Urban Sims

After participating in the "Elk War", Zhou Ming became an "old stick" in several battles that took place around the territory in the next two years.

This kind of war is ultimately a war between noble knights and has nothing to do with farmers like him.

Moreover, these lords and knights who are training in the castle all day long have been idle for a long time. They might as well have a few fights with the surrounding lords to stretch their muscles.

As for the farmers who came on stage, one function was to increase the lively atmosphere of the battlefield, and the other was to kill them on the battlefield. It would not hurt at all if a few or a dozen farmers died.

What is really dangerous to farmers is, as Uncle O'Neill said, those thieves who have been active in the mountains and forests for a long time and are proficient in all kinds of traps and poisons.

Zhou Ming followed a group of thieves who were surrounded and suppressed once. There were only eight or nine thieves in the group. Baron Connor led thousands of people to encircle and suppress the thieves for more than ten days and paid the price of more than twenty casualties before driving out the group of thieves. territory and only killed three of them.

During that siege, Zhou Ming almost missed the mark and fell into a trap full of sharpened sticks.

However, Zhou Ming was not without gains from this encirclement and suppression.

Among this group of cunning thieves, there was an unlucky guy who was hit by an arrow shot into his thigh by Edward. Because he couldn't run too fast, this unlucky guy was abandoned by his accomplices.

Following a faint trace of blood, Zhou Ming found the unlucky man hiding in the bushes in an inconspicuous ravine.

"Come out, stop hiding."

The spear in Zhou Ming's hand pointed at the bushes.

"Chirp~!"

A dagger glowing with blue light came straight towards Zhou Ming's front door!

Zhou Ming, who had been alert for a long time, tilted his head, and the dagger flew past his face and was inserted into the soil slope behind.

"I'll count to three. If you don't come out, I'll stab you! One, two..."

Before counting to three, a self-deprecating voice came from the bushes: "I didn't expect that my great thief Jero would die in the hands of an unknown boy today. Lucky boy, please hand me over to Earl William of the Earl of Mason." Well, you can get a reward of 500 gold coins from him."

Zhou Ming sneered: "When I get the 500 gold coin bounty, I must be on the verge of death and the gold coins are taken away, right?"

This cunning thief was still playing this trick even when he was about to die.

The thief Jero was slightly startled, then smiled and said: "You are a very smart boy, it seems you want to kill me directly?"

Zhou Ming put away the spear and said: "If I want to kill you, do I need to talk so much nonsense? I just pierced the spear into you."

The thief Jero was even more surprised: "You don't plan to kill me? My head can be exchanged for a lot of rewards from your lord."

"I don't care about that small reward. You will be more useful to me if you keep it!"

Zhou Ming threw the spear aside, squatted down, and carried this thirty-year-old thief with yellow hair, brown eyes, and a lean build, who looked like a barbarian from the west, to a safe place and dealt with him. He healed the wound and fed him some dried meat and cheese.

"Hey little guy, why did you save me?"

More than ten days later, the thief Jero, whose wounds were almost healed, finally couldn't help but ask, full of doubts.

No matter how he traveled around and met all kinds of people, he had never seen a boy who was only sixteen years old, but had so many things hidden in his heart, and did so many things that were difficult for him to understand.

"I saved your life because I wanted to leave a way out for my future."

While changing the dressing on his wound, Zhou Ming raised his head and spoke bluntly.

"What retreat? Do you want to be a thief like me? Little guy, I admit that you are a good follower, but being a thief is not a fun thing. Your head is worth five hundred when it is on the wanted list. When you have more than gold coins, you have to be careful about your companions who may attack you at any time... This job is not easy."

The thief Jero shook his head. The thief is cool, but behind the coolness, who can know the risks behind it?

Zhou Ming explained: "You have misunderstood what I meant. The escape route I am referring to is not necessarily to join you as a thief. I am hoping to find a helper who can help me when I encounter problems in the future. I saved your life, and you owe me a favor, so I want you to help me.”

"Little guy, it's good that you saved my life, but I didn't promise to do you any favors, especially when this favor may cost my life, don't be wishful thinking!"

The thief Jero shook his head and said, among the people he knew, there were people who drew swords on teammates for a hundred gold coins, and there were people who stabbed their brothers twice for a pretty prostitute. He really didn't meet many people who were rescued. After taking a life, use your own life to pay it back.

"Don't worry, I'm sensible and won't risk your life. Besides, you also have a brain. Even if someone forces you to do something dangerous, you won't do it yourself..."

Zhou Ming threw out another bait and said: "Besides, you thieves don't know how to use your brains before killing people, setting fires, or robbing homes? When you come to a territory where you don't know anything, you rush up when you see valuable things. When he sees a beautiful woman, he pounces on her, without sending any spy to find out who has the most money, whose women are pretty, who is less guarded and easier to rob... Is it the so-called Big thieves, are all you like this?"

"Ahem! Shut up, kid! We have all done our research before taking action. Among the dozen or so territories around here, Glenland is the richest. Otherwise, why would we come here?"

The thief Jero coughed twice violently and his old face turned red. This kid seemed to be talking clearly. Could it be that someone like him, who has been traveling in the world for more than ten years, would know better?

In fact, this has something to do with Zhou Ming. In the past ten years, because of the habit of centralized processing of manure and frequent application of manure, the crop yield of Glenland has increased and the number of plague outbreaks has decreased. Even because of The war lost some people, but compared to many surrounding territories, Glenland has the largest population and the most abundant products.

"There is money in the king's treasury, why don't you go and rob it... If you ask me, you still pay too little attention to intelligence work, otherwise you will not get the money, but suffer heavy losses in personnel."

Being said like this by a kid who was almost a generation younger than him, the big thief Jero understood that there was some truth in what the kid said, but he was still very unconvinced and said: "You kid can only talk, uncle, I have traveled all over the world. What kind of treasure has not been stolen from women in the past few years? This time there was just a slight accident. You are not a thief, what do you know? "

"I really don't have the qualifications to tell you... Let's do this. After you recover from your injuries, you call your remaining companions over. I will explore the way for you and go to Rose Town to rob again. If you succeed, The treasure will all belong to you. If it fails, I will let you do what you want. At the same time, I will also cancel the favor you owe me. How about this?"

Zhou Ming felt that if he didn't show some actual results, the big thief Jero might not obey him so easily.

"Kid, is this what you said?"

The big thief Jero was moved. Although this kid was a bit loud, the plan he proposed was indeed very attractive. Moreover, as the kid said, in terms of intelligence, they paid too little attention to it. They only knew that there was money here, and then Just come and grab it. Who knew the Cavaliers here were so powerful...

If you rely on this guy to figure out the route and target of the operation, grab a handful and leave, the risk will definitely be much smaller than the last time.

Just try what this kid said!