Chapter 108: Natives and Mercenaries

Machetes, axes, bows and arrows, spears, I looked at these primitive cold weapons, and wondered in my heart, how could a country that could fly at the speed of light use these cold weapons to hunt the beasts of the forest, didn't there be guns?

The elder of the Sky Fox Clan, the father of the female assistant Hill, answered my question. It turns out that after the beast here is shot by an energy weapon, most of the magic crystal energy inside the beast's body will disappear inexplicably, and its fur cannot be used, and its flesh cannot be eaten, so it can only be hunted with the most primitive method. In thirty years, their tribe also got rid of slavery status and became free commoners, using their own labor to improve their lives, and young people went out of the mountains to work in the cities.

The energy of this world is dominated by magic crystals, supplemented by solar energy, and magic crystals are indispensable energy sources for all countries, especially spaceships and weapons. Gunpowder, oil, coal, and nuclear power, never heard of here. The trucks driven by the hunter team also use magic crystals as energy sources, but a device is used to release the magic crystal energy, and this technology is generally in the hands of the empire or large corporations.

I took ten escorts, fifty-five hunters and two female assistants from their tribe, a small car plus two trucks and my two extended buggies, and after driving for more than three hours on the mountain road, I arrived at an improvised parking lot and walked up the mountain. According to the hunters, there is no prey in sight on the outskirts of the forest now, and only by going deep can we have a harvest, and we can't meet carnivorous beasts, otherwise our lives will not be guaranteed.

During the march we met a seventeen-member mercenary team, they were not very lucky, only a few magic crystals worth a few gold coins for three days, after the two captains exchanged, the two teams went on the road together.

Nalson is the captain of this mercenary team, a little more than fifty years old, has more than thirty years of mercenary experience, can be said to be experienced, but unfortunately Lady Luck did not take care of him, an accident made the original team of sixty people become the current seventeen people, life is very bleak. At night camp, I took out a high degree of wheat roast and shared it with Nelson, and asked him to tell the story of the mercenaries and the ferocity of the beasts of the forest, and learned that high liquor was a luxury enjoyed by the aristocracy, because there was no surplus grain to make wine here.

At noon on the fourth day, we met a group of unicorns with a length of three meters, a total of nineteen, this unicorn is an omnivore, with rough skin and thick meat, and the fifty-centimeter-long unicorn on the head is worth five thousand gold coins, and its magic crystal is ten thousand gold coins.

Thirty archers shot at the unicorns with anesthetically coated arrows, and although they were archers, the anesthetic was useless, and they enraged the unicorns, and used their strong bodies and speed to attack the hunter squad, and soon some of them were injured, and if they were not rescued, they would be trampled to death by the iron hooves of the unicorns.

"Bang, bang······" The guards and I opened fire, and after nineteen shots, the unicorns all had their heads blooming and they fell to the ground and died. The hunters and mercenaries, who had just been fighting intensely, stood in place at a loss, staring at the unicorn on the ground.

When we walked down the hill, we realized that we had helped them, and came around to thank me, and then, the uninjured went to deal with the prey, and the injured ones were simply bandaged, and I saw that they didn't even use the simplest hemostatic trauma medicine, I hurriedly asked the reason, only to know that I had not heard of this medicine here, and their body resistance and self-healing ability were very strong, and after enduring a few days of pain, there were no sequelae except for scars.

Just as the hunters were working hard, a loud roar came from afar, accompanied by the sound of trembling hooves······