Mercenaries and Adventurers

Just as Kiel and the two were leisurely digging out rabbits at the edge of the forest, a sharp whistle suddenly came from the sentry tower camp.

Keir was shocked, and quickly pulled up his companion lying on the ground: "Whistle sound! Leave the rabbit alone, go quickly." After speaking, Keir pulled him and ran towards the camp.

Before they came out to log, the old hunters had told them that as soon as they heard the whistle, no matter if there was any discovery or danger, the four young men had to come back immediately.

Kiel and the others didn't want to be like Polu, so they all nodded heavily at the time.

The companion happened to be holding a newly caught rabbit in his hand. He broke the little rabbit's neck, kicked the rabbit into his arms, and followed Keir's pace.

On the way back, they met two companions who were leading three horses back.

"Get on your horses! Ride faster!" Keel yelled.

As soon as he got on the horse he usually rode, he fished it out and pulled a fellow hunter onto the horse. There is no saddle and rein on the horse's back, so it is very difficult to sit firmly. Keel had to grab the horse by the mane and bring it close to the other two horses.

On the horse, Keir helped his companions lie down on the horse's back, and then patted the horse's buttocks to let the other two horses follow him.

Although there are large and small stones everywhere, and they are all covered by snow, it is dangerous to ride a horse. But fortunately, when they came, they had already found a safe way to go back and forth, so there was no need to worry about breaking the horse's legs.

Quickly rushing back to the sentry tower, Keir and his companions jumped off their horses in a panic, then opened a gap in the gate, and got in one by one.

As soon as he came in, he asked his companions in the camp at the guard gate: "What's wrong? What happened?"

"There is something approaching in the woods on the south side, and I can't see what it is. For safety, I will let you come back first." An old hunter came down the wooden ladder on the second floor and said.

He went on to say: "All armed, the hunters go to the third floor, open the wooden windows, everyone looks at a window. Keel, you are ready, stay here at the gate, and be alert!"

"Okay." Keel replied quickly.

He came to his room on the second floor, took the weapons for battle, and returned to the first floor to prepare for the battle.

His companions have all gone to the third floor, so there is no way for him to stay here alone.

After waiting for a while, there was a burst of cheers from upstairs, which made Keel a little puzzled. Although I don't know what happened, but since everyone is cheering, it means that it is a good thing after all.

Soon, following the sound of tuk-tuk-tuk going downstairs, a young hunter quickly ran downstairs along the wooden ladder and said to Kiel, "It's Mr. Knight! She has returned with the villagers of the village!"

"Phew." Keel breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he was one of his own.

"Then do you want to open the door to them now?" Kiel came to the door and asked his companion.

Unexpectedly, the companion waved his hand: "No, Knight Lanisa has repeatedly asked that the gate of the camp cannot be kept open, even to welcome her. Wait a minute, and then you will open it for them when they come to call the gate. "

"Okay, so it's like this, it's because I'm afraid of being rushed in by the cunning northern wolf."

"Maybe that's what it means? I'm not very clear, anyway, that's what the knight asked. Let's do it." After finishing speaking, the companion didn't go up, but stood on a wooden pier by the firepit in the corner of the first floor Cut up the food.

Seeing Keir looking at him curiously, his companion explained: "They came here on foot, it's so late, they must be very hungry, we have to get the food ready first."

Kiel nodded, leaning against the inside of the gate and waiting.

After a while, there were voices outside, and the heavy footsteps of Ranisa's knight's warhorse. This voice was already very familiar to Keir, so when he heard the female knight outside asking the people inside to open the wooden door, he opened the bolt of the wooden door and opened the wooden door left and right.

"Everyone go in! It's freezing outside. Keel, how's the situation here? Is there anything wrong?" Knight Lanisa jumped off her horse, landed on the ground with a thud, and asked.

Kiel lifted the visor of his helmet and scratched his nose in embarrassment: "Overall, it went well, except that when we finally returned to the camp, we encountered an ambush from the northern land wolf. Although the old hunter saw through their attack in advance, Bo Lu was still injured."

The female knight took off the knight's helmet, frowned and nodded, knowing that now is not the time to talk, and the most important thing is to let the villagers come in to rest.

This time, there were seven villagers called by Knight Lanisa, all of whom were middle-aged villagers who had participated in the militia training in the past few years. In addition, Mr. Wolf, who is respected in the village, also followed. .

Mr. Worf is in charge of some management and dealing with the knight family in the village, so the villagers accepted the call of the knight, and he had to follow.

One was to manage the camp after the knights and hunters left the camp. The second is that this Mr. Wolf was also a very capable fighter before he settled in Wumi Lake Village, claiming to be.

Regardless of whether they are really capable of fighting or not, Knight Lanisa does not feel that there are few people. If it weren't for the fact that the number of people was useless in fighting the northern wolves in the forest, she would have recruited all the men in the village to follow her into the forest to fight against the wolves.

Northern land wolves are very cunning. If you are strong and there are many of them, they will actively avoid you. You can wander around the forest all winter without even thinking about meeting a northern land wolf.

If you want to fight them, you must at least not make them feel powerless.

The knight asked the villagers to sit down and rest first, and then, in groups of two, wandered around the sentry tower camp to get acquainted with what was on each floor. The others rested on the open space on the first floor and waited for a while to eat.

After taking off the horse's vest, Knight Lanisa fed and watered her horse, and then went upstairs with the helmet in her arms.

Keir also went upstairs, but instead of participating in the conversation between the knight and the old hunter, he returned to his house, took off his things and sorted them out. The villagers rushed over today, and they had to leave tomorrow.

At the same time, Keir still remembered taking out the tail, head and claws of the lizard obtained after defeating the white-scaled lizard before, and prepared to be a knight to appraise it for him, whether these things can be eaten, and what effect they have on people after eating .

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After a while, including the hunter and the villagers, everyone ate by the firepit on the first floor. Each was given a grilled piece of fish and a soup made of fishbone vegetable bread.

The villagers obviously don't have much feeling for fish meat, but they like the thick soup with more bread that looks like a paste.

No matter how you say it, Keir and Mr. Worf met each other once, and after revealing their identities to the other party, they were considered to have known each other. He asked Mr. Wolf why the villagers, including Mr. Wolf himself, preferred soup to fish?

"The men in our village don't know how to fish. They have been tired of eating this food since they were young. Including migrants like me who settled here when they were young, everyone has eaten fish for many years, and they have long been tired of eating that food. Yes. But there are not many fields in the village, so the food is very precious. If the northern land wolf has not been so violent these years, how could it be possible to use food to hide the dried fish transported to Kendall City? Right? With that said, he poured the thick soup into his mouth with a big mouthful of a spoon and began to chew, it seemed that he could eat a full meal of plant food, which satisfied them all.

Keel finds it amused that this is the opposite of the alternative 'why not eat mincemeat'. If you eat too much fish, it is a rare and common food.

It is interesting to say that the south of Wumi Lake Village crosses a large forest that gradually decreases in terrain, and it happens to be a large village in the county that mainly produces grains such as wheat.

Keir half-jokingly told Mr. Wolf that since their village has a lot of fish and less food, while Dorallin Village has more food and less meat. A convoy can be organized between two villages to exchange basic materials.

Although this proposal was correct, it was rejected by the villagers.

"The wolves in the wild are so fierce, who dares to go out with few people. These years, there are corresponding bold guys in the village, but in the end they were all killed by wolves, and only some bones eaten by wolves were found. That's all. Even caravans don't like to come to our village much anymore."

"Who said it wasn't? In the beginning, there were small caravans who were willing to come. With occasional casualties, they gradually stopped coming."

"There are only a few big chambers of commerce that dare to come. Otherwise, the village doesn't even have enough tools, how can it survive?"

The villagers of Wumi Lake talked about these things one after another.

However, Keir proposed a whimsical solution. Since the main area on the west side of the Umi River is seriously affected by wolves, why not find a way to build a path through the forest to the village of Doral Forest far away on the east side of the village.

"Kiel, you think too much. Those northern land wolves have amazing endurance. They can swim across rivers and lakes without any problem. Let alone open a road on the east side of the village. In autumn and winter, sometimes the whole village is surrounded by northern land wolves at night. "Mr. Wolf patted Keir on the shoulder and said helplessly.

Kiel shrugged. It seems that under the condition of unbalanced strength, if the wolves are not wiped out, no matter what Wumi Lake Village does, it will be impossible.

On the other side, Knight Lanisa was talking to the old hunters, and the injured Poru was also sitting on the side. The bandaged wound on his arm was unwrapped by Knight Lanisa for inspection.

A faint layer of life energy emanated from her hand, and she gently touched Polu's arm with her fingers. The criss-crossed arm muscles were completely covered by the thick, scabbed ointment. The blackened hardened ointment looked like a puddle of dry and hard stinky mud, and it tasted quite similar.

Originally, the ointment exuded a fragrance of green grass, but after mixing with a large amount of blood, for some reason, it turned into a smell of stinky mud.

"How does it feel? Does it hurt?" The female knight sat cross-legged by the firepit and asked Polu.

Following the movement of the knight beating his arm, Polu pulled the corner of his mouth: "It just hurts, hiss. It doesn't have the tingling feeling soon after being injured before."

"Originally, you have such a serious injury, do you think it is the same as a small wound?" An old hunter next to him slapped Polu on the head, and reprimanded him in a tone of hatred.

The two are hunters and apprentices, so they speak more harshly. Polu didn't dare to refute, so he pulled the corner of his mouth.

"It's fine if it hurts, but now I'm afraid that the wound will heal quickly. The priests of the Church will heal the divine power. If the injury is healed, they will be powerless. So before returning to the town, it is best to maintain a state that is not yet fully recovered. .”

Seeing the embarrassment on other people's faces, Knight Lanisa felt nothing: "Don't worry, even though he is a young man, if he wants to heal himself, it won't take two months. So Polu, the wound has initially healed." After that, the bleeding will stop, so you don’t need to apply the ointment anymore. After returning to Kendall City, you can find a pastor of the church and heal you soon.”

She paused: "Besides, it's winter now, so don't worry about the wound rotting. If you have nothing to do, go to the window on the third floor and don't stay in the house all the time."

"Yes! I see." Poru felt mixed feelings. Happily, he was relieved to know that his arm could be healed by the priest's divine magic after returning to the city. The worry is that this painful situation will have to be maintained until the end of this crusade and hunting.

Seeing that they had temporarily ended their conversation, Keel leaned over, took out the previous spoils, and showed Knight Lanisa. He first explained what happened during the battle, and then took out the lizard tail that was still twitching after a few days.

The head of the other lizard will not be taken out. In fact, Keir was also taken aback upstairs before.

The thing is still alive.

When Kiel took it out of the bag, it still blinked and stared at Kiel, its mouth was open, its tongue sticking out and flicking around, trying to disgust Kiel with this thing.

Keir was not disgusted, but he was shocked by the vitality of this thing.

At this moment, the severed head section has lost the original flesh and blood tissue, but has an extra layer of milky white covering formed by coagulated blood.

The lizard's claws are also full of vitality, and they will tighten their claws even if they move.

On the edge of the firepit, Knight Lanisa took the tail with white fine scales from Kiel, and looked at it suspiciously: "It has been cut off by you for several days?"

"Really! Fick can testify that we did encounter it on the way to Hekou Town a few days ago. It was still trying to attack us." Keel pulled Fick to testify, and Fick kept nodding.

Knight Lanisa held the lizard's tail in front of her face, then closed her eyes and carefully looked at the things in front of her.

In the middle, with her eyes still closed, she glanced at Kiel several times, but no one paid attention.

After a while, she opened her eyes and said to everyone: "This thing does have a strong magical reaction, but it is different from the magical power of a monster, which is very strange."

The female knight seemed to be puzzled, she took off the thick gloves on her hands, and used her callused fingers to pick apart the flesh and blood that covered the broken tail~www.readwn.com~ She looked at the place where it was picked out, and even smelled it carefully. Smell. Then he put some lizard blood clots that had been snapped off from his fingers into his mouth and licked it with his tongue.

As soon as Knight Lanisa licked it, she shuddered suddenly and took the thing out of her mouth.

"It's strange, it's actually made of ice?" the female knight asked suspiciously.

icy? How can it be.

Everyone touched the lizard's tail curiously, and found that it was not cold, but the same temperature as room temperature.

"It's not like this, but its magic feels cold."

"Magic feeling?" This new word confuses everyone. Many people don't even know the words, let alone talk about mysterious magic. Even so, everyone gathered together, carefully wanting to know more about some weird things.

After thinking about it for a while, Knight Lanisa put the thing on her finger into her mouth and chewed it. Her complexion is not very good, whether it is the smell or the special feeling, it makes her feel uncomfortable.

After swallowing, she finally spoke: "This thing can be eaten, but you can't eat it directly. Once you eat it directly in your mouth, you will die."

"Ah, you'll die if you eat it, but it's still edible?" Keel felt strange.

With a blank look: "I mean, it can't be directly processed and eaten, it must go through some means before it can be eaten by people."

Seeing what Keir wanted to say, Lanisa Knight continued: "Put it in a pile of snow, hang it outside to freeze, and when you return to Kendall City, go to 'Wharton's Full Belly' to find the food inside." Chef, he has a way of handling this thing."

"Is it good to eat?" Fick said excitedly.

"Nonsense!" Knight Lanisa said with a smile.