Volume 2 Storm Falls 117 Jungle Trolls
Riding through the wilderness, I decided to get out of here.
I can probably guess what he will give me, after all, he will not give me anything else, I guess there is nothing else to give me, as for the taste of the jar of virgin, I will not want it if he gives it to me.
Hunted two rabbits and was very lucky to hunt a wild boar. It was a bit of a struggle to chase the thing, not only did it keep running, but it didn't fear me at first, it attacked me and drove me around.
Back at the lodgings, the guy who hadn't slept for two days was asleep, but the stove was still burning violently. Looking at him lying on the ground like a dead man, I felt that this guy was indeed interesting.
Instead of re-smelting his ugly blade of filth, he re-melted the remaining Thorsilver.
I don't know how to smelt, I don't know how to forge, I don't know anything! Although I saw him busy for a long time just now, I still couldn't understand the Tao in it, and I felt that it would be useless for me to do it. I felt that the only thing I could do was to make sure that the fire in the stove didn't go out. Of course, I couldn't afford to burn coal, so I shoveled some charcoal and threw it into the furnace.
He must have been really tired, and he didn't react when he walked around him. Leaning down, I took a good look at him, and I was relieved to make sure he wasn't dead.
The night quietly surrounds the whole land, the rabbit on the grill is roasted, and the taste of barbecue is always the mainstream. Suddenly, this guy sat up from the ground and I was crouching beside him, looking at the red-hot hearth.
"Are you awake?" Anyway, this guy is not afraid of freezing when he sleeps by the stove.
"I ...... My ......," he quickly got up, knelt beside the hearth, and peeked in.
"Not extinguished!" I say. "I've taken good care of you."
"Not bad...... Not bad! Ah, thankfully! Oh, my God! Thankfully...... he didn't extinguish," he said, "and you moved the silver in it?" He asked suddenly.
"No, what am I doing with it? As long as you keep your stove from going out. ”
"How can that be...... So much less! He frowned and brought the juice out of the stove.
"What do you mean?"
"Less...... There's less silver in it. He said. You see...... Less, it turns out that the silver inside is here. ”
"I think you lost your sleep." I quipped.
"How so...... Am I mistaken? I remember...... There are a lot of them! He couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. Are you sure you're not moving? ”
"Believe it or not, I'll stuff you in the furnace and refine it." I say.
"How can there be less?"
"How do I know?" I rolled my eyes. "The meat is grilled...... It's time for you to wake up. ”
Seeing that he didn't move, I said, "You're starving to death, it's also less, eat something and do something, maybe you'll understand why it's less." ”
To prevent it from solidifying, he shoved it back into the furnace.
"Hmph, after a while, you'll be gone, and there's not even any scum left." I didn't have the heart to say it.
When he was about to go back to work, I quickly stopped him, "If you want to starve to death or die of exhaustion, you can say it as soon as possible." I can still bury you next to your father here, and if I'm gone, I'm sure someone will find you a dried corpse in the future. ”
He sat down by the fire. "My head hurts." He said.
I glanced at him, "You're a little dehydrated." ”
When I had eaten and drunk enough, I went to sleep, and he squatted down by the fireside and continued to study why his thurium had decreased. And in a jingling sound I fell asleep.
The next morning, I got up and stood in the doorway to find him sanding something on a grinding wheel. This guy is quite resilient.
"Staying up late is not good for your health." I say.
"Who do you listen to such fallacies?" He didn't lift his head.
"I said it."
"Working at night is more productive than during the day, and it tends to be inspired." He stopped grinding, carefully examined the arm guard in his hand, and then said to me proudly, "Wow! ”
"This is your masterpiece from last night?"
"You try." He handed it to me.
I was really surprised when I took it, "So light? But then I pinched it gently.
"How? Isn't it amazing! ”
I tried again to pinch with more force, but there was no response, no deformation at all.
"Do you know how much this mine is worth now?"
"And what about the ones that evaporated yesterday?"
"I don't know, but that's what I left behind. Much better than the previous ones, lighter, but stiffer! He laughs.
"You're all up? Just hit such a thing? ”
"There are a few more, but only enough for a short dagger." He said.
"Here's for you." He said. "It's the best piece of equipment I've forged so far."
I laughed and slipped it on my left arm.
"How?"
"It's really light, almost like you don't have it with you." I said, "But is this thing really that hard?" ”
"Of course!" He held out his hand to me. "Give it to me."
He took the armguard and placed it on the anvil. Clamp it with iron tongs and swing a sledgehammer and slam it into one side.
Seeing this scene, my expectation was that he would smash it with a hammer, and if that was the case, I guess I would feel a dark feeling in my heart. But...... There is no deformation in the armguards! It was hard like a diamond, and it bounced off his hammer.
I raised an eyebrow, "Strong!" ”
He brought another gauntlet from the side, "These two are a set." He handed it to me.
Although they really didn't look very good, they weren't smooth at all, they weren't decorated with patterns, and they weren't shiny, but I still liked the suit. Arm guards are in the crook of the elbow, and there are blades or thorns on the outside and upper sides of the arm. That way, even though I'm fighting people with my bare hands now, I feel better than a dagger.
And the half-gauntlet is especially satisfying to me, whether it is a smash or a punch, the spike damage on it will be very large. Especially the face! The most important thing is that it is light, and it is so hard!
"It's a pity that that's all left!" He said regretfully, "If there were more...... I'll make you another right arm. ”
I was moved, but on second thought, I might as well forget it. "It's already good, bro!" I couldn't help but grin. "I love that."
"Actually, I have to thank you." His eyes were red, not because he was moved.
"The wild boar you called yesterday had better be injured and cleaned up today, I'm not good at dealing with this thing at all." I said, "Thank you very much, but I have to go." I still have a lot of things to do. ”
"If you come back here one day, I'll have good wine here!" He laughed too.
I left this place, I'm not sure if I'll ever see him again in the future, but I'm sure this guy will become a master!
He couldn't tell me where he would go all the way south, and he hadn't traveled further. I knew that further south was a place called Thorn Valley, and if I had gone all the way south I would have gotten there eventually, even though I should have been there once, but I preferred to explore the unknown.
But to the south, only the mountains are getting higher and higher, and the mountains are not in the clouds. So I chose to go west first and go all the way to the beach. I thought I had gotten rid of the gnolls when I was far away from the mountains, but as soon as I arrived at the beach, I saw groups of fishmen. It is no surprise that such a monster appears in such an uninhabited place.
For some reason, a strange idea suddenly occurred to me about whether the meat of the fish-man was good or not......
After more than two days of walking along the coastline, the land gradually changed from barren to fields with abundant water and grass, and then dense forests appeared. The air is getting wetter and warmer. Perhaps I've reached the southernmost jungle of the continent by now.
It's good to walk on the beach and ride a horse in the wilderness, but once you enter the forest, especially the dense forest, and it is a dense rainforest with mountains, the horse is a bit difficult to walk.
I went from a dry place to a place where it rains a lot, yes, it has become the norm here, and it even rains twice a day, I don't know if it's because of the season. Anyway, it's been raining a lot in the past few days. This made me miserable, I couldn't wear the leather armor on my body at all, and my body was wet all the time, how uncomfortable and uncomfortable this feeling was. To be on the safe side, I stripped off my clothes and put my leather armor on my body. Even getting wet is better than clothes sticking to your body.
It's not the worst, the worst thing is that the ground is wet, the grass is wet, and even if it's dead, the dead branches are wet. As a result, making a fire became a very time-consuming affair.
There are no rabbits here, rabbits don't live in this kind of place, only birds, snakes, frogs of all colors, insects! I hate bugs! Very nasty! It's not just spiders, but reptiles with hundreds of legs! All kinds of worms!
I can't get enough of it when I see it!
The further I walked into the forest, the more bottomless I became, really! I've seen trolls, but it's just a dying troll. And the other trolls won't be friendly to me as a human. I dare to assert.
So I'm walking slower and slower, safety first.
Finally, on the fifth day after entering the rainforest, I saw the village of trolls! That's right, a village built by trolls.
Tethered to a small tree, I slowly leaned over. That village is actually quite small, and the number of trolls I counted was at least a hundred. They were generally as tall as me, and some were much taller than me. Although they are naturally hunchbacked, it does not affect their slender, tall, but sturdy bodies. And I didn't find a fat one!
The trolls' skin is light purple and they don't have much floral totem decoration on their bodies, most of them clean up their bodies, and some of them also paint their shoulders, arms or faces with some white or black paint.
Their women are really characteristic, most of the female trolls don't seem to have big breasts, but their thighs are very thick, and the slightly upturned buttocks are quite good-looking! But looking at their faces is simply ...... At first glance, I feel so fierce and fierce.
I especially can't understand the fangs of men, is it convenient for them to eat meat with such a long length? And I don't think they kiss! I really can't think of a proper kissing position.
I climbed up the tree and looked at them with a telescope, and the village was indeed not small, more than a hundred, at least two hundred, no less. Their huts were much better than those made by beasts, and some of their carved statues and reliefs made it hard for me to imagine such cultural attainments of such a wild race that longed for a bare and armless race.
To say that they are barbaric is only from the outside, I squatted on the tree and watched it for a day, and their relationship with each other is not much different from that of human beings, they talk, they laugh, they exchange things, they work. The tools they make for life are not useless. For example, the baskets they make are no different from those made by humans. It's just that their clothes are still fur.
I remembered the trolls in that temple in that swamp, these trolls were obviously different from them, these trolls looked more normal.
When night came, piles of bonfires were lit in the middle of the village, and they sat around the campfires to watch everything move in harmony. I'm even kind of willing to think of them as a human race.
Squatted until they all dispersed, and nothing special happened. So I slipped down and felt into their village.
The fire was still burning, and I crept around to the back of their hut. It shouldn't be called a village, it should be called a tribe or tribe.
Their houses are not built directly on the ground, and they are all overhanging. This keeps them as dry as possible in the room, which I can understand. I don't know why I had to come in and see them, but I was curious about how they lived.
They don't have dogs, and they don't have tigers, leopards and anything like that, which makes me feel a little relieved. Whether it's an orc or a human, having that kind of canine as a companion will always cause great trouble for people like me.
I walked through the darkness, and it turned out that they snored when they slept! But from the head of the village to the end of the village, it was not that I thought it was crooked, but that I did not find such an act of loving exchange in any house. It reminded me that I had been squatting in a tree for most of the day!
What about their children?
In this village...... No kids!