Chapter 18: Robbery with Intent to Murder?
Within a few hundred meters, the warhorse galloped swiftly, and in just a few seconds, they arrived. The two robbers were seen holding steel knives, preparing to speak with great fanfare. With a squeeze of their legs on the horse's belly, the horse suddenly accelerated. A flash of silver light, a blood-curdling scream, accompanied by the sound of a body hitting the ground, the Silver Gun (Thunder Silver Tiger Gun) pierced through one of them like a gourd, sweeping horizontally and then flinging out, already becoming a lifeless corpse.
The sound of horseshoes echoed, "Deng, deng..." Xiaoying pulled the reins, stopping the horse that was about to charge forward. She turned around and rode back slowly. With more experience from each battle, she encountered fewer bandits on the road. When there were few, she would directly use the powerful impact of her horse to kill them. When there were many, she would either ride past them or take a detour. It's not that Xiaoying's combat power was necessarily higher than those bandits, but with her horse and silver spear, three to five bandits were simply delivering experience and items to her. This shows the terrifying advantage of cavalry and sharp weapons in the cold weapon era.
Seeing Xiao Ying's ferocity, the remaining bandit was momentarily stunned. After regaining his senses, he immediately turned around and ran in the direction of Xiao Ying's arrival. However, can two legs outrun four? The answer is no. The situation was almost identical to the previous one - the horse charged, the gun was raised, and it was all over. It was simply a giveaway. Alas, in this day and age, two or three people relying on their two legs daring to rob someone riding a horse are simply courting death.
After searching the bodies, it seems that they were close to an NPC town. Even the equipment of these bandits was quite good - steel knives, linen clothes, a book on basic formation tactics and four taels of silver. Looks like these two bandits were quite wealthy! Guess you guys just had bad luck, sorry about that, confiscated!
"Whoosh..." A sudden, sharp sound pierced the air. Xiao Ying had just picked up the object offered by the bandit and hadn't even stood up straight when he instinctively pushed off with both legs, rapidly retreating backwards. Almost simultaneously, a trembling wooden arrow lodged itself in the ground where Xiao Ying had originally been standing, its powerful force causing the arrow's feathers to quiver and hum "Hmmm...".
"Are you players?" Xiaoying put away the spoils of war and coldly said to the four people who slowly walked out from tens of meters away. On the surface, it's hard to tell players and NPCs apart, but if you look closely, there are still some differences in their words and deeds. Looking at the four players in front of him holding bows, steel knives, and long swords, they should be players. NPC bandits generally wouldn't have so many different types of weapons with just four people, and they would also ambush.
"Considering you're all players, I won't kill you off completely. Put down the horse and the spoils of war from earlier, and you can leave!" The sword-wielding man said to Xiao Ying with a slanted glance, pausing before continuing: "Don't think about escaping, unless you can run faster than arrows!" At this time, Xiao Ying was holding the bandit's steel knife. They probably hadn't seen Xiao Ying's silver gun, or else their looting target would have definitely included another item. From the arrow's momentum earlier, Xiao Ying knew that mounting a horse to escape would also be a dead end. He made up his mind to learn archery well, the ancient version of a handgun.
"I hope you keep your promise!" A good man doesn't take advantage of the situation, circumstances are stronger than people. Too lazy to talk nonsense, Xiao Ying directly took out the steel knife and the items stored in the storage space earlier and threw them on the ground. Anyway, there's nothing good about it. Xiao Ying gestured with both hands, indicating that she had done as promised, now it's up to you!
"Don't worry, we're all players after all. We might meet again in the future. Since you're being so sensible, we won't kill you off completely! You can leave now!" The sword-wielding madman looked at Xiao Ying's empty hands and seemed quite "chivalrous", saying with a smile as he gestured to one of the knife-wielding players who came over to collect their spoils.
"Ah...... thank you!" Xiao Ying let out a pretentious sigh, pretending to be reluctant as he turned his head to glance at the horse, before raising both hands and walking forward. The four of them smiled smugly, not noticing that Xiao Ying was now approaching them, since he had already emptied his hands and didn't have any weapons on him. Unfortunately, they hadn't seen Xiao Ying's scene of killing the bandits earlier - unlike other players who would put their hands into the storage waistband at their waist, Xiao Ying didn't need to do that. After all, it was still early in the game, and 99.99% of players were still relying on storage waistbands. Who would have thought that someone would obtain a storage ring so quickly? And that person was right in front of them...
"Hmph... " They snickered with satisfaction, although they did glance at Xiao Ying walking by their side, but didn't take any precautions.
"Hiss……" As Xiao Ying walked past them, she intentionally drew closer and walked about two or three meters behind them. With a flick of her wrist, the silver-white silver gun suddenly appeared in her hand. She made a swift Sakura Pursuit Soul attack, stabbing quickly at the person holding the sword. The rapid spinning airflow produced a sonic boom, summoning shooting stars.
"Roar......" Amidst the mournful cries, as Xiao Ying's sword pierced the swordsman's body, Liuxing also appeared beside Xiao Ying and immediately sensed his mind, rushing towards the man with the knife.
"Whoa……” A person's head flew into the air, a sharp object made a sickening sound as it pierced through bone, causing blood to spurt high into the air. Before they could even recover from the sudden shock, Xiao Ying quickly drew out her silver gun and with its sharp blade, slashed at the neck of the person holding the bow and arrow, beheading them in one swift motion. This game is too realistic, it's not good that it's so bloody.
"Ah……" Before the incident three years ago, Xiao Ying was a ruthless and merciless person, and afterwards she became even more cruel. When Liuxing bit to death the original knife-wielding person and pounced on the last one, Xiao Ying simultaneously exerted her strength and threw her gun, piercing through that person in an instant amidst their shock.
"Idiot! Don't you know to cut the grass and eliminate the roots? You've already robbed him, why not kill him off completely!" Xiao Ying shook her head in ridicule, walked over and pulled out the silver gun, conveniently wiping the bloodstains on the gun with the corpse. She also patted Flowing Star, who was coquettishly rubbing against her, and put it back into the pet space, not that she didn't let it go outside, but having White Tiger accompany her was very inconvenient.
"Unbelievable, this is the most profitable robbery ever!" Xiao Ying couldn't help but curse as she collected her spoils of war. Not only did they take their weapons, but also their storage belts, which contained hundreds of gold coins and several pieces of equipment, blueprints, and skill books. There were even three building plans for a pharmacy, market, and thin city wall that I had been wanting, as well as some ores. (When a player dies, half of the money in their inventory is dropped into the storage space, and they can only revive after 12 hours. The corpse's physical items can be taken by anyone who can carry them.)
Upgrading villages, etc., not only requires a sufficient population but also corresponding urban buildings. Otherwise, with the number of tens of millions of players in the Chinese region, it's not possible to upgrade to a megacity in just one or two days? The system-established city walls are not very useful, and the city walls are divided into: thin city walls, medium city walls, thick city walls, iron-clad city walls, and steel fortresses. On top of that, you can also build arrow towers, arrow turrets, arrow houses, gatehouses, and watchtowers, etc., which will be discussed later.
They didn't kill him outright, but Xiao Ying was not polite. However, if they really had the consciousness of bandits, with their excellent team, killing Xiao Ying would be simple, and it wouldn't end up like this. Murder and robbery, how can you rob without killing, right?
