Several teenagers blinked their eyes and looked at each other, not knowing what the young marquis meant. He Jinshui also knew that the joke was too big, so he used the word "welcome" to make the final summary.

Then, he patted each teenager on the shoulder one by one, turned to look at Lao Bu with a smile, and saw tears gleaming in his slightly cloudy eyes.

Bruno's wish was fulfilled, and his worries were completely relieved, and his wrinkled face was smiling, and his dark skin was slightly red from excitement. He rubbed his hands happily, not knowing what to say, his body trembled slightly, and his eyes were a little complicated when he looked at the teenagers, including happiness and joy, deep affection for licking calves, and some reluctance.

He Jinshui was a good person, and he didn't know that the other party was reluctant to give up his child, so he said with a smile: "Lao Bu, you are also a veteran of a hundred battles, my mercenary group just needs to use your experience to screen newcomers and assist the acting head of the regiment in handling affairs, are you willing to go with me?"

Bruno looked at the little stammerer and the others looking at him with hopeful eyes, and the word "willing" came to his lips, but he couldn't say it, just shook his head. "Uncle!" shouted the teenagers in unison, their reluctance overflowing.

"Forget it!" Lao Bu's face was full of bitterness, and he said softly: "I have been in this sentry for many years, and I have a deep affection for every stone and tree here, and this is the place where my bones are buried." My experience can also help reduce the casualties of the soldiers stationed here, and it can be regarded as the last contribution of a disabled person to the Empire. Master Hou, this group of fatherless and motherless children will be entrusted to you in the future, I hope you must take care of it, and the creator god will bless you!"

The otaku felt that the atmosphere of the scene was a little depressing, just like the parting of life and death in a soap opera, which was difficult to let go. He rubbed his red nose and said with a smile: "Since Lao Bu is so ambitious, of course I will respect your decision." ”

Then, his big rough hands rubbed the heads of each teenager one by one, and said comfortingly: "Children, this is not the final parting, you need not be sad. Our mercenary group will set aside a vacation for you every year, so you can come back to visit your uncle at any time. Then he digressed from the subject, looked around the empty barracks to the left and right, and asked, "Where are all the soldiers here, and your commander is not there?"

"Sir?" Lao Buleng paused for a moment and said with a smile: "You have to say that the squadron leader Sauer, he led a large army down the mountain to hunt. Tomorrow is January 1, 1034 in the new calendar, and there is very little food left in the storehouse, and he says that he must bring some prey back so that his brothers can have a happy year. ”

"It's too dangerous, how could he be so impulsive!" He Jinshui shook his head and asked puzzled. On the way he flew over, he couldn't see ordinary herbivorous prey at all, but he saw a lot of fierce demonic beasts. That Sauer took a hundred and ten imperial soldiers down the mountain to hunt, and the quasi-insurance did not benefit, and it would be good to be able to retreat with his whole body.

"It's not that he's impulsive, it's that the rest of our food is already unsustainable, and if we don't seek supplies, we probably won't be able to last even a week. Lao Bu said bitterly: "When I set off in the summer, I brought enough food, which was enough to support the next rotation. But there is always a strange reptile called the Gold Eater, which can devour all food. Despite our precautions, they still ate most of our food. ”

"Gold Devouring Worm?" He Jinshui suddenly became interested, and said with a smile: "Take me to see!"

......

The outpost's food store, located in a corner of the city wall, was made of ice bricks and mud walls, with only a wooden door and no windows. He Jinshui gently pushed open the wooden door, and with a bang, the door panel fell down. Lao Bu hurriedly helped him up, and said with an embarrassed smile: "The slot of the door has been bitten through, and it doesn't work at all." He Jinshui nodded, raised the torch and walked in.

Then in the dim light of the fire, He Jinshui saw that fingernail-sized insects were wreaking havoc on the ground, looking a bit like ordinary cockroaches, yes, they were like cockroaches on the earth. It's just that their bodies are glowing with gold, and their heads and mouthparts are also marked, which is obviously different.

These creatures, known as the gold-eating insects, were eating happily around the food scattered on the ground. "Arrogant thing!" He Jinshui was taken aback, rushed over and struggled to kill a few, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Bugs are raging, why don't you do it?"

Lao Bu walked over tremblingly, sighed and said: "Master Hou doesn't know, our grain has been transferred a long time ago, and a small part of it is left here just to drag them, otherwise it will be touched to the kitchen, and there may not even be the last surplus food." ”

"Lao Bu, I don't understand what you said!" He Jinshui sighed and said, "Could it be that these little insects are really so powerful, you have no choice but to watch them devour all your stored food, and you can't take some measures?"

"Master Hou, there's really no way!" Bruno read the reproach and dissatisfaction from the other party's eyes, rubbed his hands together and said: "These little insects look weak, as if they can be trampled to death with their feet, but in fact, their shells are all metal!

Lao Bu sighed and continued: "We have tried everything we can, but we have been burned and flooded, but we have never been able to destroy them, so we can only watch them wreak havoc in the barracks, consuming our remaining food!"

"These guys seem to be pervasive, and they can devour all kinds of hard objects, metal, planks, ice cubes, etc., all of them are invincible!" Bruno smiled wryly: "We buried food in the frozen soil, but I didn't expect these guys to find it in only half a day, and then dig it out and eat it all!"

"We put the prey we caught on a rope and hung it on the eaves, but unfortunately the other party actually had wings, so big and flew into the air under our noses, and gnawed the hanging food!"

"We also tried to lure them out with food, and when we found the nest, we cut them down, but unfortunately they didn't seem to be able to kill them all. As soon as the hole on this side was sealed, the gold-devouring insects would pop up again, and we could only watch them spread without any means we could do, and there was nothing to do. Lao Bu shook his head and spread out his palms, looking helpless.

"So?" the otaku stretched out his finger and poked a cockroach on the ground that looked relatively small, and said jokingly: "Xiaoqiang, hello, come and bite me!"

Unexpectedly, the other party was small, but his temper was not small, and he was furious under the teasing of the other party, and he pounced all of a sudden, wanting to bite off the otaku's fingers. With a flick of his finger, the otaku knocked it out and turned into a golden liquid that smeared on the wall.

"Huh?" He Jinshui suddenly had an indescribable feeling, as if these liquids were all metal, and even the bodies of these cockroaches were made of metal, just like the Mithril spider he had encountered in the underground pit. Thinking of this, his heart moved slightly, spread out his palm and sucked the liquid on the ground into his palm, and then stroked his forehead and said, "Sure enough, these guys are actually made of metal. ”

Lao Bu's eyes instantly widened, and his pupils contracted violently. Although he had never eaten pork, he had seen a pig run and knew how difficult it was to destroy a gold-eating worm. At that time, Captain Sauer even brandished his two-handed giant sword, which sparked a flood of sparks, but failed to penetrate the opponent's hard thick shell. And this young marquis actually used only one finger to lightly clean up the little bugs that everyone had a headache with.

Although I don't know how he did it, Bruno always felt that the other party was very powerful, and his confidence in him suddenly increased, hoping that he would show his power and get rid of all the bugs.

"Ugly guys, get ready to go when you're full of food and drink!" He Jinshui spread out his palm, and all the gold-devouring insects in the room were suddenly subjected to an invisible traction, no matter where they were, no matter how they flapped their wings, they were always difficult to break free, and they were sucked onto the palm, gathering and condensing into a ball composed of dense small insects.

On the surface of the sphere, no matter how these little insects struggled and fluttered, it was still difficult to escape the fate of being smelted into metal liquid, rolling around in He Jinshui's palm, but it never seeped out, and finally quickly froze into a ball under the effect of the cold, turning into a golden lump the size of a fist.

The otaku shook it with his hand, feeling extremely heavy in his hand, and the density of this thing should not be small. He then melted it down again, turning it into a small golden dagger that shone brightly in the sunlight. After he alienated the metal of his left palm, he used this small dagger to poke the palm of his palm hard, making a clanging sound, and found that the hardness of the palm of his hand was stronger than that of the knife, so he had an idea in his heart, and said with a smile: "Lao Bu, if I help you turn that warehouse into a structure that is difficult for gold eaters to eat, there should be no problem." ”

"That's a good idea!" Bruno's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly, "These gold devouring insects will only swallow dead things, and will not actively hurt people." As long as they can be isolated from food, the problem will be solved, but I don't know how Hou Ye is going to arrange it?"

"Mountain people have their own tricks!" He Jinshui smiled and didn't say anything. But I heard the sound of an arrow suddenly sounding in the sky, with a trembling sensation that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and the whistling sound could be heard clearly from several kilometers away, completely breaking the peace here.

"Oops, at this time, the signal arrow, Sauer and they are in danger!" Old Bu's face suddenly changed greatly, and he immediately rushed to the bottom of the arrow tower. At this time, almost all the people in the sentry were there, except for the soldiers on duty.

Lao Bu looked at every soldier with a cold expression, and instead of the submissive appearance just now, he shouted loudly with an unquestionable mouthpiece: "Captain Sauer, they have sent a signal for help, and they must have encountered a death crisis. Although we are too understaffed to go there all, I would like to gather a few volunteers to join me to see if I can save people. Little stammer, you take Master Hou back to the barracks to practice, and the others are willing to raise their hands!"

When the little stammerer heard Lao Bu's arrangement, although he was extremely reluctant, he still complied with the other party's wishes and left with He Jinshui.

Everyone else raised their right hands at the same time, they all understood the truth of the cold lips and teeth in the midst of the tribulation, if Sauer and they suffered an accident, the remaining 20 or so people, and in the case of lack of food and clothing, it was impossible to survive the New Year, so they all volunteered, and everyone scrambled to be the first.

Lao Bu looked at these young people with satisfaction, and was about to order the generals, when the little stammerer rushed back and shouted, "Report...... Sue the uncle, the Hou master, he ...... Jumped down. ”

Lao Bu was startled, and hurriedly clasped his shoulders with both hands and said loudly: "Don't babble, take your time and make it clear!" The little stammerer looked into his eyes and said in a deep voice word by word: "Hou Ye said that he went to save people, and then ...... Then I jumped off the edge of the cliff and pulled whatever I wanted...... Can't pull it. He is now, has ......".

"What happened to him?" Lao Bu's eyes suddenly dizzy. The vertical height of the cliff edge from the foot of the ice peak is close to two thousand meters, and it is almost a ninety degree cliff.

He ...... Arrive safely...... At the foot of the mountain, and then ...... It's gone. ”

......

On the top of a hill six miles away from the Reaper outpost, dozens of Imperial soldiers were wielding their weapons and engaged in a fierce battle with hordes of polar ice wolves. The soldiers formed a circle and formed a simple defensive formation, surrounding the wounded comrades in the middle.

At the outskirts of the line were twenty phalanx infantry armed with swords and shields. They connected with each other, besieging the city in a large arc, holding a large shield on the ground in one hand, and stabbing through the gap between the shields with a short sword at the same time, piercing the stomach of the ice wolf who tried to pounce, and blood spilled all over the ground, stretching far away.

Behind the sword and shield infantry, more than a dozen horse-repelling infantry armed with spears shouted loudly, holding their guns high with both hands, desperately stabbing out from above the shields, and flying out of the air to protect the back of the team.

The crossbowmen were in the center of the formation, and they struggled to pull the trigger to shoot the bolts, reaping the lives of the ice wolves. This standard crossbow is extremely powerful, and the arrow body is thick and long. When the arrow passes through the dense area of the wolf pack, it can often pierce the stomach of 2 or even 3 wolves with one arrow, which has a great deterrent effect on the wolf pack.

Even the wounded who fell to the ground were not idle, they sat on the ground and helped the crossbowmen to wind up quickly, supplemented by a steady stream of fire, so that the crossbow bolts could continue to bloom in the wolves. In the crowd, there was also a strong man in armor holding a two-handed giant sword roaring hard, and the thin fighting qi flashing all over his body was swinging left and right with one sword after another, barely blocking left and right, blocking the loopholes that were constantly formed.

But even so, the scales of victory are still beginning to tilt in favor of the other side! )