Chapter 920: Old Hunter

Leo and Sylvia could easily tell that the footsteps were made by humans or human-like bipedal creatures, and they looked at each other and walked out, looking in the direction they were made.

It wasn't long before he saw a bush being pushed away, followed by a white-haired old man with very old clothes, who was the owner of the hunter's hut from the bow he was carrying, the traps he was trapping, and so on.

When Leo and the others saw the old hunter, the old hunter also saw Leo and Sylvia, and was startled, and then looked curiously at the pair of young men who suddenly appeared in front of his hut, and what attracted his attention the most was the clothes they were wearing, and it was obvious that the clothes of the two of them were very different from the old hunter's civilian clothes from the era of the Second Dynasty.

"Who are you?" asked the old hunter as he quickly returned to normal, turning to Leo and Sylvia.

Although the language used by the old hunters is ancient French, it is not too different from modern French, and some of them are like the local languages of the remote areas of southern France, which both Leo and Sylvia can understand.

"We are just people who have lost their way in the Black Forest. Sylvia said in the closest French language she remembered, and said casually for a reason.

Although Sylvia's language was not very different from the old man's in her opinion, the old hunter could clearly sense the difference between the two languages, and wondered what Sylvia's accent was.

Although it was only a very brief conversation, the old hunter's attitude had changed from being vigilant and vigilant just now to relaxing, and his hand was removed from the hilt of the knife at his waist without a trace.

The question he asked just now was to determine if the two people in front of him were monsters in the Black Forest, because in known attempts, although monsters can transform into normal people, they can't talk like normal people.

The moment Sylvia opened her mouth, she had already proved that she was not a monster of the Black Forest.

However, the old hunter also wondered why the two strangely dressed people in front of him were lost in the Black Forest.

Although the Black Forest has never been considered a forbidden place, anyone who wants to enter the Black Forest can enter it, but almost everyone is well aware of the dangers of the Black Forest, and no one will run into the Black Forest for any boring reason such as play, or even come to the edge of this Black Forest safety zone.

The old hunter knew very well that the hunter's hut he had built was specially designed to deal with prey after hunting monsters from the Black Forest, and to be used as a temporary storage site, and the location was chosen to be extremely close to the boundary of the safe area.

With the help of this hunter's hut, he was able to capture some of the weaker monsters in the Black Forest faster, and he didn't have to worry about anyone breaking into the hunter's hut, in fact, it was the first time he had encountered an outsider who had discovered the hunter's hut.

"Where did you come from?" asked the old hunter again.

"It's inconvenient to say. Sylvia said vaguely.

The old hunter's hand that had been loosened from the weapon returned to it, and looked at Leo and Sylvia warily.

Although anyone can enter the Black Forest, anyone who enters the Black Forest and has a harvest must pay a large Black Forest tax, but the old hunter's financial state simply cannot pay such a heavy tax, so every time he goes into the forest to hunt, he is careful to stay away from the eyes and ears of those lords.

At present, Sylvia's vague answer naturally aroused the old hunter's concern, but in addition to worrying, he was also suspicious of the identity of the two.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not your enemy, and I have no ill will towards you, we just stumbled upon this hunter's hut to take a look. Leo then said, "If you don't show up, we'll be gone soon." ”

Although Leo's words were just ordinary explanations, he used some psychic voice techniques when he spoke, and these sound waves with faint psionic energy naturally gave him an inexplicable sense of trust after they reached the old hunter's ears, and his hand was lowered from his weapon again.

"Do you need me to take you out?" the old hunter asked, under the influence of a sense of trust.

"Of course. Leo nodded unceremoniously.

The old hunter didn't say anything more, but went to the cabin, took out the weapon from the oil drum, wiped it clean, put it away, took out two more weapons from his backpack and inserted them into the barrel, then turned and walked out of the house, and when he closed the door, he motioned for Leo and Sylvia to follow him.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia said anything, and followed closely behind the old hunter and walked towards the realm controlled by the mysterious being mentioned in the information in their heads.

After walking for a while, Sylvia suddenly broke the silence and said, "My name is Sylvia, this is my partner Leo, we are here for the first time, can you tell us a little bit about your territory?"

The old hunter was stunned when he heard this, and then turned his head to look at Leo and Sylvia, and then his eyes swept back and forth on their out-of-place costumes, and then as if he had thought of something, a look of awe appeared on his face.

The old hunter asked tentatively in a low-profile tone, "The two adults are from Lan Xi?"

"Lanxi?" Leo and Sylvia were stunned for a moment, but soon realized that the Lanxi mentioned by the old hunter should not be Lanxi, the industrial center of the United Kingdom of the World of Veron, but Lanxi, a city built by the civilization derived from the Francois Empire in the Black Forest.

Lanxi has a special meaning for any Frank, even in the Third Dynasty, many Franks do not think that the city of Winter is the capital of the French Empire, but the ancient capital of Lanxi is, this idea is most popular among people in the south and west of the French Empire.

So much so that after the establishment of the United Kingdom of France, the United Kingdom government has to listen to the will of the people and set up Lansey as the capital of the kingdom.

From the words of the old hunter, it is not difficult for Leo and Sylvia to guess that there is also a civilization in this Black Forest world that has named its center Lanxi, which coincides with their previous speculation related to the Second Dynasty.

"Yes, we are from Lanxi. Sylvia nodded in acknowledgement.

Hearing Sylvia's admission, the old hunter breathed a sigh of relief, in his heart, those people of Lanxi were indeed worthy of awe, even fear, but compared to the lord who actually controlled them, Lanxi's people were obviously not so threatening.

Moreover, this also gave him an answer to the doubts in his heart about the strange clothes on the two of them, after all, Lan Xi and those people are known for being weird, not to mention wearing some strange-shaped clothes, even if they become strange-shaped people, they are nothing.

What's more, the people of Lanxi are simply a symbol of wealth for people like them who make a living in the Black Forest, and every time those who do things for Lanxi end up earning a huge fortune that can only be earned in years.

The old hunter smiled at the thought that he might get a windfall, and then asked tentatively, "Why did you send someone so early this year?" Now those monsters in the Black Forest are still dormant, and it will take at least four full moons to regain their vitality. Without waiting for Leo and Sylvia to react, he said to himself, "Do you want to go deeper into the Black Forest?" ”

As he spoke, he deliberately removed the bow he was carrying, then mounted the arrow, searched the surrounding forest, and shot an arrow at one of the trees, and then saw the arrow fall through a black forest creature in the shape of a tree mole.

Seeing this scene, Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, exchanged glances, and looked at the old hunter with slightly different expressions.

Although the old hunter opened his bow and shot arrows just now, although it looked no different from ordinary arrows, Leo and Sylvia both felt that there was an extraordinary power attached to the old hunter's arrows, and this extraordinary power was not very strong, but in the surrounding environment, it was particularly obvious.

The first human to be encountered in the Black Forest possessed extraordinary powers, so how many people in this civilization within the Black Forest possessed extraordinary powers? This question arose in the minds of Leo and Sylvia at the same time.

When guessing that there was a civilization in the Black Forest that was a continuation of the Second Fran Dynasty, Leo and Sylvia had thought that the people in this civilization also had extraordinary powers, because in an environment like the Black Forest, if they were affected by a huge amount of energy for a long time, human beings would definitely undergo some mutations.

But they never imagined that an old hunter they met casually also possessed extraordinary power, and judging from the techniques and processes he used, he was very familiar with this power, and had obviously used it for a long time.

Curious, Leo and Sylvia didn't ask the old hunter about his supernatural powers, but instead turned the conversation back to what he called Leon.

The old hunter didn't doubt him, and told him what he knew about Leon's Territory, but even if he tried to explain everything as clearly as possible, in the end Leo and Sylvia didn't gain much.

This is not because the old hunter is hiding anything, but because the old hunter only knows these things, he has been begging for a living in the Black Forest all his life, let him tell about the things in the Black Forest, he can tell a lot of information, such as the growth cycle of those trees, the roots and leaves of those trees can be used as medicine, etc., but he has not been to other places in the Lyon Territory, all the things about the rest of the Lyon Territory are said by the merchants who come here to buy prey, he just pieced together the fragments of his memory and told Leo and Sylvia to listen。

Now the corresponding place in this Black Forest is the Lyon Territory, which is controlled by a lord named Prodi, and it is not clear how big the whole territory is, the old hunter just knows that after leaving the Black Forest, it will take about a day or so to reach Prodi's castle.

The old hunter's village is the only one in the vicinity, and this village is mainly based on the cultivation of a type of wine-making berry, and some people also make cameos as hunters.

In addition, there is a war here, and the specific war is fought and where it will be fought, and the old hunter is not clear, and the lord Prodi often mobilizes some young people to fight, and after each war, there are not many people who can come back.

As they talked, the group of three quickly walked out of the Black Forest.

Here, the boundary division of the Black Forest is similar to that of the world of Velon, it is a towering tree wall, and after walking out of the Black Forest, Leo saw the scene that made him almost think that he had returned to the world of Velon, because the scene in front of him was very similar to the scene he saw after passing through the Black Forest.

They were all reclaimed land, and the crops were neatly divided into patches on the land, except that the crops at that time were staple foods such as wheat, and the crops in front of them were berries with red fruits.

"That's our village over there. The old hunter led Leo and Sylvia through a field of crops to a hillside, and then pointed to a village in the distance, and said, "The two adults can go to our village for a rest, and then let the village carriage take them to the castle." ”

Neither Leo nor Sylvia objected to the old hunter's proposal, and Sylvia suddenly thought of money, so she took out a Jinsa from her pocket and handed it to the old hunter, saying, "Can this be used as a fee?"

"This ......" Seeing Sylvia's Jinsa, the old hunter showed a shocked look on his face, and quickly shook his head, and said, "No, no! This is too precious, too precious! I dare not accept this kind of fetish." ”

From the old hunter's reaction, both Leo and Sylvia could tell that gold seemed to be incredibly valuable here, and was even regarded as a sacred object.

"We rarely go out and don't know what currency you trade in?" Sylvia asked, taking the gold back.

Seeing Sylvia take back the gold coin, the old hunter felt a little reluctant, but he didn't say anything, he still had some doubts about the identities of Leo and Sylvia in his heart, but now this doubt is gone, in his opinion, only Lan Xi's people would take out the artifact as currency at will.

The old hunter then took out some currency from his pocket and put it in front of Leo and Sylvia, and both of them were surprised to see it, because the currency that the old hunter had taken out was not metal at all, but pieces of wood, on which were engraved numbers and some patterns.

Leo and Sylvia each picked up a piece and looked at it, and soon they realized that the piece of wood was not as simple as it seemed, because they both felt a faint trace of energy in the piece of wood, and it was obvious that this trace of energy was the key to distinguishing the authenticity of this piece of wood currency.