Neighbors in forbidden land

"Hey! Wu Shao, where have you been? Why did you take so long to come back?" When I returned to the camp, I was startled by the unaccustomed loud voice of the foreman. around.

It was a seasoned mercenary who had defeated many monsters alone. This can be seen from the strong arms under his gray short sleeves and the hideous scars printed on them. Underneath are the smiling brown pupils, different from the bold and unrestrained appearance, the beard on the face is cleanly shaved.

"Agile Tiger", this is the title given to him by others, no matter his appearance or strength is worthy of his title, but I always feel that it is his voice that makes him get this title...

And this person treats his companions very kindly... Although I'm just a newcomer, I can tell that this person doesn't get angry easily... But even with such a voice occasionally, I always feel that I will have tinnitus.

"That... ran a little farther, I want to confirm the situation over there." I hurriedly stood upright to answer his question.

According to my rough estimate, the place we docked this time is to the east of where I logged in last time. It is about ten kilometers away from the location where His Royal Highness Yimi and the others are. I took over the exploration mission to the west, except that we need to tell His Royal Highness Yimi about the fact that a dozen of us have come here, but I think that if we let other people go west... although they may not go You may not meet His Royal Highness Yimi and the others even if you travel so far, but I don't know what will happen...

It’s like I accidentally trampled to death the tree planted by His Royal Highness Yimi... By the way, how can there be trees in such a place for His Royal Highness Yimi and the others to plant...

Forgot to ask.

"Really? Then report the situation." The voice of the foreman brought me back to my senses, is it... If only I could keep talking in this volume.

"No matter how far you go there, the situation is similar to this side."

"Didn't you see the calamity... Haha, I really asked a stupid question. If I met you, a little girl, would I be able to come back?" The team leader laughed to himself, and I had to laugh along with me.

The purpose of the team leader coming here seems to be for the disaster... When the disaster hit the town last time, the team leader was not in the city because he went out to hunt down monsters, so I heard that he always has a challenging spirit. After knowing that disaster is not a legend, I decided to regard disaster as the goal of the challenge...

To be honest, how can something like that be beaten to death... I pride myself on being a bigot, but I'm pretty scared when I see something like that...

"Then... the neighborhood is temporarily safe, right? Then—" the foreman suddenly raised his voice and yelled at the people on the beach, "Now come and fix the boat with me!"

I hurriedly covered my ears, I was already shocked, can I say it in advance when I shout next time...

"Haha, little girl, just get used to it, otherwise these guys won't be able to hear you at all." As he said that, he slapped me on the back... Fortunately, I didn't use any force.

It's still the right volume now...

So we started to fix the boat, and the people on the boat fixed one end of the special rope on the boat, and then threw the other end with the hook down.

Our task is to drive the ground spikes into the ground and hang the hooks on them to secure the boat.

This kind of thing is not uncommon to me, and there is no problem of difficulty. After all, I am not a spoiled child. Girls who grew up in this era are actually similar.

His Highness Yimi's words... Forget it, he is a member of the royal family after all.

I raised the hammer with an acceptable weight and length, and aimed it with both hands at the metal ground spike that was simply inserted into the beach with a length of more than one meter.

Some ground nails need to be placed on the dirt land away from the beach. After all, it is not safe to place all the ground nails on the beach, but I just want to say that the sand on the beach is better than the mud. The land is much looser, but it is not easy to completely smash a ground spike more than one meter long into the sand.

I swung the hammer round and hit it accurately on the ground nail. The strong and heavy feeling was fed back through my hands. I hurriedly used the reaction force to swing the hammer again and hit it again. I looked at the ground nail amidst the heavy bang bang A small section submerged in the sand grains.

The more you go down, the harder it is. Everyone knows this kind of problem.

"Not bad, little girl, just by looking at this action, you can tell that you have done it before!" The team leader who was also smashing nails not far from me showed a hearty smile at me... His actions are similar to mine, the only difference is that he is He was swinging the hammer with one hand, and I was already sweating, but he looked relaxed.

"Ah... yes, I'm so proud of you. After all, the team leader you said that those who dare to come here are people with two brushes!" I adjusted my breathing and smashed it down with the hammer, watching the nails splashing on the ground. Buried deeper and deeper in the sand.

"Yo, you still remember this sentence."

"That's...natural!"

That's what the team leader said when I boarded the boat and headed here. What I was thinking at the time was that I'm sorry, I really don't have two brushes, it's just luck.

After all the pegs were smashed into fixed positions, we hooked the hooks with ropes thrown from the boat on the pegs, and then started tightening the ropes to fix the boat as instructed by the leader.

After finishing, it looks like there are more than a dozen ropes tied to the boat.

The other side seems to be anchored with a boat anchor for balance, but that's not my job.

Because our work is much more than that.

Like His Royal Highness Yimi and the others, we also need to solve the problem of food and accommodation.

The first is to live. It is necessary to set up a tent, but it is not just a tent for accommodation.

"Bathroom tents, warehouse tents, meeting tents..." A woman in a black cloak was holding a book and muttering to it.

This is the deputy team leader, whose identity... is unknown.

That's right, unidentified.

Even though the weather is not cool, she always wears a white cloak that wraps her whole body. Even her face is hidden in the hood. From the curve of the cloak and the sound of her body, she can be roughly judged to be a woman about my age. .Her role as deputy team leader was appointed by the guild, and the team leader didn't seem to have any objections.

By the way, the guild is an intermediary organization that sorts out and coordinates various tasks issued by the client and the entrusting agency, and then distributes them to us adventurers.

"...and toilet tents, these need to be set up as soon as possible." Her voice is also clear and light, but in fact she is not indifferent, she will accept other people's conversation and will take the initiative to talk to others, but she can't look at her face .

Because the last person who tried to do it has been knocked to the ground by magic.

That's right... She seems to be very capable. She knows a lot and knows a lot of magic. She is also doing alchemy to refine sea water into fresh water. It is not surprising that she can become the deputy leader.

"As for the need to use the bathing tent and toilet tent...Miss Wu Shao." The sudden emergence of my name from her mouth made me slightly startled, and then I subconsciously turned to look at her.

"What's the matter? What's the matter?" But her face, hidden in the shadow of the white hood, was still out of sight.

"There are not many women in this team. There is no need to set up a tent for us. When we need it, we can help each other out and keep the sentry to avoid other men from approaching. What do you think of this suggestion?"

"This? Um... yes, I can do anything."

She is really capable, and I can still do it by smashing nails, moving things and building a tent, but if I want to coordinate and design other things, I will definitely not be able to do it.

And this temporary camp seems to be what she planned.

"It's fine if you agree." After she finished speaking, she turned her eyes back to the book in her hand, and began to mutter again: "The setting of the guard post...the measures for emergency evacuation...the plan for the use of living materials..."

I saw that she didn't seem to have anything else to look for me, so I ran to set up the tent after taking a look at her who had been standing still.

Speaking of which, why did she suddenly talk to me... There are obviously other women who came together this time.

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After the most basic tents were set up, the sky had already turned dark, and the sun set along the west as usual, but it would rise from the east tomorrow.

How strange.

The deputy team leader has successfully converted the sea water into fresh water with the seemingly complicated bottles and jars she brought. Although the amount at one time is not unlimited, as long as it is not wasted, the problem of drinking water is considered a problem. solved.

Thinking that His Royal Highness Yimi and the others actually dug out underground water for drinking, and dug ditches to bring the water to various locations, so that there is water to drink when they go out, it can only be said that they are indeed worthy of the royal family. There is such a good treatment everywhere...

It's all because of that monster... that girl, right?

I thought of the monster with wings and tail... I never thought there would be a monster that looks so similar to a human being and can speak human language...

But looking at her obedient appearance, is she tamed by His Royal Highness Yimi?No, no, it would be more correct to say that rather than tame...

Although it sounds so unbelievable, but fortunately, I have been known as a neurotic since I was a child, otherwise I would not be able to accept this fact...

After all, humans and monsters or something... Humans can live in harmony with animals is already considered very good, and get along with monsters that are inherently fierce...

But His Royal Highness Yimi did it, and today I saw more than just Xiao Hei... Is the reason why the royal family is the royal family because they are fundamentally different from ordinary people like us?

I stood on the beach, felt the sea breeze blowing by, looked at the sea surface with little shimmer under the breeze, and started to think wildly.

Except for the occasional shouting of the leader from the camp in the distance behind him, it is indeed much quieter here than in the city.

I took a bite of the dry food in my hand and enjoyed a brief moment of comfort.

The team leader said to take a short rest tonight, and it’s not my turn to guard around the camp, so I can rest for a while...

It's going to be a lot of work starting tomorrow... Ugh... It still hurts to think about it.

After all, I didn't feel anything other than tired when I swung the hammer today, but now my arm still hurts a bit.

It's been a while since I've done farm work...the body still has to get used to it.

I rubbed my arms lightly, and couldn't help but think of His Royal Highness Yimi and the others.

I don't know what they are doing now...

Just as I was about to leave before the sun in the sky completely dipped below the horizon.

"You are here."

The sudden voice from behind startled me, and when I turned around, I accidentally threw out the unfinished dry food in my hand——

As a result, the dry food just floated in the air.

"Aren't you going to pick it up?" I was stunned and hurriedly stretched out my hand because of the voice, but the dry food suddenly fell down, and landed on my hand.

The white cloak was unusually conspicuous, rather than being able to see other things besides the cloak.

"Thank you..." But I thanked her involuntarily. Although I felt that she scared me first, the thing was caught after all.

"You're welcome." After she responded to me lightly, she walked slowly to my side, and then seemed to be looking at the sea, after all I couldn't see her face...

For a while, I didn't know what to say, and I didn't know whether to leave like this, talk to her, or take a bite of dry food.

In the end, I decided to strike up a conversation. Although she is silent now, didn't she say "you are here" just now?

"Was that just magic?"

"Yes."

"It looks very skilled, who did you learn from?"

Magic is not something that can be learned casually, although it is not something that only the nobles can learn, but if there is no one to teach it, and if you don't go to a specialized institution to learn, basically you have no chance to learn magic, such as me.

"Teacher taught me." Her words made me a little confused about how to respond... Generally speaking, she probably didn't want me to keep asking questions like "Who is your teacher?", right?Her body was motionless, only the white cloak trembled in the sea breeze, giving a feeling that she would soon be overwhelmed by the ensuing darkness.

"It feels like everyone is not afraid." She just said this suddenly.

"afraid?"

"Obviously this is a forbidden place, the disaster that can easily destroy our magic barrier is in this land, and it may appear at any time."

"This...maybe it's because I don't have any sense of reality."

This is true, although we watched the disaster come and go freely in our country, but after the disaster came, everyone evacuated, and the disaster only destroyed some magic barriers and blocks. There are few other places.

In addition, the head of the Guards Knights cut off one of Calamity's wings, which made everyone sure that "Calamity is not invincible."

And... there's one thing I've never mentioned to anyone else.

I am the one who rides the Leviathan across the sea, although she threw me off after getting close to the sea, and I swam back by myself.

Is there a difference between Calamity and Leviathan?In my opinion now there is no difference, anyway, I know they are very fast.

I don't know about others, anyway, I have lost my sense of reality.

Really want to say...

"I think darkness is more terrifying."

As a result, she raised her hand and waved it, and a swaying flame appeared in the palm of her hand along the arc she drew.

"sharp……"

"Is it powerful?" She asked, still maintaining the posture of raising her hand, the flickering firelight hit me and her, and cast a black silhouette.

"..." Why can't I say the word "powerful" anymore?

Because I remembered His Royal Highness Yimi's act of lighting firewood with Leviathan's whirlpool-like stream of fire...

"Sure enough... I'm still not enough." She seemed to sigh and lowered her head slightly.

"What's not enough?"

"It's nothing... I have something to ask you." She changed the subject suddenly, and I stopped asking.

"what's up?"

"I heard that on the taboo stone dome over here... you saw words that you couldn't understand, did you?"

At this moment, I could hear a little excitement in her voice, as well as the curiosity that was trying to hide.

I looked at her and she turned her face away.

In the white hood, I saw...golden pupils that were enough to cut through the darkness around her, and even eclipse the burning flames in her hands.