Chapter 62: The Escort Team
"Barbarian, do we really have to stay in the wild all this time?" Zhao Wan said distressedly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's not that she's afraid of hardship, but that women always have all kinds of inconveniences when they stay in the wild for too long.
"If you don't have a second item in the hands of the enemy, then the two stewards have guessed correctly, and they have found a mystic person who is skilled in divination, and then they will calculate your approximate location. Bai Ya said with a deep groan.
As long as there is a general orientation, the original camp is too eye-catching, no wonder it will attract enemy attacks.
"On the land of defending the country, it is not possible to fight the enemy hard, and all the towns where the yamen and military divisions exist will be used by the other party, so we must try to stay in the sparsely populated wilderness. ”
Bai Ya said cautiously, "If you don't want to bring any more danger to Guan Zhang, we must stay away from them, so that the camp can avoid a second attack." ”
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"Where is this?"
After walking a hundred miles for two days and one night, the two fell into the encirclement of the vast wilderness.
Everywhere you look, there is a lush landscape, although it is not a jungle, but there are still many tall trees standing in the sparse black earth.
The surrounding vegetation is somewhat unusual and grows exceptionally tall. The life vitality in the air is far richer than that near the city, although it is not as good as the cave heaven blessed land in Qingcheng, but it is also at the foot of Xianshan Mountain.
Because there are no people, the two of them see many strange creatures in the wilderness, such as a butterfly the size of a plantain, a rabbit with three tails, and a spider as colorful as a rainbow.
Not to mention Zhao Wan, who has been in the deep palace all the year round, even Bai Ya feels that his eyes are wide open, and everything he sees is full of novelty.
"I didn't expect the Savage Realm to be so interesting, I should have come out and see it sooner. Zhao Wan lay like a bonfire, looking up at the night sky with her eyes shining.
"Hey, long insight also needs to have the strength to protect yourself, if it weren't for someone following you, you would have become the food of that colorful spider in the first two days. White Cliff quipped mercilessly.
"Got it, got it!" Zhao Wan waved her hand impatiently and sat up straight, "This palace gave you the three easy to hide footwork, shouldn't you also teach this palace some martial arts?"
"Teach you martial arts?" Bai Ya was stunned for a moment, and asked strangely, "Could it be that you still want to run out of the palace in the future...... Do you like wandering so much?"
"Isn't it okay?" Zhao Wan glared at him angrily, and her mood fell.
"It's not impossible!"
What made the little girl strange was that Bai Ya actually responded to her seriously, "If it is changed to so-and-so, it must be how to do as you like, as long as you are happy." ”
"But in that case...... Father and king don't talk about it for the time being, anyway, there are brothers and sisters in the king, but the queen mother only has one child in this palace, I'm afraid she will be sad!" Zhao Wan retorted softly.
"If parents really care about their children, they will naturally be happy because their children are happy. If you are only used as a bargaining chip, it will only be angry and disappointed, not sad and sad. Bai Ya said with a smile.
"This palace is a great task for the marriage of the two countries...... If you leave it alone, I am afraid that the three kingdoms of Zhao Wei and Wei will not be appeased and provoked continuously. ”
"Hehe, you're taking yourself too seriously...... How can state-to-state diplomacy be solved by a marriage tool, without you as a chess piece, wouldn't those big people play chess?" Bai Ya chuckled, "You are important, you are not important, only between your own thoughts." ”
"Can you really put it down?" Zhao Wan muttered distractedly.
Bai Ya shook his head, said no more, took out a bag of rice wine and drank it alone.
"Hey, don't drink alone!" Zhao Wan was stunned for a moment, then reached out and snatched the wine bag.
Bai Ya smiled, suddenly frowned, tilted his head and listened.
"There's something coming this way, clean it up. After listening for a moment, his face changed slightly, and he got up and stepped on the bonfire.
"Is it a pursuer?" Zhao Wan asked cautiously as she followed him into the dense grass.
"I don't know, let's see, maybe it's just a beast. ”
Bai Ya took out an oiled paper bag and shook some of the gray powder inside on the two of them. This is the medicinal powder used to eliminate the smell, which Guan Zhang and the two gave him before parting.
Under the starry night sky, I saw more than a dozen black shadows approaching rapidly from miles away.
When they got closer, they found a pack of wolves as big as calves, hunting two young men, a man and a woman.
The two men also seemed to be warriors, dressed in power suits, armed with scimitars, and each carrying a hunting bow.
The man was a middle-aged man, with a full face, and he was probably in his forties. The woman is a girl less than twenty years old, and her appearance is somewhat similar to that of a middle-aged person, and it seems to be a father-daughter relationship.
"Orions nearby?"
Bai Ya had some doubts in his heart, this place was more than a hundred miles away from the city, and it was not a good place for Orion activities.
"Ah~" Just when he was confused, the two of them were already in danger, and the girl accidentally rolled on the ground with garlic under her feet.
"Mei'er!" the middle-aged man exclaimed, stopped his steps sharply, and threw the scimitar in his hand violently, hitting the gray wolf that pounced on the girl.
"Poof~" The scimitar of more than two feet penetrated into the gray wolf's chest, but the tip of the knife was not seen on the wolf's back, which showed the size of the wolf.
After throwing out the scimitar, the middle-aged man didn't look at the gray wolf that was killed, his steps were wrong, and his body slid out of a half-arc like a drift, and he didn't know when the longbow in his hand exploded in a row, and he shot out four or five arrows at once, forcing most of the wolves that rushed in the middle to retreat.
However, this group of giant wolves is also fierce, although the middle few stopped pounced, but the giant wolves on both sides still roared low and pounced on the girl.
But the girl was also alert, and when she rolled, she curled up her body, and simply hid under the giant wolf that was killed by the scimitar, and covered herself with the huge body it fell, so that several giant wolves who pounced helplessly fell into the air.
The two sides fought each other, which opened the eyes of the two hiding in the grass. Although there is nothing to say about martial arts, the thrill is no less than the 3D blockbuster of White Cliff's previous life.
"To save, or not to save?"
Before Bai Ya could make a decision, Zhao Wan, who was hiding on the side, had already run out.
Her body is already good, and after a few ups and downs, she got into the circle of fighting, pulled up the girl under the wolf corpse, and ran to the grass with her hand.
White Cliff shrugged his shoulders indifferently and walked out of his hiding place, now he didn't have to make a choice.
However, he didn't complain about the little girl, the compatriot fell into the tiger fence, and you just happened to have a rope on you, it's not good to see death and not save it, right?
With the new force of White Cliff, the giant wolf was quickly repulsed, leaving only a few wolf corpses.
"In Xia Zhang Erlang, this is the little girl Zhang Mei, thank you two for rescuing!" the middle-aged man pulled the girl and saluted the two.
"It's not enough to worry about it, but you are the hunters around here?" Bai Ya asked with a smile with a flashing eye.
"No, Zai Xia and Xiaonu are both members of the road protection team, our camp is not far from here, why don't you two come over and rest?" Zhang Erlang looked at Bai Ya and asked tentatively.
"Road guard?" Bai Ya suddenly said.
The road guard team is an organization that maintains and cleans the communication lines between cities, and is a non-governmental organization, and most of its members are composed of martial artists and hunters. The scope of the activity is a hundred miles of wilderness centered on the traffic line, which is specially responsible for hunting low-level brute beasts and maintaining the smooth flow of the city's traffic line.
Compared to hunting parties in the Savage Realm, they hunt much weaker targets, less risky, and can return to the city at any time to recuperate.
Of course, these people are not voluntary laborers, they mainly make a living by selling the cores and materials of low-level brute beasts, which is considered a high-income occupation in the world.
Sometimes, if the lines of communication between cities are severely blocked, the local county will issue some bounty missions, and there will be a big dart board and a regular hunting team to make temporary cameos to protect the road.
For warriors like Shang Lu and White Cliff, who often travel in the wilderness, the camp of the road escort can also be used as a temporary stop.
Regarding the invitation of Zhang Erlang's father and daughter, Bai Ya and Zhao Wan readily agreed.
They had been in the wild for several days, and although there was no shortage of food and drink, the smell on their bodies was a little unbearable.
In the mutual temptation with Zhang Erlang, Bai Ya knew that their road protection team was not very large, and most of them were local hunters, and they only temporarily formed a road protection team in spring and autumn.
Because the strength of the team is relatively weak, the range of activities is also relatively small, relying on the wild camp to hunt low-level brute beasts.
Zhang Erlang's father and daughter were not very lucky today, and they actually ran into a giant wolf group on the way back.
"Brother Zhang, do you have something on your mind?" After getting acquainted with each other, Bai Ya couldn't help but ask suspiciously when he saw that the middle-aged man was still frowning.
"Young heroes are not strange, I just think that these giant wolves are a little strange. Zhang Erlang glanced at the two chirping girls next to him, and said in a low voice.
"Please advise!" Bai Ya's eyes flashed, and he hurriedly asked.
In this wild, hunters like Zhang Erlang are survival experts, and any intuition he has cannot be ignored.
"This giant wolf is called a fangwolf by us, and it has a fierce and cunning temperament, and although it is only a low-level brute, it rarely appears near the lines of communication. Zhang Erlang said thoughtfully.
"Why is that?" asked White Cliff curiously.
"Because they are all in groups, they eat too much, and there are not many wild animals near the urban transportation lines to meet their daily needs. Zhang Erlang explained carefully.
"What do you mean...... They migrate from the depths of the wilderness. Bai Ya frowned slightly, "The survival of the fittest in the wilderness, they were defeated by more powerful brute beasts, and it is not strange that they escaped from their original territory, right?"
"It's possible, but I'm just worried about it...... Forget it, it shouldn't be yet. Zhang Erlang shook his head with a smile halfway through speaking.
"Brother Zhang, don't say half of it!" Bai Ya said with a smile.
"Oh, maybe it's a little too much, and there's another situation that will make the wolf appear here...... That's the beast tide!"
"Beast tide?" Bai Ya was startled, "Is it the kind of beast tide that brute beasts attack the city?"
"There are big and small beast tides, and if there is a big beast tide attacking the city, there will definitely be more signs. Zhang Erlang said with a smile, "What I'm worried about is only a small beast tide, the fang wolf group has a huge need for food and moves quickly, so they are often the precursor to the appearance of the beast tide." ”