Chapter 287: Shameless
However, Hall quickly recovered from the aftertaste and thoughts of the elf's flesh and blood, and the only remaining reason in his mind overcame the hunger pangs in his belly, letting the jackal know that this was not the time to waste time to reminisce, and if he did not find food before the sun went down and returned to leave this place, then the next morning, he would have a high chance of turning into a corpse, and then in just a month or two, it would be broken down into various nutrients and completely disappear into the forest, such a death was too silent, and Hall would not want to do so。 Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
He continued to move forward in a lurking and quiet state for half an hour, but as before, he did not find any prey or food to feed his stomach at all, in this forest, whether it was the birds hidden in the branches, the reptiles hiding under the ferns, and the small insects in the dirt, in the dead wood, on the back of the leaves, there was not even a trace of it, and it was clear that he had found more than one nest of birds and beasts, but there was no trace of the former owner.
Hall is still the most ordinary gnoll warrior, he has no legendary strength, and he has no way to perform those magical magics, so he can't understand what is happening in this forest at this time, and he can't use means other than his five senses to perceive the area and perceive the abnormalities around him, and the unique simple brain of the jackal, which does not make complex thinking, cannot allow him to derive any useful information from the clues around him.
The gnoll climbed over a huge tree that had fallen in front of him, and he turned sideways to take a closer look, judging from the place where the tree had fallen, it must have been eaten by termites or some other insect, and judging from the fact that the vegetation under the tree had not died, the tree had not been here for a long time, maybe only a few days.
Hale leaned his head close to the trees, closed his eyes slightly, twitched his nose slightly, and used the gnoll's unique sense of smell, which was much better than that of other races, to constantly capture the mixed smell information in the air, and then convert this information into signals to transmit to the brain, and finally determine what the smell came from.
Unfortunately, however, the Gnoll Hall didn't get any useful information, and the air was filled with the smell of dirt, rain, vegetation, and the rotting smell of dead vegetation, not the smell of insects as he had imagined.
"If the shaman was here, he would know what was going on here, right?"
Why at this time, in this forest, all the animals, including insects, are not in sight, the only ones that can be found are those trolls and ogres who cannot communicate at all, cannot be eaten, if it is a shaman, through those magical magic, you must find out what is going on here.
Having seen the shaman's magic on the battlefield, the gnoll had absolute trust in magic, and in his mind, as long as he could use it, there was no problem that could not be solved, and there was no enemy that could not be defeated.
The soft muttering echoed around him, but Hale suddenly stopped his progress, his lips twisted tightly, and a look of shock passed through his face, and then turned to fear, as if there was a fear of an enemy who was absolutely impossible to defeat.
It is indeed an enemy who has no possibility of victory, not to mention that there is only one jackal in this place now, even if a team of ten elite gnolls is here, it is impossible to change the ending, except for scattering and fleeing, there is no other way to survive, and even scattering and fleeing, the probability of being able to save his life is very low.
"Why!Why does this smell here!?Why are they in this place?!"
Hall roared loudly in his heart, and the originally peaceful heart lake also set off a monstrous wave at this moment, but on the surface, he didn't even dare to twist his neck except for moving his gaze, because he smelled from the air, the faint smell of blood that was almost masked by the smell of plants.
And this smell, Hall has only smelled twice, but even if it is only twice, he will never forget, even at the moment of death, he will not forget the fear brought by the owner of this blood, and it is true, as the enemy of the Scandinavian berserkers, after surviving the battle with them, there are few emotions that do not have a fear of them.
Hall's judgment was not wrong, this smell was indeed the taste of the blood of those berserkers, although the jackals had not tasted the flesh and blood of berserkers, but the two Scandinavian offensive and defensive battles it had experienced still made it remember this taste, the smell of the blood that one person could resist the encirclement and attack of hundreds of jackals and kill most of them.
"Why are they here, aren't they supposed to be in Scandinavia now, how did they come to Karelia?"
Turning his gaze, through the light spots that sprinkled through the gaps in the leaves, Hall could vaguely see that about a hundred meters away, a human with blond hair and blue eyes was holding a long sword to chop the trees and grass in front of him, and behind him, there was already a road that had been carved out and could walk normally, the road was very long, spreading all the way to the depths of the forest, and there was no end in sight.
Sensing that the berserker's gaze was not on this side, Hale held his breath, lowered his body slightly, put the spear in his hand on his left hand, and slowly placed his free right hand behind him, pulling the leaf of a fern behind him, covering his body.
After all this, seeing the appearance of the berserker in the distance who did not notice, Hall breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he knew that only with the sight of a human being, without the help of magic, it was difficult to find his own hidden, even if the powerful berserker, as long as he did not cross the boundary of the legend, then he would still be bound by the shackles of the race.
It wasn't until the berserker slowly approached that the jackal saw him clearly, it was a strong adult human man in his thirties, with a height of almost two meters, even in the forest, he was still wearing a thick fur suit, and he held an iron sword more than a meter long in his hand, which was in the military territory of Atira, only those high-ranking tribes could not possess weapons, and even worse, in Atira's army, even the white bears equipped with the most elite bronze armor could not resist the slashing of the iron sword。
There are still some wet marks on the berserker's clothes, presumably caused by the dew on the leaves when passing by, his golden hair is draped behind his head, simply combed into a braided style, and his face is a layer of dried blood, which is where the smell of blood captured by Hall comes from, Hall doesn't know why the berserker wants to smear his own blood on his face, but he is also glad that it is because of this blood that he can find the traces of the other party in advance。
Although it is not possible to see the expression of this human through the dried bloodstains, judging from his rude and rough movements of wielding the iron sword, it is obvious that this berserker's heart is very impatient and restless at this time, and he should have discovered the strangeness of this forest like Hall, and it can also be judged from here that this so-called weirdness should have nothing to do with these Scandinavian berserkers.
When the footsteps faded away, Hale did not immediately get up from the ground, he was afraid that the berserker would return to check again, and if the enemy found it, even though it was in the middle of a forest full of obstacles, Hale still could not think that he could escape from the other party's hands.
After waiting for about five minutes, when the smell of the berserker in the air had begun to thin out, Hale quickly jumped to his feet, quickly looked in the direction where the berserker was coming and going, and then ran back without looking back, even the search for food and the strangeness of the forest were removed from his mind.
He had to report the Scandinavian berserker's presence in Karelia to his leader as quickly as possible, and then pass it on to Attila, because the news was too important, too important to the survival of the entire army.
Although Hall's status is only the most ordinary warrior at the bottom of the lowest status in the entire Attila army, he can still understand and know the information that should be known, so he can still clearly understand the current situation and predicament of the entire army.
And now these Scandinavian berserkers are here, which means that the healed Beowulf will definitely appear here, plus the other possible Skaha and Fergus, such an army, Hale has already fought with them twice, of course he knows how powerful they are.
At this time, the Atila army, suffering from hunger, in order to find even a little food, scattered the centaur and jackal troops to hunt in the forest, on the grassland, to hunt for food and fur, looking for everything that could be used to supply the army, and the only remaining were the elite, but not many white bears and mammoths, and those dragons who were already full of complaints.
In the previous battle, Hall was very clear, on the frontal battlefield, whether it was a white bear man or a mammoth, they could not defeat a berserker in a one-on-one situation, and the reason why the previous battle could be maintained was to rely on the tide-like offensive of the orcs, centaurs and jackals, and use their lives to consume the opponent's ammunition, consume the opponent's physical strength, and wear out the sharpness of the opponent's weapons, so as to be able to fight almost lose both.
If a fierce battle really starts in this place at this time, even if it is victorious in the end, successfully repelling the incoming Scandinavians, or even completely annihilating the other side, it will be useless, because at that time, the Attella army will definitely suffer huge losses, not to mention, if it is really against it, the exhausted, hungry and cold Attila army can win these energetic and seemingly well-equipped berserkers.
As he kept running, the scenery in his field of vision was constantly changing, and the surrounding vegetation had changed from those tall coniferous forests to low bushes, and at this time Hall's speed had completely increased, turning into an afterimage.
Suddenly, his eyes suddenly lit up, and the dazzling sunlight shone straight on his eyeballs, and suddenly the organs that could not accept such alternating light and darkness began to overflow tears, which was because he had come out of the forest and came to the open space outside, and the unobstructed vision suddenly widened, and he could clearly see the distant scene.
However, the sunlight and the broadening of the field of vision did not bring a sigh of relief, but a deeper despair, and the irrepressible chill spread from the tail vertebrae all the way down the spine to the brain, and the eyes overflowing with tears because of the sun were greatly opened.
At this time, Hall was extremely regretful, how he wished that he could be careful to slow down and see the situation outside when he was about to rush out of the forest, how he wished that time could be turned back, five seconds, so that he didn't come out of the forest.
In the gnoll's field of vision, it was not a berserker who appeared, because the place was open, and even a berserker could not catch up with a gnoll running on all fours, but this was an existence that made Hall desperate even more than a berserker.
A girl with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, but there was no emotion in her eyes, floated quietly in the air less than fifty meters away from Hall, the girl had long black and shiny hair, and was wearing a small dress that only those young ladies and ladies would wear when those human nobles held banquets, the small black dress on the girl's body did not look deep at all, but exuded an indescribable charm, even Hall, a jackal who could not distinguish between human beauty and ugliness, could judge that the other party was a human beauty。
It's a pity that at this time, Hall didn't have the heart to appreciate the beauty of the other party, his forehead was now covered with sweat, his feet trembled slightly, and the wooden spear that he had been holding tightly and didn't even forget when he retreated didn't know when he had discarded it to the ground, although it was under the sun, although winter had not come, but Hall felt an incomparably cold feeling, as if he had returned to the Scandinavian seashore a few months ago, and the feeling that was colder than the cold wind blowing on the ice floe was invading his body。
"Why ......"
"I didn't expect that there are still fish that have slipped through the net?"
Before Hall's words could be finished, the darkness was like a giant beast, swallowing his consciousness in one bite, and finally what remained on the retina was only a red flash, and then the jackal named Hall completely disappeared into this world, and the soul that could not be seen by the naked eye was sucked into a small crystal ball hanging from the girl's waist before he had time to enter the underworld.
Through the sunlight, you can vaguely see from the outside to the inside, the crystal ball that is not even the size of a palm, dense gray figures swimming in it like fish in the water, in addition to jackals similar to Hall, you can also find trolls, trolls, and ogres inside.
Alice held the crystal ball hanging on her waist and shook it gently in front of her eyes, looked at the sluggish souls that did not react in the slightest, nodded with satisfaction, and then swung her body and flew towards the sky.
In the case of her own action, the centaurs and gnolls scattered around this area in search of food have been killed by her one by one, and all the souls have been collected by her.