Mercenaries and Adventurers

Long spears are useless at such a short distance, Zhao Jin can only rely on long swords and shields. Because the shield was still covered with a layer of mud to defend against acid, Zhao Ji left it at the exit of the camp.

It is obviously too late to pick up the shield now. Zhao Ji had no choice but to clenched the long sword in his hand tightly. I didn't expect that the sword I bought in the morning would come in handy at night, just to let it see blood. It's a pity that Zhao Ji's complete set of armor is still under production, and now he can't catch up with this battle.

Zhao Ji confronted the aging wild wolf with a fire between them. This is a little advantage Zhao Ji formed by slowly moving his legs and feet without angering the wolf.

Wild animals are afraid of fire, especially those with long hair to keep out the cold. It's just that this aging wolf must have learned in its lifetime that the way to deal with human flames is to attack humans from behind.

Just as Zhao Ji was confronting the wild wolf, the wild wolf suddenly broke through the tree branch fence of the camp and rushed into the darkness.

The wild wolf kept changing its position in the dark. Zhao Ji could confirm the opponent's position at first, but gradually after the wild wolf carefully slowed down and hid himself, Zhao Ji could not accurately feel the beast's position in the dark.

The confrontation between the two sides has returned to the first round when Zhao Ji just woke up. Fortunately, the weapon in his hand was replaced by a long sword.

Zhao Ji leaned against the fire, swinging the long sword left and right in order to maintain the strength of his arm muscles. Zhao Ji knew from the previous hunting that if he held the weapon hard, he would lose the flexibility of his hands in this kind of battle that required flexibility.

Zhao Ji felt his ears pricked up, and kept distinguishing the sounds he heard. Eyes leaning against the fire, looking out over the dark wilderness, looking for the reflection of the beast's eyes. The legs are also moving slightly, ready to fight at any time.

Zhao Ji's own mind was also constantly thinking about the possible attack method of the aging wild wolf. An inspiration emerged from the depths of my mind. It was in the previous life, when I was studying at school, there was a Liaozhai in one of the Chinese documents, which was about a person meeting two wild wolves. One of the wild wolves confronted people in front, and the other wolf attacked from behind.

Zhao Ji recalled this story, and immediately understood where the old wolf would attack.

It will attack from the fire behind Zhao Ji, a human being who feels safe. That is unexpected, and can avoid the human line of sight.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji immediately turned around and dodged to the side, while stabbing at his original position with the long sword.

Turning around, Zhao Ji saw the wild wolf pounced over the fire. The wild wolf missed, Zhao Ji's long sword just pierced into the thigh of the wolf's hind leg.

As the wild wolf flew forward and fell forward, Zhao Ji's long sword also pulled a long wound on the wolf's thigh.

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow." howled the wounded wild wolf, hurriedly used all three legs together, took a few steps forward to distance Zhao Ji, and then faced the humans, roaring more ferociously.

Zhao Ji, who was frightened by the ferocious appearance of the beast, did not chase forward, but leaned his back against the fire again, and observed the effect of his attack just now.

A large amount of wolf blood flowed out from the wound on the thigh, and dripped onto the ground along the mottled wolf fur. The place pierced by the long sword didn't seem to be seriously injured, but the long wound pulled open by the blade of the long sword was fatal. This wound cut off a large number of muscles in the wolf's right hind leg, making the wolf's entire right hind leg completely useless, and at the same time continued to bleed and weaken.

It may be that it understands that the injuries caused by humans are too dangerous for it that is too old. This beast, with its mouth wide, walked towards Zhao Ji on three legs, wanting to exchange his life for another.

But at this time, the moon in the sky happened to emerge from the clouds, and the khaki moonlight shone on the earth.

Seeing this, Zhao Ji got out through a hole in the tree branch fence of the camp. Pulled away from the beast he was desperate for. Zhao Ji, who ran ten meters away, saw that the old wild wolf did not come to chase him, but after a while, he began to dig holes in the ground next to the camp.

The beast stood on only one leg, and the other leg was covered with blood on the ground. Its two front paws kept pawing the ground, throwing the soft soil behind it.

But gradually, as it digs harder, more blood flows from the wound. It also gradually lost its strength, and its whole body fell down in the small pit it had dug out.

He couldn't see clearly from a distance. Zhao Ji saw the wild wolf lying in the pit and didn't come out. After thinking about it for a while, he still slowly approached the beast.

As he approached, Zhao Ji looked around, fearing that it was another trick by the wild wolf.

Approaching the pit, Zhao Ji could see clearly that the injured beast was lying sideways in the small pit with only a gasp for breath under the khaki moonlight.

Looking at his long sword, Zhao Ji rubbed his head, but he didn't expect that the final result was completely different from what he expected. He thought he would fight the wild wolf for a few rounds, but he only injured the wolf once, and the battle ended in two rounds.

It seems that some of his previous ideas about the battle were all incorrect. Holding a weapon in your hand, and the opponent has no defensive armor, you can kill the enemy directly. Especially for ordinary beasts and humans, as long as a sword weapon inflicts a large wound, it can bleed to death.

Zhao Ji looked at the beast that disturbed his dream, pointed his long sword at the belly of the beast, and stabbed it in.

After killing the opponent, Zhao Ji returned to the camp and tidied up, but he didn't feel sleepy anymore. I had no choice but to take out the long sword, and outside the camp, under the moonlight of Luponas, gestured the movement of the long sword.

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Without the reminder of the biological clock that can wake up naturally, Zhao Ji can only watch the dawn and then set off back to the city. When Zhao Ji returned to the gate of the city, the farmers who were supposed to go out to work in the city had all left the city, and Zhao Ji could enter the city directly.

When passing through the city gate, several guards guarding the city gate saw the corpses of wild wolves piled on the top of the trolley pushed by Zhao Ji. They did not expect Zhao Ji to hunt slime monsters in the swamp and even hunted a wild wolf. The wolf came back, though only an aging wild wolf.

The guards told Zhao Ji that he could go to the butler of Knight Lanisa in the upper city with the corpse of the wild wolf, and exchange the corpse of the wild wolf for a silver coin. No matter what kind of wild wolf it is, as long as it died recently, it can be exchanged for a silver coin from Lanisa Knight. This news has been posted internal notices at the government affairs hall in the city.

Zhao Ji curled his lips. He had never been to the government affairs hall in the city. He wanted to go in once before, but was blocked by the guards at the door, because he was just an outsider and had no status in the city, so he couldn't get in.

As a result, I didn't expect that there was such an opportunity in it. There is no information on the notice board at the gate of the city that Zhao Ji can take advantage of. It's not selling houses, it's promoting gods and religions. Either some merchants lowered their prices, or someone got killed. For the people who don't need to leave the vicinity of Kendall City for a lifetime, these news are enough.

But for Zhao Ji, who lived in the era of information explosion in his previous life, he still couldn't adapt. How can there be only local ordinary news? What about local upper-level information? What about other cities? There is no news about the kingdom, the empire, the alien creatures, or the gods.

For a lot of news, Zhao Ji could only inquire or eavesdrop in the tavern, nothing else. It turned out that it wasn't that he didn't exist, but that he had been unable to enter that circle before. The aristocrats have their circles, the religions have their circles, the merchants have their circles, and the landowners have their own circles. All walks of life have their own circles, and the city has a unified circle of upper and lower levels.

Ordinary people create their own news circles in various taverns, and people with status in the city exchange their own news in the government affairs hall.

Not to mention that there is no communication at all between the two, but at least there is a one-way flow of information. The information of the people at the bottom is completely transparent to the people at the top, but the intelligence of some people in the city cannot be known to the people at the bottom.

Zhao Ji scratched his head. He felt that it was not the right time for him to contact Knight Lanisa. After thinking about it for a while, he asked a young guard. Let him exchange this wild wolf's body for money, but don't give his name. The reward was eighty-two points for two people. The guard would get twenty copper coins, and Zhao Ji would get eighty copper coins.

After all, this wild wolf is an old wolf, not only has lost a lot of fur, but also the color is not good-looking. There are only a few teeth that can be seen, and the rest are all rotten teeth. Zhao Jizheng didn't know what to do with the wild wolf's body. It would be nice to get some money here.

After chatting with other guards for a while, I asked one of them to go to the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce to teach him some martial arts tomorrow morning, and Zhao Ji said goodbye to them.

After parking the wheelbarrow with one hundred and twenty slime monsters in the leather shop, Zhao Ji dozed off. He had to lean on the chair and talk to the Punica craftsman.

The Punika craftsman whispered to Zhao Ji that the manpower would probably be ready tomorrow. It turned out that why the Punica artisans took so long to prepare was because they not only had to prepare for catching slime monsters, but their family also had to make various preparations for raising slime monsters. Moreover, raising monsters in the city had to be approved by the local lord. This is not something that any steward in the baron's castle can decide on his own. Whoever dares to agree to this kind of thing privately, after the news is exposed, it must be a dead end.

Only the local lord has the power to decide this kind of thing. It took more than one exchange of letters between Master Lian Xiude and Baron Kendall, before the permission to raise slime monsters was obtained under the face of Master Lian Xiude.

All these were whispered by the Punika craftsman to Zhao Ji. After Zhao Ji understood, he also whispered to the Punika craftsman that the preparations for catching the slime monster would start tomorrow afternoon, and the hunting time would naturally be tomorrow night. As long as there is no rain or fog, it is guaranteed to catch enough slime monsters for Master Leanshud.

The two agreed to meet at noon tomorrow. After finishing the inspection of the slime monster, Zhao Ji returned to the chamber of commerce with the money for the acid sac found in the slime monster's corpse.

The leather shop is already familiar with making slime monster envelopes. One hundred and twenty slime monsters can make an average of one hundred and forty envelopes, and they can make them tomorrow and hand them over to the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce.

After putting down all kinds of equipment and other things, Zhao Ji lay down on the newly laid quilt and fell asleep.

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After sleeping until the afternoon, Zhao Ji got up and cleaned himself up before going to the restaurant for dinner.

But Zhao Ji, who missed the meal, had to go out to look for food. Tomorrow must be a busy day, but today Zhao Ji is still relaxed and fine.

Had a mug of beer and a plate of freshly made chicken mash at the table corner pub I frequented. Zhao Ji swayed left and right again and came to the artisan area.

Thinking of martial arts training tomorrow morning, Zhao Ji bought two sets of wooden tools for training in the woodworking workshop. It contains two wooden swords, two simple wooden shields, two simple wooden spears, two wooden helmets, and two wooden dummies.

The training wooden sword is the kind of wooden sword that children can make. But in terms of weight, it is heavier than the actual sword, because the wooden sword is much larger overall.

In Zhao Ji's opinion, the training wooden shield is much worse than his own wooden shield. The handle behind the shield is actually a wooden L-shaped handle. Be careful not to let go of the shield when using it.

It's fun to train wooden guns~www.readwn.com~ What is at the head of the gun is not a sharp gun point, but an oval untreated log.

As for the wooden helmet, Zhao Ji thought it was pretty good. It was sturdy and light. Although it couldn't withstand the chopping of metal weapons, it was good to change it to resist the slime and acid from the slime monster. So Zhao Ji bought a separate one to hold it.

The wooden dummy is a bit perfunctory, just a log, with two strong wooden arms added, and a wooden head inserted on top of it. It can only be said that the production is too perfunctory.

Zhao Ji asked the carpenter if he could add an activity mechanism to the dummy so that the upper body of the dummy could rotate. In this way, during attack training, when one side of the dummy is attacked, the other side will be forced to turn around.

The carpenter craftsman said it was simple, but he had to pay more.

Zhao Ji said that we should talk about it next time. He used these two dummies first to see.

The things will be sent directly to the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce. Zhao Ji told the apprentice carpenter that when they arrive, they can be directly handed over to anyone in the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce, as long as he reports his name as Joe Keel.

After paying the bill, Zhao Ji carried a wooden helmet and shook it again.

The two sets of training equipment just now were really not cheap, and they cost him one silver and fifty coppers. Obviously they are all made of wood, so they are so expensive.

Shaking, shaking, Zhao Ji took a rough tour of many workshops in the artisan area. Although he always came here to do part-time jobs before, one came here with the mentality of part-time work, and the other came for consumption. Can it be the same!

It's different, it feels totally different.

Finally, Zhao Ji came to the armor workshop. Two things, one is to see if the whole set of leather armor he ordered is ready, and the other is to make a small modification to the wooden helmet he just bought.