Mercenaries and Adventurers

Seeing the local caravans gradually catching up from behind, Knight Crowe sped up his movements, yelling loudly in his mouth to direct groups of militia teams to move as he needed.

As far as Kiel could see, the various militia lines no longer moved counterclockwise around the wagons in the middle. The team first paused for a moment, then the front team still moved forward in the current direction and position, and then the left and right militia teams moved hundreds of meters to the left and right, leaving a large space in the middle.

The militia team at the rear also moved away from the left and right under the shouts of the Crowe knights, chasing the figures of their companions in front.

In this way, the rear of the carriage where Baron Kendall was sitting was opened.

All kinds of logistics carriages loaded with a large number of supplies are mainly walking on the commercial road. Although it is not obvious, the soil layer under the commercial road has indeed been treated.

Or, due to years of rolling by horse-drawn carriages, even the surface of this part of the soil layer is covered with weeds, but the soil layer underneath is extremely compacted.

When the carriage is walking in this place, there is no need to worry about the wheels suddenly sinking into some pits or small animal holes covered by grass.

Seeing that the passage ahead was opened to receive them, the local businessmen asked their subordinates to speed up and catch up with them with complicated expressions.

A part of the baron's personal guard cavalry led by the Rumi knight fell behind everyone.

In the distance behind them, in the tall grass that the army and caravans had never walked through, there were bushes swaying behind them from time to time.

Knight Rumi squinted his eyes, holding a short-throwing spear commonly used by locals in his hand, and looked at the unknown thing falling behind them.

Keel saw that the thing seemed to be followed by only one or two ends, so he was a little eager to try, wanting to turn around and compete.

"My lord, let me clean up the monsters following us!"

He approached Knight Rumi and asked for a fight.

The baron's guards next to him looked at each other, but none of these guards with excellent martial arts wanted to make such a move. After all, in a place far away from home, apart from fighting for the safety of the baron, these family and business personal guards did not want to take this risk.

But Kiel is different. Although the flying harpy is very tricky, on the one hand, his idea of ​​adventure is constantly motivating him, and on the other hand, his body is also driving him to fight.

Defeat the monsters and take their bodies to eat.

Looking at Kiel, Knight Rumi was about to agree to let Kiel, a young man with some strength, go to fight, but Xueyasite who was next to him suddenly said: "Sorry, sir, sorry for my sudden interruption. But based on my experience Judging, the one following us in the grass may not be the harpies that attacked the caravan earlier."

"How do you judge?"

Rumi Knight looked at the local caravan guard and asked directly.

"My lord, my lord. I have also dealt with such monsters before, and I have seen them attack caravans on the road many times. Generally speaking, they either attack chaotic humans from the sky when there is a strong wind blowing on the grassland The team should either find a place to hide in a tall grass next to the trade road in advance, and when the people and horses pass by, they will suddenly jump out of the grass, grab the people and fly away."

Explaining, Bloody Gaster's body was still sitting on the horse imitating the movements of the monster as he spoke.

"If it is a particularly courageous monster that wants to follow the caravan, they will not move the grass to stick to the ground like this, but will flap their wings to follow, which is very easy to spot. After all, their wings It's a hassle to move in the grass."

"Then what's following us now?" Keel asked.

Xueyasite hesitated for a moment, and then judged: "It may be a prairie wolf, or some other beast that lands on all fours."

Knight Rumi had no interest in ordinary wolves or beasts. Hearing this, he regretfully put away the short-throwing gun in his hand, waved his hand, and let Kiel handle it at will.

He greeted the baron's personal guards and speeded up to catch up with the carriage in front.

At the same time, teams of militia squads are converging towards Kiel from the left and right sides behind the team, gradually wrapping up the entire huge team.

Slowly, as the team moves and elongates, the circular team as a whole is gradually turning into an upright olive outfit. Two pointed, left and right flat.

Although it's a pity that it's not a harpy, Keel still intends to see what is following them.

So he asked Bloodfang to wait at the end of the line, and he came as he went.

Tap, tap, tap.

The grass that was repeatedly crushed by footsteps and wheels turned into a ball of grass juice, but because the smell was so good, it was not annoying. The horse's hoof tramples on it, and the broken grass blades also provide good friction and support.

Keel took down the oblique wooden spear from the horse's back. He hadn't used it for a while, and now he was holding the two-finger wide wooden spear under his armpit. It brought back some of the feeling of hunting and fighting the northern wolf last winter.

"Let me see what it is."

Keel murmured.

Not far away, the things hiding in the grass obviously found the humans and horses coming towards them, and immediately became restless.

The grass trembled for a while, and then ran away into the distance.

The grass swayed all the way caused by Keel chasing the fleeing beast, and gradually accelerated the speed of the horse.

But just as he passed by the place where the beast stayed before, a shadow rushed towards Kiel with the roar of the beast.

The thing jumped out of the grass suddenly, and its sharp claws stretched out its forelimbs and slammed into Kiel on the horse's back.

The sound of the wild beast was also quite strange, it was not the common wild howl of wild beasts, but a rather sharp and piercing loud sound. It's like two iron pans are leaning against each other, and someone on both sides is constantly turning the two iron pans, making sharp and piercing noises.

The sound hit Kiel first, making Kiel and his horse quite uncomfortable.

But fortunately, Kiel's horses are not local horse breeds, their ears are smaller, and they are not so flexible. Naturally, their hearing is much worse than that of local horses.

This kind of difference is naturally not as strong and sensitive as the local horse breeds, but at this time, although Keel's horse is uncomfortable because of this, it will not be too unlucky for a sharp hearing horse.

He was not frightened by the strange roar of the beast that suddenly attacked, and threw its owner off the horse.

Keir mostly relied on his own will to forcibly hold back the mental discomfort caused by the strange screams. The closed helmet on the armor also provides a small amount of help.

boom! prickly—

With two sounds in a row, the beast jumped up and jumped on Kiel's body on horseback, but the opponent's claws slammed back and forth a few times, but they couldn't do anything to the full-coverage hard cowhide armor that Kiel often wore.

It just scratched a windproof cloak that Kiel wore over the armor.

"Damn it!"

The beast hit him whole sideways, and if Keel hadn't had his legs hanging in the stirrups and his left hand yanking the reins in his hand, he would have been nearly thrown off his horse by the thing.

As soon as he stabilized his body so that he wouldn't fall off the horse, the beast next to him opened his mouth wide and bit Kiel's neck with its mouth full of stench and sharp teeth.

"#!"

Accompanied by cursing, Kiel grabbed the rein with his left hand and directly slammed it into the beast's mouth, blocking the opponent's sharp teeth with the sturdy armor of his arm.

The sturdy hard cowhide armor directly caught the sharp teeth of the beast and closed it. Kiel opened his left hand violently, grabbed a slippery thing in the opponent's mouth, and squeezed it to death. While resisting the opponent's front paws with his elbow, the right hand used skillful force to pull the spear held by the right hand from front to back.

Then grasping the barrel of the gun partly behind the head, he turned the sharp steel head and sent it into the soft belly of the beast.

Puff—

Even though the beast scratched Kiel's arm with its hind paws, Kiel was strong enough to smash the internal organs of the beast with the gun head, and then shook his right hand vigorously, allowing the gun head to vigorously destroy the other internal organs of the beast .

"Woo hoo, **** ho, **** ho, hoo—"

The strength of the beast quickly dropped, but the big mouth full of stench did not let go, even though the limbs had lost their strength and pulled down.

No way, Keir had to draw out the spear head, and then dragged the beast half the size of him onto the horse's back, barely able to take out his left hand, so he drove the horse forward to chase.

"What is this?"

Only then did Keel have time to look at the beast in front of him.

It is covered in grass-green hair, and is a wolf-like, dog-like beast. The difference is that the ears on its head are small, but its mouth is abnormally larger. The limbs are relatively thick and short, and it may look more powerful, but because of its size, its strength is not really strong.

In this way, Kiel stuck his left hand in the mouth of the beast, and he rode it on his horse. The spear in his right hand was still tightly held in his hand, urging the horse under his crotch to speed up again and go straight to the swaying grass that had already run away.

There was a salsa sound in the swaying grass, because it was a bit short in stature, and it was far from a match for tall horses in the grass.

Seeing that he was about to catch up, Keir lowered his body, aiming at the opponent's position with the spear in his right hand and stabbing far away.

The beast was not willing to sit still, and when the humans approached, it also jumped out of the grass just like its companion just now, and rushed straight at Kiel on the horse.

But Kiel's eyes were wide open, seeing the timing and the opponent's movements, he suddenly adjusted the position and angle of the spear head at this moment of staggered approach, a silver light flashed, and then the blood light flew up.

"Woo-"

The beast that was shot through the head by Kiel let out a final whimper, which was far less loud and exciting than the beast just now.

There was a wild animal hanging on the spear head. Gritting his teeth, Kiel picked the spear from the horse's head and propped it on the horse's back. Then he turned the horse's head and chased after the large army.

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Keel swung his left arm vigorously, tearing away the mouth of the beast that had bitten his arm before.

He looked at the palm of his hand, and found that the beast's tongue had been squeezed into a ball of rotten flesh by him, and it limply drooped out of the beast's mouth that could never be closed again.

With his left hand free, Keir took off the other beast that had been killed by a headshot on the spear.

He took out a piece of rope, tied the necks of two beasts with **** mouths, put the two ends on the horse's buttocks, and Kiel chased after the team.

Seeing the two wild beasts tied to Kilma's back, Xuefang Ster suddenly realized: "So it's this kind of beast. To be honest, this kind of thing is actually not easy to deal with. Two or three merchants with weapons in their hands It's not easy for the guards to kill them."

Kiel and Bloodtooth rode side by side, wiping the blood on their bodies with a dry cloth, and talking: "Oh, they're nothing special except they suddenly make loud disturbing noises. "

The sharp teeth in the beast's big mouth looked scary, but they were just scary, and the bite force was not as strong as it seemed.

Wipe the armor on the left arm. There are only shallow tooth marks on the surface of the hard cowhide armor. Afterwards, lightly tap it with a wooden stick, and then apply a layer of oil, and the tooth marks will no longer be visible.

Xueyasite shook his head: "It's the ability to make loud noises that makes this kind of beast particularly difficult to deal with. A young guard with little combat experience and willpower will yell in the face of this beast, and even throw the gun in his hand. Throw out the eating guy. Even skilled and experienced guards have to put something in their ears in advance after encountering this kind of beast, so that they can fight this kind of beast head-on."

Kiel laughed: "Is that an exaggeration? By the way, does this beast have a name? And why do they have green fur?" Kiel patted the fur of the beast behind him, he was a little curious.

"Roaring Jackals, that's what they call them in the tavern."

Blood Fang nodded and said.

"Shouting the little jackal?"

"As for why the fur is green, you can find out when you go back and scrub the fur of this beast with water. Their fur is actually gray and looks green, but it's actually just green grass juice, which will fall off as soon as you wash it. Therefore, some newcomers who have no experience always regard the howling jackals that have rained and the howling jackals in ordinary days as two different things."

Keir shook his head: "That's too careless, isn't it?"

"Of course, when I approached this thing carelessly, I was yelled at, and my neck was bitten by the big mouth of this thing in a dizzy state. Humph, I hear such stories in taverns every year."

Seeing the carriage approaching, Kiel asked again: "By the way, why did they approach so many humans so boldly? Generally speaking, no beast would boldly come to provoke such a large-scale human team."

Kiel also heard many times from the accompanying merchants that the larger the caravan, a single mixed caravan is fine, the larger the caravan is, the more likely it is to encounter wild animals when walking in the wild Small.

Sometimes not even a single beast is encountered along the way. At this time, monsters with some abilities dared to attack large-scale caravans.

And small-scale caravans, or caravans with few people, as long as they are in the wild, they will not have a moment of peace.

Groups of young male wild wolves, one or two strong horned deer without eyes, or a brown bear or black bear would go to harass the small group of human caravans.

A small group of wolves may be planning to launch a premeditated attack at night.

The strong horned deer simply divide large areas of wild no-man's land into their horned deer's territory, and the infestation of humans that they rarely encounter will be used as an act of violating their territory.

Male antlers tend to take the initiative to ram human convoys. At that time, tall horned deer with horns on their heads seemed very dangerous.

Bears, on the other hand, are just like the bandits who cut off the road, relying on their rough skin and thick flesh to fight, and even extort food from small groups of humans on the commercial road. Don't let humans cross the border.

However, when these beasts encounter a large-scale human team, they will hide from their hearts early, and most of them dare not even appear in the eyes of humans.

Speaking of this, Keir naturally wondered why this kind of weak beast in his opinion - the howling jackal, would be so brave to follow behind the human team.

Blood Yaster had a weird expression on his face. After thinking about it for a while, he still told Kiel.

"This kind of beast usually uses their loud roar to stun small animals such as grass rats or long-eared rabbits to prey on them. But this kind of beast's stomach has never had enough to eat. Driven by hunger, they will actively follow the human caravan Later, after the caravan set off the next day, they ran to the place where they camped at night to search for the remains of our human food."

Keel raised an eyebrow, feeling ominous.

"More often, they can't find food scraps, and they will look for human excrement to swallow. Just like the dogs raised by the villagers in the village, they also eat human excrement."

Kiel's face became weird, and he looked at the two beasts behind him again, muttering in his mouth that he would stop eating meat later, and he just plucked their furs and it was over.

Otherwise, humans eat food, the jackal eats excrement, and he eats the beast.

what is this?

An alternative crude 'substance' cycle?

nausea!

Can't do it, can't do it.

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With the direct command of Knight Crow, the soldiers were sent out to guard the surroundings.

He didn't come across any Harpies attack for the whole afternoon, which puzzled Bloodfang. He had never encountered such a thing in his previous experience.

It stands to reason that there are a huge number of harpy monsters that will continue to appear around the caravan after the caravan walks on the road. It is necessary for the caravan to continuously offer sheep. After hunting and getting food, they will no longer pay attention to human caravans.

After all, although hunting humans is easy, humans will still resist.

But this afternoon, as far as Bloodyaster saw, when the Kendall army from the north formed its formation, the many monsters that should have appeared constantly disappeared.

Even in the afternoon~www.readwn.com~ the same two strange winds as in the morning were blowing in the sky.

It's the kind of strong wind that hangs up and rumbles, and it's not easy to stand and walk around.

The harpies like to come and go in this kind of weather the most, even if they don't hunt, they like to fly by the wind.

But he didn't come across a single harpy all afternoon.

Facing Blood Fangste's worries, Kiel was quite confident: "Don't worry, those monsters are probably not stupid. With so many armed human armies, what chance do they have of winning?"

Seeing that the other party wanted to refute, Keir knew what he was going to refute, so he said in advance: "I know, I know, you will say that the harpies naturally have the upper hand, they attack above our heads, and we have nothing to fight back power, right?"

Seeing that the young man spoke first, Xue Yaster could only nod silently.

"That's right, but why did those harpies do this? They attack us, and we will naturally fight back. At that time, there must be a fight. And I believe that the two knights will kill them all, even if they bring A terrible loss has come."

"But if I were a harpy, I wouldn't do such a heavy loss. After all, compared with some sheep that are not hunted, the survival of the race is more important, right?"

Kiel's words made sense, and Blood Fang couldn't refute for a while.

He rode on the horse and thought hard, and finally choked out a sentence: "The knights in Guaifeng Town also led a lot of troops to attack the monsters, but they all died in the depths of the grassland in the end."

Keir just smiled: "We were just passing by, and we didn't intend to trouble those monsters. Passing by, just passing by."

Blood Fangste breathed a sigh of relief: "I hope so."