Chapter 13: Runaway, boy
The work of pulling a cart is really boring, but fortunately, the ruts that have been pressed out over the years on the main roads of this town are still there, and decades of time have not had time to wear them out. It was quite effortless for the wheels to roll in the ruts, but soon Zhou Zhongmou was thinking about whether he could grab some strong men who could pull the cart from somewhere.
"Centaurs, minotaurs, trolls, these are all strong men who pull carts, and their bodies are leveraged, and their brains are smart enough to be threatened in a short period of time to be able to pull a cart, but unfortunately I have only been able to fight one troll so far...... According to those fantasy books and games, there may be only one Minotaur, but the centaurs are all herds without exception. Just when Zhou Zhongmou was thinking wildly, the change happened.
Zhou Zhongmou, who was pulling the cart, was not wearing leather armor, and he was shirtless, he also put a piece of cloth on his shoulders, and then two leather ropes were put on his shoulders and were towing like a schoolbag.
It was a group of small, bipedal erect creatures with heads that looked like dogs and lizards, and they looked more capable than goblins, at least the scales exposed were much more powerful than the goblins' pimpled, sore skin, and the small knives they wielded were at least metal-though they were clearly rusty, but they were still better than goblins wielding wooden clubs and bones.
"This is ....... kobold, it should be kobold, right? After all, the lizardman in the game should be taller, not this kind of small thing that is only one meter tall. Zhou Zhongmou was not panicked, he quickly took off the leather rope, moved his hands and feet to pull out a one-handed sword, and then put a round shield on the car on his left arm. The group of kobolds screamed in a strange tone for a while, and Zhou Zhongmou said that he didn't understand it at all, so he replied in a straightforward way - a tiger jumped directly into the group of kobolds, and the sword light flashed and drew an arc, and the blood sacrificed three kobolds as an answer......
The strength and agility of this fifteen-year-old Zhou Zhongmou are far greater than Cheng Dรน when he was still on Earth, and it is really not difficult to cut down these dozen or so impoverished kobold bandit groups - anyway, Zhou Zhongmou still has time to imagine what a failed thief group it must be to block and rob on this obviously abandoned road for a long time...... "No wonder they all look like this Luther." โ
Since it is a failed roadblock robbery group, the morale of these kobolds is naturally very low. Just when Zhou Zhongmou cut down the fifth kobold, the guys let out a shout and ran away. Zhou Zhongmou didn't bother to chase it, he picked out a kobold corpse that looked the most delicious, processed it a little, peeled off the skin and chopped it into several large pieces, ready to roast and eat it to see if it could be eaten. "The car is full of dried meat such as wild boar and wild deer, as well as some dried wild vegetables, and you will get tired of eating too much. Try it for a different flavor today. โ
So later in the day, a strange smell wafted from a fire burning on a flat ground on the side of the road......... The final outcome was that Zhou Zhongmou, who was frowning and bitter with a bitter face, picked up a piece of flesh and bones and threw it into the forest behind, and then snorted a few times and rinsed his mouth with the water in the kettle. This road used to be considered the main road leading to the town, and there must have been a qualified water source halfway through. And Zhou Zhongmou, who spat on the water, found this source of water - the spring water gushing from under a large stone has accumulated into a pool in a small sandy pool. Zhou Zhongmou, who filled the kettle, returned to the fire, and wrote down information about kobolds in his notebook with the light of the fire - "These little things are fragile, like goblins, and their courage comes from numbers. Kobold's meat tastes very bad, and although the nutrition may be good, it does not compensate for the loss of nutrients caused by eating the meat that contains a strong odor and causes vomiting...... Therefore, do not eat kobold meat, especially fresh food. Of course, there may be different ways to cook the meat safely, but I haven't thought of it yet. โ
The rest of the journey was boring, and there was no one on the broken road that no one had walked for years, except for the poor kobold robbers, and there were no other bastards who stood in the way to rob them. It's just that as the distance from that town gets farther and farther away, the temperature has dropped quite significantly, and Zhou Zhongmou doesn't know what's going on, but he is no longer ** when he pulls the car now.
This also brought him benefits - the most obvious advantage was that he still had a water bottle on his body, a shield on his back, a one-handed sword on his shoulder, a belt wrapped around gold coins around his waist, and a bag of dry food in the gap between the shield and his back...... The guy was running away at a fast pace, and the cart behind him was nowhere to be seen.
On this day, Zhou Zhongmou, who was walking on the road, was finally pleased to find that the road in front of him intersected with another road, but a group of damn robbers jumped out of the T-junction. After spending about five seconds checking the robbers' ethnicity and Cheng Dรน, Zhou Zhongmou decisively flipped the cart, turned around and grabbed a few handfuls in the cart before running away.
The robbers in front of him are not small, and they are estimated to be more than 1.7 meters when they stand, but their standing posture is not upright, but they are a little hunched over. The guys looked a bit like people, but they had a lot of hair, a green and brown face with a pair of pointed ears, a hideous face, and a snout like a small carrot, which was almost like an enlarged version of the goblin. Therefore, Zhou Zhongmou immediately came to the conclusion: "Big goblins! According to the fantasy setting, these guys are a militarized race, with good discipline and organization, and they are relatively difficult enemies." And the gang of robbers was really very organized, after seeing Zhou Zhongmou, they immediately dispersed, and the four big goblins in front of them launched an inverted trapezoidal approach, and the three big goblins on the left and right quickly formed a formation and began to outflank left and right, the actions of these guys are more like an army than bandits and bandits who coax a rabble.
So Zhou Zhongmou immediately thought of running away, he had never fought with the big goblins, he didn't know how capable they were, even under normal circumstances, Zhou Zhongmou only had the confidence to fight with a big goblin, and if there were two, he would have to kneel down - not to mention that there were ten of them now! Then he quickly ran away! So he overturned the cart, scattered the weapons and food on the cart with the coins he had collected in the ruins for three years, and ran quickly along the hillside of the road towards the end of the new road that had been merged.
The goblins were indeed robbers seeking wealth, and after seeing this person's prey and flee decisively, except for the three goblins who were still chasing behind, the other goblins gathered around the overturned car and began to collect the loot.
At the same time that Zhou Zhongmou encountered the big goblin, on the grassland where he had descended, something appeared there with a flashing light - no! There was more than one, there were several such things, and such an unclear thing flickered on the grassland.........