Mercenaries and Adventurers

Waiting was not in vain. After the sky was completely dark, a round of full moon rose from the horizon. This moon emits a khaki-yellow light, and it is the second moon in this world. The locals call it Luponas, Daughter of Dumbness.

This means that this moon is the second daughter of the world. Because it emits khaki moonlight, human beings think it may not be very smart and call it the dull daughter.

Because of the gods and magic, people in this world have long known that the world under their feet is a planet, and the magic of looking into the distance can also see other planets in the star system from the mountains. As far as astronomy is concerned, the inhabitants of this world already have a high level of understanding of their own world.

Seeing that the moonlight was still bright, Zhao Ji decided to change his battle plan slightly. He reduced the size of the fires on each of the tree paths leading to the marsh shore, and decided that no more torches would be lit on each isle in the immediate hunt, and that whichever isle he moved to would only It is enough to light a torch, and leave the other lighting to today's moon.

Zhao Ji sorted out his equipment. He put on the rattan helmet and tightened the elastic of the branch cloak. The newly bought long sword was fastened outside the cloak, and the shield and spear were held in his hands.

Set off!

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With the sound of "chi, bo", Zhao Ji pierced a slime monster with a spear again, and threw it into the middle of the island with the waving spear. Afterwards, Zhao Ji leaned on the spear to take a rest.

Zhao Ji felt that the hunt tonight was still going smoothly, and it was a bit too smooth. Zhao Ji changed the way of hunting slime monsters this time. Instead of carrying a dead slime monster with him, he piled up the slime monsters in the center of each island, and he himself kept standing with a spear Stand still, wait for the slime monsters to come to your door by themselves, and then suddenly kill the slime monsters.

Zhao Ji bullied the slime monsters because they don't have eyes and can only recognize danger by sound or vibration and smell. Every time he kills the slime monster, he rinses the tip of the spear with the muddy water of the swamp to simply remove the smell of the liquid in the slime monster. And he kept his posture still, so that the slime monsters couldn't find him, and would just rush towards the dead slime monster, waving its tentacles and fidgeting.

This method really saves a lot of effort, and every attack on the slime monsters is a sneak attack by Zhao Ji. The slime monsters have no chance to counterattack, and the few counterattacks are blocked by Zhao Ji's shield. He really regrets it This method was not discovered earlier.

After hunting 30 slime monsters on this small island, Zhao Ji, who was quite proud, took the initiative to lead the slime monsters to the next island and repeated his battle again.

Hunting 30 slime monsters on each island is probably okay in Zhao Ji's opinion. Because if there are more, there will be more corpses of slime monsters, so Zhao Ji doesn't have enough space to deploy them. He needs at least one area big enough to hunt the slime. And these small islands in the swamp were not very big, and after a wave of slime monster corpses were piled up in the middle, there was not enough room for Zhao Jishi to spread out.

While hunting slime monsters, Zhao Ji silently calculated every number of kills. He should hunt about 30 slime monsters for each small island, and this time he hunted the southwest and south parts of the swamp at once, sharing the trees The trail connects about thirteen small islands, and if they are all hunted, it will take 390 slime monsters to hunt at one time.

This is really just a thought, with so many slime monsters, he would have to work all night just to find leaves to wrap their corpses. It seems that today I can only accept it as soon as I see it.

But it doesn't matter, at least Zhao Ji thinks that now he has found an efficient way to deal with the slime monster. The slime monsters in the whole swamp are like coins in his wallet, he just needs to spend a little time,

You can slowly take out the coin called slime monster from the money bag called swamp.

Accompanied by the khaki moonlight, Zhao Ji continued to fight in the swamp.

After he carefully finished hunting the fourth island, Zhao Ji stopped directly. It's not that he has no physical strength, but that he feels that the number of hunting today is just right. In this way, advancing a little in the swamp every day and hunting one hundred and twenty slime monsters a day can provide him with stable funds and connections, and he can also do other things during these days.

Now his focus has to be on how to catch slime monsters.

In Zhao Ji's view, Master Lian Xiude's personal connections are now the second way he has discovered to go up in the local city of Kendall.

The first one is the news that he inquired carefully in the tavern before leaving him, and it corresponds to Knight Lanisa. Knight Lanisa's fief is in Umi Lake Village, and there is a wolf disaster there. Knight Lanisa has been summoning hunters, intending to eliminate the pack of wolves that are raging there. If Zhao Ji joins the Lanisa knights, I believe he can make contributions and meritorious service with his ability, but it is not in Zhao Ji's interest to just join in. He has to wait, he has to wait until he has Fame and real stuff and then join the ranks of Lanisa Knights.

And if it is another way, for example, let Zhao Ji join the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce to do business. To be honest, it was really hard for him, Zhao Ji, he knew that he didn't have any talent and enthusiasm for doing business, and if he was a simple businessman, he actually had no place in this feudal world with magical gods .

The Foxtail Chamber of Commerce also relied on the belief in the gods behind it to gain a foothold in Kendall County. Other chambers of commerce, large and small, also have various backers behind them.

In a feudal society, power was passed down from top to bottom. Without the power and force given by the upper echelon, no organization can grow bigger. Because the feudal power system will naturally reject all organizations that are not under his control.

Speaking of which, according to the information Zhao Ji heard, Master Lian Xiude is an old man who has settled here with the earliest Baron Kendall since the establishment of Kendall City. Judging from Master Xiude's own prestige in sculpture art in the art world, if Zhao Ji wants to gain a foothold in the local area and go up, he can try to complete the task entrusted to him by Master Lian Xiude ----- capturing living sculptures. slime monster.

Combining his experience of hunting slime monsters in the swamp several times, Zhao Ji already had a suitable plan for hunting slime monsters in his mind. He told the Punica craftsman what the plan needed, but the Punica craftsman himself was not ready.

There is no other way, Zhao Ji can only wait for them to prepare things before doing it. Anyway, it wasn't him who was in a hurry, Master Lian Xiude's way was just his backup plan.

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It took Zhao Ji more time and energy to transport all the slime monsters back to the camp than he spent hunting the slime monsters, which he did not expect.

At this time, Zhao Ji felt that another person had to be added to help with this job. Although he alone could roughly keep his method of hunting slime monsters, the efficiency was still too low. If a team of several people can do this together, he feels that in one night, the dozen or so small islands prepared today can be filled with slime monsters.

After thinking about it, Zhao Ji still didn't know the right person. At least one person must simply wrap the slime monsters in leaves to dispose of their corpses in the camp, and one person must transport the loot back and forth between the swamp and the camp, and two people specialize in using larger shields to prevent slime monster attacks. Only one person is required to kill the slime monster.

Zhao Ji smiled and shook his head, he still won't organize such a team for the time being. The reason is also very simple. Although such a team is efficient, it would be a pity if it only specializes in hunting slime monsters. It is impossible to only hunt slime monsters. Without slime monsters, everyone can't drink the northwest wind. Moreover, the construction cost of such a team cannot be provided by Zhao Ji now, and his own equipment costs most of his property, which is really powerless.

Recycled all unused torches, and then extinguished the fires indicated by the lighting. Zhao Ji returns to the camp to wrap leaves for the slime monsters.

After finishing everything and putting the slime monster into the big bag, Zhao Ji quickly took out the previous water glass, and after seeing that there was nothing strange in it by the light of the fire, Zhao Ji drank the water in one gulp.

"Gudong Gudong, wow, ha." After drinking the water in one gulp, Zhao Ji took out the marinated chicken he bought earlier, and skewered the chicken with a clean peeled branch. A large piece of chicken was hanging from a tree branch, and Zhao Ji fixed it so that one side of it was heated by the fire. When this side was roasted and sizzling, Zhao Ji turned the other side over. When this side was almost ready, Zhao Ji took out a small leather bag from the package, took a pinch of salt from it and sprinkled it on.

After eating a delicious supper, Zhao Ji felt that the fatigue of the whole night was gone. He leaned contentedly on the mattress filled with straw, covered the dog skin quilt, and fell asleep.

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Something was wrong, Zhao Ji felt something was wrong in his sleep, and realized that he was Zhao Ji in the wild, so he put the long sword and dagger by his head before going to sleep.

Gradually waking up, Zhao Ji didn't open his eyes, he pricked up his ears, and heard a burst of heavy breathing other than his own.

The sound of breathing was very close. According to the feeling, it was just outside the camp, and there was only a thin branch next to Zhao Ji's head. Zhao Ji, who broke out in a cold sweat instantly, woke up completely, and subconsciously stopped his body's reaction after being frightened.

He controlled his breathing, trying to pretend he was still asleep. As the sound of breathing gradually approached, Zhao Ji also smelled the smell of a beast.

Zhao Ji, who was pretending to be asleep, slowly touched the dagger with his right hand under the dog-skin quilt.

Just after the heavy breathing of the beast turned into a low growl, Zhao Ji got up immediately, covered the dog-skin quilt tightly clenched in his left hand towards the beast, and held the dagger in his right hand the moment he got up.

Pulling out the dagger, throwing the sheath of the dagger in the direction of the beast, Zhao Ji saw that it was a wild wolf.

The wolf waved its claws to push back the quilt covering its head, and retracted half of its head that had already penetrated into the camp. The wild wolf faced the campfire, and Zhao Ji saw clearly that it was an old wolf. From the gaps between the branches and leaves, the wolf's hair was mottled and sparse, and the eyes reflected the fire, which was amazingly bright. The mouth opened to Zhao Ji. Roaring in a low voice, the back grooves are full of rotten teeth, but the few teeth that prey on are still bright, looking like a monster emerging from the dark hell.

After seeing clearly what was sneaking up on him in his sleep, Zhao Ji also imitated the old wolf on the opposite side, and uttered a primitive cry: "Ahhhhhhhhh——"

After roaring, Zhao Ji realized that the fear in his body was released by his primitive actions. Now he only felt that his whole body was full of anger and thoughts of fighting. The open mouth sucked in air to provide oxygen to the body, and the dagger that was already tightly gripped was even tighter. His left hand was also clenched into a fist, standing upright in front of him, as if he was usually hunting slime monsters.

One man and one beast stared at each other through a fence of branches.

The old wolf backed away, hiding itself in the darkness, leaving only two big reflective eyes, looking cruelly at Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji came back to his senses, suppressed his breath, and relaxed his tense body, so that his legs and feet were no longer so stiff. At the same time, remind yourself in your heart that he is a hunter, not a prey.

The old wolf in the darkness on the opposite side put himself in the hunter's position from the very beginning, trying to hunt and kill Zhao Ji. But Zhao Ji is usually used to seeing the slime monsters hunted by him, and realizes that he can't just wait nervously for the beast to attack. The reaction from the primitive instinct just now saved him who was sleeping soundly, but the reaction of the primitive instinct may also cause him to lose his life in the next battle.

Zhao Ji no longer stared at the old wolf in the dark, but aimed his eyes at the long sword on the ground and the shield next to it. Secretly gesturing the distance between him and the two.

If you lower your body to pick up the long sword and shield, you will definitely be laid down by the wolf when you pull out the sword. After all, a wolf retreating into the darkness can cross the distance of a few meters as long as it sprints forward, and the tree branch fence between a man and a beast can't stop it at all.

Gotta figure out a way to create the time for him to get the weapon. He, Zhao Ji, had no experience in fighting wild wolves before, so he could only come by feeling.

Zhao Ji, who was leaning against the fire, had a hot back from the fire. Zhao Ji, who had thought about it, immediately relaxed his legs and feet, and then squatted down.

Sure enough, seeing the opportunity, the old wolf rushed towards Zhao Ji with a vigorous stride, and with only one rotation of four legs, he pounced on Zhao Ji's seat. But Zhao Ji jumped to the side with all his strength when the wolf rushed over. When he was in the air, he let go of the dagger and grabbed the long sword on the ground with both hands.

The old wolf who didn't catch Zhao Ji plunged into the fire, but only with a strong hind leg, he jumped over the fire.

The old wolf who had been scalded by the fire roared fiercely at Zhao Ji, as if he had lost his dignity.

Zhao Ji, on the other hand, grinned, pointed his drawn long sword at the beast, held the hilt of the sword with his left hand and right hand, and said, "Second round."