Volume 1 The Wasteland Chapter 2 The Huntress
Mu Chen walked out of the post station, it was getting late outside, and the moon was already faintly visible, and he stepped on the sand that still had some residual warmth, stopping to think about how to blend into the Chake Department.
After a long time, he finally made up his mind, and the griffin descended from the sky and carried him into the sky.
When he was still two kilometers away from Chakobu, in order to avoid being spotted by the vultures that circled and patrolled at night, he changed his mount and chose to enter through the ground.
A huge scorpion crawled out of the sand, two huge pincers kept swinging, making a "crunch" sound, its tail was raised in the air, and the stinger on the tail hook was more than 20 centimeters long. The giant scorpion quickly crawled to Mu Chen's side and circled around him.
Mu Chen didn't pay attention to it, but continued to look down and think, and the giant scorpion saw that he didn't react, so he followed him on the right rear side.
After walking for about ten minutes, he stopped, a faint light on his body, and his clothes all changed.
I used to wear a cyan cloth shirt, the cuffs were tied with ropes, and the black cloth boots were not gorgeous, but they were neat and lightweight.
Now he wears a black helmet, a scorpion-like totem on the front, an all-black armor with independent shoulder pads on the upper body, leg guards and knee pads on the lower body, and a pair of black steel boots, and a skull mask on his face.
The whole body is black except for the white mask, and it is heavily armored and heavy. This outfit is the most common style of the Chakebu, and the giant scorpion is also a mount often used by the people of the wasteland, and the best way to sneak in disguise is to think about it for a long time.
After changing his clothes, he turned and jumped on the giant scorpion, and ordered, "Let's go to Chakebu, try not to make too much noise, and not attract attention." ”
Night has officially fallen, the moon has clearly hung in the sky, the sand has absorbed the heat of the day's sun and dissipated, the temperature has also dropped, and in the dark and cold night, only he and the giant scorpion continue to move forward.
He lay on the back of the giant scorpion, looked at the moon in the sky, and thought: "Fortunately, I collected the equipment of the wastelanders before, and it really came in handy, the equipment is right, and the mount is also right, so I almost deceived the sentinels of the Chake Department." ”
The giant scorpion stopped at the top of a sand dune, Mu Chen sat up from its back, and watched the sporadic firelight under the sand dunes gradually converge into a piece, and when it arrived, there was the station of the Cha Ke Department.
The garrison consisted of a tent, without walls, four or five tents in a small circle, with a bonfire in the circle, and outside the tent circle at the front, more than a dozen wasteland people dressed like Mu Chen patrolled back and forth, holding various weapons in their hands, spears, waist knives, bows and arrows, and so on.
He sat in a giant scorpion and came to these patrols without any movement or speech, and was about to pass through at a uniform speed when he was stopped by a sentry with a knife on his left shoulder, holding the handle of the knife in his right hand, and making a gesture to draw the knife, and asked loudly: "Why did you come back so late?"
"The Beijin Ministry needs spirit stones as raw materials, so I went to the ant queen cave to collect the raw materials. ”
"You go to the queen ant cave alone to collect spirit stones, the queen ant cave is full of mid-level and high-level magical beasts, it's up to you..."
"Speaking of which, I forgot that the demonic beasts in the Queen's Cave are not something that anyone can easily deal with, and for most of the Wasteland people, it is impossible for one person to enter the cave to collect materials. Mu Chen wanted to quickly find a good excuse to get around.
"We went together as a clan, I definitely don't have that strength myself, I got separated during the battle, I hid until dark before I came out, isn't it too late to come back. ”
"Are there any clans that came back from collecting materials from the queen's cave today?" the Blade Patrol asked, turning his head to the others.
"I don't know, we didn't meet it when we were standing guard, and it is estimated that the last wave of standing guard was asleep. "One of the patrolmen coped with the situation and didn't bother to ask anyone for verification.
"How do you prove that you just came back from collecting materials?" the patrol soldier who interrogated Mu Chen still didn't give up.
"To show you this, I really escaped back, and that's the only thing I learned today. Mu Chen took out a spirit stone from his chest armor and brought it to the eyes of the patrolman.
"Heh, luckily, this spirit stone is a good thing, such a piece can be exchanged for a lot of supplies from the Beijin Department. The patrolman's grip on the hilt of the knife gradually loosened, and the unsheathed knife was also sent back, and he stepped forward to inspect the spirit stone.
The rest of the people also came over, holding it in their hands and looking at me, the light of the spirit stone reflected in their greedy eyes.
"Don't, hurry up and come back, I bought this with my life. Mu Chen snatched the spirit stone, he knew that the spirit stone was such a valuable item, if it was given to them, it would attract attention, so it was better to get it back quickly, and it was the best policy to slip away now.
"I've got to go back to sleep, you've worked so guard. He waved his hand at the patrolmen, and hurried into the camp with the giant scorpions.
The patrolmen looked back at him, their faces full of reluctance, and then they began to talk about it in a hurry.
After entering the camp, ten minutes away, a straight hardened stone path appeared on the originally soft sand, about two meters wide, with the edge slightly higher than the sand, and the tents set up on both sides were significantly more numerous and more regular than before.
"This is here, a spirit stone can make the cold-blooded and ruthless wasteland people take it lightly, it really underestimates the greed of human nature, and you can meet the wasteland king along this main passage. Mu Chen lay relaxed on the giant scorpion's back, with a disdainful smile on his face.
I walked for dozens of minutes like this, and by the light of the fire outside the tent, I vaguely saw a few busy figures, and when I got closer, I found that they were cleaning up the corpses of the monsters, and the huntress lifted the corpse of an armored lizardman, hung it on the wooden frame next to it, stripped off the hard armor on her body and put it aside, and then began to dismember, the purple-gray blood flowed down the boom, and they carried the cut meat to the trolley one by one, and each part was removed cleanly, not wasted at all, and finally the bones were piled together. The whole process is only a few minutes, hoisting, dismembering, handling, and sorting in one go, without any hesitation or procrastination.
"There are knives of all sizes for peeling off bones and bones, hangers to hold carcasses in place, and trolleys for transporting them, and this is supposed to be a place for slaughtering prey. I know a lot about the life of the wastelanders, and I know that they will use monsters as food, but it is the first time that I have seen the whole process of corpse disposal so clearly, it turns out that they live so carefully and carefully, it really does not match their fierce temperament at all. Mu Chen witnessed the whole process, and at the same time, the giant scorpion had already walked to the side of the huntress who was the main knife, and was about to pass by, when the meat knife in the huntress suddenly crossed in front of him.
"Why did you come back so late?"
"Again. Mu Chen thought to himself, so he repeated the reason for dealing with the patrol just now.
"Have you eaten, I happen to have meat here, and I'll give you a lizard leg. ”
"No thanks, I'm a little tired and ready to go back to bed. ”
"Where is your camp, can you help us get these over there. The huntress pointed to the right side of Mu Chen's direction with her finger, and then said, "We use the cart to push, and we have to go back and forth several times, I see that you are also going in this direction on your mount, just to help us." ”
"I just want to take advantage of the silence of the night to go to see the King of the Wasteland, how come I always encounter these unexpected things, this pile of lizard meat is disgusting to look at, and let me carry it to help her deliver the goods, it's really..."
Seeing that Mu Chen was stunned for a long time and didn't answer, the huntress said again: "Otherwise, I see that there are cracks on your shoulder pads, you help us transport it, I will give you the hard armor of the lizard man, and you can find an armor master to make another pair." ”
"It seems that I have been decided, and it will be useless to continue to shirk it, if it is exposed here, the gain will outweigh the loss. ”
"Not really, I'll send you. Mu Chen agreed to her request, got off the giant scorpion's back, and motioned for them to carry it up.
"Thank you, by the way, which clan are you from. The huntress asked as she looked at Mu Chen while packing the picked meat on the giant scorpion's back.
"I'll help you get the hard armor, this one is heavy. Mu Chen hurriedly diverted the topic and reached out to pick up the hard armor.
After a while, all the belongings were packed, and the huntress said, "All right, let's go." ”
There were a total of five huntresses, all of whom were covered in black veils, and the one who was talking to Mu Chen was the one who stood on the left side of the giant scorpion, leaning over and holding the loot on the back of the giant scorpion, followed by two pushing wooden carts, and then the two behind holding tools. Mu Chen stood on the right side of the giant scorpion, holding his hard armor with his hand, parallel to the huntress led by him.
"What kind of talent are you, what level have you reached. ”
"Like you, witcher, junior barren, hasn't fought much. ”
"The Witcher... It's a hunter, I've never heard of a witcher. The huntress looked at Mu Chen suspiciously.
"It's a hunter, you heard it wrong, what I just said is also a hunter, what kind of person you said to hunt, I didn't understand. He accidentally said something and quickly pretended to be stupid. There was a difference between the mercenary and the waster, and he rarely talked to the waster, forgetting these details for a moment.
"Oh, then I may have misheard, what is your name, which clan is it, the junior barren, it seems that you rarely go out to hunt. ”
"How far is your station, why are you still packing up your prey so late?" Mu Chen avoided her question again, thinking to himself why he hadn't been able to do it yet, and if he continued to ask like this, he would have to reveal his stuffing sooner or later.
"Just in front, the one holding the torch in front is here to pick us up, there are many people in our clan, this is what they brought back from hunting in the afternoon, I want to clean it up as soon as possible, I can eat it tomorrow, it's here." The huntress said as she stepped forward to greet her people.
"Thanks to the help of the hunter, he helped us carry them all back with his own mount, which saved us a lot of effort. The clansmen who came to pick them up held torches in their hands and nodded their heads to Mu Chen to express their gratitude.
"Hurry up and unload it, it's so late. ”
"It's too bright, and there are a lot of people, so hurry up after unloading, if it's debunked here, the fight will definitely be small. While Mu Chen thought so, he delivered them to her people one by one, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
The huntress carried it unhurriedly, and looked at Mu Chen with a smile from time to time, and said to her clansmen halfway: "After moving, you go back first, and I will send him." ”
"No need to send it, it's so late, you can go back too, I'll go by myself." ”
"It's okay, I just want to know which clan you're from and where your camp is. ”
"This time it's troublesome, I've been asking all the time since I didn't find anything, and it seems that I can only lead her to a secluded place to solve it. Mu Chen didn't want to entangle with her anymore, so he moved to kill.