Several sturdy short-tailed deer were leisurely drinking water by the river. When they heard a sudden movement behind them, these alert animals quickly ran away.

One of the bold short-tailed deer, after running a certain distance, stopped and looked back. It saw a slim human walking towards the place where they had just drank water.

Shaking his head, the curious short-tailed deer chased his companion again.

Lilia's shooting skills are the best among the war bear mercenaries, but she is not here to hunt short-tailed deer today.

"Here."

Lilia found a wooden stake nailed to the river beach. Following the rope tied to the wooden stake, she lifted an oval cage from the river. The heavy weight of the cage made Lilia smile.

This is a cage made of thorn branches. The cage has a large belly and a small mouth, and there is a beard opening inside. Yes, this is a shrimp cage.

"I really don't know how adults know such a strange method of catching shrimp, but it really works!" Lilia mumbled softly while carrying the full shrimp pot, and the upturned corners of her mouth revealed the girl's emotions at this time.

Feeling.

"Hey! Lilia, what are you talking to yourself about? Are you thinking about Lord Victor again?"

A teasing voice came from behind Lilia, and Lilia was instantly ashamed. She stamped her feet and turned around and said coquettishly: "Sister Linda! What are you talking about!"

A woman wearing leather armor and a long sword was dragging a similar shrimp pot towards Lilia. She was Linda, the female mercenary of the War Bear Mercenary Group.

Linda is 28 years old this year. Her life as a mercenary living in the open makes her look like she is in her 30s. Although her skin is a bit rough, her muscular figure and regular facial features give her the charm of a mature woman.

Compared with her ordinary combat skills, Linda is better at tailoring, cooking and first aid. She is a logistics staff member of the War Bear Mercenary Group, and sometimes she is also responsible for the intelligence collection of the mercenary group.

Linda is also Nelson's partner, so Lilia is particularly close to her, so naturally the girl's thoughts about Huaichun cannot be hidden from her.

"Is your shrimp pot full?" Seeing that Lilia was a little embarrassed, Linda changed the subject at the right time.

"Well, you see, they are all half-foot-long green shrimps." The girl proudly raised the heavy shrimp pot to Linda.

"I'm also full." Linda said with emotion: "Lord Victor is different from other nobles I have met. The shrimp pot he designed is really easy to use, and the cooking skills he taught me

The method is also something I have never heard of. Do you know? If we stop being mercenaries in the future, we can open a bar or hotel just by relying on the cooking skills we learned from adults, and we are guaranteed to make a lot of money!"

Speaking of this, the female mercenary's eyes were bright, as if there were countless gold soles shining.

"Why don't you become mercenaries? Sister Linda, we are now your family's bodyguards! We are bodyguards! Okay?" Lilia pouted unhappily.

"Okay, okay, we are the family guards now." Linda sighed and said: "Let's go quickly. The adults said that they will teach me how to make sizzling shrimps today. I think it must be very delicious.

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"Of course."

Just as the two of them were walking towards the camp, chatting and laughing, a woman's painful moans came from the bushes not far away.

After Linda and Lilia looked at each other, they put down the shrimp pots in their hands in tacit agreement, drew their weapons, and moved towards the bushes one after another.

After getting close to the bushes, they heard the whimpering of a woman being gagged and the laughter of several men. The two of them immediately understood what was happening in the bushes.

"Who is that person? Get out!" Linda cut off a branch with the long sword in her hand and shouted into the bushes. Lilia also pointed the hunting bow in her hand at the location of the sound in the bushes.

Suddenly there was a panic sound in the bushes, and after a while, a man with a thief-like face poked his head out of the bushes.

"It turns out it's Sister Linda and Lilia. Everyone, please come out." This wretched man smiled flatteringly at Linda.

After a while, several men wearing leather armor emerged from the bushes one after another. They were all militiamen recruited by Nelson from among the people in his territory.

"What are you doing?!" Linda asked these people sternly. The long sword in her hand did not relax at all, which made several militiamen retreat.

"No, he didn't do anything. He just spent money to have some fun." The wretched man smiled apologetically at Linda. The sparse yellow teeth in his mouth made Linda feel particularly disgusted.

Such an answer made several nervous militiamen relax, and there was another sound of breathing and flesh hitting in the already silent trees.

A flash of green energy flashed across Linda's face, the long sword in her hand took an offensive stance, and Lilia also fully drew her hunting bow.

"Call the people inside, too!" Linda's cold voice made the men shiver.

After a while, a tall, strong man walked out of the bushes holding a disheveled woman.

His name was Logan, and he was a captain of the militia. He was in charge of three militiamen. His good deeds were interrupted, which made this rude guy very unhappy. He pushed the woman in his hand to the ground in front of Linda, and looked at her with disdain.

There was spit on the ground.

"Why don't we spend money to have some fun? Bitch, tell Sister Linda what's going on!" Logan scolded the woman on the ground fiercely.

"Yeah. We spent a lot of money."

"She is just for sale!"

Logan's tough attitude made his men feel emboldened.

"I, I took their money." The woman on the ground pulled up her clothes, trying to cover her bruised body, and murmured in a low voice.

Lilia sighed in her heart and let go of the fully drawn hunting bow.

She knew that this woman was a farmer's wife and had two children, but she couldn't control this kind of thing.

"Can we go? Sister Linda!" Logan said jokingly.

Looking at the woman who was shaking and crying silently on the ground, Linda's eyes were a little red, which reminded her of her sister.

When Linda was young, her parents died of illness, and it was her sister who supported her through her tailoring skills.

The two helpless sisters were coveted by the gangsters in the town. Finally one day a few gangsters broke into their home. After some threats and beatings, her sister was raped.

From then on, the two sisters' nightmare began. These gangsters would come to insult her sister every now and then. After each attack, the gangsters would laugh and throw away one or two copper soles and walk away.

Some neighbors who looked down upon her reported her to the Sheriff, but these scumbags claimed that her sister was a wanderer and they were just playing for fun. After paying a small tribute to the Sheriff, the matter naturally dropped.

In order to raise the young Linda, her sister had to endure it silently.

Until one day, someone discovered her sister's body covered with scars in a stinking ditch.

As a lowly free citizen, the official would naturally not seek justice for them.

Linda, who was already sensible at that time, ran away from home overnight. With the help of kind-hearted neighbors, she was taken in by a circus. After several twists and turns, she joined the Bear Mercenary Group, where she learned how to use a sword to protect herself and others.

others.

Linda thought about revenge, but when she returned, she found that the town had been razed to the ground by the Sasanians.

But she did not forget the humiliation and fear in her sister's eyes, just like this woman.

She also didn't forget that her sister's body was covered in scars, just like this woman.

She has not forgotten the ugly faces of those gangsters, just like Logan!

"Go to hell!"

The sword flew into the air, just as she had imagined countless times.

The birds in the woods were frightened by this sudden revenge and flew into the air, chirping loudly and flying into the distance.
Chapter completed!