Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji felt very embarrassed, and the blacksmith apprentice sitting on the stool in the shop opposite was also very embarrassed. Neither of them spoke, but when the blacksmith apprentice looked at Zhao Ji, he was still amused by Zhao Ji's equipment.

Zhao Ji gave up, and today it seems that everyone he knows has to laugh at least once when they meet him. Walking into the grocery store, Zhao Ji looked around, the apprentice blacksmith smiled enough and said to Zhao Ji: "I heard in the tavern that you hunted two slime monsters."

"I don't know what you've heard, at least it's not as easy as those drunkards said." Zhao Ji said.

"Are you serious? It's good to work hard and make money. Every year, people are injured or even killed by slime monsters."

Zhao Ji pouted: "We are different. I don't want to work every day to make money."

"Hmph, that's it. Then, Keir, is there anything you want to buy?" The apprentice blacksmith sat up straight and said to Zhao Ji.

"A coil of rope, a large coil of fine hemp rope will do."

The blacksmith apprentice took out a large bundle of fine hemp rope from a wooden barrel behind him, made two gestures and said to Zhao Ji: "You have to be right, and the money is calculated according to the length."

Zhao Ji took out the pitiful money bag from the inner pocket of his clothes, opened it, looked at the remnant soldiers and defeated soldiers inside, dumped it on the table in front of the blacksmith apprentice, and put the coins inside on the table and said: "Look Give as much as you have."

The apprentice blacksmith counted the coins on the table, most of which were iron coins, and there were not many copper coins. He said to Zhao Ji: "Using an adult's arm length as the standard, three iron coins for one arm length, you are a forty-four arm length fine hemp rope."

After finishing speaking, he grabbed one end of the hemp rope with his left hand, put the hemp rope on his arm with the other hand, and gestured for the length of an arm, and then said: "One."

Then he grabbed the piece on the shoulder with his left hand, repeated the same thing, and said, "Two."

After repeating this for forty-four times, the fine hemp rope in front of Zhao Ji became a pile.

With the last arm, the apprentice blacksmith drew out the dagger at his waist to cut off the last hemp rope, and collected the coins on the table.

Zhao Ji greeted the apprentice blacksmith, and walked out of the grocery store with a large pile of hemp rope.

Sure enough, as Zhao Ji expected, his attire caused the guards at the city gate to laugh. Especially after he put all his weapons behind his back and held a lot of ropes in his hands.

Ignore the guards who have nothing to do all day. Zhao Ji came to the place where he camped last night again. After putting down his things, he took off his shoes and rolled up his trouser legs. Zhao Ji walked towards the dwarf trees in the swamp with an ax in hand.

He's going to cut down the trees in those swamps and spread them on the side of the swamp with more land. It is daytime now, and the view in the swamp is good. Zhao Ji can clearly see where there is less water and more land in the swamp.

He chose a place near the northwest of the swamp, which is more suitable for Zhao Ji to observe. Zhao Ji first began to look for dwarf trees on the periphery of the swamp and cut them down. These dwarf trees were very short, and their branches were also very wet. Two axes cut most of them down, and with one kick, the dwarf trees could be knocked down.

It is troublesome and laborious to drag the dwarf tree to the location chosen by Zhao Jiji. And the flying insects flying around in the swamp are also very annoying.

Every dwarf tree has to be dragged by Zhao Ji from the muddy water of the swamp to the designated position. Every time you step on the swamp, you have to be careful whether you are stepping on it. Every time you pull your feet out of the swamp, you have to take a step. Make great efforts.

In the afternoon, it took Zhao Ji a long time to finish the project. He also split all the branches of the dwarf tree, and spread the trunk where it was most needed, with the branches of the dwarf tree and a great deal of leaves underneath. Fortunately, the swamp in the south of the city is only a small swamp, and it is a man-made swamp.

Therefore, the mud in the entire swamp is very shallow, and the water surface on the muddy water is also very thin. Otherwise, this workload cannot be completed by Zhao Ji alone.

Zhao Ji tried this road. The whole road started from the northwest of the swamp and extended all the way to the center of the swamp. Several small lands protruding from the water surface of the swamp were borrowed in the middle. Zhao Ji also uprooted the vegetation in these protruding places, and used the uprooted swamp plants as roadbeds.

Walking all the way to one side, although it is very narrow, it is very good, at least Zhao Ji does not have to step on the mud of the swamp.

Looking at his masterpiece, Zhao Ji clapped his hands and decided it was time to make the next preparations.

Back at the campfire, with the ax still at hand, Zhao Ji picked up the rattan basket he borrowed, put it upside down on his head, and tried the feeling.

It feels good, it feels like protecting the head a little bit, but this rattan basket, ah no, the rattan helmet, has some air leaks everywhere. That's no protection against the slime monster's acid spit.

Zhao Ji tried it out, and decided to cut a small piece of bedding with a dagger and put it inside the rattan helmet. Firstly, it can resist the spit of acid, and secondly, it can be more comfortable to wear.

after a little while.

The modified rattan helmet feels okay on Zhao Ji's head. That is, there is still a gap between the head and the helmet, and the helmet always shakes when worn on the head.

As a solution, Zhao Ji collected some insect-repellent flowers and plants. Fill them into the gaps in the helmet.

This is also an added benefit, that is, the insect repellent flowers and plants can drive away flying insects and small insects that approach Zhao Ji.