96. The wolf is coming
"Uncle, is this your convoy to Ocassins?" Early the next morning, Lin Wen found a convoy outside Spore Village that was about to depart.
"Yes, it's to Ocascins, do you have anything to do?" A shirtless strong man asked as he sorted out the goods.
"Can you give me a ride?" Lin Wen said with some expectation. There are at least a hundred kilometers to go from the mushroom swamp to Ocascins, and most of the way is no-man's land, where robbers, robbers, and even ferocious predators live. It is difficult to pass alone, and it is the safest way to go together.
"Take you for a ride?" The strong man frowned and looked at Lin Wen, he was thin, wearing a cat-face mask on his face, and carrying a strange-looking spear behind his back, looking like a hunter. It's just that the strength is a little worse, and it seems that he hasn't even reached the silver level yet. "Wait a minute, I'll ask the boss." The strong man thought about it, and did not refuse, but walked to the front of the convoy.
After a while, the strong man came back, "The boss asked you if you could do eagle eye arts, if you can, help guard along the way, and we will give you a ride for free." If not, you will have to pay a gold coin as the fare. ”
After performing an Eagle Eye operation, Lin Wen successfully entered the team. At this time, Lin Wen found that there were really a lot of people in this convoy, in addition to the worker escort brought by the convoy itself, the team owner also hired a mercenary group called "Free Heart" to escort them. It's a small mercenary group of 22 people, and although it has a small number of people, it is said to have a good reputation and a high mission completion rate. In addition, there were two or three scattered adventurers in the convoy, all of whom had been added improvised in Spore Village.
In this way, the entire team is nearly fifty people, but there is only one hunter, Lin Wen, which is why the team owner asks Lin Wen if he can do eagle eye skills.
Eagle Eye is a magic skill, the hunter who has mastered the Eagle Eye Technique is comparable to a humanoid radar, and it is the kind of blue light high-definition, standing in the center of the team can know every move within a radius of hundreds of miles, whether it is guarding or reconnaissance, it can play a great role. It was also because of the two scouting spells, Eagle Eye and Vision, that Hunters and Shamans were able to reserve a small pitiful seat in the adventurous ranks.
You can't fight and you can't resist, if you don't have an advantage in reconnaissance, who will take you to play?
I have to say that this is a real irony.
Just before leaving, the strong man he had met before found Lin Wen again. The strong man's name was Boris, and he was the captain of the caravan's escort: "Your name is Carley, right, we may encounter centaurs and forest trolls along the way, so I will leave the matter of investigation to you." ”
"Wrap it up on me." Lin Wen nodded and said that there was no problem.
Centaurs are a nomadic group of orcs, and because each centaur is a natural cavalryman, they escaped the invasion of demons. After the surviving centaurs fled to the north of the continent, they found that all the fertile lands here were owned by their owners, and there was no suitable place for centaurs to herd. And due to their size, centaurs also have difficulty fitting into human society. So the orcs fell into the grass and became robbers completely.
Trolls are one of the oldest races in the world, having developed a very glorious witchcraft civilization, and the troll empire once even encompassed most of the continent of Akara. But for some reason, the troll's empire fell apart and became small clans. Some of the troll tribes have retained their civilization and live amicably with other intelligent races, such as humans and dwarves. But many more trolls have become unintelligent beasts, behaving instinctively, and even developing cannibalistic habits! Trolls are generally more than 2 meters tall and weigh up to 200 pounds, they are good at using witchcraft, and they have super self-healing ability, and they can completely suppress human warriors of the same level one-on-one. Trolls are almost impossible to kill unless their self-healing abilities are destroyed with fire or strong acid.
Neither centaurs nor trolls are easy opponents to deal with. But compared to these, the wolves on the steppe may be the biggest threat.
In the afternoon after two days of driving, Lin Wen was sitting on the roof of the carriage and using his eagle eye to observe the movement five kilometers ahead, and suddenly found that there were many black shadows in the woods next to the road.
This wolf is about 1.5 meters tall and 3 meters long, and although it doesn't know any spells, it can also cause great trouble to silver-level adventurers with hand-to-hand combat.
"Guys, the wolf is coming!" Lin Wen shouted at the others at the top of his voice.
Hearing Lin Wen's shout, everyone was suddenly startled, and one by one they picked up their weapons and disbanded their mounts, and even the convoy stopped.
"Hey, boy, are you kidding us? Where are the wolves? A bald man with a sword and shield waited for a long time, let alone a wolf, and he didn't even see a wolf hair, so he couldn't help but shout angrily.
"There are still 3 kilometers to go, so you'd better get some preparation first." Lin Wen didn't bother to quarrel with him, and said while paying attention to the movements of the wolves with his eagle eye technique.
"The coachmen fenced off the wagons and kept the horses in the middle, and the others protected the convoys." Boris stared at Lin Wen, and after seeing Lin Wen's affirmative nod, he began to give orders in an orderly manner. For this kind of convoy of running merchants in the field, horses are the most important, in case the horse hangs, then the cargo of the whole vehicle is estimated to be lost, so the first thing to protect in case of danger is the horse.
Soon more than a dozen carriages formed a circle, and the carriages of the carriages protected the horses tightly, and in order to prevent the horses from being frightened by the sound of the battle, the coachman also specially covered the horses with their eyes and ears.
When all this was done, the caravan guards and adventurers saw the wolves scurrying in the grass.
"Gan! There are really wolves. The bald man held up a shield with the emblem of the Heart of Freedom mercenary group and said, "Brothers, be careful! These brutes are not easy to deal with. ”
Because of the "divine perspective" of Eagle Eye, Lin Wen could clearly see that the wolves were slowly moving under the cover of the grass, preparing to surround the entire convoy.
"Watch out for the left and right, they want to surround us!" Lin Wen's shout made everyone's backs chill, the terrible thing about the wolves is that these beasts will work together like humans, usually one wolf will attract the attention of the target, and then the other two will wait for the opportunity to sneak attack from behind, making the target unguardable, and finally can only fall under the wolf's fangs helplessly.
Fairly simple tactic, but very deadly.