Mercenaries and Adventurers

Following the rough wooden ladder, Keir arrived at the second floor of the sentry tower at the supply point camp with an oil pot in one hand and an oil lamp in the other.

The place on the second floor is quite cramped, and after the wooden ladder goes up, there is a walkway around the outer wall of the sentry tower. The aisle can only be used by one person, and the inner side is a small room.

The rough room didn't have a door lock, and Zhao Ji opened it with a push.

The room next to the wooden ladder is a storage room, and there are many pots and pans in it. Zhao Ji didn't care too much, took a look and left. The house next to it is a living room. The room is small, with only a simple low wooden bed and a few wooden shelves fixed on the wall.

I looked at several houses along the aisle, and they were all the same.

Only one is slightly larger, with an extra desk in the middle of the room and a wooden box for storing things. This should be a room for Knight Lanisa.

Going around along the back-shaped walkway, Zhao Ji stepped on the wooden ladder from the first floor to the second floor on the back of the wooden ladder to the third floor.

The place is relatively empty, surrounded by closed wooden windows, and there is a toilet covered with animal skins in the corner. He poked his head in and took a look, and found that the defecation channel was directly connected to the outside of the sentry tower diagonally.

That's convenient because there's no need to clean up. Moreover, this passage is not big, and it is in a relatively high place, so there is no need to worry that small animals outside will sneak in and settle down when no one is around.

Zhao Ji opened a wooden window, and looked at the dark mountains and forests in the distance by the last faint light on the horizon.

The darkness is like a beast, crawling in the shadows, watching every life that tries to conquer it. Only the most powerful and ferocious creatures can get its approval and get everything they want from it.

Looking at the deep dark forest, Zhao Ji asked himself, what does he want to get from here?

wealth?

He secretly sold dozens of tons of silver boards, probably not short of money in his life.

strength?

Crow Knight has already made a deal with him, and next spring will teach him how to become a knight-level fighter.

fame?

He didn't even have a settled house in the local area, and he gained some fame by fighting monsters.

what is that?

Breathing the cold air, Zhao Ji thought silently.

perhaps.

Is a desire for adventure and exploration driving him?

He wanted to see the animals living in that forest, the weird and terrifying monsters.

Fight against ferocious wolves yourself and conquer these ferocious animals.

Get through this winter to the fullest.

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"Keil, what are you doing?" Someone behind suddenly spoke, making Kiel come back from his contemplation.

Turning around, it turned out to be Knight Lanisa who had removed her armor. She was wearing a not-so-thick hunting suit and a cloth cape embroidered with her family crest.

"It's Mr. Knight. I just lost my mind while looking at the forest outside."

She patted Kiel on the shoulder. She was tall and taller than Kiel. It was easy and natural to pat Kiel on the shoulder: "The conditions here are not good, and the crusade activities on this trip are quite dangerous, right? You are the one who just joined the team."

Smiling, Keir said, "I figured it out just now. For me, none of this matters."

The female knight gave Kiel a blank look: "It's not important, so what's important?"

Keir pointed to the deep and dark mountain forest outside the wooden window: "Adventure, conquer the forest, and prove yourself."

"It's not a small tone. Hey, I used to think the same way, when I first walked out of Kendal and came to the big city. I thought that with my own ability and hard work, I could always get a job there that would satisfy me. success."

She leaned against the wall, waving her hands and talking.

"After that, you may have heard of it. The responsibility of the family and the obligation of the knight came one after another. It disrupted every arrangement of my life. &%%￥%."

"Now, I trust the weapons in my hands more than the quills and paintbrushes I used to pick up. When I defeated the first monster, I still felt that I could go back to my previous life. But I broke the hundredth When I saw only the head of a monster or a human, I had forgotten my previous life."

Keir rubbed his nose: "Perhaps defeat them this winter, and from next year, the old life may come back?"

Knight Lanisa squinted her eyes at Kiel, and sized him up carefully, especially the long sword on Kiel's waist: "You are familiar with Knight Crowe, right? Then you must have heard about next year's matter."

Keir did have vague guesses about next year's events, and Knight Crowe hinted at him more than once. He hesitated and nodded slightly.

Although there was only one oil lamp on the third floor of the sentry tower, resulting in insufficient lighting, Knight Lanisa's sharp eyes still noticed Kiel's movements.

"You know. So the peaceful life you mentioned next year will definitely be gone for me. Keel, you are the same. Knight Crowe will not let go of any power he thinks he can use. This This matter cannot be revealed to others yet, remember to keep your mouth shut.”

"I understand, I won't say more." Kiel nodded sharply.

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Using the plump fish tails from the lake that they had obtained before, and the clean snow from the ground outside, the old hunters cooked a pot of fish soup beautifully.

Each of us was given a large bowl of fish soup, soaked the frozen hard bread, and finally didn't have to waste our teeth chewing those scary bread.

In the evening, everyone was assigned the next task by the female knight. Keel and a young hunter returned to Bayou Town with a carriage and horses. The knight himself will ride to Wumi Lake Village early tomorrow morning. As for the other two old hunters and one young hunter, they need to tidy up the supply point camp and send someone to watch the surrounding open space on the top of the third-floor sentry tower.

See if those cunning wolves have some surprises in store for their hunters.

This time, they brought a cart full of gifts to the wolves.

the next morning.

After Keir got up, he took out his armor and put it on, and put some necessary items into his backpack. He lifted the backpack, equipped his weapons and equipment, and went downstairs.

The horses are drinking water from the barrel. The water was scooped up from the snow outside and then slowly roasted on the edge of the firepit. Some were given to the horses to drink, some they used to drink themselves.

What I drink in the morning is the belly of the lake fish, and the belly of the huge lake fish is enough for everyone to eat.

The fat-rich and soft belly is very delicious. The wooden spoon slides into the throat as soon as it is put into the mouth, and there are no fishbone troubles. The soup is mellow and delicious.

Kiel and the hunters who returned to Hekou Town took only a little food and set off with an empty carriage.

Since Hekou Town is located in the lower part of the south, they can be said to go down the river when returning to Hekou Town on this trip.

There is also an easy thing to go back. They just need to follow the snow traces when the carriage came and go back along the road. It saves you the trouble of finding your way.

The weather is also more beautiful, although it is still cloudy, but at least it is no longer snowing.

The carriage led the way, and Kiel followed on horseback. He shouldered a wooden spear, alert to the surrounding wilderness.

What they need to be careful of is not only the cunning and ferocious wolves, but also other hungry animals.

During the day, they quickly walked most of the way back, and when they were resting at night, Keel was most nervous.

After simply feeding the horses, the young hunter armed himself and sat by the campfire to doze off, while Keel leaned on a spear and kept vigilant about the dark snow-covered wilderness around him.

The horses discovered something before Kiel. They wiggled their long ears, neighing uncomfortably and looking at Kiel.

Keir became vigilant, and he walked around the simple camp, holding the spear in his left hand and drawing the long sword at his waist with his right hand.

Feeling Kiel's fighting spirit, the blade of the long sword brightened up, as bright as the campfire.

Following the white light from the long sword, Keel saw a pair of eyes shining brightly in the snow in the distance slowly recede. He shouted there, trying to scare him away.

As a result, the thing was frightened by Kiel, but it aroused its ferocity. It made strange noises and slowly approached Kiel.

After getting close, a large reflective circle suddenly appeared around the opponent's reflective eyes.

With the light of the long sword and the reflection of the surrounding snow, Kiel finally saw what it was.

A huge pure white lizard approached Kiel step by step with a circle of reflective finned bony spurs spread out on its head.

Its soles are wide, so it is stepping on the thick snow, its mouth is open, and it makes a demonstrative snapping sound.

Kiel looked at his opponent, inserted the long sword into the snow beside him, and then took out the giant axe from behind and held it in both hands.

"I'm afraid you won't succeed, come here! Big lizard!" Keir also yelled.

Stimulated by Kiel, the white lizard quickly swung its six legs and galloped over the snow, its mouth full of sharp and fine teeth.

A few meters away from Kiel, it swooped with power and opened its mouth to bite Kiel.

Keir was not a vegetarian either, so he swung his ax out and accurately hit the pounced white lizard in the air.

But the feeling from the handle of the ax wasn't right, Kiel suddenly realized.

It didn't have the refreshing feeling of the ax's usual force. After the ax hit the lizard's head, it hit the opponent's unusually tough skull.

The lizard that was hit fell on Kiel, kept swinging its six legs, and scratched Kiel with its sharp claws. But it doesn't know that some humans are protected by tough armor.

After falling down, he ignored the lizard that was scratching it, and directly withdrew his legs and kicked hard, kicking the big white lizard that was as heavy as a person into the air.

Keel rolled sideways, squatted up and raised the axe. Taking advantage of the large lizard that had fallen on its back, it turned around and landed on its front, and then swung down the blue ax that was held high with both hands.

"die!"

With a crackling sound, Kiel's ax split open the lizard's skull, pinning the lizard in place.

It seemed that the guy had been beaten and blinded. Keel tried to pull out the axe, but the ax seemed to be stuck on the opponent's hard head.

Fortunately, at this time, an arrow flew across the side of the body, and accurately pierced the reflective vertical pupil of the white lizard.

"Crack!" The lizard screamed, spinning and twisting wildly on the ground.

Killsong left the ax in his hands, jumped back, turned around and grabbed the long sword stuck in the snow to hunt.

Feeling his killing intent, the blade of the long sword burst into light, and then quickly converged to the surface of the long sword.

Kiel ran two steps and jumped up one by one. The long sword turned upside down and leaped down. Regardless of the big lizard's rollover, it directly stabbed the lizard's middle part backwards.

The white smooth and hard scales on the lizard's surface didn't work this time. It was directly pierced by the narrow and sharp point of the sword. It grabbed the other side of the huge white lizard's body and plunged directly into the ground.

White light gushed out from the lizard's wound, and Kiel let go of the sword hilt, stepped on the lizard's body with one foot, and stood firm with the other. Grasping the handle of the ax with both hands, it swung it from side to side and tossed the lizard fixed in place, hissing again and again.

Finally, after repeated several times, the ax was loosely pulled out from the lizard's hard head.

Taking a step back, he swung his ax and slashed at the lizard's side belly. Keel had already seen the hardness of this guy's head, so he decided to attack in another place.

When the ax goes down, the scales on the white abdomen are splashed, the sound of the collision and friction between the surface of the ax and the scales is almost like that of iron, and the metal trembles and makes a sharp cry.

With another blow of the axe, white blood splashed out from the wound on the lizard's abdomen, not only the outer scales, but also the muscles of this thing's body were very hard and resilient, almost ruthless.

The lizard seemed to feel a sense of fatal danger. At this moment, it finally dragged its six limbs desperately. After its body was fixed on the ground by the long sword, it kept trying to move.

The result was beyond everyone's and monster's expectations.

Kiel's long sword stabbed into the ground and remained motionless, but was crazily turned by the white lizard that pierced through his body. The final result was that half of his body was cut off by the edge of the sword.

It was free, but half the width of the torso had been severed by itself.

A large amount of flesh and blood gushed out from the broken hole, and the lizard was tenacious, lying on the spot for a long time before it stopped moving.

"Is he dead?" The young hunter, aiming with a bow and arrow, slowly approached and asked Kiel doubts.

"It's hard to say. The vitality of this thing is very tenacious, let me try." Keel drew out his long sword.

The long sword that was originally fixed on the ground as if it had taken root was easily pulled out by Kiel, which surprised Kiel himself.

But now was not the time to be amazed at the magic of the weapon, he took the spear stuck in the snow from one side, and carefully stabbed the lizard with the tip of the spear.

The lizard was stabbed several times with no major head injuries.

The lizard didn't move.

He stabbed the lizard's torso wound cut off by his action again.

As a result, the lizard, which appeared to be dead, swung its tail, deflecting Kiel's spear aside.

The eye that was not blind also turned around, no longer pretending to be dead, and stared closely at the two of Kiel.

"It seems to be playing dead. Good guy, the vitality of this thing is really tenacious." Keel said so.

The young hunter pointed at the white lizard's wound in panic and shouted: "Look there, Keel, the white blood on the surface of its wound has covered the wound, and no new blood will flow out."

After seeing it, Keir was also amazed at the tenacious vitality of this little monster.

"It's okay, it's body recovery ability is far from that of that spider monster. Watch me split it in half!" Keel said, put the long sword back into its sheath, turned the ax half a circle in his hand, and came to the lizard. On the other side, he raised his ax and slashed along the lizard's previous wound.

The lizard that was chopped reacted very much, it kept struggling, but because its body was almost divided into two halves, the front and back movements of the body were different.

Kiel avoided its sporadic counterattacks, seized the opportunity, and raised his ax to strike down.

Soon the huge white lizard was split in half.

Half occupies a small part of the body, including the head and a pair of front paws. The back body contains most of the abdomen, four claws and a long tail.

"How about it! Now it's up to you whether you will die or not." Keir was triumphant, and put the ax on the ground.

Unexpectedly, even if it was like this, the limb containing the head directly swung its left and right claws in sequence, driving the head to move rapidly around the campfire.

The other half of the body is even more exaggerated. Its tail was suddenly jumped straight, and then the scales split from the base of the tail, and the muscles underneath burst open, blowing off its own tail directly.

After the two separated, the tail was no longer stretched, and began to shrink and twist continuously, bouncing on the ground.

And the torso with no head or tail swings its four legs and slams into the surrounding snow, rumbling under the snow and running into the darkness against the snow.

Keir couldn't catch up at all, and after just two steps, he couldn't catch up.

But he couldn't care less about that.

The lizard's head changed its target, and it stared closely at the hunter who shot it blind in one eye. The head without a body kept opening and closing its mouth, trying to bite the hunter's calf.

When the lizard's teeth opened and closed, there was a sound of hard teeth colliding.

"Keir, save me!~" The young hunter let out a strange cry, jumped out of the awning of the carriage, stepped on the wheels, and tightly grasped the thick tarpaulin.

Kiel kicked the unstoppable white lizard's tail away with one kick, then rushed over, and chopped off a claw on the side of the lizard's head with an axe.

Then with an axe, the other claw was cut off directly.

"Now you are finished!" Keel said with a strange expression.

The lizard seems to be very stubborn, although there is only one head left. But it was still biting the wheel of the carriage tightly with its mouth, not relaxing at all.

"Okay, now it can't move anymore." After finishing speaking, Keel sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

And the hunter also jumped out of the carriage, carefully pushed aside the lizard's claws with his bow, and then looked at the one-eyed head of the lizard that was still alive~www.readwn.com~ There was only one head left, and the lizard also used the remaining one The eyes stared at the young hunter, blinking every once in a while.

The young hunter had fought huge monsters before, so he wasn't afraid of this incapable guy staring at him at all. He looked around and saw that the monster's body was gone.

Asked about Kiel, Kiel pointed straight to the scattered snow beside him and said, "Damn it, that thing is really evil. It didn't have a head and a tail, and it just went straight into the snow and ran away."

"It doesn't matter. It has no head and nothing to eat. Even if it is tenacious, it will die slowly somewhere."

"That's right, I thought so too." Kiel nodded.

As soon as he finished speaking, the white tail of the lizard next to him bounced and twisted on the ground, and hit Kiel's helmet all of a sudden.

boom.

Kiel sighed, got up from the ground in silence, found a piece of rope in the carriage, grabbed the tail that was still full of vitality, tied it in the middle with the rope, and hung it directly in the middle of the carriage, hanging in the air. hanging.

He and the hunter crossed arms and looked at the tail of the lizard writhing in the air, and they looked at each other.

"Have you seen this scene?"

"No. Have you seen it?"

"I do not have either."

"Say, can this thing be eaten?"

"It's hard to say, there is a possibility of dying."

"Would you like to try?"

"I don't try, you try?"

"You don't even try, and it's even more impossible for me to try. Go to sleep, Keel, you can't sleep tonight. You keep your whistle tonight, and I'll drive tomorrow, so you can rest in the car."

"Okay. I look around, you go to sleep, but don't fall asleep. If there is movement, protect yourself."