our family is gone

Chapter 112 Slave Hunting Team

These people don't know how to ride horses, so they can only drive forward in a carriage, and the speed cannot be fast, otherwise they can reach their destination in two days with full gallop on horseback.

After fighting them away, Lance looked at the corpses left on the side of the road.

Normally, the creatures in the wilderness would be cheaper, but unfortunately they couldn't eat them this time.

Sacrifice it directly, which can be regarded as supplementing his consumption of saving the horse.

At this time, Disma also dragged that back.

"My lord, the situation is wrong. These people belong to the slave hunting team."

Lance frowned when he heard this. He had doubted the identity of this group of horse bandits for a long time. After all, ordinary bandits didn't even have enough armor, so how could they all ride horses.

As for the slave hunting team, there is a saying that slavery has not been abolished in this world, on the contrary, it is very prevalent. For example, those farms and workshops need a large number of serfs to maintain their operations, and the fashionable arenas also need enough slaves. Warriors, and some special needs slaves.

It can be said that in this era, people are also a kind of commodity, and if there is a need, there is a benefit, and if there is a benefit, someone will do it, and the slave hunting team came into being.

However, under normal circumstances, they are going to arrest barbarians and people from other countries. After all, arresting free people in their own country is easy to be attacked by the government, and those people are not imperial people, so they are naturally not protected by imperial laws.

Of course, if you say this, it must be tricky. The strength of the barbarians is not weak, and most of them are brave and fearless. It will take a lot of money to catch them alive.

Similarly, foreign people need to cross borders and coastlines, and other people's armies are not for display.

On the contrary, people in China are easy to catch. If they are caught, they will say that you are what you are, and there is nowhere to escape when the transfer is handed over to the buyer.

So there are a lot of disappearance cases even in cities, let alone this rural village.

But this line of business has high profits, and the threshold is also high. Generally, slave hunting teams have backgrounds, otherwise they simply don't have the strength to manage and sell sales channels.

So how did these people get here?

"Whose family do you belong to?"

"Only the boss knows these things."

Slave catchers were originally something that could not be put on the stage, and the most caught were locals, so they usually put on a layer of white gloves, and just discarded if something happened, which was in line with the habits of those people.

"You tell me everything."

This guy was frightened a long time ago, and hurriedly told the situation.

Listening to what he said, Lance was a little speechless. These guys are average in strength, not capable of catching barbarians and foreigners, so their targets have always been ordinary people in the country, and mainly towns and rural areas that are far away from order. The place.

But not here, they also escaped from the central part.

Moreover, those refugees filled up or even saturated the slave market for a bite to eat, so they could only be forced to become horse bandits, plundering nearby for a living.

But there was no caravan for more than ten days in a row, and they were too idle.

Lance knew that the end of this business road was Hamlet. If there was an accident there, which caravan would take this route?

But he found a very strange problem.

"Why do you guys stay here?"

The man froze for a moment when he heard this, and Lance was keenly aware of his abnormality and let out a low shout.

"You are lying to me!"

"Brother, I really said everything!"

"Do you really think I'm stupid?" Lance took out the pistol in his waist and put the muzzle on his forehead, "You are horse bandits, you have no property at all, if you can't get along here, will you stay? ?”

They had originally escaped, and if they couldn't get along in this place, they would definitely leave and change to another place. Now that they can wait for more than ten days, something must have left them behind.

Lance raised the hammer with a cold face, and pulled the trigger without giving him any room to justify.

There was a "click" sound of the hammer hitting a string of sparks, and the next second...then it was gone.

This gun has been fired once before, and it has not had time to reload, so it is just an empty gun.

But the effect was obvious. The man sat down on the ground with a dull expression, and soon water oozes from his crotch.

Lance's shot just now scared him to the ground~
"Guess if I have any bullets in my next shot?"

Speaking of Lance loading ammunition in front of him, these words directly pulled his soul back.

"I said! I said! Don't kill me... woo woo woo..."

The man didn't care too much, crying and telling about the things he was hiding.

It's very simple, they did find a channel to get money, and it was no different from before, they were all arresting people.

It's just that they served slave owners before, but this time they were cultists.

"They would pick a target, usually a young girl, and pay us to rob someone.

At first we didn't know what they were for, we thought there were so many young girls needed for running brothels, until we found no girls at all in the brothels in the town, and soon we heard in the pub that there were many incidents in the town Disappearances, part of which we didn't do at all.

The boss thought that someone was stealing our business, so after a transaction, he asked his brother to follow those guys, and found that they were actually cult members, and all the girls caught by them were brutally killed. "

Lance couldn't help frowning when he heard the cult. It's not good news that the cult started to develop in the territory.

But now I finally know why this guy refuses to talk about these things.

Although the country is now ruled by the empire in name, in fact the ruling power of the empire only reaches the city level, and the towns and villages still have to rely on the deformed system managed by the nobles and lords.

But another faction, the church, can achieve theocratic power to the countryside, so the church's ruling power is very strong, and the church is hostile to all cults.

Their human trafficking was known by the empire to survive as long as they hid outside the city, but if the people who were taught knew that he had deals with cults, then the empire would not have a place for them.

For blasphemers, the church can directly burn people to the stake without the consent of the empire.

"Brother, I really said everything, please let me go, I will definitely reform myself and be a good person."

"If you can report them after you find out that they are cult members, or if you stop, I can give you a good time.

But it is obvious that you did not stop after you found out, you have sent your fresh lives to a dead end, and you are also a member of the cult. "

When Lance said this, the man seemed to feel his fate, and he was so frightened that he seemed petrified.

When Disma heard this, he didn't talk nonsense. He drew out his dagger and was about to do it.

But at this time Lance raised his hand to stop him, looked at the man and said, "I won't kill you, I will give you a chance at last."

(End of this chapter)