Roddy seemed to think seriously about Sally's question, shrugged his shoulders, and replied in a low voice, "I think... The disappearance of the captain of the scout in Nolan Village and the return of the duke's daughter should have nothing to do with it. ”

This is a very disappointing but very realistic answer for Sally, and her eyes that had been expecting suddenly dimmed - she didn't actually know what she was expecting, but at the moment her mood was surrounded by coldness, and her distraught emotions gradually came up, and even she was a little inexplicable.

When she looked up, she saw that Roddy had already started to move forward, she took a breath, bit her lip, and followed.

"Three waves of immobilized monsters, a patrol, and then the first boss. ”

Silently muttering the strategy process of the "Steiro Creek" dungeon, Roddy led Sally into the scope of this dungeon - unexpectedly, Roddy saw the hint floating in front of him:

"Do you want to enter the quest 'Staylor Creek'?"

Be.

Roddy looked at the familiar fonts and prompts in front of him, feeling a little strange in his heart - but then he quickly got used to it. Sally, who didn't understand why he stopped, raised her eyebrows and was a little puzzled, she was curious about the strange language of Roddy when she was talking to herself, although her mood was a little depressed because of the few questions and answers just now, but it was not enough to show on her face.

Luo Di ignored her, and after entering the dungeon, he had immediately entered the state of "professional high-end player"...

Everything in front of him was so familiar, even without moonlight, he could remember these familiar scenes and the moving positions of those monsters with his eyes closed, so Roddy began to stride forward without saying a word, counting the steps in his heart, until he suddenly stopped at the twenty-third step.

The Silent Forest was mysterious and dangerous in Sally's eyes, but in Roddy's mind it was nothing more than a map with countless detailed notes. There are four quests in this forest, of which "Styro Creek" is the first story quest that novice human players face, the minimum required level is 3, the maximum is level 10, and the remaining three quests are higher than the other, the highest is located in the middle of the forest, and the high-level quest is about "The Ruins of the Temple of Asaka", which requires a level of at least 30 - which means that all participants must have been transferred and have considerable combat experience.

"Climb up and wait for me here. ”

Roddy pointed to the "bug" tree in front of him that players had discovered through countless death-crawling experiences, and said to Sally.

This is the position that has been arranged for those waste wood professions that have no attack power or healing ability in the early stage, and they will not participate in the battle here and will not be dragged into the battle, which is the best choice for those who run missions and rub off on experience - and after confirming that Sally is firmly seated in the tree, Roddy began to use those vines to start making improvised traps, and when everything was done, he disappeared from Sally's vision with a horned bow.

What happened in the next few hours was something Sally would never forget.

Rock wall giant spiders, poisonous iguanas, flower-tailed cheetahs, steel-backed giant apes.

The creatures that had previously appeared in the books and were listed as dangerous creatures were lying on the ground one by one under Roddy's bizarre maneuver - Roddy seemed to rush through the forest with his breath in his breath from beginning to end, killing all the creatures that stood in his way like a whirlwind.

With one man, two knives, a bow, and a trap made with all the resources at hand, Roddy slays all kinds of monsters and beasts with the same skill as walking in his own back garden.

When he made Sally jump from the seventh tree where she had been hiding, the duchess's expression was already stiffened by the constant stimulation.

Constant exclamation, exclamation, exclamation, and finally numbness... In these few hours, Sally discovers that her concept of "beast" and "forest" has been completely reversed by Roddy.

It felt very strange, it was obviously a fierce beast, but it became a straw in the field in front of Roddy, and sometimes it was even harvested by him in a dazed and helpless state...

By dawn, the two of them had traveled nearly ten kilometers through the pitch-black forest, which was more than 80% complete for the entire dungeon.

"The road before was going to be more dangerous during the day, so you didn't get a rest all night, that... Now it's safe here, get a good night's sleep, and continue on your way at night. ”

Roddy was exhausted, but because he was in a hurry, he didn't take much of the loot along the way—a whole soft leopard skin, some meat that could be cooked, and most of the rest was discarded. He simply packed his things, washed his face casually at the stream, and then pointed to the "floor" with the leopard skin shop and motioned for Sally to go to sleep.

Sally wanted to say something, but after seeing the red-eyed guy say a joke, she fell directly into the haystack that she had made up and fell asleep almost instantly.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the atmosphere in the forest seemed unusually quiet, the sound of the stream flowing echoed in her ears, and the sounds of all kinds of birds were heard all around, and the sun shone through the gaps in the leaves, and the warm feeling gradually flowed in Sally's heart.

She looked at the man who was asleep not far away, but found that she no longer had any relationship with the other party... Embarrassed.

After all, the words in the books are very different from reality, even if she is familiar with many classics, but Sally understands that the blood spilled in danger, the roar of wild beasts, the cold light of the scimitar... These are not words that can be simply described, when all the real paving comes, everything in front of her will turn into the most shocking experience in her life.

And after the crisis, when the man who fought in the whirlpool lay down tired, Sally's heart was filled with all kinds of inexplicable complex emotions. Especially when she saw the weeds under the other party, and the leopard skin under her body, she seemed to feel... The corners of the eyes are a little sour.

After all, in this world, the status of "women" is always lower than that of men, and even in the higher aristocratic class, they are a vulnerable group without priority inheritance. Respect for women seems to exist forever only in the book "The System of Knighthood", which not many people are willing to read.

Roddy's unintentional "respect" for Sally is actually just a basic quality of a modern normal man. He used to seem to be naturally dull to women, sultry skirts and touching people's feet, which was a bit silly to say, but at this point, this contrast overlapped greatly, and it made Sally feel that he was simply a complex combination of contradictions.

"What a strange guy..."

Sally looked at Roddy, who had fallen asleep, and muttered to herself

Maybe it was because Roddy was too tired, or maybe it was because Sally had quietly put the leopard skin over him, and when she opened her eyes, it was nearly dusk. The sky was a deep blue, with puffy clouds drifting slowly in view, the occasional bat dangling from side to side, and the sound of a solitary call seemed to herald another dangerous night.

The forest is still a little cool in the middle of April, with a breeze blowing through the trees and the sound of insects and birds chirping. Suddenly, Roddy thought that he was standing in the copy of the game again, and his eyes involuntarily swept to the side where it was originally the status bar, waiting for his teammates to report his status, and wanted to call out the task bar to see what goals he had not achieved today...

The sound of stones clashing interrupted his slightly confused memory.

When she turned her head, she was greeted by Sally in a dirty cloth dress, clumsily holding a flint in her hand, as if trying to make a fire, but apparently she didn't find the velvet, just beating and rubbing the two stones in vain.

Looking at the girl with a blurred figure in the dim light, Roddy seemed to suddenly see the figure in the red dress who always smiled evilly at him.

Now she... Are you sitting by the window in that remote village, complaining about the esoteric texts in front of you?

His body moved, and when he reached out and touched the leopard skin on his body, Roddy raised his eyebrows, and a little warmth flowed through his heart. After getting up, he stretched out his hand, took the flint from Sally, who was blushing a little, and rummaged through the velvet, but felt that the distance between the two was invisibly closer.

"The first time I used it, my friend laughed at it for almost a whole week, and then every time I used the flint, I felt a sense of fear, and it took more than half a year to get rid of those shadows," he said, smashing the gravel with the velvet. ”

"I can't believe you'll have a time like this. ”

The sparks burst out, the bonfire gradually lit, Sally sat on the side with her knees crossed, the ground was dirty, the clothes were dirty, and the field without shelter was very cold, but looking at the bonfire that was gradually burning, she felt that when she chatted with the guy in front of her like this, her heart was not cold.

Occasionally, I reached out to turn the firewood, and my nose was filled with the fragrance of bacon barbecue. After sitting like this for a long time, she realized... The originally dark environment around him didn't seem to be as terrifying as it had been.

Sally took the piece of meat handed over by Roddy, lowered her eyes and whispered, "Speaking of which... Unlike you, no one ever dared to laugh at me when I messed things up. My father wouldn't tell me what was right, he was like a bystander. My brother, on the other hand, would only pretend to be eager to help me so that I could go further astray. ”

Roddy shrugged noncommittally, looking indifferent, but in fact, he was thinking about what kind of character this character who didn't appear in the game was.

"Actually, let's not talk about this mess, Captain Roddy, I want to know... What is your true identity? a former nobleman or a knight, or a famous adventurer?"

There was a brief silence, and Roddy just flipped the campfire, shook his head, and didn't answer.

"Heh... I don't guess, I'm just envious, those free people..."

Sally lowered her head slightly, staring at the leaping firelight.