Chapter 94: The Broken Island (16)
Five days later, with her powerful self-healing talent and the healing potion that Wen Yun had prepared for her, Hurt Yu's injuries were almost healed, of course, Hurt Rain had always insisted on denying that the bowl of black and strange stench that Wen Yun gave her was helpful to her injuries, and she felt that Wen Yun was just testing her medicine, otherwise she would have been cured a long time ago. It's not clear what the truth is, but one morning, Catherine occasionally saw Yechen pull Wen Yun to a corner with a serious face, and since then, although the potion from Wen Yun is still hard to drink, it has lost that strange taste.
After dinner that night, Yechen gathered everyone together again and said, "It's been five days, and the injury from the rain is almost healed, according to the previous decision, we are going to explore the middle area of the Broken Island, how are you preparing?" ”
Wen Yun said first: "During this time, I have bought a lot of raw materials in that unnamed pharmacy, and I have already prepared all the potions we may use. "Five thousand gold coins in five days, Wen Yun used the most, and she alone used two thousand gold coins to buy all kinds of medicinal herbs and some strange things, such as the internal organs of bats, the nerves of snakes, and so on.
Immediately after that, Hurt Yu couldn't wait to say: "Catherine and I found a blacksmith shop in the camp, which is a very short dwarven undead, he does not sell weapons, but only provides forging services, after giving him ore, he will help us make weapons and equipment, of course, there is still some manual fee." I asked, there are some fish scale ores and sharp gold ores scattered in the middle of this island, fish scale ores can be used to make armor shields, sharp gold ore can be used to forge weapons, I have seen in his shop that armor weapons made of fish scale ore and sharp gold ore are much better than the kind of army weapons sold in the graveyard. Hurt Yu looked at Yechen with a smug face, as if to say, "Praise me", it was not easy to get this news, not that he would say it when he found the blacksmith shop and asked the dwarven undead, Hurt Yu grinded in his shop for three days before the stubborn guy spoke.
Yechen nodded with a smile and said, "This is very valuable news. As if to take care of Hurt Rain and Catherine, she added: "The news is valuable in its own right, and more importantly, it is a good piece of evidence that provides a strong corroboration of our previous inference that there are indeed good things in the middle area, and these good things can be picked up." ”
Catherine said, "I mainly went to the crypt and got word from one of the guards guarding the crypt that we could change the equipment of the hired Scourge soldiers, and if we had enough ore, we could even replace them all with scale armor and sharp gold weapons. "To be honest, the process of finding out the news was a torment for Catherine, the guard was a chatterbox, as long as someone appeared next to him, he would keep talking, and after enduring more than a dozen hours of noise attacks, Catherine finally distilled such useful information from a lot of nonsense.
"I met a wandering merchant in the camp, he sold a lot of particularly useful equipment, but most of it was out of stock, I found one in his inventory, and bought it for a thousand gold coins. Saying that, Tang Yu took out a bracelet from her pocket and put it on the table, the bracelet was very delicate and delicate, at first glance, it was a women's, hollow metal chain, and a small claw on it.
Tang Wu introduced: "According to the wandering merchant, this bracelet is called the Claw of Attack, and it can significantly increase its attack power after wearing it, it is said to be increased proportionally, I tried it, it is indeed very useful, who is more suitable to use this Claw of Attack?" "Although this equipment was bought by Tang Wu, her position in the team belongs to the auxiliary personnel, and she is not directly involved in the attack under normal circumstances, so this equipment to improve attack power is a bit of a waste for her.
Catherine was a little eager to try, but seeing that Yechen and Wen Yun didn't speak, she didn't dare to say anything, she naturally hoped to get this equipment to improve her combat effectiveness, but who can this attack claw put on to enhance the combat effectiveness of the entire team to the greatest extent, it is necessary to consider and weigh the pros and cons, she and Hurt Yu are not very good at this kind of brain-using things, and it is best not to express her opinions in the areas where she is not good at, this is what she has experienced in her military career.
Wen Yun looked at the bracelet and had a headache, this decision was best made by her, in fact, the ownership of this bracelet was to choose between Yechen and Hurt Rain. Because of her strong self-healing ability, if there is a fight, Hurt Rain will often be at the front, which means that she has participated in the most battles and is the most able to play the role of this attack claw. But Hurt Rain is not the most combative in their team, she is just good at melee combat, in fact, the strongest combat among them is their regiment leader, Yechen. It's also very simple to say, in such a cruel world where strength is respected, it is difficult to suppress them without a strong combat power that is superior to everyone else. Although Yechen's combat effectiveness is very high, she generally doesn't make a move, but is only responsible for overall coordination in the back, and when Yechen needs to make a move, it has already reached a critical time, and she may usher in victory immediately, or they may need Yechen to delay time and escape, and at that time, Yechen's attack power is stronger and is likely to bring about key changes.
Wen Yun thought for a while, and said with a smile: "In my opinion, this attack claw should be given to the regiment leader, but it will be difficult to trouble the regiment commander." "This is a euphemism, and the direct word is that this attack claw is for you, don't keep hiding behind in the future, and if you can, you won't shoot.
Yechen smiled and said, "It's all a team, there's nothing hard work or hard work." As he spoke, he took the claw of attack and put it on his right wrist. She didn't say this perfunctory, this time they went to explore the middle area is definitely dangerous, almost certainly, they will not be able to go to the core area of the woodland, this is the first expedition, go as far as you can, in this case she will inevitably have to make a move.
There was nothing else to say, Yechen buckled the table and said, "Okay, since we are ready, then we will go to the middle area of the island tomorrow to explore, everyone should rest early, tomorrow's things will definitely not be easy." ”
Early the next morning, the five girls checked their weapons and equipment and were about to leave, and Catherine was carrying some bacon that had been prepared as dry food.
The middle area is a large area of dense woodland, or the rain is the first to open the way, Tang Wu, Ye Chen, and Wen Yun walk in the middle, Catherine breaks off, and the five girls line up in a row and start exploring.
This forest is unusually dense, just less than a hundred meters deep, looking up can no longer see the sky, a few people hugging the big trees can be seen everywhere, there are also a lot of low shrubs mixed in the period, most of the branches of the shrubs have thorns, if you are not careful, you will draw a bloody hole. On the outskirts of the island, the sea breeze often blows, although it is a little salty and damp, but it is also comfortable, but here, the dense forest locks all the wind, and the heavy humidity from the ground makes the whole forest wet and hot, very uncomfortable.
In addition to the physical discomfort, it is also difficult to travel, such a tropical rainforest has no roads, and even if the road is opened, it will be covered with all kinds of shrubs and weeds as long as it is not maintained for a few days. Hurt Yu walked in the front, holding a thick mountain knife in his hand, cutting down the branches, cutting off the vines, barely carve a way in the dense forest, and the poisonous snakes and poisonous spiders she encountered directly made her cut off her head with a knife.
As she climbed over a low hill, the rain suddenly stopped, and she made a gesture and quietly retreated.
The five girls retreated more than thirty meters, and Yechen asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”
Hurt Yu said: "The road ahead is a small ...... How to say it, it's a small village, it's blocked. ”
"A small village?" Yechen said, "Tell me more. ”
Hurt Yu said a little tangled: "Actually, it's not a small village, there are only five or six houses, surrounded by an intermittent fence, by the way, there is a pigsty in the yard, and there are a few piglets in captivity, I just glanced at it, and I only saw these." ”
Wen Yun said, "Are we going around?" ”
Yechen shook his head and said: "Let's take a look first, I didn't think about it before, the terrain in the middle area is too complicated, it's not that you can go around it if you want to, let's take a look at the situation first, Wen Yun, Tang Wu, you and I will go and have a look, Hurt Rain, Catherine, you are here to pick us up." ”
First of all, Yechen and Wen Yun discussed the route, she quietly touched the road they had just retreated from, and Wen Yun and Tang Yu went around from both sides. Lying on the high hill, Yechen carefully observed this "small village", there were a total of five rooms, all of which were made of stout logs as supports, covered with thatch, and there were no traces of rammed earth. A courtyard was enclosed by four fences of different lengths, and the small pigsty that Hurt Yu said was located in the corner of the yard, near the direction of Yechen. Yechen observed the incision in the lower fence, it was rough, there were no smooth marks, most of it was pruned, if there was a sharp axe, it would be more time-saving and trouble-saving to cut those thick logs than to pluck it, but the creatures of this small village did not have a sharp axe. The thatched huts are very low, about 1.5 meters, and if you want to enter and exit normally, the residents here are about 1.2 meters tall. Except for the three chirping pigs in the pigsty, Yechen didn't find any living creatures guarding them, it seems that these guys are lazy enough and have no vigilance. This is not good news, in such an intermediate woodland full of predators, weak and unalert creatures do not live long, and this unguarded yard seems to indicate that the owner of the place is strong enough to deter the bloodthirsty predators. Yechen's eyes searched the yard, and a white bone half-buried in the ground caught her attention, this should be the rib of a certain creature, looking at the length of the rib, this creature is probably not a small guy, the volume is huge to this level, whether it is a predator or herbivore, it is already powerful, such as elephants, hippos and the like, although it is food and lodging, all hunters have to deal with her.
After collecting some information, Yechen retreated, and after waiting for a few minutes, Wen Yun and Tang Yu also came back one after another.
Yechen asked, "How's it going?" ”
Tang Wu shook her head and said, "It's not easy to get around from the left, it's a steep cliff, there are no vines to help, although it's not very high, but it's definitely not easy for us to climb up, and I'm not sure if there will be any other crises when we climb that cliff." ”
Wen Yun continued: "On the right I found traces of wild wolves, and the number of footprints can be estimated to be more than a dozen wild wolves. "They've all seen the big wolves, and a dozen of them pop up at once, but they can't continue to explore.
"Also." Wen Yun added, "I shouldn't be able to see from your line of sight, I saw a few pieces of things with a faint yellow glow behind those small thatched huts, which looked like the sharp gold ore that Hurt Yu said before. ”
Hearing Wen Yun say this, the gang hurriedly asked, "How many pieces are there, have you seen them?" ”
Wen Yun thought for a while and said, "I don't know the specifics, but on the surface, they are three pieces, and I don't know if there are other places." ”
Yechen asked, "Hurt Rain, how many ores did that dwarf undead say it would take?" ”
"He said that if you want to forge a weapon, you need ten pieces of sharp gold ore, and if you want to forge armor, you need twenty pieces of fish scale ore. ”
Yechen thought for a while and said, "Let's try it first, now that we have only gone far into the middle area, the level of the wild monsters here should not be too high, and we still have a good chance to get those ores." ”
Wen Yun and Tang Wan nodded and said, "Okay." ”
At this moment, a noisy sound came, and Yechen touched it back to see, what kind of creature is this? Very short, similar to the inference made by Ye Chen before, only about one meter two on average, covered with dirty pale yellow hair, and with a stone axe hanging from his waist, it looks like a ...... Boar people?
A total of eight boar men carried a fawn tied to a pillar, and each boar man had a sense of grandeur and seemed to be proud of his great victory.
Hearing the noise, several wild boar people who had been in the house hurriedly walked out, saw the half-dead wild deer, and cheered happily. (To be continued.) )