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It exploded halfway, as if it couldn't bear the power of the runes. But although the trap exploded, it was not strengthened and did not fail. The weeds in it were like flying needles that pierced the bandits and made them scream.

Life is worry-free, but it hurts so much.

Blaze thought that the original effect of this trap should be to tie up the target with the grass, but because the quality of the grass itself was really poor, it fell apart halfway.

Fortunately, it disintegrated, otherwise the grass would most likely have cut these bandits in half.

"This... can be considered as completing the goal, right?" Blaze coughed dryly, then picked up the person Herbie had named.

It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned it. Once he mentioned it, the hood on the bandit's head was lifted, and his appearance was exposed to Blaze's eyes.

He was a middle-aged man with a centipede tattoo on his face. Appearance was not important. What was important was that the blessing had responded.

【Robber Demon LV30】

[Although the appearance of sinful humans is the same as that of humans, the flames of sin and filth have already burned the human souls as firewood. 】

"The monster that humans have become."

"This is truly a rare monster."

"This is the first time I've seen him. I wonder what will drop if I kill him."

The bandit demon originally wanted to shout that he was a human being, but the expressions on the faces of the three people surrounding him showed that none of them regarded him as a human being.

"Don't scare him silly, boys." Herbie clapped his hands with a bright smile on his face. "If we scare him silly, how are we going to get the stuff out of his head?"

"So are you going to tell me on your own initiative, or are you going to torture me?"

Before the bandit demon could speak, the ogre next to him curled his lips.

"Anyway, they will definitely say, 'If I tell you, my fate will be worse than death!' I've seen this before."

The words he was about to say were interrupted, and the robber demon could only raise his head stubbornly with an expression that showed he would never obey.

"Really? [I will never tell you! No matter how much you torture me, you can never betray my loyalty to him!]" The counterfeiter whispered a few words at first, then his dead fish eyes began to widen and his voice became excited.

"【Come on! Torture me! Even if my body gives in, my will will never give in!】Is that what you mean!?"

"I'm not that loyal. I'm just afraid of the man behind me." The bandit demon's voice trembled a little.

"Ah, it doesn't matter if it's not love or loyalty. Fear is also a novel experience." The counterfeiter slowly approached the bandit demon. Although his face was expressionless, there was a fanaticism in his eyes.

"Just like I don't mind that you're not a female knight, but a middle-aged man."

"I say, it's better if you confess." The ogre whispered, "What's going to happen next may be something more terrible than death."

"I admit it!"

Chapter 965: I woke up immediately

The bandit demon confessed, and he confessed very quickly.

As a dark force, he immediately became much more sober after seeing the appearance of the people in front of him clearly.

A man-eating devil, a fugitive on death row with a 650-year sentence, and a notorious Black Beast Knight?

People in the underworld say that this guy has been cleaned up, but isn’t this extremely dark?

Compared with these people, the bandit demon felt that he was just a good citizen, so he surrendered immediately without hesitation.

The counterfeiter felt very regretful. He sighed for a full minute, and his dead fish eyes never left the bandit demon's body. The bandit demon was so scared that he confessed everything quickly.

Simply put, the [Bandit King] really exists and is not just a rumor.

Before the strangers appeared, the world of bandits and robbers was divided into many factions.

Small bandits targeted caravans on the trade routes and occasionally robbed passers-by. Large bandits had their own strongholds and stronghold knights, and their targets were small villages and towns, causing great harm.

The knights of the kingdom have to guard against more dangerous monsters, so the bandits are very rampant.

The existence of these bandits has, in some ways, made the teleportation tower plan of [Hermes's Travel Hat] go particularly smoothly. It is better to spend some money to keep safe than to encounter rampant bandits.

But after the strangers appeared, even sending a letter required a blessed person to escort it, and the number of blessed people employed by large caravans was almost more than the number of bandits and robbers who attacked them. Moreover, the strangers were more bandit-like than the robbers, and they often robbed the bandits' dens.

At this time, a man named "Bandit King" appeared. He quickly unified the scattered bandits and formed an organization.

The bandit king changed his previous rampant style of bandits and robbers, acted in a low-key manner, placed spies in places with abundant resources, and acted cautiously.

As long as you follow the rules set by the Bandit King, you can easily obtain a lot of wealth, and sometimes you can even attack a city-state. On the contrary, if you break the rules, the consequences will be more terrible than death.

But the bandit king was not a philanthropist. He collected property from his bandits in the form of rent, and his subordinates collected rent from the people below them, thus forming a pyramid structure of exploitation.

If you want to climb up this pyramid, you have to offer something valuable enough to enter the Bandit King's field of vision, and this valuable thing must not be something your superiors dare to be greedy for.

This huge rough gemstone is undoubtedly the ticket to meet the Bandit King, so the bandit demon would go against the Bandit King's rule of "keeping a low profile and finding out the details first" and take action.

Of course, it would definitely be more against the rules to honestly tell the story of the Bandit King and the entire organization now.

The ogre frowned, his intuition told him that there was something wrong with this bandit king.

"The evil strangers can be resurrected in your base. Have you ever been attacked by the evil strangers in this way, or did the bandit king tell you about it?"

"It was the bandit king who told us. He told us to be careful about evil strangers who might use this method to directly enter our base." The bandit demon was sweating and looked very nervous.

Because the forger was squatting beside him with his eyes wide open, and speaking in a fanatical tone as if he was talking to himself, or as if asking a question.

"How do you feel now? You never dared to say things before, you never dared to do acts of betrayal, but now under our coercion, your mouth is leaking information like crazy. In fact, it's not so much that you are afraid of us now, but you want to say it yourself. You are using us as an excuse. When you think of the terrible bandit king you were afraid of before, do you feel a sense of relief when you reveal it now..."

The robber and the devil didn't dare to imagine how they would be treated if they were stubborn!

"But I've never seen this Bandit King. He's very mysterious, and no one has ever actually seen him! It's said that everyone who has seen his true face is dead, and only those at the top can see his true face."

"This is trouble."

The ogre frowned in pain and called Blaze to come to Hebi. He didn't have to worry about the robber demon running away, because the counterfeiter was staring at the robber demon.

"That bandit king is most likely a bad guy, cough a bad stranger, who used bandits to collect wealth for him."

This is not something unusual. The Evil Class is obviously specially provided for players who have a [BOSS hobby].

Not everyone likes to be a hero, and some people like to release their inner evil in a virtual world. The Arcadia Liberation Campaign and the current Ouroboros Overlook are good examples.

It is not uncommon to see a player who wants to be the king of bandits. If he can turn the problem of evil players being resurrected in monster nests into his advantage, he can only dominate all the bandits.

"Evil strangers..." Hebi frowned. She thought of a problem that was even more troublesome than the ogre. "Does that mean that not only the Bandit King is an evil stranger, but also many of his subordinates are evil strangers as well."

"That means that the Bandit King is very likely a guild of evil foreigners similar to Somado." Blaze looked at the ogre and said.

"Perhaps they are a group of evil foreigners who came before you. Just like Somado used the Hermes' Traveling Hat as a transit point to gain wealth, the Bandit King used the bandits as a transit point to gain a large amount of resources."

"Then should we still cause trouble for that bandit king?"

The ogre spread his hands. Greenland planned to rob the Bandit King and use the Bandit King's wealth to fill the property gap of [Hermes' Traveling Hat], but if the opponent is a player, that would be another matter.

It’s not that I’m worried that the Bandit King doesn’t have much property, but if the opponent is a player, the situation will become complicated.

Sometimes players are really vicious.

"Just because the bandit king is a bad foreigner, does that mean we can't rob him?" Hebi asked seriously.

"Hmm..." After the ogre sent a message in the group, he received a reply.

“You can grab it.”

……

In World F, somewhere in an area where high-level monsters are active, a huge half-shipwreck suddenly emerged from the cliff. Several extremely thick vines were entangled on the mast of the shipwreck, as if maintaining the balance of this half-shipwreck.

Green candles were lit on the shipwreck, giving it a mysterious and eerie feel.

A cold wind blew by, and the tattered flag on the mast slowly fluttered, with a skull pattern faintly visible.

Chapter 966 Trust Game

At the surveillance point in the gem mining area, the bandits were sitting around the campfire anxiously.

No one dared to speak. The only sound in the cave was the crackling of burning firewood. The vicious bandits looked terrified and from time to time they took a sip of the rough liquor at hand, trying to numb themselves with alcohol.

The flames were jumping and the light and shadow were constantly alternating, making people feel as if a long time had passed.

"They... haven't come back yet?"

One person asked quietly, and then was met with vulgar curses from others. Because this question had been asked three minutes ago, and the answer was still [They haven't come back yet].

This question was like some kind of spell, making them restless.

In the past, they always came out in full force, fearing that others would steal their spoils, but now according to the rules, they are prohibited from large-scale activities.

Are they now worried that the hunters will take advantage of the spoils? Of course! But it is no longer out of greed, but fear, as if their life and death are in the hands of the hunters.

"Is your tribute this time... enough?" Another person spoke, but this time there was silence and more sounds of drinking.

The Bandit King set a rule for paying tribute and collecting rent, requiring a fixed amount of property to be paid every Saturday. Failure to meet the requirement would result in a very terrible punishment.

Just thinking of the crazy looks of those who were punished, the bandits couldn't help but drink alcohol to numb themselves.

The gem mining area is a lucrative job. Even if you don't rob, you can still get a lot of gem fragments to offer as tribute by stealing.

But the problem is that the Bandit King forbids collective movements. Only half of the people are allowed to be dispatched at a time, and the spoils brought back are divided equally.

Under this kind of rule, it is inevitable that some bandits and robbers will lose control of their hands and hide the spoils, resulting in a reduction in the total amount of stolen goods to be divided equally.

At first it was just greed, but after seeing the looks of those who were punished for not paying the tribute on time, greed turned into a desire to survive.

Whether the hunters will hide the spoils, whether they would hide the spoils if they were in their shoes, whether their offerings are enough... and so on make the situation of hiding the spoils more and more serious, and the conflicts are increasing.

The bandit king called it a trust test, saying that as long as the spoils were divided equally, the tribute might be paid. But once one person started hiding the spoils, a vicious cycle would begin.

But the Bandit King did not prohibit [voluntary overtime]. He even considerately listed overtime projects, such as hunting monsters or collecting herbs. Anyway, as long as the supplies were submitted on time, it would be fine.

This is simply an act of the devil.

It is impossible to leave, because anyone who knows the organization, even if they only know a little bit, will never be able to leave the organization normally.

The bandits sitting by the fire had different expressions under the light of the fire.

Those who were drinking in a hurry did not have enough money for the next round of offerings, and this hunt would determine whether they would risk working overtime. Those who were staring at the fire in a daze had already collected enough for the current offerings, but had used up their last bit of savings, and felt hopeless and numb about the next round of offerings.

Among them are pretenders, who would disguise themselves as bandits and robbers, and would appear desperate or anxious even if they had enriched themselves by betraying the collective time and again.

Of course, it is also possible that the pretender does not exist, but is just an imaginary enemy created by the bandits so that they can feel at ease hiding their spoils.

There is one thing they understand.

That is, the Bandit King was enjoying their situation, he called this state Werewolf, and they dared not escape, nor did they want to escape.

The more suffering the bottom has, the happier the top will be. As the lowest level of the Bandit King system, they will always be the ones who work hard and are exploited, but as long as they climb up a level, they can become the ones who exploit others.

The way to climb up is to offer more tributes, and each time the spoils are divided, they are only enough to maintain the next round of tributes.

Of course, there is another way.

A man with cloudy eyes suddenly rolled his eyeballs. With just this small movement, the surrounding bandits immediately jumped up, drew their weapons from their waists and looked at the people around them vigilantly.

There is another way, to have levels and become a monster.

If you turn into a monster, there is no need to offer sacrifices.

Whether it is having power, the possibility of escaping from the organization, or climbing up is not a dream, as long as you have the level, you can change the status quo.

But it is not so easy for people to gain the level to become monsters. Even the Holy Cross Holy Communion requires faith to be effective, so they can only do more evil things and... kill people.

"They... haven't come back yet?"

Someone asked the question again, but this time no one answered. They held the sharp knives in their hands and stared nervously at everyone around them, fearing that someone would catch their flaws while they were answering.

Because that was not a scene that existed in a horrific hypothesis, but a tragedy that had happened countless times before our eyes.

"They can't come back."

At some point, a person appeared among them, and the dagger in that person's hand was flashing a pale light.

"Ahhh-"

The depressing atmosphere finally erupted. Someone smashed the wine barrel in his hand directly into the fire. A column of fire shot up, hit the top of the cave and splashed in all directions. Everyone's expression looked weird under the flames.

Then they started fighting, and the screams of terror filled the entire cave. Then, as the fire went out and the light faded, the cave returned to silence.

After a while, a man walked out, and behind him were bandits tied up with ropes.

He is the Ripper, and he also has specialization in attacking humans, but he cannot kill his enemies instantly like Blaze can. However, his knowledge of medicine allows him to subdue his enemies easily.

But his expression was not good.