Mercenaries and Adventurers

The higher elf did not directly intervene in the work of the original elves, but only urged the formation of families among the intelligent beings who lived near the elf ruins that had apparently not been abandoned. Then, after an unknown period of time, the newly born cubs of those intelligent creatures showed different changes from the previous cubs.

Zhao Ji woke up like this.

Zhao Ji didn't know what strange changes those elves found in the specific dream, but after waking up from his sleep, he felt back pain.

He was resting curled up in a low space, and his limbs felt an uncomfortable soreness from his sleep for an unknown amount of time.

Zhao Ji came out from inside and waited for him to come out.

He realized that it was already the next morning.

The clammy rain had stopped, and the sun appeared in the sky. It's just that as soon as the sun came out and released its light, the rainwater accumulated on the ground rose directly, turning into a thick fog.

The mist is like thick milk spilled, completely hiding the surrounding scenery, only the sun above the head can barely see a big white spot hanging above the head.

Zhao Ji took a deep breath of air, and the cold and humid air in late autumn and early winter was sucked into his lungs together with the surrounding thick fog, clearing his mind. The chaotic dream about elves finally gradually became less clear.

Zhao Ji just stood there, arms folded, thinking about the elves that he always dreamed about in the past few days.

In the dream, he clearly knew who he was, without the loss of self-awareness that people often say. At the same time, in his dream, he clearly 'saw' those elves who had never met before and lived in the ruins.

Zhao Ji has some doubts about this point when he is sober now.

Are the faces of those elves really their faces? Or is it that those elves and what the elves do in the ruins are just his brain extracting his subconscious guesses about the images of the elves and his own guesses about what happened in the ruins?

For this, he can't judge.

The knowledge and rationality brought by his previous life told him that the dreams about elves were just related dreams generated by his own speculation.

But he has lived in this different world for so long now, and the relevant story experience in this world tells him that the dreams he had were not fake, and they might all be things that actually happened before he knew how long ago.

Whether it is true or not, in fact, Zhao Ji just had some thoughts, these are not important. What really matters is that he doesn't like this situation very much.

If it was false, he estimated that after leaving the dark and silent ancient elf ruins, thoughts about them would gradually disappear from his mind and be occupied by other fresh things.

Perhaps gradually he would stop having dreams about elves.

If it was true, then he was probably entangled by something in the ruins after exploring the elf ruins.

Now it's just a dream about elves, what happens next?

Does he hear strange noises while delirious? Will he lose his sense of self in his sleep? Was the soul secretly replaced by some unknown dark thing in sleep?

Zhao Ji was a little scared, and hoped that the kind of anticipation he didn't want to see would really not happen in the future.

If that's the case, maybe in order to save his life, he would have to find relevant experts who can treat this situation. Obviously, his things about the elven relics are bound to be wrapped in paper and can no longer be kept.

Of course, Zhao Ji definitely didn't want money or life. For him, keeping this life well was the most important thing.

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After tidying up for a while, Zhao Ji saw that the dense fog around him didn't intend to dissipate at all, and he couldn't waste time on these things. It's still too close to the goblin-infested forest. Although he judged before that those goblins had lost a large number of people several times, and they would not send people to look for him in the bad environment of yesterday, but he was not afraid of 10,000, just in case.

If the goblins are the top iron and insist on destroying him regardless of the situation, then the current dense fog environment is still very beneficial to the goblins.

The goblins must be very familiar with the surroundings. Although the visibility of the dense fog is very low, they can search and surround him as long as they communicate with each other through voice. On the other hand, on Zhao Ji's side, he can only judge the position of the southeast, northwest, and north by the position of the sun. Although this can also leave the area controlled by the goblins, he only needs to walk all the way north, but if he really meets After the goblins, it's hard to say whether you can maintain the direction control you had when you escaped here during the battle.

The matter should be sooner rather than later, Zhao Ji hurriedly packed the trolley and trophies, and the backpack was no longer carried, but tied to the trolley with ropes, which could slightly increase the weight on his body. As for the armor he was wearing, he didn't dare to take it off at all. Now that the situation is unknown, something really happened, and he didn't have enough time to put on the whole set of armor.

Zhao Ji pushed the trolley, and moved forward with difficulty along the north he judged. The condition of the ground is much better than when it rained yesterday, at least the trolley is no longer sinking into the wet and soft ground.

The farther you get away from the forest to the south, the easier it is to walk on the ground. Although it was raining all day yesterday, the thick humus accumulated by fallen leaves in the forest all the year round is really inconvenient for the wheels of vehicles to walk on. After leaving the woods, grassland and shrubs cover the ground and hilly areas, the ground is at least relatively solid, and the wheels can turn quickly because of the slippery ground when walking on it.

Walking in the dense fog after the rain is still somewhat dangerous.

Zhao Ji relaxed his vigilance after entering the hilly area at the beginning, but he did not expect that the rainwater that fell yesterday would accumulate in those hills if there were no inclined openings for water flow around the low and connected areas between the hills The meeting between the low-lying areas.

Form a temporary small pond.

Because of the dense fog, Zhao Ji couldn't see the situation a few meters away. He still walked along the low connection area between the hills according to his previous experience and habits.

As a result, the car and even the people were pushed into a small pond one meter deep.

At that time, Zhao Ji was stunned. He clearly remembered that all the ponds in the hilly area were surrounded by a small piece of woods. Why did he just push the car into the water?

After scrambling and crawling to get himself and the trolley out of the pond, Zhao Ji walked around the small pond, which was neither too big nor too deep, before he discovered the reason for this situation.

Afterwards, Zhao Ji no longer walked near the bottom of the hill with the cart. Instead, he would rather spend more energy to ensure that he would not fall into the water again.

After the armor was flooded, the leather boots on the feet were like two buckets half filled with water, because the leather boots were waterproof and sealed, so when the rainy situation like yesterday appeared, the footsteps could actually be kept dry. Greatly improved his fighting ability yesterday.

But when he accidentally fell into the pond just now, the water poured into the inside of the boot from the upper part of the boot, and the water couldn't get out, so Zhao Ji's big foot was soaked in it. Inside the leather boots, it brought him endless pain.

It was okay at first, Zhao Ji could still bear the feeling of his feet being soaked in water. But after a long time, the skin on the feet was blistered and wrinkled, and the painful feeling came continuously.

Zhao Ji felt as if someone was cutting the soles of his feet with a sharp knife every time he took a step.

Zhao Ji couldn't bear it anymore. After pushing the trolley to the top of a hill and set it up, he took off the armor one by one. His whole body was wet. After the water poured into the armor, even his armor was worn inside. The clothes presented by old Domo were also wet.

Zhao Ji simply took off all the clothes on his body. When he took off his boots, half of the boots' water poured out from the leather boots.

Zhao Ji stripped off his whole body first. Although it is dangerous to do so in this season, if he does not dry himself out, he will be in danger of hypothermia.

After taking off all the clothes on his body, Zhao Ji wrung out the clothes first, and then wiped his body dry with the wrung clothes. Then, taking advantage of the lack of wind around him, he moved around on the spot.

Jump in place, swing the long sword and spear in place, and after the body heats up, a layer of tiny water droplets on the surface of the body will just be evaporated by the heat of the body.

Taking advantage of his body's heat, Zhao Ji wrung out the wet clothes for a second time, and then wiped the water-stained armor inside and out with relatively dry clothes.

Finally, wring out the wet clothes for the third time.

This time, Zhao Ji hurriedly put on the clothes that still had water that couldn't be wrung out.

Hey~~~ After a burst of chills, Zhao Ji endured the cold feeling coming from his body, and quickly put on all the clothes. Continue to move the body, and when Zhao Ji is out of breath, the feeling on the surface of the body is finally no longer cold.

After reheating, Zhao Ji just put the slightly dry full set of armor into the small wooden box of the armor. This place has left the familiar place controlled by goblins, and armor is no longer needed for safety.

Since it was safer, Zhao Ji slowly pushed the trolley forward. At noon, the thick fog finally couldn't resist the sun's rays, perhaps because of a breeze from the north, the fog brought by yesterday's rain slowly dissipated.

Zhao Ji pushed the car and walked on the top of the hills that were fairly high. He watched the surrounding scenery change from the thick fog to the gradual dispersal, showing the original location and the vast scenery one by one.

Today is still a sunny day with few clouds, Zhao Ji looked at the vast world around him, and shouted excitedly.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

"The weather is great!!!!!"

Zhao Ji yelled, and the excited voice spread far away, attracting a group of migratory birds to descend curiously to see who was venting their nowhere to rest their emotions.

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At noon one day later, Zhao Ji returned to Dolarin Village.

After killing a lot of goblins, he did not return to the tree root camp or the stone top camp. After all, his trolley is already full of nearly forty goblin heads, and there is no other place and weight. Go get something.

Zhao Ji no longer took a long detour, and ran over to get things.

As soon as he came back, the villagers in the village once again saw a large number of goblin heads. Fortunately, the villagers have experienced such things several times recently, and they already have some immunity to it. Only the young and old villagers who happened to have nothing to do in the village followed Zhao Ji who was pushing the cart.

While poking the smelly heads of those goblins with thin bushes, the curious boy curiously asked how Keel defeated so many green-skinned monsters.

Zhao Ji joked to him and the surrounding villagers: "I have a suit of armor, and I hold a sword in my hand, so I raise the sword and drop it, and raise the sword and drop it, all the way from the south to the west of the forest. Killed the forest in the south and east. The goblins were frightened and fled and scattered, it's that simple." After finishing speaking, he patted the wooden box where the armor was stored.

The little boy looked at the wooden box curiously, but his eyes couldn't see through the wooden boards, so he begged Keel to let everyone see when he could wear the armor.

Zhao Ji readily agreed and told the surrounding villagers that they could go to the security station tomorrow morning. He would show everyone his armor carefully at the gate of the security station tomorrow morning.

You can even try wearing it to see how it feels.

Anyway, he’s going to take a good rest today~www.readwn.com~ Tomorrow morning, he’ll go to the blacksmith’s shop to repair his equipment. reputation.

The teenagers around were rejoicing, and the old people talked about the armor of the army they had seen when they were young. Zhao Ji walked and chatted with everyone, until outside the gate of the security office, old Domu was already holding a large glass of beer to welcome Kiel's return from victory this time.

Knowing that the ale in the other party's hand was just brought from the tavern to reward him, Zhao Ji quickly said nothing, took the wine glass handed over by Lao Duo Mu with a big laugh, lifted it up and drank it in one breath Cup clean,

"A good drinker! Kiel, you are really a good drinker. This drinker can only be possessed by a great warrior." While praising Kiel's drinker, Old Domo couldn't wait to untie the fixed rope tied to the trolley.

Seeing that the head of the goblin was wrinkled by the rain, and smelled like a dead body due to the corruption of the organization, Old Domo hurriedly asked the onlookers to go to the warehouse to fetch lime for preservation .

"It's raining, didn't the rain a few days ago cause you any trouble?" Old Duo Mu took a good look around Zhao Ji, for fear that Zhao Ji might be missing something.

Handing the empty wine glass to the sentinel, Zhao Ji replied: "On the contrary, the rain helped me a lot. I'll tell you later, come back tomorrow morning, I'm almost exhausted. Recently, after returning to the village , I’d better take a break today. The total number of goblin heads here is thirty-eight, if you order more, I’ll be leaving first.”

Zhao Ji burped and stretched.

He picked up the backpack on the trolley, picked up the wooden box containing the armor, greeted the surrounding villagers, and then returned to the Iron Palm Hotel not far away.