Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji was whistling, wearing armor, wearing a wolf-fur cloak, and walking in the snow-falling forest with a backpack on his back. This time, he mainly came to fight to defeat the bandits and seize their metal weapons, not to go on a long journey to solve the problem. Therefore, he did not bring any more things, and the survival supplies for living in the wild were provided by the defeated bandits.

The wind and snow in the sky gradually increased, and even when it was supposed to be dawn in the morning, the sun in the sky was blocked by thick clouds, making the whole world gloomy, let alone the forest.

Now I can see the ground clearly thanks to the cold winter. The trees in the forest have already shed their leaves, so that the poor light above the head can penetrate to the ground.

This didn't hinder Zhao Ji much. He walked with a torch and left a little chopping mark on the big tree in the forest with his long sword to ensure that he would not get lost in the deep forest.

This is not enough, because he can't see the sun as an indicator to distinguish north and south, so he has to climb to the big tree every once in a while, standing on a high place to see the surrounding situation and the high mountain in the south.

But when Zhao Ji climbed to the upper level of the big tree by rope again, he realized that because it was snowing, his sight was blocked by flying snowflakes. He could see the position of the mountain clearly before dark yesterday, but now It's gone.

As far as the line of sight is concerned, heavy snow is falling from the sky everywhere, basically even the line of sight cannot be guaranteed for two or three hundred meters.

Sighing and shaking his head, Zhao Ji liked this heavy snow at first, because heavy snow could hide his whereabouts, and at the same time ensure that the bandits stayed in their hiding places quietly and were destroyed by him one by one.

But now he couldn't do it anymore. He couldn't even tell the difference between southeast and northwest, so he could barely confirm the direction of the forest to the sun according to the dried moss on the big trees in the forest.

This method is not very accurate. After all, in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the direction of the sun is constantly changing. He cannot guarantee that the moss he confirms the direction is really pointing to the south.

But after all those mosses don't point to the shade north, do they?

If you have a general direction, just give it a little thought. Zhao Ji shook his head. He didn't have high requirements for the direction. As long as you go south, you will meet those high mountains. If you cross the high mountains, you should reach the theoretical bandits. A place to hide from militia clearance in winter.

Just when Zhao Ji was about to slide down the big tree along the rope, something different happened in the forest not far away.

The contiguous trees were overwhelmed by something.

Even the noise of the surrounding wind and snow could not cover up the loud noise of the big tree breaking and collapsing.

'what's the situation? ’ Zhao Ji looked curiously for a while, and then decided to go over to have a look.

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The place was not far away. After confirming the direction, he slid down the big tree along the rope, and then took up the rope and trotted towards that direction.

Although the things on his body were heavy, he felt that it was okay. When he was wearing the armor and running, it would not cause much hindrance to him, and the weapons on his body would not look heavy in his hands.

When Zhao Ji approached the place where the big trees collapsed, he found that these big trees did not collapse from the roots as he thought. And they all broke and collapsed from the middle of the big tree, hitting the ground with a series of loud noises.

He carefully looked at the surrounding big trees, beware that other big trees would also fall down and hit him unluckily.

After slowly approaching the branches of the big trees that fell on the ground, Zhao Ji found that there were many huge scratches left on the upper half of these big trees. Stuff is huge.

Speaking of huge, in this forest, what else is very huge?

It's that monster!

Realizing this, Zhao Ji put his long sword back into its sheath, and took out the two-handed ax from the backpack behind his back,

After shaking the ax in his hand, he calmed down.

It's strange, this magical beast doesn't hang around the road that people pass by, why did it come to the uninhabited forest in the south.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji suddenly remembered the team led by the female knight that he met before. It is estimated that this monster is here now, and it has something to do with those people.

Zhao Ji judged the surroundings briefly, and felt that the monster must have suffered serious injuries, otherwise it would be impossible to directly crush these big trees.

After all, the Warcraft usually relies on unknown means to move on the big trees. This method of movement is its instinctive means of eating, and generally it will not overwhelm these big trees.

If the monsters had to crush a large number of trees when they moved normally, then there would probably not be a single intact forest on both sides of the road to and from the gloomy forest village.

They all have to be bald on the left and missing on the right, just like the forest has baldness and skin diseases.

After thinking about it, Zhao Ji felt that the monster moved from north to south after all, and its direction might also be the south. He could follow the route of the monster and walk for a while in this snowy weather.

Of course, he will not foolishly follow the path of Warcraft.

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After Zhao Ji walked south for a while along the traces left by the more and more conspicuous monster, he found that the monster's situation should be bad. This is of course good news for him. That thing almost killed him last time. If someone beats you like this once, maybe you can be lucky enough to catch a leak?

Shaking his head, Zhao Ji threw this unrealistic thought out of his head.

Just as he was walking forward through the snow that had already submerged to his ankles, the sound of wind and snow that had been blowing around him suddenly became quieter.

Zhao Ji frowned and snorted coldly. Needless to say, the next thing will definitely be a fog that will appear regardless of the temperature.

Sure enough, just after Zhao Ji leaned against a big tree and took a defensive posture, the snowflakes that had fallen around him disappeared, replaced by the white mist that appeared out of season.

Thinking that this magical beast is just the three axes, Zhao Ji raised the corner of his mouth, fastened the backpack bag behind his back, moved the ax in his hand, and became vigilant about the surrounding situation.

As he expected, a faint sound came from his head.

Zhao Ji dodged sideways, and a sharp leg with a faint crack pierced into the place where Zhao Ji was just now.

Without giving the monster another chance to attack, Zhao Ji seized the opportunity and swung his axe up.

With a click, although the place where the ax hit failed to cut off the limbs of the monster, a lot of translucent liquid burst out.

From the depths of the white mist came a sharp cry of "Squeak!!!" followed by a strange grunt that had been heard once before, and Keel dodged into the big tree behind him to avoid the oncoming ones A lot of leg and foot attacks.

Immediately afterwards, he flashed out from behind the big tree. He held the sharp spear he was carrying in his right hand. After bending his body, he threw the spear in his right hand towards the place where the grunt sounded.

Come and not reciprocate indecently.

Whoosh! Hit!

But the sound that came next shocked Zhao Ji.

"Ah! Ah! It hurts! It hurts! Help, help me!"

"Ha, ha hiss, he's been stabbed, he's been stabbed, ahaha. Come on, give it to me, give it to me, I want it too, I want it."

"I, I want it too! I want it too!" Strange words like this came out clearly from the white mist this time.

Zhao Ji was taken aback. Isn't it a monster in the mist? Why are there so many talking weirdos? Where are these people from?

"Come out! Who is playing tricks there! Get out of here!" Zhao Ji opened his mask and shouted, and at the same time shot the fog left and right with his eyes. Now the situation became a little strange, so he had to temporarily stabilize it by roaring loudly. mind.

"Hee hee hee hee, I can't get out, ha ha ha ha. We can't get out."

"Eat him, let him join us, move quickly, move quickly, you idiot, move quickly, isn't it just a few broken legs? Aren't there still a few more, you have been strengthened, come on quickly."

"Squeak~" The annoyed scream of the monster came from the mist, suppressing those strange human voices at once. Immediately afterwards, there was a loud noise on the ground in the mist in front of Zhao Ji, and at the same time, a strong vibration came from the ground.

Zhao Ji barely supported the big tree, and hid most of his body behind the trunk, only showing half of his head, poking out to look carefully at the situation ahead.

The white mist seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and everything around him couldn't be seen clearly.

But Zhao Ji knew only from the vibrations from the ground that after the monster landed, it was still groping and crawling towards him on the ground in front of it.

Snapped! Crash.

An attack hit the trunk of the big tree in front of Zhao Ji, breaking at least half of the trunk of the big tree.

Zhao Ji quickly retreated, moved diagonally and dodged behind another big tree.

Click, click, click, click, boom! !

The big tree that had been cut in half tilted and fell down, but listening to the sound, it didn't seem to hit anything.

That's right, if the monster was hit by the big tree that he collapsed, it would look a little too inferior.

The ground shook quickly from the front, and Zhao Ji knew that the monster must have wanted to kill him and eat it after it landed, so he turned around and ran, ignoring to see if his spear fell on the nearby ground.

Regardless of the direction of north and south, he would run first when the monster came after him. Anyway, he felt that it was not easy for the huge monster to move around on the forest floor. In the final analysis, unlike advancing on the top of a big tree, there are everything on the forest floor, such as thick tree roots, sudden hard boulders, and erosion ditches washed out by inexplicable summer rains. Huge monsters are a big obstacle to crawling.

Not to mention that the bottom of the thick and strong trunk is quite different from the top of the tree. The monster may move quickly in mid-air by shaking the branches and trunks on the top of the tree, but if it wants to walk in a straight line on the ground, it can only do so unless it pushes down all the big trees in front of it. .

Sure enough, after running for a while, Zhao Ji opened the distance from the monster chasing him amidst the loud noise of monsters hitting the tree trunk from behind.

The farther away from the monster, the thinner the surrounding fog.

Snowflakes appeared in the sky again, Zhao Ji looked back, and with the effective light provided by the torch, he saw a white thick fog like a wall gradually approaching him.

That Warcraft hasn't given up yet.

Zhao Ji collected himself, then ate and drank something while walking, and when the fog was about to cover him, he turned around and continued trotting forward.

In this dark snowy weather, one person and one monster chased and fled towards the depths of the forest.

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Half a day later, a group of people chased to the place where the monster hit a large tree trunk.

The one who took the lead was Lanisa, a female knight riding a war horse. Behind her was the team of hunters led by her. The number was still ten, and no one was lost in the previous series of ambushes and pursuits of the monsters.

"That thing has no strength. My lord, you can see that since it crossed the road and reached the forest in the south, the height it climbed on the big tree has been decreasing. When it got here, it finally couldn't hold on and fell down." The old hunter saw the traces around him clearly, and after discussing for a while, he reported to Knight Lanisa.

"Very well, as long as we maintain this oppressive force and don't give it a chance to rest and prey, its huge body that is not adapted to the cold weather will soon collapse. It wanted to escape back to where it should be further north. In the lair, don't give it a chance, drive it south. Keep going, but everyone should pay attention to the white mist that may appear around. Once you see this sign, remember to use the loudest voice to warn others." Lanisa The knight pulls the rein to let the horse walk forward slowly.

The surrounding hunters were in the formation of migratory birds flying, with the knight at the center, scouting along the road. They were all separated by more than 20 meters. In this snowy day, this distance is more appropriate.

The communication between them will not be affected by the sound of wind and snow, nor will they miss possible traces because they are too close.

Every hunter wears a windproof and heat-insulated hunting cloak. This kind of well-made cloak looks inconspicuous, but the cloak is not thick but is made of several layers of cloth.

Moreover, before this operation, the talisman of the Church of the Sun God brought by Knight Lanisa was also activated by them after the snowfall. The talisman hanging in the middle of the chest would emit a shining but not dazzling light every once in a while, which could make the sharp-eyed Lanisa Riding on the horse, Sha Knight saw their respective positions through the wind and snow. And not only that, this kind of talisman still emits the temperature like the sun shining on the body, so that the hunters are not afraid of the coldness of the snow, and the whole person feels much better.

Knight Lanisa also specially introduced when distributing this kind of talisman. You can also rotate the sun god talisman on it, and then this talisman will emit light for a long time. The light that shines is not enough in this gloomy weather. It is still very useful in the bottom of the forest.

Hush!

A short whistle came, which was the sound of a discovery.

Everyone in the team quickly approached there.

A hunter brushed away the falling snow on the big tree, and pointed to a mark left by a long sword on the trunk of the big tree to show everyone.

"It's just a trace, very fresh, my lord," said the hunter.

Knight Lanisa jumped off the horse and walked closer to have a look: "The long sword is left, and the strength in the hand is not weak. Is it related to monsters?"

An old hunter came out and said: "There are also nearby. It seems to be heading in the same direction as the monster. The possibility that this person encountered a monster by chance cannot be ruled out."

"Hmph, it was really inexplicable to feed the monster. Regardless, even if it just ate people, it won't recover much energy immediately, let alone heal the wounds on its body. Continue to chase and try to kill that monster. I forced it to the bottom of the high mountain in the south, where there are no trees, let me see if it can crawl on the ground as fast as my horse." Knight Lanisa waved his hand, and the whole team continued to chase after the traces of the found monster.

They soon found traces of the monster falling to the ground, so they were more at ease in chasing it.

There are all kinds of signs that the monster is about to die.

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Zhao Ji didn't know that there was another team chasing the monster behind him. If he knew, he would run backwards to join those people.

The monster seemed to recognize him, and kept chasing after Zhao Ji with non-stop crawling. Fortunately, it does not move fast on the ground, and it allows Zhao Ji to run for a while and rest for a while.

In this way, Zhao Ji ran southward along the way, and walked out of the forest when it entered the night most of the day.

A cliff separates the forest from the mountains ahead.

Zhao Ji sighed, there was no way, he had no time to use ropes or cut down trees to build a simple wooden ladder to climb up the cliff. He had no choice but to walk along the cliff first, looking for a place where the cliff was not so steep and he could trot all the way up.

Soon, that monster also rushed out of the forest. Zhao Ji couldn't see it, and could only rely on the gloomy weather to see a thick white mist in the form of an egg, which was buckled on the ground and approached him.

Zhao Ji hastened to speed up his pace, and moved quickly along the cliff, while using the sharp rocks that suddenly appeared on the ground to prevent the monster from approaching him.

Whenever the not-so-intelligent beast crashed into the rock in a daze, Zhao Ji couldn't help but be overjoyed.

That magical beast seems to have poor eyesight. It can't see such a big rock on the ground.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji suddenly realized that the monster looked like a spider, could it be the same as a spider, whose main perception depends on the vibration of the ground? Other means of perception are only auxiliary.

In this way, it makes sense, why is it blocked by such a conspicuous rock at the bottom of the cliff, and it has to hit it before knowing how to get out of the way.

In this way, this monster relies on the ground vibration produced by Zhao Ji every time he moves to judge his position?

Although this may be the reason, Zhao Ji is being chased by monsters very anxiously now, and it is difficult for him to find a way to try.

After running for a short period of time, he finally saw a large collapsed cliff in front of him. I don't know if it collapsed because the cliff's rocks couldn't hold it up, but this place looks good, and it should be possible to climb to the cliff from here.

As long as he crossed the cliff, he had officially entered the mountain, and he could reach the place where the bandits were hiding by climbing over one or two mountains that other people said.

Hehe, just right, they must like the presents I brought them.

Zhao Ji was thinking while climbing the collapsed cliff slope with hands and feet.

It's best to let those bandits fight to the death with the Warcraft, and he will be the fisherman in the end.