Mercenaries and Adventurers

The sky was gloomy, with a howling northwest wind.

The icy cold wind blows on the surface of the lake, blowing up the remaining snow and ice particles on the surface of the lake, and carrying them to the sky together.

According to the instructions of the "lake diver" Boss, Keir walked back and forth between the stern and the side of the wooden boat, tapped the wooden stick in his hand on the ice, or provided the sliding force when the wooden boat slowed down, or When the wind direction is wrong, it is used instead of a sail to change the direction of the fishing boat.

Although Boss was old, nearly sixty years old, but at this moment, the old man's movements were sharp and capable, his face slashed from side to side, and he carefully felt the subtle changes of the wind blowing from the lake.

Whenever the wind direction and force fluctuated slightly, he used his own body weight to pull the rope tied to the sail to turn.

When the whole fishing boat set off from the wharf of Wumi Lake Village, it first slid eastward, and then after accumulating gliding speed, it changed to an arc and turned northward.

After Bowes judged that the distance was appropriate, he told Keel to hold on to the fishing boat, and then turned the sail around.

The generally cold northwesterly wind blows the small sails on the fishing boat, blowing and sliding the whole fishing boat due south.

The speed of the fishing boat gradually increased, and then Boss changed the direction of the sail little by little.

But changing the sail against the direction of the wind, even if he used all his body weight, it would not be easy to press down.

"Keil, good boy, come and help me!"

He yelled, and Kiel immediately put the stick in his hand under his arm, and carefully leaned over the edge of the fishing boat: "How can I help?"

"Hold on to the rope and press down! Quick! Otherwise the opportunity will be missed!"

When Kiel heard this, he immediately grabbed the top of the rope, and after he grabbed it, his whole body sank. Even the weight of the man, the armor and the weapon, all of a sudden displayed a strength far surpassing that of the old man.

The rope is pulled down, causing an attached sail to change direction.

With this sail against the wind direction, the entire fishing boat no longer slides straight to the south, but rubs against the ice surface and slides to the southwest.

Boss saw that Keir was very effective as soon as he got started, and immediately praised: "Kiel, you are much better than those stupid guys in my family! Okay, keep this direction, I will count down to five, and you will be ready when it is over." Slowly let go, I'll take over."

Keir nodded, holding on tightly with one hand, while freeing up the other hand to hold the wooden stick under his arm tightly, for fear of falling to the ice outside.

"five!"

The wind howled.

"Four!"

Because the fishing boat relies on the wind, the sharp bottom of the fishing boat will occasionally slightly break away from the ice surface, making a rapid friction sound.

"three!"

Kiel took a deep breath of the cold air, his whole body warm with the excitement of gliding across the ice in a fishing boat.

"two!"

"Lake diver" Boss swung his head from side to side, judging their position, speed and direction on Wumi Lake by looking at the size of the lake shore in the distance.

"one!"

Keel relaxed his knees and slowly raised his whole body.

Following his movements, the rope was no longer pulled tight, and the sail changed direction, no longer fighting against the blowing cold wind.

Without leverage, the entire fishing boat lost power, but at this moment it was still galloping across the ice at its original speed.

Boss nodded to Kiel, took the rope, and then arranged for Kiel to touch the ice on the left side of the fishing boat, and gradually changed the fishing boat's heading and gliding direction.

Keir immediately followed suit, taking the wooden stick under his arm in his hand according to his previous experience. After he stood firmly, he stretched out the end with the metal head out of the fishing boat, and then Kiel gently pushed the wooden stick down.

A resistance came immediately from the wooden stick, and Kiel kept his movements tight, and used his body to transmit this reaction force to the fishing boat under his feet.

Kiel gradually increased his strength, and ice chips and sharp ice particles more than one meter high were splashed from the tip of the wooden stick.

These things rushed towards his face, hitting his body profusely and making subtle crackling sounds.

"Haha, it's so interesting!" He shouted excitedly, not paying attention to the snow and ice splashing on his body. The cloak was pulled into a straight line by the wind behind him, shaking and dancing.

Boss heard Kiel's cheers and laughter, shook his head, and refuted Kiel's opinion: "It's fun for you to play like this a few times, but if you treat it as a job, will you still find it interesting?"

He added: "Every fisherman I know, they want to go back to the old way of fishing in the winter, compared to the risky way they are doing now. My old bones are still holding on, but I still want to go back to the old way of fishing." It's too exciting."

Kiel laughed and didn't care about Boss' opinion.

After all, at this time, he really felt that gliding on the ice so freely was an interesting and exciting thing.

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At this time, they had already slid and gradually approached the western part of Wumi Lake obliquely.

Just as Boss was about to speak to remind him, not far away from the place where they had just slid, the ice surface was suddenly lifted up.

The thick ice bulges unbelievably, and a black monster can be vaguely seen under the bulge.

"It's a sunfish! Pay attention to Keel, we must not slow down!"

After seeing the sunfish, Boss immediately reminded Keel loudly.

Kiel nodded, and also responded: "Okay! But don't forget why we are here. I will keep the speed, please throw the wild boar leg from the boat!"

After speaking, Keir came to the stern of the boat, and kept standing here, stabbing the ice surface of the stern with a wooden stick, pushing the whole fishing boat to maintain a speed that would not be too slow.

Boss told him before that although their current speed is not very fast, they are still faster than the sunken fish under the ice.

As long as you don't stop, the sailboat fish will not be able to catch up, and the fishing boat will be safe.

Moreover, the shape of the trimaran can not only prevent the fishing boat from tipping over, but also barely resist the capsize fish from turning the top of the boat over.

Boss let go of the rope he was holding, and let the sail turn with the wind, then hugged the trotters of the huge pig leg, trying to lift the thing in the cabin of the fishing boat.

But the embarrassing thing was that he was not strong enough, he could barely lift one end of the wild boar leg, but that was all, and he couldn't do more, he couldn't throw the other end out of the cabin.

When Keir, who was on the same boat, saw it, he immediately threw the wooden stick into the cabin, and then slightly pushed Boss away: "I'll do it!"

He grabbed the pig's trotter with one hand, and pushed down with the other to grab the long hair in the middle of the wild boar's leg.

"Get up!" He yelled, and then he lifted up the whole pork leg of tens of kilograms, stood in place, and threw it towards the stern with all his strength: "Get out! Ha!"

With a sound of exhalation, the huge wild boar leg, which was heavier than a young man, was thrown sideways by Kiel. After passing a certain distance in the air, it fell heavily on the ice surface that had just slipped with a bang.

Kiel immediately grabbed the wooden stick in the cabin, and went to the stern of the boat to push a little on the ice to speed up the fishing boat to leave here.

Boss grabbed the rope that controlled the sail and pulled it slightly to let the fishing boat change direction with the wind, then turned his head to look at the huge wild boar leg that fell on the ice as it gradually moved away.

Kiel also stared at the thing with wide eyes. In order to see more clearly, he lifted the visor with one hand, and stared straight at the wild boar's leg regardless of the cold wind blowing on his face.

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Under the gloomy and translucent thick ice, a huge olive-shaped shadow chased the fishing boat gliding on the ice.

With a dull bang, something suddenly hit the ice.

The thing was warm in its perception.

That thing was quite heavy in its perception.

And, after rolling two laps on the ice, it stopped moving.

The seemingly clumsy and heavy shadow immediately swung its tail in the lake water under the ice and turned its direction. Instead of chasing the fast fishing boat on ice with other companions, it leaned forward and dived.

Immediately afterward, he turned around and hit the thing left on the ice with the huge bony tumor on the top of his head.

A dark fluctuation flashed faintly on the bone tumor, and then.

boom!

The ice under the wild boar's leg shattered and exploded, and the huge wild boar's leg flew straight up, but before it fell back to the ice, it was directly bitten by a huge mouth that had been waiting in place.

The shadow then dragged and bit the wild boar's leg and dived into the lake water. It let go of its mouth slightly, its tail swung faster, and swallowed the whole wild boar's leg in an instant.

"It's done!" Boss shouted excitedly, and Kiel also cheered.

But before they could be happier, the ice near the fishing boat shattered one after another, and it was the sunken fish under the ice that was closely chasing Keel and the others on the ice.

"Oh no! Keel, speed up!" Boss yelled.

Keel saw the three large holes in the ice very close to the fishing boat, and immediately realized that he had to speed up, otherwise it would be bad and he would be fed the fish.

And it was they who took the initiative to come over to feed the fish.

So he put all his strength into it, and pressed the wooden stick against the ice at the stern of the boat again and again, so as not to slow down the speed of the fishing boat compared to the capsized fish.

After barely opening the distance from the capsized fish under the ice, Boss shouted: "Keir, hold on to the side of the boat! I'm going to turn!"

After finishing speaking, he tried his best to change the direction of the sail. With the wind blowing the sail, the whole fishing boat suddenly jumped up on the ice, jumped and changed the direction of gliding, and then gradually accelerated.

As soon as the speed increased, the capsize fish was left far behind.

Then Keir came to the side of the boat and slightly changed the direction of the fishing boat with the stick in his hand.

"What happened to the guy after he ate the pork leg?" asked Bowes.

Keir shook his head: "Not so fast, let's wait."

After speaking, Keel asked Bowes to let go of the sail, and rely entirely on the sticks to push the ice to maintain speed and course.

It was getting dark and it was going to be dark soon.

Keir could barely hold his breath, but Boss leaned anxiously under the sail, begging and praying to the gods.

Rolling his eyes, Kiel complained silently: "Is this prayer useful? Pray for the gods to curse or punish His own creation? In this matter, we still have to rely on ourselves."

The fishing boat has been circling back and forth on the border from the west to the south of Wumi Lake, just to see if the capsized fish will change after swallowing the pig legs with traps.

Is it completely unresponsive, does a small amount of damage, or is very fatal?

Keel thinks it should be effective. After all, no matter how hard the shell of a sunfish is, its stomach can't be equally hard, right? In order to digest, it must have a large but soft belly.

Otherwise, it would not be able to accommodate the northern land wolf who attacked the village from the lake at one time, and the digestion is also the same. Only an efficient digestive system can keep the sunfish to maintain hunger and desire to eat.

It is impossible to eat once and stop eating for a long time like snakes. In that case, as long as the northern land wolf is smarter, it can drive some animals in the forest to feed the sunfish's belly, and they will not be able to cause harm to the northern land wolf.

Still can't stop the northern land wolf attacking the village.

Therefore, the sunfish must have a huge belly, and the digestive system in the stomach must be highly developed. Therefore, this efficient and well-developed digestive system must be flexible and densely vascular.

Swallowing the sharp metal awl, it is impossible not to hurt its stomach.

Now, just wait a little longer.

Keel told himself so.

-

The surroundings suddenly darkened, and this was the sun behind the clouds falling below the horizon.

Kiel stood at the stern of the boat one by one, pushing wooden sticks on the ice, and the whistling wind was heard around him.

'Lake diver' Boss sat chattering in the cabin, his expression nervous and worried. But Kiel just kept the speed of the fishing boat and didn't make any other moves.

After staying away from the west bank of Wumi Lake, where sunfish often appear, those underwater monsters no longer like to approach fishing boats. I don't know whether it is because they know that it is difficult to catch the fishing boats, or they know that the areas where the fishing boats are now operating are the areas where the fishermen they are supposed to protect are likely to be active.

Keel thinks it should be the former. The stupid and greedy fish that those fishermen call them will never let go of any big things in the lake that can be eaten.

Feeling something vaguely in his heart, Kiel suddenly turned his head to look northwest.

He listened intently, but Boss' soliloquy blocked his perception.

"Be quiet, I seem to hear something." Keel yelled towards Boss.

Boss got up immediately, grabbed the rope of the sail with his hands, and turned his head around vigilantly.

Keel concentrated his mind, carefully distinguishing the strange sounds from the howling wind around him.

Roar.

pain.

Indistinct.

Keel's eyes lit up: "It's a sunfish, I really want to hear the sound of the sunfish. Maybe the trap works!"

Boss looked at the gradually darkening sky around him, and said with some embarrassment: "It's already dark." He looked at Kiel: "It will be dangerous to pass now."

After thinking for a while, Keir waved his arm fiercely: "It doesn't matter, I still have to go and check the situation, this is too important."

Boss pursed his lips and gritted his teeth: "Okay, let's fight. Let's go!"

Kiel touched the side of the boat, and slowly changed the direction of the fishing boat: "Let's go!"

The two fell silent afterwards, but the rising and falling chests of each represented that they were not at peace.

Boss took out a grease-stained torch from the small amount of supplies he carried, lit it and inserted it into the groove on the bow of the fishing boat.

"Order one more, and the ice surface must be illuminated!" Keel said.

Boss didn't say much, took out another torch, ignited it with the torch in the bow, and then held it in his hand.

As Keel accelerated the boat, the fishing boat quickly approached the place where it had slipped before. After getting closer, the dull roar from under the ice was very obvious, and this time, Boss also heard it.

The old man's face was full of excitement, and he muttered something like revenge finally succeeded.

Keir pointed to a slightly unusual ice surface not far away, and asked the old man to throw the torch in his hand to have a look.

Huh, the bright torch soaked in grease traced a parabola, and fell far near the unusual ice surface that Keel was referring to.

The two cooperated to steer the fishing boat in a big circle around that place. And under the ice behind the fishing boat, the sound of other capsize fish rubbing their backs against the ice and vigorously swinging their tails is also very clear.

"There's another caper fish following behind! Keel?"

"Don't care about them! Narrow the circle, let's get closer!" Keel shouted loudly. He stood at the stern of the boat, and then no longer provided thrust to the fishing boat straightly, but deflected slightly to make the fishing boat make a bigger turn.

And Boss also tried his best to judge the direction and position of the wind, and manipulated the sail with all his strength in his hand, so that the fishing boat kept narrowing the circle with the help of the wind.

"Light another torch, I can't see clearly!" Kiel yelled.

Boss barely freed one hand, took advantage of the swing of the sail, quickly lit the torch, and then threw it towards the ice surface not far away.

The swirling torch slammed into the middle, flicked, and fell to the side.

This time, both Keir and Boss could see clearly.

It was a sunfish that knocked over a large piece of ice, but the strange thing is that the sunfish was sticking its ugly head on the ice, shaking it, and then dived into the water again, twisting even more in the water. Turn it over and make a sound.

The cry passed through the water and the ice, and it sounded like a cow, but more dull.

Seeing such a strange behavior of the sunfish, Keir was quite excited, but he still asked Boss cautiously: "Do you know that the sunfish behaves like this?"

"No! No! Aha! It worked!"

Boss shouted excitedly: "It is in pain! I heard it! That sound is that it is in pain!"

Then he pointed at the sunfish angrily and cursed: "You monster!! Do you feel pain too? Die for me! Die quickly! You are obviously sent by the gods to save us~www.readwn.com~ Why are you so stupid! Ah! Can't tell the difference between a man and a wolf! Give me back my son! Give me back my son!"

Using the light of the fire, Keir saw some strange marks on the scattered ice. He lifted his visor and took a deep breath through his nose.

It's the smell of blood! Very strong **** smell!

efficient! The trap works!

"I smell blood! Old Bowes, we've done it! The metal spike in the bait hurt him from the inside!"

"That's right! That's right! It's a pity that I have a bad nose, otherwise I must smell its blood." Boss shouted viciously.

Excited, Keir patted his cheeks to calm himself down a little. He turned and shouted to Boss, "Okay, we've confirmed it, it's time to go back!"

But there is no response. Keel looked, only to find that old Boss was staring in the direction of the sunken fish in a daze.

"Old Boss?"

"'Lake Divers' Boss?"

Keir yelled twice, and the old 'lake diver' Boss came back to his senses. He took a last look at the sunfish writhing in pain on the ice with hatred, and then pulled the rope vigorously, letting the The fishing boat slid towards the southeast by the cold wind.

In that direction, Wumi Lake Village could only see a little bit of fire.