26. Hunting in the forest (medium)
For this expeditionary force, the boring march has turned into a hunting operation in the wild. The Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info did not dare to trespass into the line of defense that the Rangers were responsible for defending without permission until they had made contact with the Rangers of the North Wind Legion, so after passing through the small town of Maas, the expeditionary force passed through a large area of golden apple orchards, passing through the small town of Feikang, which was rich in wheat flour, and stationed in the area of Duankou Mountain south of Feikang.
The student army of Stas College was on the right flank of the entire team, and as soon as they entered the oak forest of Duankou Mountain, an order was handed down and set up camp. At this point, our team has officially entered the wild area, the forest here is usually rarely visited, there are often some large beasts in the forest, here are some hunters hunting and college students summer field experience paradise, Duankou Mountain area is rarely infested with monsters, at most there are only some large carnivorous beasts, such as brown bears, wild boars, lynx.
Although the area of Duankou Mountain is densely forested, there is no danger, so in order to be able to hunt wild meat as soon as possible, Albert proposed a small team of two or three people to scatter the hunt, the target is those jungle pheasants, hares, roe deer, roe deer and other small beasts that do not have any danger, according to Yveli, last summer Stas College held a field training in this area, the entire school of senior students stayed here for more than half a month, the biggest harvest was only a brown bear.
Fortunately, Albert and Evely are very easy-going, Albert has always had a sense of superiority from a wealthy family, and he always imitates the habits of some nobles in his actions, but people are not annoying, although they are close to me. Many of them were aimed at currying favor with Ryant, but I was okay with that.
And Yveli is simply a reckless teenager. I think I have strong muscles, and all problems can be solved by brute force. But Yveli was a little reckless, though. But he's not stupid, he speaks a little directly, he's very patient with his friends, and he's also very honest. We were a little tired from walking, so we sat down on a dry and bare oak root to rest.
"Jia, you're almost old enough to go to school!" Iveli asked me.
The dense woods are so dense that it is difficult for direct sunlight to shine in, and over the years, leaves fall from the trees and accumulate in the woodland to rot slowly. The ground in the woods appeared soft, like a thick carpet. I took the kettle from my waist, pulled out the cork and took a sip of water before saying, "I'll go to the awakening ceremony next month, and then I'll go back to school!"
"Then you can also come to Stas Academy, we will be alumni at that time, and we can also participate in the field training in the school together in the future, the warriors who came out of Stas Academy have very good martial arts. It is also very well-known in the Adventure Party Guild in El City. Evely took out a rag and carefully wiped the dew from his gloves, and when he saw that I looked at it curiously, he explained, "It's a little damp in the woods. If you stay for a long time, the weapon will be covered with dew, and if it is not wiped off in time, the gloves will easily rust. If it is not processed in time, it will reduce the service life of the gloves. ”
Albert is a more delicate person. Seeing that I didn't readily agree at the first time, I asked curiously, "What." Don't you want to come to Stas College? Teacher Ryan and Tracy are here, where do you want to go? Stans College can be said to be one of the best colleges in El City!"
"If there are no accidents, I'll go to the El City War Academy!" I said calmly.
"Oh! It's a good school, but every year tens of thousands of new students in the whole city of El want to study in it, and in the end only more than 1,000 people are accepted, and it is said that it is very difficult to get in. Jia, you have to be mentally prepared!" said Evely, directly.
Albert was a little clear, and then stabbed Eveli with his elbow before saying: "Ji Jia is the son of Teacher Ryant, so he has naturally practiced swordsmanship since he was a child, and he should be very hopeful of being admitted to the War College!"
"But, then again, why didn't I see your sword? It's just a simple bone dagger, it looks like it's a beast's tooth, it looks sharp?" Albert asked, looking at the wolf's tooth dagger at my waist.
I didn't hide anything, and said directly: "This is a wind wolf's canine teeth, very sharp, my sister gave it to me!"
The sister I was talking about was Sister Guoguo, and the two of them thought I was talking about Tracy, and said with some surprise: "Tracy can actually save enough money to buy such a wind-pulling bone weapon, which has really changed a lot!"
Although I know that they misunderstood, I don't want to defend it, and I can't say that I actually want to go to the junior magic academy in the El City War Academy, almost all the children in the Green Empire want to become a magician, but only the children who are favored by Lady Luck will awaken their magic pool and become a magician nobleman in the magic awakening ceremony. The inhabitants of the Grimm Empire consider this a gift from the gods. Therefore, almost all children will participate in the magic awakening ceremony, but all the children have other plans in their hearts, that is, if they are not able to awaken the magic pool, they will choose which school to attend. There is no doubt that the War College is the best in the whole of El City, but the War College is also notoriously difficult to get into.
When Albert heard that I was going to prepare for the War College, he thought that I was influenced by Ryant and had been systematically trained since I was a child, so that I had the strength to be admitted to the Junior Warrior Academy of the War College.
My magical perception has become very sensitive, which has indirectly improved the acuity of my other five senses, that is, I can see farther than the average person, and I can hear more subtle sounds. At this moment, there was a very slight sound in my ears, it was the crisp sound of the light claws of the little beast stepping on the dead branches and leaves, and the branches were broken, and I stopped at once, according to my experience, it was a fat rabbit, and it must have just come out of the burrow.
When the two of them saw me, their expressions suddenly froze, and they listened attentively, a little strange, and just about to ask me what happened, I quickly put my finger to my lips, made a silent motion, and then pointed to our left, and the two of them immediately understood, and stood up cautiously, bent their waists, slowly lifted their feet, and lightly walked around behind an oak tree in front of them. Poke your head out and look carefully.
Sure enough, behind a small bush not far ahead, a rabbit covered in earthy yellow carefully poked its head out. A few whiskers on his lips kept shaking, sniffing the smell around him. Its eyes looked at the two tender green wild radishes ten meters away, at this time the wild radish has just grown a few new leaves, and there is no radish on the rhizome, but the wild radish leaves taste bitter, and the back of the leaf has a little fine hair, which is what many hares like to eat.
As soon as they saw their prey, Albert and Evely were very excited, and the two looked at each other, and Albert quietly pulled his hunting bow. Aiming at the rabbit that had just poked out its head, with a "whoosh", the feather arrow came out of the string, but the rabbit was not stupid, and when he heard a sharp sound of breaking the air, he retracted his head violently and wanted to burrow back into the burrow.
Just by looking at the landing point of the feather arrow, I already understand that this feather arrow is considered to be a failure. And I'm afraid I can't even get the hair of a hare. Sure enough, the feathered arrow flew past the hare's back. Nailed to the branches of the bushes, it brought out a handful of round green leaves, and then castrated and inserted directly into the meadow in the woods.
Albert smacked his fist on the trunk of a nearby tree in annoyance. Sighing, he said, "Oops, it's empty!"
"It's just a little bit!" said Evely, who was also very sorry.
I thought to myself: what is this a little bit worse, if it weren't for the rabbit not turning around and running back. I'm afraid that feathered arrow can't even shave the hair of a rabbit. But since I'm just hunting these little beasts, I don't have any intention of making a move. Instead, he followed behind them, occasionally providing them with the direction of the little beast. Some time later, we also met a civet cat hiding in a tree, but was scared away by Arendt.
I had been wandering in the woods for a long time before I finally caught five wild ducks by a pond.
Alendt and Evely, who had a harvest, were very happy, and each of them had a catch, hung the duck on their belts, and happily walked back in the direction of the camp, and then began to discuss whether the other teams had also gained, but in general, the duck stewed hazel mushroom was a success.
"Hear Tracy, you're a great cook?"
As we chatted, the topic came back to me, and Iveli turned his head to ask me, and he seemed to speak more naturally, and it seemed that I had provided the direction of the prey several times at the right time, and won a certain amount of favor between the two of them, and Eveli was much more casual when he spoke, and he asked me with a big grin.
I nodded and said, "When I'm at home, I often help Fanny make dinner, and I make delicious creamy mushroom soup!"
"In that case, you have no problem with the wild duck mushroom soup, right? none of us can do this job, and if we eat roasted, maybe I can help!" said Yveli, in a huffy voice.
The men of the Grimm Empire don't like to cook, just like those women don't like war, they think that cooking and washing clothes are the work of women, and I don't think there is any shame in cooking, so I gladly agreed. But Arendt hesitated and said, "Maybe we should invite a few girls so we don't have to cook." ”
The three of us chatted and walked back, and after passing through a dense woodland, we could already see the flags planted by the expeditionary force on the hillside not far away, and we began to discuss how to make these five wild ducks into delicious food, and turned left along the path next to the rocks on the mountainside. At this moment, we suddenly found a team of several people walking across the street, led by a young and handsome young man who was none other than Leon, wearing an ordinary sheepskin light armor and carrying a hardwood hunting bow in his hand, and was chatting with the two girls beside him, one of the girls was Tracy, followed by several teenagers who looked familiar. These people didn't expect the three of us to suddenly come out from behind the rocks, and we were startled.
"Jiga, why are you here!" Someone in the crowd immediately recognized me, and I remembered that the guy who spoke was none other than Ryant's student, and he had given me two honey biscuits yesterday, and they tasted okay.
I looked at Tracy a little speechlessly, knowing that everyone would be very embarrassed to meet, why did they have to come together?
At this time, Leon, more like a victorious knight, tilted his chin slightly upward, and glanced haughtily over me, and there was a slight smile on the corner of his slightly raised mouth, which seemed to me to be a faint mockery.
I think everyone is free to pursue their own love, Tracy's choice is not wrong, she is looking for her so-called happiness, and these things need to be experienced in everyone's upbringing. However, what I can't get used to is Leon's victorious posture, Tracy and I will be the closest family members, if not together, and Ryan and Fanny are the bond between us. However, I could not bear that the man who was now favored by Tracy was such a ruffian, and that he regarded such feelings as a kind of show-off, and that he actually mocked me.
I was just about to rush to give him a little lesson, but Arendt beside me had already dropped the wild duck he was carrying to the ground, rushed forward two steps, and when everyone didn't react, he kicked on Leon's stomach and burst out with a sentence in his mouth: "you." ”
Leon was kicked by Arendt and sat on the ground, looking at Arendt at a loss for a while.
"Arendt, what are you doing, why are you bullying people!" Tracy rushed up immediately, pressed one hand on the handle of the thin sword at his waist, stopped Arendt with his body, and asked him angrily.
Arendt took a breath directly, took two steps back and picked up the wild duck on the ground in full view of everyone, and did not say a word in the process, and no one among Leon's friends dared to rush up, Arendt, who had nowhere to vent his anger, just lightly tapped Tracy with his hand, and said lightly: "Don't play too late, remember to go home!"
Then, as he passed by Leon's side, he stopped and said, "Don't think too highly of yourself, even if you can become a real knight in two years, then you are only a knight." Don't make yourself like a stinky ****, acquaintances don't dare to talk to you when you walk on the street, and don't make it difficult to walk on the street in the future, always beware of someone behind you taking a brick to shoot you, if you live like that, you will be too tired. If you still don't understand what I'm saying, you can think about it. ”
After speaking, he walked down the mountain with the heads of the two wild ducks without looking back.
I knew that no matter what I did or said at this point, Tracy hated me. simply didn't even look at her, and walked directly beside Leon. And Leon seemed to be stunned by Arendt for a while, and he didn't even make any means to fight back, and Evely pulled me and hurriedly chased after me.
When catching up, Yveli said to Arendt, who was simply impressed: "Arendt, what you just said, I feel like you are like a teacher on the podium, I understand what you said, and I don't understand it!"
Arendt laughed before he said, "These words were all used by my father when he taught me a lesson, I have long memorized them, and it seems that it doesn't matter if I tell that guy Leon." ”
Actually, I think very simple about Tracy, I'm going to school this year. There will be some new friends, maybe one day I will meet a girl I feel right about, and then I will chase her desperately like Tracy, and I will go crazy for love.
So I don't have a grudge against Tracy, my anger is only at Leon, he didn't understand the relationship between the three of us at first, he tried to please me like a pug, but then he became resentful of me after he understood our relationship, and put on a high-spirited and stinky appearance in front of me, showing his superiority. At that time, I wanted to knock him out with a straight punch.
Walking slowly in the oak forest, thoughts flowing. (To be continued.) )