Chapter 20: A Long Day (7)
Didn't wait for Ryan to speak. The leader of their group stood up with a smile, clenched the longbow in his hand, and said to Ryan with a smile: "Ryan, you might as well talk about it, the vigil is quite a boring thing anyway. Well, but you'll have to wait until I'm going to see what's going on outside. ”
"Okay. Ryan was so gracious that he nodded in agreement. The team leader with the bow and arrow in his hand obviously had some expectations, because Ryan and Alendor had been deep in the North Talon Prairie for nearly a month, and returned safely, according to a friend of his who had read the information provided by Ryan, Ryan and they killed a lot of orcs, and they also arrived at the place called the Beast Blood Castle, and the leader of the archer team has been in Thor's Fortress for many years, and he hasn't been able to step out of the gate of Thor's Fortress.
The leader of the shooters walked to the edge of the wall, and Ryan followed him with a torch. The leader of the shooter smiled, lit the arrow on the torch, and shot out with a "whoosh". Another meteor streaked across the sky and flew into the distance. The leader of the shooter team took a closer look with the help of the bright light, and found nothing unusual. However, when his arrow fell, it coincidentally hit an orc corpse that fell to the ground. This is not surprising, after all, the orcs have left more than 30,000 corpses here during the day, especially at the distance where the bow and arrow are fired, and a large number of lives have been harvested.
"Let's go!" the leader of the shooters put away his longbow and pulled Ryan back to the campfire. At the moment when the rocket was about to go out, the orc's corpse suddenly moved, and then everything sank into darkness.
Ryan sat around the campfire and slowly recounted his adventure with Allendo. Ryan, who has already had many experiences, focuses more on the orc side when he tells the story, and brushes off his own and Allendo's behavior.
"Ah, it's horrible. When he heard Ryan and Alendor lurking outside the Beast Blood Castle, feeling the terrible pressure, Bart cried out loudly, obviously worried about Ryan and Elendor. Although Bart knew that Ryan and Allendo were sitting next to him now, and that no matter how critical the situation was, they would get through it safely, Bart couldn't help but ask, "Did you run out in the end?"
"Haha. One of the mercenaries said in a joking tone, "Bart, that's a great question, I don't think Ryan and Alendor would be able to sit here and tell us all about it if they hadn't left safely." ”
Bart patted his forehead and said with a smile, "Hehe, yes." Look at my head, I really deserve to be beaten. ”
"Ryan, it's not like I can't trust you. Another mercenary suddenly asked, "You have been lurking outside the Beast Blood Fortress for three days, why haven't the orcs noticed your traces?
"Not exactly. Ryan explained: "First, we're far away. Second, we usually hide during the day and don't sneak out until the evening. Thirdly, I think if there were orcs lurking outside the walls now, do you think we would be able to find out?"
The mercenary who asked the question thought for a moment, then looked up at the dark night sky outside the city walls, then turned back and said, "Don't say it, that's the truth." Who would have thought that someone would sneak into the outskirts of a heavily garrisoned city alone?"
"Hah, don't talk about it all the time, Bart, can you tell me your story? I remember you used to be a 'seller' in the Imperial Capital?" Ryan didn't want everyone to dwell on these things, so he began to change the subject.
"Ahh
Ryan didn't know what to do, and asked, "It's okay to be a 'seller', right?, why are you suddenly embarrassed?"
"Haha, Bart, that's a little one. A mercenary smiled and said to Ryan: "Ryan, you don't know, this little guy Bart, he had a beautiful girlfriend when he was in ......the imperial capital, and it is said that they have been engaged."
Bart didn't wait for the mercenary to finish, and immediately rushed over to cover his mouth, but what the mercenary was going to say next, others guessed.
"Oh, congratulations. Ryan said to Bart with a smile. And even the five warriors who operated the catapult had not been very friendly, and they hardly spoke, and after hearing this, their faces showed a congratulatory expression. Alendor also patted Bart on the shoulder, teasing him and saying, "Why are you hiding it? Isn't that a good thing? Or do you not like that girl?"
"No, Josa is a good girl!" Bart denied Alendor's words, but as soon as the words came out, he suddenly realized that he was actually yin by Allendo, so he clearly admitted everything.
"Alright, alright. The leader of the shooter team gently stopped everyone from making fun of Bart, and said in a concerned tone: "Everyone stop making fun of him, after all, Bart is still a child." Don't be embarrassed, Bart, tell us all about your Josa. ”
Bart blushed, and slowly told him about himself and Josa. This story is basically the old-fashioned kind, which can't be more old-fashioned. As a young man, Bart became a hawker and helped a tailor shop run a business, which he worked for more than a decade. For such a long time, he slowly developed a relationship with the daughter of the old tailor in the shop, that is, Josha.
Bart even bought a pair of rings with twenty silver coins he had painstakingly saved as a token of their affection. Although the old tailor did not like Bart very much, because he had no money or status, as a lowly tailor, his daughter was almost the only option if she did not want to give it to the nobles as a plaything, and marrying a self-motivated young man.
Looking at Bart's face full of longing, and the ring he was holding in his hand that was so simple that it could not be more simple, Ryan suddenly missed Farath very much, and it has been more than half a year since he was separated from her, but Ryan has experienced a lot of things during this time, and is busy learning the production of magic arrays, so there is really not much time to miss his close lover.
Time passed slowly, everyone took turns to tell their experiences, sharing each other's joys, sorrows and sorrows with their peers, and a very strange group became harmonious in such an atmosphere.
As he spoke, Xiao Bai, who was lying on the ground and curled up in a ball, suddenly jumped up, his green eyes looked vigilantly at the outside of the Thor Fortress, and a low roar came out of his mouth, and the fur on his whole body stood up, as if he had found some danger.
"Ahh The days when Ryan and Allendo arrived at Thor Fortress are not short, many people know that Xiaobai, who is inseparable from Allendo, and Xiaobai gives others the impression of being like a lazy dog who eats and sleeps, who knows that at this time, Xiaobai turned into a devouring wolf king.
Alendor gently stroked Xiaobai, he used the secret method of the druid to communicate with Xiaobai, and immediately learned a shocking news, he immediately whispered: "There is an enemy attack outside the city!"
"What?"
"Impossible!"
The teammates around the campfire had incredulous faces, clearly not believing what Allendo was saying. Although the 5,000 people who were keeping vigil on the Thor Fortress sat around the campfire most of the time, they were still very attentive to the movements outside the city walls, and from time to time they would shoot rockets and launch burning "cloth balls" to investigate, how could they let the orcs sneak silently outside the city walls?
Ryan stretched out his hand and grabbed a torch, and said solemnly, "In those days in the North Tallon Grassland, Xiaobai warned us many times so that we could avoid the orc patrol soldiers. I believe in it!"
"But......" their shooter leader said hesitantly, "we haven't found anything unusual, if we just report it like this, in case it is a lie about the military situation, but we will ......" At this point, the shooter team leader gently swiped a hand around his neck.
Everyone understood what the group leader meant, and they all looked at Alendor and Ryan with suspicion. Facing the questioning gazes of his companions, Ryan didn't know how to convince them, and suddenly a thought flashed through his mind, and he almost subconsciously shouted: "Corpses!
"Corpses, what does that mean?" Bart hadn't yet understood what Ryan meant, but the leader of the shooters immediately understood, yes, every time they lit up, they only saw corpses all over the ground as they did during the day. However, if the orcs immediately lie on the ground and pretend to be corpses when humans emit various means of lighting, even if you see them, you will ignore them.
"Team leader, please shoot a rocket as always, and then come back quietly. Ryan quickly said his thoughts: "Because of the bonfire on the city wall, the orcs outside the city wall must be able to see our every move." When you come back, team leader, you estimate that after the first rocket goes out, the second rocket will be fired immediately. ”
The leader of the shooter agreed, completely forgetting that he was the leader of the group, and immediately drew his feather arrow and lit it on a torch.
"Whoosh!" a rocket shot out and stuck on the ground. After this rocket went out, the shooter team leader quickly shot a second rocket. Under the reflection of the two rockets, it was still quiet outside the city walls, and there was no trace of the orc soldiers.
Everyone looked at Ryan with questioning eyes, and Ryan used the rockets to see the situation in the vicinity. Ryan clearly remembered that when the sun set in the evening, there were only a few orc corpses in that area, because the large expanse of grass there was still fresh in his memory. But now, in the faint light of the fire, there were clearly dense orc corpses lying there.
With a smile on his lips, Ryan whispered a large portion of the magic spell. His action shocked the others again, and no one thought that this young man, who was like the boy next door, turned out to be a magician. Ten seconds later, Ryan completed the spell, a fireball spell that greatly increased the flight distance, but reduced the power by at least 50%.
"Boom!" The fireball technique accurately hit the target selected by Ryan, blowing up the orcs lying on the ground, accompanied by several screams of the orcs, and at this moment, the cries of the enemy attack resounded throughout the Thor's fortress.
(I'm sorry, but there are guests at home today, and the update may be a little late, so I'm sorry.) )