The meandering and wide river, like a narrow and crystalline mirror, spreads to the horizontal boundary 100 meters away, and the clear and sparkling waves turn into a long dividing line, dividing this land into two sides: civilization and wilderness.

At the northern end is a pristine wilderness covered in snow and ice; On the southern coast are plains with mild climates and moist soils, where various races, most of them humans, have settled in nature, and over the centuries pioneer sites have been established to form a web of reading power and weaving.

It's a pity that this last pure land has also begun to fall.

According to the plot of World of Warcraft, the Lich King Naozu, who was resurrected by the Burning Legion, has already turned into a meteor and projected into the depths of the North Pole, and it has accumulated power by resurrecting the bones accumulated by Northrend for many years, first quietly destroying an ancient spider kingdom, and gradually turning the entire glacial ice crown into a fortress of natural disasters. Then he sent his men to the eastern continent to spread the plague of natural disasters and plagues to the kingdom of Lordaeron, luring a young prince to come, and finally the two will have a fateful encounter in this ice and snow, around a demon giant sword, with conspiracy and revenge.

These magnificent epics and legends are too far away from the current Rorschach, and at this moment, he has no time to care about these, and is busy with another thing - fishing.

Ordinary people use wooden fishing rods and earthworms as bait to catch big and fresh fish. Rorschach, on the other hand, is different.

He was standing in the middle of a small bridge paved with logs, which was not large, three meters wide on the left and right, and less than twenty meters away including the wooden piles rooted in soil at both ends, but it was the only passage connecting the north and south ends within a radius of dozens of miles, and it was also his "fishing rod".

With a fishing rod, there will naturally be no shortage of bait, so he stands alone on the bridge, looking at the lush shirt forest in the distance, leisurely and comfortably admiring the unique scenery of the small bridge and flowing water, pine snow mountain forest, without the panic caused by hunger and the anxiety of waiting for a long time.

He is empty-handed, a single person, with fine skin and tender meat, which is just the best choice for "bait".

Suddenly there was a dull sound of footsteps in the distance, with a "click" sound of bones loosening, and seven or eight black spots gradually came out of the hills, like a team of mountain people who had been busy in the forest for a morning, gathering to go home to rest, but as the distance approached, a rotten stench rushed to the face, revealing the hideous true face of the comer.

Two ghouls with festering faces, half-crawling and half-jumping, beside them, six skeletal oxen and horses carrying broken logs, staggered forward step by step.

Rorschach looked at the past from afar, not only did he not show any timidity, but smiled slightly.

The fish took the bait.

Unlike skeleton soldiers who rely on the fire of the undead in their skull, ghouls are in a sense more like mutated living corpses, although their vision is blurred and their hearing is weak, their sense of smell has been amazingly improved, and some types of ghouls can even use their sense of smell to break the stealth of thieves and the invisibility of mages. (See World of Warcraft level 45 quest "Stratholme.") ）

It was with this ability that the two monsters smelled Rorschach's breath of a living person dozens of meters away, froze for a moment, and then fell into a state of frenzy, and in the blink of an eye, they left behind the white bone servants who were struggling to move, and rushed over like arrows from the string.

Unlike the sluggish zombies of Resident Evil, the ghouls of the Scourge are infected by the plague and have mutated to become more resilient, allowing them to jump like apes and jog faster than the average human. And because the undead constitution does not have fatigue and pain, they can maintain an even speed until the tendons are torn apart by high-intensity movement, although they will not explode, but they will not abate, enough to engage in a long chase game with their prey.

The two slowly crawling monsters saw a living person standing on the bridge in front of them, and immediately let out a whimpering gasp, and the yellowed teeth oozed fishy saliva and rushed over, but when they jumped on the corner of the wooden bridge, two intercepting black shadows suddenly flashed behind the wooden stakes supporting the bridge. The ghoul instinctively sniffed, immediately judged the identity of "inferior food", and continued to rush over in the face of the temptation of fresh human flesh on the other side. However, in the next second, only two consecutive swords could be heard tearing through the air, and the two rotten heads swept into the sky, and sank into the clear river beside them with two pops.

And it was only at this moment that the Carrying Skeletons, which acted according to the established procedures, were late, and these more fragile white bone constructs, in the face of the two fierce corpses, were killed without any suspense in three or five seconds.

Rorschach watched the development of things coldly, and waited until all the dead spirits were extinct, then he lowered his head, opened his book of reincarnation, and muttered:

"It's the eighth time, it's almost done......"

He wasn't a fanatical paladin who killed the undead, and the reason why he spent his time ambushing and designing these monsters was only because of the mission that suddenly popped out of the Book of Reincarnation.

"Trigger a side quest

Name: Eliminate evil

Content:

Condition 1: Kill the Woodlogging Ghoul Squad (9/9) (completed).

Condition 2: Burn the undead in the lumberyard to slow down the construction of their base (0/1)

Condition 3: Kill the undead in the lumberyard and secure the cursed mage apprentice 'Schiller. Cohen's death (0/1).

Rewards: 500 survival points for each completed item; Complete two items and get an additional bronze lower card; If you complete three of them, you will receive a thank you from the "Freden family".

Failure Penalty: 1000 survival points will be deducted for each failure, and an additional 1500 survival points will be penalized for all failures. ”

This side quest that popped up out of nowhere was he when he cleared out the logging team he first discovered. If he didn't know what the use of survival points was, Rorschach could still consider cowardice and escape, but since he already knew that this kind of thing was directly linked to his own life, no matter how much he thought about it, he had to give up the plan of relying on the corpse to protect the town directly, and find a way to complete these tasks that suddenly popped up.

What he didn't know was that this difficult choice indirectly saved his life.

Through the subtle hint of the mission, it is clear that the lumberyard on the original map has fallen and has become a warehouse for the undead to reserve timber, and the former lumberjacks have been infected with ghouls after death, and have been divided into teams by the commanders behind the scenes, and they have worked hard all day and night, which is the origin of the mess in the woods that Rorschach saw from the mountainside.

Rorschach is not the son of the plane of the protagonist's aura protector, so naturally he is not stupid enough to go deep into the enemy's lair and directly rush into the lumberjack factory to defeat the hordes of enemies. Although the corpse queen is extraordinary, but after all, there are only two, in the face of the erosion of the sea of people, even if he can be invincible with one enemy and ten, but the Rorschach himself in the back is just an ordinary human without any strengthening, once they are contained, I am afraid that a skeleton soldier who is not afraid of bullet penetration will be enough to chase him and run all over the ground. So after observing and thinking from a distance, he adopted the strategy of "waiting for the rabbit".

Since these undead are organized in small teams, since they are engaged as lumberjacks of the undead, it means that the undead forces need good wood. As we all know, wood is a resource, whether it is used to repair houses and build houses, or to burn firewood to add fire, it is very taboo to be damp and insect-eaten, and must be stored in a dry place. And these monsters have to go back and forth to the lumberyard, naturally it is impossible to directly flow through this wide river, only through this only small bridge.

Moreover, although the logging efficiency of ghouls is high, their body is too small after being infected with the virus and shrunken, their stiff arms cannot be bent, and they have the habit of landing on all fours when walking, so they cannot carry a large amount of wood to trek by themselves, and can only let the skeletons of the animal's white bones cooperate. Most of the team's build-up is two ghouls and seven or eight pack skeletons, which means that the maximum load capacity that can be carried will not exceed ten logs.

In other words, even if you count the time spent on the road, each logging team will return to the logging site once in forty or fifty minutes anyway.

And Rorschach took advantage of this time difference, standing alone on this small bridge and using himself as bait, arranging for two corpses to hide behind the bridge pier to intercept the assassination, but after waiting for less than forty minutes, the remaining eight teams were slaughtered. Not only is it fast and convenient, but it also saves the trouble of tracking dozens of chaotic routes into the mountains, not to mention that several of the ghoul teams are not logging in the woods, but on the way back after storing the wood, and it will drag on for a long time, if the enemies in the lumberyard find out that something is wrong, it is another headache to recall all the teams to be ready for battle.

"Huh...... This is? Rorschach spread out the book of reincarnation, and after the task of determining condition one was completed, he suddenly found that in addition to the five hundred points rewarded, there was an additional gain of close to two hundred points, and if he looked closely, it was a sporadic reward after killing these monsters. Each ghoul was given a separate reward of fifteen to twenty points, while the skeleton was only five or six points on average, and it seemed that the rewards also differed slightly depending on the difference in strength.

What stunned him was not the increase in points, but the three extra cards.

"Skill Card (Black Iron Lower)

Lumbering:

It allows adventurers to directly gain the equivalent of "Joe. Freden's logging skills.

Conditions of use: clear mind and sound limbs. ”

The remaining two cards are similar, except that the names are "Teddy. Freden", "Hall. Freden".

"It seems that the so-called 'Freden family' refers to the original owners of the lumberyard...... I didn't expect to kill monsters and have a chance to get their pre-mortem skills. Rorschach nodded in understanding, and suddenly showed an ugly expression on his face, and finally stared at the explanation of the conditions of use for a few seconds, and finally chose to use it in the first place.

Maybe it was because the last violent reaction was really just because the bronze-level items were a bit beyond the limits of ordinary people's tolerance, or maybe the skill cards were originally more gentle than the pure knowledge cards. Rorschach saw a shimmer of light like morning light bloom from his hand, and then soaked into his eyebrows like a spiritual surname, and then some strange memories flashed in his mind, as if he had forgotten the past for a long time, and at this moment it was suddenly stimulated by stimulation, and there was a strange taste of sudden enlightenment.

After immersing himself for a moment, he opened his eyes and came back to his senses, and countless fragments faintly appeared in his eyes, and the last one turned into an instinctive subtle memory engraved into his body. He sighed leisurely, and then pulled out the knife on the waist of the man on the side, turned around and walked to a tall cedar tree, clumsily pinched the handle of the knife with both hands, the blade was oblique, and the posture was like holding an axe horizontally, and cut down.

"Bang-bang-bang-"

The rough and tough bark was slashed by the blade, making a difficult muffled sound, and three times in a row, the cedar trunk hugged by one person immediately opened its skin and bloomed, revealing a shallow chisel mark of less than an inch.

Seeing this, Rorschach raised his eyebrows and moved his wrist, but he was quite satisfied. The fact that the tree was not cut is not because of poor skill. For one, all he gained was the experience of cutting wood with an axe, which did not match the slender and light sword; Second, Azeroth is a magical world after all, even if he is a civilian with no strength, his physique actually exceeds that of most special forces in the real world, in comparison, his body is too weak, so even if he follows the subtle wooden circular lines three times in a row, he can't penetrate into the heart of the wood.

On top of that, the seemingly simple three cuts, with overlapping incisions and different shades, are the result of three different techniques used by Rorschach. The experience memories contained in the skill cards are not a uniform product on the assembly line, but different sources of abilities according to the original owner's life. For example, "Joe. Freden "was born brute force and rough in style, but he was also the least skillful; Teddy, on the other hand, has a smart mind and is lighter and faster to cut, while Hor, as a descendant of the lumberyard, has mastered the most details.

"This is simply the nemesis of all geniuses......" Rorschach suddenly sighed, a little impressed by the power of infinite space. This ability to pass on the experience and habits of others directly makes the gap created by the original reality of "talent" become dispensable. Even if an illiterate farmer who can't read a lot of words has obtained skill cards such as "philosophy", "mathematics", "history", etc., not to mention the wisdom of application, knowledge and experience alone are not inferior to the hard work of others for more than ten years, but it is just impossible to innovate and reach a point that the original owner has not yet reached.

After he finished disposing of the scattered corpses and confirmed that nothing was missing, he directly led the two corpses in the direction of the lumberyard. Although he is cautious and likes to plan before acting, when it comes to critical moments, he is more inclined to solve troubles head-on, which is exactly the principle of the art of war, "focusing on the right and supplemented by the strange". If you blindly hide behind the scenes and plot a conspiracy, you will always encounter challenges that cannot be bypassed in the end, and then you will be helpless, do you have to sit back and wait for death?

Not to mention how many inhabitants can a deserted lumber yard have? Leaving behind the untransformable women and children, he had already killed eighteen ghouls. Even if the background of this world is similar to that of Western European culture, and there are many families living in the mountains, the remaining monsters will never exceed the total number of people who go out. After all, this is just a temporary warehouse for harvesting timber, and the food resources in the mountains are limited, and they can't support too many people.

"But...... The rest of the characters there should no longer be low-level characters like the militia, at least the 'Schiller' mentioned in that mission. Cohen', maybe it's a position like a necromancer, but I don't know what the strength is, how strong it should be, otherwise I won't be assigned to this place......"

Luo Yu thought like this, and walked towards the corner of the faintly visible courtyard.

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（ps：

It's a shame not to have a single recommendation. ）