On August 30, 117 years of the Nas year, the snow fell in the thirty-fifth village of the city

"Did you find it? How did you find it, tell me how to find it!" Wu Ling stretched out his hand and dragged the triumphant Harold in front of him.

"Hey, hey, I said, you don't have an attitude of humbly seeking advice, Wu Ling, you are obviously coercive and tempting, and even bending into a move, then do you think I can tell you-" Harold deliberately dragged out the last note, with a cheap smile on his face, and winked at Wu Ling.

After getting along for so long, Wu Ling still has a way to deal with Harold, let go of his hand, turned around and sat down on the side, and said disdainfully: "If you don't say it, you won't say it, you can't do it in an hour, you can always do it in a day, there will always be a way to do it, keep your method and talk to the roundworm in your stomach, if you don't say it, who knows if you find it or not?"

"Hey, you ......" Harold couldn't stand the agitation the most, and jumped to Wu Ling's side in two steps, "Why don't you know how to say something soft? Let me tell you, this is a true crossing!"

"Who knows if you're fooling me, how did you find it?" Wu Ling still looked disbelieving.

"You yourself just said that we can't find the crossing because we don't have this consciousness at all. So, the most important thing for us now is not to look for the crossing, but to find the way to find the crossing. You don't even know what to look for, how to find it?"

"I understand the truth, I don't need you to repeat it. Do you understand the point?" Wu Ling pretended to be angry and urged impatiently.

"Look at you, you have a stinky face again. Whatever it is, as long as it exists, there are bound to be signs that it exists. A large-scale search will definitely not work, only an ambush, and there will always be some vision. Relax, you have to relax, set a part to be ambushed, think aimlessly and unconsciously, feel the ambush part once in a while, ah yes, my part is the palm. But this thing is very cunning, like a wisp of smoke, fleeting, and I have to fall asleep before I stumble upon the slightest sign. When I first found out, it was gone before I could look closely. So I changed places, crouched on my shoulder, still the same routine, I found that this thing seemed to be a little clearer when it appeared near the shoulder than in my hand, and I then ambushed in my chest, and there were several light smokes at the same time, and in a flash, I tried to chase all my energy into a light smoke, and guess what I found? My whole vision was completely torn in, it was like a dream, I followed the smoke around my body, the beating of my heart, the wriggling of my stomach, and even the trembling of muscle fibers, it was so clear that it seemed to be close in front of me, and I could reach out and touch it. But the strange thing is that the smoke seems to be a completely different substance, and it can pass through my body at will, and the bones, muscles, and blood cannot stop it. It's a pity that I was woken up by your kick before I could fully appreciate it, alas. But it scared me to death, when I was cut off from Wataru, I lost my sight in a short time, and it was pitch black in front of my eyes, if you didn't speak, how would I know it was you, so I hit you by mistake. ”

"It's smoke-like, yes, that's what it says in the book. But it can penetrate the body at will, which ...... I don't think I understand. ”

"The book, the book about the crossing, why don't I remember where I read it, okay, Wu Ling, you actually opened a small stove behind my back, but this small stove doesn't seem to be of much use, it's not behind me, right, hehe." ”

"Villain's heart, remember last year when we secretly went to Snowfall City together?"

"I don't remember. ”

"In Snowfall, you stole a small shield, went home and was beaten, and your butt was swollen and you didn't come to train the next day. ”

"Ah, I remember, what does this have to do with that book?"

"The shield you bought, the book I bought!"

"Oh...... But it's still irrelevant, is it?"

"I went home and was beaten. ”

"Yes!"

"You...... I flipped a few pages of the book on the way, and when I got home, my grandfather took it away. The only thing that impresses me is that the ferry is smoke-like. ”

"No, no, if it's a book about Wataru, your grandfather won't let you read it, did you buy a book that isn't serious, ah? ”

"Harold, why are you so dirty! My grandfather said that reading books is useless, it's not time yet, and training and sharpening swords is the right way. ”

"Just make it up, your grandfather knows how to cross. ”

"Don't believe it, I have to find a ferry, the sun is about to set" After speaking, Wu Ling left Harold, sat thirty meters away, and began a new round of exploration.

"Unthankful!" Harold rolled his eyes, lying on his back on a rock, holding the grass roots and watching the clouds in the distance gradually ignited by the sun, glancing at Wu Ling, who was motionless like a stone from time to time.

Wu Ling's face was solemn, and he suddenly frowned, and slowly stretched out.

Drake sat at the round table in the cabin, a slightly stained flannel in his hand, carefully wiping his saber. There was a rush of footsteps outside the house, and Drake knew that it was Wu Ling and Harold who had returned, so he smiled knowingly and continued to wipe the greatsword.

A few seconds later, the door of the wooden house was kicked open by Harold, Wu Ling followed Harold into the house, and as soon as he entered the door, Harold shouted excitedly, "Teacher! Hey, this is the giant sword that Wu Ling talks about every day, tsk, it's really a domineering sword. ”

"What are you shouting, your teacher, and I'm not deaf yet. Drake frowned, and didn't stop wiping the greatsword.

I saw Drake crouching on the table, carefully wiping the copper greatsword, his movements were gentle not like a man, more like a woman caressing her child. At the round table where Drake was wiping the greatsword, Wu Ling and Harold's ink steel swords stood on the wall, and under the strong contrast of the red copper greatsword, the two ink steel swords were obviously underdeveloped, like two toys.

Red copper is a relatively unique metal on the Nader continent, and it is also one of the few metals that can be connected with living things and change, soak the red copper in the blood, a faint blood red will gradually emerge in the bronze, and the soaking time is long enough, after the red copper absorbs blood to saturate, the bronze will be completely erased by the hideous scarlet, and then supplemented by high temperature, the crystal structure in the red copper will change slightly, and eventually become another metal - Blood copper, the form of blood copper is like fresh blood in the solid state, the whole body is bright red, delicate, compared with red copper, although the hardness is comparable, but the toughness is better. However, whether it is a weapon made of red copper or blood copper, its toughness is still a certain gap compared with other commonly used metals, so in the fierce battle red copper or blood copper weapons are very easy to break, so the weapons made of red copper or blood copper are mostly blunt weapons or heavy giant swords, and it is rare to see slender and light actual combat weapons.

However, because the blood copper is too good-looking, most of the weapons created are extremely gorgeous, supplemented by spar decorations, which are of great ornamental value, so in daily life, blood copper is mostly used to create accessories and playthings.

Wu Ling is no stranger to blood copper, and has been making swords with Old Man Wu all year round, and he has seen some strange materials. Old man Wu once built a batch, about fifteen handles of blood copper one-handed sword, in peacetime a large amount of human blood can not be obtained, the old man Wu converted the red copper into blood copper with the pig blood left over from the village butcher killing pigs, at that time coincided with the New Year, the people of the Pumir Plateau have to eat blood sausages made of pig blood every year, and the actions of the old man Wu forced the villagers of 35 villages to go out of the village to buy pig blood.

After soaking pig's blood for a month, the fifteen swords were all built in the spring of the second year. Old Man Wu also inlaid a lot of unknown cheap crystals on the hilt of the blood copper sword, and the theme of the whole sword was very clear, flashy, and shoddy. It doesn't seem to have much actual combat value, but it is indeed the most beautiful sword Wu Ling has ever seen, the bright red sword body looks like a flowing blood from a distance, and it is extremely eye-catching to walk in the crowd with the sword, especially in the winter with snow as the base color, it is particularly eye-catching. Of course, what made Wu Ling remember deeply was not the gorgeous appearance and inferior production process of the batch of pig-blooded bronze swords, but that these swords were sold for nearly 500,000 Na Yuan under the encouragement of Old Man Wu, and the unit price of a sword was as high as 25,000 Na Yuan, and you must know that the price of the best quality ink steel two-handed long sword at that time was only 3,000 Na Yuan. That transaction is the proud work of the old man Wu, often hanging on his lips to show off, Wu Ling listened to it disgusting, that year Wu Ling almost ate blood sausage for two months, so far when he sees blood copper objects, he always feels that there is a smell of pig blood.

Wu Ling stared at the giant sword in a daze, except for the faint smell of pig blood, his thoughts also flew all the way, back to a few years ago.

After the 35th village of Snowfall City was attacked by the ghost horned wolf, when Wu Lao saw Drake for the first time, he felt that he was a real warrior, and he specially analyzed it for Wu Ling at that time, so that Wu Ling in his childhood had a fanatical worship of Drake, and Wu Ling can still recite it word for word.

"Just look at the equipment of the golden armor warrior, the empire distributes the standard gold armor, this is definitely a very high-level warrior, but the weapon he wears is a red bronze giant sword, the giant sword is the most unlikely weapon to carry in cavalry combat, it is difficult to say whether he was transferred to the guerrilla, but at least he is definitely not a cavalry; 。 All in all, this is an imperial swordsman with imperial establishment and great combat effectiveness, a genuine product that is promoted by strength from the grassroots level, not a fake that looks for connections and goes through the back door. ”

Two months before the attack of the Ghost Horned Wolf, because he offended a powerful person in the Holy Imperial Capital, he was transferred to the Pumir Plateau to serve as the temporary commander of the Immortal Beast Clearance Operation.

Drake prepared in the Pumir Plateau for a month, set up ambushes and barriers everywhere, and finally drove the largest ghost horned wolf pack on the Pumir Plateau into the encirclement for more than half a month. The ghost horned wolf pack has been exhausted for nearly a month, hungry and cold, and it is already the end of the strong crossbow, at this time, as long as it shrinks steadily, the wolf pack can be wiped out. However, the embankment was destroyed in the anthill, and Drake's nephew, who offended the powerful man, had already been arranged to be with Drake, and on the eve of the siege, the man put a lot of drugs in the food, causing the wolves to swagger out of the encirclement at midnight. The hungry ghost horned wolves came out of the encirclement and ran more than ten kilometers into the chaotic stone forest, in a vain attempt to hide in it to delay the pursuit of the cavalry, but by mistake they encountered the villagers of the 35th village of Xueluo City who got up early to mine, which finally caused the tragedy of the 35th village of Xueluo City.

Although Drake finally led the army to kill all the ghost horned wolves that attacked the village, but more than 300 lives could not be concealed in any case, on the day after the clearance, Drake was imprisoned, and the trial lasted for two months in the Scarlet Inquisition, Drake saved his life but also lost almost everything, one man and one sword came to the thirty-five villages of Snowfall City, determined to teach the villagers the art of self-defense, but the villagers did not buy it, they spit on Drake, Drake had no choice, so he lived alone in the birch forest of the mountain col.

Compared with the other villagers in the village, Wu Lao's consciousness is extremely high. After the other villagers were attacked by the Devil Horned Wolves, they would only complain that the Rangers did not eliminate the wolves in time, that they did not show up at the first moment of the attack, and that the defenses of Dawn and Snowfall were as bad as paper. And Wu Lao realized that it was the opposite, it was precisely because he was too weak that he would be so vulnerable, and he didn't even have the capital to resist, since there was an Imperial Spirit Rank junior giant sword swordsman here, and the teaching was completely free, this might be Wu Ling's opportunity, he definitely couldn't miss this opportunity, he didn't expect Wu Ling to get ahead, and it was enough to train to be able to calmly escape in front of the beast. On the afternoon of the day when he learned that Drake was teaching for free, Wu Ling sent Wu Ling to the cabin in the birch forest to apprentice, and on the second day after Wu Ling became Drake's personal disciple, he had an additional junior brother - Harold, the child of the village chief Huck.

After Drake settled in the birch forest, he locked this giant sword in a sword box nearly two meters long, except for taking it out regularly to wipe and maintain, he never took out this wooden house, Wu Ling only secretly looked at it a few times when he was apprenticed, and it was the first time to observe this copper two-handed sword so closely. The body of the giant sword is one and a half meters long, the width of the sword body is about forty centimeters, the sword spine is the thickest part of the sword body, the thickness is nearly four centimeters, the whole sword shape is simple and dignified, the sword body is densely covered with scars of different depths, and there are many defects on the blades on both sides, although I don't know how many years this sword has followed Drake, but these scars are enough to show that this sword has participated in countless fierce and even tragic battles with Drake. Although Drake's red bronze giant sword is said to have been through a hundred battles, there is not much blood on the sword, after all, it is in a peaceful era, there is not much chance to see blood, if it catches up with the war years, I am afraid that this giant sword will have been transformed into blood copper long ago. The hilt of the bronze greatsword was thirty centimeters long, and it should have been wrapped with rough beast leather to prevent slipping, but now it was bare metal, probably before Drake could disassemble the old leather and replace it with new leather. The most striking thing about the hilt of the sword is that the head of the sword is inlaid with a golden spar the size of an egg, and there are fine lines on the spar, Wu Ling has also seen spars with similar lines on the sword made by his grandfather, but the complexity of those lines is far less than the golden egg in front of him. On the shoulder of the sword, also known as the gauntlet, there are two flat diamond-shaped golden crystals on both sides, and there are no lines, Wu Ling guessed that this was probably decorative.

"You found the crossing so quickly, your speed is incredible. Help me put the sword in the sword case, and then put the sword case on the cabinet next to it. Remember! Handle with care! Teacher, I'm going to find something. With that, Drake got up and walked into the bedroom.

Wu Ling was still immersed in the memories filled with the smell of pig blood, staring at the red bronze giant sword with straight eyes. Harold took his elbow and turned Wu Ling, and whispered: "The teacher really trusts us, let us put this giant sword in the sword box, you should hurry up and get excited, you can touch the giant sword you dream of now!"

"Reasonable!" Wu Ling withdrew from his memories, lightly knocked on the copper giant sword with both hands, tried to hold the giant sword, weighed the weight, and after being satisfied, he beckoned Harold to carefully carry the giant sword into the sword box, put the giant sword in place, tied it tightly with a belt, and after making sure it was firm, Wu Ling was about to buckle the lid of the sword box, but was blocked by Harold.

"You?" Wu Ling was puzzled

Harold made a silent gesture and pointed to the lid of the sword case, and in the net pocket inside the sword case cover, a piece of leather was neatly stacked, and the brown color indicated that the leather had been some time.

Harold glanced back at the bedroom, made sure that Drake would not come out for a while, and glanced at Wu Ling, then reached out and pulled the leather out of the sword case, pinched one of the corners and shook it, shaking the folded leather away, Harold was very shrewd, spread the leather on the giant sword in the sword case, and then turned the sword box in a different direction, and aimed the sword box cover in the direction of the bedroom.

The yellow-brown leather was covered with dense small letters, and although the characters were ugly, they were very neat. Harold glanced at the four slightly larger words on the top of the leather, lost interest for a moment, and whispered, "Battle records! I thought it could be a love letter or a love history from Mr. Drake's collection." ”

Wu Ling was speechless about Harold's motives, and ducked into the sword box to take a closer look.

"In the first battle, on August 2, 100 years of Nas, on the outskirts of Rose City in the Flower Language Plain, 42 robbers were encountered, and they were annihilated and saved ......"

Before Wu Ling could read the content of the first battle, there was the sound of Drake's footsteps getting closer and closer from the bedroom, Harold was quick-eyed, snatched the leather and folded it casually, stuffed it back into the net pocket of the sword case, and quickly covered the sword box.

As soon as the sword case was closed, the bedroom door opened, and Drake walked out with a frown, with an extra wooden box about thirty centimeters long. After walking two steps and seeing the sword box lying horizontally on the table, he glanced at the two of them, stopped talking, shook his head, sat down at the round table, buckled his hand on the sword box twice, and said: "It's really not worry-free to let the two of you do some work, don't you care if you put it in the sword box?"

"Teacher Drake, it's not that we don't care, your giant sword is too heavy, the two of us got the sword into the sword box one after the other, and before we could lift the sword box to the top of the cabinet, you came out, teacher. Failure to complete the task assigned by the teacher is that we are not doing our job effectively, and the teacher punishes us, don't be angry, the teacher has worked hard for us day and night, if it is because we are angry again, we should really blame ourselves!"

"It's not me talking about you, I'm too lazy to talk about you, Harold, I must have had a problem with my ears in my last life, and I will only meet you in this life! Now that you've found Wataru, who's going to describe it?"

Drake waited for the two of them to answer.