The first stop of the Ancient Serpent's Fort patrol mission, the Campard Forest.

A muscular man in a hood, armed with a hunting bow, was creeping silently through the trees with a small figure behind him.

As a forest ranger employed by the Ancient Serpent Citadel, Yoda has always been proud of his profession, and he still remembers the excited looks of his grandfather and parents when he was chosen to be a forest ranger twenty years ago. Being able to serve the necromancer is the greatest honor of the people of the village.

Because of love, so strong and exquisite. In the past twenty years, Yoda has tread almost every inch of the Campard Forest, so when an outsider sets foot on the land, Yoda is aware of it almost the next day.

"Click!"

The sudden sound of dead branches breaking behind him almost exploded the hairs around Yoda's body, and he suddenly pulled his bow back, but in the end he saw the stupid face of his stupid son...... At his feet, there was a broken branch.

"Kuru, you've been learning from me for ten years, but you still can't do silent stealth, how can you take over my position as a forest ranger?"

"I don't want to be a forest ranger, it's only fifty gold coins a year, and I have to live in the forest all my life, I want to go to the big city in the future, and it's better to be a worker than to be a forest ranger. "When young people are in the period of rebellion, even if they obviously make mistakes, they refuse to admit it, and they stiffen their necks with their fathers.

Hearing his words, Yoda was so angry that his brain jumped with green tendons, since his grandfather's generation, the forest ranger profession serving the necromancer is the most noble and respected profession in the village and town, and the harvest is guaranteed by drought and flood, once employed, never dismissed, even if you are sick and disabled in the ancient snake castle, you will be given a lifetime of annuity...... It may also be that you don't even notice that as long as you don't consciously neglect your duties, this is a profession that can be eaten for a lifetime, and you can also have a relationship with the noble necromancer.

For a long time, the competition was extremely fierce, and it was impossible to serve as the most athletic warrior in the village.

However, in recent years, everything has gradually changed, and more and more young people are no longer willing to hunt and farm for a living, they yearn for the outside world, especially for a big village called "city", saying that the people in the city are rich, and that the girls in the city are white and beautiful.

Because of the relationship between his grandfather and himself as forest rangers, Yoda's family was originally a long-standing landlord in the village, but it has gradually changed over the years, and some young people who went to work in the city have come back and brought back a lot of novelty and a lot of money.

Now, less and less people value the glory of the past, they pay more and more attention to money.

Yoda was going to beat his son when he lost his temper, but looking at his son's neck, he was still discouraged after all.

A generation has its own way of life, and when the son is older, it's not the time to hit twice when he was a child and be obedient.

............

Just as the ranger Yoda was sad, a slender and miserable white palm suddenly pressed on his shoulder.

Yoda was startled and turned back violently, and the arrow in his hand instinctively got out of his hand.

However, the arrow did not go out.

You only found out at this moment that the bowstring of the bow and arrow in her hand was cut off, and of course such a bow could not shoot arrows.

"Yoda the Ranger?"

Shi Yinghu, who was dressed in a shabby robe and carrying two swords, looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, with a snake-shaped tattoo on his cheek, although it was a question, but it was an affirmative tone.

"Uh, I am, I am. In the past twenty years, it was not the first time that Yoda had received a patrolman, and there was a strong envy in his eyes when he looked at the twin swords carried by the young man in front of him, who was no older than his son, and the shabby robes he was wearing.

In this world, due to the continuous invasion of demons in the lower planes, many humans regard professionals as god-like beings, and of course, there are some people who in turn regard them as creatures like demons.

For example, necromancers manipulate corpses and play with dead souls, which is more demonic than gods.

"Nothing unusual lately, right? Are there any outsiders coming or anomalous phenomena happening?"

"No, my lord, none of these anomalies, I patrol every day, and the Campard Forest is definitely still ...... Well, pure. ”

"Very well, then please sign here and make a confirmation. In fact, Shi Yinghu knows very well that the focus of the profession of forest ranger is not the forest ranger itself, but the serpentine tattoo on his cheek.

This is actually an extremely faint necromantic mark, and once the ranger is dead, the ancient snake castle will receive information.

On the contrary, if the intruder does not kill the forest ranger, then even if it is a high-level professional, their familiarity with the mountains and forests, especially the Kampard forest, will not surpass the forest ranger, and once the forest ranger discovers the abnormality, the ancient snake castle will be believed.

Although this setting is not a secret in the Ancient Serpent's Castle, it will undoubtedly not be known to students, Kate Brian also heard this news occasionally in the process of helping the professor, but in fact it is not valuable, can the hostile forces who sell it to the Ancient Serpent's Fort sell it for a thousand gold coins? Conversely, can you betray the Ancient Serpent's Citadel for a thousand gold coins?

Professionals, usually not as worthy.

"Okay, thank you very much for your daily hard work, and the current annuity was ordered twenty years ago, right? Shi Yinghu smiled when he said this, and then originally planned to leave.

As a result, Yoda and his son were desperately stopped, and they were taken to their tree house to have a big meal, and when they left, they were stuffed with a large bag of various souvenirs by Yoda and his son, and came on an empty stomach and returned with a full load.

For mountain people, 50 gold a year is quite a high income, and young people go to work in factories to work almost this income, which may be a little higher, but what is the consumption in the city?

But for the ancient snake fort, fifty gold a year, a dime a dozen can not be talked about at all, the problem of low treatment of forest rangers, not because of no money, but because no one pays attention, so that the annuity has remained unchanged for 20 years, and now it is not good, with the development of science and technology, the process of urbanization, fifty gold a year is gradually no longer a high income, which is also a kind of damage to the sense of honor of forest rangers.

As long as someone is willing to report it, if there are more, they dare not say it, double it, 100 gold a year, this kind of thing does not need to be seen by senior leaders for the ancient snake castle, and a middle-level officer will be approved. Therefore, Shi Yinghu should also feel at ease when he eats and takes cards.