Chapter 338: Royal Hunting Ground
Noon on the 23rd.
When many viewers around the world were still immersed in last night's wonderful game and heated discussions on the Internet, Ji Xinghuo had already spent a wonderful night and morning with Zhao Manying, and after a short rest, he got into the luxury flying car sent by Princess Sophia.
The destination of the flying car is the "Gagra Royal Hunting Ground", located on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, more than 950 kilometers from Ivangrad.
In the car, Ji Xinghuo observed the strangers in his companions.
The luxury flying car was large enough to seat ten people, including the driver and two guards.
They were all members of the "Roman Praetorian Guard", tall and strong, dressed in silver-gray antique armor, shaped like knights of ancient Europe, with the royal insignia of the New Roman Empire on their chests and shoulders.
The Roman Praetorian Guard was a legion with a history of more than two thousand years.
In 2133, the Iron Emperor changed the name of the country to the "New Roman Empire", and also renamed the palace guards who had followed him for many years to the Roman Praetorian Guard.
This Inhuman Legion is against the Titancobalt Dragons and the Almighty Warriors.
They don't have an original career template, though.
The members of the Roman Praetorian Guard are mainly three classes, the advanced classes formed by the Great General, the Iron Guard and the White Knight.
For example, the Giant General and the Iron Guard are promoted to "Iron Warlords".
The Giant General and the White Knight have advanced to the "Heavy Armor Knight", and the Iron Guard and the White Knight have advanced to the "Steel Knight".
Their fighting style is very traditional, wearing armor for melee combat, supplemented by modern thermal weapons, and healing abilities, and they are very powerful.
Although the average strength of the Roman Praetorian Guard is a cut below that of the Titancobalt Dragons and the Almighty Warriors, they have one advantage, that is, the size of the legion, the number of the Praetorian Guard exceeds 50,000!
The Praetorian Guards in the car were all elites.
Ji Xinghuo glanced at it casually, one super stranger, two tall strangers, wearing light armor that was convenient for daily life, carrying weapons, and sitting in the car after getting into the car, without saying a word, showing superb discipline.
The luxury car crosses the Black Sea, and soon in front you see a mountain range that stretches for thousands of miles, nestled on the eastern shore of the Black Sea.
It is the Greater Caucasus Mountains, and at the foot of the mountains by the sea is the Gagra Royal Hunting Ground.
The flying car landed in a vast manor.
Ji Xinghuo's electromagnetic induction spread out, and the buildings in this manor covering hundreds of acres are extremely luxurious, leaving traces of a sanatorium more than two centuries ago, and the manor has hundreds of servants, maids, and teams of heavily armed Roman janissaries.
When the two got out of the car, they met Princess Sophia.
"Welcome!"
Sophia stood on the lawn, she was dressed in a decent hunting suit, and said with a smile on her face: "Congratulations to the Sword Immortal Lady, you won the championship!" Your game last night was so great that I still reminisce about it to this day. ”
"Thank you, Your Highness Princess." Zhao Manying had already passed the excitement of winning the championship, and hugged her gently with a smile.
Sophia looked at Ji Xinghuo and greeted, "Mr. Ji." ”
Ji Xinghuo nodded slightly.
"Two distinguished guests, please come with me." Sophia took the two into the manor, personally arranged a room with the most upscale, and said: "Our shooting exchange is scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m., and there is a dinner at 7 p.m. ”
Today's schedule is written on the invitation.
Ji Xinghuo asked, "What is the form of shooting exchange?" ”
"Mainly for leisure, everyone goes into the hunting ground together and shoots the prey with the same weapons." Sophia replied with a smile, "Please forgive me for stepping back first, if you two have any needs, the housekeeper will meet them." ”
With that, she left to receive the other guests.
Ji Xinghuo glanced at the time, and there was still more than an hour before it started, "Manying, what are we going to do next?" ”
"It's a beautiful manor, let's take a look." Zhao Manying proposed.
"It's fine." Ji Xinghuo said with a smile, "We, two civilians, have seen the rotten life of the feudal royal family. ”
Zhao Manying glanced at him.
There was also a housekeeper from the manor, several maids, and Roman guards outside the door, but they all pretended not to hear Ji Xinghuo's words.
"Please arrange it for us." Zhao Manying said.
The housekeeper immediately responded respectfully and took the two of them on a tour of the manor called "Abkhazia".
More than two centuries ago, it was one of the most famous Black Sea sanatoriums, but after decades of abandonment, it was renovated and expanded, and more than 1,000 square kilometers of surrounding land were incorporated into the royal hunting grounds.
The estate is fully furnished, with magnificent buildings nestled in greenery and large balconies facing the sea.
Ji Xinghuo and the two visited for more than an hour.
During this period, from time to time, luxury flying cars flew from the sea and landed in the manor, bringing guests one after another.
2 p.m. sharp.
Ji Xinghuo and Zhao Manying entered the manor hall hand in hand, and there were more than forty guests inside, including many acquaintances.
The guests formed several small groups.
Ji Xinghuo swept his eyes and found that the guests were roughly divided into three groups, as locals, the New Roman Empire aliens, nobles, and guests from the United States and the Western Alliance gathered together, and the other group was guests from the Asia-Pacific Community, standing or sitting, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.
Most of the dozen or so APEC guests have seen it.
Those who have not seen it, and they can also recognize their origins, they are all famous strangers in China, and most of them are legends.
As soon as the two entered the auditorium, their voices suddenly became low, and they were silent for two seconds.
People's eyes are drawn to it.
Some people continued to speak casually, but most people couldn't help but look at it twice, half looking at Zhao Manying, and half looking at Ji Xinghuo.
Zhao Manying knows to everyone, and the man who is close to her, even if he hasn't seen it before, knows who it is.
"Starfire."
An Yitian waved his hand.
Ji Xinghuo and the two walked over and said with a smile: "It turns out that Senior An was also invited by Princess Sophia. The two brothers and sisters have always been inseparable, and An Yitian is next to An Zhisu, sitting on the sofa without speaking.
"My archery skills are average, just to join in the fun." An Yitian smiled heartily, "Do you want me to introduce you to everyone?" ”
"No need." Ji Xinghuo looked around at everyone around him, "You are all seniors who have been famous for a long time, I am Ji Xinghuo, and I have admired it for a long time." ”
He had a smile on his face, very relaxed.
Although there are all powerful aliens present, compared to fame, they are far inferior to Ji Xinghuo and Zhao Manying, seeing him so casual, naturally no one will jump out and say anything cool, and instead congratulate Zhao Manying on winning the championship.
"Xinghuo, I've admired your archery skills for a long time, and I'm going to show us a hand later." A tall, thin man said.
He is Su Ziyou, the 133rd "Star Hunter" on the Legend List.
The Astral Hunter is an advanced class of rangers and hunters, and he is naturally good at archery, but he didn't see Su Ziyou's war pet.
Su Ziyou has been famous for a long time, but he is only 45 years old.
In recent years, there has been a trend in both the ladder and the legend list, the higher the ranking, the younger the Inhumans are compared to the lower ones.
The top 10 of the Legend List, with an average age of less than 55 years old;
In the range of 11th to 50th place in the legend, the average age is about 65 years old;
The average age of the 51st to 100th is around 75 years old; Gradually growing in the future, the last 100 Inhumans on the Legend List have an average age of more than 150 years old, and they are basically the kind of legends that rely on time to accumulate.
According to this trend, the Inhumans on the Legend List will get younger and younger, and in a few decades, those old-timers will be eliminated from the list.
The ladder is even younger.
The top 100 are basically super aliens under the age of 40, and the three top players in the past ten years are only in their 20s when they reach the first place.
This is the result of supernatural research, abundant resources, and technological development.
Su Ziyou is one of the representatives, who has only been promoted to legend for ten years, but his ranking on the legend list has been rising steadily.
Many people believe that he will eventually break into the top 20 of the Legend List and is expected to be promoted to the king in the future.
Ji Xinghuo said modestly: "Compared with Brother Su's archery, I still have a gap. In terms of shooting talent, there are few people in the world who can compare to Brother Su, and I mainly rely on abilities and can't take a shot. ”
He is telling the truth, his shooting basically depends on Vientiane Star Pupil, and his shooting talent is still slightly inferior to top shooters like Su Ziyou.
But no one believed him.
"To be too modest is to be proud." Su Ziyou shook his head disapprerovingly.
He has watched countless videos of Ji Xinghuo in the Indian Kingdom, and he was shocked at the time, Ji Xinghuo can shoot hypersonic missiles and fighters in high-speed flight, this kind of difficulty, he knows better than anyone else.
If others don't believe it, Ji Xinghuo can't help it.
While talking to the crowd, he noticed a gaze that lingered on him for a long time, and he turned his head to look.
Suddenly, Ji Xinghuo met a pair of light green eyes and saw each other clearly.
Kelena Olsen.
When she came in just now, Ji Xinghuo noticed the third in the ladder, she seemed to have walked out of the defeat in last night's game, and talked and laughed with her friends.
Ji Xinghuo looked away, however, Kelina still looked at herself frequently.
"What's the situation?"
He was a little confused.
Just as she was about to investigate, Princess Sophia, dressed in a hunting suit, came in, clapped her palms, attracted the attention of the guests, and began the opening remarks of this archery exchange meeting.
When the princess spoke enthusiastically, Ji Xinghuo still noticed Kelina's gaze and frowned in his heart.
At this time, Princess Sophia finished speaking, "Let's go now!" ”
A moment later.
Everyone came to the stable of the manor, where dozens of tall and handsome silver-winged Pegasus were domesticated, each of them was white, with wide wings, a neatly trimmed mane, and a spiritual look in his eyes, obviously of extraordinary blood.
The horses were all saddled, and there were attendants pulling them beside them.
These silver-winged pegasus are all very high quality, far surpassing ordinary pegasus, and are very good mounts.
In front of the stables there was a long table with a number of shooting weapons, only of three kinds, bows, Gauss pistols, and electromagnetic rifles, all of the same appearance and quality, with the same arrow ammunition.
Each person takes a set of weapons and ammunition, chooses a silverwing pegasus, and puts it in the side sac of the saddle.
"Everyone, please get on board." Sophia said loudly.
Everyone rode on the silver-winged Pegasus.
With a flapping of wings, dozens of silver-winged pegasus took off one after another, heading towards the Great Caucasus Mountains north of the royal hunting grounds.
The target of this hunt is the Wind Rider.
The masters of the Gagra Royal Hunting Ground domesticated many wind harnessing eagles in the mountains, and because they are alien species, they have no natural predators, and they reproduce too quickly, so they need to be manually intervened every year to reduce their numbers to avoid causing ecological imbalance.
The Wind Riding Eagle flies extremely fast and has excellent eyesight, and ordinary people don't even have a chance to get close, and it is almost impossible to shoot and kill.
So, Sophia happened to use them as hunting targets.
It wasn't long before a group of people flew into the mountains, and Sophia controlled the Silverwing Pegasus to lower its altitude, using the forest as a cover, and walked under the shade of the trees, hovering in a clearing for a few minutes.
Her voice came to everyone's ears: "There is a nest of wind eagles on the top of this mountain, this round of shooting with bows and arrows, which one will come first?" ”
The crowd looked up and looked up through the shade of the trees.
There is a huge lair on the edge of a cliff at the top of the mountain, the visual distance is more than 400 meters, and it is an elevation angle, which is very difficult to shoot.
Even a legendary archer would not have a range of 500 meters without a powerful bow and arrow.
None of the people present were ordinary Inhumans.
However, Sophia's bow and arrow are only equipped with super two stars, and the standard range is 350 meters, and if you want to shoot targets above 400 meters from a low place, you must exceed the range with exquisite skills, which is very difficult.
Everyone humbled each other, and Sophia looked at Ji Xinghuo, "Mr. Ji, how about you set an example for everyone first?" ”
"Since Her Royal Highness the princess has spoken, then I will be ugly."
Ji Xinghuo readily agreed.
Although this is just a casual exchange, it also implies that you should behave in front of the United States and other countries.
Electromagnetic induction has long found out the situation of the nest of the wind eagle on the top of the mountain, a total of five, two are adult wind eagles, and the three young eagles can also fly, with a wingspan of more than three meters wide.
On the way here, Ji Xinghuo had already tried the bow and arrow in his hand and mastered the performance of this hunting compound bow.
He drew five willow arrows.
Just when everyone thought that Ji Xinghuo had more preparations, he shot an arrow without warning, his hands were as fast as phantoms, and he shot out the remaining four arrows in a second, looking very casual.
Five arrows pierced the shade of the tree and disappeared in an instant.
Everyone looked up and saw that the first arrow was like a black shadow, hitting the nest on the edge of the cliff with precision, countless debris branches splashed open, and one of the wind harnessing eagles in the nest let out a sharp scream and struggled to take off.
The other four Wind Riders in the nest were alarmed and took off.
But as soon as they flew up, they were each shot by an arrow, and when viewed from below, they were hit almost simultaneously.
The corpses of the five Wind Eagles fell.
It was clear to everyone that each of the Wind Pilots had been shot in the head, and the arrow had been inserted through the jaw and out of the top of the head.
Kill them all in one hit!
Sophia was dumbfounded, and after a few seconds, the sound of the Wind Eagle's corpse falling to the ground was heard before she came back to her senses.
"Wonderful!"
"Mr. Ji's archery skills are so exquisite, I'm ashamed of myself." Sophia took the lead in applauding, and the others also showed admiration.
(End of chapter)