Mercenaries and Adventurers

While Kiel and the two were leisurely hunting rabbits at the edge of the forest, a sharp whistle suddenly came from the sentry tower camp.

Keir was shocked and quickly picked up his companion who was lying on the ground: "Whistle! Leave the rabbit alone and leave quickly." After saying that, Keel pulled him and ran towards the camp.

Before they went out to cut trees, the old hunters made an agreement with them. As soon as they heard the whistle, no matter whether there was any discovery or danger, the four young people had to come back immediately.

Kil and the others didn't want to end up like Bolu, so they all nodded heavily at that time.

The companion happened to be holding a newly caught rabbit in his hand. He broke the little rabbit's neck, then put the rabbit into his arms and followed Keel's pace.

On the way back, they met two companions who were leading three horses back.

"Everyone get on the horse! Ride faster!" Keir shouted loudly.

As soon as he got on the horse he usually rode, he fished it out and pulled a fellow hunter onto the horse's back. There is no saddle or bridle on the horse, so it is very difficult to sit firmly. Gere had to grab the horse's mane and bring it closer to the other two horses.

Keir helped his companions lie down on the horse's back, then patted the horse's butt and asked the other two horses to follow him.

Although there are large and small rocks everywhere here, and they are all covered by snow, it is dangerous to ride a horse. But fortunately, when they arrived, they had already found a safe way to go back and forth, so they didn't have to worry about breaking the horse's leg.

Quickly rushing back to the guard tower, Kil and his companions jumped off their horses in a panic, then opened the door to a gap and got in one after another.

As soon as he came in, he asked his companions in the camp at the protective door: "What's wrong? What happened?"

"Something is approaching in the woods on the south side. I can't see what it is. For the sake of safety, I will let you back first." An old hunter said as he walked down the wooden ladder on the second floor.

He continued: "Get armed. The hunters all go to the third floor and open the wooden windows. Everyone looks at a window. Kil, get ready. Just stay here at the gate and be alert!"

"Okay." Kil responded quickly.

He came to his room on the second floor, picked up the weapons for fighting, and returned to the first floor to prepare for battle.

His companions have all gone to the third floor, and he is the only one staying here. There is nothing he can do about it.

After waiting for a while, there was a burst of cheers from upstairs, which made Keir a little confused. Although I don’t know what the situation is, since everyone is cheering, it means it is a good thing after all.

Soon, with the sound of clanking down the stairs, a young hunter quickly ran down the wooden stairs and said to Keir: "It's the Lord Knight! She's back with the villagers in the village!"

"Phew." Keir breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he was one of his own.

"Then do you want to open the door for them now?" Kil came to the door and asked his companions.

Unexpectedly, his companion waved his hand: "No, Knight Lanissa has repeatedly requested that the gate of the camp cannot be opened all the time, even to welcome her. Just wait a moment, wait until they come over and call the door, and then open it for them." "

"Okay, so it turns out that it's because you're afraid of being suddenly rushed in by the cunning Northern Wolf, right?"

"That's probably what you mean, right? I'm not very sure. Anyway, that's what the knight asked. Let's just do it." After saying that, the companion did not go up, but stood on a wooden pier beside the fire pit in the corner of the first floor. Cut up the food.

Seeing Kil looking at him curiously, his companion explained: "They came here on foot, so late, so they must be very hungry. We have to prepare food first."

Keir nodded and waited on the inside of the gate.

After a while, voices were heard outside, as well as the heavy footsteps of Lanissa's knight's horse. Kil was already very familiar with this voice, so when he heard the female knight outside asking the people inside to open the wooden door, he opened the bolt of the wooden door and opened the wooden door left and right.

"Everyone, let's go in! It's freezing outside. Kil, how's the situation here? Is there any problem?" Knight Lanisa jumped off her horse and landed with a thud, then walked over and asked.

Kil opened the visor of his helmet and scratched his nose in embarrassment: "Overall, it went smoothly. However, when we finally returned to the camp, we encountered an ambush from the Northern Wolf. Although the old hunter saw through their attack in advance, the wave Lu was still injured."

The female knight took off her knight's helmet, frowned and nodded, knowing that now was not the time to talk. The key was to quickly let the villagers in to rest.

This time, there were seven villagers called by Knight Lanisha. They were all young villagers who had participated in militia training in previous years. In addition, Mr. Wolf, who was respected in the village, also came with them. .

Mr. Wolf is responsible for some management and dealing with knight families in the village, so when the villagers accept the knight recruitment, he has to follow them.

One is to be responsible for management after the knights and hunters leave the camp. The second is that Mr. Wolf was also a very powerful warrior before he settled in Wumihu Village, so he claimed to be.

Regardless of whether she really has the strength to fight or not, Lanisha Knight doesn't feel that there are fewer people. If her numbers hadn't been ineffective in fighting the Northland wolves in the forest, she would have recruited all the men in the village to follow her into the mountains and fight against the wolves.

Northern wolves are very cunning. If you are very strong and there are many of them, they will actively avoid you. You can wander around in the forest all winter without even thinking of meeting a northern wolf.

If you want to fight them, you must at least make them feel that they are powerless to fight.

The knight asked the villagers to sit down and rest first, and then they walked around the sentry tower camp in pairs to familiarize themselves with what was on each floor. The others rested on the open ground on the first floor and waited for a while to eat.

After taking off the vest of the war horse, Knight Lanisa fed her horse some water, then went upstairs holding the helmet.

Kil also followed him upstairs, but instead of participating in the conversation between the knight and the old hunter, he returned to his house, took off his clothes and sorted them out. The villagers came here today, and they have to set off tomorrow.

At the same time, Kil still remembered to take out the lizard's tail and head claws that he had obtained after defeating the white-scaled lizard, and prepared to be a knight to evaluate whether these things could be eaten and what effect they would have on humans after eating them. .

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After a while, everyone, including the hunters and villagers, had their meal beside the firepit on the first floor. Everyone was given a piece of grilled fish and a rich soup made with fish bone vegetable bread.

The villagers obviously don't like fish very much, but they like the thick soup that has too much bread and becomes mushy.

It can be said that Kiel and Mr. Wolf had a brief acquaintance. After revealing their identities to each other, they were considered acquaintances. He asked Mr. Wolf why the villagers, including Mr. Wolf himself, preferred thick soup to fish.

"None of the men in our village know how to fish. They have been fed up with this food since they were young. Including immigrants like me who settled here when I was young, everyone has been tired of eating fish for many years. Yeah. But there are not many fields in the village, so food is very precious. If the Northern Wolf hadn't been so violent in recent years, how could they have thought of using food to hide the dried fish shipped to Kendall City. Right? ." As he spoke, he took big gulps of the thick soup into his mouth with a spoon and chewed it. It seemed that he could eat a full meal of plant food, which made them all satisfied.

Keir found it funny. This was a different way of saying "why not eat minced meat"? If you eat too much fish and meat, you will miss ordinary food.

Interestingly, to the south of Wumihu Village is a large forest with gradually decreasing terrain, which happens to be a large village in the county that mainly produces wheat and other grains.

Kil half-jokingly told Mr. Wolf that since their village had more fish and meat but less food, Dorallin Village had more food and less meat. A convoy can be organized between two villages to exchange basic materials.

Although this proposal was correct, it was rejected by the villagers.

"The wolves in the wild are making so much noise. Who dares to go out with few people? It's not that there haven't been corresponding bold guys in the village in recent years, but in the end they all died from the wolves, and only some bones eaten by the wolves can be found. That’s all. Even caravans don’t like to come to our village very much.”

"Who says it's not the case? In the beginning, there were still small caravans who were willing to come, but as casualties occurred occasionally, they gradually became afraid to come."

"Only a few big chambers of commerce dare to come. Otherwise, the village won't even have enough tools, so how can it survive?"

The villagers of Wumi Lake talked about these things one after another.

However, Kiel came up with a whimsical idea. Since wolves are seriously infested in the main area on the west side of the Wumi River, why not find a way to build a path through the forest on the far east side of the village, directly to Dolarlin Village.

"Kiel, you are overthinking. Those Northern wolves have amazing endurance. They can swim across rivers and lakes without any problem. Not to mention opening a new road on the east side of the village. In autumn and winter, sometimes the entire village is surrounded by Northern wolves at night. ." Mr. Wolf patted Keir on the shoulder and said helplessly.

Kil shrugged. It seemed that if the strength was unbalanced, no matter what the Wumi Lake Village did, it would not be possible unless the wolves were eliminated.

On the other side, Knight Lanisa was talking to the old hunters. The injured Bolu was also sitting on the side. The bandaged wound on his arm was untied and inspected by Knight Lanisa.

A faint layer of life energy emitted from her hand, and she gently touched Polu's arm with her fingers. The criss-crossed arm muscles were completely wrapped in thick, scabbed ointment. The black, hardened ointment looked like a puddle of dry, hard smelly mud, and it tasted quite similar.

Originally, the ointment exuded a refreshing scent of grass, but after being mixed with a large amount of blood, it somehow turned into a smell of mud.

"How do you feel? Does it hurt?" The female knight sat cross-legged on the edge of the fire pit and asked Bolu.

Polu twitched the corners of his mouth as the knight hit his arm with his hand: "It just hurts a lot, hiss. It doesn't have the numb and itchy feeling that happened soon after the injury before."

"Originally, your boy's serious injury is just like a small wound?" An old hunter next to him slapped Polu on the head and reprimanded him in a tone of hatred.

The relationship between the two is hunter master and apprentice, so they speak more harshly. Bolu didn't dare to refute, so he could only twitch the corners of his mouth.

"It hurts, but now I'm afraid that the wound will heal quickly. The church priests' divine treatment will not be able to do anything after the injury has healed. So before returning to the town, it is best to maintain a state of recovery. .”

Seeing the embarrassment on other people's faces, Knight Lanisa thought it was nothing. "Don't worry, even though he is a young man with an injury of this magnitude, if he wants to heal on his own, it will take less than two months. So Boru, the wound will initially heal." After that, if the bleeding stops, you don’t need to apply any more ointment. Then when you return to Kendall City, you can directly find a church pastor who can treat you quickly.”

She paused: "Besides, it's winter, so you don't have to worry about the wound rotting. If you have nothing to do, go to the third-story window and hang out. Don't stay in the house all the time."

"Yes! I understand." Polu said with mixed feelings. Fortunately, he was relieved to know that his arm could be treated by the priest's magic after returning to the city. The worry is that this unbearable pain will have to last until the end of this expedition.

Seeing that they had ended their conversation for the time being, Kil walked over, took out the trophies from before, and showed them to Knight Lanisa. He first explained what happened during the battle, and then took out the lizard's tail, which was still twitching after a few days.

I won’t take out the other lizard head, because in fact, Keir was also startled upstairs before.

That thing is still alive.

When Keel took it out of the bag, it blinked and stared at Keel, opened its mouth, and stuck out its tongue and flicked it around, trying to disgust Keel with this thing.

Kil was not disgusted, but he was shocked by the vitality of this thing.

The section of the head that he severed had lost its original flesh and blood tissue, and instead had a milky white covering made of blood.

The lizard's claws are also very vital. If it moves, it will tighten its claws.

Beside the fire pit, Knight Lanisa took the tail with fine white scales handed over by Keir and looked at it doubtfully: "Has this thing really been chopped off by you for several days?"

"Really! Fick can testify that we did encounter it on the way to Bayou Town a few days ago. It wanted to attack us at that time." Kil pulled Fick to testify, and Fick kept nodding.

Lanissa Knight held the lizard tail in front of her, then closed her eyes and looked carefully at what was in front of her.

In the meantime, with her eyes still closed, she glanced at Keir several times, but no one noticed.

After a while, she opened her eyes and said to everyone: "This thing does have a strong magical reaction, but it is not the same as the magical power of Warcraft, which is very strange."

The female knight seemed to be wondering about something. She took off the thick gloves on her hands and used her calloused fingers to dig hard at the flesh and blood wrapping the broken tail.

She looked at the place where it was dug out and even smelled it carefully. Then he put some of the lizard blood coagulated material that had been removed from his fingers into his mouth and licked it with his tongue.

As soon as Knight Lanissa licked it, she suddenly shuddered and took the thing out of her mouth.

"It's strange, it's actually made of ice?" the female knight said doubtfully.

icy? How can it be.

Everyone curiously touched the lizard's tail and found that it was not cold, but the same temperature as room temperature.

"It's not like this, but its magic feels cold."

"Magic feeling?" This new word confused everyone. Many people didn't even know the word, let alone the mysterious magic power. Despite this, everyone still came together, cautiously wanting to know more about some weird things.

After thinking for a while, Lanissa Knight put the thing on her finger into her mouth and chewed it. She didn't look very good, and whether it was the smell or the special feeling, it made her feel uncomfortable.

After swallowing, she finally spoke: "This thing can be eaten, but it cannot be eaten directly. Once it is eaten directly into the mouth and stomach, it will die."

"Ah, you will die if you eat it, but you can still eat it?" Kil felt strange.

Rolling his eyes: "What I mean is that it cannot be simply processed and eaten. It must go through some means before it can be eaten by people."

Seeing what Kil wanted to say, Knight Lanisa continued: "Put it in a pile of snow and hang it outside to freeze. After returning to Kendall City, go to 'Wharton's Full Belly' to look for it inside. Chef, he’s got a way with this stuff.”

"Is there any benefit to eating it?" Fick said excitedly.

"Nonsense!" Lanisha Knight said with a smile.