Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji was once again congratulated by the city gate guards at the city gate. Although they were on duty today, they did not go to the wild grape market to maintain order, nor did they witness the scene of Zhao Ji being rewarded with their own eyes. The guards talked about it.

Compared with the big prayer activities after the Saturnalia Church, the fact that Zhao Ji was awarded the sixth-class defense badge before does not seem to be a big deal. Of course, his name, Keir, is still known by more people.

Zhao Ji was congratulated by the four city gate guards in turn, and he just took this opportunity to propose to the guards that he wanted to learn the martial arts of the guards. Of course, it is not free for the guards to teach, but there is a learning fee for each teaching to him.

The faces of the four guards were rather stiff when they heard that Kiel asked them to teach martial arts, but when they heard that there would be a teaching fee, they all asked about the details of this matter.

Asking the guards about martial arts, this is Zhao Ji's idea after getting to know them. As the guards guarding the city gate, although their respective martial arts are not the best among the guards, they are still outstanding. This is what they said in person while chatting, and Zhao Ji himself believed in this statement. After all, no matter where they are, the soldiers guarding the city gate must be excellent soldiers.

And in Kendall City, Zhao Ji only knows them among the people who eat the food of force. Zhao Ji, who often goes out, often meets with them, and the city gate guards know many people in the city. Basically, they have seen everyone entering and leaving the city. This is also a very powerful source of information.

Secondly, among the four guards at the city gate, their head, the middle-aged guard with a two-handed sword, is a guard with high martial arts skills, and he has participated in several years of war when he was young. This is what Zhao Ji found out during ordinary chats.

In the end, Zhao Ji actually hoped that through them, he could get in touch with the knight in charge of the guards. Even if he was acquainted, he always heard that knights could outnumber a hundred and were the main force in the armed forces in various towns. But Zhao Ji has never been able to see how one can outnumber a hundred.

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Zhao Ji discussed with the guards that as long as one of the four of them has a vacation, he can be reminded the day before, and the training will be held in the backyard of the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce the next morning, and the teaching fee for each training is two Ten copper coins. It only takes half a day to teach them the martial arts they are already proficient in, and they can use half a day of vacation time to exchange for twenty copper coins.

This is still very profitable for the guards who only receive a fixed salary every month.

After discussing with the guards about the martial arts teaching, Zhao Ji pushed the cart out of the city gate and walked directly to the south.

He had already hunted the slime monsters in the northwest and due west of the swamp in the south of the city before. Although he could find some sporadic slime monsters when he went hunting again, to Zhao Ji, there were too few of them.

This time, his target was the southwest and south parts of the swamp.

Zhao Ji made the decision after considering his physical strength. Now his slime hunting has become a physical activity, with a spear and sword for attack, and a cloak of boughs and rattan helmet and shield for defense. Combining the two, his hunting efficiency has improved by leaps and bounds compared to his first hunt.

In addition to these material improvements and progress, Zhao Ji himself has made great progress.

The use of weapons has gradually become proficient, and the shield protects the front of his body well every time. The more aggressive attack style can always eliminate slime monsters in small groups, and more importantly, he has a confidence when facing slime monsters. Confident that you can skillfully use your own two-handed weapons to destroy the slime monsters in front of you or hidden.

So this time, he chose two areas to come together.

He wants to wipe out all the slime monsters in the southwest and south of the swamp tonight.

When passing by the east side of the swamp, Zhao Ji saw many farmers rushing to harvest wheat in the nearby fields. These fields belong to Baron Kendall, and the rain in the past two days has poured down a lot of wheat. But looking at it now, the fallen wheat has recovered its upright body, and the farmers are rushing to harvest the wheat, fearing that another heavy rain will pour the wheat down.

Zhao Ji hurried past them and headed south along the edges of the ridges and swamps.

Taking Kendall City as a symbol, Zhao Ji made a half circle around the swamp and came to the south of the swamp.

The muddy water in the swamp here is obviously much less than that in the north, and more places are covered with patches of mud and bushes. With less water, there are more animals in the swamp. Rabbits, jumping frogs, water birds, and voles are everywhere. Zhao Ji also saw a long snake with thick wrists.

Looking at the wilderness scenery, Zhao Ji chose a relatively open place backed by the woods, and decided to set up a camp here to facilitate his hunting.

After stopping the trolley, Zhao Ji put his belongings down against the cart and started to build a camp.

He first pulled out all the grass in the selected place, then put his feet together, and jumped vigorously on the place where the grass had been pulled.

After solidifying the small piece of land, Zhao Ji took an ax and felled the surrounding shrubs and dwarf trees one by one, and piled them on the edge of the swamp. Afterwards, Zhao Ji went to the forest in the southwest to cut down a few trees, and dragged them to the edge of the camp. Cut off the branches with an axe, leaving only the trunk, cut several trunks into several sections, and circled half a circle around the camp, leaving an exit.

The leaves were removed from the branches, and they were inserted outside the trunk circle around the camp. After working for a while, several were inserted. Fortunately, the ground was relatively soft and it was not difficult to insert into the soil.

Take the rope from your backpack and wrap it around the surrounding branches as a fix. Then Zhao Ji hung the leaves on the standing branches.

Because the camp Zhao Ji made was not big, Zhao Ji completed these tasks quite quickly. Move the carts and bedding outside into the camp. Compared with the previous camp, the biggest difference of this camp is that there is a circle of shelter. Although there are still leaks everywhere, at least it can give people a slightly safer environment.

Zhao Ji went out to find a few more stones, and used these stones to form a fire in the camp.

After that, it is still the same step of lighting a fire. When the fire is lit, the camp is considered complete.

Zhao Ji put the quilts in the place facing the entrance and exit of the camp, with a fire in the middle, and some extra branches, wood and carts next to them.

Hide the sack with the food in the bedding and press it down with the spear and sword shield. Zhao Jiguang went out with a dagger and an axe.

He walked northwest along the edge of the swamp, first to the west of the swamp, and took out the helmet and cloak hidden in the woods.

After getting the things, return to the camp to put them down, and go out to log.

Because there was less water in the south of the swamp, Zhao Ji didn't have to cut down so many trees this time. He only needed to use the trees to make a road to prevent him from stepping into the mud. There is no need to pad a lot of weeds and shrubs under the tree path.

This time, Zhao Ji still avoided laying a trail of trees to the center of the swamp. He was still a little afraid of the weird plants he saw that day. Out of sight, out of sight, he doesn't bother with that thing anymore, just avoid it.

As for the battle site, Zhao Ji still chose some small islands in the swamp that had been separated from the water of the swamp and had a dry surface. Conventional weeding to clear the site.

The same Zhao Ji built a fire at the exit of the tree path in the southwest of the swamp and in the south. In order to show him the fire light for a longer time, Zhao Ji piled a large piece of wood in the center of the fire. It wasn't dark yet, and he didn't light these fires for the time being.

Zhao Ji also brought some torches sponsored by the leather shop for free and put them on the island. If the moonlight is not bright tonight, these torches will be the only lighting for the battle. But to be honest, they are professional craftsmen and apprentices after all. The torches they made are neat and reasonable in shape. They stack dry wood on the torch as much as possible. of hay.

The only pity is that there is no animal fat or dipping oil in the torch. Zhao Ji shrugged. After all, it was sponsored by someone else's leather shop for free. It is impossible for someone to help him with valuable things for free.

After all the preparations were done, it was already dusk.

Tired and sweating profusely, Zhao Ji sat down by the fire. Feeling a little hungry and a little thirsty. Zhao Ji removed all the weapons on the quilt, and put a piece of cooked potato on the side of the fire to roast. As for the marinated chicken, Zhao Ji swallowed his saliva, and put it away first, and rewarded himself after the evening's work .

He took out a large wooden cup from the things he brought, like a large wooden wine cup. Zhao Ji took this and walked towards the east.

Some distance to the east of here is the baron and other nobles' fields, where Zhao Ji remembered seeing when he came here, there is an irrigation canal that draws the clear Kendall River.

Sure enough, although there is no need to irrigate the fields now, there is still a small stream of river water in the irrigation canal.

Zhao Ji filled some water, carefully observed the water quality, and carefully checked the sanitation of the canal, which was actually acceptable.

It is not clean, and you will not get sick if you eat it.

Zhao Ji closed his eyes and gulped down the river water in the wooden cup in his hand. Anyway, today he got a new badge of divine power that can fight diseases. With this kind of insurance, he will not be afraid. And if he is sick, he can just try the power of this badge.

Zhao Ji was still a little thirsty. After finishing his glass, he drank another glass of river water. Finally filled another glass of water and carefully returned to the camp.

The side of the cooked potato skewered on the branch had already been heated. When Zhao Ji came back, he turned it over and continued to heat it up. The wooden cup filled with water, Zhao Ji carefully put it aside, and then found a clean big leaf to cover the cup.

Lying on the quilt, Zhao Ji put his hands behind his head and looked at the evening sky. At this moment, he felt an indescribable relaxation in his heart.

Unlike his previous life, he went to school and went to work from dawn to dusk. Here, he was finally not being pushed away.

He can do whatever he wants. Although life here is not easy, Zhao Ji feels that life these days is like being alive. In his previous life, he only had this feeling during the short period of time when he first entered the society and started working.

But now, he felt that feeling again. Every part of his body felt endless energy. He ate when he was hungry and slept when he was sleepy. He could go to whichever pub he wanted every day.

You can chat with apprentices you know, and watch the bards in the park and the awkward rehearsals of bad amateur actors.

You can listen carefully to every detail of a heavy rain, and polish your sharp spears and daggers.

Just like now, lying in the wild, watching the blue sky gradually darken, the hidden stars reveal a little twinkling starlight, watching the mysterious unknown celestial bodies move in the sky without order, and boldly guess what they are.

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As the sky darkened, Zhao Ji ate the heated potatoes slowly, accumulating every bit of energy for the subsequent hunting. How many slime monsters he can hunt at night depends on how much physical strength he has.

The sky has just entered the night, and many animals and monsters have just started their new life of the day, Zhao Ji decided to wait a little longer.

Not only to wait for the creatures in the swamp to become active, so that he can hunt conveniently.

Also waiting for today's major moon to rise and shine.

Because there are three satellites in this different world, it is basically guaranteed that there may be a moon emitting bright moonlight every day.

A few days ago, a moon was a full moon, and today there should be a moon that is gradually becoming a full moon.

Zhao Ji waited until the moon came out to see how well its moonlight shone, and Zhao Ji came to decide how to fight tonight.