Chapter 15: The Hero's Trial (3)
The destruction of the bridge only slightly delayed the pursuit of the Terror Knight. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info They crossed the river from somewhere downstream and continued to chase Gu Shiyu, but they gave Gu Shiyu a chance to repair.
Gu Shiyu set off early in the morning, passing a magic house along the way, where the magician was able to offer the opportunity to learn healing techniques to travelers, but Gu Shiyu was kicked out because he didn't have a magic book with him.
Oh my God, where can I get the magic book? Gu Shiyu became a two-day hatred when he stumbled, and if he knew this, he should have taken wisdom instead of diplomacy. After running for so long, he still hadn't found any wild rangers to recruit.
At noon, Gu Shiyu found the pursuers behind him again. Or the group of terror knights, although they took a long detour, but they caught up so quickly, it seems that they did not rest on the way, are they tireless?
Gu Shiyu hoped that all the horror knights would be lured by himself, so that Renesa would have a chance to adjust and recover.
Flee until sunset, when you no longer hear the sound of horses' hooves behind you and can't see the dust raised on the road. Gu Shiyu was already sleepy and tired, so he took off his saddle and let the fierce woman rest and relax, and forage for water and grass on her own. I also wandered around the forest for a long time, and finally caught a rabbit.
When peeling rabbit skin, Yu was very skillful, cutting around the rabbit's neck, and then pulling hard, the fur on the torso was clean.
But how do you get it to eat? The fire does not dare to start, and the smoke will reveal its whereabouts. However, physical strength must be replenished, so there is no choice but to eat it raw.
It's not that Shiyu hasn't eaten raw meat valley, but it's still difficult to eat raw rabbit meat. There is less meat and more bones, and there is a bit of earthy flavor. Gu Shiyu's canine teeth are not as good as carnivores, and it takes a lot of effort to bite a piece of meat, and sometimes he has to shake his head to bite it, so that he can tear off a piece of meat, which is quite like a puppy gnawing on fleshy bones.
The stomach is full for the time being, but how can I get rid of the pursuers behind me? If I flee in such a hurry, it is impossible to find the village, and then there will be no temporary foothold.
What if they do? Will they welcome themselves? If they refuse to enter, will they have to kill all the soldiers guarding them and violently occupy the entire village?
In this way, if you don't think about whether you can beat it or not, innocent villagers will definitely be harmed. Is it just to let the weaker villagers die and take their homes and resources in exchange for their own survival?
Isn't this a true recreation of the nightmares he had in the dead woods, and would the gods fight for them without regard for their own violence, even evil?
Violence is a vicious plague. When people use unscrupulous means of violence for the sake of their own survival, violence will spread, and the whole world will fall into chaos, with only violence and power everywhere, without moral and legal constraints, and human civilization will evolve into the law of survival of the jungle in nature.
Gu Shiyu is not a Buddha, although he has compassion in his heart, he has not yet had the great mind of feeding tigers and cutting meat to feed eagles. When faced with a life-and-death situation, he will not hesitate to choose my life, even if he will be condemned by his conscience.
Then, the first thing to do now is to solve the problem of chasing soldiers behind the scenes. Two days had passed, and he could not afford to delay in this matter for too long, God knows when he would find his footing.
It's time for him to go back, even if he has to fight, even if he dies in battle, he has to let the horror knights see his face clearly. If they don't teach them a lesson, they will chase after them like prey.
Gu Shiyu used the reins of the horse to tie a live buckle on the tree, so that even if the fierce woman encountered any wild beast, she could struggle to escape. Then hide the dragon's stomach wrap in the bushes, travel lightly, and grope your way behind you.
Although the evil spirits are tireless and painful, the horses they ride are alive after all, and they still need food and rest.
Gu Shiyu sneaked more than a kilometer in the dense forest, and finally heard the low sound of horses in the forest. Nervous and excited, he tiptoed closer, and sure enough, he spotted a large herd of horses that occasionally moved, but he did not find the Terror Knight.
If it were a human warrior, they would have gathered around the campfire by now, drinking, eating barbecue, and telling some inconsistencious jokes, but all of this was completely immune to the Terror Knight.
Gu Shiyu's head was pressed against the ground, and he looked up through the starlight, only to find a few terrifying knights who were motionless like dead wood stumps.
Gu Shiyu quietly retreated, scouting around this piece of terrain. He must not only know his opponent, but also be familiar with the terrain and plan the route of attack and retreat, which is a prerequisite for a successful sneak attack.
The location of the Knight of the Dreads camping was chosen under a huge banyan tree. The huge canopy of the tree is lush and green, covering an area of thousands of square meters, and thousands of tree roots hang upside down, deep into the soil, and the branches and roots support each other, forming a forest.
Gu Shiyu climbed up the banyan tree along the roots, stepped on the branches with his feet, and countless vines were hanging and entwined, with the help of which he could walk freely.
The valley rain is condescending, the field of vision is wide, and the scenery in the forest is clear at a glance. He chose a place to hide and began to attack the terrifying knights who looked like stakes under the trees with the tears of the gods.
The first three stakes fell to the ground without a single snort, and the fourth let out a terrible screech, like a tattered whistle.
The horror knights immediately gathered in one place, which gave Gu Shiyu a better chance to shoot, and sometimes even killed two birds with one stone.
The Terror Knights eventually discover that the deadly attack is coming from the trees. So some knights began to climb the vines, while others mounted their horses and chased them on the ground. Gu Shiyu relied on the vines and flexibly changed his position to continue to expand the results.
There was only one knight who could shoot back, and that was probably the undead hero who led the team, and every now and then there was a lightning bolt or two and a fireball that split the branches and leaves of the trees and sparks flew everywhere. Gu Shiyu fired several arrows in succession, and finally made the hero fall to the ground.
The rest is no longer a problem. Gu Shiyu stood on the canopy of the tree, the terrifying knights underground couldn't reach it, and almost all those who climbed the trees were shot down by Gu Shiyu, even if there were occasional face-to-face on the tree, a one-on-one duel was not his opponent at all. As long as the rain does not fall to the ground, it will not fall into a heavy encirclement, and the victory is in hand.
In the end, there were a few terrifying knights left, screaming and escaping from the woods.
Don't chase after the poor, Gu Shiyu didn't bother to see whether the knights lying on the ground were dead or alive, and only took two war horses to evacuate the battlefield.
Now Gu Shiyu has three war horses, alternate and alternate, and the marching speed is much faster.
The first pursuers were fifteen terror knights, the second was thirty, and there were heroes who led the team, hopefully this was the last group of pursuers. After all, such a team is strong enough for two people to pursue.
Although a few of the Terror Knights had escaped, they had already been two days away from the castle, and by the time they arrived here with the following reinforcements, it would be four days later.
Within two days, Gu Shiyu really didn't find the pursuers again. He successfully visited a wisdom stone, a huge tree of knowledge, received guidance from the shaman, and successfully advanced to two levels, learning intermediate diplomacy and elementary earth magic, but he still did not learn wisdom.
On the fifth day, Gu Shiyu was blocked by a checkpoint in the north. Dozens of archers, more than a dozen swordsmen, and several monks can be seen on the city walls.
This was the first time in five days that Gu Shiyu had seen a human warrior. He felt unusually kind, and rode his horse to the city, but was mercilessly shot with a bow and arrow. He had no choice but to retreat, shouting at the fighters at the level, and the only thing that answered him was a hostile look.
What to do? If you want to go north, you must pass this level. Gu Shiyu is not Zhang Yi and Su Qin, although he also has a three-inch tongue, but people just don't eat oil and salt, and no one listens to what he says.
"It's useless for you to tell them, it's their job to hold the checkpoint and not allow anyone to pass through. ”
Gu Shiyu looked back and saw four human cavalrymen standing behind him. He was surprised and delighted in his heart, if he could have the help of these cavalrymen, he might be able to pass the level.
Didn't he learn the art of intermediate diplomacy, and how to use it? But the shaman didn't tell him how to use it.
Gu Shiyu said tentatively: "How about it, join my army, I have intermediate diplomatic skills." ”
"We can see that diplomacy makes you seem friendly. If you didn't have diplomacy, we'd already be attacking you from behind. ”
"Why?"
"Why?" The cavalry who led the way looked at Gu Shiyu strangely and said, "It's very simple, kill you, and we can get your equipment and money." ”
Gu Shiyu was taken aback, he didn't expect that there would be such a thing, and he would not hesitate to kill people for his own interests. He asked, "Who are you, and how can you do this?"
"We are mercenaries. In this land, if you want to live, you can only trust the weapons in your hands. ”
Mercenaries? Isn't that something that can be bought with money? Gu Shiyu immediately became excited: "Say, how much do I need to pay for you to work for me?"
The leading cavalryman said: "First of all, we have to see if you have the ability to lead us. We don't want to die for a fledgling kid. ”
"Will defeating you prove my abilities?"
"Yes, but you still have to have enough gold. ”
"Alright, let's get started!"
The cavalrymen slid off their masks and raised their spears.
Gu Shiyu suddenly remembered something, shook his hand and said, "Wait." He jumped off his horse, cut off a small tree with the thickness of his wrist, cut off the branches and leaves, obtained a wooden stick more than two meters long, and put several layers around the front end of the stick with his clothes, and then climbed on the horse's back and said, "I don't want to kill you." ”
"But we won't be merciful for this!" the knights took the reins, and the horses stood up and began to charge.
The five horses greeted each other, Gu Shiyu held a wooden stick in one hand, held the lion king shield in the other, and poked the knight on the left side off the horse with a stick. The knight's spear on the right side was blocked by the lion shield on Gu Shiyu's arm, and it didn't hurt him.
The crowd turned their horses and shouted for the start of the second round of assault.
But the result was still the same, the rain fell heavily in the valley, and another knight was poked. It's just that his men showed mercy, and the wooden stick only poked the shields in the knights' hands, and did not choose to stab them in the torso and head.
After the third and fourth faces, all the knights were knocked off their horses by Gu Shiyu and sat on the ground rubbing the sore spots.
Gu Shiyu took the horse, stood in front of the knights with broken steps, and said with a smile: "Have you obeyed?"
"Yes, you are much stronger than we are, and we are willing to work for you, as long as you can afford to pay enough gold. ”
"Tell me how much gold I need to pay you. ”
"The value of the cavalry is twelve hundred gold coins. We had four cavalrymen, and we needed four thousand eight in total. ”
...... The four thousand eight brothers' money was thrown to the Temple of Light. The gold sac can produce 750 gold coins a day, which is less than 4,000 in five days. In addition to the equipment, the only thing of value in the bag was five diamonds, which were a by-product of the gemstone ring.
"You have intermediate diplomatic skills, we count you as half the price, just two thousand four!"
Gu Shiyu was overjoyed and immediately paid cash in case they repented.
The four knights took Gu Shiyu to the mercenary camp, where several teenagers were practicing horsemanship.
"They can be real soldiers next week!" said the cavalry captain.
"Can this be used as a stronghold for heroes?"
"This is a mercenary camp, and the hero's stronghold must be a town or village to get the soldiers and supplies you need. ”
Oh my God, I'm only two days away. If you can't find this, the trial is about to end, and what awaits you?
"Where are the villages around here? We need to have a stable place to stay. ”
"Yes, there is, there is a village not far to the west. They had dozens of archers and pikemen, and the walls were strong. We wanted to ransack this village, but we were few and there were no long-range archers to suppress the archers on the wall, so it would be tantamount to suicide to rush hard. ”
"I'll take you to fight tomorrow, and when I open the door, you rush in." ”
"Yes!" the knights were delighted. They were not interested in being farmers, and all the resources of their livelihood were looted, and it happened that there was not much food in the camp.
"It's too close to the Dark Castle, so once I have a stronghold to settle in, I'll gather some soldiers and horses and beat the checkpoints and head north. Will you follow me?"
"Yes. We've wanted to go north for a long time, and if we stay here, we'll be wiped out by the undead sooner or later. We don't dare to attack the level, but if we have your command, I think it should be fine. ”
"I see that the troops on the level are not very strong, right?"
"It turned out to be very strong, and there were even a dozen or so archangels. Sandru had attacked once last month, with heavy casualties on both sides. This level is Dia's only way to the Isle of Light, but it doesn't look like the Isle of Light is planning to send reinforcements. Perhaps the spokesmen of the gods on the Isle of Light are ready to give up on Dia, and the army of the undead in Dia is too strong. ”
Gu Shiyu is still slightly understanding that this place is called Dia, which belongs to the territory of the necromancer Sandru. Then after you pass the level, the place you want to go should be the Holy Light Island.