It's the middle of July, and Mira, who has become accustomed to getting hotter and hotter weather and having to be cautious when she gets up in the middle of the night to keep vigil during the day, has a third factor that makes her start to get bored with summer.

- Got it.

Although some early cicadas chirp from the end of June, by the middle of July, the tropical climate of the sultry Soladin region began to emerge in large numbers, and the annoying arthropods that chirped day and night were still as successful as in previous years, causing great trouble for the local population.

Although the abundance of Zhizhi also provided a stable source of protein for some time for most of the local population who did not have enough food, for us Luoan Girls, who did not have the heart to catch Zhizhi and were more or less resistant to such things as eating bugs, these guys did little except make themselves irritable due to lack of rest and stress.

The world is colorful and sunny, but the group of four people at this time does not have the heart to appreciate it.

The horses' hooves trampled on the dry and hard earth, and it had not rained for more than a week since that day in early July. The increasingly muggy air joins a host of other signs that an unprecedented superstorm is coming. The pedestrians on the road were a little restless, the merchants were desperately driving their carriages for fear that they would not be able to catch up with this time, Mira silently watched these people, all this was very similar to the previous scene, but now she was no longer in the mood to worry about others.

At the end of the conflict with the knights of the Holy See, Henry said that he probably knew what was going on, but he didn't take the initiative to explain it afterwards. However, the three people in the team all have some brains, and Mira needless to say, Amonica and Joshua have gradually understood the sage's style of acting during this period of time.

If everything and the inventory can solve the problem, then he will naturally do it, the current situation is not clear for the time being, making a judgment requires clues as a basis, even as a sage Henry has no way to deduce the direction of the whole situation with just a short contact.

But if he had only passively fled, he would not have been the man who had brought victory to Avenella with just a few words.

After a brief meeting with the papal knights, the group of four abandoned the avenue outside, led by Henry, and the sage first asked everyone to check the supplies to make sure they had enough food, and then entered the forest path.

Their progress became slower, and by the third day they had only walked half a day's journey.

The cautious action of the step-by-step camp was only one aspect, and although the real resting place was located in the depths, Henry had the group of four to step on the avenue. He used his knife to cut off the thick branches of the black pine of Eka on the side of the road, and carefully cleaned the footprints of the people as they marched deeper with the dense needle-like leaves, and then spent a considerable amount of time leaving traces of the establishment of camp on the other side.

The campfires they used, the food and the like, even the clearing that had been cleared during the camp, had been meticulously taken care of by the sage in such detail that only the remaining three members of the group understood that they had never been to those places to set up camp.

Why he did this, the other members of the team who were not sluggish could figure it out. Waiting passively for the other party to come to the door, it is better to set a trap to see who has opinions about his group. Using knowledge and calm thinking to plan proactively to bring the situation back into their hands is something that those who are stupid and will always just run around in a mess and wait for the other party to bump into them before starting the fight will obviously never learn.

The most valuable thing for a sage may not be his knowledge or his ability to fight, Mira thought to herself: people often fall into chaos when they encounter unclear things and even choose to start blaming each other and fighting among themselves, but in fact, if you are willing to solve it with your heart, nothing is really so difficult, calm down and seek cause and effect, and then choose the entry point after analyzing the whole problem, and then achieve your goal step by step. Henry's way of thinking is the root cause of so many things they have encountered so far that can be solved.

Knowledge and combat ability are important, after all, without these things, the problem will definitely take much longer, if it can be solved. However, if a person who also has a certain amount of combat power and some knowledge always "takes it for granted" to "take it for granted" according to his habitual thinking before getting enough information, the probability of messing up the matter is obviously much higher than the chance of getting everything to go smoothly.

Calm and sensible, simple and effective, just like the battle of a sage. Mira thought that these are the things she lacks the most, and when it comes to battle, she is still easily swayed by some overly subjective thoughts in her heart, and this must be changed.

The headache from the fall lasted for several days, but the failure brought more than just frustration and pain, the girl became stronger in the midst of vertigo and irritability, and her ability to withstand stress increased with the trip, and in many ways became extremely sharp.

The cicadas are still calling, "I know~know~" and keep calling. The weather is still very hot, the shade and wind under the trees have reached more than 30 degrees, and the road surface outside that is not blocked by direct sunlight has reached a high temperature that can burn bare skin.

It had been a few months since she arrived in the south of the West Coast, and the white skin of her Naluoan, which was originally lighter than the traditional West Coasters, began to turn a slightly darker wheat color in the bright tropical sun, and the hard calluses on the knuckles and palms of her fingers were a testimony to the stubborn character of the girl.

"Rustle-" A cool sensation came over the bare arms when they touched the turquoise grass, and many tiny insects fled under the shady surface - the bushes of the tropics are not as friendly as the temperate zones, and there are hundreds of poisonous insects that can kill people no more than the size of a thumb, and even some frogs and plants are extremely poisonous.

It is common sense for people who travel to carry some deworming powder, after all, the medicinal materials used for detoxification are expensive and doctors are not easy to find, so it is better to take precautions from the beginning, but it is to save time and effort.

Powdered with sun-dried pyrethrum and some other plant fruits and flowers, and then used as a catalyst for ale, the finished powder has a strong repellent effect on all kinds of insects. When used in the wild, a little water mixed with bare skin can protect yourself for a short time, but when you sleep at night, it is best to light a campfire because of the duration.

The constant chirping of cicadas illustrates the meaning of "tranquility" in another way, with Mira lying on the edge of a not-so-high cliff next to Henry, and a little further back, Amonica, Joshua, and two horses.

The small cliff, which had a drop of only six meters or so, was a little deeper on the side of the road leading to the docks in Corey Conrad, and the trail that Henry had deliberately left behind for several days seemed to be almost about to take effect, so the sage led the group to stop here and lay in ambush, ready to see what the men who were following him were like.

He was as skilled as ever with timing, and the various clues that had been deliberately left behind on the road over the course of several days revealed a lot of information to the trackers: the scattered camps that had been carefully selected from all sides looked like novices' choices, the location of the campfires that were lit, and the remains of food that had not been carefully disposed of—these things were very similar to the traces left by the group before the attack, and still after the attack, and in the interpretation of the trackers, it naturally became:

"These people were completely defenseless, they thought the attack was just the end of the attack, and they didn't expect a second one. ”

A person who tries to speculate on the state and reason about the psychology through clues has met this Dao master. These unknown people thought that they had found the truth by their own abilities, but they never thought that they were in Henry's hands from the beginning.

It's a game of toying people's hearts, and the sage is the best of the best.

"It's coming. He said softly, the terrain here had already taken a little time to explore before, Joshua, who knew the solution, slowly drew his long sword behind him, his blindness made it likely that there would be no way to arrive in time if there was an emergency, so after Henry confirmed the number of people coming, Joshua should take the first step to use the cover of bushes and grass to grope the road that had been explored before to the predetermined place to wait. The Sage and Mira then descend from the other side, striking from both sides to prevent anyone from escaping.

The other side obviously has an overwhelming advantage in numbers, and the ambush on this easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack cliff is not only for the advantage of occupying the commanding heights and being easy to observe, if the people who come not only have a large number of people, but also have a great advantage in equipment and personnel composition, they can also directly choose to evacuate and fight again on a later day.

Returning to the same place, there were only eleven people on the other side, and then judging from the kind of steppe horses they were riding, it was clear that they were not carrying too heavy equipment. Six with shields and swords, the rest were short knives and longbows, short-sleeved leather armor with good heat dissipation, and no helmets, looking completely scout-like - Henry and Mira rushed down decisively from the other side.

"Be careful. The sage replied as she looked back, and the Luoan girl nodded cautiously, she hadn't forgotten the consequences of being too light on the enemy last time - her configuration this time was a bit unique, using a half-sword and a shield that had been captured earlier.

This is certainly not a melee pairing, and while the one-and-a-half sword is designed to be used as both a one-handed sword and a two-handed sword, only a fool would actually use it with a shield. The excessively long handle and total length of the sword in one hand and a half are limited in the use of one hand, and the girl is still young and lacks physical strength, so asking her to use this set to fight in close combat is obviously no different from sending her to death.

So what exactly is the use of a shield in such a situation - very simply, for ...... Block attacks.

-- There are not only melee weapons on the battlefield, unlike the special small-sized fighting shields, the huge area of the traditional round shield and square shield is not a futile burden as some people think, in fact, the existence of any kind of tool has its own meaning, and the best thing about the cheap product of the shield is the excellent defensive effect in the face of the bow and arrow.

"Bang-" The two of them walked out directly without hiding their traces, since the scouts in this line have the ability to match all the horses, it is obviously impossible to be the low-level green-card mercenaries who were used as cannon fodder before-the other party immediately reacted that this was a trap, several archers quickly took bows and arrows, and Henry, who had superior physical ability, rushed out with an arrow, while our Luoan girl quickly raised her shield to cover herself according to the plan.

"Woo-woo-" The arrow pierced the surface of the thick wooden shield and pierced through a black iron arrow, and Mira did not advance but retreated, using the trees to cover herself. She arched her body and raised the shield weighing several kilograms above her head to protect her face, and the fierce arrows were one after another, and the archers certainly did not forget the presence of Henry who rushed out on the other side, but the sage who ran fast was as sharp as a common gazelle in the steppe area, and several arrows missed one after another, and the archers who had been distracted by Mira for a while only reacted at this time, but it was too late-

Henry quickly rushed to their side and turned back.

"Up!" the shield-wielding scout drew his one-handed sword at his waist and met it decisively, Henry quickly changed the way of his lower foot, step by step heavier, and when he was about to meet the enemy, he stepped out with a heavy foot with the help of the momentum of running, and the sword was unsheathed with one hand, and it was directly a high-level angry slash.

"Boom!!!" The sharp sound of breaking through the air, the familiar scene, the opponent who had misjudged the power of the sage watched him hold his sword in one hand and try to block with his shield instead of dodging - the result can only be described as unbearable.

"Click-click!" Under the huge impact, the cowhide edging was pulled off, and the shield was directly split into two halves, the fragile leather armor was completely unable to withstand a weapon of this size, and the blood-spattered scout with the sword lost the left half of his body before he could react. Henry drew his broadsword and took two steps back unhurriedly to avoid the enemies who were flanking from the left and right, and then struck another blow with his sword in one hand.

"Click-Click!" He didn't need to use any skill at all, just the strength and size of his weapon alone was enough to suppress the scouts of several people in this line, and the archers clearly noticed that the situation was not good, and things were getting worse faster than they thought, but they wanted to support Henry but always dodged left and right without giving them a chance to aim. Three of the archers impatiently dropped their longbows and drew their short knives to surround the sage, but it was at this time that Joshua rushed at a very high speed from not far away.

"Damn!" the remaining two archers had just fired another arrow at Mira's side when they discovered Joshua's presence, and they once again opened their bows and arrows to aim at the red-haired swordsman, but the white-haired girl who realized that the other party was no longer attacking her immediately dropped her scarred shield and rushed out of her hiding place.

"Joshua be careful!" Amonica's worried voice sounded above, and the few remaining scouts who were already like frightened birds immediately began to panic again, since they were able to be sent to track them, they obviously had some knowledge of the existence of a group of four, but after this series of reactions at the beginning of the battle, it seemed that this "knowledge" was obviously only at a shallow level.

In addition to the confusion, Henry managed to kick over one of the scouts and turned to meet the archers who were trying to sneak up, and Joshua, despite his blindness, proved that Amonica's worries were of little significance, and the moment he heard the sound of the bowstring tightening, he decisively threw himself forward and rolled forward, although he looked a little embarrassed because he couldn't see what was on the ground, and he was covered in grass juice and dirt, but he also managed to rush to meet the sword and shield scouts who were forced back by Henry.

"Click-" Three swords in one second, swinging with one hand, the first blow was a false move, and when it touched the edge of the shield, it was instantly retracted; the second blow cut the opponent's wrist by judging the general direction through the sound of the wind; and the exclamation of the opponent in this situation was Joshua's third sword, and the accurate straight stab guided the direction.

"Whew-" He drew the bloody tip of his sword and then turned around, while Henry on the other side brutally broke the opponent's shield and stabbed the opposite one directly with his big sword.

One is black and the other is red, one is fierce and fierce, and the other is fast and accurate. If the combination of these two men was not of a high level and had a well-armed opponent, this level of number was just a statistic about the end time - two of Mira's deaths had just begun to rush this way, and by the time she got there, there were only two of the eleven left.

"Whew......" The girl exhaled, her expression a little complicated, and Henry said to the scout he had disarmed, "We have a bit of a problem thinking-"

"Uh-" The scarred scout's face turned sideways, and he pulled out his dagger and stabbed it straight into his heart, his movements were so fast that even the sage could not succeed in stopping "La-" The remaining archer on the other side opened his longbow, and the sage pushed Mira away, and Joshua on the other side jumped reflexively, but the man smiled and pointed the longbow towards the sky.

"Stop him!" shouted Henry, realizing that something was wrong, as Joshua struck his heart with a lightning bolt, but the long arrow pointed straight upwards had already risen into the air.

"Woo-woo-" A loud whistle echoed in the sky.

"Ringing Arrow...... This guy is signaling the follow-up troops, I don't know exactly what it is, but most of the time we're going to face more trouble......" Joshua drew his sword, and Henry stood there and muttered a few words, and then, as if thinking of something, stepped forward and removed the thin leather armor of the suicide sword and shield bearer.

"......" has a tattoo of the emblem left on his chest soaked in his own blood, and the blue paint is left.

"That's exactly what happened......" (To be continued.) )