A sharp wheezing sound sounded in the silence of the Black Forest, and then a black figure with a lantern quickly burrowed through a hollow formed by arching roots, stepped on the large stone opposite, and quickly climbed over a bush, and landed on the soft ground opposite.

"Hmm!"

A deliberately suppressed muffled snort sounded, and I saw the black shadow that landed on the ground half-kneeling on the ground, covering his right foot, and next to his right foot was a stone covered by putrid soil and rotten leaves.

It seems that when the shadow fell just now, it stepped on this hidden stone, and its ankle should have been injured.

However, even if he injured his foot, the black shadow still endured the pain, limping forward, until the pain in the wound was unbearable, and then he found a relatively open place, took out a spare bottle of fire oil from his bag, sprinkled it around himself, and then lit it, forming a ring of fire that surrounded him.

In the light of the fire, the black shadow revealed his appearance, and I saw that it was a young man in his twenties, with a very strong body, some old clothes, and he should look like a man who often did hard work, and the short knife and one-handed crossbow in his hand were a novice hand in terms of posture.

The only striking place on his body is that there is a scar from the corner of his right eye to his lip, which looks like he has been injured by a sharp weapon, which makes his whole person look a little fierce and rebellious, but at this moment he can no longer see these temperaments on his face, only endless fear and despair.

If anyone from Slate outside the Black Forest saw this young man at this time, he would surely know him, for he was the most famous gangster in Slate Town, and the most restless fellow in town, his name was Albon, and he was a free man.

Arbon was most restless because he was reluctant to work in the town's joint quarry, and always wanted to leave the town for a big city like Leon, Lancy, or even Miria. If it were just his own thoughts, he liked to stir up the young people of the town to fantasize with him, and to make the town a miasma.

However, for Albon, his dreams didn't get in the way of anyone else, and the town's conservative old guys were all lifeless walking dead.

Although Albon was eager to leave Slatetown, he was well aware that it would take a lot of money to live in the big cities, and for this reason he had accumulated a reserve of twenty gold and thirty bias by various means.

Such a large sum of money may be considered a huge amount of money in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is obviously not enough to live in a big city and live for a long time.

He inquired that in a big city like Leon, the monthly rent of an ordinary dormitory apartment cost seventy bia, and if you count the consumption of food, about ninety bias a month, the money in his hand can only allow him to live in a big city for two and a half years at most.

So all along, he hoped that he would be able to get a large sum of money in a short period of time, enough money for him to spend in the big city, so that he could get out of this remote ghost place.

It wasn't until two days ago, when a somewhat sensational event happened in Stone Town, that Albon felt his chance.

A guy nicknamed Honest Bill was lucky enough to pick up a piece of Goldeater feces on the edge of the Black Forest.

The Gold-Eating Beast is a unique beast of the Black Forest, this beast likes to eat metals, but it can only digest a few metals such as iron and copper, and the remaining metals will dissolve in its body, mix into an alloying substance, and excrete it with feces.

Some of these alloys are of high value and some are of low value to those who study metals, but it is undeniable that the composition of each alloy is unique.

The Royal Academy of Sciences of the French Empire attached great importance to this alloy, so it announced a high-priced purchase.

And scarcity is expensive, and some other imperial nobles and big businessmen also think that owning a unique alloy is a very face-saving thing, so they also buy it at a high price.

The alloy contained in the dung of the gold beast that Bill picked up was a very rare alloy body of gold, silver and precious stones, and the value was much higher than that of ordinary alloys, and a big merchant from Lan Xilai bought this alloy for a huge sum of 70,000 gold flanges.

Albon was jealous of Honest Bill's good fortune and wished he could pick up a piece of Goldeater's dung, so he went to the town's library to check out the Goldeater's information.

An unexpected discovery leads him to venture into the Black Forest, despite the dangers of the Black Forest.

This discovery is that gold-eating animals do not excrete feces all at once, but excretes almost the same amount of feces in other places not far away. Therefore, according to the habits of this one gold-eating beast, it can be inferred that there must be other gold-eating beast dung not far from where Honest Bill picked up the gold-eating beast dung.

Under the temptation of a huge amount of money, Albon also forgot how dangerous the Lower Black Forest was during the Fog Moon Period, and even because he was afraid that someone else would know about this and enter the forest to find the dung of the gold-eating beast first, he did not prepare all kinds of necessities carefully, only took a few weapons, brought some water and food, and carried the glass lantern in his house into the Black Forest.

Speaking of which, at the beginning he was lucky, he didn't encounter any danger, and he also found a piece of gold-eating beast's dung, and also found traces of the gold-eating beast's movement, and followed the traces to find another piece of gold-eating beast dung.

If he could bring back these two pieces of gold-eating beast dung from the Black Forest, let alone settle down in a big city like Leon, it would not be impossible for him to buy a villa and live an aristocratic life.

It's a pity that when he picked up the second piece of gold-eating beast's dung, Albon found that his luck seemed to be at an end, first he was bitten by a small insect hiding under the dung, and then accidentally slipped into the river while walking, and floated down the river for a while, and lost his way after coming ashore, and when he found his way back, he encountered the most terrifying predator in the Lower Black Forest, the red leopard, forcing him to run in the forest in a panic until now.

Now protected by a ring of fire, Arbon felt no hope of surviving the claws of the red leopard.

Not to mention that the red-striped leopard waiting outside the ring of fire to pounce on him and bite him to death when the flames are extinguished, even if there is no death threat from the red-striped leopard, he who has been completely lost in the Black Forest has absolutely no possibility of getting out, let alone the most dangerous fog moon period now.

I don't know what kind of emotion I had, Albon opened the package around his waist, looked at the two pieces of gold-eating beast feces worth more than 100,000 gold flanges inside, the expression on his face was unpredictable, and finally he closed the package with force, untied it from his body, threw the one-handed crossbow in his hand aside, and pulled out another short knife on his waist.

"Come on, come on, don't you beast want my life, then come!" Arbon slammed up from the ground, rushed to the side of the ring of fire, glared at the darkness beyond the ring of fire, and waved his short knife in frenzy, shouting at the deadly hunter who could not be seen outside the ring of fire.

However, there was no movement in the darkness in front of him.

Albon did not seem ready to give up, changed positions and continued to provoke. He felt that he had no choice but to do this, because instead of waiting to die in despair, it would be better to forget all dangers and fight to the death, at least he would die like a warrior, and perhaps he would be able to enter Valhalla after death, as the legend of the people of Beirut said.

Just as Albon continued this death-seeking practice, a black shadow lurked silently on the periphery of the ring of fire, and his purple-black eyeballs stared at Albon's figure in the circle of fire, as if waiting for the opportunity.

When Albon's whole person was completely facing away from the black shadow, the black shadow rushed out, like a black wind flying over the ring of fire, rushed behind Albang in the blink of an eye, and opened its big mouth, showing its razor-like fangs, and bit down on the neck of its prey.

Perhaps it was the threat of death that instantly raised Arbon's senses, and the moment the shadow pounced, he turned around just in time to see a large mouth full of fangs falling towards his neck, and he couldn't dodge it now.

It's over, it's Albon's only thought at the moment, time seems to slow down at this moment, and the speed of the red leopard's movement is also very slow, so slow that he thinks he can easily dodge, but at the same time he finds that his body can't move, and there are some memories of the past in front of his eyes, many of which he feels he has forgotten.

Eventually, these scenes were frozen in a beautiful figure, and he could not help but feel a sense of remorse in his heart, regret his yearning for the big city, regret that he had entered the Black Forest for money, and regret all the wrong things he had done to the man who loved him.

At this moment, he couldn't help but swear to the gods that if he could survive, he would definitely stay and work in Slate Town, and he would definitely treat the people who loved him.

Perhaps Albon's prayer had an effect, and just as the fangs of the red leopard touched his neck, an invisible force knocked the red leopard out of the way, fell outside the ring of fire, and after a moment of convulsions, he lay on the ground without any movement.

After experiencing a great change in life and death, all the strength in Albon's body seemed to be drained, and his soft body could no longer support him to continue standing, so he sat on the ground with his ass.

Albon didn't understand what had just happened, he just knew that the horror hunter who was chasing him was dead, and he was safe, and the ups and downs made him cry uncontrollably, like a madman. Even if he is still in the dangerous Black Forest, even if he doesn't know if he will be able to get out, he still has to cheer for the escape from death just now.

Not long after Albon vented his emotions, several sparkling fires suddenly appeared in the jungle to his left, and a half-human-high bush was removed, and several hunters in hunting suits, each carrying huge packages, walked out and stepped into the ring of fire.

One of the tallest and strongest men looked at Albon, who was crying and howling, and asked the bespectacled man next to him, "Doctor, this kid can't be crazy, right?"

The man with glasses squatted down and looked at Albon, and said, "I shouldn't be crazy, I just experienced the ups and downs of life and death, and it is inevitable that my emotions will be a little out of control, just vent." ”

"What a pathetic fellow. The strong man muttered, then walked quickly to the other side of the ring of fire, lifted the red-striped leopard, walked back to the firelight, looked at the head of the red-striped leopard, and said to the man who was also strong but more shapely: "You won, it is true that you hit the right eye, but this guy's head is so hard that a special bullet can't penetrate its head." ”

The man with glasses took the prey from the strong man's hand, looked at it and said: "The red leopard is the strongest hunter in the Black Forest, nearly half of the hunters who enter the Black Forest are dead under the mouth of the red leopard, in ancient times, the head of the red leopard can be used to make very hard bone armor, although the special bullet is good, but it may not be able to penetrate this kind of skull." ”

At this time, Albon, who was venting loudly, suddenly stopped, as if he had finished venting, and his strength seemed to be exhausted, so he sat on the ground in a daze.

"Boy, can you go?" the strong man walked up to Albon, who had quieted down, kicked him in the leg, and said, "You should be a resident of a nearby Black Forest village, right?

However, Albon did not respond to the strong man's request, as if he had ignored him.

The strong man frowned, and was about to crouch down, lift Albon from the ground, and teach him a good lesson, so that he knew how to treat his life-saver, but was stopped by the bespectacled man.

Then the bespectacled man crouched down, pulled his hand out of his glove, felt Albon's pulse, and said, "He's dead." Then he checked the exposed parts of the corpse, and when he saw his blackened right hand, he said, "I must have been bitten by a poisonous insect." This poisonous insect should not be immediately fatal, and it can be saved with herbs, but it is a pity that he has to escape the pursuit of the red leopard, and he keeps running, accelerating the circulation of blood, so that the venom penetrates deep into every part of the body. The aberrant behavior just now may also be the effect of Venom. ”

After saying that, he closed the corpse's open eyes, helped him to lie down, recited a prayer, then stood up, and said regretfully: "What a poor fellow, even if we had met him earlier, I am afraid we would not have saved his life." ”

"Here's a package, it should be this kid. At this time, as if he had discovered something, the strong man picked up Albon's package, opened it, and said, "It seems that there are two pieces of gold ore in it." ”

The man with glasses stepped forward to take a look, and said with some surprise: "It's not gold ore, it's the dung of a gold-eating beast." ”

"What?!" the strong man threw the package on the ground with a disgusted expression, and although he was wearing gloves, he still habitually wiped his hands on his companion.

On the contrary, the man with glasses picked up the package from the ground without any scruples, took out one of the pieces of gold-eating beast dung, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and then said to the bearded man who was holding a knife to untie the red-striped leopard on the side, "Since Jason doesn't want this thing, why don't you and I divide it separately!"

"Is this valuable?" asked the bearded man, as he carefully dissected each of the red-striped leopard's organs, as if looking for something, without raising his head.

The bearded man's inquiry also attracted the strong man's attention, and his eyes couldn't help but focus on the two pieces of gold-eating beast dung that had made him feel extremely disgusted just now.

"It's very valuable. The man with the glasses quickly gave an accurate answer, saying: "The gold-eating beast is a very rare beast in the Black Forest, and it is also one of the few beasts that is not aggressive, they are so good at hiding that even the best hunter cannot catch it, and once a duke was willing to pay the price of a territory for a living gold-eating beast, but it was not successful." ”

The strong man couldn't help but interject: "Wow! It has such a high value, could it be that the value of the gold-eating beast is so high, and its dung is also valuable?"

"The price of the Gold-Eater's dung has nothing to do with the Gold-Eater itself, and the reason why the Gold-Eater's dung is valuable is because the dung itself is a unique alloy metal. The bespectacled man gave his companion a blank look and went on to explain: "Because the gold-eating beast is unpredictable, its droppings are also difficult to find, and it is almost impossible to find a single piece on the market for a year. The average price of gold-eating beast dung is about two thousand to eight thousand gold guilders......"

"Eight thousand gold shields are so much?" the strong man exclaimed.

"But there are some special gold-eating beast dung that can be fried to tens of thousands of ......"

The strong man opened his mouth, looking like he didn't know what to say.

The bespectacled man continued: "And this dung in our hands now is a very rare alloy of gold, silver, and gemstones. The most recent piece of the same gold-eating beast dung was sold thirteen years ago at the Reed Auction House in Port Set, and the price at that time was 79,000 gold guilders. And our piece, whether it is the volume or the proportion of gold, silver and gemstones, far exceeds that piece, so according to the growth rate of the market price, it will take at least 100,000 gold shields to buy a piece of such gold-eating beast dung. ”

"Wow~oh~!" The strong man heard the number of hundreds of thousands, his mouth grew wide, a shocked look appeared on his face, and it took a long time to spit out a particle, and also lengthened his voice a lot, as if he couldn't express his amazement without doing so.

The bespectacled man teased the gold beast feces in his hand in front of the strong man's eyes, and said, "How is it?

However, the strong man just shook his head, did not ask for a piece of the pie, just turned his head to look at the corpse lying on the ground, sighed, and said regretfully: "What a poor fellow!"

"Yes! The bespectacled man also put away his smile, looked at the corpse, and nodded in agreement.

The strong man's emotions passed quickly, and he suddenly seemed to think of something, and said to the bearded man next to him, who had completely removed the red leopard: "Leo, have you been kissed by the goddess of luck, since you entered the Black Forest, your luck is really good, kicking a stone helped Nelson find the purple crown flower, casually pushed away a tree root that blocked the way, and found a rare herb, and now you have even hit a prey to get two pieces of priceless dung, your luck is really good!"

The brawny man's boast did not make his companion show joy, but saw him frown, and pondered: "I also want to know how this luck came about?"