Chapter 109: The Invincible Second-in-Command II
In the quiet night, the moon hung high. A few cool breezes blew, making the small grove seem a little desolate.
A few lights flickered. At the main gate, two sleepy, on-duty bandits stood guard outside, occasionally stretching and sniffing before continuing to sleep.
This was the lair of the Scorched Serpent Bandit Gang.
At this moment, Chen Ran was hiding in the grass with a group of his brothers. The dozens of brothers behind him had all been buffed with various combat statuses. They held their knives, ready for the order to attack.
This bandit gang was the closest and weakest to Chen Ran’s lair. Chen Ran had specifically chosen them for a strategic exercise. There was no mercy. It was their choice to be bandits. What goes around, comes around.
With Chen Ran’s enhancement, his side had an absolute advantage in a direct confrontation. But for safety’s sake, Chen Ran still chose the best time to strike. He looked up at the bright moonlight and felt that the time was about right. He waved his hand, signaling that they could act.
Two figures in night clothes slipped over nimbly. They each drew a dagger from their clothes and gradually approached the two dozing guards. When they were within range, they suddenly leaped up, clamped their throats, and with just a light slit across the neck, the two bodies fell to the ground. With a signal of success, everyone snuck in.
Because of the cover of the Light and Shadow Art, there was almost no sound when they snuck in. Chen Ran roughly glanced at the furnishings inside. It turned out that it was not much better than their lair, which once again confirmed his belief that being a bandit was a profession with no future.
Next, through the map positioning, Chen Ran quickly found the room where this group of bandits was resting. While waiting outside the door, Turyav and a few of his brothers looked at each other and nodded, then raised their feet…
Bang!
With a sudden crash of the door, the flimsy door panel fell down. The bandits, who had just been awakened from their sleep, looked at the door naked and bewildered. A group of figures quickly rushed into the room, raising their weapons…
Streaks of blade light crisscrossed. Some people were permanently laid to rest on their beds before they even woke up, leaving only a bed of blood.
Screams rose everywhere.
The bandits who reacted quickly picked up their weapons and began to fight back. But it was only after they had just engaged that they found their opponents were ridiculously strong. They were completely suppressed in terms of strength, speed, and reaction. They were defeated in just one round.
Perhaps the most frustrated was the leader of the Scorched Serpents here.
Perhaps the life of a bandit was too boring. At the scene of the incident, the leader of this Scorched Serpent mercenary group was still fooling around with a certain male bandit in the room, which immediately disgusted all of Chen Ran’s brothers. In the spirit of ridding the people of a scourge, five great sabers slashed at the Scorched Serpent leader.
Although he was the leader here, he was only a barely fifth-tier warrior. Not to mention, he was disturbed at that time and had no weapon in his hand. He was dealt with by everyone in a few moves, and his death was incredibly pathetic. The brothers were quite polite and sent his lover to the west with him.
In one night, in just an hour, the Scorched Serpent Bandit Gang was wiped out. No one in Chen Ran’s group was even seriously injured.
With a mass heal, everyone’s minor injuries were quickly healed. Chen Ran was quite satisfied with this large-scale healing skill. Besides consuming a little magic power, he didn’t have to heal them one by one, and the recovery speed was not much worse than a single heal.
On this night, they had killed more than eighty members of the Scorched Serpent Bandit Gang, which also provided Chen Ran with a good amount of blood essence, allowing him to gain more than half a bar of experience. With a jolt, he leveled up to 31 in one go. This increased his magic power a little, and his body’s muscles seemed to have become a little more solid. He even felt that he had grown a few tenths of a centimeter taller…
For Chen Ran, every level up was a very happy event. He felt that if this continued, he would sooner or later become a tall, rich, and handsome man.
Everyone began to cheer for the complete success of their first operation. And next, of course, was the time to plunder the assets of the Scorched Serpent Bandit Gang.
It took a whole night for everyone to turn this lair upside down. They found more than seven thousand gold coins, plus a lot of jewels that could be sold for money. It was a small fortune. With Chen Ran as a mobile warehouse, all the things were taken away by him, and then the useless old lair was burned down.
After everyone had rested for most of the day, they set out for the second destination again.
The bandit gangs of the Lost Plains had experienced an unprecedented purge.
Every few days, a small or medium-sized bandit gang would be wiped out. The means were so swift and the actions so rapid that it was astonishing. The efficiency of the purge was even more terrifying than that of the Turin Empire’s troops.
In just twenty days, a full nine small, well-known bandit gangs had been wiped out. The methods were so sharp and the means so clever that not a single trace of the crime was left. The scene was burned clean.
Because the various bandit gangs rarely communicated, the few bandit gangs were wiped out quietly. And the remaining few bandit gangs had no idea of the impending danger…
