Chapter 10: The Arrow Boy and the Plague Island!
Rog put his hand on a large tree near where the sharpshooter had just stood, and silently closed his eyes, as if feeling something.
"Wow, Rogge, can you communicate with the tree? I didn't even know you had this ability! Rhona was surprised and excited.
Rogge opened his eyes, shook his head, and said, "No, I can only feel a little bit of these trees' vague consciousness now, and it's still far from communicating with them...... Perhaps, when I reach the realm of Devil Fruit Awakening, I will be able to truly achieve that......"
"Oh." Rona replied with some disappointment, and hurriedly asked, "Then what did you feel?" ”
"Their fear of a certain direction ......" Rogge smiled: "All animals living in primeval forests do not actively destroy trees, the only creatures that need to cut down trees are we humans ......"
Rhona's eyes lit up: "So, these big trees will be afraid of the direction that those humans come from!" ”
"Got it right......"
Rogge smiled and rubbed Rhona's hair, and walked in the direction he sensed, Rhona touched her head, paused slightly, and then pouted and followed Roger.
Along the way, whenever Rogge can't find the direction, he will feel the vague consciousness of the trees in the forest, although this is a dense and boundless primeval forest, ordinary people may lose their way as soon as they come in, let alone find a specific location, but for Rogge, it is a unique advantage.
The brother and sister gradually went deeper into the primeval jungle, and occasionally the beasts tried to feed on them, but they were all repelled and defeated by Rogge, but the two also found that the beasts here seemed to be strange species, and they were rarely seen by the outside world.
Until the sun gradually turned west, the already very dark forest, and it became more and more difficult to see the direction.
Lorna took out the torch she had prepared in her backpack, lit it gently, and cautiously followed behind Rogge.
Just as the two of them gradually felt that they were approaching a certain place, suddenly there was a squirming sound in front of them, as if someone was about to appear.
Rog stopped, and Rhona nervously hugged his arm.
"Outsiders, stop, can't go any further."
A voice, coming from a distance of 100 meters, although it seemed to be a mask or something that made the voice a little dull, and the pronunciation was a little strange, but it was still clearly audible, it was the voice of a young man.
The brother and sister looked ahead, but only the faint light of the torches was there, and it was still dark a hundred meters away, and nothing could be seen.
"Who is it? Is it the one who just saved me? Rhona still hugged Rogge's arm tightly, but asked loudly forward.
There was silence in the distance.
"Please show up, our brother and sister are just passing by here by chance, and there is no malice!" Rogge also whispered tentatively in the direction of the comer.
"Here, it's dangerous, and you don't see outsiders." The voice said in a strange way.
Rogge said, "Okay, I'm sorry we broke into here, but we really don't mean anything, it's just that you just saved my sister, and she just wants to say thank you." ”
"yes, can you show up?" Rhona let go of Rog's arm, looking forward to looking into the darkness beyond.
There was silence again.
"I, show up, you guys, go back."
After a while, the voice spoke strangely.
Rogge understood what he meant, so that after his brother and sister saw him appear, they could not continue to walk forward, and turned back to leave here.
"Okay, we promise you." Rogge replied.
After a while, a burst of fire lit up in the place a hundred meters away, and a young man raised a torch, reflecting his own figure.
It seemed that the boy was about the same age as Rogge, taller than Rogge, well-proportioned and straight, but he was dressed in clothes made of broken pieces of cloth, and even his face was masked, and only a pair of eyes could be seen.
Rona looked at the young man, and saw that he was carrying a longbow and a quiver behind him, and he understood that it was indeed this young man who saved him, so he said sincerely: "Thank you just now, if it weren't for you, I would have been bitten by that wolf, thank you very much!" ”
The young man was silent for a long time, and finally nodded.
Rhona laughed happily when he responded.
Seeing that he was embarrassed, the two decided not to get to the bottom of the matter, and prepared to go back to their ship.
And yet at this very moment......
Suddenly, there was a sound in the forest in the distance, and it seemed that someone was approaching quickly, and the young man's body trembled, and his eyes widened, as if he was very frightened.
"Lars! You actually violated the general's orders and contacted outsiders without permission! And saved the girl's life! It's a capital offense, you know?! ”
There was the clatter of hooves in the distance, and then a group of fires flickered, and seven or eight wild horses flashed out of the forest, and above them were samurai in armor, all with torches in one hand and swords in the other, and viciously surrounded the young archer.
The young man's eyes widened, the beads of sweat on his forehead rolled down drop by drop, and he hurriedly waved his hand and shook his head, vigorously denying it: "I, I didn't mean to...... Deliberate ......"
"Whether you do it intentionally or unintentionally, in short, you have violated the first iron law of our Arosso Kingdom and must be judged!" The samurai in the lead stabbed his iron sword out and pointed it at the young man.
"Hey, it's our fault, he just saw that I was going to be attacked by the ancient wolf, so he couldn't help but come to the rescue......" Rona couldn't help but speak.
The cavalry captain glanced at the two Rogge siblings: "Hehe, do you think you are qualified to intercede for Lars?" If you dare to trespass into the kingdom of Alosso, you two will also be dead! Grab both of them for me! ”
"Yes!"
As soon as the words fell, the eight cavalrymen behind him had already shouted and rushed towards the two Rogge brothers and sisters, the iron swords in their hands reflecting the light of the torches, flashing and stabbing at the two!
The light of the torch reflected in Rogge's eyes also flashed, and the person had already rushed forward, gently pulling out the thunder tooth blade on his waist, looking into the air, and with a bang, the swords intersected, cutting out a stream of fireworks and splashing ......
Then Rogge kicked hard, and with the help of the force of the intersection of the two swords, his waist twisted hard, and his feet were already in the air, and he kicked one of the cavalrymen off his horse with a plop.
"Rhona, come up!"
Rog rode to Rona's side, gently stretched out his hand, Rona grabbed it, and Rogue got on the horse, and the brother and sister were about to leave.
However, the remaining cavalry behind them pursued them and immediately caught up.
What's more......
At this moment the young man suddenly let out a cry, painful and miserable, and it was extremely miserable in the night that had gradually fallen.
"I ...... I don't want to die! Save...... Help me! ”
Rog looked behind him on top of his horse, and saw that the boy had been knocked to the ground by the cavalry captain, and was constantly punching and kicking, and in a moment he was covered in blood......
"Ah......h
Rogge's anger surged, and finally he couldn't do anything about it, so he immediately turned around and rushed in the direction of the young man.
Several cavalrymen who had been pursuing immediately met them.
Rogge immediately cast the Eight Directions Fist Do, dodging the sword blade in front of him, and threw a punch that knocked the cavalryman off his horse; Then the Thunderfang's blade slashed sideways, blocking an incoming sword.
"Drink!"
Rogge exerted his strength slightly, and an astonishing force erupted from the blade of the thunder fang, and the two swords were instantly knocked out, and the two cavalrymen who refused to let go also fell off their horses.
"Damn! Stop this intruder! ”
One of the cavalrymen shouted, and the sword in his hand stabbed at the leg of the horse on which the two brothers and sisters were riding, and Rogge did not wait for him to stab out, but flew up, and with a whoosh, kicked out directly, kicking the man off his horse.
"Save ...... Save me! ”
At this moment, the young man had been beaten all over by the cavalry captain, and the captain saw that Rogge was brave, snorted coldly, left the young man who collapsed to the ground, and strode towards Rogge.
"Damn intruder, just run away, and dare to come back and receive your death!"
He threw a punch, wearing gloves made of steel, the power was fierce, and the shot was even more ruthless, directly hitting the head of the horse that was coming forward!
Rumble!
With a scream, the horse's skull shattered, and he suddenly became unsteady on his feet, rushed forward a few more steps, and finally staggered to the ground, unable to stand up again.
The two brothers and sisters jumped lightly and fell off the horse, and Lorna looked at the collapsed horse with some distress and sighed; Rog had already slashed at the cavalry captain's iron fist.
Sonor!
The crisp sound of the gold and iron clashing came out, and the Thunder Tooth Blade drew a dazzling spark on the captain's iron fist, and the captain was even more hit by the power of Rogge's knife and retreated again and again, until he retreated seven or eight steps before stopping.
Rog immediately stepped forward and took advantage of the situation to walk to the young man's side, and Rona also caught up, and the two of them went one after the other, protecting the young man between the two.
"Damn! How could this kid be so powerful! The captain has always been proud of his strength and is known as "Captain Iron Fist", but he didn't expect to be beaten so badly by Rogge under one blow.
"Don't ...... Don't touch me......"
The young man, seeing that Rhona was about to come to his aid, suddenly struggled to open his eyes, shouted fiercely, and frantically waved his arms to stop her from approaching.
"How...... What's wrong? Rhona was startled and took a step back.
At this moment, the brother and sister were closer, and under the reflection of many torches, they finally saw the young man's face clearly, and the mask that covered the young man's face seemed to have fallen from the battle with the captain just now, revealing his true face.
Rogge and the others took a look at it and couldn't help but exclaim.
It turned out that the young man's face was black, and there were many sores, which was shocking, and that kind of blackness was obviously not a natural complexion, but some extremely violent disease!
"Hahahaha! It's late! You two damn imps, you're really going to die by yourself! Not only have you entered here without permission, but you have also come into close contact with Lars, who has already been infected with this 'black blood plague'! Even if I don't arrest you, you won't live long! The captain endured the sharp pain in his fist and stepped forward and laughed.
"Black Blood...... Pestilence?! ”