The hair on the left side of the man's left ear was ruffled by the wind, and a sharpened wooden arrow passed through his cheek and disappeared into the air in the distance.

Oliver put down the bow and arrows in his hand, and said, "I have a bow, and I don't need the army to issue them, but I only have wooden arrows, and if those monsters are really as terrible as you said when you recruited troops, wooden arrows can't shoot through them." ”

The air around me was a little heavy.

There was silence for a long time, and the hearty laughter broke it, and the big man laughed loudly, and threw a bundle of military arrows at his feet to Oliver: "Very good, I like your character, these are twenty arrows, if you miss one, don't try to get a second bundle." ”

"And what about you, Skinny Monkey?" said Da Han, looking at the last man in the group.

"I'm not called a skinny monkey......"

The young man covered his forehead with a headache, unwilling to accept the name of the big man, to be honest, when he stripped naked, he was quite material, but the overall muscle lines were too symmetrical, and he looked thinner than others under the thick jacket, and he was also slightly shorter, the most important thing was that his appearance was too beautiful, in the eyes of the big man, it was not like a man from the north, but more like a man who grew up in the warm south of the country and only knew how to sing and dance.

"My name is Hodge, Hodge Gryffind. "He's a herbalist." ”

Dahan's eyes showed a little surprise, and after looking at him for a while, he looked quite satisfied: "Very good, doctors are a scarce profession at this time, I didn't expect that this recruitment is not all rotten, there are really a few treasures hidden." But boy, I have to warn you, when you go to war, I won't tolerate your cowardice just because you're a doctor, don't be so scared that you can't even get the medicine out, if that's the case, I'll teach you a long lesson with my fists. ”

The big man walked a few steps and stepped on a raised stone slab, plus his body was already burly and tall, and with the high end of the stone slab, he was instantly a lot taller than the others.

Looking at the eleven men from all walks of life standing in front of him, he said loudly: "I am Lloyd, a soldier of the Stone Fort City Defense Legion, I have been in the army for eleven years, I have killed seven people, I have seen with my own eyes what a real war is like, in the next time, you will become my team members, you can call me a captain, you can also call me an instructor." ”

Lloyd's gaze shrank suddenly, becoming as sharp as a horizontal knife, and everywhere he looked, the people who were staring at him were all nervous, and they couldn't help but sweat.

"But the second name is fart, in fact, I don't have time to teach you how to be a good soldier, damn, even if I have time, I don't have the patience to wear off that layer of scum skin on your body, and the devil knows if there is real gold in it. ”

Lloyd clenched his fists, his teeth rubbing slightly, and grinned, "But I'll try to teach you scum something more important." ”

"That's how you can live as long as you can. ”

"We've known each other for once, waste. Let's get along with each other for the rest of the day. Lloyd's laughter grew wilder.

......

Cold nights.

The members of Lloyd's squad were crouching on the sentry post of the city wall, sitting against the stone wall in twos and threes, and now they could not see anything clearly, and they would lie on the wall and look out unless they heard obvious movement.

Lloyd wasn't here, and the big man, who looked like his entire body was stuffed with muscles, just gave them a "keep it, I'm going to pee" and left.

The devil knows if that's true or not, maybe it's just that the reckless man was too lazy to stay up in the snowy night with these recruits, maybe he has now slipped into the unguarded tavern, grabbed the barrel from the boss's basement, pried the lid open, and enjoyed the trembling of the tip of his tongue.

Hodge crouched in a corner with his knees folded, observing the position of the rest of the team.

It is obvious that without Lloyd's boss, the team members spontaneously formed their own small groups, small circles, without interfering with each other, without talking to each other, and without allowing other people who have nothing to do with each other to intervene in the circle of conversation.

The fisherman named Parker was talking to three men whose faces were covered with knife-like cuts, which were the special features of the sea breeze that had been eroded by the sea for many years, and two of them were sailors, and the other was a fisherman like Parker, and they were begging for a living at sea, so they naturally had a common topic.

The blacksmith named Marjery squatted in another corner with two other people, who were not blacksmiths, one was a fruit seller, and the other was a small merchant who sold clams in carts, and the reason why they were able to get together was that they lived on the same street and were quite familiar with each other, and it was naturally more pleasant to talk to familiar people in an unfamiliar environment.

He took a cursory look, and there were only eleven people, and they had already divided into four or five small groups, each talking their own words, which made people feel quite funny to watch.

He noticed that the hunter named Oliver was leaning against the wall alone, just like him, pulling something smooth from his cloth pocket at his waist, ** the body of his old wooden bow, which was supposed to be doing maintenance work on the bow.

Seriously, when Oliver himself said his name, Hodge, who was at the end of the line, almost didn't squirt out his snot, although he had a unhappy childhood in his previous life and had less contact with outside things, but after becoming a frequent participant in the group game, he also made some friends, followed them to see a lot of new things, and also met a man who liked a green hat in a certain TV series - no, it was a man who liked green clothes and was good at using a high-strength compound bow.

At that time, he really couldn't help but ask: Dude, is your surname Quinn?

Hodge rubbed his fingers that were about to freeze, but it was not difficult to guess the reason why Oliver was alone, this was because he was not from the city, he was from the small village of Orion outside the Stone Castle, and this time he entered the city just to sell the dried meat and fur that had not yet been left, and change some clothes and food back to the village house for the winter.

Locals are always prejudiced against outsiders, which may not be obvious enough on the hustle and bustle of the market streets, but once the number of people is reduced to a certain range, this culture of exclusion of outsiders will be exposed.

Again, this is the reason why Hodge is alone.

He was worse than Oliver, not only did he not live in a castle, but he was a complete foreigner, who had just come from a city hundreds of miles away, and knew nothing about the local customs.