It's naïve and cold.

Hodge shrunk his neck, crouched behind the walls and puffed into his palms, occasionally tilting his head to watch the snow fall in the night sky.

At this time, he began to envy Daphne, according to her, when the wizard completes the awakening process, the body will undergo corresponding changes, not only the condensation of red crystals in the body, but also the "resistance" of the corresponding ability.

For example, Devine herself, as the master of the flames, when she became a witch, she no longer feared any heat, more precisely, no matter how high or low the temperature of skin contact was, it could not change her own body temperature, and the heat and cold could not cause any harm to her.

Hodge is different, although he also has the ability to create heat sources, the changes in his body structure are only that he cannot be penetrated by microwaves, and he will not be injured when entering the microwave field he weaves.

This is not all convenient, for example, his ability could have controlled the intensity and made the body feel warm inside, so as to offset the cold outside, but after the body changed, this method would not work for him, and he could only add more clothes like ordinary people in severe cold weather, and he could not solve it by himself when the cold symptoms occurred when the ability was overused.

Poof, poof, poof.

It was the sound of boots stepping on thick snow, and Hodge didn't care, rubbing his hands together to keep warm, but the rhythmic footsteps sounded closer and closer, and he couldn't ignore it anymore, so he looked up helplessly, only to find Oliver walking up to him with his wooden bow on his back.

What is this for?

Adhering to the tenet of "never speak first until others don't speak", Hodge tilted his head and stared at Oliver in silence, if from the perspective of others, this posture was a little obscene, but his handsome face offset a lot of bad perceptions.

It could be seen that Oliver was also a little hesitant, and his right hand was pulled into the position of the lower back from time to time, but every time he swung back to the original position with his empty hand, repeating it two or three times.

Why, are you going to show me a ......?

Eventually, Oliver pulled out a tin can and handed it to him, saying, "Rum, drink it to warm your body." ”

The tone was obviously a little stiff, not at all like the heroic young shooter who faced Lloyd, presumably still unsociable, and didn't know how to talk to strangers.

Hodge's performance was not much better, he took the tin can in a daze, and it took a long time to react, and hurriedly added: "Thank you...... Thank you. ”

The situation was indeed beyond his expectations, and although Oliver was isolated from the crowd because of his status as a resident of the city, and he was alone, he was not naïve enough to think that two isolated people would naturally get along.

The reason is very simple, it is still a sense of xenophobia, the locals reject the outsiders, the outsiders reject the outsiders, and the outsiders also look down on the local people unpleasantly, a chain of interlocking contempt.

After Lloyd left, the distribution of the team was almost in line with the chain of contempt, which at least showed that the people present were not as enthusiastic as the Tun Lo Merchant Group, so why did Oliver suddenly show favor to himself after so much time had passed?

"You say you're a herbalist, is that true?" asked Oliver.

Hodge took a sip of the tin can, the taste of rum was very strong, only a small sip made him feel like his stomach pouch was rolling, large beads of sweat began to appear on his forehead, he pressed his hand to his stomach and thought that the so-called "drinking to warm up" is like this? It's too masochistic.

Hearing Oliver's question, he didn't hesitate, and nodded directly: "It's true." ”

"That's good. Oliver walked up to him, leaned his back against the wall, crouched down slowly, lined up with him, took the tin can that Hodge had returned, and took a few sips of it himself.

After the liquor was drunk and the words were more, Oliver burped and wiped his lips: "Don't understand why I'm here?"

"Some. ”

"I just figured it out. Oliver said, "According to the recruiters, our opponent is a monster hidden in the woods outside the city, I have not seen it with my own eyes, but it must be quite terrifying." I'm confident in my archery, but I can't guarantee that I won't be hurt at all, and I've experienced situations where I'm not seriously injured but dying due to lack of treatment, and it's very uncomfortable. ”

He looked directly into Hodge's eyes, and there was no trace of falsehood in them: "Since you are a doctor, and I want to return to the village alive, why don't we cooperate, I can use arrows to protect you as much as possible, but correspondingly, you have to treat me when I am injured." ”

With such a straightforward statement, Hodge really couldn't find any fault in it, if it was really true, it was probably too straightforward...... The people of the north, even the most vicious people, seem to have few people who like to cover themselves, perhaps because the snowy frozen soil has made people so cold that they have no strength to intrigue, in short, they often speak straightforwardly, and rarely beat around the bush.

"I think it makes sense. Oliver said to himself, holding out his hand, "Deal?"

Hodge smiled helplessly, thinking that this person was inevitably too bad at wording, cooperation is cooperation, how to say it is like a transaction, but he still stretched out his hand, held the wide-backed calloused hand, and nodded: "It's quite reasonable, deal." ”

It is indeed better for him to have a companion to chat with than to stand alone in the cold wind, at least small talk can distract him from the cold.

As for the so-called cooperation...... He shook his head in his heart, thinking that he didn't need any protection, it was better to be in a dangerous situation, and he would rather have no one around him, so that he could use his abilities without any scruples.

Oliver shook Hodge's hand and smiled rarely.

......

On the stone staircase of the city wall, in the corner where no one in the team of eleven people noticed, there was a pair of peeping eyes, and the person hiding in the shadows obviously had a lot of experience in concealment, whether it was the use of breath or the play of light and shadow effects, it was a first-class level, at least he had been here for more than three hours from beginning to end, but no one noticed this inconspicuous corner.

But he was able to catch all the movements of the eleven.

Seeing that the team, which was already only eleven, was divided into four small groups, four, three, two, and two, he couldn't help but shake his head, if the moonlight illuminated his face, he could see that his angular face was full of disdain.

It turned out to be Lloyd, who had been hiding in the corner and observing the team since he left the city wall, and did not leave for a moment.

"A bunch of fools who don't know what war is. He whispered mockingly, "You don't know how to die when you die." ”