Chapter 4 Tiger Trouble
Jia Yi felt a little kind when he saw the other party's cautious appearance.
When he didn't become a mage, in the town and village, people's impression of mages was similar to them, that is, Jiayi had experienced the influence of the Internet, and he was also very worried about mages and wizards, and if he walked the dark stream, he would be miserable.
As soon as Jia entered the village, the gate at the entrance of the village was immediately closed, and the two farmers who had just returned to ventilate the news stayed behind and went up to the lookout to be on guard, appearing very cautious.
The village chief felt Jiayi's doubts, and explained on the side: "This is located in the wilderness, life is not easy, and wild beasts often come to invade and disturb it, but the village is protected by a wall, and it is quite stable." It's just that some time ago, I don't know where to flow a tiger demonic beast, which can use a hand of earth spells, and can climb the wall, our wall has no effect on it, and the village has been taken away by it. ”
The village chief said and looked at the tiger skin on the back of the cow that Jia Yi stretched out his hand, his eyes were full of expectation, and with the village chief's eyesight, he could see that the tiger skin had been peeled off for two days, and the smell of blood on it had not dissipated.
Jia Yi is also moved in his heart, he can use earth spells, and he can climb walls, so climbing trees shouldn't be a problem, won't it be the one he killed.
He said to the village chief: "I don't know how many tigers there are around your village, I did encounter a ground-splitting tiger around the village, and I killed it, but it is quite similar to what you said." ”
The village chief was a little excited, and he was about to speak a little unfavorably: "One is enough, how dare there be more, just this one our village is about to disperse, not afraid of people at all, even during the day, dare to rush into the village to eat people." It's just, what is a Earth Splitter?"
The strength of the Earth Splitter Tiger is not weak, it almost has the strength of a white-robed mage, it is not easy for ordinary people to see, although the village chief can tell that the other party is a demonic beast, but he doesn't know what breed.
Only those who have come out of these academies, or who have studied the Warcraft Illustrated Craft, can correspond to the Demonic Beasts they encounter with the Illustrated Craft, and say the "scientific name" of the other party, otherwise a Warcraft will be called differently from place to place, and sometimes there will be big problems, so that the mage's preparation will be deviated.
Jia Yi said: "The Earth Splitter Tiger is a tiger that can climb trees and release earth-based spells. ”
"Then, that shouldn't be wrong, there can't be a second one around the village, otherwise our village would have been destroyed a long time ago. The village chief came to Xiaoqing's side, looked at the tiger skin on its back, and wanted to reach out to touch it but didn't dare.
At this time, someone on one side said: "When we saw this tiger, the other party's right tiger tooth was broken, I don't know if this is the same when the mage saw it." ”
The head of this tiger was not brought with him, the tiger head was inconvenient to handle, and it covered a large area, so he cut it off and discarded it, and sometimes he would wonder how those tiger skins with tiger heads were made.
He recalled it a little, and it seemed that this was indeed the case, the tiger's right tooth was broken, and it should not have been for a long time, which affected the other party's ability to hunt, so he would often come to the village, and it was much easier to hunt humans than wild beasts.
In particular, these people would get together and tell the Earth Splitter that the wall was like they were keeping themselves in captivity.
Jia nodded and said, "That's true, this tiger's right tooth is badly damaged. ”
"Thank you, Master, this is saving the lives of our whole village, woo~" When the village chief heard this, he immediately knelt down for Jiayi, lying on the ground and crying.
As soon as the village chief knelt, the villagers who were still following him also immediately knelt down, and they knelt down for a while, and their mouths couldn't stop saying words of thanks.
Jia Yi hurriedly helped the village chief up, and also asked the others to get up, these people suddenly made such a big salute, so that Jia Yi was really not used to it.
Jia Yi still underestimated the impact of the Earth Splitting Tiger on this small village, not to mention that this is a magical beast, it is an ordinary tiger, and the impact on a lonely village is also fatal.
Tigers are the most cannibalistic animals in the world besides humans, and the number of people killed is greater than that of all other beasts combined.
In the twentieth century, conservative estimates put more than 12,000 people in Asia at the hands of tigers, while radical statistics put 370,000 people in Asia between 1800 and 2009, which is only 200 years.
In China, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the southern tigers were very bad, there were broken walls to eat people, and there were people who cruised on the streets of the town in broad daylight to eat people, it is said that there were two tigers in the tiger hill of the Ming Dynasty who lived in the deserted temple, and dragged people back to eat, which is unimaginable for modern people.
In ancient literary works, the tiger fighter was always regarded as a hero, and Wu Song and Li Kui in the Water Margin were both heroic by fighting the tiger.
Jiayi came from modern times, and he didn't have a deep understanding of tiger damage, there were few tigers in the wild at that time, and the few that were all protected, in Jiayi's eyes, if this ground-splitting tiger didn't take the initiative to pounce, he wouldn't take the initiative to hunt it.
That's why he felt that the village chief's reaction was too exaggerated.
The village chief was helped to stand up, and his heart was still a little excited: "Mage don't be polite, you really saved the lives of our whole village, this fierce tiger looks at the wall like nothing, and comes in if you want to come in, Stone and Crow standing guard at the entrance of the village are all drawn by us by lot, and they are ready to die." Every night we draw lots, and those who win the lottery have to worry about not seeing the sun the next day. Moreover, this tiger is not afraid of people, even in the daytime, we have set up several traps, but they have not played a little role. If it weren't for your help in getting rid of this evil, we would all have plans to relocate the village. ”
"Does the lord here care?" Kaichi was a little strange, the lord was obligated to collect taxes to help the village solve the danger.
Especially in autumn, most of these territories close to the forest will organize autumn hunting to hunt wild boars, bears and other large beasts, even at this time, the beast's fur is shiny, fat and thick, but also to reduce the number of people, to avoid the winter can not find food to impact the village.
"Hey. The village chief sighed, his face embarrassed, "I'm afraid we won't get the lord's help." ”
It turned out that this village was too far away from the lord's town, and the nearest town was also a hundred miles away, which was beyond the lord's jurisdiction. Although it nominally belonged to the nearby lords, it was too far away and deep into the jungle to collect taxes.
The reason why they were so far away and had gone deep into the forest was also to avoid the lord's onerous taxes.
Not every lord can talk about the development of the territory well, especially the lord needs to support the knights in order to maintain the force, and many lords are very serious and even harsh on the taxes of the civilians below.
They couldn't stand the exploitation of the lord, so they hid in the forest, this village has existed for decades, several generations have come, but they didn't expect to meet a ground-splitting tiger, and thanks to the other party's lack of hobby of slaughter, otherwise this village would have been destroyed a long time ago.
Since they didn't pay taxes, the lords had no obligation to help, and of course they could raise money to hire people, but how could they afford to hire someone who could kill the Earth Splitter with the little money they scraped together.
If they are forced to move the village in a hurry, then in the end, I really don't know how many people will survive, not to mention the attack of wild beasts on the way, it is not easy to find a piece of land.
Nominally, all the land is owned, and if they want to gain a foothold, they can only go around in the forest, but if they pop up again, they will always be in the forest.
Jia Yi killed the Earth Splitter Tiger and really saved the lives of their entire village.
The village chief welcomed Jiayi to his home, it was dinner time, the village chief's dinner had just been prepared, but now it was all redone, and the villagers knew that Jiayi had killed the tiger that had harmed the village, and spontaneously sent a lot of game.
Although the village is not rich in products and has little money, there are still a lot of game bacon or something, as well as mushrooms and wild vegetables picked in the mountains, which taste very good.
The village chief found several village women, worked for a while, and made a large table of dishes, which almost couldn't fit enough.
is so enthusiastic that Jia Yi feels a little uncomfortable.