"To put it a little tighter here, the strength of the horse is much greater than expected. Sitting on the grass, Atta nodded when he heard the reminder coming from behind him, and his hand holding the other end of the grass stem was slightly forced, making the relationship between the braids on his hands more compact. Having said that, she is not good at this kind of work after all, and she learns completely from scratch when weaving grass stems, and at the same time, the quality of the braided straw rope is often uneven, with one section having high toughness and one section having low toughness. The only consolation was that at least she was better at this delicate work than the Count and the cat elves, and the two had now been reassigned to collect supplies for the team to spend the night.

"Are you sure this thing works? I mean, it sounds doable, but like you said, horses are much more powerful than humans. Even if we do succeed in making the lasso you asked for and latching the horses accurately, their struggles could have thrown us out. As he spoke, Cheese methodically weaved the straw stalks into straw ropes with his gloved hands, as a gray robe, his fingers had long been accustomed to training and were proficient in subtle operations, and weaving straw ropes was not difficult for him, but as he had said, he was a little worried about the results that could be achieved with the straw rope in his hands. After all, Cheese had never seen a real lasso.

The lasso, or noose, may have similar but different fingers in different cultures, and for the inhabitants of the steppe, the lasso generally refers to two things. The first is more common as a tool for shepherds in addition to the whip. Simply put, a knot is tied at the top of a rope that can be retracted, and the shepherd will put this loop around the neck of the fleeing animal by flicking, and pull it back with horsepower and manpower. That's what Batu wanted to do.

As for the second type of lasso, it is more common in the military, although it is also used in daily life, but it is still much less frequent than the first one. That is, a heavy object of similar mass such as a stone is tied to the two ends of a rope, and then thrown out with speed, so that when the lasso hits the target, the weight at both ends will continue to move according to inertia and wrap the target together. This kind of lasso can effectively tie the hind legs of cattle and sheep and the legs of people, and then achieve the effect of controlling the target. However, there is a high probability that the target hit by it will fall, which will inevitably cause damage and loss.

There is actually a reason why Batu wants to introduce the second type of lasso after explaining that he wants to make the first type of lasso. Just like Cheese's question, Batu also had doubts when the idea was born, and he also considered replacing the milder approximate with a second lasso, but it didn't take him long to dismiss the idea, "It's something that can't be helped, I said before that there is an element of gambling in this matter, and the lasso may not help us achieve our goal, but at least it can buy us time." Making it more likely for one of us to get on horseback, that's what we're for, isn't it?"

A smile tugged at the corners of Cheese's mouth, as he realized who Batu had learned this idea from. The steppe people are not negligent in calculation, in fact, they are often forced to face harsh choices because of the pressure to survive. However, this way of life also made them reckless in some respects, and this indiscretion was relative, at least the peoples who ploughed the land never considered plundering and nomadism to be a work to be encouraged, and that there were too many unforeseen risks in these work. But the steppe people don't think so, they don't have the land to produce food steadily, and a disaster year or a plague can starve the richest tribes, and those risks are not risks compared to these, are they?

But now, Batu stood in front of the mage, using his experience and wisdom to try to reduce the uncontrollable risks to achieve his own goals, for which he learned patience and preparation. This is a change compared to his original heroism and even a little recklessness, but I can't see the good or bad of this change now. It's just that as a grey robe, Cheese appreciates the change, and he can see more sparks of thought in his companion's actions, which seem to him better than a campfire made of a hundred logs.

"That's right. But if we can leave the horses where they are, wouldn't it be more likely to be tamed?" Cheese knew the answer to the question, but he asked anyway, just to see what Batu would say to him now. He wondered how the falconer had grown after what had happened before.

If it had been a few days ago, Batu would have answered the mage's question with an impatient expression and a somewhat sarcastic tone, but now, facing the cheese very seriously, he explained with a serious expression, "Taming a horse and capturing a horse are two different things. We can catch that group of horses by all means, but we can only get some horse meat, because the knocked down horses will not identify with us. Horses are proud creatures, and only those who have been tested on their backs have the right to determine their direction. ”

Satisfied with the answer, the mage nodded, and said nothing more, except that the work at hand was done more quickly and delicately, and he was now more confident in his actions for tomorrow.

As a result, by the end of the night, Atta had not been able to weave a proper lasso, and the only thing the team could rely on the next day was one and a half made by Cheese and half made by Batu. It was said that it was a day and a half, but in fact, the mage planned to make this lasso longer and throw it in a more hidden place, but he miscalculated the weight of the excessively long straw rope, and the lasso could not be thrown off at all. Fortunately, Batu took over the work of the female swordsman in time when he realized that her hand was not wielding the magic sword dexterity when tying the straw rope, and he was able to make the part that was just enough to combine with the extra straw rope from the cheese. And through this incident, the falconer also realized that he may have unknowingly had a stereotype of women.

"You don't have to be too upset, as someone who is new to this kind of thing, you've made it up pretty well. Around the campfire after a brief dinner, Batu tried to comfort Atta. But to his surprise, the beautiful face that turned to him was not much frustrated, only a little unwilling. This in turn stimulated Batu's thinking about women. And his thoughts are once again the object of Cheese's observation.

Lothar also noticed the changes in Batuu, but he didn't seem to be surprised: "Some people take many years to grow up. Some people only need a day. ”