Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 232 Heroes and Thieves

"Robbery! Take you..."

boom!
The thief who had just jumped out of the jungle had his head blown off before he could finish his sentence, leaving only a headless corpse slowly falling to the ground.

"Run!!"

Following a few screams that sounded a bit out of tune, the other thieves who just jumped out immediately screamed and ran towards the depths of the forest.The decisiveness of his actions and the swiftness of his actions surprised even Zheng Shu.

"Do thieves in this era grow out of the ground? Or do they automatically refresh at midnight every day?" Zheng Shu looked at the wild thieves who had just "refreshed" and started running around, with a helpless expression on his face. .

Zheng Shu has been away for several days since he set off.

Because of his strong feet, the distance he walks every day is much longer than that of ordinary people. The only trouble is that in the past few days, he has been attacked by thieves almost every day.

At the most serious time, he encountered three waves of thieves in one day, and Zheng Shu was so frightened that he thought he had accidentally stabbed some thieves' den.

After teasing a bit, Zheng Shu suddenly twitched his nose, relying on the sharp senses of dragons that far surpassed that of humans, he smelled something special, which made his originally relaxed expression immediately sink down.

The faces of the thieves are pale. In this world, they can scare the civilians, but heroes can scare the thieves.Even relatively speaking, thieves are more afraid of heroes than civilians are of thieves.

Because even among the thieves, there are not many murderous people who really like to slaughter the entire village. In most cases, the thieves just plunder the property and food.After all, they also know that they cannot survive without the "Fat Sheep".

But for heroes, they really have no mercy to cut off their heads to show off to others, or find villagers to ask for payment.

The scary thing is that no one will blame them for doing such a thing, because they are heroes!

boom! boom! boom!
With the rise of several clouds of blood mist, Zheng Shu instantly appeared behind a thief in the front. Behind him, all the escaped thieves had their heads blown off.

"I ask, you answer." Putting the mace in front of the thief who fell down on the ground because of fear, Zheng Shu looked at him expressionlessly.

"Okay! Okay! Please don't kill me. I was forced by them. If I don't do this job, they will kill me!" The thief's face was pale and he spoke incoherently, even Zheng Shu could see his lower body Already a bit incontinent.

Frowning, Zheng Shu forcibly ignored the smell he smelled, and turned his gaze to the thief's face again: "Since you are here to rob, it means that there should be a village nearby, tell me! The nearest village is at Where? If there is no village, it’s okay to confess your stronghold.”

"Yes! There is a village! Turn left along the forked path next to it, and you can see it after walking for half a day! I really..."

boom!
Before the thief finished speaking, his head was smashed by the mace. Zheng Shu shook it casually, and all the blood stained on the mace was wiped off.

Zheng Shu kicked the corpses of the thieves to the sides of the road with a blank expression to prevent them from hindering his progress, pushed aside the bushes, and came to the place where the thieves came out just now.

Here, there are several corpses lying on the ground. The clothes of several corpses have been stripped off, and there are various scars all over their bodies. Fear is still revealed in the eyes that have lost their vitality.

Judging by the appearance of the corpse, it should have been dead for a long time.

Zheng Shu looked at the scene in front of him and was silent for a while, finally sighed, picked up a long knife on the thief next to him, squatted down and started digging on the ground.

There are many intertwined roots in the forest, which are quite hard. It would be very laborious for ordinary people to dig them up. Fortunately, Zheng Shu's strength is strong enough. When encountering a root system that is really stubborn enough, he can also release a highly compressed flame ray with his words. The roots of the tree were cut off, so a big hole was dug in a short while.

"May you all have eternal rest in the underworld." After burying the bodies of several victims, Zheng Shu put some fried flour in front of the grave.

After putting the cooked flour on the tomb and drawing symbols representing Hades around it, Zheng Shu closed his eyes and bowed respectfully to the dough: "Dedicate this to Hades, thank you Maintenance of the underworld."

This time he rarely made offerings to all the gods, but simply chose Hades, the god who ruled the underworld, as the object of worship.However, he did not make specific demands on Hades, and the purpose of his worship was probably just the mentality of "there are many people who are courteous and don't blame" as a Chinese.

After doing this, Zheng Shu turned to the bushes on the other side, where he saw a horse that had been killed and a similar carriage that had been disassembled.

Frowning, Zheng Shu resolutely ran towards the direction pointed by the thief.

Since no other property was seen, it means that there are other thieves alive besides these people.Although it is known that most of these thieves will only kill pedestrians on the road, they usually just loot property from the villages that also live here.

However, Zheng Shu still felt a little uneasy after seeing the miserable corpse.

The human mind is very fragile. Faced with such a simple power of life and death, it is easy to fall into the emotion of killing for no reason.Zheng Shu is very familiar with this point, because he has experienced such a mentality change in the dragon world.

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With Zheng Shu's speed, it didn't take long to arrive at the village the thieves mentioned.

Looking at it from a distance, Zheng Shu breathed a sigh of relief and slowed down, because he didn't see the miserable situation in the village that he imagined.

While Zheng Shu was slowly approaching the village, he saw the guards in the village rushing in from afar, as if to notify him of something.

When Zheng Shu walked to the gate of the village, he found that there was a large group of people waiting for him at the gate.

"Hero, you are welcome. May I ask that you also came to our village to hunt down thieves?" A trembling old man came out of the crowd, looked at Zheng Shu and asked very respectfully.

Of course, although he is said to be an old man, Zheng Shu estimates that his age is only a little over 50 years old, but the years of hard work have made his body on the verge of collapse, and his appearance has become very old.

Zheng Shu took a look at her attire, and did not deny the old man's speculation about her identity. After all, in this era, most heroes are dressed like Zheng Shu, holding a huge weapon, wandering around like a street sneaker Same.

"No, I just passed by here simply because of my travels." Zheng Shu shook his head, looking at the obviously anxious villagers behind the old man, "You should be the village head of this village, I want to be in your village Stay overnight and buy some food by the way, of course... I will pay for it."

As he spoke, Zheng Shu took out a few silver coins from his waist pocket and showed them.

Although it didn't take long, Zheng Shu basically figured out that many "heroes" eat and stay in the village for free.

Of course, it is not so much that the villagers voluntarily worshiped it, but rather that they were forced to hand over the protection fee because they were frightened by the power of the "hero".

Hearing that Zheng Shu was willing to pay, the expressions of the villagers immediately softened a lot.After all, the heroes are all big-bellied men, and sometimes a hero team holds a banquet, which can wipe out the food in the entire village for a week.

So in most cases, as long as the disasters in their villages are not too serious, they will not take the initiative to seek help from heroes.

Just like this time, if it wasn't for the leader of the bandit group who didn't know what happened recently and suddenly became extremely tyrannical, and even asked every village to take the initiative to offer people as sacrifices, this village would not choose to fight with the surrounding bandits. Several villages in the city pooled together a sum of money to go to the city and invite heroes to help them deal with the bandits.

"No problem, please come in! Heroes are objects of our admiration, of course, we are willing to entertain you." The village head carefully invited Zheng Shu to the village.

The scale of this village is much smaller than the one Zheng Shu went to at the beginning.

Not only the surrounding fences look very short, but the houses in the village also look very dilapidated. Most of them are just wooden houses built with thatch and branches, and there are very few houses that can be built with stones and mud.

Taking Zheng Shu to the few stone houses in the village, the village chief led him into one of the houses very respectfully: "This hero, as you can see, our village is not very rich, and this house is our village. One of the best houses in the city, I hope you don't dislike it."

Zheng Shu glanced at the dark and narrow room and didn't say much, just nodded, and handed over a silver coin in his hand: "Yes, it's much better than when I lived in the open air, may I trouble the village chief Bring me some food, this silver coin is my accommodation and meal expenses."

Seeing that Zheng Shu actually paid for himself, the village chief took the silver coins with both hands and nodded in flattery: "Okay! Okay! Please wait a moment, and the food will be delivered to you right away."

Seeing the figure of the village head leaving quickly, Zheng Shu put his luggage aside, sat on the only bed in the room and waited.

But before the food was delivered, Zheng Shuji heard a commotion at the head of the village.

Seeing the villagers gathering towards the village again, Zheng Shu walked out of the room curiously and followed them. Then he saw a large group of heroes dressed in strange shapes returning from the jungle.

The muscles of these heroes are extremely muscular, and they look in stark contrast to the thin villagers around them. There are several bloody heads hanging on each hero's body, and the blood on the incision should be cut off not long ago.

Not only did these heroes hold the head without the slightest disgust, but they seemed very happy, as if it was not the head but their own achievements.

"Hahaha! Did you see the village chief? I have fulfilled your commission perfectly. From now on, your village will no longer have to worry about being bullied by this thief. We have already defeated the entire gang of thieves!" The leader A burly man who looked unusually strong, carrying his own broadsword in one hand, laughed and shook the dead heads in his hand.

The blood that was thrown splashed on his face, looking at the hideous heads in front of him, the village chief almost fell to the ground with his feet limp.

However, he still managed to show a smile, bent his body and took out a bag full of money from his back: "Thank you very much for your help, heroes, this is the reward prepared by several villages around us. Hope you are satisfied."

"Hahaha! Don't be so polite, it is our responsibility as heroes to help the common people!" The strong man said so, but after seeing the money bag, he immediately threw the head out of his hand, and threw the head in the village head's hand. The money bag was snatched.

Weighing the weight a little, the strong man showed a satisfied expression on his face, but after opening it, his originally happy face suddenly darkened: "Village Chief, your quantity seems wrong? Why are all the bags full of copper?"

Seeing the other party's downcast face, the village chief almost stopped beating in his heart, so he could only force himself to explain: "Hero... This is what we said at the beginning...Of course! In order to thank you for your help, we will give you an extra An extra silver coin was prepared, this is already the last money of several villages around us, after all, most of the property was robbed by thieves."

Seeing that the face of the strong man on the opposite side was not right, the village head immediately took out the silver coin that Zheng Shu gave him just now from his arms.

Looking at the face of the strong man with coins in front of him, he looked a little better. In fact, he didn't intend to get any good things from this village. The arrival of a silver coin already made him feel very profitable.

From the very beginning, what he set his sights on was the wealth accumulated by the robber group over the years of plundering.

As for the fact that part of these treasures should belong to these villagers, the strong man naturally ignored it. After all, for him, these treasures are the spoils of war that he defeated the bandits, and he deserves them.

"Village Chief, you are so polite!" The strong man laughed and took the silver coins into his hands, and waved to the people behind him, "Brothers, let's go! We are going to hold a banquet tonight!"

"Oh!!!"

Accompanied by chaotic cheers, the strong man threw the head in his hand in front of the village head, and walked into the village swaggeringly.And the group of heroes behind him also followed his example, dropped their heads, and walked into the village carrying the seized treasure or weapons.

Looking at the "heroes" who walked into the village, the village chief looked sad. Since these people said they were going to have a banquet, they must eat and drink.

But with the characters shown by these people, they will definitely not pay for the food and drinks that are needed to hold a banquet.But the village head and the villagers did not dare to disobey the orders of these heroes, so they could only grit their teeth and share part of their rations to "voluntarily donate" to them.

(End of this chapter)