Mercenaries and Adventurers

Although Zhao Ji was wearing armor and carrying various weapons, he still tried his best to minimize the various noises he made while walking in the snow.

The snow-covered forest at night is very quiet, there are no insects and birds, the leaves are flapping with the wind, and the beasts are roaring dully. The forest that had just snowed in winter made Zhao Ji feel that it was the quietest place he had ever seen. In this kind of place, even the slight sound of his own breathing made him afraid that it would be heard far away.

Zhao Jiduo thought about it.

In fact, he was walking on tiptoe at this time, and he was already the quietest one in the vicinity.

Not far away, the monster that ate some humans kept knocking through the branches of the low trees, and crawled almost straight towards the bustling bandit camp in the distance.

As the human corpses he ate were digested by him, the stamina it had exhausted before finally gradually returned. With physical strength, it can use the full magic power in the body again, and the mist covering the surface of the body is expanding and thickening bit by bit.

Zhao Ji stopped, took off the hood of the wolf-headed cloak on his head, and then turned his helmet at an angle, listening intently to the sound of the movement of a huge object that could not be hidden in the silent snowy night.

After smacking his mouth, Zhao Ji put on his hood, slightly avoiding the direction of the noise, so as to avoid colliding with the monster. He circled an arc and walked slowly towards the place where the heavy object landed before.

Although it was dark all around, Zhao Ji, who often travels at night, had a way to tell the direction. This is the experience he has gained from dealing with monsters in the dark ruins and at night for a long time.

Moreover, he usually eats enough food and has sufficient nutrition, so his eyes can barely see a few things in this cloudy and snowy night above his head.

It would be great if I could light a torch, Zhao Ji thought so. But lighting a torch might attract the monster, although he probably guessed that the monster knew where Zhao Ji, a human being, was.

After all, when traveling through the mountainous and snowy areas before, it was impossible to find Zhao Ji's trace with just eyes and ears. But that monster can know Zhao Ji's location through another method.

Come to think of it, it might be the ability derived from the appearance of that Warcraft spider.

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Bandit camp.

"Haha, look at mine, drive! Hey, three knights!" A fat bandit opened the dice cup in front of him, and the hexahedron dice inside was not a dot representing a number, but a dot that was painted on it and filled with blood. Enhanced image of the knight.

The two gamblers next to them showed embarrassment. Although the knights were not big, they could shake out three identical images at once. It was difficult for them to win.

Seeing that the three dice were all knights, the bandit who had nothing to do, shouted excitedly to ask the other two bandits to open the dice cup they had shaken.

"Hurry up!"

"Go! Let me see."

A bandit who was watching wanted to reach out to lift the dice cup, but was pushed away by the bandit who participated in the game: "Don't make trouble! I will open it!"

One of his eyes was closed tightly, but the other eye was wide open, staring straight at the result under the dice cup.

Then, there was booing all around. "One nobleman, two peasants. It's okay, but it's too bad. You lost." A bandit grinned and laughed.

The bandit patted his forehead, then turned his head to stare at the other bandit who hadn't opened the dice cup at the end: "You open the dice cup too, don't lose to him, I have suppressed the gains from the two operations."

The last bandit was also very nervous. He rubbed the beard on his chin vigorously with his hands, using this small movement to relieve his nervousness. The fat bandit on the opposite side had his arms folded, his head held up slightly, with an expression on his face that he was sure of winning.

There are not many results that can win the three knights, and other random results will not work. Only the result of a pair of nobles and priests can beat the result of the three knights.

In addition, if there are three farmers or three soldiers, three magicians, and three priests. Neither is the opponent of the three knights.

Unless the three knights with the same small probability are tied, or the result of three nobles is a big victory.

But the probability of this kind of occurrence in the game is too small. This bandit has rarely met for many years.

This time, the gambler and bandit on the opposite side actually put a lot of coins in the game, and on his side, there was also a very small probability of a result of three knights.

Hey, God bless you.

Thinking of this, the fat bandit laughed.

All the bandits around who had nothing to do came over, pinching his shoulders and thumping his back. They were all street-scratchers who wanted to get some luck from him.

The last bandit was overwhelmed by the endless quarrels of the others, so he lifted the hand that was pressing on the dice cup in one breath, and exposed the dice that were hidden under the dice cup.

The final result revealed on the small wooden table is - two images of nobles and one image of a priest.

It took only a moment for his expression to change from anxiety to ecstasy: "Haha! I won! I won! I won!"

He yelled, and the bandits who had been around the fat bandit all flocked to the bandit's side, and the words of flattery came out of their mouths, making the bandit who won the game so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

Although the other bandit who participated in the gambling game next to him still lost the money he received from the two robberies before the winter, but the money did not go to the fat bandit on the opposite side, so he could barely accept it.

At this time, the bandit pulled the money bag in the middle of the gambling table to the seat of the bandit who won the game with a sneering face, and slowly showed the whole movement to the fat bandit opposite.

The complacent expression of the fat bandit has been frozen on his face since just now. He twitched the muscles at the corners of his mouth slightly, and forced out a few hard congratulatory words from his mouth.

In any case, he never imagined that among the many possible outcomes, the guy opposite really rolled a dice to kill his three knights.

If he is another result, the result of two nobles and one priest will be useless.

He saw the appearance of the bandit opposite who had lost a lot of money specially for him, and snorted disdainfully, what a gambler. Look at his appearance, obviously he is the one who loses the most money at the gambling table, but he behaves as if he has won.

He only lost a dozen or so copper coins, and the guy on the other side lost at least two hundred copper coins.

That guy will die at this gambling table sooner or later.

The fat bandit thought so.

While these bandits were having fun because of gambling, from the direction of the edge of the forest on the north side where the dull noise was made just now, some continuous sounds of branches breaking and the creaking sound of snow being pushed away by something have been coming towards them. From a bandit camp.

An old bandit sitting by the campfire was the first to notice something was wrong. He stood up and squinted his eyes towards the forest in the distance.

Because the ground is covered with white snow with strong reflections, even though there is only one large campfire light source in the entire bandit camp, it can illuminate a large area around it.

Using the light, the old bandit looked for a while. Apart from the white snow, the voice came from some trees that had lost their leaves.

nothing else.

Strange, there is obviously nothing, but why are there continuous voices coming from time to time?

As the voices got closer, not only the vigilant elderly bandit noticed, but also some bragging bandits next to him also noticed this unusual situation.

The bandits patted other people's arms or shoulders, making everyone pay attention to the direction of the strange sound.

But they saw nothing but white snow and trees.

"Hey, hey, stop playing, something is coming." A bandit shouted, which attracted the attention of other bandits who were having fun.

The whispering of the woman in the simple tent nearby also stopped, and a disheveled bandit came out from inside, and he said impatiently to the people outside: "What happened, is it the same as those boys just now?" What the hell did you come up with? Boss? Do you have to find a chance to teach those young boys a lesson, at least let them know who in our team really counts?" In the last few words, this The disheveled bandit was calling to the bandit leader in the cabin.

The bandit leader in the wooden house roared impatiently: "Understood, we will talk about it tomorrow, tomorrow. I will give them a good look."

The other bandits also thought that it might be a prank played by those young boys, so even though the voices were moving towards them, the other bandits relaxed their vigilance.

After this interruption, the gamble surrounded by the bandits over there could not continue. The bandit who won the money was pestered by the bandit who lost a lot of money, insisting on forcibly borrowing a sum of his own coins not long ago.

The stout bandit felt ashamed just now, so instead of sitting at the gaming table, he picked up an empty wooden cup and came to the campfire, intending to take a cup of water from the bucket to quench his thirst.

He bent down with great difficulty, and just as he was about to dip the wooden cup into the warm water in the bucket, he froze.

Under the light of the big campfire, in the wooden barrel with warm water temperature, the clear water from the melted snow inside is constantly showing more and more obvious waves.

Gudong, the fat bandit swallowed. Although his instinct told him that something was wrong, his eyes looked at the same lively scene as before, and his ears listened to the bragging and farting of those rotten people who were like vicious mud. He still couldn't find a place where the anxiety in his heart could be grounded.

The wooden cup reached into the bucket and scooped up half a cup of warm water. The fat bandit gulped it down his throat. While drinking, his alert little eyes were narrowed into a slit, and the eyeballs inside were constantly scanning left and right.

what is it then?

what is it then?

what is it then?

Slowly turning his body, he scanned his gaze wider. Finally, he stared at the direction where the continuous voice came from.

Next to him, a bandit was shaving his mouth full of rotten teeth with a strong fishbone. He stared curiously at this fat bandit friend: "'Fat Pig', what are you doing?"

Regardless of the friend who called him by his nickname, the fat bandit just waved his empty left hand, signaling this man not to look for trouble.

After drinking the water, he clutched the empty wooden cup in his hand. He didn't notice that his right hand was nervously holding the cup in his hand, and his fingers turned white from the exertion.

His attention was on the direction he was looking.

There is the north side of the camp, only white snow, dark brown winter trees, and large white things that seem to be snow are slowly approaching.

The place where the sound came from was the result of the white 'snow' hitting the surrounding low branches. All the branches blocking the way were broken by the 'snow'.

Hell, that doesn't look like snow. If it wasn't snow, what would that white thing be?

The surprised fat bandit forgot to swallow the last mouthful of warm water, and his mouth opened slightly in surprise, allowing the warm water to flow from his chin along the beard to the animal fur on his chest.

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Face to face with a human, making the Warcraft feel 'quiet' approaching, it was discovered.

Strange, there is already a layer of mist on the surface of its body, how did the human who looked delicious find it?

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"Damn it! Everyone, something is approaching." The fat bandit finally came back to his senses. He shouted loudly, but it aroused the disgust of other bandits.

"'Fat Pig' put away your fake performances that can no longer be faked, and go to Bingxun Pass to watch more performances, haha. I think your performances can only be polished for people in the backstage of the theater." A bandit immediately Laugh out loud.

The other bandit was chewing something, and said vaguely: "If you can win a game, you will lose. You don't have the ability, do you? Haha."

A bandit who had been watching the entire gambling game just now snorted disdainfully: "You didn't see how quickly 'Fat Pig' changed his face just now, I can guarantee that if he can keep this ability, he will definitely have a place on the stage." Formal work."

A bandit who spoke with him grinned and said, "What kind of job is suitable for him?"

The bandit went on to say, "He can play the sun. No, it's better to play the moons. He can play the role of the moons changing every day."

"But I heard that it's not all women who play the roles of moons?"

"Don't underestimate 'Fat Pig', he will definitely be able to play that role well." After finishing speaking, the two bandits who were talking to each other laughed.

The other robbers also laughed.

However, the fat bandit with an ugly face ignored those vicious scumbags. He quickly walked two steps, came to the door of the wooden house where the leader was busy, and pounded on the broken wooden door of the wooden house with his fist.

There was an unfriendly growl from inside: "No matter who you are, I will smash your face. I promise." The wooden door opened with a bang, and the bandit leader with only a circle of animal fur hanging around his waist looked ugly. walked out.

He raised his hand to stop the fat bandit who was about to say something, and kicked the fat bandit down.

He put his foot on the chest of the fallen fat bandit, looked down into his eyes and said, "I said, no matter who interrupts my work, I will smash his face. Tell me, you want to keep the left hand The face or the right face?"

But the fat bandit who fell to the ground did not speak, but looked at the sky behind the bandit leader in horror.

There, a huge white unknown object that fell from the sky directly hit the middle of the wooden house where the bandit leader had just come out.

boom!

The entire simple wooden house built with large tree trunks was smashed to pieces by a huge object that fell from the sky.

There was silence for a second, or two.

Then.

"What!" "Damn it!" The bandits panicked, they didn't know what happened.

The leader of the bandit who was stepping on people was covered in cold sweat. If he hadn't gone out just now, he might have been crushed to death right away?

But before he could think of a whole paragraph of praying for good luck in his heart, his whole body was cut into two sections from the waist with a horizontal buzzing sound, one in front and one in back. On the ground aside.

"Boss!" Suddenly their leader was chopped into two pieces by an unknown attack, and the surrounding bandits immediately came to their senses. The timid bandits hurried into the simple tent, ignoring the two naked people inside. , picked up his big bag, and wanted to run outside into the forest.

The daring bandits immediately drew out their weapons, regardless of whether it was useful or not, and threw them at the huge unknown thing made up of snow or something.

The thrown metal weapon pierced through the white mist and smashed on the surface of the monster's body. It had no other effect other than falling to the ground.

The monster, who had already received the spare eyes inside its body, stood up, aroused its magic power, and temporarily expanded the fog. In just an instant, the entire camp except for a small area next to the big campfire was enveloped in it in a short time.

The bandits' vision was blocked in an instant, which made them even more flustered, and this weird fog also had a sound-absorbing effect. Obviously all the bandits were yelling, but it seemed to be far away in the ears of the bandits. It sounded the same everywhere.

The monster's offensive was fully fired, and these panicked bandits followed it as it stood up, and every time it took a step, it would pierce a human from top to bottom with its sharp walking legs.

Lucky humans will only be pierced through their stomachs instantly by their legs and feet, and then they will hold the half of their stomachs full of intestines and cry in pain. Unlucky humans will be directly connected to their heads and bodies by sharp legs and feet. Split in two. The two halves of the body fell limply to the ground.

The monster saw that these panicked humans didn't seem to be very powerful, so it became bold, and its long giant mouth protruded from the front of its body, and swallowed the humans who wanted to escape into the forest from a distance.

Despite being torn apart and mourned by the newly grown fangs in its mouth, the monster rounded its long mouth, swallowed several humans who wanted to escape into its mouth one by one, and used its teeth to tear and grind.

There are so many human beings here, it can pick and choose a few that it likes and swallow them whole, as its new 'eyes', and eat other yelling human beings, as supplementary body nourishment food.

The monster's physical strength was still insufficient, so the mist that covered the entire camp was quickly withdrawn, and even a little thin mist on it dissipated, and the remaining less than ten bandits were tightly surrounded by the campfire, their faces covered. He stared in horror at this terrifying creature that had finally revealed its true form.

"It's a monster! It turned out to be a monster! We're dead, we're dead." An old bandit who had been sitting by the campfire wailed.

The other bandits looked at the huge body of the monster and the dead and wounded people all over the ground. They couldn't hold the weapons in their hands, and their legs and feet were so weak that they couldn't bear it.

The monster withdrew its long mouth. It really didn't expect that its physical strength was so lacking, and the fog that was usually easy to maintain only lasted for such a short time. Seeing its appearance by humans made Warcraft feel very shy, and half of the humans hanging on the giant mouth forgot to swallow it into its stomach.

Fortunately, the fat bandit was lying on the ground and was not noticed by the huge monster. Looking at the half of the legs that were still kicking around the monster's mouth not far above his head, his whole body was shocked. Terrified, he turned over numbly, and crawled towards the standing bandit companions with both arms and legs.

With his heart beating fiercely in his chest, he gradually felt his whole head swell and heat, his hands and feet gradually lost strength, and he couldn't make a sound from his wide-open mouth.

After only climbing two steps, the fat bandit was frightened to death.