Mercenaries and Adventurers

The outside of the camp looks like a 1 natural and primitive place. Apart from being close to the commercial road, you can occasionally find artifacts and garbage left by humans on the side of the road. There are no traces of humans in other places.

No, it cannot be said that there is no such thing. The bushes and woods near the trade roads are obviously gathering places for bandits who depend on the trade roads for their livelihood.

Relying on the moonlight and starlight in the sky, Keel and the four Maomao carefully walked through the bushes as tall as a person.

Occasionally, large out-of-season clusters of berries hang from these bushes, and the rustling sound can be heard from the surrounding grass and shrubs.

The furs are very comfortable here, unlike Keel who lowered his body and moved slowly, they can naturally not be easily spotted in the wild at night. So at this time, he was excitedly following Keir while digging holes to catch insects.

As if instinctively, the Mao Maos easily opened the cover of the grass and found the jerboa and rabbit holes. At this time, they would deliberately knock hard at the hole entrances. Although most of the small animals in the holes would hear the movement Later, they hid in deeper caves, but there are always courageous and curious little animals.

Often before Kiel has gone far, Maomao guarding the entrance of the cave will wait until a silly little animal pierces the little animal with a 'long sword' in his hand. Step to catch up with Kiel.

The four Mao Maos around Keel had harvested in a short while, and they chatted and chatted to show off their gains tonight. This made Kiel have to hiss at them, but then Kiel realized that these furry meows don't need to be camouflaged and hidden in the wild.

No matter who it is, hearing a low meow in such a natural environment obviously doesn't take it seriously.

"Forget it, you can do whatever you want, as long as you don't make a lot of noise. I'll have a look at the woods not far away. Which one of you will investigate first?" Keel squatted down and covered himself in a long posture. Behind the gratifying tall flowers, he whispered to the Mao Maos.

Courage Maomao originally wanted to go, but he was too excited just now, and now his shoulders were covered with jerboas, but he couldn't move his hands.

So it pointed to the one with the least harvest among the four Maomao, and let it complete the task assigned by the powerful person.

The close-combat Mao Mao was not very happy. After mumbling for a while, he threw a jackrabbit in his arms on the ground, and ran away angrily towards the woods ahead.

"Will it work? What's its name?"

Keel asked Courage Momo.

Courage Mao Mao replied in a low voice: "No, no problem. Fast legs, Mao Mao, run, fast!" After speaking, he nodded vigorously.

So Kiel activated the plant concealment cloak on his body, drilled out of the flowers, and just squatted on the spot, the cloak on his body did not change for a while, and also grew branches, leaves, flower stems, and several huge flowers.

One of the particularly large flowers also grew on the hood of the cloak Kiel was wearing, but Kiel himself didn't see it.

He lowered his head to look at his current appearance, quite surprised, if not for his body, Keir really thought he was a bunch of wild flowers!

At this time, a few fluorescent bugs buzzed and flew over hungry. They wanted to eat some pollen in the flowers of this clump to fill their stomachs, but when they landed on Keel, no matter how they fiddled with the things in front of them, Flowers, can't find any pollen.

This made the fluorescent bugs furious and wanted to tear apart the flowers that deceived the bugs, but no matter how they pushed back with their bodies or tore them with their limbs, these seemingly immature flowers could not be torn apart.

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Although the fast-legged Mao Mao was furious and felt that he had lost face in the "hunting activity" just now, he still had to do well to get the metal reward.

It carefully used the cover of the shrubs to get close to the dark woods in the wild at night. Generally speaking, these places are inhabited by some powerful beasts, and they are the territory of other animal groups. Mao Mao who is familiar with the survival of mountains and forests will not be like this Before the long-term observation in the early stage was completed, the unfamiliar woods were carelessly created.

But this is the world of human beings after all, not their natural forests where the living conditions are even harsher, so there is no need to be particularly careful.

Of course, some more powerful humans are probably entrenched here, so we still can't be careless.

Coming outside the woods, Kuai Mao Mao secretly pricked up his ears, closed his eyes and poked his head out to listen to the movement in the woods.

Although smart hunters will hide their voices, after all, there are still very few smart hunters, and there are more stupid animals without intelligence, and stupid guys with no skills.

For example, goblins who like to whine, and rude and savage human bandits.

Sure enough, after listening intently for a while, the fast-legged Maomao heard yawns and soft complaints coming from somewhere in the woods ahead.

It can understand human language, but it can't speak it. On a big tree at the edge of the forest, there are two human bandits complaining about why they are performing surveillance and tracking tasks.

"You must have offended the deputy leader. I know that last time you slept with the woman he liked first, and this offended him."

A person was talking in a low voice.

Another voice snorted, obviously acquiescing to the accusation, but he still retorted slightly: "It's agreed that whoever snatches it will get it, and I can trick that woman out of the village by my own ability, that's my ability right Right? He said he was interested first, so that said, he can apply this to everyone who robs him. It's endless, he can't be a **** deputy leader, so many of us brothers let everything go with him?"

After the rebuttal, the man cursed: "Isn't it because that guy put his sister to sleep with the leader, gave birth to a baby, and became a relative. Otherwise, if he instructed me and everyone like this, he would have secretly sent her to the police station." That guy stabbed him to death."

After hearing this complaint, the man's companion on the tree laughed in a low voice: "Here's the knife, how about you go back and stab him to death now?"

The man stopped talking, and as a result, his companion laughed even louder.

"Keep your voice down, don't let the group of people in the distance hear it, I heard that there are very powerful guys inside, if we are discovered, we will not survive."

"Don't worry, it can be as powerful as it is. We are separated by such a long distance, let alone talking, even if we shout loudly, the farmers and women in the camp can't hear it. Besides, how many can one person fight? There are so many of us, throwing stones can smash people into flesh. Let me tell you, our team has expanded so much recently. The leader said that we should be under the deputy leader, and then select a few attacking captains. How do you know? No interest? How majestic, with seven or eight people, plundering nearby villages, and seeing the caravan, you can also lead the team to take it down. When the time comes, the harvest will not be as much as you want to pay the leader, just pay as much as you want?"

A little moved, this person asked in detail about the source of the companion's news, and the process of selecting the raid leader.

Maomao couldn't understand these words, what was it about pleasing the leader, pleasing the rest of the gang, and making great contributions to the top. Maomao's tribal society has a hard time surviving in the mountains and forests, so there are very few things that are full of flowers and intestines.

It is not easy for everyone to survive, and occasionally they have to deal with powerful mountain monsters, so they are very united internally.

Having found two bad guys, the fast-legged Maomao decided to go around the woods to see if there were any other bad guys hiding around the two.

Because Courageous Mao Mao once took them to work for a group of bandits for a while, trying to obtain human metal materials from the bandits through hard work. But the bandits are bandits. Although they didn't attack directly because they were not the opponents of these fluffy bandits, the bandits kept making various promises and benefits, but the metal rewards that should have been given have been in arrears. In the end, the bandits patted their **** and disappeared , Maomao's part-time job directly failed.

And Kiel, a powerful human being, is much better. He won't brag about it. After completing a task, he will reward them with the corresponding metal as a reward. In this way, the Mao Maos believed in Kiel even more.

Long-legged Mao Mao sneaked away, although there was a soft rustling sound, but the two bandits who were discussing enthusiastically on the tree didn't pay attention at all.

Bypassing here, Maomao walked along the periphery of the woods for a while, hiding in the woods and peeping out, of course not too close to the inside of the woods, it is spring now, the leaves on the trees are lush, so you can’t see it if you are too inside Something out there.

So every time Mao Mao walked a certain distance, he stopped and pricked up his ears, carefully paying attention to the various noises in the woods.

Just when it thought that there was only one group of people peeping at the powerful human team, the fast-legged Mao Mao suddenly heard the sound of drinking water.

This sound is very special on a night full of insects and birds, because insects drink water without sound, and birds drink water without any sound, at most it is the sound of beaks hitting pools or trees with water.

It won't be the gulp of a human gulping.

Quick-legged Mao Mao carefully pricked up his ears, gently pushed aside the tall weeds, and bent down to touch the place where the sound came from.

But when it walked straight towards the source of the sound for a few steps, it felt a chill, and its little heart beat violently.

The fast-legged Mao Mao remembered that the last time his heart beat so violently was when he was with Brave Mao Mao in the tribe, and all the tribe's Mao Mao fought against a giant crocodile monster that could spit mud.

Although the final result of that so-called confrontation was that the giant crocodile beast crawled away after eating a lot of the tribe's fluff, but the tribe also gained a certain amount of experience in the confrontation with the monster.

Afterwards, their tribe survived near the site of the giant crocodile monster. As long as the Mao Maos fed the captured beasts and monsters to the giant crocodile monster in advance, the particularly powerful monster would lazily bask in the sun all day long, and would not Eat the furs that live in its territory.

At this moment, Kuai Mao Mao Mao's little heart was beating violently, apparently his intuition was telling it that life and death would be in an instant.

what can we do about it?

After being dazed for a moment, it remembered what Courageous Maomao had told them before. Because of the fur on its body and its low stature, many times, humans who saw them for the first time would regard them as beasts or monsters.

Those who saw them walking upright, talking and working called them monsters, and if they saw them for the first time, most humans would regard them as wild beasts.

Therefore, the fast-legged Maomao remembered the teaching of Courage Maomao, tentatively imitated the human-domesticated kitten in the powerful human team, and obediently called out in a voice that he found disgusting and boring: "Meow, meow— "

At the same time, it put its hands on the ground, imitating the kittens raised by human beings, walked around on all fours, sniffed a flower beside it, and bit a fluorescent butterfly on it.

The next moment, the chill that made Mao Mao's heart beat suddenly disappeared, and from the top of a big tree in front of him, a low voice murmured: "Strange wild cat. Brother, are all the local wild cats this big?"

"How do I know? I haven't been here before. Why don't you hunt down this big wild cat? I think its fur is black and gray. It would be good to make a scarf for your sister-in-law. Come out and participate this time." God hunting event, if you don't order a gift for home, your sister-in-law will definitely quarrel with me."

The person who spoke behind was a middle-aged voice, obviously married and established a business.

The fast-legged Mao Mao could hear clearly that the hair all over its body was about to explode, so it could only learn how humans domesticate kittens, pretending to be playful and gradually moving away from here. When it felt the chill again, the whole Maomao kicked on the ground, swished, and flew past with a soft sound, avoiding the fatal arrow that flew secretly.

This arrow flew soundlessly, and the bow and arrow firing it did not make any vibrations of the bowstring, which was simply perfect for the silent hunting at night.

"Huh? Run away?"

The middle-aged voice was a little puzzled, but then he became interested: "It's interesting, follow the arrow, go-"

This time, the arrow made a sound of piercing the air during the flight, like a poisonous snake attacking rapidly, the moment it left the bowstring, it quickly slid left and right to chase forward.

Mao Mao didn't care about hiding any more, and immediately gave up moving on all fours. Instead, he flicked his long tail, hit the ground and gave it a boost, and kicked his legs on the ground again, and the whole Mao Mao fled towards the distance like flying.

It is said to be called fast legs. In fact, the fast movement during the battle does not rely on a pair of short legs, but the coordination of the tail and the legs, as if jumping, moving fast one by one.

But it was fast, but the Chitley arrow that was chasing after him was even faster, and made a sinister hissing sound like a snake. The entire arrow body swung from side to side and drew twisted arcs in the air. Mao Mao caught up with the fast legs.

But just when the sharp arrow was about to kill Mao Mao with a headshot, the fast-legged Mao Mao showed the amazing agility and combat intuition of Mao Mao in close combat. It flew in the air and waited for the sharp arrow to be less than half a meter away from it, then turned around and swung out the 'iron long sword' that had been clamped on its body before!

Clang-squeak!

The strange sharp arrow was picked up by such a bump, twisted twice unwillingly, and then re-adjusted its direction when it was still in the air. With the last self-flying strength, it turned around in the air, and then slammed down hard. Bite 'go.

"Meow!"

Long-legged Mao Mao yelled, ignoring the preciousness of the 'iron long sword' in his hand, he swung it directly above his head, then gathered all his strength to twist his tail, and threw one of his own long tails upwards vigorously.

The end of the tail issued a whip and swung a supersonic swing that broke through the air. After a loud "snap" sound, it hit the end of the dagger handle of the 'Iron Long Sword' heavily and accurately, and the flesh of the tail immediately touched Splashing everywhere, Maomao, the painful long leg, wailed and ran away.

This time, it could no longer use its tail to move, and started to run honestly with a pair of short legs.

And the 'iron long sword' that was hit, after receiving a new infusion of strength, rammed straight towards the strange sharp arrow that fell from the sky.

boom! When Lang Lang burst into a violent crash, there was a crisp sound in the air.

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On the top of a big tree in the woods not far away, the younger brother was about to raise his bow and shoot an arrow, and then shot a tracking arrow and took the life of the strange wild cat. But he was quickly stopped by his brother: "Wait, there's something wrong with that thing! It's not a local wild cat, it's a monster with a sword!"

"Then don't kill them directly?"

The young man replied that he wanted to take an arrow, but his brother lifted his neck and his feet were empty, and the two of them just jumped down from the tree.

His elder brother pulled him and ran towards the depths of the woods quickly: "It's not right, let's retreat back to the depths of the woods first."

As the youngest of the brothers, the younger brother had no choice but to put away his bow and arrows, complaining: "Brother, do we want our hidden arrows and tracking arrows?"

Of course the eldest brother felt sorry for his precious arrow, but he had a feeling of uneasiness. It was obviously not right for such a strange monster to appear in front of them.

"Come back later to get it."

He said this unwillingly.

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The fast-legged Mao Mao ran straight through the bushes and flower clusters, the tail was raised high, and the **** smell emitted from the place where the last end was beaten and rotten kept attracting all kinds of bloodthirsty flying insects along the way .

"Hurr, snort, snort, snort."

The fast-legged Mao Mao panted and ran to the place where the powerful human beings existed according to his own calculations. The thrilling scene before still made him flustered. It was obvious that he had wandered around several times between life and death.

If it hadn't had a premonition that something was wrong, it would have already been skinned by evil human hunters and used as clothing materials.

"Woo..." Thinking of this, it cried out in fright, but the next moment, its abdomen was grabbed by someone, and when it was frantically shaking its hands and feet to break free, a big hand rubbed vigorously on its head. kneaded.

"What's going on? I'm so afraid?"

Hearing the voice of a powerful human being, as well as the suspicious inquiries of the three Mao Maos who appeared around him, the fast-legged Mao Mao cried out in a loud cry: "Maomao, dead, Mao Mao, dead!"

"Hey, you can talk now?"

Kiel looked surprised, although his face was completely hidden in the lush flower stems temporarily constructed by the cloak at this time, so he couldn't see clearly.

Courageous Mao Mao sniffed hard, grabbed the end of his companion's injured long tail, and exclaimed: "Tail! Tail, it's injured!"

The other two Maomao came around with surprise on their faces, it seemed that to them, the injury of their tail was a very surprising thing to Maomao.