Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil looked at the huge wild boar carcass in front of him in embarrassment.

The entire wild boar weighed at least half a ton, and its height was only a little shorter than his horse. As for its body width, it was far beyond it.

Kiel scratched his head when he saw such a huge wild boar carcass. He originally only planned to hunt some ordinary wild boars that were slightly larger than humans one by one. He had no intention of killing this huge wild boar.

But who would have thought that this guy would take the initiative to attack after seeing Kiel? Hey, he really treated himself as a dish.

But it seemed a pity to just leave it and turn around to hunt other wild boars that hadn't gone far.

As he circled the huge wild boar carcass, Kil thought about what to do with it.

It was naturally impossible to carry the whole body back. First of all, he didn't have a carriage to transport the goods, and secondly, he didn't have the ability to move the huge wild boar carcass to the transport as a whole.

"Then we can only cut it open and carry it. Shh~"

After blowing the whistle to call the horses, and with the sound of approaching horse hooves, Keir's little friend slowly walked over. However, it seemed a little afraid of the huge dead wild boar carcass, and was unwilling to get close to Kiel who was standing next to the carcass.

"What a coward!" Kil cursed, and his horse flicked its tail and ignored him.

Using the tusks and face of the huge wild boar, Kil climbed up the back of the wild boar, found the broken spear at the back, and used a dagger to dig out the deeply pierced spear head.

After wiping the spear head clean with tough pig hair, Kil jumped off the wild boar's back.

Putting the spear head into the package on the horse's back, Kil drew his sword and prepared to cut open the entire huge wild boar carcass.

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The first step is naturally to remove its four thick legs with tangled muscles.

Starting from the left front leg, which had been heavily slashed by him before, Kil followed the original wound, placed the blade of the long sword on it and began to draw downwards.

The reforged hunting sword is very strong and sharp. It has always been sharp since it was forged and polished. Whether it is chopping the skull of a beast or cutting off the legs of a huge wild boar like this, it is extremely smooth and easy to use.

It's just that I owe it a little bit. I can't win the honor of defeating this beast, so I can only cut up the corpse with overkill.

Kil climbed up and down, even if it wasn't fighting, he was just busy doing this, and he was still panting from exhaustion. Mainly because of his lack of experience, it was not easy to find the pig leg joints on the wild boar carcass, and he cut them randomly. As a result, he was faced with a pig leg bone that was thicker than his thigh blocking the way.

clang!

With a sword slash, the two collided with a crisp sound.

Kil looked at the long sword and breathed a sigh of relief. There was no curling edge or gap in the long sword.

The particularly thick pig legs had some bone fragments cut out of them, and they were not as hard as they could be.

"Good guy."

Keir was in trouble now and did not dare to use brute force to break the pig leg bone.

If it were a complete two-handed axe, he would dare to do this, but forget about the long sword.

So Kiel began to search for the joints of the thick pig leg along the bones of the pig leg. It took him a while to finally remove the entire wild boar leg, which was covered in blood.

Plugging his sword into the wild boar beside him, Kil leaned down and hugged the smelly wild boar's left front leg.

"Huh! Ha!" With one breath of strength, he picked up the pig leg, which weighed dozens of kilograms.

Although this is still heavy, at least it is in a state that can be carried.

If he didn't ride a horse, he would walk and let the horse carry the pig leg, so he could carry it back to the village.

But in this case, what to do with the other parts of the wild boar?

If you leave it alone, you will definitely be eaten by other beasts in the wilderness.

After some calculations, Kil felt that by burying the rest of the wild boar carcasses in the ground and freezing them, he could barely preserve the other wild boar carcasses for a period of time.

But other beasts will definitely dig the corpse out of the ground, but by doing so, it can block most of the beasts and slow down the speed at which the corpse is devoured.

After thinking for a while, Kil thought that he should bring the wild boar leg back to the village first, and then find a way to bring some people out with him to go here and bring back the remaining wild boar carcass.

After some calculations and thinking it was feasible, Kil turned around and looked at the huge wild boar carcass that was still bleeding out from the warm body. He sighed and cut the carcass into pieces that could be easily transported.

It was impossible to bury him in situ. The ground around him was full of blood and tiny wild boar body parts. The blood was so strong that it gradually attracted the surrounding beasts.

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A few crows flew from the sky, and they landed on the top of the hillside not far away. They watched motionlessly as Keer cut up the wild boar carcass, and occasionally chirped to each other. After a while, a crow flapped its wings and flew away, but if you wait a little longer, more will fly back.

Several gray foxes from a family strolled along the frozen river. They whined at each other and did not dare to get close to the busy Kil and the 'tall' one who stared at them. The horse squatted obediently beside the rocks by the river, its tail swaying constantly, watching Keir busy at work, and occasionally licking his lips.

A vigorous shadow moved quickly on the ice of the completely frozen river. After crossing near Kiel, it seemed to sense something. The originally blurry shadow turned into a hazy entity, sneaking under the ice that the giant wild boar had smashed before, secretly sticking a forked tongue out of the broken ice, swinging it quickly in the air, and then retracted into the ice. . Then, he stuck out his tongue, wiggled it around, and then took it back.

The snow not far away stirred slightly, and a white-spotted leopard slowly moved its body under the snow. It could smell the smell of blood blowing in the wind from a long distance away, which made it difficult for more than ten sunrises and sunsets. It couldn't stand it any longer and slipped out of the huge bush where it was hiding.

After getting closer, he determined that the dead man in front of him was the leader of the wild boar group that had ravaged the woods in his home not long ago. Although it is just a beast, it feels a little happy for some reason.

Clicking his lips, Kil panted and arranged four huge pig legs that were as heavy as him on the ground. He looked around with his sword in hand and saw a large group of crows that were increasing in number and approaching more and more boldly. He also saw a family of gray foxes squatting obediently by the rocks by the river. In addition, he narrowed his eyes slightly. Keir, who had sharp eyes, noticed a slightly raised mass of snow not far away, and didn't know what kind of beast was hiding underneath.

His keen intuition also told him that there was something wrong with the frozen river, but he couldn't see any problem.

Resting on the bloody and limbless body of the huge wild boar, Kil regained some strength. He carried his sword and walked to a bush that had been knocked down by the wild boar before. He dragged the broken bush to the body and chopped it into pieces with his sword. After clearing a small patch of snow, Kiel stacked sections of shrub branches together and carefully started a fire with a handful of pig hair.

Kil cut off a piece of fat from the wild boar carcass and threw it into the fire. Soon, with a crackling sound, the fire quickly ignited.

Although he had been busy for a long time, Kil had no appetite at all. The blood all over his body and hands made him choke and lose his appetite. His hands were sticky, and even though he was wearing gloves, the warm blood still soaked through the gloves made of hard cowhide.

"Fortunately, it's winter. If it's hot, we probably won't be able to stay in this place." As he complained, Keel remembered a commission he had participated in in an investigation at a farm near Kendall City.

That bullpen that was almost forgotten, Keel somehow remembered it again.

"vomit!"

Just thinking about it made him want to vomit along with the bloody smell around him.

It took him a while to recover.

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After regaining his strength, Kil used a long sword to carefully cut off a huge wild boar head along the wild boar's spine. He also used a dagger to cut off two huge yellowed tusks along the roots of the wild boar's tusks. dig up.

He thought that he might be able to sell this thing for some money.

After all, such large tusks are very suitable for use as decorations. Even if they are not killed personally, this thing can be used to add a visible sense of bravery to the buyer.

These two yellowed tusks were nearly one meter long. Keir carefully scraped off the flesh and blood at the roots of the teeth, then tied them together with a rope and hung them in the luggage on the horse.

The smell of blood aroused the surrounding animals more and more.

Experienced hunters can still suppress their hungry stomachs; timid and clever little beasts follow the rules of the wilderness and sit in the distance, not intending to participate in the initial fight. They only need a few scraps of soup. Able to spend the next winter safely; the unknown existence in the glacier smelled the uneasiness in the busy humans, and decided to stay put and observe more.

Only the number of crows is increasing, and the squawking crows are getting bolder.

As the first crow called his relatives and friends, and after confirming that there was plenty of food, the relatives and friends called their relatives and friends in turn.

It seemed that all the crows in the wilderness next to the lake had gathered at this time. They were noisy and talking about when humans would finish it so that they could eat after waiting for a long time.

As the number increased, some brave crows flapped their wings and jumped close to the wild boar carcass that was covered with blood and flesh.

Picking up a small piece of blood-stained stone, a crow flapped its wings and flew back to the top of the hillside. The surrounding crows chirped and gathered around, making the crows with blood-stained stones in their mouths dance happily in place.

Then a bolder crow sneaked up from behind Kil and picked up a piece of furry skin stained with blood on the ground. The crow flew up and landed among the crows on the hillside.

He showed his trophy to other crows he knew or didn't know around him, and then swallowed the entire furry skin into his throat.

At this time, the surrounding crows could no longer remain calm and began to move down the hillside one after another. Some were bold and flew directly over, while others were more cautious and jumped on the ground and ran over.

Keir was cutting open the belly of the wild boar, and using his hands, he was pulling out the internal organs of the large wild boars from the pile of internal organs that were flowing on the ground. The more he looked at these things, the more disgusting he became, and he had no idea of ​​eating them.

When he looked up, he realized that there were crows flying around everywhere. These clever birds, as big as a man's forearm, were chirping around, either picking up pieces of meat on the ground, or pecking wild boar carcasses with their beaks.

Keir ignored these small animals and went about his own work. He just thought that the crows couldn't eat much anyway, so he ignored them.

But these crows don't know how to eat wild boar carcasses secretly, and even while eating, they chatter and show off to others of their kind.

A crow pecked at the wild boar's eye. After playing with it for a while, it took out the tiny eyeball of the huge wild boar and showed off to other crows while shaking its head.

And the crow boldly jumped on Kiel's shoulder and screamed, and then jumped on top of Kiel's head. While grabbing Kiel's helmet with its talons, it pecked at Kiel's helmet faceplate with its beak. .

"Oh, it's so annoying!" Kil was really annoyed by these guys, so he yelled and drove away the crows on his body.

But these smart birds realized that Kiel was simply chasing them away, so within five minutes, these bold guys were back to their old ways!

"You guys don't know what's going on, don't you?"

As if being aroused by the crows, Kil shouted and used the long sword in his hand to cut the crows that were flying around in the air to tease him in half.

Without waiting for the surrounding crows to fly away in surprise, Kil jumped out of the pile of wild boar entrails, raised his sword and lowered his hand, circled the wild boar carcass, and killed dozens of crows on the ground.

Some panicked crows wanted to fly away, but because they were reluctant to part with the wild boar meat in their mouths, they were picked up by the indifferent Keir and cut in half during the short period of time when they were thinking about their decision.

"Quack quack! quack quack! quack quack!"

The surviving crows flew in the air, screaming in fear, anxious and angry, but they did not dare to approach the murderous Keir.

Because some of the crows who angrily charged towards Kil for revenge had no way to deal with the hard cowhide armor that covered Kil's body. Instead, Kil casually grabbed the crow that was flying around him, held it still under his feet, and then stamped it to death.

No crow could withstand Kiel's heavy kick, and the crows that were trampled to death died in an even more miserable state, which I won't describe here. It was roughly similar to the cat cakes and puppy cakes on the road in the morning.

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Kil panted and swung his sword, shaking off all the flesh and blood and feathers stained on the sword. Then he ignored the circle of crows flying around his head and continued to deal with the inside of the huge wild boar's torso.

The gray foxes sitting in the distance saw the crows' heavy losses and made some mocking noises that sounded like schadenfreude.

The hidden hunter, the white-spotted leopard, quietly narrowed his eyes and became even more wary of the long swords in human hands, wondering if he should just take some dead crows to fill his stomach?

The forked tongue sticking out of the glacier sensed everything that happened not far away, curled up excitedly in the air, and then secretly poked a pair of eyes out of the glacier. The two eyes looked at the environment 180 degrees to the left and right independently of each other. After finding no other dangers, they quietly stared at the human who had half of his body buried in the belly of the wild boar.

I don't know what I'm planning.

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The crows suffered heavy losses in this battle, but that didn't mean they had nothing to do with this guy who was completely invulnerable.

They continued to fly in a circle dozens of meters above Kiel's head. The circle was so large that it was at least the same size as a basketball court. While staring at Kil below with hateful eyes, they cursed and cursed the human with regular quacking sounds.

What Keir didn't know was that it was said that the crows wandering in the wilderness had a moody master. That existence made the crows all over the continent serve as his eyes and ears. Naturally, he also gave these noisy crows Guys have some special skills.

When the remaining crows flew high into the sky, although they were still chirping, Kil's ears on the ground felt much more relaxed. Although the crows flying in circles above his head seemed a bit troublesome, Keir didn't care. Unless those guys dared to defecate on top of his head and harass him, otherwise, if they didn't bother him from afar, he wouldn't either. Find a way to attack those birds from a distance.

Kiel cut off the giant boar's trunk from the middle of the spine, and then divided the two halves into four parts. In this way, each part will not be particularly heavy. The buttocks of the wild boar, including the pelvis, are the heaviest among the four parts of the trunk. Therefore, while he has enough physical strength, Kil drags the ridiculously heavy body of the wild boar towards the river with both hands. go.

Taking out a short metal shovel from the horse's luggage, Kier broke open the frozen solid soil surface by the river with shovel after shovel, and then dug down hard.

When he was tired of digging, he went to the wild boar carcass, used his horse to pull the rope from a distance, and pulled the heavy wild boar carcass parts to the dug pit.

The wild boar's internal organs were still warm when they first flowed out of the trunk, but they were soon frozen and solidified on the hillside by the cold weather.

Regardless of that, Keir moved the fire to the dug pit, then added fuel and let the flames burn brightly.

It soon became dark, and Kil rested by the fire, then scrubbed the parts of his armor vigorously with the snow on the ground. The wolf fur cloak that was originally worn on his body was also dyed crimson by the wild boar's blood, and when the blood froze, it became even more solid. Kil had to place the cloak next to the fire and heat it carefully. After the blood stained on the cloak melted and dried, he carefully rubbed off the dried blood residue with his hands.

Even if he did, the color of the entire cloak would never return.

The original gray color of the wolf's fur turned into a light red cloak.

And there was a smell of blood lingering on it that could not be dispelled.

So disgusting.

After Keir reluctantly cleaned himself up, he took out a fine cloth and wiped several weapons. Then he looked at the frozen place on the hillside where the wild boar's internal organs were frozen to see if any bold little animals would come over tonight to steal the fish.

It's hard to say. Except for the crows, no other animals did anything during the day. Maybe the crows hovering above his head worried the cautious animals, so they didn't dare to act rashly. It's also possible that they were Waiting for Keir to leave?

After barely resting intermittently for a night, Kil yawned all day long and ushered in a new day in the wilderness with low spirits.

Just after dawn, the crows that had flown away yesterday evening reappeared.

"Oh." Kil yawned: "What a perseverant bird."