Chapter 49 Tracking
Shadows under the corners of the city wall.
Sauron's slightly hazy body was hidden in it. He calmly put away his crossbow and wiped the blood from the scimitar with an old cloth.
He killed six people.
It seems that these are veterans who are gangsters in the old city. Each head has obtained more than 100 killing experience, especially the hotel owner actually gave him more than 300 killing experience. Unfortunately, because time is too tight, he has no chance to touch the corpse, nor has the time to search for spoils, but he just retreats quickly after killing the enemy. It seems that those things have to be cheaper in the end. The guards of Amber City are inevitably touching something when they check the corpse.
Killing is a small matter.
But the setting fire is very serious!
Amber City has no concern at all about the deaths of a few gray people, but it is very strict about those who dare to set fires in the city. Because the consequences of the fire spread are extremely serious, and the casualties and property losses caused are much more serious than those of the death of a gangster. Soren is expected to not be used by someone to investigate this matter tomorrow. If the guards attach great importance to this matter, it is very likely that some special people will be invited to take action. Then it is not impossible to investigate Soren's identity.
He must leave now!
Soren looked at the messy scene in the distance and walked along the shadow of the city wall until there was no light nearby and there was no trace of the guards. Then he stopped leaning against the city wall. He took out a rope from the dimensional bag, tied an iron hook to it, and then turned around several times in his hand and exerted force, throwing the iron hook into the depression of the city wall. He tightened the rope and tested it, then kicked his legs and climbed up the city wall.
The extraordinary agility at 20 o'clock made him extremely agile. He climbed up to the city wall more than 20 meters high in less than a minute.
He glanced around with caution.
After discovering that there was no one, he fixed the iron hook in one position and then slid down the city wall along the rope.
Sauron grabbed the rope and swung it hard, and the iron hook naturally loosened and fell back from the city wall back into his hand. The black area outside the wilderness, the unique night vision ability of the half-elf allowed Sauron to still see things. He put the thing back into the dimensional bag, then bent down and drilled into the woods in the distance.
This time, it’s natural that you won’t kill those guys and just be done!
Sauron is planning to walk along the road from Baima City to Luoye City first. On the one hand, he hunts monsters to accumulate killing experience, improves his profession level when necessary, or finds opportunities to advance part-time. On the other hand, he is also to check the situation of this road, find out the distribution of nearby monsters, and take Vivian through this road in the future, and to gain a lot of confidence in his heart. At least, Sauron will never remember the terrain and direction after walking it once.
The outside of the city is surrounded by villages.
Because of the closeness of the city, these villages did not have fences. The guards of Baima City would patrol regularly. If there were wild beasts and monsters coming nearby, people would naturally clean them up. Sauron walked out for several kilometers in the night and then entered a small village. There were many straw piles near the villages now, mainly to facilitate fire making and bed making. The poor in the lower class had no financial resources to buy quilts, so they could only use these soft straws to lay on the bed, and they would even cover them as quilts in winter.
The ground kang is rare in the south, and only in the north.
Sauron lay directly on a pile of hays, and it was a little itchy at first, but soon he got used to it.
He has adapted to many things in his wild adventures for many years.
The night passed like this.
Sauron was awakened by the barking of dogs the next day. I don’t know who owned a native dog found him and was barking under the straw pile.
He pulled out the scimitar and turned around. He originally planned to kill it and sacrifice it, but when he saw the earth-embroidered and thatched house in the distance, he still took back his weapons. For these farmers at the bottom, a dog is a very important property. Dogs of this era are more ferocious. Sometimes when they encounter monsters, they dare to pounce on them and bite them a few times.
Sauron once saw a native dog fighting with a gnoll. In order to protect his master, although he was bitten to death in the end, his courage was admirable.
Maybe it was because I remembered Heath, that loyal and brave old dog.
Soren took out a piece of jerky from his body, threw it in his hand, and threw it to the local dog below. The food falling from the sky reduced the local dog's vigilance. It stared at Soren suspiciously, and finally couldn't help but pick up the jerky. Soren slapped off the thatch on his body, turned over and fell from the haystack, then looked around and walked towards the wilderness in the distance.
It was dark.
Farmers have already gotten up and busy with the fields. As humans, they do not have as many talents as other races, so the skill they must master is farming. Children in the village will follow them at the age of five or six, and gradually learn how to farm and work from their parents, when they should sow, when they should harvest, how to take care of the fields in normal times, and what methods should they deal with when they encounter pests.
They are the most ordinary people in this world!
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The roads in the fields are muddy.
Sauron soon found the avenue to Luoye City and then headed towards the White Horse Plain.
This road took a long time and took a whole week. It first passed by near the Black Gas Swamp, then passed through the edge of the White Horse Plain, and finally reached the area of Luoye City. The first day was relatively quiet because it was still a human activity area, with militia regiments garrison nearby, and there were small-scale regular troops.
Sauron did not stop along the way. He would rest for a while when he was tired, and would continue to rush forward when he was fine.
It was not until the next day that we gradually came out of the scope of human activities that we encountered more and more things.
The villages here are relatively scattered.
Only when you are close to the plain and convenient irrigation can you have villages built by humans. However, it should be said that it is a village, surrounded by walls on all sides, with sentry towers and arrow towers on it. The villages train militias themselves, work during the busy farming and conduct simple training during the slack farming period. These villages always have some young people who are unwilling to be lonely and eager to take risks. Some never come back after going out, and some return to their hometowns after giving up on adventures. They are the main force in training militias.
Some of these people have exaggerated profession levels, but most of them are adventurers around the second level, and many of them are injured.
If there is no accident, they will spend their lives with their wives and children. When they are old, they will drink wine at dusk and brag about their past adventures with their children and grandchildren.
This is their life.
After the wonderful past, I will return to the ordinary and occasionally remember my deceased comrades.
"Boggy?"
Sauron pulled open the grass and looked at the footprints on the ground, then pressed his hand on the scimitar and continued along the footprints. Wild tracking is a skill that adventurers must master. Among them, the top ones are undoubtedly Rangers and Druids, and then wanderers like Sauron. They need to learn to judge the target through footprints and traces. This ability is reproduced from the basic skills of "survival in the wild". Sauron now judges the target mainly based on past experience.
“It looks like there are quite a lot.”
As the land ahead became harder and the footprints became less and less dimmer, Sauron looked at the surrounding environment and said to himself: "I'm afraid there are thirty or forty knights!"
"Is a larger ethnic group running over nearby?"
If there is no gathering place for kowtowers, the creatures that are active in the wild are small groups, which are like hyenas on the African plains. The individual kowtowers in small groups will be stronger, because surviving in the wilderness means survival of the fittest. The number of kowtowers in large groups will be large, especially some kowtowers that occupy mines, which may reach more than 300. On the basis of a larger number, there may be natural warlocks among kowtowers.
"First use them to practice your skills and see if your past group battle experience is still there."
Wild adventures will naturally not be idiots to fight one-on-one with you. Group battles and melee are very common. You must learn how to face multiple enemies at the same time. If you cannot dodge and parry their attacks, you need to learn to take as low damage as possible. In the case of melee, 20-point extraordinary agility cannot avoid all attacks.
At this time, you must have an armor.
Sauron put an ordinary leather armor on, then wrapped it around his arms with a strip of cloth, and tied his legs.
Kowtowers use weapons and traps.
Those simple traps naturally cannot hurt Sauron, but their homemade short bows are a bit dangerous.
The kobolds can fight with sticks, daggers, daggers and short bows!
Sauron's figure gradually faded under the shadow of the tree. If he had not carefully observed it, it would have been difficult to notice for a while. He pulled out the scimitar and gradually penetrated into the dense forest along the mottled tree shadow.
This battle is more dangerous than in the past!
Because what he needs to face is a group of dog-headed people with a number of more than thirty.
Chapter completed!