Paladin walked up to Kino, his eyes filled with joy of surviving the disaster: "I didn't expect we could survive this attack..."

Kino put his hand into his arms and touched it. When he found that the tissues he was carrying were used up, he handed the blood-stained dagger to Paladin and said, "Count the casualties, collect the corpses, and burn them to prevent the spread of the disease."

Paladin lifted up the corner of his clothes and wrapped the dagger, wiped it clean, then handed it back and whispered: "Sir, we don't have time to do this, we should evacuate as soon as possible. Before dawn, the horse bandits will definitely attack again.

"

Kino put the dagger in his sheath: "Why?"

"The desert horse bandits believe in the "Horse King". They have a custom - after death, tribal warriors must be purified by the shaman and placed in the temple overnight. Only when they are cremated the next day can they return to the arms of the Horse King and gallop on the grassland.

.So, unless they are defeated, they will definitely come back to snatch the bodies of their companions." Paladin glanced at the miserable Shan Gu and said in a deep voice, "What's more, their Dadan's brother died here."

Kino chuckled: "They are quite religious?"

"Pious bastard." Lugo twisted his neck and said with a sneer, "These horse bandits make a living by robbing, and they are greedy for money. If I have enough money, I can let their Dadan come and attack my OO."

Kino rolled his eyes: "If you talk about these disgusting things again, I will cut out your tongue."

Lugo scratched his face: "Not next time..."

Kino's eyes swept across the scattered corpses, and finally landed on Shan Gu. There was a deep meaning in his eyes: "Burn the corpses of the others together, and leave the corpses of the horse bandits where they are."

Paladin was stunned: "You want to use the corpses of the horse bandits as bait to ambush them? But we don't have enough manpower. Including the injured soldiers, there are only 100 people left at most. Even if we ambush them, it is impossible to defeat them. We should retreat.

Let’s let the follow-up reinforcements handle these things.”

Kino: "Want me to repeat the order again?"

Paladin's tiger body trembled and he quickly lowered his head: "I'm sorry, sir, let's do it now."

Under Paladin's command, the soldiers who were not injured or slightly injured found carts from the munitions depot and began to move the bodies.

Moving to the end, more than 1,500 corpses were gathered in the square, including Xilin Town soldiers, civilians, infected people from the upper-level epidemic areas, and infected animals from the lower-level epidemic areas.

The body of the horse bandit was left where it was according to Kino's order.

At this time, Paladin's trilling voice came from behind Kino: "Sir, they..."

Kino turned around and saw two familiar corpses, one big and one small.

Ramos and Lucca did not escape this disaster after all.

Ramos's body was covered with stab wounds. He was obviously chased by horse bandits and was chopped to pieces.

Luca was protected in Ramos's arms and suffered less injuries, but there was a fatal blow to her neck, and the horse bandit severed her carotid artery.

The bodies of the two fathers and daughters hugged each other tightly, and they did not let go of each other until death. However, in the cruel war, the unswerving family love was as small as dust and could not change anything.

Luca should have had a wonderful childhood like her peers and been a happy little angel, but she has been suffering from the epidemic since she was sensible. She was locked up in an upper-level epidemic area and worked day after day to pay for blood therapy.

The only free time every day is to raise her head and look at the sky, imagining what the outside world is like. All the colorful things in the world have nothing to do with her.

Her life had been so unfortunate, and the tragic fate still did not let her go in the end. Paladin felt so angry that he slashed at the body of the horse bandit with his knife, and roared: "You fucking horse bandit! Do it! Do it!"

!Dry!!!"

"Never hate your enemies, it will affect your judgment." Kino passed by Paladin, walked to Luca's body, knelt down and looked at her silently.

Suddenly, Kino noticed that Luka's hand was shrunk in front of her chest, holding something tightly. He opened her hand and saw that it was a silver moon hanging on her chest with a string.

"At least, I know one thing now." Kino put the lucky coin back into Luka's hand, his amber eyes as deep as the sea, "There is no god in this world."

Among so many people, probably only Kino himself and Paladin know the meaning of this sentence.

Kino stood up and looked at them silently: "Burn it."

The soldiers collected some remaining desert fire from the scene, threw them into the corpse pile together with the firewood, and threw torches on them.

The sky-burning fire ignited, and the figures of Ramos and Luca were gradually swallowed up, and they were no longer visible.

The fire buried everything.

After burning the body, Paladin lowered his head and said: "Sir, the body has been disposed of. Let's evacuate quickly. The horse bandits will be coming soon. Leave the rest to the follow-up troops."

Unexpectedly, Kino gave him a surprising answer: "You go, I'll stay here."

"Sir?!" Not only Paladin, Lugo and other mercenaries, but also other soldiers were shocked.

Kino turned his back to everyone and looked at the eastern night sky alone: ​​"I am the civil administrator of Xilin Town, and I will live and die with this town. You can leave."

For a moment, Paladin only felt that his whole body was being hit by electricity. He stared at Kino's back and felt that this slender body was so majestic. He unconsciously roared: "Then I will stay too! I will die with you.

Together!"

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"I already know your loyalty. Leave, this is an order. What's more, I am not asking for death, but I have a plan." Kino turned his face and looked at everyone, "I need you to leave Xilin Town and go

Buy something."

Paladin stood up straight: "You say it!"

Chino: "What do you think...what kind of bath essential oil smells better?"

Paladin had a question mark: "Ah???"

Chino: "Is this question difficult to answer?"

Paladin and everyone looked at each other in confusion, wondering if Kino had lost his mind. He asked what the bath essential oil meant at such a serious moment.

Lugo shrugged and added the topic: "I like rose essential oil, and a woman who takes a bath with this makes me very lustful."

Kino: "What else?"

Lugo scratched his head: "Well... I rarely use essential oils myself. I can only tell you that if you sleep with a woman who has bathed with lavender essential oil, she will sleep very deeply. If she bathes with peppermint essential oil, she will sleep very deeply.

Refreshing. If it is strawberry essential oil, it will make people feel very energetic..."

Kino: "Then buy them all, and buy some soap too. This is your task."

Lugo opened his mouth, hesitated, and finally said in a deep voice: "For the balance of the payment, I will do it, but I doubt your sanity."

After Lugo and others left, Paladin stayed where he was, staring at Kino's back with complex eyes: "I don't understand..."

"I don't understand either." Kino squatted down in front of Shan Gu's huge corpse, tilted his head and muttered to himself, "Tell me, how did he get so fat? He is three or four as big as me.

I have a strange physique and I can’t get fat no matter what I eat. I actually want to grow taller.”

"grown ups?"
Chapter completed!