Mercenaries and Adventurers

Since goblins had haunted the top of this hill before, Zhao Ji decided to set up a trap here, and he might catch one or two goblins at some point.

He collected all kinds of dead bones scattered on the ground and piled them aside, then took out a small shovel from his backpack, and used this shovel to dig down where the dead bones were scattered. The soil on the top of the hill was soft, Digging is easy. He bought this small shovel at the grocery store in the artisan district of Kendall City. Although it looks relatively small, it feels quite strong after using it, and it is suitable for carrying when traveling.

At that time, I heard from the apprentice craftsman who was watching the sales in the grocery store that this kind of small shovel was mainly used by caravans when they set up campsites in the wild. In the early years, the caravans who went out to do business brought with them the kind of big shovels or big hoes that farmers used when farming. Many businessmen often complained about this, saying that those big irons Shovels and big hoes are too big and heavy, and they are not suitable for caravans to carry and use when they go out for trade.

After all, caravans don’t really need professional and labor-saving digging tools when camping. It is enough to simply solve the problem of whether the digging tools are available or not. Later, on the basis of this demand, this small shovel, which reduced the amount of metal and the length of the grip, was pondered and built by blacksmiths.

When Zhao Ji bought this thing at the grocery store, he thought of a way to use it, but it was not used to set up traps for catching goblins as it is now, but was originally intended to be used to dig out ancient elf ruins.

It is actually very good to be able to come in handy at this time. If the traps are easier to use in the future, Zhao Ji is going to dig traps wantonly.

Zhao Ji dug a large circular pit at the place where the dead bones were scattered. When digging, he was surprised to find that he was already moving very fast when digging, but his body did not feel tired. .

Zhao Ji immediately thought of the reason for this miraculous situation, which was the ceremony accepted at the Harvest Festival a few days ago. At the Harvest Festival, he experienced two rounds of the mysterious ceremony of the Saturnalia Church. He felt that his strength had become much stronger at that time, and he did not notice any other changes. And now after digging a hole like this, he discovered that the rituals of the Saturnalia Church can actually strengthen people's physical strength during digging activities.

This feeling is really wonderful, obviously struggling to dig should make his body panting, but now he seems to have endless energy. Although I don't know what the principle is and how long it can last.

Because of inexplicably increased physical strength when digging, Zhao Ji didn't just dig a trap, he laid all the excavated soil on the way up the hill, covered the flowers and plants with the newly dug soil, and stepped on it with his feet. In fact, he used a shovel to shovel off the roots of the shrubs. In this way, when Zhao Ji was digging the hole, he also simply made a dirt road to climb up the tall hills.

This is the highest point in the vicinity, with an excellent observation field of view. Zhao Ji intends to develop this place into an observation point for hunting operations while setting up traps. Of course, it would be even better if the goblins also knew about this place and occupied it. He doesn't need to look around anymore, he just needs to come here often to hunt goblins.

When we came here, the road up the tall hill was simply paved, and at the same time, Zhao Ji also finished digging the trap.

The entire trap was circular, with a diameter of two meters, exactly the width that even the short goblins could not climb up on both sides of the trap. As for the small arms and legs of a goblin, once it falls into a trap, it will not be able to climb up unless there are other goblins to rescue it.

The trap pit was 2.5 meters deep. With this depth and width, humans could still find a way to climb out after falling into it, but it was completely impossible for Goblins, who were thinner than humans, to escape from this height by themselves.

Zhao Ji then selected some strong leg bones and curved ribs from the dry bones on the side,

Then use a dagger to split one end of them into a sharp shape, and then arrange them one by one at the bottom of the trap hole, with the sharp end extending upwards, and the other end fixed firmly with soil. As long as there is no heavy rain, these sharp broken bones will not be washed away by the rain.

Because there were no trees on the surrounding hills for him to cut down, Zhao Ji did not cover the top of the trap pit, and just left it wide open, waiting for the careless Goblin to climb up the top of the hill. Carefully fall into it.

The whole trap is quite like Jiang Taigong fishing, and those who wish to take the bait mean.

Zhao Ji slid the rest of the useless dead bones along the edge of the trap pit to make the surrounding area tidier. Looking down from around the trap, Yaoyao stretched out the sharp bone spurs to the sky, as if they were hands attracting death one by one. If you fall from a height, it is very easy to be pierced by those spikes and get injured and die.

Zhao Ji then pulled out the weeds and shrubs on the top of the tall hills, and cleared a small open and clean environment here.

Looking around, I felt insecure, so Zhao Ji planned to cut down some branches and build a fence around the open space. Maybe some stones will be moved from the hills to make a firepit. At that time, this simple hunting advance camp will be ready to complete.

This is the same as the simple camp he made in the swamp south of the city. An effective hunting strategy should be maintained.

Zhao Ji walked from the top of the tall hill to the east of the hill. He had observed that the low hills in that direction were dense with trees and bushes, so there might be a small river passing through there. Zhao Ji knew that an easy way to find traces of creatures was to look for rivers. After all, the most important thing for living things to survive is the water source, and even food has to be ranked after the water source.

Food can be hunted and found by traveling long distances, but animals have to drink water every day, so the range of action of any animal generally revolves around water sources.

Zhao Ji believes that the same is true for goblins who are a kind of monster. After all, they are said to be monsters, but they are actually ferocious and strange animals. According to the news heard in the village, goblins have their own simple roaring language, but they have no words. They live and move in groups, can use simple weapons and tools, and even occasionally make simple and crude tools by themselves. .

Summarizing the news he heard, Zhao Ji felt that goblins are like a kind of primitive intelligent life. Apart from their ferocious nature, they can basically be regarded as the path that ancient humans have traveled.

However, this world is too small, and there are too many intelligent life forms. There is no primitive space for them to develop and evolve. If they compete with human beings for the space of survival and development, they must be the enemy of human beings.

Zhao Ji used the tall hill and the mountains to the south as signs to identify the direction, so that he could accurately judge where he was in among the identical hills. While walking eastward, Zhao Ji sandwiched a pickled radish stick with unfermented family bread for lunch, and after barely eating, he sipped some water, so that Zhao Ji's lunch was complete.

After walking slowly for more than half an hour, Zhao Ji finally found a very weak stream in the lowland between these hills. This stream was even covered by various bushes growing densely. Zhao Ji only discovered it after the animals tore open the nasty blocking bushes.

Along this small stream to its source, Zhao Ji found many animal tracks and droppings along the way. However, he is not a professional hunter, and he cannot tell which animals are drinking water from the various traces, footprints and feces produced by the animals' actions.

Of course, among the animal footprints, he knew the rabbit footprints. After all, Zhao Ji wears that white rabbit fur hat all day long, and he is familiar with the rabbit's feet very often.

Except for the footprints of rabbits, he did not recognize any other animal footprints.

Zhao Ji had no choice but to tread lightly, walking towards the source of the stream. The overlord of the food chain in a certain area usually drinks from the cleanest water source, and what animal in this area can compare to the goblin being at the top of the food chain.

Judging from the size of this creek, this creek is definitely not the kind that is collected by rainfall, but a stream produced by the gushing of groundwater. Because several rivers near the village of Dolarin are produced in this way. It is just that man controls all the rivers and their sources in the plains, while these small streams in the rolling hills of the wilderness are the state of nature.

Walking along the stream all the way, Zhao Ji felt that he walked for about half an hour, and finally found the source of the stream at the bottom of a hill.

The stream gushes out from a round hole under the hill, because the surrounding of the round hole is not made of rock, but the soft soil soaked in water, so the water in the round hole looks quite turbid.

Looking around the round hole vigilantly, there was nothing hidden around, so Zhao Jicai approached carefully. He carefully checked the surroundings of the water hole. There were many footprints on the surrounding mud, but Zhao Ji found that the footprints were all three-toed footprints. He had seen the corpse of a goblin in the village square, so he immediately recognized that this kind of footprint was left by a goblin.

Judging from the footprints, Zhao Ji guessed that goblins should often haunt this place, and it was a place for drinking water when goblins raided the village northward.

It's a good hunting place.

Zhao Ji carefully erased his own footprints on the mud, and then retreated to a high place with lush vegetation not far away. In this place, Zhao Ji can easily monitor the situation around the entrance of the water hole not far below. As long as the goblins come, he can attack them from the top down.

Of course, Zhao Ji still doesn't know the fighting ability of the goblins, so when attacking the goblins, attack the one with as few people as possible. The best situation is one-on-one.

Sure enough, just an hour after Zhao Ji hid in this place, there was a burst of moaning and shouting from behind the hills in the north.

Zhao Ji put on the cloak to cover his face and hair, and carefully lay prone in the dense grass and looked down slightly.

Zhao Ji saw a dozen or so goblins coming out from behind the hills in the north. The goblin's body is green, and it should be easy to hide his figure in places with a lot of vegetation, but now it's late autumn, and the vegetation is all yellow, which makes the goblin's green body easy to spot.

The goblins didn't wear any clothes, basically they just wrapped their bodies with natural vines in the forest and the straw ropes they twisted themselves as clothes to cover their bodies. These rope-like things wrap around the body and also allow the goblins to serve as a platform for hanging tools and carrying food.

Zhao Ji saw that the goblin at the head was slightly taller than the other goblins, and his limbs were also a little stronger. It should be a small leader of these goblins. There is an animal skin shawl wrapped around the vines around its waist, and there are many round things bulging inside. Its right hand held a long leather thing, Zhao Ji didn't see what it was for.

Behind it, other goblins were walking slowly, mainly carrying something. Zhao Ji looked closely, and almost couldn't hold back his laughter. It turned out that the goblins harassed Doral Forest Village this time, and their result was to move back a scarecrow used in the field to drive away birds.

Seven or eight goblins were holding up the scarecrows in a hurry, and raised the scarecrows over their heads. Judging from the fresh soil on the log on the scarecrow's legs, these goblins probably took the soil under the scarecrow's feet. It was all dug out.

The goblins behind were holding simple wooden barrels made of thick tree trunks, and they didn't know what was in them. Goblins should be rough wooden barrels made by digging out all the inside of the trunk, leaving only the outer bark on the trunk.

In addition to the goblin holding the barrel, there is also a dead dog on the back of the goblin. It is estimated that someone in the village did not tie up the guard dog and ran out of the village, so these goblins were beaten and captured. Walk.

There is also a goblin holding a pheasant that he hunted, and the pheasant's neck was bitten open. Judging from the scattered chicken feathers on the mouth of the goblin holding the pheasant, it must have taken advantage of other goblins. When Lin was not paying attention, he secretly drank the fresh blood of the pheasant.

There is also a goblin with a fat gray fur hare on his head, and seven or eight fat voles in each hand.

Not long after, the dozen or so goblins arrived at the water hole. The goblin holding the crude wooden bucket dipped the wooden bucket in his hand into the water hole, and he was satisfied with filling a bucket full of muddy water. After the bucket was filled with water, the goblin in the lead was the first to bend down to drink the water.

Zhao Ji was lying in the taller grass not far away, wondering if he should try to kill these goblins.