Chapter 276: Aboriginal Contact
"Be quiet and listen carefully to what they are saying!"
Li Mengnan put his index finger to his mouth and gave Guo Yimin a look, Guo Yimin immediately nodded embarrassedly and made an OK gesture.
Their overview of this legendary world can be said to be blind, and this group of aborigines of unknown origin is the only source of information for them at the moment.
The middle-aged man with blond hair in the West, known as the "captain", turned over and dismounted neatly, walked to a living corpse, squatted down to take a closer look by the light of the torch, and dipped his hands with some blood stains on the surface of his body, and his thick thick eyebrows gradually wrinkled.
"The blood of these living corpses has not yet fully coagulated, and the time between the transformation and the re-killing should be very short, that is to say - the person who killed these living corpses should not have gone far!"
Hearing the words of their captain, the dozens of knights around them immediately became vigilant, remounted their horses one after another, took off the shield next to the saddle, drew the long sword at their waist, and quickly lined up in a defensive formation to remain vigilant.
The middle-aged man with blond hair rode on his horse and said loudly, "Friend, I know you are nearby, please show up." ”
The people hiding in the bushes exchanged glances with each other, and Guo Yimin asked directly in a low voice: "This group of people doesn't feel like bad people to me, do you want to contact them?" ”
"Do you think this is a modern society where the military and civilians are in a situation? The ancient army was not much stronger than the bandits in terms of discipline, and in this wilderness, killing a person is like killing a chicken, but there is no law that can protect you......" Padio mercilessly poured cold water on the sword.
"I think you're scared, aren't you? Even if I am caught, I will be considered a strong laborer, but if you are caught...... Hey hey ......"
Guo Yimin looked up and down as a cute beautiful girl, and softly hummed the melody of Jay Chou's "Chrysanthemum Terrace".
"Brother Li, what do you think?" Huang Hao put a bone arrow on the string, the bone arrow was damaged in the battle just now, and he only found three that were still complete.
"You stay here and don't move, I'll go and make contact with these people."
Li Mengnan also took a considerable risk in making this decision, as Padio said, the current time background of the world they live in happens to be a disorderly era of monarchy, privileges are higher than the law, and ordinary civilians cannot be protected by the so-called law, let alone outsiders like them who have no identity in this world, and even different races.
Although exposing themselves to themselves requires considerable danger, this is also the only chance they can get out of this place at the moment, and having a regular army means having a city, which means a lot to those who are desperate to find a safe supply point.
What's more, the safety factor of staying in the field is not much higher than coming into contact with this army.
Seeing that Li Mengnan was about to get up, Guo Yimin also wanted to accompany him, but Li Mengnan reached out and pressed his shoulder back, and shook his head gently at him with a solemn expression.
It was not Li Mengnan's rash decision to contact this team of aborigines alone, he had already calculated all the possible situations in his mind, and once there was an unexpected conflict, with the help of the physical advantages of the Dream Walker, as well as the "Eaves Walking Wall Method" given by the guard spear before leaving, he was completely sure that he could escape under the pursuit of this team of people and horses under the cover of the woods, but if he brought Guo Yimin, he would not be able to guarantee the safety of this fat man.
"Padio, if contact fails, I'll try to lure these people away, and the rest will be handed over to you." Li Mengnan admonished Padio.
Guo Yimin is impulsive, Huang Hao is dull, Dongzi is timid, old Manmune, and the only one in the entire team who has some leadership skills is left with this poisonous tongue puppet mother - but unfortunately the poor popularity is still a hard wound that cannot be ignored after all.
"As long as they listen to me, I'll let them live." Padio's tone was as annoying as ever, but he agreed.
In order to prevent other people's hiding places from being discovered by the other party, Li Mengnan quietly climbed out of the other direction for more than ten meters before he stood out of the grass, and the sound of the grass that he got up with immediately caused a commotion from the other party.
Whoa!
More than a dozen crossbows were pointed at Li Mengnan who appeared in the grass at the same time, and the three-edged armor-piercing arrows made of stainless steel flashed with a murderous cold light under the light of the torches.
Li Mengnan raised his hands to indicate that he did not have any weapons, but he secretly raised his guard in his heart, as long as the other party showed the slightest sign that he was going to be unfavorable to him, he would immediately mobilize the alien skill [Clever Parrot] to offset all the crossbow arrow attacks, and then quickly fled to the dense forest not far from him.
Although the crossbow's attacks are sharp, they have to be rewound after each attack, and the frequency of attacks is far less than that of bows and arrows, as long as you avoid the first wave of attacks, it is almost certain to escape alone.
Seeing Li Mengnan take the initiative to appear, the middle-aged man with blond hair raised his hand to signal his subordinates to put down the crossbow, and let Li Mengnan come to the front of the team, and saw Li Mengnan's black-haired and black-eyed appearance clearly by the light of the torch, and couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Orientals? How did you end up in this Cursed Land? Did you kill all these living corpses alone? ”
Hearing the blonde middle-aged man call out the words "Oriental", Li Mengnan was really relieved, it seems that there are still Oriental Asians in this legendary world, and they have already had contact with Europe, otherwise they would have been killed as some heretical and evil creatures.
"This heroic knight, I am a cultivator from the Eastern Ming Empire, and I accidentally got lost on the way here, and I happened to be attacked by these evil undead creatures......"
Li Mengnan threw out the words that had been prepared for a long time, as for whether the east of this world existed in the Ming Dynasty in the original history, it didn't matter, even the king of Europe in these years knew nothing about the distant east, and he didn't think that a little knight who patrolled the territory all day long could have much knowledge.
"Cultivators? What is that? Does anyone know? "The knowledge of this knight captain was obviously far more poor than Li Mengnan had expected.
"My subordinates have heard from some merchants from Persia that there is indeed such a group of people in the distant and mysterious East, who trek through mountains and rivers to increase their knowledge, harden their will in the harsh environment, and temper their martial arts in the struggle against nature...... one of his subordinates whispered in the ear of a middle-aged man with blond hair.
"Oh, isn't that similar to those ascetics in the Holy See......" The middle-aged man with blond hair couldn't help but suddenly, quickly finding the most appropriate reference within his understanding.
"Captain, don't you think it's strange that an Oriental suddenly appeared in this wilderness? Could it be a spy sent by a neighboring country? At present, although His Majesty has signed an armistice agreement with the surrounding countries, there are some things that have to be guarded against......" one of his subordinates kindly reminded.
The middle-aged man with blond hair glared at him, and said angrily: "Is the image of this captain in your eyes a stupid pig with developed limbs and a simple mind?" Spies? Would your spy send such a conspicuous Oriental? And now that our common enemy is the evil blood-sucking Count Dracula, there will be no more infighting among the human race......"
"Yes, the captain is right." The men retreated.
After retreating from his subordinates, the middle-aged man with blond hair stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Li Mengnan, showing a kind smile, and said, "You can call me Joseph, the captain of the Principality of Grana's Guard, these are my subordinates. ”
"Li Mengnan." Li Mengnan clasped it with one hand.
Joseph tried to gradually increase the strength of his hand, but found that the palm of the young oriental cultivator in front of him was as hard as iron, and even if he used his strength to reach out of the seventh or eighth layer, he still couldn't reach out in front of the other party, and his expression couldn't help but show a little surprise, and he couldn't help but show a little surprise, and he couldn't help but believe in Li Mengnan's self-proclaimed "cultivator" identity.
"Lee, can I call you that? You Oriental names are so tongue-twisting......"
This Joseph has the typical straightforward nature of a martial artist, who is pleasing to the eye and can quickly mingle with whom, and in a few words, he has already become familiar with Li Mengnan as if he has been a brother for many years.
"Lee, do you have any plans for the next step? Why don't you go back to the city with us, this cursed land is often infested with monsters at night, and although you are strong, there is only one person after all. ”
"I'm sorry, Joseph, I'm not alone, I have a few companions."
Now that it has been determined that the other party has no malicious intent, Li Mengnan naturally does not need to hide anything, and sends out the previously agreed signal, signaling Guo Yimin and the other five to appear from the shadows.
Joseph was a little surprised, but he didn't care about Li Mengnan's reservation, and smiled generously: "Li, you are very cautious...... But it doesn't matter, if it were me, I would do the same, as a team leader, you have to be responsible for the lives of your companions. ”
Just as Joseph did not introduce his subordinates one by one, Li Mengnan did not introduce Guo Yimin and others, the two sides only met in Pingshui, and there was no point in understanding it in depth.
"Walk through the forest and see a big road that leads west to the town...... Don't go any further than East, where Dracula and his legions of monsters are located, and no one dares to survive in that place except for a few degenerates. ”
"Fallen?"
"It's just some self-willed depraved humans who don't want to bask in the light, but it doesn't matter...... Anyway, it's dangerous over there. ”
"Well, thank you."
It was obvious to Li Mengnan that Joseph did not want to say more on this topic, so he did not ask any more questions.
Joseph and the others originally came for the bandits, but they had to go back to the city to resume their lives at this moment, and they didn't bring extra horses when they came, so naturally it was inconvenient to bring people back, so they could only apologize to Li Mengnan and the others.
The galloping horses' hooves stepped out of the smoke and dust, and Joseph's group quickly disappeared into the woods sprinkled by the moonlit cloth.
Looking at the direction in which the horse team left, Guo Yimin sighed regretfully and muttered: "This foreigner is really hypocritical, he calls his brother and brother hot, but he said that he will leave with his ass and leave, so he will leave two horses...... The ghost only knew how far away the town he was talking about, and it was dawn when he walked there. ”
"You've read too many martial arts novels, right? There are no heroes here who treat money like dung...... And in this era, whether it is the East or the West, war horses are valuables, similar to supercars in the real world, have you ever seen a Maserati in the real world just say a few words to passers-by? Padio scoffed.
"Brother Li, why did you signal not to let us do it just now?" Huang Hao asked puzzled.
Although this group of knights is well-equipped, after all, there are not many people, and if they break out, there is still a high chance that they will be wiped out, and the most headache of weapons and equipment will be solved.
"The success rate is too low...... Although Joseph's gang appeared to be friendly, in fact they never let us off guard. Although the physical elements of these aborigines are not as good as ours, they definitely have more fighting experience than us, and once the two sides start a war, even if they win, it is likely to be a miserable victory. ”
There is another point that Li Mengnan did not say, he had a faint feeling in his heart that killing and plundering these aborigines would probably bring some unnecessary trouble to their group's future mission.
Although there were no horses to walk, Li Mengnan and the others were actually not much slower than the horses, and they were even better in terms of endurance.
After all, humans themselves are the animals with the best endurance in the world, and there is no one.
Around the wee hours of the morning, a small town with scattered houses appeared in the field of vision of Li Mengnan and others, showing tranquility and serenity in the gentle white moonlight.
"The foreigner didn't lie, there really is a town here...... But why don't you even have a city wall? Guo Yimin stood on a big rock and looked up.
Dreamwalker has excellent eyesight and can see surreptitiously without the need for night vision gear.
"Don't use the standards of Huaxia to measure these European countries, even if they know how to burn bricks, they may not be able to pull out so many manpower to build the city wall. In general, castles and outer walls were only found where kings and nobles lived. ”
This town is completely undefended, and there are not even night watchmen, Li Mengnan and the others did not encounter any obstacles along the way, and easily entered the town.
The residents here did not have the habit of leaving strangers to stay overnight, but fortunately, Li Mengnan had the foresight to find a few silver coins and some copper plates from the bandits who had turned into living corpses, and found an inn that temporarily solved the accommodation problem of the group.
Early the next morning, Li Mengnan and the others entered the town in groups of two and three to inquire about the news, and did not regather in the room until noon to summarize the information.
"Dracula's existence is no secret here."
Guo Yimin poured a cup of warm boiled water from a wooden cup, and almost swallowed the bread in his mouth with a roll of his eyes.
"About ten kilometers east from here is Dracula's territory, where a large number of monsters live, but those monsters are not the so-called Dracula's minions, they are completely wild, and it can also be understood that Dracula is a guard dog at the door...... But in any case, from an objective point of view, the existence of these monsters is indeed an effective barrier to the human world's crusade against Dracula's Castle. ”