Chapter Seventy-Four: The Green Man
The Green Man is a humanoid creature with eyes as large as brass bells, two round ears that expand backwards against its head, and a bent waist, which looks like a gorilla that Eren had seen in his previous life. The movements are also relatively agile.
However, it is not as harmless as an orangutan, and its bright green fur looks very bright, but like those natural species that are more and more poisonous the more vivid, the green man is absolutely untouchable.
At this time, Alan and his party hid in a bush not far from the green man, observing the green man in front of him, who seemed to be looking down at the roots of the tree and looking for something.
Kyle's Chief Guard whispered, "Be careful, don't touch the green hair on this monster, it's contagious." ”
In fact, the Green Man is very famous in the South of the Stars, but not everyone has seen it, one of the guards first glanced at the Green Man with a little curiosity and fear, and then looked at the Captain of the Guard: "Is it really like the rumors, can it drag people into the abyss?"
"What is the Abyss?"
Another guard chuckled in a low voice, "You've heard too many troubadours' tales, and you're still in the abyss... This thing can just turn you into their kind. ”
"The same kind?"
"Yes, kind. My neighbor's uncle was like this a long time ago, when he was unlucky enough to come across a green man in the wild, accidentally touched its fur, and only turned into this monster within a few days of escaping. ”
"How did it be?"
"First the whole body slowly turned green, then began to grow green hair, and finally he lost his mind and dug out his wife's heart and ate it, and if it weren't for Lord Tyranny's Golden Flame Guard himself, I guess it wouldn't be long before the whole city would have become this kind of monster." ”
"It's terrifying. ”
"Of course, it's even more terrifying than the rumors, because it's real...."
The guards whispered about the green man's various rumors, which directly caused a little fear in the eyes of several guards with slightly immature faces, and the eyes that looked at the green man were no longer eager to try.
However, some experienced veterans are very indifferent, although the green man is difficult to entangle, but if you have precautions in advance, it is still easy to deal with, and there will be no accidents.
Now, for example, they are wearing armor that covers their entire body, revealing only a pair of eyes and a few faces, which makes them nothing to worry about dealing with green men.
Because infection only occurs if it comes into contact with the skin.
After observing for a while, the guards began the hunt for the green men at the behest of Kyle's chief of guard.
There is no need to make any battle plans, although this kind of monster is powerful, but there is no reason at all, and when they see a living person, they will only rush up, which is different from the wolves they encountered before.
Green people will be crazy and reckless when they see a living person like an old meal and a rare delicacy in the world.
In fact, if it weren't for the fear that the green man would find out about their whereabouts and chase them closely, the guards wouldn't have chosen to engage it at all, after all, there was a certain amount of risk.
The guards were armed with weapons in their hands, and they gradually outflanked them step by step, and just as they had imagined, the green man not far away did not show any timidity after finding himself surrounded by many people, but stared at the guards who approached, and his terrifying white eyes showed excitement, and he did not hesitate to give up his work, howling and rushing to the nearest guard.
It was fast, and in the blink of an eye, it came to the guard, and before the guard could react, it threw him to the ground.
However, this guard is a veteran, and he has already protected the exposed skin with his arms before being pounced, so even if the green man leans over him and keeps biting, he seems unusually "calm".
Because he has the presence of companions.
Just as the guards were knocked down, the other guards suddenly accelerated and rushed in the direction of the green man. Although the green man found the guards around him, he was not willing to give up the "prey" in his hand, so he quickly picked up the fallen guards and ran towards the distance with great strength. The armor on the guards is not light, and the weight of the people is not less than three hundred pounds overall.
But the green man dragged it with relative ease, but in this way, its terrifying speed was greatly affected, and the speed of dragging the guards was like the trotting of ordinary humans, in this case, let alone the trained guards, even a normal ordinary person could catch it.
So it was surrounded, and there was no way to "break out" for a while. ”
But despite this, the green man did not feel fear, but bared his teeth, showed his bloody mouth, and stared at the guards as if he were howling in fear.
It's a pity that the guards didn't eat him, and swung their weapons and slashed at the green man.
It's intense, but it's not dangerous. The greedy green man did not give up his prey until he died, and he dragged the leg of the prey with one hand and attacked the other guards with the other, and then was hacked to death by the guards with a little effort....
It wasn't until the green man was completely dead that the guards who were taken as prey pulled out their thighs with great difficulty, and carefully raised their arms that covered their faces, and after getting up, they kicked the dead monster a few times with hatred, and said to the other guards with palpitations: "This damn bastard is really not afraid of death, and he won't let go when he gets to this point, and my wife didn't catch me so tightly." ”
This sentence made the guards laugh, and one of the veterans laughed at him with a wink: "It's not a place, your wife is probably afraid of catching you." ”
"Fuck off!"
The teased guard raised his foot and kicked the veteran, glaring at him angrily.
For the ridicule of the guards, Alan did not mix in, one is that as a lord, he will definitely cause some restraint when he mixes in, and the other is that he is attracted by other things.
The green man had been rummaging under the roots of the tree before they came out, and Alan was curious about it at the time, and now that the monster had been dealt with, he could naturally come and watch it at will.
Walking briskly, he came to the tree, looked down, and couldn't help but be surprised.
At this time, a small pit had been cut under the roots of the tree by the green man, and an object in the shape of a burden was buried under the dirt, vaguely exposed to Allen's eyes.
"In this wilderness, someone would bury something here?"
Strange at this, he drew the sword he wore at his waist and continued to dig a few times, then picked out a package from the pit.
Opening the package, a letter, a few round fruits and vegetables, a bunch of shriveled plants, and a ring appeared in front of Alan.
Alan glanced at it a few times, and he had a rough idea of what was in it
The round fruit and vegetable is called turnip, which is similar to white radish, and can be eaten raw or cooked, and the stars generally regard this vegetable as a daily food.
The shriveled plant, called sedge, is spike-shaped and can alleviate the discomfort of being bitten by mosquitoes, which is also nothing of great concern.
The ring was just an ordinary brass ring, a little old and not very valuable.
Finally, Alan bent down to pick up the letter in the package.
Because of the long burial in the ground, the letter had become a little soft and wet, and the yellowed paper seemed to be able to be torn apart with a slight force, so Allen's movements were much more cautious.
He cautiously opened the letter, ready to see what was written inside, but before he could read the words, there was an uproar from the guards.
"What's wrong?"
Alan looked at the guards strangely. But it didn't take him long to wonder when the head of the guard, Kyle, trotted up to him.
"Master Allen, we found traces of orcs on this green man!"