You decide to wait a little.

You decide that it is not beneficial for you to act too hastily. You hope that the half-orc Oolok can somehow convince these bandits. Or somehow intimidate them. Or Oolok will somehow be able to defeat these bandits in battle.

You sadly realize that your thoughts are based on the passive expectation that a dangerous situation for you will be eliminated through the efforts of the half-orc Oolok. You are overcome with a shameful desire to hide behind the muscular back of the half-orc Oolok.

You think: “What’s wrong with me?! I think like a weak female who hopes that her strong male will solve all her problems.”

Oddly enough, such thoughts make you slightly aroused: you feel the blood rushing to your small penis, your tender anus begins to pulsate slightly.

However, you cannot bring yourself to take active action. You continue to watch the conversation between Oolok and the halfling Glendo.

Oolok takes a step towards the halfling and says: “Well, now I understand the interest of your Gallowguys gang in this half-elven boy... So, you need to communicate with him and this is required by the conditions of your customer. You don't have any questions for me. Did I understand you correctly?"

Glendo says, "That's right, Oolok."

Oolok takes it a step further and says, “Then I have nothing against it. Execute your order. And I'll go about my business. All the best, guys!”

Halfling Glendo grins and says, "I'm glad we've come to an agreement... Good luck, Oolok!"

Glendo then makes a few hand gestures towards you. You see two armed bandits emerge from the alleys and begin to approach you.

You begin to tremble with fear. You watch the retreating figure of the half-orc Oolok. His betrayal shocked you.

You scream in a plaintive voice: “Oolok! They will kill me!”

You hear the words spoken by Oolok in response: “Perhaps. But I’m not ready to risk my life for some half-elven bitch like you, Jerom... Although fucking you in your lustful anus was nice... However, I can easily find other depraved whores..."

These cynical words hurt your soul.

You hear the contemptuous laughter of the halfling and the bandits as they approach you.

Your hand grips the hilt of your elven dagger. You see two armed bandits approaching you from both sides. You understand that you have virtually no chance of survival. Even if you can do some damage with your dagger, two bandits with crossbows (who are sitting on the roof of the hut about 15 meters ahead) will still be able to shoot you.

You see one of the bandits (a human man who came out of the left alley) approaching you. He holds in his hands a long spear with a sharp iron tip.

On the other side, a second bandit is approaching you (a large male half-orc who came out of the right alley). He holds in his muscular hands a large two-handed wooden club with metal spikes.

You draw your elven dagger from its sheath. You extend this weapon point forward and you shout to your enemies: “Don't come near me! I will resist!"

In response to your words, only laughter is heard.

The human bandit, who holds a spear about two meters long, comes closer to you.

He says: “You probably want to make us laugh with your little dagger so that we die from laughter, half-elven bitch? Ha! Ha!"

The next moment something sudden happens. The half-orc Oolok continued to slowly walk away from this place. Two bandits were walking towards him, trying to get closer to you and do something clearly unpleasant to you. At that moment, when Oolok was at the closest possible distance from the bandits and when he almost disappeared from the viewing radius of these two bandits, Oolok made a rapid movement.

He quickly grabbed his sword from his backpack and he swung his sword in a wide arc with lightning speed.

As a result of this blow, the half-orc bandit, who was holding a wooden club in his hands, was unable to continue his movement towards you. He was prevented by a very unpleasant fact: the blade of the sword cut the jugular vein in his neck. The large body of the half-orc bandit fell to the ground with a roar, flooding the surrounding area with copious streams of blood.

The second effect of the sword strike, which was thrown in a wide arc, was the fact that the human bandit could no longer threaten you with his long spear. The reason for this was that it was impossible to hold a spear with severed hands: the spear fell to the ground, as did the wrists of this bandit, which were cut off by a blow from the sword. The human bandit was lying on the ground and uttering heart-rending cries of pain. Streams of blood flowed from the stumps of his hands.

You were shocked by what happened. However, you weren't the only one shocked. The halfling Glendo looked around in confusion. He was trying to find something in his bag, he felt inside the bag with his left hand.

Suddenly you realized that you urgently need to prevent the actions of the halfling.

You thought: “If he is in charge of these bandits, then he can clearly do something dangerous now! We urgently need to stop him!”

You rushed at the halfling, brandishing your elven dagger. However, Glendo turned out to be quite a dexterous guy. He dodged almost every one of your strikes. You only slightly scratched his left hand with the tip of the dagger. You noticed that some kind of yellowish bottle fell out of the halfling’s bag. This bottle did not break because it fell on a small bush near the road.

You were about to continue attacking the halfling with a dagger, but you had to stop because two bandit crossbowmen (who are sitting on the roof of a hut about 15 meters ahead) began shooting at you. One crossbow bolt flew past you, but the second crossbow bolt pierced through the palm of your left hand and flew further until it stuck into the wall of one of the buildings. You groaned in pain.

Glendo took advantage of the fact that you stopped attacking him and ran away into one of the nearby alleys. You have lost sight of the halfling. You were very scared. There were enough reasons to be afraid: the crossbow bandits would soon reload their weapons and shoot at you again, the halfling Glendo could return again and attack you at the most unexpected moment.

Out of desperation, the next second you made some kind of improvisation. You sheathed your elven dagger at your belt. You ran to the place where the yellowish bottle fell, which fell out of Glendo’s bag. You took this bottle in your right hand. You strained all your strength and you threw this bottle in the direction of the roof of the hut on which the crossbow bandits are located.

The bottle hit the edge of the roof near one of the crossbow bandits. The impact broke the bottle. After this, a cloud of yellowish smoke appeared in this place. This smoke was not masking; objects could be seen through it. However, the crossbow bandits for some reason chose to leave their position.

The next moment, the half-orc Oolok ran up to you.

He said in a tone that did not tolerate objections: “Follow me quickly! And don’t ask stupid questions now!”

He dragged you across the street into a wooden building that looked worn and dirty even compared to the rest of the houses on that block of town.

Oolok broke down a rotten wooden door that was boarded up (which was clearly a sign that this building was not someone’s home). You and Oolok got inside this building. Inside the building, your sense of smell experienced great discomfort. The smell here was even stronger than near the sewer. The entire space was littered with rags, rotten garbage, and some rotten wooden boxes. You noticed a lot of rats running around the corners.

Oolok led you down the stairs into some kind of basement room. The stench grew stronger. Your eyes began to water.

Oolok approached one of the walls, near which there were many wooden boxes. He quickly began to throw the boxes aside. A minute later there were no boxes left and you saw a small passage that leads down. This passage is quite narrow, there is clearly a ladder there.

Oolok tells you: “Climb down quickly! I’ll climb after you!”

You carry out the order, although you do not understand the essence of what is happening. You hold on to the handrail of the stairs and you go down this narrow passage.

After a couple of minutes you emerge in some kind of tunnel. You see small dim lamps that are attached to the walls of the tunnel. Thanks to these lamps, you can see at least something here and not wander around in absolute darkness.

Soon Oolok descends after you.

He says: “I moved the large box so that the passage was not so easy to find.”

You timidly ask him, “Can I ask questions now?”

Oolok sighs and replies: “Ask your questions. But fast. We have little time".

You ask: “You said that you have acquaintances in the criminal community of the city of Skelweerd. Why did these bandits attack us?

Oolok replies: “Because they were paid a lot of money and promised even more money for your head. These bandits are not from the community I call the Thieves Guild. They're from the Gallowguys gang. This gang is not the most powerful, but they have significant influence in a couple of outlying slum areas of the city. They are engaged in extortion, contract killings, robberies... The one who wants your **** paid these scums... But this is not the worst thing... Do you know what is much more shitty in this situation?

With a trembling voice, you say, “What do you mean, Oolok?”

The half-orc Oolok grins and answers you: “What I mean is that whoever wants you dead could pay not only the bloody scums from the Gallowguys gang. What do you think will happen to you if the same lucrative orders for your **** were also made to all other gangs of the city, including the most powerful gang - the Thieves Guild?

You are scared silent.

Oolok continues: “I have been using this secret tunnel for a long time. I was doing smuggling then. I didn't tell anyone about this tunnel. Despite the fact that I was then a member of the Thieves Guild. One of the directions of the tunnel leads to the port quarter. Follow me. We need to leave this fucking city as quickly as possible.”