Ride and Cut

"My lord, look." Hurt bent down and picked up a stump, and handed it to his lord.

"It's kind of interesting." Li Cha held it in his hand and looked at it twice, before throwing it back onto the already frozen master on the ground. That was an unlucky rabbitman. He should have subconsciously raised his arms to block the attack, but not only failed to save his life, but was cut off by the opponent's arm and neck.

After receiving the news of the attack on the iron mine, Li Cha immediately led the team to set off. In order to hurry, he divided the Ripper brigade into two groups for the first time, and he and the swift-footed centaur set out on the road lightly, leaving the others to catch up slowly.

But it was too late when they arrived. The corpses all over the ground had been frozen for a long time, as hard as stone.

According to the data given by Buckland before he left, there were a total of forty-six vassal militiamen stationed in Alpine Fort before winter, but now, the corpses found here came from forty-five owners. That is to say, except for the one who died after running back to the Alpine Fort, all the rest are here.

Judging from the scars on the corpse, the incisions were very smooth, whether it was muscles or bones, they were cleanly broken without any ties.

This shows that the opponent must use a high-quality sharp blade, and has both strength and skill when chopping. This alone can almost rule out all the suspicions of wilderness natives.

It's not that Li Cha looked down on them, but that no one would sell good weapons to the natives.

In addition, the rabbitmen and goatmen are naturally alert and good at escaping races. Defeating them is as easy as drinking water, but if you want to complete the annihilation before they collapse, the difficulty will rise sharply to be comparable to drinking boiled water.

At present, none of these vassals have escaped, so the murderer himself is definitely not a mob. They should be highly skilled, well equipped and well organized.

"Who could have done it?" Li Cha's voice and expression were very calm, but anyone who knew him a little bit could easily figure out what kind of violent undercurrent was hidden in this calmness.

The lord of Alpine Fort is a very defensive person, and he may not think highly of these cowardly vassals. But since he is a vassal of Gaoshanbao, since he will nod and bow and call him "Master", even if he has made some unforgivable mistakes, Li Cha can't tolerate other people taking care of him instead. What's more, these rabbit people and goat people died quite innocently now.

Although he himself has gradually drifted away from the road of obsession with force, but according to today's standards, he is quite tolerant towards the weak.

"Release the 'carrier pigeon'." Li Cha said.

The surrounding centaurs immediately carefully took out a pair of pigeon bones from their rucksacks. All the flesh and fascia have been corroded with water, leaving only clean bones, slender but complete in structure, carefully wrapped in wine red velvet cushions, as delicate as a work of art.

The lord took out the golden dragon crystal, and said to Thutmose, who was still sleepy inside, "Go to the sky and see if there is anyone suspicious."

"Master, I'm going right away." Having been recharging his energy in the Dragon Crystal, coupled with his superior nature as a dragon soul, Thutmose is not very afraid of being exposed to the sun for a while now.

He came out of the flight and got into the skeleton. Two dark blue soul fires lit up in the eyes of the pigeon's skeleton. He nodded and bowed at Li Cha in a very humane manner, and then flapped his wings and soared into the sky.

With Thutmose's perception ability, he can grasp all the wind and grass within a radius of 10,000 yards in the air. If he didn't have to go back to Longjing frequently to recuperate, he could almost be called a perfect scout.

"My lord, look here!" The centaur who spread the search made a new discovery.

Li Cha walked over and stood by the frozen lake, a huge depression was clearly visible. He squatted on the edge of the ice pit, reached out and picked up a khaki translucent scale, which seemed to have fallen off accidentally when scratching. The size is about the same as a chestnut, and the texture is also very hard. If you rub the edge with your fingertips, it feels almost as good as the edge of a knife. It should have fallen off accidentally by scratching.

"It seems to have come up from the bottom of the lake." Hurt frowned, looked back and forth between the holes in the ice and the corpses on the shore, and said hesitantly.

Li Cha blinked twice, but he still remembered the Titan ruins hidden under the water. When he first came to the wilderness, his foothold was not stable, and he had to help the dwarf tribe in order to survive, but he was told that there was a titan head at the bottom of the lake. It was a long time ago.

At that time, there really was a living creature inside, that is, Qiqiu. Later, Qiqiu followed them and left, and the head of the Titan was turned into fly ash, and the ruins were abandoned and no longer used. This matter had always been a secret between the dwarves and the Lord of the High Castle, and he had never told either of them.

"No, I have to go down and have a look." Li Cha said that he was about to take off his boots, and a group of centaurs hurriedly surrounded him to persuade him. joke! If you go into the water in this weather, even if you don't freeze to death, you will be sealed alive in the ice and cannot move.

"My lord!" Thutmose, who had just flown into the sky, swooped towards the ground like an arrow.

Due to insufficient deceleration when landing, the pigeon skeleton specially prepared for him was smashed to pieces on the ground. Thutmose turned into a palm-sized translucent little dragon again, and before Li Cha could ask a question, he screamed, with a tone like burning his butt: "I saw a lot of weird snake people coming towards us together!"

"Snake man?" Li Cha had a very surprised expression on his face.

Snake people, like half-human sloppy people, are essentially a branch of half-orcs and belong to the big family of intelligent creatures. But the appearance of this race is similar to the splicing of snake tail and human body, which looks very strange, coupled with the generally gloomy personality, it is very unpopular among half-orcs, let alone humans or other races.

Bearing the name of a monster, it is naturally difficult to develop a diplomatic career, so the snake people are very miserable. Although it is not extinct for the time being, it is not much better, basically it is only a matter of time.

"Strange snake man, very weird!" In the dragon crystal, Thutmose was still chattering.

"How weird?" Li Cha frowned and asked.

Thutmose may have everything a scout should have, but not professional is not professional. His intelligence is always mixed with a lot of subjective judgments, and he cannot make a calm statement. For a truly excellent scout, the answer sheet given should include specific descriptions and quantity estimates, rather than being vague like "a lot of weird snake people".

"It's like, it's like..." Thutmose muttered for a long time but couldn't figure out why.

But his answer is irrelevant, because the lord and all the centaurs can already directly capture the uninvited guests who are approaching quickly with the naked eye.

"It's really...very weird." Hurt looked into the distance and murmured.