Chapter 134: Take a Risk

Following the footprints left by two suspicious men, Isabelle, who maintained a high level of vigilance, slowly walked into the large pristine forest in front of her. Before entering the woods, she did think about the possibility that she might be killed. However, she quickly put this lack of confidence behind her, and she firmly believed that she would not be killed so easily.

Holding the back of the bow in his left hand, he moved back and forth with his right hand with the three fingers of the archery finger cover. He glanced back at Herbert, who was staying at the edge of the woods with two horses, nodded calmly, and walked towards the depths of the forest. Effortlessly weaving through the low bushes, nimbly jumping over rotting tree trunks lying on the ground, no amount of difficulty could stop her determination.

After entering the depths of the forest, sometimes crouching down and quietly listening to the various sounds in the woods, sometimes quietly avoiding one or two European red deer passing nearby or sika deer foraging. She felt lucky that so far everything had gone well, not even the extremely lethal wild boar.

As he quietly walked forward, he nervously thought, "Where are these two guys hiding?" ”

"Bushes? There seems to be such a possibility. At this moment, though, Ferguson was driving his prey around with his would-be knight brothers. Are they really not afraid of being discovered by the would-be knights? ”

"Could it be that they know how to use natural camouflage, plant camouflage, and artificial camouflage in camouflage to conceal themselves?" When she thought of this, Isabel also felt that her thoughts were a little too crazy.

Then he shook his head and said to himself, "My God, what era is this?" If the soldiers or armed civilians of this era had learned and used camouflage in actual combat, hot weapons would have appeared on the territory of England at the end of the Middle Ages. ”

"Damn, how could I have forgotten that?"

"The soldiers of this era may have learned how to use natural camouflage to conceal themselves."

Natural camouflage refers to the use of natural conditions such as terrain, features, darkness at night, and poor visibility (e.g., fog, wind, snow, rain) to conceal or reduce the visibility of a target. Judging by the current natural conditions, Isabel believes that these two guys will definitely use the tangible thing on the ground - the forest to hide themselves.

After suddenly figuring out the problem, Isabel felt that her confidence in defeating her opponent had invisibly increased a little. In the ensuing slow search, she began to consciously intensify her observation of the branches in mid-air.

At that moment, she felt the ground beneath her feet suddenly begin to shake slightly. In an instant, the tremor seemed to grow stronger, shaking her mind like thousands of horses galloping.

"God, what's going on?" Isabel exclaimed to herself. While she was nervous, she suddenly noticed that some solid, forked horns that only cervids would have flashed in the depths of the forest.

"Damn, it must have been Ferguson and the Guards guys who disturbed the herds of European red deer." Isabel grumbled as she hurriedly looked at the obstacles around her that she could use to avoid the large deer-like animals that resembled horses.

Before she could find a suitable obstacle, a large herd of horned male European red deer mixed with several hornless female European red deer rushed in her direction. Seeing the danger approaching, Isabel spotted an 82-foot (about 25-meter) tall oak tree a few steps to her right running like the wind. She had to survive safely before the European red deer trampled herself flat.

Isabel Walton held her longbow vertically to her chest and pressed her body against the thick trunk of the oak tree. It was only a matter of moments, and I saw countless European red deer running and jumping from the grass on both sides of her in the direction she had entered the woods.

After more than ten seconds, this majestic and magnificent natural scene finally disappeared from view. Isabel let out a long breath and let go of her clenched longbow, slowly raising her head to relax her tense nerves. Just as she poked out half of her head to check whether there were any European red deer passing by, she unexpectedly found the "hunting target" that she had been looking for for a long time.

It is a great blessing to be able to find a target in this large temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest full of oak, beech, maple, ash, linden, birch and other tree species. Coupled with the fact that the target is hidden in a tree branch in mid-air, this is the equivalent of buying a lottery ticket for Isabel that will win the $1 million jackpot 100% of the time.

Once again, Tika, the goddess of luck, favored her. When she peeked out from behind the tree, she saw a man with an English longbow leaning on a branch 33 feet (about 10 meters) above the ground, facing to the right, as if to say something.

"This guy must be talking to his accomplice, then his accomplice will be hiding in ......" Isabel looked at the point of the man who spoke, and couldn't help but be surprised: "God, his accomplice is hiding in this tree where I am hiding."

It won't be too difficult to take out two guys. It's just that when she kills a man with a heavy arrow from her longbow, his accomplices may take the opportunity to escape. If one escapes, Isabel is sure she'll get through every day in fear. On the contrary, if the accomplice did not choose to run away and engaged her in a bloody fight, it would be the best situation to catch her alive.

She decided to take a risk, a risk that she could fail. At this moment, she leaned out half of her face and looked at the man holding the longbow several times "affectionately", and slowly adjusted her breathing

Calm down, close your eyes, and meditate in your mind about the direction of the man with the longbow. Later, she walked calmly from behind the tree to the ground as far as the man with the longbow could see. Raising his head to face the direction of two o'clock in mid-air, he shouted, "Hey, you, are you looking for me?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the man with the longbow spotted Isabel standing on the ground. After glancing at his accomplice on the right who was also sitting on the branch on the right, he did not hesitate to draw his bow and shoot a heavy arrow at her.

When the enemy's arrow was about to hit Isabel, she rolled forward on the spot and dodged it. The moment he got up, his right hand pulled out a heavy arrow from the quiver behind him and placed it on the string of the longbow held in his left hand.

With a whoosh, a heavy arrow shot into the air instantly pierced through the tree branch at a speed of more than 88 yards (about 80 meters) per second, penetrating the enemy's right thigh and nailing the guy directly to the branch.

Suddenly, the painful cries of the enemy echoed almost throughout the woods. The accomplice, who was hiding on another branch in a parallel position, immediately stood up and cried out very sadly: "No ......! ”

When Isabel stared at the screaming man and feared that he would run away, the enemy she shot in the thigh could no longer bear the sharp pain of the arrow, and closed her eyes in agony, rolled over and fell to the ground.

If you fall from mid-air and fall to the ground, you die. But now it was that he had indeed fallen from the branch, but his right leg was still attached to the branch by the heavy arrow. The whole person is suspended in mid-air, but his right leg is "artificially" connected to the branch, such a scene looks a little scary.