After dawn, Keel, who hadn't slept all night, woke up the young hunter, and he carefully put the lizard's head and claws into the bag.
The lizard's head was still alive, and when Keel put it in the bag, he tried to bite him with his mouth open and closed. How could Kiel be bitten by such a clumsy attack.
Although it looks scary, a white-scaled lizard with only one head can't hurt people at all. After staring at it for a while, Kiel couldn't match the monster's patience, so he was defeated and put the whole thing into the bag.
After the night passed, the lizard's severed tail was still hanging in the air of the carriage, writhing non-stop. You poke it, and it wiggles lively back and forth.
After eating some food, Keir took off the saddle from the horse, and connected the reins to the other two horses pulling the cart. The saddle, backpack and weapons were all thrown into the carriage, and Kiel just lay down in the carriage wearing his armor, and fell asleep swayingly.
Before falling asleep, he reminded the young hunter that if he encounters anything that is not right, he must wake him up immediately. Because in the middle of the night yesterday, Keel noticed several pairs of beast eyes reflecting the light of the campfire in the snowdrift in the distance, quietly staring at the two of them.
"Could it be the spies of those wolves?" The young hunter was a little uneasy, especially since there were only the two of them at this time, and they had an important mission.
"No matter what it is, since they didn't attack us last night, they have no chance during the day. Don't stop on the road, they can't catch up with anything!" Keel said firmly, pointing to the direction of Hekou Town in the south.
"Okay, listen to you. Drive!"
The young hunter flicked his whip and drove the three horses forward.
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After sleeping drowsily for a long time in the bumpy carriage, Keir woke up energetically around noon.
He was lying in the carriage, looking at the lizard tail hanging in the midair of the carriage, rubbing the short beard on his chin with his hand, not knowing what he was thinking.
"If this thing looks like soaked in wine, maybe it's very strong?" He muttered nonsense.
After thinking wildly for a while, Keir got up and patted his companion.
"Are you awake, Kiel? I reckon we're about to reach Hekou Town." The young hunter quickly steered the carriage along the way he came.
"Very good! Nothing happened on the way?"
"When I started running, there was a burst of howling wolves behind me. But they were quickly shaken off. Haha, this is an empty cart! It runs like flying! Look!" the young hunter pointed excitedly at the carriage. The sides and the back of the carriage.
After the three horses started to gallop, the twelve hooves fell and then raised again, bringing up a large area of soft snow on the ground.
The snow drifted behind the carriage one after another and did not fall for a long time.
Keel stood on the driver's seat, holding the hood of the carriage with his hands, looking behind. He felt that the carriage was very imposing at this time, as if there were thousands of troops behind him.
Sitting down, he signaled his companion to slow down: "After running for so long, let the horses rest."
They slowed down, and Keel and the hunter wiped the sweat off the horses, and Keel fed all three of the beer he hadn't finished.
The horses seemed excited after some beer. The two then covered the horse with a sackcloth to keep out the cold.
This time, after they started on the road again, they slowed down. This place is already close to Hekou Town, and the terrain has become flat. Although there are no fields yet, there must be no danger around.
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In the middle of the afternoon, they arrived outside Hekou Town. There were some problems when entering the town. The militiamen guarding the north gate of the town didn't want to let the two of them and the carriage in.
For these militiamen, in the north of the town in winter, there were very few people coming in and out, let alone carriages from uninhabited areas. They saw Kiel on a horse, and expressed great fear of Kiel's weapons and equipment all over his body.
"We are the subordinates of Knight Lanisa. We just left the town two mornings ago! We are not some unknown and dangerous people." Keel said loudly.
But the militiamen above retorted: "You said you are under the knight, but what about the knight? Where is the knight?"
Keir said that the knight had other important matters, so he didn't follow. But this kind of rhetoric, the militiamen did not recognize it at all.
"What should I do? It seems that the two of us are saying nothing now. How about some coins?" Keel complained to his companion.
There was some hesitation on the young hunter's face: "Isn't that good? We used to deal with them a lot in other seasons before, but the old hunters in the team are familiar with them. I haven't said a word to them anyway."
Keir rolled his eyes: "Well, it happens that there are two old hunters in the town, how about asking them to find the old hunters to prove our identities?"
"Let's do it like this."
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"Hey! We are really the hunter team under Knight Lanisa. If you don't believe me, you can go to the town to find our old hunters to prove it. We are here." Speaking of this, Keir asked his companion in a low voice: " Where is our stronghold in town?"
The companion gestured: "A sign opposite a tavern with a bucket of fresh fish."
"By the way, we have a house opposite the tavern with a bucket of fresh fish on a sign. You can find someone to go over and ask, and you can prove our identity. Please, go and verify, and I will give you money." After finishing, Keel took out a handful of iron coins and copper coins from his purse, and sprinkled them on the gate.
"Hey, Kiel!?" The companion was about to stop him, but Kiel had already thrown the money out: "What if they took the money and didn't find someone?"
The words of the companion were overheard by the militiamen above who were scrambling for coins: "Fart! Are we the kind of people who take the money and go find someone?"
After speaking, two militiamen withdrew their protruding heads, ran down the wooden watchtower, and went to the place Kiel said to find someone to prove it.
The other militiamen took the money less forcefully, and instead boasted about Keir's lavish hand.
Keel rolled his eyes under the visor of the helmet, but he didn't intend to spend money anymore. It is not good to give too much money and arouse greed in people's hearts.
After a while, the sky gradually darkened.
If it was in the wild mountains and forests, it would probably get dark very quickly at this moment. But near the flat town of Hekou, the darkness at dusk seemed to slow down.
Urgent footsteps sounded from the other side of the wooden door, followed by an argument laced with expletives. Immediately afterwards, the militiamen apologized.
The north gate of the town will open soon.
Five hunters walked out quickly with bows and arrows, followed by several militiamen who kept bowing down and apologizing.
"Kill! Fick! It's good that you come. Is the road safe?" An old hunter came over and asked.
Keir jumped off his horse and hugged his companions: "On the way there, Knight Lanisa was there, so it was safe. But on the way back, when camping at night, I was attacked by a ferocious monster."
"Monster? What monster? Are you not injured?" the companions hurriedly asked.
Kiel smiled and pointed to the tail of the lizard that occasionally shook in the mid-air of the carriage: "It's a very tenacious white lizard in life. Although it has hard scales, it was still defeated by the two of us. But it didn't The guy’s body can be kept, only the head and the discarded tail are cut off.”
Keir's words confuse everyone, what is meant by cutting off the head and failing to keep the body. The body and the head are not in the same family, are they?
You were right. This lizard with tenacious vitality can move without using its head. Kiel didn't check it for a while, and it ran away.
The hunter team walked towards the town while talking about their respective situations after parting.
The militiamen guarding the gate were awkwardly holding their money bags in their clothes, and Keir didn't mention the money to them.
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After returning to the stronghold, the old hunters rented the front yard of a nearby resident, just in time for horses and carriages, without disturbing the administrators of the town when there were no female knights.
If you can solve it yourself, you can solve it yourself, and you don't need to use the knight's relationship.
There was nothing in the carriage, and after the horses were parked, Keir and Fick, the young hunter who accompanied him, followed the group back to the stronghold.
While eating, the old hunters showed the food supplies and other consumable supplies they had purchased in the past few days to Kiel and the others.
Everything was packed into a strong sack, which was full, and they could be quickly loaded onto the carriage tomorrow morning, and then we set off to leave here together.
"Since everything is going according to the previous plan, let's go to bed early. But since Kiel and the others met the vanguard spies who may be wolves when they returned, we have to cheer up when we hit the road tomorrow!" The old hunter said so.
Everyone shouted in unison, and checked the weapons and equipment that had been checked several times after eating.
The guys on Keir had the most work, so he went upstairs to rest after checking his weapons repeatedly.
Early the next morning, the hunters brought the carriage and horses over. Just renting the courtyard of a residential house for one night, the old hunters only spent five iron coins, which is really good at bargaining. Keir felt ashamed. His money came easily, so he didn't care too much about spending it. He didn't expect to save money like this.
Everyone carried heavy sacks containing food and loaded them onto the carriage. A hunter stood in the carriage, and a hunter stood on the driver's seat, took the supplies bags brought out by everyone, and handed them to the companions in the carriage.
In this way, after the collective labor of the seven of you, all the preparation materials were transported to the carriage in just one meal.
The old hunters went upstairs to check the stronghold to make sure that no one left any important things in the house, and also ensured that there were no safety hazards such as open flames in the house.
Then they closed the strong wooden door of the stronghold house and put a metal lock on the wooden door.
"Let's go!"
They set off, Keir alone on his horse, and the others in the carriage.
There were two people sitting in the driver's seat, and the others were crowded in the carriage, commenting on the lizard tail that was still hanging in the air. They bet whether eating the lizard's tail would be good for the human body.
Some people say that the lizard's tail is so vicious that they don't want to touch it anymore. And some people think that this lizard tail is so full of vitality, after eating it, it will definitely give a lot of life to some seriously ill or old guys.
But these are all speculations. Everyone has little knowledge and culture. When they encounter this strange thing, they can't say for sure. So everyone agreed that after arriving at the supply point camp, they should find Knight Lanisa to identify this thing.
Knight Lanisa has studied in a big city and read books, so she must know what it is.
Keir is the one who believes that this thing is beneficial to people. The reason is very simple. This thing was obtained by defeating him and Fick. use.
Keir secretly asked Fick, and Fick said that he would take it home and give it to his parents to taste. His younger sister is also in poor health. Maybe eating this food can improve her health and grow up healthy.
Keir is much simpler, he will eat the food directly, and if everyone wants to eat, he can give everyone a taste. But the big portion must have been eaten by myself. When I came to another world, it might not be counted as mushrooms. This is the first time I have eaten this strange food.
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After leaving the city, everything was calm at first. It seemed that all the animals were subdued by the winter snowfall, and hibernated one by one secretly to avoid some hungry predators.
Although old hunters are not as physically fit as young people, their years of hunting have made them more vigilant than ordinary people. In the carriage, the two of them noticed some traces that no one else would see.
"Kiel! Come here, come here." An old hunter who took turns sitting in the driver's seat called Kiel who was following the carriage.
Keir rode his horse to catch up with the slow-moving carriage: "What's the matter, uncle?"
The old hunter didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What's your name uncle! My grandson is about the same age as you."
Kiel chuckled: "What's that called? Master?"
"I'm a hunter, how dare I be called this kind of respectful title. Seriously, there is something wrong with the snow on the side of the hill, you can ride over to have a look. Pay attention to safety, and keep your weapons ready at any time." The old hunter pointed out. Looking at a hillock on the front side not far from the trace left by their previous carriage.
Keir followed the other party's instructions and looked at it. At first glance, he didn't see anything wrong.
"Snow on the trees!" The old hunter pointed.
Kiel suddenly realized that compared with the snow on the trees in other places, the snow on this mountain tree was too little. It looked as if something had touched the trunk of the big tree, and a lot of snow came from the branches and leaves. It fell, revealing the flat, coniferous leaves of a winter evergreen.
Kiel nodded, bumped to signal the horse to speed up, and soon came to the hill ahead of the carriage.
Riding a horse can't easily climb up this small hill, which is only about ten meters away. After all, you don't know whether the snow is at the bottom of a rock, grass, or a depression?
Keel dismounted and climbed up with the wooden spear on his shoulder.
On the other side, the carriage also slowed down slowly, waiting for Keel to signal safety before they passed through the front.
Kiel poked the snow with the tail of his spear to check whether it was possible to walk under the snow, and carefully looked at everything in this small hill.
He sniffed and smelled something vaguely.
Lifting the helmet visor, he exposed his face, took a deep breath through his nose, and then smelled left and right.
A **** smell.
He stopped in his tracks, closed his faceplate, and then took off the shield behind his left shoulder, and put it on the forearm of his left hand in advance.
When he slowly climbed to normal, he seemed to hear some heavy breathing. Like a broken bellows, it is definitely not a sound that humans can make.
The corner of his mouth curled up under the visor. He raised the spear, then held the middle of the wooden pole and spun it.
The action was meaningless, but in the carriage behind, the hunters stopped the carriage, and then quietly took out their bows and daggers. One person climbed up to the sturdy roof of the carriage, squatted down and put the arrow on the bowstring.
The two jumped off the carriage and stood on both sides of the carriage, watching both sides.
One person untied the thick linen that was tightly closed at the rear of the truck, and watched their way carefully.
The two hunters sitting in the driver's seat stood on their seats, also ready to fight.
Keel kept his movements light, trying not to make any noise other than the crunch of his feet stepping on the snow.
When he came to the top of the hill, he saw messy snow depressions and small pieces of snow buns that were lifted up because they hid.
"Hmph." Kiel glanced at the big tree on the top of the hill, but in the shelter between the leaves and branches, he looked directly at a pair of ferocious beast eyes.
"It's a wolf!" Keir yelled, and at the same time he jumped forward, stabbing the wild wolf hiding in the tree with the spear in his right hand.
The opponent was more dexterous than he had imagined, stepping on the trunk and branches of the tree with all four legs and jumped, smashing through the leaves and snow, and landed directly on the snow beside him.
The soft snow kept it unharmed, so as soon as it hit the ground, it let out three urgent short howls in succession.
"Woo! Woo! Woooo!" As soon as the guy yelled, the wild wolves who had been ambushing under the snow in the north of the hill shook their heads one by one, wearing snow blocks, and suddenly rushed out from the ground.
But the carriage was not on the route in front of them, the carriage was still parked in front of the hill.
"It's the northern land wolf! I can hear this voice immediately! Kiel! Retreat! We'll cover you here!" The old hunter roared ~www.mtlnovel.com~ calling for Kiel on the hill to come back .
When Kiel heard this, he gave up on his opponent, threw his spear down the mountain, turned around and jumped back.
The small hill was of no height. After jumping off, Keir rolled twice in the snow, then stood up quickly, glanced left and right, and found his spear.
The commanding northern wolf on the mountain also jumped down with a whimper.
However, he was shot in the body by two bows and arrows in the air, which were shot by an old hunter with amazing archery skills.
But more than fifty meters away, the sudden shooting became accurate, but lost its strength. The old hunter was in a hurry to shoot, and loosened the bowstring at the right time before the bowstring was fully drawn.
Therefore, the northern land wolf that was shot in the body just staggered after landing, roared, and then still rushed towards Kiel.
"Good time!" Kiel wasn't afraid of him, just a wolf alone. Besides, it is not the time when he was in Doral Forest Village before.
Kiel stood firm, with his shield upright, waiting for the Northern Wolf to pounce on him.
He didn't worry about this guy throwing him to the ground at all. The eating and training these days made him grow rapidly and his body became much stronger. At the same time, he was wearing not only thick winter clothes, but also his hard cowhide full-coverage armor, with a long sword and dagger on his waist, a shield and spear in his hand, and a heavy gun on his back. ax.
The combined weight of these things and his weight has already exceeded one hundred kilograms.
It was not easy for this wild wolf who weighed only fifty or sixty kilograms to knock him down. If it was running for a certain distance and speeding up to pounce, it should be fine, but the wolf just got hurt in the air, and then pounced after landing at this time, it is hard to say whether the strength is half of its full-strength strike.