Mercenaries and Adventurers

When Zhao Ji came outside the city gate, he tied the wooden pot cover in his left hand to the bedding behind him. He broke a branch from a small tree by the roadside, picked a branch with a fork at one end, and scraped off the bark of the branch with a dagger. Zhao Ji went around the city wall in the southeast of the town and came to the south of the town.

There are two large water outlets ahead. On the gentle slope outside the south of the city, there are two gaps, about ten meters apart, and each outlet is big enough for people to walk through. Zhao Ji came up close and looked inside cautiously. The one he entered seemed to be the outlet of drinking water in the town. If you lie outside and look in, you can feel the coolness of the water mist.

A large amount of water is flowing out of the drinking water outlet at this time. After all, it is the water directly drawn from the Kendall River. With the huge water flow of the Kendall River, the amount of water diverted is not a problem. The water in the swamp in the south of the city seems to be Mostly from here.

The inside of the water hole was dark and there was no light to be seen, but the surrounding walls were washed smooth by the water flow and looked very clean. This diversion channel is built very wide, so although the water flow is very large, according to Ju Zhaoji's observation, stepping on the water is actually a little over the ankle and up a little bit. People should be able to stand in it, as long as they stand firmly.

In this way, it is possible to go in and investigate, of course, not now. Zhao Ji first went to another water outlet to observe.

Zhao Ji made a detour from the slope, and came to another water outlet. It is said to be a water outlet, but it is more like a sewage outlet in the town. The flowers and plants here are stronger than those next to them, and the stems and leaves are thicker than those next to them. , the flowers are also much brighter. Zhao Ji heard from the guards and the guys from the chamber of commerce that all the excrement and sewage in the town came from here.

Three times a day, flush water will be discharged from the water tower in the upper city of Kendall City. This flush will go from top to bottom from the upper city, through the chamber of commerce, then through the artisan district, then through the poor district, and finally through the rich district, and then from Zhao Kat is now standing where the discharge is. The sewage and excrement produced by the town every day is washed downstream into the swamp south of the city.

Zhao Ji came to the entrance of the cave here, lay down on his stomach and looked inside. A foul smell hit Zhao Ji and covered his nose. There are old feces hanging on the two walls of the water hole, and some indescribable things are deposited on the waterway from the sewage. Before the water tower in the upper city was released, there was no water in the waterway at this time, and there were many dung beetles crawling on the ground. These little bugs were rolling their food hard, and some stinky creatures were also joining them for a feast. pause.

Zhao Ji's complexion was not very good, partly because of the smell, and partly because he was disgusted by seeing a lot of feces being eaten by small animals. But when he thought that maybe he was going to go into the sewer to hunt the slime monster, his expression became even worse.

Zhao Ji thought of the conversation he had heard from the guards not long ago. The guards seemed to take turns to clean up the slime monsters in the sewers every year, and they would also make a bad smell. To be honest, Zhao Ji wanted to retreat a little bit, after all, he had never done this job in his previous life.

Zhao Ji backed away a little, took a few steps up the slope, put down the things he was carrying, lay down on the somewhat yellowed lawn and thought.

It is said to be thinking, but it is actually in a daze.

"There is no good way. If you want to hunt slime monsters during the day, you have to drill into the sewer."

"Hey, let's go to the swamp to look for slime monsters after dark. Anyway, there is plenty of time."

"By the way, now assemble the weapon first."

Zhao Ji stood up, cut off a long section of the excess hemp rope on the quilt, grabbed the wooden stick in his hand, chose a suitable place for the dagger, and then wrapped it with the hemp rope.

After two or three strokes, Zhao Ji got up and waved the little dagger in his hand a few times, and stabbed the sharp part horizontally towards the flowers and plants on the ground.

The tip of the dagger cut through the thick stems of two flowers, then felled a large piece of grass, and then stuck it in the soil. Zhao Ji pulled it out, and the dagger shook. Look carefully, it turns out that when the dagger and the wooden stick were reinforced, they were not fixed together stably. After all, the wooden stick is round, and the handle of the dagger is also round.

Zhao Ji couldn't be bothered, he took the hemp rope apart, took out the dagger, and slashed at the place where the wooden stick had just fixed the dagger.

Zhao Ji fiddled with it for a while. He drilled a hole for the place where the dagger was fixed on the wooden stick, and made two gestures, just enough to fit most of the handle of the dagger in, and then tied it carefully with a fine hemp rope.

This time, Zhao Ji swung the dagger vigorously, and the dagger did not shake anymore. When it was used to mow grass, Zhao Ji could clearly feel the strength of both hands on the whole weapon.

After a while, Zhao Ji put the weapon on the ground and returned to the sewage outlet to observe.

After all, his main task today is to investigate. He wants to see if there is any way to hunt slime monsters without entering the sewage.