A burst of rapid breathing sounded in the silent black forest, and then a dark figure with a lantern hanging quickly passed through a tree hole formed by arched tree roots, stepped on the big stone on the opposite side, and quickly
He climbed over a bush and landed on the soft land on the opposite side.
"Um!"
A deliberately suppressed muffled sound was heard, and the black figure who landed on the ground was half-kneeling on the ground, covering his right foot. Next to his right foot was a stone covered by rotten soil and rotten leaves.
It seems that when the black shadow fell just now, it stepped on this hidden stone, and its ankle must have been injured.
However, even though he injured his foot, the black figure still endured the pain and limped forward until the pain in the injured area became unbearable, and then he found a relatively open place and started from the bag.
He took out a bottle of spare kerosene, sprinkled it around himself, and then lit it, forming a ring of fire, surrounding him.
Under the illumination of the fire, the black figure revealed his appearance. He was a young man in his twenties. He had a strong body and some old clothes. He looked like someone who often did hard work. He held a
He was holding a short sword and a one-handed crossbow, and judging from his posture, he looked like a novice.
The only eye-catching thing about him is a scar from the corner of his right eye to his lip. It looks like he was injured by a sharp weapon. This makes him look a bit fierce and unruly, but it is no longer visible on his face at the moment.
These temperaments are gone, leaving only endless fear and despair.
If anyone from Stone Town outside the Black Forest sees this young man at this time, they will definitely recognize him, because he is the most famous gangster in Stone Town and the most restless guy in the town. His name is Alban and he is a free man.
civil.
The reason why Albon is the most restless is because he is unwilling to work in the joint quarry in the town. He always wants to leave the town and go to big cities like Leon, Lanxi or even Miria. If it were just him
It's just his personal thoughts, but he likes to encourage the young people in the town to fantasize with him, making the town a mess.
However, for Albon, his dream did not cause any hindrance to others at all. Those conservative old guys in the town were all lifeless zombies.
Although Albon wanted to leave Slate Town, he also knew that living in those big cities required a lot of money. For this reason, he had used various means to accumulate a reserve of twenty gold farrans and thirty bia in the past.
Such a large amount of money may be considered a huge amount of money in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is obviously not enough to live in a big city for a long time.
He found out that in a big city like Leon, the monthly rent for an ordinary dormitory apartment costs 70 bias. If the consumption of food and drink is included, the monthly rent is about 90 bias. The money in his hand
The money can only allow him to live in a big city for two and a half years at most.
Therefore, he has always hoped that he can get a large sum of money in a short period of time, enough for him to spend in a big city, so that he can leave this remote ghost place.
It wasn't until two days ago that something sensational happened in Stone Town that Albon felt that his opportunity had come.
A guy nicknamed Honest Bill was lucky enough to pick up a piece of gold-eating beast dung on the edge of the black forest.
The gold-eating beast is a unique beast in the Black Forest. This beast likes to eat metal, but it can only digest a few metals such as iron and copper. The remaining metals will dissolve in its body and mix into a
Alloy substances are excreted together with feces.
For scholars who study metals, some of these alloys are of high value and some are of low value, but it is undeniable that the composition of each alloy is unique.
The Royal Academy of Sciences of the French Empire attached great importance to this alloy, so it announced its purchase at a high price.
Since things are rare, some other imperial nobles and big businessmen also think that owning a unique alloy is a very honorable thing, so they also buy it at a high price.
The alloy contained in the gold-eating beast excrement that Honest Bill picked up was a very rare alloy of gold, silver and gems. Its value was much higher than that of ordinary alloys. At that time, there was a big man named Lan Xi.
The businessman spent a huge sum of 70,000 gold flanges to buy this alloy.
Albon was very jealous of Honest Bill's good luck, and hoped that he could also pick up a piece of gold-eating beast excrement, so he went to the town library to check the information about gold-eating beasts.
An unexpected discovery made him decide to venture into the black forest regardless of the dangers of the foggy black forest.
This discovery is that the gold-eating beast does not excrete its feces all at once. It will excrete almost the same amount of feces in other places not far away. So based on the habits of this gold-eating beast, it is honestly
Not far from where Bill picked up the gold-eating animal excrement, there must be other gold-eating animal dung.
Under the temptation of huge amounts of money, Albon also forgot how dangerous the Black Forest was during the foggy moon period. He even worried that others would know about it and enter the forest first to look for the excrement of gold-eating beasts, so he did not prepare carefully.
With all kinds of necessities, he just grabbed a few weapons, some water and food, and entered the black forest with the glass lantern from his home.
Speaking of which, he was lucky at first and did not encounter any danger. He also found a piece of gold-eating beast's excrement, and also found traces of the gold-eating beast's movement. He followed the traces and found another piece of gold-eating beast.
stool.
If he could bring back these two pieces of gold-eating beast excrement from the Black Forest, let alone settling down in a big city like Leon, it would not be impossible for him to even buy a villa and live like a noble.
.
Unfortunately, when he picked up the second piece of gold-eating beast's excrement, Albon found that his luck seemed to have come to an end. First, he was bitten by a small bug hidden under the excrement, and then accidentally slipped and fell into the creek while walking.
The river drifted for a while, and he lost his way after getting ashore. When he was looking for his way back, he even encountered the red leopard, the most terrifying predator in the Lower Black Forest, forcing him to run in panic in the forest until now.
Although he was now protected by a ring of fire, Albon could not feel any hope of surviving the claws of the red leopard.
Not to mention that the red leopard waiting outside the fire circle was waiting for the flames to go out to pounce on him and bite him to death. Even if there was no death threat from the red leopard, there was absolutely no way he could get out of the black forest after he was completely lost in the black forest.
Sex, let alone the most dangerous period of the foggy moon.
Not knowing what kind of emotion he was carrying, Alban opened the package around his waist and looked at two pieces of gold-eating animal excrement worth hundreds of thousands of gold flanges inside. The expression on his face was unpredictable, and finally he closed the package with force.
Go up, take it off from your body, throw the one-handed crossbow aside, and pull out another short knife from your waist.
"Come on! Come on! You beast, don't you want my life? Then come on!" Albon suddenly stood up from the ground and rushed to the fire ring, glaring at the darkness outside the fire ring.
He waved the dagger in his hand like crazy, shouting provocations at the invisible deadly hunter outside the fire circle.
However, there was no movement in the darkness before him.
Albon seemed not to give up, so he changed his position and continued to provoke. He felt that he could only do this, because compared to waiting for death in despair, it would be better to forget all dangers and fight to the death. At least he died like a warrior.
, maybe you can enter the Hall of Valor after death, as the Beirut people say.
Just as Albon continued to seek death, a black shadow silently lurked outside the circle of fire. Its purple-black eyeballs stared at Albon's figure in the circle of fire, as if waiting for an opportunity.
When Albon completely turned his back to the black shadow, the black shadow rushed out quickly, flying over the ring of fire like a black wind. In the blink of an eye, he rushed behind Albon and opened his mouth.
It exposed its blade-like fangs and bit into the prey's neck.
Perhaps the threat of death instantly heightened Albon's feelings. The moment the black shadow rushed towards him, he turned around and saw a big mouth full of fangs falling towards his neck. By this time, he had already
There is no way to avoid it.
It's over, was Albon's only thought at the moment. Time seemed to slow down at this moment, and the red leopard moved very slowly, so slowly that he thought he could easily dodge it, but at the same time he found that his body could not move.
, and some past memory scenes appeared before his eyes, many of which he felt he had forgotten.
In the end, these scenes were fixed on a beautiful figure, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of regret in his heart. He regretted his yearning for the big city, regretted that he entered the black forest for money, and regretted all the things he had done to the person who loved him in the past.
Wrong thing.
At this moment, he couldn't help but swear to God that if he could survive, he would stay and work peacefully in Shiban Town, and he would treat those who loved him well.
Perhaps Alban's prayer had an effect. Just when the red leopard's fangs touched his neck, an invisible force knocked the red leopard away and fell outside the ring of fire, his body twitching.
After a while, he lay on the ground without any movement.
After experiencing a great change in life and death, all the strength in Albon's body seemed to have been drained away. His soft body could no longer support him to continue standing, causing him to sit on the ground.
Albon didn't understand what happened just now. He just knew that the terrifying hunter who was chasing him was dead and he was safe. His ups and downs of emotions made him cry and howl uncontrollably, like a madman.
. Even if he is still in the dangerous dark forest, even if he doesn't know whether he can get out, he still has to cheer for his escape from death.
Not long after Alban vented his emotions, a few dots of fire suddenly appeared in the jungle to his left, and then a half-human-high bush was pushed aside. Several people were wearing hunting attire, each carrying a huge package.
The hunter came out and stepped into the ring of fire.
One of the tallest and strongest men looked at Albon, who was crying and howling, and asked the man with glasses next to him: "Doctor, is this kid crazy?"
The man wearing glasses knelt down and looked at Albon, and said: "I'm probably not crazy. I just experienced the ups and downs of life and death. It's inevitable that my emotions will be a little out of control. I just need to vent."
"What a pitiful guy." The strong man muttered, then quickly walked to the other side of the fire ring, picked up the red leopard, walked back to the firelight, looked at the red leopard's head, and said to
The man who was equally strong but more well-proportioned said: "You win. It was indeed hit in the right eye, but this guy's head is so hard that even the special bullets can't penetrate its head."
The man wearing glasses took the prey from the strong man's hand, looked at it and said: "The red leopard is the strongest hunter in the black forest. Nearly half of the hunters who entered the black forest died in the mouth of the red leopard."
Next, in ancient times, the heads of red leopards could be used to make very hard bone armor. Although special bullets are powerful, they may not be able to penetrate such skulls."
At this time, Albon, who was venting loudly, suddenly stopped. It seemed that he had finished venting and his strength was exhausted, and he just sat on the ground blankly.
"Boy, can you leave?" The strong man walked up to Albon who had calmed down, kicked his legs, and said, "You should be a resident of the nearby Black Forest village, right? We are just about to leave the Black Forest.
You wouldn’t mind leading the way, right?”
However, Albon did not respond to the strong man's request, as if he was ignoring him.
The strong man frowned, and was about to squat down, lift Albon up from the ground, and teach him a lesson so that he knew how to treat his savior, but he was stopped by the man wearing glasses.
Already.
Then they saw the man wearing glasses squatting down, taking his hands out of his gloves, feeling for Albon's pulse, and saying, "He's dead." Then he looked at the exposed parts of the body and saw that they were already dead.
When he turned his black right hand, he said: "It must have been bitten by a poisonous insect. This poisonous insect should not be fatal immediately and can be saved with herbs. It's a pity that he has to escape the pursuit of the red leopard. He keeps running and accelerates his blood flow."
The circulation caused the venom to penetrate deeply into every part of the body. The abnormal behavior just now may also be the effect of the venom."
After saying that, he closed the corpse's open eyes, helped him lie down, recited a prayer, then stood up, and said regretfully: "What a poor guy. Even if we met him earlier, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to save him."
Not his life."
"Hey! There is a package here, it should belong to this boy." At this time, the strong man seemed to have discovered something. He picked up Alban's package, opened it, looked at it, and said: "There seems to be two pieces of gold ore inside.
.”
The man wearing glasses came forward to take a look, and said with some surprise: "It's not gold ore, it's the excrement of a gold-eating beast."
"What? Feces!" The strong man threw the package on the ground with a disgusted look on his face. Although he was wearing gloves, he still wiped his hands on his companions habitually.
On the contrary, the man wearing glasses picked up the package from the ground without any scruples, took out a piece of gold-eating animal excrement, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and then looked to the side of the bearded man who was dissecting the red leopard with a knife.
Said: "Since Jason doesn't want this thing, why don't you and I give it a piece each?"
"Is this thing valuable?" the bearded man asked without raising his head as he carefully dissected every organ of the red leopard as if he was looking for something.
The bearded man's question also caught the strong man's attention, and he couldn't help but stare at the two pieces of gold-eating beast excrement that made him feel extremely disgusted just now.
"It is indeed very valuable." The man wearing glasses quickly gave an accurate answer, saying: "Gold-eating beasts are very rare beasts in the black forest, and they are also one of the few non-aggressive beasts. They are extremely good at
Hiding, even the best hunter cannot catch it. There was once a duke who was willing to exchange a piece of territory for a live gold-eating beast, but he also failed."
The strong man couldn't help but interjected: "Wow! It has such a high value. Is it possible that the gold-eating beast is so valuable that its excrement is also valuable?"
"The price of the gold-eating beast's excrement has nothing to do with the gold-eating beast itself. The reason why the gold-eating beast's excrement is valuable is because the excrement itself is a unique alloy metal." The man wearing glasses rolled his eyes at his companion and continued to explain:
"Because the gold-eating beast's whereabouts are unpredictable, its excrement is also difficult to find. It is almost impossible to find a piece of it on the market for a year. The average price of the gold-eating beast's excrement is between 2,000 and 8,000 gold shields..."
"Eight thousand gold shields is so much?" the strong man asked in surprise.
"But some special gold-eating animal excrement can be sold for tens of thousands..."
The strong man opened his mouth, as if he didn't know what to say.
The man wearing glasses continued: "The excrement we have in our hands now is a very rare gold, silver and gem alloy. The most recent piece of the same gold-eating animal excrement was sold at the Reed Auction House in Port Set, thirteen years ago.
The price at that time was 79,000 gold shields. Our piece, both in terms of size and the proportion of gold, silver and gems, far exceeded that piece. Therefore, according to the growth rate of the market price, it would cost at least hundreds of thousands of gold shields to buy one.
Such gold-eating beast excrement.”
"Wow~oh~!" The strong man opened his mouth when he heard the number of hundreds of thousands. A look of shock appeared on his face. It took a long time before he spit out a particle, and also lengthened his voice.
A lot, as if he couldn't express his exclamation without doing so.
The man wearing glasses brought the gold-eating animal excrement in his hand to the strong man, teased it, and said, "How was it? Do you want a piece of it back?"
However, the strong man just shook his head and did not ask for a share of the pie. He just turned his head to look at the body lying on the ground, sighed, and said regretfully: "What a poor guy!"
"Yes! What a poor guy." The man wearing glasses also put away his smile, looked at the body, and nodded in agreement.
The strong man's emotions passed quickly. He suddenly seemed to have thought of something and said to the bearded man next to him who had completely dissected the red leopard: "Leo, have you been kissed by the goddess of luck? Since you entered
After arriving in the Black Forest, you were really lucky. You kicked a rock and helped Nelson discover the Purple Crown. You pushed aside a tree root blocking the road and discovered a rare herb. Now you even caught a prey.
You just got two pieces of priceless excrement, you are so lucky!"
Chapter completed!