Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji observed the thing carefully, and found that it showed no sign of moving or attacking, but just turned the flower on its head towards the direction of the full moon.

How strange.

Zhao Ji felt that this should be some other monster, and he had never heard of this thing before. It should be that no one noticed or was harmed by its hands.

That being the case, don't mind your own business. He only dealt with slime monsters tonight, and all the preparations he made were for dealing with slime monsters, so there were no extra problems.

Zhao Ji retreated quietly along the tree path, and walked back along the way he came.

The swamp is very lively at night, completely different from that during the day. Many plants unfurled flowers that had been closed during the day, emitting a faint radiance, and many animals seemed to wake up from daytime, and became active at night.

This brought a lot of disturbance to Zhao Ji, coupled with the reflection of the moonlight on the surface of the swamp, Zhao Ji couldn't see the way he came from clearly. The tree path he made during the day was still too simple. It was fine during the day, but now at night, Zhao Ji found that it was not easy for him to tell the direction. When walking back, he stepped on the mud of the swamp several times, and his shoes were stained with muddy water.

But this can't trouble him, Zhao Ji immediately thought that he still has several torches made of branches and grease. When the hunting started, he would light a torch and stick it at the entrance of the tree path, which was northwest of the swamp.

In this way, he could use the guidance of the torch to figure out his own direction in the swamp.

In the process of intense hunting, he only needs to move in the direction with the torch.

After retreating to the shore in the northwest of the swamp, Zhao Ji put down his weapon and shield, returned to the campfire, and took out the torch he made earlier. After thinking about it, Zhao Ji decided to take one first and put the others here.

Bringing flint and torch, Zhao Ji returned to the northwest of the swamp, and he stuck the torch on the wet and soft bank of the swamp at the entrance of the tree path. Take out the flint and carefully light the torch. It was very inconvenient to wear this branch clothes, and the rattan helmet restricted part of his vision. But it's still easy to hit a flint.

After lighting the torch, looking at the crackling burning torch, Zhao Ji picked up his equipment.

Now the hunt has officially begun.

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Zhao Ji, who went deep into the swamp, carefully observed the surrounding water, trying to find a slime monster as a bait to lure him. It didn't take him long to find a slime monster that was trying to hunt the jumping frog.

Leaping frogs were lying on a small island jutting out of the water and croaking loudly. Zhao Ji stopped and stood quietly when he was far away. He knew that the slime monster likes to eat jumping frogs on the shore. The jumping frogs in the water swim too fast, and the slime monster's spit tricks are diluted by water. The risk of jumping frogs on the shore does not have this escape and protection mechanism.

As Zhao Ji expected, after a while, a jumping frog cooed and groaned in the jet of liquid shot from nowhere on the surface of the water.

This should be acid, and the jumping frog that was sprayed jumped up with a croak, but after falling down, it couldn't jump again. A large amount of its skin was corroded by acid, and even its two big eyes were corroded and smoked, leaving only the strength to kick its legs on the ground.

The slime monster that spewed acid just now slowly crawled over. It crawled out of the muddy water of the swamp and headed towards the jumping frog. Zhao Ji observed that this slime monster was about the size of a wooden bowl, and it was quite large among the slime monsters Zhao Ji hunted and killed.

Looking at the slime monster crawling slowly, Zhao Ji decided to make a move. All these preparations have been done to make it easier to hunt slime monsters. So Zhao Ji didn't do anything else, just raised the pot shield in his left hand, turned his whole body sideways, covered his arms behind the shield, and strode towards the slime monster.

Feeling the vibration, the slime monster stopped crawling, and stretched out its tentacles to sense the direction of the vibration. What greeted it was the tip of a short dagger wielded by Zhao Ji.

With one click, Zhao Ji pierced the slime monster in front of him. The slime monster under attack panicked and extended more tentacles, spraying goo and acid in scraggly strands.

Zhao Ji lifted the shield, only his eyes were above the edge of the shield. Throw the slime monster on the short dagger to the center of this small land to prevent it from escaping better. Zhao Ji followed up with two blows, piercing the slime monster twice again.

A large amount of dark mucus flowed out from the upper and lower wounds of the slime monster that had been pierced three times, and its struggling movements became smaller. Under Zhao Ji's vigilant gaze, it gradually disappeared.

He poked the slime monster with the tip of the short dagger stick, and when he saw that the slime monster didn't respond, Zhao Ji approached it. The leaping frog that was sprayed with acid was still kicking its legs at this time. Zhao Ji brandished a short dagger to pierce it, and flung it into the depths of the swamp.

Under the rattan helmet, Zhao Ji showed a smile on his face. So far, there has been no major change in the battle plan, except for a strange plant that does not know what it is in the center of the swamp. The part about hunting slime monsters is very good.

Then it was time to test him. String the dead slime monsters on a snake stick, fasten it firmly around your waist, and now quietly wait for the hordes of slime monsters to show up.