Chapter 75: The Long Night (7)
After carefully confirming that there was no one outside the house, Su Ruoying reluctantly tied the crowbar to the quilt outside her backpack before leaving.
"You're going to make yourself slower and slower!" This crowbar weighed nearly 3 catties, and Luo Fei saw that Su Ruoying was a little staggering when she walked with the jar in both hands, so he reminded her.
"Who knows if there will be a cabinet to pry in the future, but there will be crowbars for you everywhere!" Su Ruoying still didn't want to give up and said.
At this time, it was already dawn, and Luo Fei, who shook his head, finally persuaded Su Ruoying to let him carry this crowbar, and at the same time lost the "knight's sword", so as not to carry both of them and he couldn't stand it.
Continue to the south along the road in front of the wooden house, and at a corner after walking more than ten meters, the two found a three-meter-wide river in front of them.
The river has long since frozen to ice, and the simple wooden bridge above it has no railings. The two saw that on the other side of the river, there was an upright wooden sign standing there.
"Will it show us the way to find the town of Criss?" Luo Fei held a metal axe in front of him as he spoke, and crossed the wooden bridge with Su Ruoying.
"82 km from the small town of Criss." After Luo Fei read out the logo that had been automatically translated by the system, Su Ruoying said happily in the back: "It seems that this distance is completely within our control!" ”
However, Luo Fei did not immediately agree, he sighed, dodged the position blocking the sign and said to Su Ruoying: "Look at the words below!" ”
Su Ruoying stepped forward suspiciously, and saw a few rows of small characters under the logo:
"Poor lost man, if you get lost in the forest and find here, you are in good luck, it means that you are saved!
A short distance after crossing this small bridge, you will find a small wooden house, which I spend three days a week in. Of course, it doesn't matter when I'm not there, the key is glued to the back of the wooden sign, and you can enjoy the food and water in the house as you like when you enter the house.
But please note: don't destroy the iron cabinet in my house, and don't be too greedy, or God will punish you!! ”
After reading the last few words, Su Ruoying's face suddenly turned pale.
"It turns out that the NPC can't disbelieve everything he says。。。。。。" She said to Luo Fei depressedly, "It seems that we have to avoid encountering the owner of the wooden house, if he sees the axe in your hand, then everything will be understood!" ”
But off-road, walking in the dense forest will obviously slow down the speed of the two. And if you deviate less, you may still be discovered by the owner of the wooden house, and if you deviate too much, you are likely to get lost, which will be worse.
"Should we go into the forest or follow the road?" Luo Fei found that since entering this script, he and Su Ruoying have done too many multiple-choice questions.
Last night, he and Su Ruoying chose to forcibly enter the house, so they got food, drink, and a place to warm up and sleep.
He now understood that if the three of them had given up on entering the house and continued along the road, they would have been given a key and a hint of the indestructible iron cabinet.
Of course, even if the three of them forced their way into the house, if Su Ruoying hadn't chosen to pry open the iron cabinet, she would still be able to learn the truth about the wooden house now, and she wouldn't have to be afraid of meeting the owner of the wooden house on the road.
"Damn it! According to the development of the plot, this NPC must have seen the content of this sign with a torch when passing by here! Seeing that Luo Fei didn't make a suggestion for a long time, Su Ruoying began to attribute the reason why things got worse to Carl: "He can obviously go back to the wooden house and tell us the truth!" ”
"Maybe after he left angrily, the system would have decided that no one would stop you from priing open the iron cabinet!" After Luo Fei sighed, he comforted Su Ruoying more positively and said, "At least now we have four additional boxes of canned beef and a metal axe that can be used for logging, so that even if we need to camp tonight, it shouldn't be a problem to have enough wood or even build a simple small campsite!" ”
"Shall we continue walking or follow the woods now?" Su Ruoying, who was reluctant to make any more decisions, said to Luo Fei with some discouragement: "You took me with you this script, so you still have to make important decisions." ”
"Hey, hey!" Luo Fei thought to himself: "You didn't think that way when you decided to pry the iron cabinet and take Carl away, right!" ”
Of course, seeing that Su Ruoying was a little depressed at this time, and the tone of letting herself make decisions was more dependent than orderly, Luo Fei still couldn't bear to turn over old accounts to a girl.
He thought for a moment, and then said to Su Ruoying: "It's a pity that this axe is not a take-out item and can't be placed in the inventory." ”
Saying that, he squatted down and put down the backpack, stuffed the axe into the quilt tied to the backpack, and carefully fixed it before saying to Su Ruoying: "The axe can be hidden like this first, but the crowbar must not be carried on the body!" ”
"You mean we're going to keep going down the main road?" Su Ruoying didn't give up the crowbar this time, but asked Luo Feidao.
"Yes, after all, it's 82 kilometers from the small town of Cress, and we don't have much to eat. We still have to walk along the main road, in case we meet the owner of the wooden house with a shotgun, as long as he does not find out that we have pried open the iron cabinet, there is still a chance to get by. Luo Fei nodded and said with determination.
"Alright! But we'll have to plan carefully on the road, what to say in case we run across. After Su Ruoying agreed, she was about to throw the two boxes of shotgun bullets she was carrying in her backpack into the forest.
"No need to throw it." Luo Fei stopped her: "Let's go back now, put the crowbar and bullets back in the hut, maybe the owner of the wooden house will see less and throw some things, and the probability of going back and chasing us will be smaller." ”
Su Ruoying, the mastermind of the prying cabinet, did not raise any objections, although she still thought in her heart that since the iron cabinet had been pried open, the fact of being chased and killed was unavoidable.
The two returned to the hut and not only put the crowbar back under the bed, but also put a lighter back in the drawer of the table at the same time as the shotgun bullets.
After setting off again, both of them turned off their phones to save power, and as they walked, they planned what to do if they encountered a hunter who couldn't hide.
I don't know how long it took to walk, the two who felt tired were going to sit on the side of the road to replenish water and rest for a while, and when they looked at the time on their mobile phones and continued to hurry, Luo Fei saw a middle-aged man wearing a blue down jacket with a shotgun on his back walking in front of him.
"Sure enough, I met it!" As Luo Fei spoke, the two of them prepared to move into the dense forest next to them, intending to dodge.
Before moving, Su Ruoying didn't forget to give Luo Fei a can of water that she had been holding to drink, so that she could move faster with the jars.
But it was clear that the hunter had seen them too. Luo Fei saw that he was obviously changing from walking to running, and while running, he smiled and waved to the two and shouted, "Don't be afraid, friends!" I can help you get to Chrissy faster!! ”
The words "Chris" seemed to have magical power, making the two who were about to rush into the dense forest hesitate again.
"Calm down, as planned." Seeing that this "hunter" does not seem to have malicious intent, and it is likely to be an important NPC for the two of them to go to Chriss' Town in the future, the two only hesitated for a moment and lost the best time to open a safe distance.
So soon the two sides met on the road, and the middle-aged man took off the shotgun on his back and rested on the ground, and said to the two enthusiastically: "Hi! My friend, did you see my hut when you came from the north? ”
"See! We also ate the yellow peaches and canned beef from your house, thank you so much for your hospitality! Because they were afraid that the middle-aged man would meet Carl first and find out the truth, they still did not deny the middle-aged man entering the wooden house in their plan.
"But you don't seem to be satisfied with those four cans!" The middle-aged man suddenly took a step back, raised the shotgun on the ground and said to the two of them: "Your kind companions have exposed your crimes, now you all go to hell together!" ”