Wilderness Redemption Tour

"Look, there seems to be a fire behind that hill." Lin Yan pointed to a small hill not far ahead of the path they were walking on and said softly. In the dark night, the orange light emanating from behind the hill was particularly eye-catching.

"Slow down and keep quiet." Arthur pulled the reins and lowered his voice, "We have now entered the territory of the Murfree family. There may be their people over there."

When they were only a few dozen meters away from the hill, Arthur stopped his horse. "Let's get off the horse here. The cave that Dutch mentioned should be nearby. Let's get rid of the enemies here first."

Under the moonlight, four dark shadows jumped off their horses together. Led by one of them, they tiptoed and climbed up the hillside in front of them silently.

Before they reached the top of the hill, the scene on the other side of the hill had already come into their sight. The light they had just seen was, as expected, the light of the bonfire. Two men in coarse linen clothes with strange and ugly faces were squatting on the ground arguing about a bloody human body lying in front of them.

"No, if you want to move, move together."

"That's not what you said just now. I caught the man and I skinned him. Now it's your turn to do the work."

"I also worked hard to catch him just now, and I was injured a little because of it. What's wrong with asking you to do more? You eat the most when the meat is cooked, so isn't it your responsibility to do more?"

"We clearly agreed on this just now, why did you go back on your word? Besides, there's no shortage of meat, so what if I eat a little more?"

"These two must be from the Murfree family." Charles said as he took off the longbow from his back, "We will deal with them here, Arthur, the one on the left is up to you."

"No problem." Arthur responded, took out the longbow, bent the bow, put the arrow on it, took just a little aim and shot it out.

At this moment, everyone was only about 20 meters away from the target. After Arthur let go, the arrow instantly flew to the back of the head of the man on the left. The arrow head penetrated the opponent's scalp without any hindrance. The entire arrow was embedded in one-third of the arrow body. The unlucky member of the Murfree family died on the spot.

When Arthur's bowstring made a "bang" sound, Charles, who had been aiming for a long time, also let go. Unlike Arthur, Charles aimed at the opponent's heart, and his strength was greater than Arthur's. The whole arrow penetrated the opponent's heart and then went out again. The target only had time to utter a muffled groan before falling to the ground and not moving.

"Well done." Arthur praised.

Charles didn't say anything. He ran down the hillside. His eyes did not linger on the three bodies on the ground. Instead, he took a few steps forward and used the cover of a tree to observe the situation at another location.

In front of him was an oval-shaped sunken area, surrounded by mountains on three sides. On one of the mountain walls, there was a cave about two meters high and one meter wide. A burning torch was hung on the mountain wall next to the cave. With the weak light of the torch, Charles took out a telescope and observed carefully.

Lin Yan followed Charles down the hillside and took a close look at the unfortunate guy who was lying on the ground with his scalp peeled off.

Judging from the man's clothing and body shape, he was an adult male who must have died not long ago. He was probably a passerby who was traveling overnight but didn't know much about the situation in the vicinity.

After just a casual glance, Lin Yan looked away. It is better to look less at such corpses that were tortured and killed. If you look at them too much, you might have nightmares.

"What did you find?" Arthur walked towards Charles slowly.

Charles put down the telescope in his hand, pointed to a huge shadow not far from the cave below and said, "Remember the stagecoach I mentioned on the road? It's very likely that this is the one."

Charles pointed to the cave with the torch and said, "That cave should be the beaver cave we are looking for. Judging from the current situation, this cave must be one of the nests of the Murfree family. What should we do now? Should we just rush in and kill everyone?"

"Why not." Arthur looked at the "decoration" hanging on a shelf at the entrance of the cave. It was a human being with all his skin peeled off. He showed a cruel smile: "At this time, the people inside should be sleeping. If I wasn't in a hurry, I really don't want to let them die so easily."

"That's fine." Charles didn't object. He reached out and pulled out the axe from his waist, and said to Lin Yan and Sadie who were walking over, "Let's go. The main event is about to begin."

Charles ran down the hillside with a hatchet in hand, and Lin Yan and the others followed closely behind him. After reaching the bottom, without the obstruction of trees and weeds, they could see the whole picture of this place.

It is very difficult to find a flat open space in the mountains, but there happened to be a flat and wide open space in front of the four people. Although it cannot be said to be absolutely flat, it is really not easy to find such a place in the mountains.

There are obvious signs of artificial construction here, which must be the result of the Murfree family's transformation of this area.

With the ability to see in the dark, Lin Yan clearly saw several carriages parked on the open space. Some of these carriages were new, some were old, and some had turned into a pile of wood. There was a wooden cage near the cave. When he got closer, he saw that there was no one in the cage, but the shackles on the ground and the black bloodstains on the straw told Lin Yan that more than one person had been imprisoned here.

Lin Yan looked away from the cage and looked at the bloody "decoration" placed next to the cave. This human being, whose skin had been peeled off, was hanging upside down on a wooden frame in a weird posture. The weirdness of it made Lin Yan unconsciously think of some kind of witchcraft totem.

As soon as he approached the cave entrance, a strong stench mixed with the smell of blood hit him like a substance, and it penetrated his nostrils and hit his head. It was the first time that Lin Yan smelled such a bad smell. The moment the smell entered his nasal cavity, he spit it out directly. This smell, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a biological weapon.

Sadie and Lin Yan had similar reactions. They took a few steps back, turned their backs and covered their stomachs, almost vomiting last night's dinner. Arthur and Charles also looked unhappy, "This tastes really good..." Arthur "praised" and silently took out a face towel and put it on his face. He looked back at the two people who were still retching and asked, "Can you two continue?"