Mercenaries and Adventurers

It took Zhao Ji and his party two days to travel south from the village through the wild hilly area.

He expected that the action speed of many people would be slower than that of him alone, but he did not expect that it would be about twice as slow. It only took him a whole day to go from the village to the outskirts of the forest in the south by himself, but if there were too many people, the beating of each cart slowed down the speed of the entire team.

There are no feasible roads in the wilderness, and even though the cart full of supplies is pushed by two people together, the speed is still slow. This point made Zhao Ji understand a truth. The speed of a team does not depend on how fast everyone can walk on average or the fastest speed, but on the speed of the slowest group of people in the team.

But fortunately, although the speed of the team is slow, but because of the large number of people, the safety is very sufficient. The construction speed of the simple camp at dusk is much faster than when he is alone, and because the supplies are sufficient, even in the wild, the food is better than when he is in the village.

This was praised by everyone in the team. The bread baked by the chef of the security station already had the texture of the bread he used to eat in his previous life. In addition to being not sweet, the fermented dough is also very fluffy, and some sentries are actually eating this kind of fermented fluffy bread for the first time.

It's not that the villagers in Dorallin Village can't afford fine wheat flour. Their village is a large grain-growing village, and each family has a small granary full of wheat. Although you can't grind your own wheat carefully with the stone mill under the windmill, you can still grind some fine wheat flour by hand.

The real trouble is the old dough for fermentation, not a professional cook, and many rough-handed peasant women can't cultivate suitable fermented old dough, which makes many villagers unable to eat fluffy and soft bread.

If you don’t use the old dough full of yeast to ferment the dough, and only rely on the natural fermentation of the dough, the bread made in that way will not only have insufficient fluffiness, but also the miscellaneous bacteria in nature will also contaminate the dough, making the dough sour and smelly. Many villagers have been eating bread that has not been fermented, or can only eat sour and flavorful bread that is slightly fermented and fluffy.

Of course, some villagers who want to eat better, early either begged for specially fermented old noodles from the special cooks in the village, or went to some shops in Kendall City to buy the fermented noodles prepared by others. Dry dough, every time you make bread, just take a piece of dry dough and add it to the kneaded dough.

In addition to satisfying everyone with the food, the large number of people also made it quite sufficient for the sentry at night. The sentry guards all had proficient guarding experience, and they might be unfamiliar with dealing with monsters, but they allowed Zhao Jimei to get a good night's sleep in the wild.

After the team winds and turns through the wilderness and hills, the whole team has no other impact except for some fatigue caused by long-term walking.

In addition to leading the team forward in the wilderness, Zhao Ji also stopped many people from doing unnecessary things. For example, when passing through the woods with water sources, Zhao Ji stopped some team members who wanted to go in to replenish drinking water. They didn't understand why the Kiel warriors didn't let them drink the clear water in the water source at first, until the Kiel warriors explained to them that there were no signs of animal infestation in the water source, showing that the water in the water source looked clear, but In fact, it is not suitable for biological drinking.

Animals in the wild don't drink water, and humans naturally can't drink it. If they drink it, something will happen.

Out of trust in the warriors of Kiel, everyone finally did not drink these seemingly clear water sources and moved on.

After reaching the outskirts of the southern forest, Old Domo and Kiel reminded everyone to raise their attention, and at the same time, everyone slowed down and prepared for possible battles at any time.

On the contrary, the road in the forest is much easier to walk. When the people in front of the team walk, they will push away the fallen leaves on the ground with their feet. Hindered by a thick layer of leaf litter.

After walking around the forest for a long time, Zhao Ji found the trap area he had prepared before. He didn't find it by seeing a pit trap, but by seeing a fallen tree and smelling a strong smell of rotting corpses.

Among the headless corpses of goblins, he buried the corpses in the pit with soil, but the corpses crushed to death by the collapse of the big tree were not dealt with. , the body has been left alone.

Unexpectedly, since he left here a few days ago, the goblins have never had the guts to come over to collect the corpses of their dead companions, and let them rot slowly in the forest like this, which is cheaper for many small animals in the forest.

The team members who came all the way saw so many headless and rotting corpses that were crushed and died by the big trees, and they all vomited on the spot. Zhao Jineng understood them. After all, the smell here was really bad, and he himself felt a little nauseous.

After finding the place of the last battle, it is naturally not far from the goblin settlement. Zhao Ji led the team to avoid the area where the big tree traps were, mainly because they were afraid that if those big tree traps suddenly couldn't hold up when they passed by, it would be bad if they collapsed and crushed the team member to death.

Old Domo is also quite in favor of bypassing these big tree traps. After seeing the goblin corpses crushed to death one by one by the spikes on the branches of the big trees just now, he finally has some idea of ​​what the Kiel warrior can do alone. an intuitive impression.

The team finally came to the safe area behind the two-layer pit trap and stopped here.

This is considered to be the main camp for this 'expulsion' of the Goblin settlement.

Zhao Ji and Lao Duomu controlled the movement of the team members when they were preparing the camp, to guard against being discovered by the goblins. Although no one had experienced any battles during the journey, when they passed through the outskirts of the forest just now, the weird paintings left by the goblins carved on the thick trees still shocked the team members. frightened.

Zhao Ji himself didn't think there was anything scary, but all the sentinels didn't dare to look at those weird paintings. Even Old Domo bowed his head and remained silent after observing the goblin paintings a few times.

Everyone set up the camp quietly according to the instructions. Regarding the subsequent battle process, Kiel told Old Domo that he should investigate the goblin's movements at the moment before the battle.

Old Duo Mu nodded in agreement, but he also wanted to go with him for the investigation.

This is what it should be. The whole team listened to what Old Duomu said. He is the leader of the team. He really should go and investigate together. At least they need to find a place for the altar they destroyed this time.

He came back to the goblin settlement, but because of the goblin's ambush, he didn't know enough about the goblin settlement, and he didn't know where the altar and the **** statue that the shepherd Nia spoke so eloquently were.

Definitely need to investigate.

Coming here, there is a possibility of fighting Goblins at any time. So Zhao Ji took back his armor box from the trolley, and quickly put on the whole set of armor while Lao Duomu arranged for people to defend the camp.

The new ax was stuck on the backpack behind him, the long gun was also stuck, the long sword scabbard was hung on the belt on the left waist, and the dagger was also hung on the opposite right belt. The sling was rewound around the armguards of the armor, and some battle stones were carried in the knapsack.

After the preparations for the battle were completed, Zhao Ji, who put on his helmet, came to Lao Duomu's side.

Old Domo also naturally has his armor. However, the full set of armor he was baptized in battle when he was young was worn by his son who is now a soldier, and he is now wearing a set of armor that he has slowly made himself over the years.

It is said to be armor, but it is actually some half armor that can protect the vitals of the body. The torso of the body is composed of multiple layers of hardened fur. The front and rear layers of animal fur are as thick as a quilt.

The whole armor is a thick fur armor that can protect the chest and abdomen, and the same fur armor that is fixed with a belt to protect the lower body and thighs. The helmet is made of small pieces of strong cowhide covered by a training wooden helmet. .

On the whole, the helmet looks more formal, but the fur armor on Old Domo's body is a bit weird.

However, after Zhao Ji tried to pat the fur armor on Lao Duomu's body with his hand, he felt that the defense of this fur armor might be stronger than the hard leather armor on him.

The thick pressed fur is not only amazing in defense, but also stronger in resisting impact than his armor. Zhao Ji felt that even if the little goblin leader's sling attack hit Old Domu, he probably wouldn't feel anything.

"How is it? Is my armor made of fur okay?" Old Domo patted his chest vigorously. The thick fur absorbed the strength of his slapping, and there was no slapping sound.

"It's amazing! Uncle Domo, you look like a big bear in the forest. It's scary to look at." Keel commented after walking around Domo.

Laughing loudly, he picked up his long spear, which was also big and long. Old Duo Mu said: "This body is good for everything, but it is too hot to wear in summer. It is only in this season that I can take it out and wear it. Before When I came back from outside the village again in a few years, the sentinel mistook me for a wild bear, yelling and gathering a lot of villagers to surround me. Haha.”

The surrounding sentries all knew about this, and they also laughed. Only one sentry blushed, and made excuses, obviously everyone thought that old Domo looked like a wild bear or something.

After talking and joking, Old Domo asked the other sentries to guard the camp. He and the Kiel warriors went to investigate the Goblin settlement first, and came back soon, so that others should not take it lightly. , don't make too much noise.

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Zhao Ji and Lao Duomu bypassed the continuous trap area one after the other, and headed deeper into the forest.

The weather is fine these days, but here in the depths of the forest, there is still only scattered sunlight that can penetrate the densely packed branches of the big trees above and shine on the ground.

Even though it was daytime, it was still dark like evening in the depths of the forest.

Near the goblin settlement, there are many paintings of goblins on the trunk of the big tree next to it. Most of them are different from the weird paintings with a strong intimidating meaning in the outer forest. The paintings near the goblin settlement here are more about the daily life of some goblins.

Zhao Ji approached a painting of goblins gathering mushrooms, and stroked the surface of the painting with his glove.

He quietly said to the old Domu who was approaching: "These things that look normal are left a long time ago. And those things outside the forest are newly made in recent years."

"What do you mean?" Old Domo also asked in a low voice.

"I mean, goblins may have been quite normal in the past, um, when you were young. They may have been controlled by that ￥%%&* (forest ghost) in recent years Yes." After Zhao Ji finished speaking, the surroundings seemed to be a little darker, but he didn't care, maybe a cloud floated in the sky and temporarily blocked the sun or something~www.readwn.com~ I think it should be the same, what you said Probably. Then what? "

Zhao Ji shrugged: "It's nothing, I just think that things like the altar may not be in the Goblin settlement. Goblins live in crypts that are not deep on the surface of the earth. In such settlements , where is there a place to arrange an altar where many heads are placed. After all, the smell of those rotting heads may not be bearable by the Goblin himself."

"That's right, you mean we'll go around the outside of the goblin settlement first?" Old Domo quickly realized what to do.

"Well, by the way, let's see how big the goblin settlement is and how many goblins live in it. Although the goblin warriors suffered heavy losses, if there are too many ordinary goblins, I'm afraid that the previous plan will have to be changed. gone."

"I hope everything will go according to the plan. After all, our manpower and supplies are limited. If there are too many goblins, this plan will fail." The plan may change, which makes old Domo worry straightened his beard.

Zhao Ji patted Lao Duomu on the shoulder: "My luck has always been good, don't worry. Even if there are many opponents, then let's expand the size of my previous trap. We will prepare as many deadly traps as there are goblins for them." trap."

The two continued to move forward cautiously, mainly to guard against the possible hidden goblin sentry. Zhao Ji mainly stared at the halfway of each big tree, while Lao Duomu mainly paid attention to whether there were hidden goblins underground.

Therefore, the two of them were not moving fast, and after a while, the two of them arrived at the goblin settlement without fallen leaves.

However, what appeared in front of them was an unexpected situation.