After dinner, Selena was busy preparing bath water.
Surdak came down from the battlefield on the northern city wall, with a smell of blood and sourness all over his body. His leather armor was hung on the wooden frame at the door, and he only wore a shirt that was wet and then wet again.
and bloomers, sitting on the sofa in the living room, looking at a large wooden box that Nika carried over.
It contains her whole day's harvest, and the hardwood arrow shafts are neatly packed in the box.
"A very nice hardwood arrow shaft!" Surdak praised.
A smile appeared on Nika's shy little face, and she whispered timidly: "I guess there will be more tomorrow."
Suldak picked up an arrow shaft, which seemed to be very finely sharpened, and said: "Those aboriginal children usually spend the whole day doing nothing in the town. Now it is a good thing to arrange something for them to do."
Selena walked out of the bathroom, holding a pile of clean shirts and urging Suldak: "The hot water is ready, go take a shower."
Surdak has been on the battlefield for almost the past two days, and his body is filled with a bad smell.
The ghost-striped red ants occupied Duodan Canyon and almost slaughtered all the monsters in the canyon. Now they are overwhelmingly rushing towards Duodan Town, but they are blocked by the north city wall. Now the city defense guards are divided into three shifts to take turns guarding the north city wall.
, there are currently five captains in the garrison camp, and Surdak requires that at least two captains must be on guard at the top of the city at any time to deal with emergencies on the city wall.
Those ghost-striped soldier ants below the city wall haven't had time to deal with them, and the corpses are piled up under the city wall. This kind of weather won't last long.
The master leatherworker at the leatherworking shop in Dodan Town seems not to understand the hard skin of these ghost-marked soldier ants. He thinks that this hard-to-handle hard skin has little value.
But Surdak felt that since almost every head of these ghost-patterned soldier ants has a magic core, it must reach at least the level of a second-level monster.
He hadn't even had time to dissect a ghost-striped soldier ant.
Selena wore a close-fitting nightgown and placed her clothes next to the bathtub.
Surdak took off his clothes in a few seconds, jumped into the bathtub, and let the warm water wrap around his body. The pores all over his body opened, and waves of tiredness came over him.
Although the 'Blessed Body' could quickly restore physical strength, Surdak felt a little mentally exhausted.
Lying in the bathtub and falling asleep, the soft whisper of 'Tasamat... Tasamat... Tasamat...' sounded in my ears again.
'Bring those sacrifices to me and I will give you great power.'
Surdak felt his heart beating faster and faster, the blood all over his body began to boil, and the heart almost broke out of his chest. The sacred aura in his body surged out, forming a series of magnificent lines on the surface of his skin.
Runes of light.
The keel of his throat also became extremely hot, as if his throat wanted to let out some kind of low roar...
The whispering in my ears slowly disappeared.
Surdak was lying in the bathtub, completely awake from his half-asleep state, and he sat up from the bathtub.
At this time, Selina just walked in from outside with a ball of loofah pulp, half-kneeling next to the bathtub, scooping a spoonful of warm water with a wooden spoon and pouring it on Suldak's back, and gently wiped his back.
She didn't seem to notice anything strange about Surdak just now, and said softly to Surdak:
"By the way, several businessmen asked me about the ghost-striped soldier ants today. It is said that if the acid in the stomach pouch is not disposed of as soon as possible, the ghost-striped soldier ants will be corrupted by the acid in their bodies soon after death.
"
"Those businessmen can't afford it early because they are unprofitable. They must be worried that we know something." Surdak poured water to wash his face and saw that all the light runes on the surface of his body had disappeared completely, but inside his body,
The sacred aura is still surging.
Surdak turned to Selina and asked: "Has any businessman offered to buy the hard carapace of soldier ants?"
"Not at all!" Selina thought for a moment before saying, and then asked: "Do you want to deal with those hard shells?"
Surdak shook his head and said:
"Let's wait. That thing should have some value, but we don't know yet. Even if those hard shells can be used to make leather armor, they are too hard and would be very unfriendly to leatherworkers."
"I know." Selena whispered.
She rolled up her sleeves, revealing a white lotus root-like arm, and rubbed Suldak's back.
Although there is no secret about Surdak's body to her, every time she sees the shocking burn scars on his body, it reminds her of the fire... and she doesn't know why he is there.
Those who survived the convention had almost no intact skin on their bodies.
Suldak never mentioned the fire, and Selena never asked. She hoped that one day he could untie the knot in his heart and tell her the story. After all, it had been so long.
.
Selina put away the messy thoughts in her heart and said:
"Other mercenary groups in the town approached me. They hope to participate in the guard battle."
Surdak leaned back to make himself more comfortable and said to Selena:
"Now that the situation on the north wall has stabilized, we don't know what will happen next. We won't need them for the time being."
"At the beginning, I wanted to hide outside the town. But now I see that the people who fought bloody battles on the city are getting their share of the benefits, so I want to come over and share the benefits... You can't just take the benefits here!"
"I plan to put them into reserve first. In short, I don't know how long this beast wave will last. It is estimated that there are still many battles to be fought. What we have to do now is to maximize the benefits as much as possible."
Selena added: "How should I deal with the business group?"
Surdak rubbed his forehead in distress and said: "Those merchants are still not very honest. Now that the warcraft leather trade has been opened, I just want to exchange all the supplies they have stored in their hands. Now they are consumed on the north city wall."
The biggest one is arrows, followed by kerosene. These two supplies are crucial to us, the more we have in reserve, the better.”
"I'll keep an eye on these deals," Selina said.
"They didn't tell me the value of the ghost-patterned soldier ant's hard carapace. I think that thing should be useful. I'll go find the aboriginal people in the town tomorrow to find out." Suldak said.
"Okay! Hey... let go, Xigna and Nika are still outside..."
The water in the bathtub suddenly overflowed and splashed onto the marble floor of the bathroom with a splash.
Water flowed all over the ground.
…
Signa was sitting barefoot on the single bed in the room. Through the glass window, she could see the towering Thorny Mountains under the moonlight.
She heard the sound of splashing water coming from downstairs, and then Selina screamed for half a sound, then stopped abruptly.
Just like one boot dropped on the floor, it makes people want to drop the second boot too, and then sleep peacefully.
Xigna really couldn't sleep.
She didn't pay attention to what Celia Cooper was doing. She stepped on the floor with her bare feet, took the magic notes on the desk to the bed, and opened the next page directly.
Celia Cooper seemed to be writing some kind of notes inside. When she saw the notebook being opened, she looked up.
"Celia, do you think they should restrain themselves?" Xigna complained to Celia Cooper.
Celia Cooper stared at Signa angrily. She had no way to deal with this daughter of darkness. She could only say: "You think so... aren't you used to it?"
…
Xigna is a timid, lonely and introverted little girl who doesn't want to contact the outside world. For a long time, she liked to hide under Selina's skirt. She could only hug Selina's thigh.
It will make her feel safe.
Selena is the apostle of the Dark Goddess. After Cygna was born, her body had a very high affinity to the dark elements. In fact, it can also be called a dark constitution.
It was this unique constitution that made her frail and sick since she was a child, and she also suffered a lot.
But a girl with such a dark physique and a pure heart is the perfect carrier.
The Dark Goddess often has a trace of her spiritual thoughts descend on her, although the time is very short. Sometimes it is to see if her apostle insists on bringing her will to this world, and sometimes it is just to take a breather.
It happened that that night in Wall Village, Surdak brought the magic notebook over, but forgot to put it away.
At that time, Signa still lived in that dilapidated mud house. The room was very small, and Signa slept on the upper bunk.
After Surdak fell asleep with Selina in his arms, Signa woke up with a trace of the Dark Goddess's spiritual thoughts. She saw the magic notebook on the table at a glance. With the Dark Goddess's perception, she knew this notebook
Magic notes are very special.
He also used the power of the Dark Goddess to set up a cage on this magic notebook.
The space inside the magic notebook was reinforced, and Celia Cooper was trapped inside.
Perhaps her original intention was to trap her in the magic note.
…
"I'm just a crippled soul without five senses. When I become a black magician, I won't have those desires anymore. I think we can talk about something else!" Celia Cooper put down the goose feather condensed with her thoughts.
Pen, asked: "What do you think?"
"How are you living here?" Xigna leaned close to the magic notebook and asked in a low voice.
"How about what?" Celia Cooper asked with a wary look.
After she said those words, she immediately regretted them.
She couldn't see through Signa.
Signa didn't intend to pursue it further. After all, Celia Cooper was still of some use to her. She could occasionally say a few words to herself, and then said: "I mean... who is in the magic notebook?"
Create a sub-dimensional space?"
"It's Cyrus Hickok, an old friend of mine. He is proficient in this type of space magic." Celia Cooper answered casually.
"I suddenly had an idea..." Xigna's eyes became bright at this moment, but she only spoke half of her words.
Her tone was a bit unlike her usual tone.
Celia Cooper trembled for no reason.
"Forget it, it should be troublesome to do it now, so let's do this for now!"
After saying that, Xigna closed the magic note casually, threw the note on the bedside table, got into the quilt, closed her eyes and fell asleep...
The moonlight outside the window shines in again and shines on the floor in the room.
…
Selena felt someone move her arm, and with sleepy eyes, she saw Suldak sitting up from the bed and putting on his linen shirt lightly.
She glanced towards the window and found that it was still dark. She lazily pulled the sheets and asked casually:
"Why are you leaving so early?"
When Suldak saw that he had woken up Selena, he apologetically leaned over, kissed her on the cheek, and said softly:
"There are still a lot of ghost-striped soldier ants waiting to be dealt with at the military camp. It is expected that there will be new harvests at the north city wall this night. These resources cannot be wasted."
Selena dragged her tired body, stretched out her arms from the bed, picked up the nightgown thrown on the floor, and said:
"I'll prepare breakfast for you."
But Suldak hugged her, covered her with a blanket, and then said:
"No need to go to so much trouble. Just have something to eat in the canteen of the military camp later. You can sleep a little longer..."
After saying that, he opened the door and walked out of the bedroom, found the set of leather armors that had been wiped clean on the wooden shelf in the living room corridor, and quickly put them on.
He mounted his war horse and hurriedly left the small building.
…
Surdak was thinking about how to deal with those ghostly patterned soldier ants along the way.
When he returned to the military camp, he discovered that the ogre Gulitum was grilling a ghost-striped red ant on a bonfire in the morning light.
Seeing that he had cut open the abdomen of the ghost-striped red ant, and cleaned out the acid inside, the entire ghost-striped red ant was pierced on a log. At this time, the ogre had already cut several thick and large limbs of the ghost-striped soldier ant.
.Eat clean legs.
The hard carapace cracked under the charcoal fire, and the meat inside was completely bluish-white.
The abdomen is filled with some hot paste, which looks like a giant coconut crab...
"Suldak, would you like some? It tastes pretty good."
The ogre warmly invited Surdak to share this big thing with him.
(In fact, he also invited Andrew just now, but the Nanai natives didn’t seem to like the taste very much, and they vomited after just a few bites.)
Suldak felt that he did not have such a strong stomach, so he quickly refused: "Forget it, I can't enjoy this kind of delicious food."
Gulitem didn't care, and immediately pulled off the last giant leg, which was nearly two meters long and covered with barbs, and knocked it with a bone-crushing stick. The hard shells that had become brittle under the charcoal fire immediately
It cracks open, revealing the steaming tender meat inside.
When Suldak saw Andrew walking out of the canteen, followed by several squadron leaders, he asked: "Why so early?"
Andrew did not say that he was forcibly woken up by the ogre and had a barbecue together.
"I can't sleep a little, so I want to go to the North City Wall to take a look..."
Andrew said in a muffled voice.
Suldak said to Andrew: "Wait for me!"
As he spoke, he went to the canteen of the garrison camp, took a toasted wheat cake, walked out, and rushed to the north city wall with Andrew.
In the early morning light, I could see someone standing at the top of the city fighting with two ghost-patterned soldier ants from a distance. Soon the battle subsided and the huge ghost-patterned soldier ants were pushed down the inner city wall.