Soul echo

Chapter 236 Tracking Goblins
After tidying up and bringing food and fresh water for a few days, Zhong Ye and Lilian set off.

Although they are now investigating the hallucinogen flooding incident, Zhong Ye left almost all his money in 'Military City'.

In this world, it is difficult to move without money. In order to continue traveling, they can only make money like ordinary adventurers. Otherwise, let alone combat supplies, they can't even replenish food.

Zhong Ye himself could say that his weapons are all extraordinary equipment, and there will not be too many bumps and wears in normal battles, and they only need a little polishing and maintenance. However, Lilian's fighting skills are not enough to make up for the lack of defense. There are defects, so it is necessary to equip armor, plus weapon repair, it will cost a lot of money after a battle.

Therefore, it is necessary for them to perform missions.

The area marked by the Adventurer's House that seems to have goblin tribe activities is not far from Limas, just in the forest to the east and north of this town.

That area has been thought to be close to the wilderness, and a little further east is the Alps.

——The Alps in this world seem to be more to the northwest than the earth, so the eastern part of the Gaul Kingdom is also touched with a little edge of the Alps.

Zhong Ye had already taught Lilian how to walk, and secretly used soul debris to speed up her learning. Therefore, the skill [Lightness Kung Fu] appeared on Lilian's system panel, allowing her to keep up with Zhong Ye's footsteps.

As long as Zhong Ye doesn't explode with all his strength and slows down a bit, Lilian can easily follow behind him.

Although the skill [Lightness Kung Fu] appeared on the system panel, Lilian didn't think it was due to her extraordinary talent. If she was really that smart, she wouldn't be able to learn calculus.

After leaving the city, Zhong Ye and Lilian walked for about half a day and came to a village.

According to the information given by the Adventurer's House, this village was once attacked by goblins.

When Zhong Ye and the others expressed their intentions, the people in the village were overjoyed.

They reported the incident, but it was winter, and there was a snowstorm a few days ago, and the enemies were just a group of goblins. They never expected that someone would come to help them solve their troubles so soon.

This kind of thing used to be solved by relying on several villages to unite and hire adventurers, and it is the same now, but this time the task is placed in the adventurer's home, and there is no need for people to stay in the city to find people who are willing to take action. adventurer.

Facing Zhong Ye and Lilian, the villagers of this village showed a very warm welcoming attitude. This may be because they both have good looks, better than most of the adventurers.

Although there were only two of them, Zhong Ye's self-confidence also infected the villagers and made them tell more details about the situation.

Not long after reporting the situation, their village was attacked by goblins, but because of the ensuing blizzard, they didn't have time to repair the fence. Until now, the village fence is still missing a piece.

The villagers brought Zhong Ye to the fence that was smashed down by the goblin, and let him look at it a few times, trying their best to describe how much danger the goblin could bring to their village, in order to arouse Zhong Ye's sympathy.

Their words are pale and thin, but they don't know it.

Zhong Ye didn't pay attention, and patiently listened to their narration, then nodded, and led Lilian out of the village to track down those goblins.

According to the villagers, the goblins should have emerged from a more easterly direction—at least when the goblins retreated, the footprints they left pointed to the east.

After a blizzard, the snow had melted a lot, so naturally there were no footprints. Zhong Ye and Lilian could only rely on the clues given by the villagers to trace the past.

To the east of the village is a dense forest, but the leaves of the forest have all fallen off, only a pile of large and small icicles hanging under the branches, which looks very dangerous.

However, those icicles looked fragile, but they were actually very stable, and they wouldn't fall off easily.

Lilian followed Zhong Ye to walk in this forest, looking left and right while also being wary of the icicles hanging above, for fear that if she was not careful, she would be crushed to death by the icicles.

She knew that Zhong Ye would definitely help her, but she also had to grow up, and she couldn't always be protected by Zhong Ye with peace of mind.

Zhong Ye and Lilian have been patrolling the outskirts of this forest, trying to find the traces left by the goblin activities, but unfortunately things backfired, and they did not find any clues until dusk.

The two did not return to the village, but found a cave in the forest and lived in it.

It is not easy to find dry branches to use as firewood in this icy and snowy land, but Zhong Ye has strong perception ability, as long as he finds one firewood, he can find more by virtue of the 'similarity'.

At the same time, his survivability and knowledge in the winter forest are also improving rapidly under the impetus of perception.

This is why extraordinary people are called 'extraordinary' - not just because their attributes are superior to ordinary people.

"Teacher, are we thinking wrong?"

Huddled in her sleeping bag, Lilian turned her eyes away from the fire and looked at Zhong Ye, "Maybe the goblins did escape to the east, but it was just that they were in a panic? In fact, they ran to other places later?"

"It's possible." Zhong Ye nodded, not denying Lilian's thoughts.

This cave is not too deep, and I don't know how it appeared. There is no smell inside, only a faint smell of earth.

What's more, it's winter now, as long as you don't care about it, the smell of earth is nothing at all.

The night slowly eroded the sky, and the light was escaping, and Zhong Ye and the others immediately became dark.

After eating the boring dry food, Zhong Ye was about to start teaching Lilian, who was back online, when his ears moved and he looked towards the entrance of the cave.

Lilian looked up, and just as she was about to get out of her sleeping bag, she saw Zhong Ye kick lightly, bringing up a gust of wind pressure, and extinguishing the fire in the fire.

There was darkness in front of my eyes, and I couldn't see anything.

But Lilian didn't feel scared, she knew that Zhong Ye was by her side.

The girl closed her mouth sensiblely, and didn't make a sound to ask what happened.

Since Zhong Ye was about to extinguish the fire, he must be trying to hide their existence. If he speaks out at this time, it will break Zhong Ye's plan.

"...Looks like a goblin."

A voice sounded not far away, Lilian's lips were slightly pursed, and she retracted her head into her collar to cover her hot face.

It's just that she didn't know that Zhong Ye had already closed his eyes at this time, listening intently to the cries that drifted with the wind.

He was not familiar with those voices, after all, he had only been in contact with goblins once or twice.

However, the goblin's iconic voice is indeed unforgettable, even if you only hear it once or twice, as long as you hear it again, it is easy to remember.

"Why did the goblins appear at this time?" Lilian asked in a muffled voice, "Don't they have night blindness?"

Although goblins are creatures from other worlds, their body structure is actually not much different from the creatures in the Dan world. Otherwise, they would have been killed by the environment when they first came to this world, and it would be impossible to reproduce so many.

In terms of 'night blindness', goblins are similar to humans, except for congenital night blindness, most of them are due to 'malnutrition'.

Most humans in this era are "acquired night blindness", and the goblins are similar. This kind of night blindness cannot be cured casually, and requires long-term nutritional supplementation and treatment.

But, can 'goblin' be associated with 'long-term nutrition and healing'?

At least in the world of "Echo of Soul", it is impossible.

"...they are not night blind."

Zhong Ye opened his eyes and let out a breath of hot air slowly.

He pointed to his ears, "I heard it, they didn't hit the tree, they didn't trip over, they were walking normally."

This also means that those goblins do not have 'night blindness'.

- They are not 'malnourished'!

(End of this chapter)