Mercenaries and Adventurers

Carrying a huge cloth bag, Keir dodged back into the open space.

The people who had nothing to do while resting at night sang songs and danced around the campfire. The armed people who are not working are especially welcomed by the women in the team. They are also generously in the middle of the crowd, singing with the loudest voice and showing themselves with the most unrestrained dance.

When walking past these residents, people who knew each other or didn't know their faces well invited Keir to join them. In this regard, Keir could only smile, and waved his hand to reject the invitation.

Keir pretended that the big bag in his hand was ordinary, and just carried it through the crowd in such a grand manner, and returned to his camp.

When he got here, he ran into trouble again, because outside his camp, the guards guarding him surrounded the tent very well, and the several campfires that rose just happened to be full of fire, illuminating the tent surrounded by the middle.

This is not good for the big bird **** to secretly take away the wooden statue in his hand.

But he was also embarrassed to let the guards deliberately relax their vigilance, extinguish the campfire, and reduce the protection of his property.

As soon as the eyeballs rolled, Keel had a solution. Because he saw the new team of long-haired lynx orcs not far away. Although they look fluffy and cute, they are sharp-toothed aliens after all, so young people with little knowledge naturally keep a distance from them subconsciously.

Of course, these alien races don't want to be stared at all day, because they are also very uncomfortable. They were very uncomfortable last night. Fortunately, during the daytime today, after hundreds of people in the team joined in the fun and watched the surprises, most of them were no longer curious about them. This makes these Mao Maocai feel much more at ease.

"Maomao, come, come!"

Kiel called out to the alien races in a low voice, and at the same time walked towards them with a big bag.

"Strong, human! Possess, task, need, Maomao?"

They have very good ears, and when they heard the call of Kil himself, they immediately poked their heads out of the empty box where they lived. The one in the lead jumped out of the wooden box with an excited face, and the long tail behind him continued to pat the surrounding wooden boxes, waking up the other furs that hadn't come out.

In fact, it is not necessary to wake them up. The long-haired lynx orcs are nocturnal creatures. They usually hunt and travel after dark. They have to work hard during the day, but at night they are very energetic and energetic.

"Yes, yes. I do have a task for you myself. You little fellows are very suitable for this task."

Keir smiled and shook the big bag in his right hand.

"Mission! Momo, reward, metal! Reward!"

Hearing that there was indeed a mission, the courage to take the lead immediately yelled, and the other Maomao also imitated the captain's pronunciation, repeating the words reward and metal over and over again.

Keir smiled wryly, and had to **** around on himself, and finally turned out a few copper coins and gave them to them: "How about this? Don't look too small, but this is much more valuable than a piece of broken iron."

Then Keir complained: "I don't know if they know the value of money."

Unexpectedly, the courageous Mao Mao jumped over excitedly, took a few copper coins in Kiel's hand, and then excitedly sniffed a few copper coins with his fluffy nose: "Maomao, I know, copper coins! The value is very good, very good!"

Kiel shrugged: "Since you have received the reward metal for the mission, then come over here."

Courageous Mao Mao called out in a low voice, and immediately the other Mao Mao surrounded him, imitating the way of humans, standing in a row, and accepting the task of Keel, a powerful human being.

"So, ahem, each of you takes one of these things."

Kiel looked around and found that no one came to disturb the aliens after dark, so he reached out and groped in the big pocket for a while, and took out a wooden sculpture of a **** that was a little bigger than a fist. He hurriedly stuffed the thing into Courage Mao Mao's arms and let him hold it.

"The task is for ten of you. Each Maomao carries two of these things, avoiding the sight of everyone in the team, and go outside the open space."

"Empty? Outside?"

Bravery Maomao looked at the wooden **** statue that was too big for it in his hand, and suddenly opened his mouth to face the **** statue, baring his teeth, and let out a low growl in his throat: "This! Own it! Dirty thing!"

Kiel rolled his eyes: "It's not a dirty thing, hey, even if it is, it has nothing to do with you, let your furs take it, go outside to find some lush field trees, and secretly hide these wooden statues in the big trees The top of the branch. That's it, this is your task, how about it? It's not difficult!"

Although Mao Mao, who has a keen sense of courage, doesn't like the bird head woodcarving in his hand, after all, he has already received the reward copper coin from a powerful human being, so he nodded after considering it: "Leave it, Mao Mao, let's do it!"

"Blue eyes! Short beards! Short legs!"

Mao Mao, who was called by Courageous Mao Mao, came out wagging his tail, and then Courageous Mao Mao handed over the wooden bird head carving in his hand to Mao Mao with a pair of beautiful blue eyes.

Seeing that Blue-eyed Mao Mao wanted to play with the new thing in his hand, Courageous Mao Mao slapped the top of Blue-eyed Mao Mao's head with his long tail angrily, which made Blue-eyed Mao Mao shrink his neck and squint his eyes, not daring to play anymore.

"Meow! Meow, meow! Ooooh, meow!"

After being reprimanded in the internal language of the long-haired lynx orc that Kiel could not understand, Courageous Maomao clamped the wood carvings under the armpits of the blue-eyed Maomao's arms. out of sight.

Afterwards, Keel stuffed Courage Maomao with a wood carving of a bird's head, and Courage Maomao stuffed the wood carving he had obtained into the other armpit of Blue Eyed Maomao.

Brave Momo then let Blue Eye walk back and forth twice, found that there was no problem, and then let him try to climb up the wooden box.

If it is a human being, it is not convenient to use the arms with something under the armpit, and it is indeed difficult to climb something. But Maomao is different. They have a long, strong and powerful tail. With the help of this limb, even if the arms are not movable, they can still climb.

"Very good, blue-eyed, Mao Mao, let's go!"

"Meow!"

The fluffy tail named Blue Eyes stood up behind him, and the next moment he straightened his short legs, and quickly slipped into the darkness of the open space that was not illuminated by the fire.

Keel followed this fluffy with his eyes, and soon lost track of this little guy. This surprised him a little. These little guys not only surpassed ordinary humans in fighting power, but also had the ability to dodge and move silently at night, which even human beings could not match.

"Wood carving!"

A call brought Keir back to his senses. It turned out that Courage Mao Mao was calling him, and stretched out his hand to ask for the mission items.

Keir smiled, stretched out his hand for a while, and took out two wood carvings of bird heads.

Afterwards, the short-bearded Mao Mao was also the same as the previous one, and trotted into the darkness with something under his armpit.

Then came the short-legged Mao Mao, these three were the closest partners of the courageous Mao Mao, and they were all in charge of long-range attacks in this small team battle.

"Brindle! Long ears! Claws! Fast legs!"

The next four Maomao were in charge of melee combat in the team, and their movements were even more agile. After receiving the wood carving of a bird head, which was not too small for them, they hugged it directly in their arms, bouncing and bouncing. Jumped into the shadowy darkness all around. With the sound of light footsteps, they quickly walked out of the open space easily in the blind spot of the armed people under Kiel.

At the end, there were two Maomao who were originally responsible for carrying supplies. Brave Maomao didn't let these two go out, but he personally held the four wood carvings of bird heads, and asked a Maomao named Huange to take two.

Courageous Maomao also personally explained some things to the remaining Maomao in their own language, and then slipped into the shadows holding the wood carving.

Keir held a big bag that was mostly empty, and looked at the only one left on the field, Maomao, and was about to say something, when this Maomao named Mumble flicked his tail, jumped up on the spot, and jumped back. It was sitting on top of the empty wooden box.

It didn't go back to rest in the wooden box, but squatted vigilantly on the half-opened lid of the wooden box, its big bright eyes reflected the reflection of the surrounding campfire, and its eyes were piercing and wary.

Beware of what?

Keel guessed that it should be to guard against someone coming to steal the metal materials they have accumulated along the way.

Smiling and shaking his head, Keel waved at the furry, and then returned to his tent.

-

Putting down the large bag with a part of the bird head wood carving left, Keel lay on his side on his sleeping bag.

"How about it?"

He was alone in the tent, but Keel was still talking as if talking to someone.

"Is it possible to develop these alien races? No way? That's fine."

Keir was silent for a while, and then said: "I will try to develop some people among the guards who directly obey my orders. You also have to find a way to work hard? After all, I have done so much work, The rumors of public opinion in the town must bring some convenience to the spread of your beliefs, right?"

"So, regarding the transaction, my work has almost been completed, what do you say?"

There was silence for a while, and I don't know what Keir heard, but his expression was obviously not very good.

"Okay, I'll wait, I hope I can have a good night's sleep tonight. Don't be like yesterday and the day before yesterday, being chased by those dead ghosts all night, bah, I was defeated by me a few times when I was alive, but I chased you in my dreams when I died. Follow me and run. I was so stupid in my dream#, completely forgot to fight, only knew to run.”

There was another silence, and Kiel seemed to hear something.

"I'm weak? No, I'm weak? Oh, I'm weak in soul, so that's the case. How can I train my soul? Lifting iron? Running? Swinging a sword?"

"No way, that's right, huh, the soul is not a real body, it can exercise muscles and accumulate life energy. What do you say? The soul mostly depends on talent? Will? I think my will should be good, right?"

There was another silence. It seemed that after listening to whoever said it, Kiel went directly to the sleeping bag, without taking off his cloak and boots, and just lay on the sleeping bag in a daze.

His two eyes stared like copper bells, looking straight at the top of the tent.

The well-sealed tent fabric greatly obscured the light of the campfire outside the tent, making the interior of the tent almost dark.

Keir just lay there, not knowing what he was thinking.

For the first time, he didn't want to fall asleep so quickly.

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The furs walked together in twos and threes in the continuous fields outside the open space.

They carefully avoided the debtor humans who lived in the semi-underground shacks next to the fields. Although they didn't know why they were all humans, and other humans lived well in the town, these people had to live pitifully in the wild.

Don't think that the tribe of Maomao is a primitive tribal civilization living in the deep mountains, thinking that they don't know solid houses, houses with walls and flower gardens, it is not a good place.

Even if they are relatively primitive civilizations, they know that it is far better to live in a settlement where a large number of human beings gather than to live in wild fields.

Not to mention, many of the earth-pit huts on the edge of the field ridges for debtors to temporarily live in have severe rain leakage. Not to mention whether you can sleep in a slippery and cold place, but every time it rains, many poisonous mushrooms will emerge inside and outside the shack, which is very unsuitable for human habitation.

Even fluffy people know that the place where they live for a long time should be dry and hygienic, right?

Bypassing these sporadic places where people exist, the Mao Maos who carried the quest items searched for the big trees in the fields as instructed by the powerful humans, and hid these wooden statues that made them feel uncomfortable.

There was the sound of flapping wings in the darkness overhead.

Fearing that it was a nocturnal carnivorous bird of prey, the Mao Maos quickly got into the crops, and carefully lay down and did not move.

When the sound of flapping wings flew away, the Mao Maos still didn't move, because they knew that carnivorous raptors are cunning and fierce, and sometimes a pair of raptors, a male and a female, would set a special trap.

First let one of the animals that is not strong enough make a loud flapping sound on purpose, and then fly away, so that the animals on the ground can relax their vigilance. And when the animals on the ground started to move carelessly, the other strong raptor, which was deliberately gliding in the air, would fold its wings and rush straight down, taking down the largest and fattest animals in one fell swoop.

Not to mention that the Mao Maos are one meter tall, and they are still intelligent creatures, so they will not be attacked. Those birds of prey that are active at night are large and small, and most of the small ones can only catch some rodents such as jerboa and voles, or some lizards, large insects, etc.

Larger nocturnal raptors can attack even average-sized animals, including domestic dogs and foxes.

Larger nocturnal raptors, not to mention the one-meter-high furs, ponies, goats, tortoises, wolves, humans, etc., are all on the menu of these dangerous carnivores.

If nocturnal humans do not light bright torches, it is very easy to be scratched by the raptors gliding past, directly and silently take their lives, and then be taken back to the nest by the raptors inexplicably.

And the Mao Maos living in the mountains and forests, of course, have excellent nocturnal skills trained since childhood.

Each of them can not only easily avoid the dangers in the air, but even some powerful guys can also use the opportunity to hunt those carnivorous raptors.

Humans like the feathers of those raptors very much, and the Mao Maos know that they can exchange those light feathers with humans.

As for the light bones of birds, they are important materials for making in the Maomao tribe.

Dodging humans and nocturnal birds all the way, the Mao Maos scattered separately, and then found one after another the big trees specially planted in the fields, which are responsible for attracting dangerous thunder and lightning during the days when the weather changes drastically.

It's not that there are more effective ways to eliminate lightning hazards in the town, but for field owners, simply planting a big tree is not a simpler and cheaper lightning protection method.

Many large trees have more or less scorched parts, which are evidence of being struck by lightning. The town of Dorne is located on a rare plain in the mountainous southern province, so it is very vulnerable to lightning strikes in spring and summer.

Compared with forests or towns, debtors working in open fields are often the most likely to be struck to death by sudden flashes of lightning. But what can they do? As debtors, they have to go to work in the fields whether it is windy or rainy.

If you don't go, you will definitely be whipped.

Compared to definitely being whipped, many people would rather go to the fields to work in the wind and rain, even if they might be killed by lightning.

-

At the edge of the field, two hunters wearing concealment cloaks were carefully lying on one side of the field ridge, each cautiously sticking out half of their heads, looking at several long-haired bobcats organized activities in the distance in the dim night orc.

"Why are these guys here again? Didn't they join the young knight team?"

The young hunter was whispering, and beside him, another experienced hunter of some age squinted his eyes, carefully observing the aliens with eyesight that was not affected by the darkness. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

He considered it for a while, and then said in a low voice: "Maybe there was a conflict, maybe, they were assigned a task? Don't forget, the young knight saw us in the evening. Huh, it must be that it is not good for the two unknown people." Don't worry, that's why we sent newly recruited aliens over to investigate us after dark. No, they are looking for us one by one."

Hearing this analysis, the young hunter put his hand under the cloak behind him, where was his hunting bow, and the matching ten bows and arrows that were blessed with power.

For elite hunters, ten arrows are often enough.

Even powerful monsters often cannot withstand ten deadly arrows.

"How? Deal with these alien races? Otherwise, let them find us like this, and they will definitely find us."

With his hands behind his back, the young hunter had already set up his bow and arrow. As long as his companions agreed, he would immediately shoot the bow. It was just a few small aliens, and he would kill them one by one before they heard the vibration of his bowstring.

But the old hunter hesitated for a while, and still stretched out his hand to press down the young companion's shoulder: "Forget it, the task of the two of us is to keep an eye on that existence, after all, too many people in the church are idle all day long and have nothing to do. One can mess with that existence." The noise of the incident is still necessary. Let's clean it up first and avoid them. I think those kittens may have done something to those big trees in the field besides looking for us?"

"What did you discover?"

"Not yet, but my intuition and the revelation of the gods tell me that something must have happened. Let's step back, go around and see what those kittens have done."

Afterwards, the two hunters lying on the side of the field ridge cleaned up the traces of lying down, and retreated silently into the sparse farmland.