Quest: book 3

by Yufeng Zhuang

10

  There were a lot of spoils of war.

  We not only recovered all the robbed ores, but also pocketed all the other goods and materials of the enemy too. Each soldier had to pick a portion from the mountain of materials to carry by himself, helmets, weapons... Fortunately, we kept all the enemy's horses, otherwise we had to dig a hole to bury all these things. Would it worry me to death?"

  "Well," I straddled on the horse, "let's go."

  The long line of the troop moved forward like a long winding snake, Martin Arthur and I alerted at the rear with two one hundred light cavalries teams. The camp behind had gone by the fire, in the strong wind, the fire flames lighted half of the sky. Because we were in the enemy territory, we didn't dare to stay too much longer. After a whole night wild run, until we stepped on the land of the Darkness, the hung highly heart was finally put down.

  "Tired? It will be alright that I stay over here," Martin Arthur said to me, "you can go to the front!"

  I nodded my head, and lift the helmet face guard, "well. Then you take care of here!"

  Martin Arthur smiled and said to me , "no problem, you have to look out for those several guys."

  Why did the people say that the red nose grandpa had the great experience? When I brought my guards passed near a small forest that our troop walked by, I saw the eight guards I just gave to the four clowns, they were standing at the edge of the woods like fools, but the like killing pig sound came out from the woods...

  "Go go, go away..." the guards pushed away the curious passing-by soldiers with the knife, "nothing to watch."

  "The sound inside, it's a little bit like Marf's." uncle Meza reminded me in a low voice.

  That's right, the shout and wrangle sound is really like Marf's if we put it down two octaves.

  I urged the horse to approach a guard, I tapped on his helmet with the horsewhip.

  "S... Sir!" the guard had the way like a caught thief, he had the quite dull reaction.

  I nodded my head to him as the reply, "what are you doing over here?"

  "Keep... watching, Sir!" he was difficult to swallow down a mouthful of spittle, the poor guy looked scared.

  I pointed at them wobbly with the horsewhip, "so, you are all the same?"

  "Yes..." those guys had the looks like they were going to cry, "it's our chief's order."

  "Uncle Meza! Catch the people inside to the outside here." I really wanted to know what these four clowns were doing, "drive these watching the fun people away."

  "Yes!"

  The thick and big uncle Meza turned over, get down from the horse, it took him three steps to walked into the woods. When he walked through the bush, the supple body let me feel very surprised. Immediately, the sound of whipping on human body and the snarling voice of uncle Meza came from inside of the woods.

  "What are you doing? Get up! Get up! Do you still look like the officers?"

  "Wow!"

  "Who's that?"

  It seemed like that somebody got the bad luck.

  "Uncle Meza! Don't hit me!"

  "Get out!" uncle Meza's voice had the irresistible majesty, "Viceroy Kone wants to see you guys!"

  The first one ran out was Jack, he "He He" had a silly smile at me, and then ran to stand aside. He was touching the places where he was whipped on, I just noticed that his armor was messy.

  And then were Moah and Hairt, they had the same embarrassed smiles, the same messy armors.

  Strange, very strange, connected with uncle Meza's roar... Could it be said that, these guys in there... Molesting woman while in marching would be "crunched"! I wrinkled my eyebrows, my heart had been thinking about by what way to void the crime for these guys.

  With "Pa" the sound, a stripped to only underwear on guy was thrown to the front of my horse, "he was pinned down bellow."

  My head had the "Buzzing" sound, indeed...

  "Bo... Boss!" that guy looked up and talked to me, incredibly it was Marf, "they bully me..."

  Although my brain couldn't come over to react right away, but I knew that they didn't have to lose their heads at least, because the military laws didn't have enough time to write down what crime the molesting a man would be.

  It was really god bless, even though he didn't do anything.

  "Banana your apple!" knowing nothing serious, but I get the angry on, I dragged Marf to the woods, he should not stay on the road where people come and go with this look.

  "What are you looking at?" while I was kicking Moah and Jack, I was scolding at those guards, "keep watching!"

  "What's the matter?" when we got to the deep woods, I pointed at those bastards' noses, my face also turned into blue.

  "It's like this, boss!" Hairt said to me in a hurry, "you don't get angry first!"

  It seemed that they still remembered, I rarely got angry with my brothers, of course the angry times was in proportion to the intense rates. The last time I got angry was when I was got cheated to steal the apples in the childhood.

  "Say it!" I said almost in roar, these bastards made my brain hurt, "what are you doing?"

  "When we got to outside of the woods," Jack held his smile back, he compensated the carefulness to me, the language became particularly concise, "Moah took off his helmet, he said that it's hot!"

  "Yes yes!" Moah shook his head hard, he had the sweats all over his forehead.

  "Then Marf made fun of Moah, said he didn't know how to pick the armor!" Hairt kept the talk on.

  "And then he began to boast how good his armor is," Jack saying, "he said that how graceful bearing when he is wearing that."

  I looked at the pathetic Marf, a ravaged cruelly appearance, where's the bearing? And graceful?

  "We asked and asked! Finally I know that he borrowed my money to get the good relationship with the master, and then he got this fit armor!"

  "And he also stole two bottles of wine that Hairt hid under his own bed..."

  My head began to get bigger, "tell the point!"

  "Yes! So we dragged him into the woods, stripped off his armor! And beat him up! Over!" Hairt told the consequence.

  After all it was like that, it seemed that no one was interested in Marf's bottom, I should be glad, but why I was getting more and more angry? The hand held the whip tighter and tighter?

  "Boss... they still said," Marf complained to me with the crying sound, "the flesh on me is not too much and not too less, the hand feel of beating me is very good..."

  "We just finished the fierce battle..." I spoke out what I wanted to say word by word, I lifted my holding whip hand up slowly, "have you thought about what the problems in the battle are, how to remedy after the battle, you still have the mood to play?"

  The whip dropped down, the shrieks ten times higher than that earlier sounds echoed in the woods.

  "Ah! Boss!"

  "We don't dare in the future!"

  "Still have future?"

  "No... Ah!"

  ............

  I rode on the horse, three clowns followed by my side, Marf was busy to put on the armor, so he was left behind.

  "Ha ha!" Jack was the one stayed with me the most of time in these few people, he knew that my anger was almost over, "boss, you don't need to taut your face."

  "Go away!"

  "Don't do this to us! Boss..." Jack saw the chance, he immediately stuck to come over, "you taut your face any longer, my this little mind can't bear that..."

  "You are an officer now!" I didn't have the good temper, "don't make the grinning cheekily!"

  "Oh!" Hairt kept the talking, "that means we can't be brothers any more, Sir?"

  "Ah?" Moah pretended surprised, "then I don't want to be an officer! I just want to be brothers with Kone.

  The offensive and the defense, they cooperated really well.

  I stopped the horse and spoke slowly, "do you have any dreams? For the future?"

  "Dream...?" Jack blinked his eyes, "Bro, do you have any?"

  "I have," Moah nodded his head, "to raise you. Ho
w about you? Hairt?"

  "Me? I never thought about it well."

  "It doesn't matter that you don't have it right now, you will have it in the future." I said, "no matter want to possess the money, the beauty, the power, or the free life. People will always have the dream."

  "Does this have any relation with us now?"

  "There is!" I answered with a serious tone that I rarely had before, "to fulfill your dream, you must have the strength! You can fulfill your dream just laying in the bed every day?"

  "Our elder generation said it right, this is a trouble times and a chaos world." my eyes swept on everyone's faces, "if you don't have the strength, don't mention to fulfill your dream, you even can't keep yourself alive! What is the strength? The troops in our hands now is the strength! I can't manage all of them by myself, I need your helps."

  "Even if you don't say, we still will help you." Moah said, "you are our boss!"

  "Talk about the boss," I smiled with bitterly, "I hope that you all can come out from the back of me this boss."

  "Ah? Why?" Hairt said in a hurry, "even though I always want to rob my original position back, but I am also just thinking about it! Boss, please don't abandon us!"

  "I don't mean to abandon you guys, our friendship will be existed forever, it won't ever change."

  "But you..."

  "You think about it, if we keep going like this, ten years later, twenty years later, what language it will be when the others introduce you?"

  "......"

  "This is Mr. Hairt, Kone Cada's good friend." I pointed at them one by one and said, "This is Moah, this is Jack, this is Marf, they are all Kone Cada's good friends. Do you feel very good?"

  "What's wrong with it?" Marf asked.

  "I hope my brothers all will be the famous people in the world! Of course, with his own name to be famous in the world!" I laughed, "right then, I will be very glad that I am your boss! To be introduced as your friend!"

  "Want to be lazy just say it clearly!" Hairt understood finally, he went away with an excuse, "the speaking is still beat around the bush!"

  You big banana, give you some sunlight you will be brilliant!

  "But I still have something not quite understand..." Marf said with mumble and sputter.

  "Wear your armor well!" Moah also understood, "keep thinking again!"

  "Oh!" Marf was left behind again.

  The mountain road was winding, when we passed a bend corner, we saw a lot of people were blocked in front of a mountain pass.

  "Hairt!"

  "Yes!"

  "Go take a look what is happening!"

  A moment later, Hairt turned and came back.

  "Boss, there's a car broken in the mountain pass."

  "You and Moah go to handle it."

  "Yes!"

  "Infantry!" Moah went to the front and commanded loudly, "bypass from the ridges of both sides of the mountain pass!"

  This mountain pass was not that high, this command was not that hard to carry out neither.

  The infantries began to climb to the top of the mountain, we brought several guards passed through a few cars which carrying the wounded to go to the mountain pass.

  "What's the matter with it?" Hairt asked by the side of a car across on the road in front.

  Two people climbed out from underneath of the car, "Sir! The axle is broken."

  "Can't you lift the car to the side of the road!?"

  "Sir! It would be alright... right away!"

  Hairt nodded his head, "you'd better hurry up, or I will give you a lesson!"

  That's right! If he could do it this way, which officer would dare to be giggly all day?

  Passed around the broken carriage, Jack said with a feeling, "Hairt and Moah had very powerful momentum just now!"

  "If you want to, you can also be like me!" Hairt turned his head back and said.

  "Chi!" Jack said with a scorn, "I don't want to be your that kind!"

  "There are many kinds of momentums?" Moah asked.

  "Of course, I have had the statistics." Jack's counting fingers look was very cute, "the grandeur type, the awe-inspiring righteousness type, the majestic-looking type, the guileless affinity type... and the strut in borrowed plumes type, the bully under the protection of a powerful person type..."

  "Then what type you choose?" Hairt tried very hard to hold back his laughter.

  "I want to choose the suave type, but not willing to give up the heroic spirit type... I was going to choose the graceful bearing type yesterday... But I was beat up for this just now, it's really difficult!"

  I had to bowed my head in a hurry to fight back the laughter, but my shoulders were still twitching involuntarily, mostly because of somebody's "graceful bearing" thing.

  I raised my head up and had a glance at Marf by accident, but found that Marf had his face turned very pale in an instant!

  "Watch up over the head!" Marf shouted loudly!

  "Off horse, get down!" almost at the same time, I shouted out too!

  Marf followed far behind, he could see that a light dark cloud generated very quickly over our heads. And I, what I heard was the "Zee Zee" strange sound from overhead.

  I was very grateful the trainings uncle Turnasi and uncle Webber to us in my mind, because at the moment when the danger arrived, the result of our past few years' training was shown incisively and vividly. Hairt leaned to his side and fell to the ground directly, Jack made a weird sound and flipped backward down, Moah and I both lowered our heads, the body had a press and then an incline, the hands held on the horse neck to slipped fall to the ground.

  "Pa! Pa!" more than ten arm thick flashing lightning were striking out white light and drew the winding snake type lines on the sky, they stroke the vicious assaults on us!

  "Fuck! Going to die!" I said with a wry smile.