Mercenaries and Adventurers

The northern land wolf returned along the original road, with a strong and vigorous body, with four wolf claws stepping over flying wild flowers and lush weeds, all the way south from the border area in the northern part of the forest.

Soon he left the dangerous unsheltered area and entered the great forest, shaded by the endless shade of the big trees in the forest.

It stopped to rest for a while, and spit out the glowing vines in its mouth to check for a while. After confirming that it was correct, it continued to set off as before.

Smartly, it remembers all the dangerous areas it encounters on the road, so it avoids those places steadily, and never takes risks at this moment. Even if it feels that its whole body is full of strength and inexhaustible energy at this time.

It ran and ran, trekking all the way in the forest. When the body was too hot in the hot summer, it would look for some ponds and ponds on the road. After boldly jumping in and soaking in the cool water, we immediately hit the road.

Regardless of the roar of other ferocious animals drinking water or guarding the pool behind.

Soon, it took a third of the time it took to return from the northern region to the cold cave where the wolf king lived.

At this time, it was hot all over, and it entered the outside of the wolf king's cave without much thought. The still icy chill in midsummer made him wake up quickly.

At this time, the voice of the wolf king's inquiry came from the depths of the cave.

It immediately got down on the ground, spit out the fresh and glowing vine shoots in its mouth, and explained its situation truthfully with a howl.

Unexpectedly, the wolf king didn't blame it too much for its offense, but praised its intelligence with a smile, and asked it to show the glowing vine that it brought all the way.

Not daring to say no, it picked up the luminous vine buds and quickly walked through the cave road all the way down. Under the light of the pale fluorescent icicles in the deepest part of the cave, it came to the wolf king.

Unexpectedly, at this time the wolf king was lying on the ground, his huge body reclining casually. But in the empty sky in the deepest part of the cave, there are many huge wolf skins with the same coat color as the wolf king flying and floating.

It was startled, and stared blankly at the huge hollow white wolf king furs flying around in the air. The glowing vine shoots in his mouth fell to the ground.

However, following the lazy reminder of the wolf king, it came back to its senses, picked up the things again, and came to the wolf king in small steps, offering the glowing vine buds it got.

The wolf king didn't do anything, just brought the wolf head that was as huge as its whole body closer, stared at it for a while, and then sniffed it.

And then it's over.

It got the instruction, put the thing in its mouth again, and after performing the courtesy, it backed away from the sight of the wolf king.

The wolf king didn't say anything at the end, but was optimistic about its actions this time.

After re-exiting the cold cave, he headed south on a familiar path. When he passed by its wolf den, he was also in a hurry and did not go back to see his companions and the thriving young wolves.

Arriving in the southern part of the big forest, it speeded up and ran all the way according to the previous route. In the middle, it only drank some water in some safe ponds to replenish water, and then dipped some water on its body to cool down.

Go out of the big forest, come to the stone passage, run and jump all the way through it, and come to the smaller southern forest.

This time, it directly followed the scent trail it had left the previous time, bypassing all dangerous and mysterious areas, and safely passed through the entire forest all the way.

Arriving at the hills and mountains in the southern part of the forest, it once again encountered other northern land wolves hunting here. It hurriedly said hello and ran away from them all the way.

After the ground fell, it came to the confluence of open rivers. It finally slowed down, hiding and moving forward cautiously. Because there will be some nasty human hunters coming and going here.

It is very dangerous for a single northern wolf to meet human hunters in groups of two, so it neither hunts nor eats, nor walks swaggeringly in open areas, covering its tracks with lush bushes and weeds along the way .

Carefully came to the outermost edge of the human field, it hid in the grass, while watching humans use wood and metal to plan the ground, remove miscellaneous plants growing in the field, while waiting for the strong sunset, and then take action after dark.

It noticed that several humans who were punished for unknown reasons were trapped on a platform outside the wooden wall of the human lair. These trapped humans who could not protect themselves were exactly what it needed.

It doesn't have to risk being discovered by a large number of human labor groups during the day, rushing out to attack humans during the day. There is no need to find a way to swim around the tall wooden walls after dark at night, and attack the lonely humans in the human lair.

Those are too dangerous.

Once it is discovered, there will be trouble, as it will be chased and beaten by a group of humans. Although humans running on two legs will definitely not be able to catch up to it running on four legs, it will not be able to complete the challenge soon.

With this in mind, it carefully climbed down in the grass, spit out the shriveled glowing vine shoots in its mouth, held it down with its wolf paws, and closed its eyes beautifully to rest.

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On the Muxing Terrace outside the wall of Hekou Town, several young men who were sentenced to Mu Xing for two days for carrying water and queuing to fight were chattering with each other listlessly. The venomous sun was like a short leather whip in the hands of a security militiaman, whipping several of them continuously from above.

The four of them no longer had the energetic look they had when they jumped in line to fight in the morning. The security militiamen didn't ask these boys for a security fine, or rewarded them with a few whips, but gave them a deep enough lesson in a more insidious manner.

That is, they were detained for two days on Muxingtai outside the gate on the north side of the main town of Hekou Town.

This is not only embarrassing, it will be ridiculed by every farmer and peasant woman who goes out of town to farm and take care of the fields, and will even be teased and teased by those half-children surrounding them.

And it also means that they can't help the family's fields for two days. Although the family felt ashamed and didn't mention it much.

The wooden box used to imprison the four of them is the kind that needs to bend down and pass the head and hands through the three wooden holes separated by hinges. A metal spike is inserted into the retaining collar to secure it.

I definitely can't get rid of this thing alone, but if there are outsiders, I can easily release them.

It's just that even the family members dare not.

Of course, it must be hard to be trapped like this. In fact, it's okay, the legs are straight, the buttocks are sticking out, and the posture is ugly. Standing for a day is nothing to these young men. It is very troublesome to eat and excrete.

When family members come over for dinner, the younger brothers and sisters will replace the shameless parents and come over with a small basket to feed the four of them. Although it will be teased by the family, it will be fine if you go back and fix your younger siblings.

At this time, they will also compete with each other for the food sent by the family to see who is the more favored one in the family.

Eating and drinking is easy to solve, but excretion is very troublesome.

Muxingtai is just beside the road outside the north gate of the town, and there are people at the gate of the town at any time, if the four of them want to excrete, they have to turn to the militia guards on the guard towers of the gate with their faces flushed. At this time, the guard militiamen who are a few years older than them will make fun of them and curse them, saying that they have to wait for you little **** to **** and pee.

These guys are not only unforgiving, but also procrastinate in their actions. They often have to dawdle for a while before Shi Shiran comes over and opens the wooden box of the young man who is in a hurry, so that the exhausted young man can go to the side of the field to hurry up. convenient.

If the action is slow, they will be rewarded with a punch or a kick.

Usually, I don't think these guys are hateful. Before this time, the four boys who fought because of queuing would hate these guys very much.

However, all of this is fine. After the sky darkened, the farmers who went out to work scattered back to Hekou Town. The gate outside the town, which was originally very popular, would look particularly scary as the gate on the north side closed. .

They are all guys who grew up in the town since they were young. Naturally, they have heard all kinds of things that their family elders told them when they were young, and used all kinds of horror stories to scare them into going to bed early or helping them with labor.

It was okay at first, although it was dark, the town separated by a wall was full of people, and the sound of every household cooking, crying and laughing made them relatively calm, and the four of them even started chatting, exchanging the horror stories they had heard.

Someone mentioned the story of the underwater monster that fishermen often tell. This story is 100% true. After all, they are residents living at the confluence of rivers. Everyone has more or less seen turning over in the wide and deep river. river monster. But that thing has never attacked humans, so although the monster looks terrifying, in the occasional propaganda by the priests of the Church of the God of Rivers and Lakes, everyone thinks that the monster is a god's creation that the gods love to raise and guard the human waters.

Some fishermen who believe in this will even paint the appearance of the monster on their own fishing boats with expensive waterproof paint to pray for protection and blessing.

I don't know if it will be useful, but at least the priests of the church are very satisfied with what the other party has done.

Another young man talked about the man-eating house that the previous generation had encountered a long time ago. When talking about this, the four of them shuddered. Whether or not the man-eating monsters in the story were made up by the older generation, but the fact that there are many graves in Dukou Town, southwest of Hekou Town, can testify.

After all, they are not horror stories from far away, they are all stories that happened beside them. Although they are not sure whether they are true or not, but the parts involved in that kind of stories overlap with their daily life, they still let them live in this hot and dry place. Feeling chills at night.

The third boy turned his neck, looked at the three moons high in the sky, and told the horror stories he had heard from the merchants.

Not in their Kendal, in other parts of the Far Kingdom, and even beyond, there are monsters that are just like normal people. They wear the appearance of humans, but inside they hide the deep desire from the blood.

Whenever they see two of the three moons being full except the silver moon, they turn into monsters. When the khaki moon is full, they will transform into huge four-legged monsters, running like the wind, with an appetite that cannot be satisfied. When the blood-red moon is full, they will transform into monsters with the general appearance of human beings. They are powerful, eager to kill, and have an unsatisfactory desire to kill.

The other three boys found it interesting, and asked what would happen to the monster if the three moons were all full? What if the silver moon and the khaki moon are full at the same time? Is there a difference between a silvery white moon and a full blood red moon? Finally, if the earth-yellow moon and the blood-red moon are full at the same time, will the monster be particularly powerful? Can the town's lord knight beat it?

The third young man was questioned, and he hesitated and couldn't say anything: "Anyway, the businessman who came to my house to buy grain at that time only said so much. I will ask you about the specific situation next time in autumn." Bar."

The last lad thought it was his turn, so although he was caught, he was still quite excited and told a different horror story he knew.

That's what he heard from his mother, that's what happened this year. In the spring, a woman who hitchhiked alone from a caravan from the south came to join their neighbor next door. At first, everyone didn't think much about it. After all, everyone was basically migrants from other places. After arriving in a place , Naturally, they will go to relatives and friends. It is also easier for a single woman to settle down in an unfamiliar area, as long as she finds a young man to marry and it is over, and she will soon integrate into the local production and life.

But after the woman defected to his neighbor, it didn't take long for everyone to find out that she had been pregnant for a long time. In spring, they thought she was wrapped in thick clothes, so they didn't find out.

But that's okay, as long as the child is healthy, it's too late for Hekou Town, which lacks population, to welcome it. The young men in the town who don't have a married family don't care, after all, the child can be adopted by his neighbors to raise it. They are all immigrants, and everyone can basically understand everything that happened to the woman during the long journey alone. For example, the husband who migrated together got sick and died on the road, or met a scumbag who took advantage of his body on the road and ignored it, or was taken advantage of by male migrants with malicious intentions in the team during the journey, etc. .

We have actually seen a lot.

But the woman was not only depressed, but also quite desperate. Some time ago, at the junction of spring and summer, the woman gave birth to a child.

Before the priests of the church went over to bless the newborn child, something unexpected happened. After the woman took a look at her child, she immediately went crazy, regardless of the obstruction of his neighbors, and strangled him alive. The newborn child died.

This incident made the church priests who came later think it was an ominous omen, so they immediately cremated the dead baby. Unexpectedly, during the burning, not only a lot of black smoke came out from the baby's small body, but also those black smoke The smoke condensed into a terrifying monster.

Although it was scary to say, the priests of the church still used means to wipe out the black smoke and the baby's corpse on the ground.

The scene at that time could have been seen by half the town.

Speaking of this, the other three young men all remembered that one day not long ago, when they were working in the fields, a very high and very strange light rose from the houses of the residents on the side of the town.

At that time, everyone was ordered not to inquire about it by the old men in the town, but they did not expect this to be the case behind it.

A young man then asked what happened to the woman who had given birth.

The fourth boy explained the follow-up situation with an ugly face.

After that, before the priests could interrogate the woman, the woman ran out of the house and committed suicide by throwing herself into the water. The other party is not a local, has not been here for a long time, and has not yet learned how to swim, so he was quickly washed downstream by the rolling Kendall River, and it was too late for everyone to rescue him by boat.

What happened to that woman during the journey along the way, so with the death of that person, it became a matter that they will never understand.

After the story was finished, the boys didn't feel the heat anymore, they just felt that this midsummer night was a bit cool. They have some regrets, they shouldn't have done this. However, they were tortured at this time, and they couldn't rest. At least it would not end until tomorrow evening. This night, they must suffer.

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However, something that frightened them even more came soon.

Compared with illusory horror stories, or mysterious events that have nothing to do with them, for the four boys, when not far away from the surrounding field roads, there was a sound of animal footsteps, and When approaching them in a straight line, the four young men, who had just heard the horror story and became full of energy, realized that the story was a story after all, and it was completely incomparable with the life-threatening things.

There are illuminated torches on the north gate of the town not far from Muxingtai, so even though it is midnight, with the light of the fire in the distance and the little shadow brought by the stars and moon in the sky, you can still see the surrounding space clearly.

They soon discovered two bright bright spots hanging in the air from the dirt road they were walking towards. The thing stared straight at the four of them, and then approached them with the sound of footsteps.

At first, the four boys thought it was something from a horror story, so they were very scared, talking nonsense like sorry or I dare not. But as the two bright spots approached, they finally discovered what it was.

It was the eye of a wolf as big as a man.

So they became even more frightened. After all, compared with ghosts, this kind of real life-threatening thing is still more terrifying, especially they can often hear that the caravans that come and go are attacked by wolves, and everyone is killed. , Who is about to lose legs or palms by wolves.

"No!"

"Guards! Guards! There are wolves!"

But as soon as the two boys yelled, the northern land wolf approaching from the opposite side quickly approached, and showed a fierce look on their faces. This made them unable to yell a word~www.readwn.com~ Obviously, if they yelled, the wolf as big as a man in front of them would brutally bite their heads.

That's all, if the wolf on the opposite side circles behind, it will be even worse.

The four young men trembled all over and struggled hard to shake the wooden stump that trapped them. Unfortunately, as ordinary people, they could not destroy this thing when they were trapped.

"What to do, what to do?" A young man asked his companions in a low voice with his teeth chattering.

Because the voice was not loud, the wolf on the opposite side didn't say anything, but walked to Muxingtai step by step, looking at the four of them curiously.

"I don't know, I don't know. If you ask me, who am I to ask? The God of Saturn, the great God of Agriculture, come and save your believers. I will never tell those stories again. Really never again."

"Me too, me too, it's all my fault, why start talking about this, please save me, please save me. I will never jump in line when fetching water again."

The northern land wolf sniffed their buttocks, which made one of the most timid boys pee out, and the northern land wolf, who was as big as a man, moved away from him in disgust.

Coming back to the four of them, the northern wolf put the wolf's head in front of the four boys, and sniffed their faces with its black nose. I was stunned.

With a strange cry, he fell limply on the wooden guard. As soon as he fell, he stretched his neck, and soon his face turned purple and black when he was in a coma.

Although the other three young men looked terrified, they all realized that if they fainted at this time, they would die on the wooden stump instead.

So they just closed their eyes tightly, chatting with chattering teeth.