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Thirty days after the harvest festival is the hunting season of the Duke of Ruth hunting grounds. In previous years, hunters from all over the country and even foreign countries would rush here to participate in the annual hunting season, but this year things are different. A jihadist recruitment order was issued to all the surrounding religious principalities. All adult males in good health and capable of fighting in the principality must join the jihadist army in the Holy Lord and defeat the evil country Otter Federation, which is ungodly.

In this case, the hunting season of the Duke Ruth’s hunting ground had to be stopped, because the entire adult males of the Ruth Duchy went to the battlefield, and the rest were women and children.

Although there are only women and children left, the hunting of the Duke Ruth’s hunting ground cannot be stopped. With the private funding of Ruth IX, the people in the towns surrounding the Duke’s hunting ground were hired by him to hunt in the mountains and even sent out One of the only two Duke’s Guards served as a temporary hunter, teaching and leading the people in hunting.

The reason for this is not because Ruth IX loved hunting so much, but because the Jerry Dos Mountain where the Duke Ruth hunted was growing a very special beast called Jerry Rat.

The Jerry rat is the main hunting prey in the hunting season of the Duke of Ruth. This kind of rat is huge. The adult Jerry rat is about the size of a young pig. The fur of this beast is one of the most advanced animal skins. Its meat is fresh and tender, and it is also the best meat.

This beast usually feeds on insects in the mountains, tree roots and some fruits dropped from the trees. Because there are no natural enemies, the population is also huge. No matter how many Jerry rats were killed in the previous year, the population will be certain in the second year. Will return to normal.

Under normal circumstances, Jerry Rats will stay on the mountain and dare not go down, and go to the towns where humans live for food. It will not cause any damage to human plants. But the problem is that once the Jerry Rat population on the Jerry Dos Mountain reaches If the mountain forest's carrying capacity is limited, then the Jerry rat group will be forced down the mountain for food, forming a very harmful rat tide.

At that time, all the edible things in the place where the rat tide passes will be eaten by them, and they will also metamorphose into sick rats for some unknown reasons, carry various germs, and spread the plague.

The Principality of Ruth has experienced two rat surges since its establishment. Both rat surges caused the entire Principality to be plagued and the population decayed. Forty% of the people were starved to death, and 40% of the population died. People died of illness, and most of the remaining alive fled to other neighboring principalities, and only a few people who could not walk would stay.

At that time, the Duke of Ruth had no responsibility. At the beginning of the rat tide, he took his wealth, family and guards to other religious duchy to take refuge, allowing the disaster to develop in his own country, and later it was the second time. In the rodent tide, the people who fled to the rodent tide took the bacteria carried by the rodent tide to other countries, and even the people of the Holy Kingdom were also infected.

This directly led to the anger of the Pope of the Church of Purification Fire. He issued an excommunication order to the Duke of Rus at the time, expelled the Duke of Rus from his membership, and ordered all the dependent countries of the Church of Purification of Fire not to sell any food to the Duke of Rus. At that time, the Duke of Ruth starved to death in his castle.

After that, the successor remembered the lessons of the former Duke of Ruth and actively sought a solution to the rat tide, and finally found this most primitive hunting method. During the breeding period of Jerry Rats, the hunting season was held, which directly disrupted The breeding activities of Jerry Rats, hunting and killing adult Jerry Rats, greatly reduced the population of Jerry Rats in the coming year, and finally solved the rat tide disaster in the Jerry Dos Mountains.

Although the ruthless duchy has never experienced a rat wave after so many years due to the proper governance, the past dukes of Ruth did not dare to take it lightly. Placed in the showcase of the castle hall of the Duke of Ruth, they are always warned of the dangers of the rat tide.

It is precisely because of this fear that has accumulated over the years that Ruth IX, the recognized greedy Grand Duke, had to reluctantly hire someone into the mountains to hunt Jerry Rats at his own expense when the hunting season could not go on. The only hope is that all the Jerry Rats that are hunted will be able to have intact fur so that he can recover some of his originals.

Petistan is one of the many people recruited by Ruth IX, but she is not an ordinary townsman who knows nothing about hunting. She has been hunting in the mountains with her hunter father since she was a child. After so many years Her hunting skills are no worse than those old hunters. She once spent two months alone in the forest to hunt an adult Yota bear, and finally killed a head five times the size of an adult with a trap. The big Yota bear, and the skin of the bear was pulled out with only four wounds.

If she were a man, according to her record, she would have worn a purple laurel vine crown on her head, and she would have been honored as a moon crest hunter.

It's a pity that she is a woman. In the teachings of the Church of Purification Fire, women are only appendages of men, and all the glory related to men has nothing to do with women.

In this regard, she has always been dissatisfied, and tried every means to compete with the men in the small town in all aspects. The recruitment order from the Holy Lord Nation gave her a bold idea, that is, she pretended to be a man. Join the army, make contributions on the battlefield, build up merits, and then at the award ceremony, show your female identity, brutally draw the faces of those who think women are just accessories, even if you pay the price of your life for it.

However, before she had time to implement this idea, the recruitment order from Ruth IX was sent to the town where she was located, and as a hunting skill in the town far superior to ordinary men, she naturally became the focus of recruitment. Although she was a little reluctant to do this, the price of Nicholas IX was so high that she had to change her original bold plan and wait until after the hunting season.

A few days before entering the mountain, Petistan was hunting Jerry Rats in the forest with a hunting team dominated by the Ruth IX Guards, but she found that the leader of the hunting team was right. Hunting doesn’t know anything, and she is commanding randomly when hunting, resulting in very small final results. Compared with the hire money taken out by Rus IX, she pays more attention to the bounty of extra prey. If she continues to follow the hunting team, she You may not even get a penny of extra bounty.

So after that, she started to act alone, hunting Jerry Rats according to her own method, and then pulled off the skins of Jerry Rats and sent them back to the camp to record the number. In just ten days, she had already hunted Jerry Rats. There are more than a thousand, which is the largest number of people in the entire camp.

Later, in order to save time to and from the camp, she hired some herb pickers and loggers who walked in the mountains and forests all year round in the camp. They went into the mountains with her and hunted Jerry Rat, and they sent the prey back to the camp. Registration, because the employment contract was notarized before the public at the camp, so she didn't worry that those people would be greedy for the prey she hunted.

So, in just a dozen days, the money she made in this hunting season has far exceeded the money she made for helping people in the past three years.

However, Penistan is not satisfied with this. She feels that such an opportunity is rare. The next time she wants to make so much money in such a short period of time, I am afraid it will be very difficult, and there are still many Jerry Rats in the mountains, enough She caught the end of the hunting season.

So she didn’t stop there, and continued to go deeper into the mountain forest. Because the distance into the mountain was getting farther and farther, the time for the people she hired to send the prey to and from the camp was getting longer and longer, and because she had already arrived in the forest. In the depths, it is very dangerous for a person to walk through the forest alone, so every time you send prey, you change from one person to two, and now you need three people to pass.

Just an hour ago, the three people hired by Petistan had just taken away the gifts she had captured. Calculated by time, at least until tomorrow morning, the first batch of talents to give prey can follow the way she left. Clues, find here.

Originally, she planned to rest here for one night, but when she was setting up a temporary camp, she accidentally found some traces of Jerry Mouse activity nearby. Judging from the information displayed by the traces, these Jerry Mouse should be with her. The previous litter of Jerry Rats was not the same population, and according to her experience, this trace is likely to be a pathfinder sent by a large group of Jerry Rats intending to expand its territory. Once the pathfinder is found Where it is suitable for expansion, the large population of Jerry rats will leave and attack that area. In the eyes of hunters, this expansion of the colony of rats can be said to be a tide of mice.

According to Petistan's experience, as long as the general pathfinder mouse finds a suitable territory, the rat group in which it is located will launch a rat tide attack that night, and the rat group capable of launching a rat tide attack usually has at least eight thousand or more.

Although Petistan has very rich experience in hunting Jerry Rats and can easily solve a litter of Jerry Rats with preparation, she has no way to deal with more than 8,000 Jerry Rats.

So after discovering the situation, she immediately decided to leave overnight and leave this dangerous place. As long as she walked out of the territory of the rat swarm before the rat tide, then she was safe, otherwise, she could not be sure whether she would be able to. Get out of the forest alive.

After making the decision, Peristan immediately gave up the prey that had not had time to deal with, and also gave up the precious herbs picked along the way, even some of the slightly heavier traps were also given up, completely loaded lightly, and headed out of the forest. Use the fastest direction to hurry.

Only soon the problem appeared. It didn't take long for her to go, and the sky was completely dark. As an old hunter, she knew how dangerous it is to walk in the dark forest. Some dangerous beasts that rarely move during the day will be there. Seeing food at night, without the protection of camps and traps, she would be very dangerous to face the attacks of such beasts.

However, even if there are dangers, the attacks of other beasts are nothing compared to being submerged by the rat tide. Now Petistan can only forget the dangers that may arise and move forward as much as possible.

But then a new problem reappeared, that is, she was lost and no longer knew where she was in the forest.

Now she is in the deepest part of the forest. She has never been here before, so in order to prevent herself from getting lost, she made various obvious marks along the way. The number of these marks can even help. An ordinary person walked out of this forest.

However, since just now, after bypassing a jungle where ferocious beasts are lurking, she no longer sees the marks she left on the book. In other words, she should have taken the wrong path while detouring. , Did not return to the road she had walked before.

Getting lost in the forest is also very dangerous for the old hunter, and getting lost at night is even worse. She doesn’t know if she should continue walking, because if there is no sign, she is very likely. Will go back when lost.

In this situation, Petistan became calm. She knew very well that with her own ability as an ordinary person, it would be difficult to get rid of the current danger, so she was thinking of using some extraordinary human power at the moment.

She quickly cleared an open area, took out five stone fragments carved with different patterns from her backpack, placed the fragments in different positions, and then used a hunting knife to make a cut in the palm of her hand to drip the blood. On those stone fragments.

After getting ready, she knelt down and sat in the middle of the five stone fragments, and followed as if praying to God, chanting some prayers in her mouth, praising an unknown existence.

If the people of the Purification Fire church saw this scene, they would definitely not hesitate to label Petistan a heresy and purify it with the purest flame.

However, for Petinstein, who was not a believer in Purification Fire, the method she used was just a way to save herself. As to whether the Church of Purification Fire would be happy, these were not things she would think about now.

Soon, this ritual had its effect. Five ordinary stones absorbed all the blood on the surface of the stones, and then the stones turned blood red. UU Reading www.uukanshu. Com and exudes bursts of light, enveloping Petistan.

At the moment when the light enveloped Petistan, Petistan's mind seemed to have an indicator map, which used the location of his surrounding environment as an indicator, marking out danger and safety in turn.

After seeing the marked result, Petistan couldn't help being surprised, because the huge parts around her in the indicator map were dangerous, and other places were not easy to go to. Only one place was marked as safe, and it was very safe.

Seeing this scene, Petistan didn’t know what decision to make for a while. According to common sense, she should immediately choose a very safe direction to walk there. But in such an environment surrounded by danger and not easy to go to, one direction Such a clear indication of safety is a bit weird no matter how you look at it.

However, time did not allow her to think about it, the rustle from Jerry's rat tide had already reached her ears, and it was estimated that it would not take long for the rats to come to where she was.

Faced with the pressing rat group, Petistan also had to make up his mind to retake the gravel on the ground that had ceased to function in the backpack, and then walked in the direction marked as very safe.