Path of light

Chapter 309 310.Hunter

The members of the adventure group rushed down the hillside under the leadership of Lysander.

On the edge of the Pagisto Plateau, there are many long and narrow valleys like this. The mountains are almost an extension of the mountains on the edge. After the snow on the top of the mountains melts, it converges into small streams that meander in the valleys. , these creeks are the source of life in every valley.

All the vegetation is close to the river. The closer to the river, the greener it becomes...

The backbones of many mountains are covered with exposed weathered rocks. These rocks are carved with horizontal stripes by the wind in the valley, making the valley full of quiet and mysterious beauty.

In these valleys, there are almost no woods, and occasionally a small tree grows crookedly.

Not even as long as some low shrubs.

The plateau argali can jump back and forth on such boulder-filled mountains, which is much more convenient than the horses in the adventure group...

Lysander told everyone in the adventure group that there was a mine hundreds of kilometers away from the elven village. He did not want the adventure group to go too deep into the hinterland of the plateau. Except for some high-level Warcraft, this plateau was not suitable for the adventure group. The biggest danger is the elf headhunters on the plateau, who are often backed by mine owners.

If you just want to take a stroll on the Pagisto Plateau, it is best to walk in the mountainous area on the edge of the plateau.

Whether hunting monsters or collecting magical herbs, the mountains on the edge of the Pagisto Plateau are also a good choice.

"Speaking of which, four of the elf children we sent to Barrier Town this time are from this village. We came here to stay for one night this time because we also wanted to bring news about them." Lesander picked up the water. He opened the lid and took a sip of water, moistened his throat, and said to Roy.

Roy felt that Lysander was always taking everyone in circles on the edge of Pagistok Plateau, but presumably he was also thinking about everyone's safety.

This plateau is much larger than Roy imagined. The elves live in very scattered places. If it weren't for Lysander leading the way, Roy estimates that it would be difficult for him to find these elven villages in the mountains.

Everyone rode up to the top of the hillside and saw a white column of smoke emerging from the distance.

Lysander's face became a little solemn, and without saying a word, he gave the argali a hard whip on his crotch.

The argali suddenly jumped forward and immediately fell behind a large section of everyone.

Roy quickly led everyone in pursuit.

After running a few kilometers in one breath, I saw the elven village described by Lysander, but now one of the houses in the village had been reduced to ashes, and the other houses were made of rocks, with only the doors and windows smashed. .

The village was in a mess, the fences and walls had been flattened, and there were argali hoof prints everywhere.

Kaka flew in the air on a griffin and arrived here first. He was waiting outside the courtyard of a stone house...

Woods followed Roy. As he approached the village, he whispered to Roy: "I smell some blood, but it's very weak."

Lysander rode an argali and ran around the dilapidated village shouting, but no elf came out to respond at all.

Seeing Kaka waving to them in front of another hut, Roy rode over and saw the corpses of more than a dozen mixed elves lying scattered in the yard. They should have been massacred together here. There wasn't even much fighting in the yard. trace.

When Moira rode up from behind, Sabrina leaned over and held her in her arms, reaching out to cover her eyes.

"Don't look over there, Miss Tiffany, you and Moira can go somewhere else." Sabrina said to Miss Tiffany, who was catching up.

Miss Tiffany quickly pulled Moira out of the yard.

Lysander came to the front of the yard and walked in with a sad face. He looked at the elven villagers lying in a pool of blood in the yard. He squatted in front of a male elf, took out a handkerchief, moistened it with water, and helped him wipe the blood off his face. Wipe away the blood and mud.

He was probably in great anger and pain before he died. His face was a little distorted. The fatal injury on his body was a wound on his neck. His throat was cut, but there were also several knife wounds on his body, and the tendons at the joints were cut by those. The headhunters cut it off and must have suffered some torture before death.

"Bauer was also a very good hunter and was good at hunting demon antelopes. I didn't expect that he would die here."

Lysander's voice was low. He dragged the body of another elf lady over and placed it next to the hunter Bauer. He continued: "This is his wife Salena. The red berry jam she makes is the best. The acid tastes like alcohol, and every time I come here, they serve me.”

Lysander kept introducing each of the dead elves, and he actually knew all of them.

"Do you know the name of every elf in this village?" Roy was a little surprised.

"Of course, we have a party every few months. Over the years...we all know each other so well...Hey!"

Lysander sighed as he spoke.

He wiped the faces of the dead elves with a handkerchief, then walked into a stone house and took out some blankets. Roy, Woods, and Claire came over to help, and everyone worked together to wrap the elves in blankets.

Although he had been dead for some time, the body still had no body odor.

There are almost no decent trees in this valley. There are many transplanted bushes in the village. Roy, Woods and Claire dug a row of pits next to the bushes, and then they worked together to remove the dead bushes. The elf is buried.

Lysander found some stones and used a dagger to carve a line of concise text on the flatest side of the stones. In addition to the names of these elves, there were also some brief introductions to their lives on the stones.

Everyone was busy in the village for most of the day, and it was not until dark that they chose to live in an empty house at the end of the village. Roy and others set up tents in the yard outside and did not live in those low stone houses.

Miss Tiffany takes a bath every night. She is a water magician, so this is not too difficult for her.

Sabrina and Moira picked a lot of red berries in the village, and Lysander found a jar of berry jam somewhere. The taste was just as he said, sour and with a strong smell of wine. .

The headhunters on the plateau began to attack the villages, which was something no one expected.

"It must be the group of elven headhunters who did it. No one else would do such a thing except them." Lysander said firmly.

"How many elves live in this village?" Roy walked around the village before dark. There were at least twenty stone houses in the village.

"There are almost fifty elves," Lysander said.

Roy breathed a sigh of relief, things didn't seem so bad, so he said:

"We only buried sixteen corpses. Maybe some elves escaped."

Claire sat next to him and took the opportunity to say: "Maybe they were all captured by the headhunters. Roy, I think these elves just died not long ago. Should we catch up?"

"..."

Roy looked at Claire speechlessly.

Kaka hesitated for a moment and whispered to Claire: "To be able to kill an elf village in one go, this group of headhunters must be very strong. Why should we go after them?"

"We have to do something!" Claire said with some indignation.

Moira lay in Sabrina's arms and listened quietly to everyone's chat.

This time she came out to experience things that she had never thought of before. If Miss Tiffany hadn't been enlightening her every day, she might have returned to her previous autistic state.

Moira's closed eyes suddenly opened, and her big clear eyes looked at a shadow on the side of the stone house.

The members of the adventure group do not need any verbal communication. Everyone knows that Moira has super keen perception, and even the slightest movement cannot escape her ears.

Woods and Roy stood up at the same time and walked towards the shadow on the side of the stone house...

"Who's there?" Roy took a few steps and then tried to ask,

Sure enough, the outline of a female elf emerged from the shadows. She was holding a spear in her hand. Roy and Woods were both on guard against the female elf.

"Uncle Lysander!"

The female elf shouted to Lysander.

Lysander rushed over, holding a torch, and after seeing the appearance of the mixed-blood female elf clearly, he asked:

"Mu Lin, is that you?"

He brought the torch closer...

The female elf tucked her loose hair behind her ears, revealing a clean face.

Lysander immediately threw away the torch in his hand, hugged the female elf tightly, and asked continuously: "Mu Lin, where are the other elves in the village? Are you with everyone? How did this place become like this?"

The female elf wore simple handmade leather armor and held a spear in her hand. She looked like she should be dressed as a spear warrior.

She said to Lysander with some shame:

"Yesterday morning, a group of headhunters came to the village. They broke into the village and started arresting people. We had a fight with them. Unfortunately, we lost. The situation was quite chaotic at the time. We took some elves in the village and left first. Bao Uncle Er and the others stayed to cover our evacuation."

Everyone sat around the bonfire again. Roy saw that her body was wrapped in linen and her sleeves were stained with blood. She must have suffered some injuries.

"Now the headhunters in the hinterland of the plateau are hunting us elves who live in seclusion in various villages. In order to fight against them, we have united with the elves from several nearby villages. Uncle Lysander, you have been to Padstow City before. Can you Have you contacted the merchants over there? We want to buy some weapons and armor. We need to be armed and fight against the elf headhunters to the end." said the female elf named Mulin.

"Even in Padstow City, I'm afraid I won't be able to find any merchants. Now the Silver Moon Elf army has very strict control over materials in the Partington plane. Needless to say, Padstow City, even if you want to get close to the Barrier Town, , that is also very difficult.”

"Besides, what are you going to trade with others for weapons and armor?" Lesander introduced to Mulin.

Mu Lin glanced around with some caution.

"They are an adventure group from Padstow City. They are all good young elves. They even helped me when we were at the bottom of the mountain!" Lysander explained to Mulin.

Only then did Mulin withdraw her vigilant gaze and said to Lysander: "We lobbied in various villages and collected some leather and herbs, but we couldn't find the caravan."

Lysander hesitated for a moment and said dullly: "I will help you think of a solution for this matter."

"If you need the Silver Moon Elf army to intervene, I can contact you." Roy took the opportunity to say.

Lysander and Mu Lin looked at each other. Unexpectedly, Lysander immediately refused and said, "Forget it. If you can get some weapons and armor, it will be a favor to us..."

Roy thought for a while and felt that it might still be possible to buy some magic weapons from the merchant store in Castletown City.

He actually wanted to help a group of these elves. Although there was no good way to deal with the group of elf headhunters, there was no problem in providing some necessary help to the elves in the village, so Roy responded:

"If the quantity is smaller...it's still okay."

When Mu Lin returned to the village this time, she actually waited for the headhunters to leave and collected the bodies of the dead elves in the village.

But Uncle Lysander had already done everything she wanted to do, and then she quietly left the village at dawn.

…

The next day, Lysander led the adventure group to leave the village and headed straight towards the hinterland of the plateau.

He wanted to take Roy and the others to see the mines on the plateau as soon as possible so that the adventure group could leave here quickly. Because Roy promised to help get some magic weapons, Lysander naturally became the recipient.

Lysander finally stopped wandering around the mountains. Kaka rode a gryphon in the sky to detect the surrounding situation. He could see far away places in the sky, especially valleys without any trees.

The group of headhunters didn't go far after massacring the elven village.

They dispersed into several search teams, searching for other elven villages in the mountains.

When one of the headhunting search teams stopped on the ridge, they happened to be spotted by Kaka who was conducting reconnaissance in the sky.

These headhunters are all riding argali, standing on the ridge is not too eye-catching...

Frightened, Kaka quickly raised the flying altitude, turned around and flew back to report the news to Roy.

…

On the grassy slope on the other side of the valley, Roy heard Kaka say that he found a team of elf headhunters in front of him, and asked:

"Kaka, have you seen how many headhunters there are in their team?"

"Eight headhunters, each riding an argali, are walking towards us..." Kaka replied.

"Kaka, continue to monitor them, be careful not to be discovered by them!" Roy said to Kaka.

"Got it!" Kaka rose into the sky on a gryphon and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Woods couldn't help but asked Roy:

"Roy, what are we going to do this time?"

"Since they are here, let's teach them a lesson. Let's be hunters this time and let them feel what it's like to be prey." Roy said to everyone while riding on his horse.