Chapter 5 String Song Elegance
Have you ever seen an angel?
I haven't seen it before. But now, I think I see it. The angel had the soul mark of the name "String Song Yayi" written on his head, and came to earth in the form of a male elf, carrying the warm and divine light, and took the crystal bowstring like a harp, and shot the arrow of salvation at the tyranny behind us.
Yes, maybe he's just an ordinary elf. But when you are in a desperate situation, and someone reaches out to you, what do you think of him?
This elven man named String Song Yayi is a ranger. Even if you don't know anything about the concept of "ranger", just hearing such a poetic and romantic name will make you feel the warmth of fighting for justice and saving people from danger. The rangers are sons of the earth, friends of nature and harmony, enemies of tyranny. Most of them are well-versed in bowing and arrowing skills, and can control your life and death with a light string out of sight. A handful of rangers also like to use their swords to communicate with their enemies at close range—of course, the elf in front of us is clearly not one of them.
Arrows, bows, strings...... This elegant pure-blood elf turns every detail of archery action into art. His movements were gentle and slow, with a certain reverence to them. When he raised his longbow flat and pointed his arrow at his target, his eyes suddenly changed, not sharper, but more hazy. There was something mysterious in his gaze, which seemed to be a trace of compassion and a layer of helplessness. He seemed to have seen the miserable fate of the prey he was targeting, so he was a little unbearable.
Light strings are plucked for a crisp sound. Who could believe that these elegant syllables are closely associated with killing and death.
In the hands of the elf, even the most ordinary feathered arrows looked delicate and elegant, as if they had nothing to do with blood. But as soon as it came out of the string, the arrow immediately revealed its ferocious side. The feather arrow tore through the sky and let out a hideous scream, and time and distance seemed to suddenly disappear in front of it, leaving only an indiscernible black shadow in the air.
......In the blink of an eye, the feather arrow had already passed through a distance of dozens of paces and hit the ...... with unmistakable accuracy
It's mine...... Thigh?!
My body immediately shone brightly, and a large red cloud floated above my head, and the life I had just filled was reduced by nearly a third in an instant.
All the praise and gratitude that had just been felt about him vanished in an instant.
His grandmother's, it's just murder!
"Hey, what are you doing?" I pulled out the arrow with the pain, and swung it angrily at the elven ranger named String Song Yayi, not daring to stop a single step.
"I'm sorry...... Elven Ranger bowed to me from afar, apologetically, "...... I...... Shot missed. ”
If the first arrow I could have considered a mistake, then when his second arrow landed on my shoulder, I was ready to cry.
And that's just the beginning, and then, the zealous elven ranger began his breathtakingly amazing archery skills.
He shot no less than fifteen arrows, half of which flew into that corner of the woods, and a few of them came for our lives; One of the arrows was so sharp that it pierced through the horns of the ox and was firmly embedded in it, while the other two fell to the ground less than five paces out of the bowstring. In general, there was no safe place in this forest except where he was targeting.
In this way, we went from being merely chased by wild beasts to being in the unfortunate situation of having pursuers behind and arrows in front of us.
It is said that the elves are naturally good at shooting, and even young children who have just grown up can use their bows and arrows to deworm the trees of the elven forest.
If I were to know who had made up these nonsense, I would have to pull out his tongue and nail it to the tree with a bow and arrow.
As we approached, the elf's arrows grew more and more out of bounds. He hurriedly scattered his bows and arrows in all directions, and he was like a rain of flowers in the sky, and he was nowhere to be found. When we finally ran to him in the rain of flying arrows, he finally made the only right choice in our opinion:
He let out a strange scream, took his bow and arrows, and fled with us.
Without the elusive threat of bows and arrows, we suddenly felt much less pressure to escape. Although his movements are still stiff and unbalanced, after all, his steps are no longer swaying, and the speed of escape has been greatly improved, and there is even room for a "warm and friendly" exchange with our new victims:
"You can be a bow, arrow, and hand like that?!" Niu Wan said word by word, the green tendons on his neck bulging, his eyes were red and he stared at the male elf, and the name "archer", which was respected and even feared, grew a strong irony in his mouth.
"Look at what you've done!" Niu Million pointed to the feather arrow stuck in his eyebrows, "I was almost killed by you!" ”
If the red in the Minotaur's angry pupils were to turn into flames, I'm afraid the Elven Ranger would have been burned to the ground.
"And my ......" because I kept running, and I never had time to pull out the arrow stuck in my shoulder, until now it was dangling in front of my eyes as I ran, making me feel like a scarecrow in the middle of a field with branches stuck in his body.
"I'm so sorry......" Even on the way to escape, the Elven Ranger still maintained his good manners and upbringing, and sincerely apologized to us. He looked at us sincerely, revealing emerald green eyes that looked bright and beautiful. But for some reason, I always felt that his eyes looked a little strange, as if they were shrouded in a morning mist, as if they disdained to meet us head-on, and the focus of his eyes never fell on us, with a haughty, hazy, and mysterious alien beauty.
The agility of the elves is enviable, and his steps are light and agile, as if he is not running for his life but dancing briskly under the moon in the forest.
"I ......" Xian Ge Yayi had just spit out another word to us, but he didn't notice that a branch diagonally in front of him pierced his head with the light and swiftness unique to the elves, and several brilliant blood flowers suddenly appeared on his head. He screamed "hey", covered his scratched face in pain, and said with tears in his eyes:
“…… It's a ...... of myopia."
Hearing his words, Niu Wan's feet went limp, and he almost rolled to the ground.
"Myopia?" His eyes were about to pop out.
"1,200 ......" Elf Ranger added.
"Then how did you come up with a bow and arrow?" The minotaur roared in a frenzied voice.
"I used to play everything with a bow and arrow, but recently there was a problem with the optic nerve conduction system of the brainwave sensor, and I couldn't adjust the optic nerve focus. It's so expensive that I can only afford second-hand, and after the expiration date, I can't afford to fix it. In addition...... "Xiange looked at us shyly and squeaked, "...... Can...... Give me back the arrows from you? I lost too many arrows, and the money left is not enough to buy more arrows, so help, I can save one is a ......"
Although I didn't quite understand everything about the conversation between the two air seekers, I could guess a few things from their expressions and gestures, such as: the elven male had dim eyes comparable to those of an underground mole, and on the bad side, this zealous rescue creature could not be counted on at all, but was completely a drag on us; On the bright side, we weren't shot dead on the spot by this blind man just now, which is really a blessing in luck.
"What's the use of you asking for all this now!" Niu Million complained angrily as he pulled the feather arrow from the horn and handed it to him.
"Not necessarily." Xian Ge Yayi hurriedly took the arrow handed by Niu Wanwan, and a sly smile appeared on his face, "Anyway, I'm already level six now, and this is not all luck to ascend." ”
After saying this, he suddenly quickened his pace, ran to a distance of about three steps in front of us, and shouted thoughtlessly: "You two, pay attention to cover me!" ”
His words made me and Niu Million a little confused, just as we were still thinking about the meaning of his words......
He stopped suddenly.
Turning, bending, and arching, the whole action is completed in an instant. By the time I realized what he was trying to do, we were already running to stand side by side with him.
The bow is like a full moon, holding a streamer, leading but not triggering, like a night star soul.
Rushing straight at the edge of the arrow was the greedy teeth of a bobcat.
At this moment, the speed of time seems to slow down. Niu Million and I stopped our feet at the same time, turned around, and watched as the bobcat pounced on the Ranger's face.
Three, two, and one inch, the distance between the beast and the ranger was shortening at an indiscernible rate, and just looking at it from the sidelines felt thrilling enough. The distance between them was so close that if I had been in a different place with that elven ranger, I would have avoided it by now. It is dangerous to come into contact with such a beast at such close range, and if it cannot be dealt a fatal blow, its counterattack must be very dangerous. What's more, behind it, there are three equally ferocious beasts.
But the string of the song Yayi just stood there, like a rock, like a sculpture. His arms were still steady, and his gaze was still empty. The swiftly approaching lynx didn't seem to him to exist—of course, it was possible that he didn't see anything—and his movements even gave me the illusion that the arrow was not aimed at a target, but simply for the sake of shooting. The bow-wielding elf seemed to be waiting, waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a subtle hint that would be a shocking arrow when the time came.
In the last distance, the bobcat's fangs had almost reached the elf's bowed left hand, and its claws were about to climb up his arm. Who is the prey? Who is the Hunter? The answer will be revealed in a moment!
At this last moment, the Elven Ranger's gaze suddenly changed.
The eyes that had been empty and hazy and unfocused condensed at this moment, and the pupils contracted instantly, narrowing into a thin line together with the eye sockets. The eyelid covered almost the entire pupil, but there was still a ray of essence bursting out from between the thin lines.
At this moment, I couldn't tell which one was sharper, his gaze, or the piercing arrow.
"Poof!" With a damp reverb, sharp arrows skewed through the bobcat's mouth and through the brain, sending the beast flying out. Three milky white light clusters floated up from the bobcat's body and shot into the bodies of the three of us.
It was a fatal arrow, and the wild lynx, which had been fierce and domineering just a moment ago, was now lying motionless on the ground. A huge sore bloomed into a terrible flower of flesh and blood at the back of its head, silently recounting the terrifying lethality of the arrow.
After Xian Ge Yayi shot an arrow, he was immediately overturned to the ground by two cats and a dog who followed behind. Even though he had reached the sixth level, all his indicators were much higher than ours, and his life gauge was rapidly decreasing at an alarming rate.
"Old cow, step on it!" He dodged awkwardly as he reminded loudly. Without hesitation, Niu Million used a "war trampling" to drag him out of the beast's bite, and gave him a few bottles of homemade life potion.
"Your move is simply too strong......" Niu Million shouted at him in amazement as the Elven Ranger poured the potion, "...... It's actually a crit, and it's still '****'! ”
"Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem......" The Minotaur's admiration caused the elven ranger who was drinking the potion to choke hard, and it seemed that Niu Million's description of this wonderful blow made him feel that it was not so appropriate.
"What do you mean by '****'?! Don't use your dirty words to describe my self-created bow and arrow skills. "This move is called 'Head-on Shot', and it increases attack power by 100 percent, and has a 30 percent chance of critical hits. ”
"'Head-on shot'?" Niu Million retold the name quite playfully, and then suddenly came to an idea of a very apt abbreviation for this powerful and wonderful archery skill, "Oh, it turned out to be ****!" ”
The elven ranger was choked up and speechless.
From the mouth of the string song Yayi, we know that his "****"—well, "head-on-the-head" skill, although powerful, only works within a step of him - in other words, his vision can only see the target completely at such a distance.
Having had a successful experience, we immediately felt confident and circled around the clearing, waiting for the skills of the two of them to cool down. The second time, we did the same, first killing the half-dead wild dog, and then it took two rounds to shoot the second "angry lynx". When the prey was only a bobcat left, we did not let go of this opportunity to take revenge, the three of them took turns to fight, and the long-haired animal that was arrogantly chasing us just now and made our legs weak ravaged the skin and flesh, and finally I and Niu Wan were scratched more than half of their lives and forcibly pressed it to the ground.
The elven ranger, who rarely found a target, didn't think it was enough to be happy, and shot a barrel of feathered arrows through the bobcat's corpse, and shot a bobcat skin into a fishing net, and laughed nervously as he shot it, and the evil expression made my heart chill when I saw it. It seems that he has been suppressed for a long time by the situation that he missed, and if he hadn't seized this opportunity to vent out, I'm afraid that sooner or later he would inevitably be psychopathic.
We also got a wild dog skin for hunting a wild dog. Speaking of which, these animals died with great interest, and although they were dead, they also arranged their fur and flesh in a neat pile, waiting for us to pick up.
"Where are you going?" Elven Ranger String Song asked us. The impoverished elf unceremoniously picked up a bag of beast skins and flesh all over the ground, intending to return to the city for some arrows.
"We're on a hunt for wild dogs......" I replied, "...... But now, I have to go back to the city and repair my armor. ”
"I need to buy a dress to ...... too," Niu million snorted, and then muttered in a low voice, "...... Fighting monsters shirtless, it hurts too much. ”
"Then everyone is ...... all the way," Xian Ge Yayi said with some joy, "...... I've completed the dingo's mission, so I'll take you with me when I get back. I know a few points, there are not many people there, and I happen to be promoted ......"
And just like that, a new member has been added to our little adventurous team.