Mercenaries and Adventurers

The swamp is dark at night, and the moon shines on everything.

Zhao Ji took a deep breath and walked towards the depths of the swamp.

The swamp was still bustling and noisy. Standing on a small island in the deepest part, Zhao Ji carefully observed where there were signs of slime monsters. After waiting for a while, no trace of the slime monster was found. Zhao Ji guessed that it might just be dark, and the slime monsters hadn't crawled out of the mud in the swamp yet.

Waiting was not an option. Zhao Ji knocked down a jumping frog with a long spear, and tied its legs upside down to a snake driving stick with a thin hemp rope.

Slowly swinging his snake stick around, Zhao Ji lures the reckless slime monsters.

Sure enough, some slime monsters were still attracted by the jumping frogs and crawled out of the muddy water of the swamp. Before it sprayed mucus, the spear in Zhao Ji's right hand pierced down as his body moved forward.

Zhao Ji, who used the spear for the first time, did not grasp the balance of the spear's downward thrust. The tip of the spear shook at the last moment, and it hit the grass next to the slime monster.

Fortunately, Zhao Ji didn't use too much strength. The moment he realized that the attack failed, he took advantage of the slime monster's lack of reaction. Zhao Ji let go of his right hand, straightened the shield of his left hand and pressed his whole body towards the slime monster.

With a pop, the slime monster was crushed by Zhao Ji's shield into the grass on the edge of the island. Zhao Jitar fell on the ground and took a breath. Zhao Ji counted down to one, two, three, and when he stepped back, the spear in his right hand pierced down again.

There was no mistake in an attack at a very close range. This time, the tip of the gun penetrated the slime monster before it could react.

The tip of the long spear is not comparable to the previous short dagger, its length and width are much stronger than the dagger. After penetrating the slime monster only once, the slime monster no longer struggles violently, but only swings its tentacles slightly.

Zhao Ji, who has experience, knows that this is a phenomenon that the slime monster is on the verge of death.

Pulling out the spear, Zhao Ji roughly rinsed it in the muddy water of the swamp next to him. Zhao Ji took off the jumping frog on the snake driving stick and picked out the dying slime monster from the grass.

Watching the slime monster lose its ability to resist and slowly die, Zhao Ji strung it on a snake stick, just like hunting before, and pinned it to the waist of the branch cloak.

With previous combat experience and after testing the power of the spear, Zhao Ji didn't just stay where he was and wait for the slime monsters to surround him.

Instead, walk back and forth on several small islands nearby, using this dead slime monster to attract a wider range of slime monsters.

The few sporadic slime monsters were no match for Zhao Ji at all. Zhao Ji killed the slime monster with only one or two attacks in several shots. The dead slime monster Zhao Ji is evenly placed in the center of several surrounding islands to attract more slime monsters.

Zhao Ji is determined to clean up all the slime monsters around here today.

According to the previous hunting situation, there should be more than 100 slime monsters in the western part of the swamp, which is larger than before.

Zhao Ji is learning lessons from every spear attack, and he tries to ensure that every blow can hit the slime monster. Under the premise of hitting the slime monster, Zhao Ji tried his best to control the balance and center of gravity of the spear.

When the center of gravity of the spear is forward, each stab attack is more powerful than other attacks, often able to pierce the slime monster and the grass under it together. This is the effect that can only be produced by swiping with both hands at the same time when using the short dagger.

And when the center of gravity of the spear is backward, each stab can adjust the landing point of the spear more. Zhao Ji found that this is very useful for some particularly sensitive slime monsters. Whenever Zhao Ji wanted to attack that kind of sensitive slime monster, when the spear was just raised to attack, the slime monster had already waved its tentacles and slapped the ground to face around. At this time, Zhao Ji moved his right hand forward slightly, making the spear The center is backwards, and this little adjustment can make Zhao Ji adjust the tip of the spear to the place after the slime monster moves at the moment of attack.

Of course, the most convenient thing is to attack while maintaining the balance of the spear. The maintenance of balance enables Zhao Ji to adjust his attack strategy at any time according to the battle situation. No matter which direction the slime monsters flee, or when they attack each other with Zhao Ji, it is guaranteed that Zhao Ji will hit each other.

Because of the improvement in attack efficiency, Zhao Ji did not wait for the slime monsters to gather, and went back and forth on several small islands around. He lit one of the many torches on each islet to give him enough light to support him.

Today's moonlight is really not as good as that of the full moon. Without the extra light support provided by the torch, it is really difficult to see the slime monster's breath attack. The shield has done a lot of credit today, but the killing efficiency of the spear is the biggest contributor to the hunting tonight.

Zhao Ji's attack efficiency has been improved a lot because of the spear, so he tries to attack the slime monsters gathered together first, break them up, lure them away, and don't give the slime monsters a chance to gather.

The torches were lit and burned out, and the slime corpses gathered in piles on various islets. Zhao Ji was lying by the campfire on the west side of the swamp. He was so tired that he had no strength. Although the improvement in attack efficiency allowed him to use less energy to hunt slime monsters, he moved back and forth between several small islands. Hunting is really exhausting.

It seems that his physical strength is still insufficient, and his strength is not enough. Feel the muscles in your arms, not many. Zhao Ji thought, he seems to have to do strength training and physical training later. For strength training, it is enough to do some heavy objects that are easy to move, and for physical training, running is enough.

After resting by the campfire for a while, Zhao Ji returned to the swamp and brought back all the slime monster corpses he had hunted, wrapped them in leaves and put them in big sacks.

After counting, there were ninety-five, but it did not meet Zhao Ji's expectation. So Zhao Ji ran to the northwest of the previous swamp, where he attracted and hunted twenty-seven slime monsters.

After there were no more slime monsters in sight, Zhao Ji packed up everything and returned to the camp with a wheelbarrow.

The hunting tonight was really too smooth, Zhao Ji had no surprises except that his physical strength was exhausted, and the branch cloak was sprayed everywhere with mucus and acid again.

Sitting by the fire roasting a leg of lamb, Zhao Ji pondered why. After thinking about it for a long time, I still feel that the long spear is much easier to use than the previous short spear.

Compared with the short spear, it takes several attacks to cause fatal damage to the slime monster. A single piercing attack with a long spear can pierce the slime monster into two large holes. After pulling out the tip of the gun, the slime monster's body tissue could not stop flowing out from the two large wounds, and this alone could kill the slime monster.