20. On the importance of secondary weapons
"Hey, good morning, how's the situation around?" Early in the morning, Thomas, who was standing guard, looked at Lin Wen with a tired face and asked loudly.
"I wiped out the fish-man villages on the shores of Lake Falling Stars, and these are their scales." Lin Wen took out a large handful of scales from his backpack and threw them on the ground, and the air was suddenly filled with a strong fishy smell.
"Extermination? You killed the fish-people of a village by yourself? Looking at the large pile of scales on the ground, Thomas was very surprised, "How did you do that?" ”
"Actually, it's very simple, the fish-people can't climb trees, so I climbed up the trees and shot them to death one by one." Lin Wen pointed to the butt of the gun behind him, "By the way, there is another matter." Lin Wen dug into his backpack again and took out two nameplates worn by thin iron chains, "I found the other two soldiers, but unfortunately I found them next to the fish-man village, and they were almost eaten by the time I found them." ”
"Rolf, Maracay......" Thomas took the nameplate and whispered a few words, then clenched his fists hard. You confirmed my fears and thank you for avenging them. ”
Thomas put away the nameplate, then took out a mark from his backpack that exuded faint magic fluctuations and handed it to Lin Wen: "In recognition of your wisdom and bravery, I gave you this mark, it should be very good to use on armor." You can give it to Miss Sara in the western lumberyard, and she will make you a suitable piece of armor, and may the Light bless you. ”
"Thank you." Lin Wen took the task reward and the scroll with the marking, said goodbye to Thomas, and walked towards the west side of the bridge.
A large area of forest near Medin City is called the Starry Forest, the tall and large trees in the Starry Forest provide sufficient timber for the development of Medin City, and the lumber yard is where these trees are processed, and people have built a small settlement around the lumber yard for decades.
"Well, an old warehouse." Lin Wen walked past a dilapidated warehouse, and suddenly remembered something, wasn't that wanted criminal James Clark seen next to an abandoned warehouse?
Lin Wen took out the map and compared it, and found that there was only this warehouse nearby. Even if the wanted criminal isn't in it, you can still find a clue.
Holding a gun, Lin Wen carefully pushed open the dilapidated door of the warehouse, the long-abandoned warehouse looked dilapidated and dim, it was full of dust and cobwebs, and there was a musty smell in the air, Lin Wen carefully inspected the corner of the warehouse, and finally found a ball of straw with deep indentations in the innermost part of the warehouse, and a small pile of ashes next to it, as if someone had lived here.
Lin Wen touched the straw ball and was surprised to find that it was still warm on it, which proved that someone was lying on it just now.
At this moment, a sudden change occurred, and Lin Wen felt a black shadow flash in front of him, and then a strong feeling of suffocation surged into his brain.
"It's really unforgiving, little guy, dare to come out and mix before the hair grows?" A hoarse male voice came with a sour smell. James Clarke's muscles bulged in his hands, and he grabbed a thick hemp rope to tighten the neck of the adventurer in front of him, and in a matter of seconds, the reckless little creature would become a corpse.
The biggest danger of being strangled in the neck is not poor breathing, but insufficient blood supply to the brain, compared to suffocation, cerebral hypoxia leads to coma for only a few seconds, and Lin Wen's health value began to fall down one by one. At this moment of crisis, Lin Wen grabbed the hemp rope wrapped around his neck with one hand and the stones on the ground with the other.
Seeing that the prey was still struggling, James snorted coldly and pulled back hard, pressing Lin Wen under him.
Being pressed by such a fall, coupled with the suffocating vertigo, Lin Wen almost fainted, bit his tongue violently to regain a trace of clarity, and then let go of the left hand holding the hemp rope and pulled out the dagger on his leg and stabbed it into the crook of James's leg with his backhand.
"Ahh James screamed in pain, and the hemp rope in his hand loosened. Lin Wen, who breathed a sigh of relief, couldn't care about the sour smell on James's body, opened his mouth and bit James's wrist fiercely.
Being bitten by Lin Wen on the tendon, James's entire left hand was numb, and the hemp rope held in his hand suddenly fell off, and Lin Wen took this opportunity to raise his neck and hit James in the face with his head, causing James to whimper, and then Lin Wen took the opportunity to use his hands and feet to run out from under James like a gecko.
"Hahaha, little one, you're very good." James covered his nose with one hand, and pulled out the cunning blade that was tied to his leg with the other, and the cunning blade turned in a circle in James's hand, and a dangerous aura emanated, this James was actually a thief, a thief who specialized in playing with daggers. "Little one, do you want to mess with me, I'll teach you the real way to kill."
"Phew! Ahem, ahem! Lin Wen coughed violently after spitting out the bloody dirt in his mouth, and looked at his Raptor rifle, which fell next to James's straw mat, ten meters away from Lin Wen.
"Hehehe, cunning little one." Looking at Lin Wen's eyes, James instantly guessed what Lin Wen was thinking, so he moved a step to the left and blocked in front of Lin Wen, "How useful do you think a hunter without weapons can be?" In fact, we have no grudges, come, follow me, I will not kill you, we Fidia thieves welcome any brother. ”
Fidia Thieves! Hearing this name, Lin Wen was suddenly shocked, Lin Wen had seen a lot of quests about the Phidea Thieves in the Adventurers' Guild. To put it simply, this group of thieves is full of heinous criminals, villains. Kill people and set fires for money. And the power is huge, it can be said that it is all over every corner of the French Empire, and even there are people in the upper echelons of the empire, so it can be safe and sound under the countless encirclements and suppressions of the imperial soldiers.
"Let me think about it." Lin Wen made an inner struggle, and while moving back slightly, he reached for his backpack, and there was a G18 pistol in it, which was enough to kill the bastard in front of him.
"Die!" Before Lin Wen could say his second thought, James swung his dagger and pounced. Sure enough, the people of Phidia couldn't believe it at all!
Lin Wen jumped back, and the agility of the elf allowed him to narrowly avoid James's attack, and successfully took out the G18 pistol from his backpack. Lin Wen followed the momentum of the backward jump, rolled backwards, and directly half-squatted on the ground, holding the G18 pistol with one hand and pulling the trigger on James.
Bang Bang!! The G18 pistol rang out like fried beans, and James instantly had more than a dozen small holes on his body. Looking down at the small hole in his body that was bleeding out, James said with difficulty: "How can you ......" and then fell to the ground, and the blood pooled into a small puddle on the ground.