a fallen tree across the road.This kind of roadblock is easy to make in the forest, as long as a big tree is sawed down by the roadside.

While getting out of the carriage, he reminded Tang Mo and Old Roger in the carriage: "Robbers! Don't come out, it's too dark to see how many people there are."

"Whoosh!" Another feathered arrow struck with the sound of howling wind, and it was nailed to the door of the carriage.Tang Mo found a suitable angle in the carriage, and looked around through the somewhat cloudy glass: "I can't see the target, but there are at least two people."

The first feathered arrow struck from the front obliquely, and the second feathered arrow struck from the right left. The position difference was a bit big, so it was impossible for one person to attack consecutively.

They could only see clearly at a distance of about ten meters away by the light of the gas lamp. The other party was hiding in the darkness and could well hide his figure.

But Tang Mo knew that turning off the lights would actually make them more passive. The other party had been active in this kind of place all year round, the terrain was familiar, and they had high experience in night battles. He and old Roger were even more unaccustomed to it.

So, Tang Mo said to the old Roger behind him: "Take out the gun that was given to the count as well, load the ammunition...keep an eye on Wes..."

He didn't trust Weiss yet, so the first thing he wanted was to let Roger prepare for the battle while keeping an eye on this rookie who was closer to them.

Taking the K1 quick gun from Old Roger, and standing in a convenient position, Tang Mo carefully pulled the latch of the carriage door, and then carefully pushed the door open.

The one-meter-long K1 gun is not easy to operate in the carriage. Tang Mo can neither open the door to make Roger on the side lose the cover of the door, nor can he operate it completely inside the carriage.

So he could only stick out the muzzle of his rifle through the crack of the door, ready to shoot with a shoulder.In fact, under this circumstance, it seems more reasonable for him to pull out a pistol, but it is his secret weapon, and he is not going to let Wes know it unless it is absolutely necessary.

(End of this chapter)