A loose checkered skirt that is easy to trek through mountains and rivers to protect against bad weather, or can also be camped out among the jungle mountains and rocks, and is handmade in Scotland from pure wool, which can be used as a vivid display of Scots' personality and can also be used as a masculine and heroic war garment. As a result, the Scottish Highlanders have been given an even more frightening title in the course of their advancing history: "The 'Lady' from Hell"

The checkered skirt, which had been tampered with by some later generations and actually originated in the 16th century, does not appear today on the five Highland men sent by Peter MacDonald. For the five heroic, rugged adult men and their leader had made a secret agreement with their English employers: under no circumstances could the checkered skirt appear openly on the lands of the Crown of England.

As with the contents of their employer's previous secret agreement with them, their employer intends to make them no longer appear in public after sunset today. They will never be able to return to their highland homeland, and on festivals that need to be celebrated and on days when they need to fight bravely, they wear a checkered skirt that represents the spirit of freedom and the will of independence.

A black-clad "silver-masked man" kneeling on one leg, holding a bow in his left hand and an arrow on the bowstring in his right hand sat silently behind a tree, his eyes hidden behind the humanoid mask staring motionlessly at the five Scottish Highlanders in the clearing in front of him.

"What's going on? How can there only be five people? Where are the others? ”

"Did they find out about our actions? No, it can't be! ”

"Gotta figure it out."

The man with the black hood and silver humanoid mask lowered his voice and said to the other black-clothed silver-faced man beside him, "You go and look behind these five highlanders and find the other highlanders. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." The black-clothed silver-masked man immediately disappeared into the darkness.

"Hey, why are there only five of you, and what about the others?" Guarding the cash box with another person, Francis Swift, who did not wear a humanoid mask, was clearly very upset with the Highlanders who came to demand their commissions.

Arriving at the trading place on time after sunset, one of the five highlanders had a double-edged long-handled battle axe in his right hand, with long orange hair and a handful of orange beard, and the adult man in the English sergeant's uniform glanced at him with a smile: "Who are you, where is Sir Alex Ferguson?" ”

Francis raised the torch in his hand, illuminated the other man's face with the light of the fire, and said, "Sir has other business, so let me make a deal with you." ”

"Our leader said that he was only here to get back the reward that should have belonged to us, so he sent a few of us."

Francis was considering how to deal with the change when the plan to purge the Scottish Highlanders took a new turn of events, and the man with the tomahawk said, "Well, now please open the cash box and let us count the amount of commission." ”

When the Highlander pointed his torch at the cash box on the grass, Francis and his deputy immediately became nervous. If the Highlanders had opened the cash box, which had only one penny on the surface and all the stones underneath, it would have exposed the entire purge in advance.

However, Francis had to open the cash box and let the other party count the amount. While thinking about countermeasures, I slowly took out the key and prepared to open the cash drawer. When he squatted in front of the cash box, he secretly listened to the sound in the grove behind him, and secretly prayed: "Your Excellency, what should I do now?" Why haven't you signaled an offensive yet? ”

Francis is waiting for a signal from Isabel Walton, and Isabel is waiting for a signal from the member she sent out before her to reply to her message. As the member crept back behind the woods on the east side, where a large number of members of the Friars were hiding, Francis was forced to open the cash box. He feared that if he delayed any longer, the Highlanders would be suspicious of him.

"Your Excellency, there is not even a single highlander nearby." When the members rushed back, they said that they had just detected the enemy.

Iral nodded and clenched his bow, pulling the string with his right hand. With the three fingers of her right hand, she threw a heavy arrow on the string and shot it at her target like lightning. As the highlander with his tomahawk in hand looked at the pennies in the cash box smugly, in the light of the torches, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left chest.

When the Scottish Highlander glanced to his left chest, he was surprised to find an arrow inexplicably stuck in his chest! With his mouth slightly open, he was about to scream, but he fell backwards like a dead tree. Then, at the moment when the Highlander fell to the ground, the other two Highlanders beside him fell to the ground with an arrow in the chest almost simultaneously and died.

Francis quickly stood up, and his lieutenant drew their respective cross-knight swords and rushed to the two remaining highlanders. Straighten your arm, point the tip of your sword at each other and say, "Put down your sword!" ”

"Why did you kill us? Is this a knight's order? A highlander shouted as he held the sword of the Cross Knight in both hands, bowed slightly, and moved backwards with his companions.

At this moment, seven or eight men dressed in black monk's robes, hooded and wearing silver humanoid masks, wearing cuirass, and holding various weapons walked quickly from a forest to the right of the two of them. When the two highlanders looked in horror at the group of people with silver faces who seemed to be from hell, they couldn't help but exclaim, "Black Friars!!" ”

Several members of the Monk Order, who walked in front and drew the cross-knight swords they were wearing, sneered a few times with "expressionless faces". One of the members tilted his head and said proudly, "Brothers, I didn't expect even the highlanders to know about us." ”

Another member of the team who walked beside him also said, "Let them taste our strength." ”

When Isabel came out of the woods, she said to Francis's lieutenant, who was with her, "Take these two men to the river." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." The deputy hurriedly ran in the direction of Captain Francis.

The two highlanders didn't want to die just like that, but they didn't give up their swords. Glaring at the black-clothed friars who surrounded the two of them in trepidation, he looked at Francis, who was not wearing a silver mask, and said tremblingly, "So you are also a black monk?!" ”

Francis sneered and said, "Put down the sword, maybe you still have a chance to go home!" ”

Two desperate Scottish Highland men were finally forced to throw away their swords and take them down. The blackfriars swarmed up, tied their hands and forced them to the Yul River to the west of the clearing. As they knelt on the grass by the river, Francis came up to them. Glancing at the flowing river at his feet on the left, he said coldly to the two people kneeling on the grass, "Tell me, where is your leader and the others?" ”