As soon as the sun rose, the guards at the gates of Bologna opened the gates and allowed the travelers, who had been preparing for a long time, to leave the city, and only after they had all gone out could the procession from outside the city begin to enter the city.

Bologna was a thriving commercial city, and it had a wide range of goods, so that there were not only merchants doing business, but also nobles or servants of the nobility who had come from other territories to buy spices, treasures, and fine ingredients.

Among these travelers, there is also a group of people, who are stronger than the average person, wearing armor of varying quality, and have a variety of weapons in their hands, some of which are bonus equipment generated in functional buildings, and some of which are parts produced in blacksmiths and workshops, and the quality of these pieces is probably not as good as those bonus equipment, and the craftsmanship is not even as good as that of farm tools.

These people are known by many names - 'sword sellers', 'hyenas', 'free armies', 'wild warriors', and their official name should be 'mercenaries', and these guys come from as many different sources as the weapons in their hands, deserters who can't return to the army, wanted criminals, down-and-out civilians, young people who want to make a career with their swords, aristocrats who seek thrills, and madmen who like to kill......

Lords who don't usually manage their own territory like to hire these mercenaries to fight enemies when fighting, and many sizable mercenary groups even have their own functional construction camps, and their combat effectiveness is sometimes stronger than the lord's army.

In this age when there is always no shortage of wars, mercenaries can always find work, whether it is to protect caravans or to act as thugs.

Ice Hunter is now dressed as one of these people, and left Bologna City with the flow of people out of the city in the early morning, he is wearing a shoddy leather armor, only those incompetent hunters who can only fight rabbits all their lives will wear this kind of leather armor, this thing provides even less defense than a thick cotton coat, his slightly decent equipment is a pair of rusty iron gloves and a bronze helmet with no face protection, his only weapon is a well-maintained half-handed sword, there is no pattern on the sword, Even the forging method is a rotten technique, all in all, you don't want to find a trace of Bologna on Ice Hunt.

After following the crowd up the road for four or five miles, Ice Hunt quietly broke away from the group and walked northwest of Bologna.

At dusk, the red-haired boy found a suitable place to start camping, and when the bonfire went up, Ice Hunter opened his package and took a large bald head out of it, and then took out jerky and bread and began to fill his stomach.

"Northwest of Bologna, follow the map and you will come to a lawless zone, where there has been an interesting rumor that a building full of terrible monsters has suddenly fallen from the sky...... Those people in the church began to sneakily start to gather forces in that area, there were more than a dozen champion swordsmen alone, and many other forces also began to pay attention there, I want you to help me figure out what those guys are up for, if you can, try to make trouble for the people in the church, no matter what they do, don't let them succeed...... Of course, this is only a multiple-choice question, and bringing back intelligence is the main thing. ”

Ice Hunt couldn't help frowning as he struggled to bite the jerky while recalling the task assigned by Dio in his mind.

"It's really polite for that Dio to call someone here, there is absolutely no way to survive as a temporary worker under him, so you can only work as a regular worker."

"Who made you reluctant to even put on a show? That lord and you are just in partnership...... That's right. Why did you bring me out? Kazan wasn't as smart as a cat, but he couldn't take care of Knock and the imp. An Ci asked.

"I don't dare to put you by her side, and you know very well that your presence is exposed...... Knock knock is dangerous. ”

The taste of the dried beef prepared before leaving the city to be used as dry food was simply terrible, and Hongmao now missed the three-piece five-spiced beef jerky in his hometown, and after swallowing the tough, hard and ultra-salty dried meat with great difficulty, Bing Hunt continued to explain to the big bald head next to the fire.

"And according to the agreement, that guy will take care of Dongdong and Marisa when I leave, because this is just a gesture for him, and Marisa's identity can also protect Dongdong on a certain level, so that little guy will definitely not suffer."

"Hey! You trust that guy named Dior like that? What if he's a vile and sinister fellow? It's quite possible! ”

An Ci felt that he needed to remind the young man that there were many sinister and disguised people in this world.

"Don't worry. Even if that guy wants to do something, he has to escape Kazan's surveillance, he will always keep an eye on the situation in the Lord's Palace, and if things don't go well, he will lead Dongdong away, Kazan is very good at this, so I am relieved. ”

No one would have thought that the Tiger Meow left behind by Ice Hunt is a more shrewd guy than a human, and the appearance of the cat can allow him to go in and out of many places, eavesdropping and monitoring the situation of the Lord's Mansion, which is a kind of early warning, and it is a layer of protection left by Ice Hunt for Dongdong.

"And that Dior gave me a lot of money, and this kind of down-payment behavior is just to let me work with peace of mind."

As he spoke, Red Fur put down the jerky in his hand, untied a small pocket from his waist and opened it, only to see that it was filled with glass beads of several colors, and Bing Hunt took out a red glass bead and put it in front of him, and said in a somewhat funny tone.

"When Uncle Blue handed me this bag of ghost stuff, I thought I had been caught. I didn't expect it......"

In this world, wood, stone, food, and gold are all important resources that can drive functional buildings and train soldiers from military camps, especially gold...... Not only can it be converted into other resources through the market, but it is also a necessary resource for training strong soldiers, and no matter how unscrupulous the lord is, he will not allow this kind of oil material whose value surpasses that of modern civilization to circulate in his territory, so the people here must use other general equivalents...... Thus, this kind of colored beads that have been originally tempered appeared.

Red glass beads have the highest face value because they are mixed with a small amount of gold, and they can be regarded as gold coins and are called 'gold bullets'.

The slightly whitish glass beads are mixed with silver, and its face value is lower than that of the 'gold bullet', and it is called the 'silver bullet'...... Then there were the green copper bullets and the black iron bullets, which were indistinguishable from the dollar and handful of things in the shop at the school gate in Bing Hunt's eyes, but here they had become valuable currency, and Red Fur suddenly felt that he could also regard money as dung.

Later, Ice Hunt, who felt that it was novel, also asked Bru Hearn, who had traveled far and wide, about the currency of other places.

In the countries of the East, the currency used by people is the by-product of firing high-quality ceramics - porcelain tiles, the unit is a block, ten yuan can buy a fat pig, these porcelain tiles can be used even if they are broken, which gives rise to another unit of calculation - two, two is much lower than the face value of the block, and the relationship between the two sides is similar to the whole money and the steel hammer...... The red hairs were stupid.

This is not the thunderest, Bru Hearn also said that in the west of Europa, on the other side of the continent of the sea, there are also many primitive peoples, and the currency they use is actually the feathers of rare birds that have been processed, and the unit of currency is hair, but the people there are generally very poor, and those who are worth more than five cents can be called rich, which is a thing that makes people laugh and cry.

Putting the beads back in the bag and carefully putting them away, it was a lot of money, and Ice Hunt turned to look in the direction of Bologna.

'I wonder how she is doing now?' I'm afraid she'll be scared when I'm gone, right? Sure enough, I'm still a little worried......

I have to say that Ice Hunt is quite qualified as the guardian of Dongdong, that witch lady is not wrong at all, Xiao Maoyu is really scared now, after Ice Hunt left in the morning, she was the only one left in the huge room, and the noble Marisa was arranged in another room, and there were the best guards to protect ...... Of course, she herself does not know this.

The terrible experience of being imprisoned in the cell was recalled again, Dong Dong rolled around on the bed and there was no way to sleep peacefully, the big bed in the guest room of the Lord's Mansion was much more comfortable than the broken bed in the Fog and Rain Village, but the shadow left by the cell made the little guy very uneasy.

Although the area of this room is very large, but Dong Dong still feels a sense of being bound, which is different from living alone in the community, when Dong Dong is in the community, he can always listen to the occasional sound of people outside, the sound of cars and fall asleep peacefully, if it is too quiet, Dong Dong will also turn on the thing called the TV, and fall asleep while listening to the sound inside.

Although the lord of Bologna was a troublemaker, the lord's palace was a solemn place, so after night, except for the guards on patrol and the servants on night watch, the whole mansion was as quiet as a haunted mansion.

Xiao Maoyu, who couldn't sleep, got out of bed barefoot, she came to the window and opened the curtains to look up at the stars in the sky, but the craftsmanship of the craftsmen in this world to produce glass is not very good, and the starry sky seen through the glass has a strange distortion and blur.

But it didn't matter to Dong Dong whether she could see the stars clearly, she just wanted to do something to dispel the nasty feeling in her heart, Dong Dong, who only had a pajama on her body, quickly shivered, and the world had not yet developed a convenient thing like heating.

At this time, she suddenly heard a cat meow, and then saw a black shadow from the hidden door into the house, this black shadow went straight to Dongdong's feet, rubbing affectionately on her calves, Xiao Maoyu leaned down to pick it up, the black shadow just purred a few times and curled up comfortably in Dongdong's arms, it seemed to enjoy Xiao Maoyu's arms very much.

"Ice Hunt is gone, and Mr. Anci is also gone, so let me wait here for him to come back. When will they come back? Knock Knock went back to bed, stroked Kazan's head and asked it in a pitiful tone, as if the cats could answer her questions.

Of course, Kazan knew when Ice Hunt would come back, but the cats couldn't speak, and it didn't want to tell Dongdong about these things, because what Ice Hunt was going to do this time was not a tour, and it was a big risk, and if something unexpected happened, it was normal to postpone it for ten days and a half months, and Kazan didn't want Dongdong to worry about the accident.

After Kazan appeared beside her, Dongdong felt a lot more comfortable, and the bad feeling gradually dissipated, so she felt that her eyelids became a little heavy, and the little guy rubbed her eyes sleepily, and then hugged Tigerskin Meow back to the bed.

This time, the little one quickly fell asleep, and Kazan waited until Dongdong fell asleep before getting out of her arms, and it was not a comfortable thing for a cat to be smothered under the covers.

Kazan jumped out of bed lightly, and very vigilantly circled around the room, and then jumped back on the bed, and he came to the side of the pillow and lay down and began to nap - although the cat is a nocturnal animal, Kazan is not a pure cat, it is still used to sleeping at night, at most it is relatively late.

When the sky was still bright, Dong Dong opened her eyes, she looked listless, not full of sleep at all, and the ball of cat balls on the side of her pillow was still sleeping very dead, from time to time from the cat ball to the cat twist, cat sea cucumber, and finally back into the shape of the cat ball......

Knock Knock crawled out of bed lightly, trying not to wake the kitten, and soon the little one changed his clothes and walked out of the room.

It was only about five or six o'clock, and the whole of Bologna was still in the stage of awakening, the diligent housewives began to cook breakfast for their husbands and children, the soldiers in the barracks began to go out under the supervision of the battalion commander, the guys in the shops began to clean the façade and load the goods, and the guards who stood all night in the cold wind at the city gate and the watchtower handed over to their comrades with a tired face, everyone had their own things to do, but Dongdong found that he did not know what he should do now.

Marisa is supposed to be still sleeping, so she can't be bothered, and Kazan is still sleeping...... As a guest, Dongdong doesn't need to work, and even if she wants to help the servants of the lord's mansion, she will be politely refused.

It's a much bigger and more complex group than the 'Lucky House', and even if Dongdong wants to fit in, he doesn't know how to act.

Dong Dong wandered around the lord's mansion with nothing to do, and finally came to the backyard of the mansion, and the cold air outside made Dong Dong's head sober up a little.

Knock seemed to hear a sharp sound across the air, and the little one, who didn't know what to do, followed the sound into the depths of the yard, and the closer she went, the clearer the shrill whistling became, and so she came to a man-made hedge.

Theodoric practiced archery every morning at the shooting range of the Lord's House, a unique hobby for a Goth lord, a habit he had developed from his father's best friend, a Briton duke.

Soon after the outbreak of the war, the former lord, who had a premonition that the situation was not good, sent Dio and his sister to the isolated islands of the Britons to be cared for by his friend, who was a powerful nobleman in the British kingdom, a powerful warrior and a capable ruler, and learned a lot from them, from how to manage the territory, how to collect money more efficiently through trade, to how to organize armies to fight......

The childless man treated the Hearn siblings as if they were his own son, and he taught him the knowledge of which he was proud, including the secret court longbow of the British royal family, which Dior was practising.

The maximum range of the longbow is more than 300 meters, and Dio is not willing to come out of such a large shooting range in Bologna, so the distance between the shooting range and the target in this manor is only seventy-five meters, which is not used to exercise archery skills at all, at best, it can only be used to exercise the body.

At this distance, Theodoric felt like he could hit the bullseye with his eyes closed.

Today, however, the lord slipped his hand, and the arrow missed the target and flew into the fence behind him, and then he heard a frightened exclamation.

"Huh?"

'Oh my God! Did I at anyone? Didn't I say don't approach in the morning when you're practicing archery? ’

Dio hurriedly threw down his longbow and ran in the direction of the target, and when he looked through the fence, he saw a little girl with black hair sitting on the ground with a blank expression, and the off-target sword was nailed to the ground in front of her.

'Good ......'

Dio first wiped a sweat in his heart, and then began to teach Dong Dong, who still didn't understand what was going on, with a fierce attitude.

"You little girl, what are you running around early in the morning? Do you know how dangerous it was just now? ”

Dongdong looked at this angry person, she didn't react to the reason for the other party's anger, so she had to show a silly smile.

"Hey~"

"You almost died just now, you're still in the mood, hehe!!!!!!!!!!!"

Interrupted by this little guy, Dior was in no mood to practice archery now, he began to maintain the purple-shirted longbow in his hand with a tiger face, and Dongdong consciously followed the unhappy lord as if he had found something interesting, watching with interest how he loosened the longbow.

"What do you see? This isn't a child's toy, would you use this? ”

Impatient to be watched, Dio tried to get rid of the little imp who was not at all as cute as his sister.

Who knew that Dong Dong not only didn't hear the meaning of Dior's drive at all, but said very confidently.

"I can use a bow, and I can shoot arrows! A lot of people boast that Dongdong is very good at archery! ”

Lord Theodoric snorted twice, then picked up a small children's practice bow from the bow rack and threw it to Little Maoyu.

"Did you see the target on the other side? If you can shoot, I'll grant you a wish...... Scold! If you do shoot, I'll eat my bow! ”

Dongdong's appearance is very deceptive, and anyone who sees her at first glance will think that she is a pampered child, and Theodoric also thinks of the girl as a lying bear child.

Then, with a playful expression, he watched as Dong Dong pulled out the bow in his hand......

……

When the sun has fully risen, the inhabitants of the city of Bologna have also started their busy and fulfilling day.

A servant came to the archery range of the mansion, he had come to invite the lord to breakfast, but he always felt that the lord's face was a little unpleasant today.

"Your Lordship...... Breakfast is ready. Lord Blue and Miss Blue are waiting for you in the restaurant. ”

“…… Oh"

"Lord...... My lord? ”

“…… Oh"

Dio replied as he stared at the purple-shirted longbow in his hand.

'Purple Shirt Wood...... You should be able to eat it with salad, right? ’