Mercenaries and Adventurers

After storing all the odds and ends taken from the ruins in the tree root camp, Zhao Ji loaded some necessary things into a trolley, and then took off the armor on his body and put it in the wooden box of the armor.

In the ruins, the little bird who has no credit but hard work also let it go free. After opening the cage, let it fly out and return to the woods.

The wooden boxes containing the armor were also stacked on the trolley. Zhao Ji took advantage of the last glimmer of light at dusk to push the trolley up the hill, and prepared to head south by night where goblins might be seen.

Zhao Ji used the low mountains in the south as guideposts to guide the way, pushing the car along the winding hills all the way.

He rested in the ruins for a while before, so he is quite excited now. In the wild at night, if you ignore the cold wind in late autumn and the little animals in the bushes staring at him from time to time, it is actually quite good. The cloudless night allowed Zhao Ji to clearly see the moon, stars, and magical celestial bodies hanging in the sky.

When he was in Kendall City, Zhao Ji once heard some people talk about the magical and great creations of the various gods in the sky. Among the various gods, there is no god created by humans themselves.

Most of them are the creations of the natural gods handed down from the ancient times, and there seem to be a few gods of the elves. Other than that, no more. Everyone felt rather dissatisfied with this. How many people believe in the God of Saturn, why is there no seat for him in the sky.

When Zhao Ji heard this, he always smiled secretly. It's a joke, which god can go up and which god can't go up must not depend on who has more beliefs, but to see which god is strong enough and powerful enough.

Why don't they understand this universal truth. They always think that the gods they believe in are the most powerful and omnipotent. But think about how human beings have only been civilized for less than 10,000 years, so how can they fight against other gods who don't know how many years they have existed.

In the middle of the night, when Zhao Ji was approaching a small forest, a wild animal jumped down from a nearby tree and attacked Zhao Ji. He didn't expect this attack, so he was thrown on the head by this beast, which was neither big nor small. Zhao Ji realized that the beast wanted to bite his throat, so he tightly protected his neck with one arm.

The other arm slammed into the beast's head.

Zhao Ji, who was thrown to the ground, quickly turned his waist and legs, turned over the beast on his head, and crushed it to the ground.

"Damn it! Why did such a thing come here?" Zhao Ji cursed the beast that attacked him.

After pressing the beast to the ground, Zhao Ji bent his body, pressed his raised knee to the soft abdomen of the beast, and after freeing one hand, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and stabbed fiercely into the beast's chest.

After the two daggers went down, the beast screamed and roared a few times, and only gasped for the last few rough breaths.

Zhao Ji touched the blood stained hands on the belly of the beast, and stood up.

"Good guy, I was almost successfully attacked by this thing." Zhao Ji rubbed the white rabbit fur hat on his head. After feeling something wrong, he took off his favorite white rabbit fur hat and observed this thing under the moonlight. The damage of the hat just now.

The middle part of the white rabbit fur hat was scratched by the sharp claws of the beast and turned over three marks, and the rabbit fur on the marks was turned over and damaged. This made Zhao Ji a little regretful. The hat that had not been damaged in several battles did not expect to be in this wilderness. The field ridge was destroyed by an attacking beast.

Rubbing the turned up place with his hands, Zhao Ji felt that he could wear it again. Although its ability to resist rain was greatly damaged, at least it could bring enough moisture to his head in this cold night. keep warm.

After panting for a while, the beast on the ground finally died.

Zhao Ji kicked the immobile beast to make sure that this guy was indeed dead.

Zhao Ji leaned down and carefully observed the beast that attacked him just now.

The beast looked like a wild cat greatly enlarged, and a leopard a few sizes smaller. Through the moonlight, it can be seen that the skin of this beast is covered with a thick layer of fur, and the fur pattern is colorful. It is estimated that even in the daytime, it is hiding in the woods. Impossible to find out.

Open the mouth of the beast with your hands, the teeth of this beast are quite dense and sharp, it looks quite scary. But it was already dead, so Zhao Ji was no longer afraid. He directly grabbed the beast by its tail, stacked it on the trolley and tied it tightly, and prepared to see what it could do in the daytime tomorrow.

After patting the grass seeds and dust on his body, Zhao Ji pushed the cart and continued on the road.

The bright moonlight allowed Zhao Ji to recognize the low southern mountains in the distance even at night. Every time he passed a hill, Zhao Ji had to confirm his walking direction to ensure that he would not go the wrong way.

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After the sun came out, Zhao Ji endured physical fatigue and walked for another morning.

At noon, his body finally couldn't hold on, so Zhao Ji just found a hidden place and made a camp to rest.

In the morning, Zhao Ji could already see some signs of possible goblin activities. In some places, many animal bones will suddenly gather in the grass, and it can be judged that they have been eaten clean at a glance.

Wild beasts don't gather the captured wild beasts together to eat, and they don't have the habit of gathering all the bones together after eating.

This must be something only goblins can do.

As Zhao Ji went deeper to the south, when it was almost noon that day, he could see some scary-looking patterns and pictures made by goblins with animal blood on some tree trunks and large rocks .

To be honest, their imagination is too lacking, and there are skull patterns of various animals coming and going. Zhao Ji was dismissed when he first saw it, but after watching too much, Zhao Ji felt a little bored.

Do goblins have a unique primitive belief in heads? Zhao Ji felt that he had to satisfy these goblins and their possible belief in the head.

In the camp at noon, after Zhao Ji ate and drank for a while, he covered himself and the cart with the dry thatch around him. Leaning on the cart, he took down the beast that had attacked him the night before, to see what he could do.

The dead beast was a little stiff, so Zhao Ji had to fiddle with the stiff corpse of the beast for a while to make it move.

Although the sharp teeth in the mouth of this beast looked scary, Zhao Ji liked the soft fur all over its body. The fur might make a waistcoat, and the beast's big tail could make a neckerchief to keep his neck warm in the winter months to come.

Although he was afraid that the smell of blood would attract the goblins who might be around, Zhao Ji couldn't let the beast's body rot.

Zhao Ji cut open the beast's body with the dagger that stabbed the beast yesterday, being careful not to let the thick fat under the fur be stained under the fur. Fortunately, this beast is not big, Zhao Ji took a short time to cut off this colorful fur.

There is no need to waste the thick fat on the beast. Use an empty wooden box after the food is eaten to cut off the fat and store it. These fats are the best fuel for torches, they can prolong the burning time of torches very well.

As for the corpse of the beast, Zhao Ji only lifted its mouth full of fangs and kept it as a collection. Zhao Ji didn't plan to eat any other flesh either. He has roasted wild boar jerky, why eat the meat of these carnivores.

I heard people say that the meat of carnivores is not as good as the meat of omnivores, but the meat of complete herbivores is the best. The meat is tender, without excessive smell and parasites.

Zhao Ji tied up the remaining beast carcasses with string and hung them on the trolley, preparing them as bait to lure the goblins.

Hope the goblins don't pick their mouths and like the corpse of this beast.

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After finishing the work at hand, Zhao Ji carefully leaned against the trolley and took a nap for a while.

While sleeping, he had another dream.

Still a dream about fairies

The elves receive live animals of all kinds brought by fellow elves who are hunters. Those animals can't be just one, at least seven or eight, which is hard to blame the elf hunters.

But the elf hunters still managed to satisfy the robed elves.

Whether it's a big tiger in the mountains, or a myriad in the lake, whether it's a demonized beast, or a bird in the sky. These hunters were brought here, Zhao Ji even saw some messy human beings covered in animal furs were tied back by the hunters in his dream.

This group of humans is very afraid of the elves, even if the elves treat them with fruit, they are afraid to gather together, not daring to disobey any request of the elves.

Just when the elves were about to do something to these human ancestors, Zhao Ji woke up.

"What's going on? I'm dreaming about elves again." Zhao Ji patted his face worriedly. He wondered if he was entangled by something in the ruins.

It shouldn't be. Although he took many things from the ruins, those things were common to the elves. And besides some elf coins, he didn't bring anything from the ruins. He put all the little things brought out from the ruins in the tree root camp.

Zhao Ji took a deep breath with an ugly face, wondering if he was scaring himself, because he stayed in the dark ruins for too long, and his mind was full of elves.

Patting his face again, Zhao Ji encouraged himself: "Forget about the elf ruins, Zhao Ji, you are going to destroy the goblins now. Concentrate, concentrate, and concentrate. Good!"

After comforting himself, Zhao Ji felt that this place was closer to the forest at the foot of the low mountains in the south, and this area should belong to the direct rule area of ​​the goblins.

It should be just right to eliminate the goblins here. If you go deeper, you may be surrounded by a large number of goblins because you are too close to the goblin settlement. And if you stay away from here, it may be difficult to find traces of goblins.

In order to be able to effectively fight against a large number of goblins, Zhao Ji put on the armor, left the trolley and the materials on the cart here, and put the food for fighting and short-term survival into the backpack and carried it on his back.

After Zhao Ji was ready, he carried his spear, sword, dagger, and sling with him. Food, water, rope, flint, kindling, torches, raincoats, hatchets, and shovels were all packed into knapsacks.

Zhao Ji carried the unknown beast that he had killed last night, pushed aside the thatch that covered it, and began to carefully investigate the surrounding area.

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The surrounding area is already relatively close to the forest, so the number of trees is gradually increasing. And because it is close to low mountains, the terrain of hills gradually decreases, and various gentle slopes replace them.

At the lowest point of the gentle slope, Zhao Ji found some traces of water erosion. He estimated that these were the places where the rainwater left from the mountains flowed during the rainy season. When it rains, it is estimated that a temporary small river will be formed here. Judging by the width of the trace, it cannot be easily crossed.

Zhao Ji prayed that there would be no rain these two days. Sunny weather would be more beneficial to him. After all, goblins have lived with this for generations, and they are more adapted to the climate here. Zhao Ji is an outsider after all. , When the weather is bad, it is difficult to even find a place to shelter from the rain.

Of course, at this point in the story, the weather must be developing towards a bad place.

When Zhao Ji was looking for a suitable place to set up a trap to lure goblins in the afternoon, the sky above his head in the afternoon changed from foggy to clear in the morning to cloudy to cloudy.

Zhao Ji raised his head and looked at the dark clouds in the sky through the cover of the trees and branches. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that the dark clouds in the sky were full of rainwater, which would drip down at some point.