Several mercenaries were knocked unconscious and hung one by one on the tree.
It's not that Li Mengnan has any evil habits, it's just that there are a lot of wild wolves around here. If you just throw people on the road so casually, there will basically be only bones left after a night.
Li Mengnan actually has no psychological burden to do things like murder and silence. However, the mercenary union seems to be a loose organization, and there may not be any protection measures for internal members. It is not a big deal to grab some property. Once there are too many people killed,
When the mercenaries are all in danger, there is no guarantee that the indigenous forces of this world will not unite to strangle them, then the matter will be very serious.
In fact, there are already wanted bounties for several of them in the mercenary union, but they have never shown their faces during robberies, and they only robbed money and did not kill people. The amount of the bounty is not high, so it has not attracted much attention yet.
"Guo Yimin, what's going on with your chest?"
After tying the rope firmly to the tree trunk, Li Mengnan noticed that Guo Yimin was actually injured. There were two three-inch-long openings on his breastplate, forming an angle similar to "＞", with red and white flesh underneath.
It rolled outwards, constantly oozing dark red blood.
"It doesn't matter, it's just a superficial wound... There was a mercenary who didn't know what kind of magic he used just now. I didn't even see how he took action, so I just received two blows on the chest."
Guo Yimin wanted to show off as a tough guy who didn't care, but the pain from the wound made him grin.
"You should be lucky that he was injured before and couldn't raise his hand high, otherwise if he aimed it at your head..."
Huang Hao's gloomy words made Guo Yimin shudder immediately. He shuddered subconsciously and said several times: "Haozi, don't be so talkative. It scared my heart..."
"This mercenary is not simple..." Li Mengnan said solemnly.
In order to maintain the flexibility of movement, Li Mengnan and others wore lightweight cowhide leather armor. This ordinary leather armor, which is extremely popular in this world, can only defend against long-distance bows and arrows, and slightly reduces the power of small melee weapons such as swords.
The slashing damage and defense can only be said to be better than nothing.
But Guo Yimin is different. Although he can't play with the double-edged battle ax, he can only lower the standard and replace it with two ten-pound small axes, but the rest of the standards are based on the heavy armor berserker, and he has a set of
Standard Gothic full-body plate armor, armed like a high-pressure boiler. Unless it is some heavy blunt weapon, ordinary attacks cannot break through his turtle shell-like defense.
Even with the unscientific brute strength of PADIO, a fake girl, it would be impossible to achieve this with an ordinary one-handed long sword.
PADIO reached out and touched the edge of Guo Yimin's rolled armor, and said thoughtfully: "It should be a fighting skill."
"What are fighting skills?"
Everyone looked at each other in shock. Not to mention Guo Yimin and others, even Li Mengnan heard this word for the first time.
"The fighting skills are similar to the "flying over the wall" and "flying on the grass" used by you and me. It is a skill that only exists in legends but has been embodied in the world of Gaia's consciousness. For Westerners,
It should be similar to the martial arts that we Chinese people know, but the system is different... Fatty, you can search in that person's bag, and you may be able to find the original source of this fighting skill."
"Brother, this is not called fat, this is called strong. What do you know about your reed-stick-like figure?"
Although Guo Yimin was dissatisfied with PADIO calling him "fatty", he was quite sincere and went to look for things as he said. Soon he found a yellowed sheepskin scroll that looked quite ancient.
There were several human figures drawn on the parchment, which should be some kind of sword skills, but the annotations next to them were not understandable to them.
The state of pure consciousness can only allow the dreamwalker to have a barrier-free conversation, but cannot do anything about the words written on the paper.
Li Mengnan folded his arms and pinched his chin, and said to himself: "If I remember correctly, according to the research institute's records, any skills and techniques obtained in the legendary land belong to the ranks of legendary items, as long as they match the corresponding level of Chaos
By fusing the crystals, you can bring out the legendary land or directly learn it yourself..."
Guo Yimin couldn't help but beam with joy when he heard this. He quickly took the parchment into his arms and said shamelessly: "Brother Li, I almost lost my life. Just give me this first legendary item, just to comfort me a little."
Wounded glass heart..."
Li Mengnan himself has the alien "Hollow Magician" as his trump card, and PADIO, a fake girl, is also wild and powerful in combat. What they lack now is weapons and equipment, and there is really not much need for skills.
On the contrary, the four of them, Guo Yimin, were incompetent and could only fight behind him and PADIO. They really needed to increase their strength.
Seeing that no one else in the team raised any objections, Li Mengnan nodded, smiled and slapped Guo Yimin: "You're taking advantage of me!"
"Thank you, Brother Li. I will be the MT of our team from now on. If you ask me to get the top, even if there is a main battle tank in front of me, I will top it!" Guo Yimin said happily.
"Then you have to eat more than 60 tons first." Li Mengnan said with a smile.
Seeing that Guo Yimin was the first to get the legendary item, which was a very practical skill, Huang Hao, Laoman and others looked envious. However, after all, Guo Yimin was a wounded person now, and they were too embarrassed to fight with a sick person.
Guo Yimin took off his damaged breastplate, leaving his breasts exposed, and let Dongzi tie up the wound with white cloth. He couldn't put it down and played with the parchment roll rolled into a tube. He said with regret: "It's a pity that until now
We haven't obtained the Chaos Crystal yet, otherwise the combat skills on this parchment can be used directly to form combat effectiveness."
"I don't recommend you do this... Of course, this is just a personal opinion." PADIO said suddenly.
"Why?"
Li Mengnan believed that PADIO's words were not without purpose. In fact, he had long discovered that this transvestite seemed to know more about the legendary place than all of them.
"Because we Chinese people are too incompatible with fighting skills."
"Fitness?" Li Mengnan heard another term from PADIO that he had never heard before.
It is rare that PADIO did not turn on the poisonous tongue mode this time. After all, this information is not something that newcomers to Dreamwalker who are performing the mission for the first time can know, because this is not the information that exists on the main computer of the institute, but the experience summed up by senior people.
law.
He also learned this information in advance because of some special reasons.
"What is the basis for the existence of legendary objects?" PADIO suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question.
"Is it a legendary place?" Guo Yimin interjected tentatively.
Li Mengnan pondered for a moment and said: "It should be a legend, right? Without corresponding legends, there would be no legendary places in the world of Gaia."
PADIO glanced at Li Mengnan with approval, nodded and said: "Sure enough, it saves effort to talk to smart people... To be precise, the basis for the existence of the legendary land is awareness."
"understanding?"
"Almost everyone among us Chinese can speak eloquently about the Three Kingdoms. When talking about Guan Yu, the image of a red-faced, long-bearded man with unparalleled loyalty and righteousness immediately comes to mind. When talking about Kong Ming, he is like a feather fan and silk scarf, and when he talks and laughs, he flies oars and flies away ashes.
Annihilation.
But if we talk about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, or the legendary mage Merlin, I'm afraid not many people understand them.
That’s the difference in awareness.”
"I can understand this, but does this have anything to do with the degree of fit you mentioned?" Li Mengnan seemed to have vaguely realized something.
"Each of us Chinese people have a martial arts dream in their hearts. I believe that in the distant past, there was a group of people who could move mountains and seas, fly into the sky and escape from the earth by relying on their own training.
For people in the West, or to be precise, those in the European cultural circle, their history should be a world of swords and magic. In order to save the princess kidnapped by the evil dragon, the heroic knight embarked on a massacre without hesitation.
The dragon's journey finally brought the beauty home, becoming a legend among the bards..."
"That's right. Why does it feel so inconsistent when he says, 'Hold the beauty back'?" Guo Yimin tilted his head and whispered in Li Mengnan's ear.
“The world of consciousness has always followed this principle—belief is existence.
The same goes for legendary objects. The deeper the belief, the more the true power of the legendary object can be brought out.
Just like when the movie "Harry Potter" was first released in China, many people complained about Harry's wand and could not understand why magic had to be done with a stick. Without the wand, the magician
It became a complete waste.
No one in the foreign audience complained about this, because in their cultural perception, magicians are like this.
When Ang Lee's movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was released abroad, many foreigners also wondered how people could stand on branches or even on water without using anything, and what kind of force could enable them to escape gravity.
?This is completely unscientific.
But domestic audiences will not struggle with this issue, because for them, qinggong is part of the Chinese martial arts culture, and even if it is still unable to prove its existence from a scientific perspective, they are willing to believe it."
Li Mengnan understood that the degree to which people living in a certain cultural circle understand the unique culture of this cultural circle is the so-called degree of fit.
"In other words, only Dream Walkers from the European cultural circle can exert 100% of this fighting skill, but for people like us from the Chinese cultural circle, the power will be greatly reduced?"
PADIO nodded and said: "Yes, for the same reason, only our Chinese dreamwalkers can exert 100% of the various martial arts secrets. Even if dreamwalkers from other countries in the Asian cultural circle obtain them, the effect is not very satisfactory. For
Dreamwalkers from non-Asian cultural circles are basically like waste paper... At this point, we Chinese Dreamwalkers still have an advantage."
Think about it, Chinese language can be said to be the most difficult language in the world to master. Even if a native Chinese person is given a classical Chinese article, he will probably be blinded in nine cases out of ten. You can't expect a foreigner to understand what "heaven" means.
"The Tao does more harm than good and makes up for the deficiencies." Do you expect him to know what "the Tao can be Tao but is not Tao"?
Of course, even if the Chinese Dream Walker has a comprehensive advantage in its compatibility with different legendary objects, in fact no one would choose the skill system of non-Chinese cultural circle legendary objects. After all, no matter how little it is weakened, it is still weakened, and it is not as good as anything.
It is safer to choose skills that you are familiar with.
However, there is not so much said about some general legendary items that do not require cultural recognition, such as ordinary cold weapons.
"Guo Yimin, please put away this fighting skill first, and then go back and find other dreamwalkers to exchange for equipment you can use."
Since no one in the team can exert the true power of this fighting skill, Li Mengnan does not intend to let Guo Yimin waste this rare legendary item. After all, skill-based legendary items are not like equipment-based legendary items. Once learned,
It can never be recovered.
…
Except for the parchment that recorded unknown fighting skills, nothing of value was found on these mercenaries.
Of course, the worthlessness mentioned here is relative to the combat skills. In fact, these five mercenaries are quite wealthy, with thirty or forty gold coins on their bodies alone, not to mention the gold coins stolen from them.
Various equipment.
In this small town with poor products, iron tools and horses are more useful hard currencies than gold coins.
"Brother Li, what do you think this is?"
In the hotel room, Huang Hao handed a piece of paper with many handwritings on it to Li Mengnan, which he found in a mercenary's luggage.
The material of the paper was very poor, which was a common problem with paper in this era, but the words on it caught Li Mengnan's attention.
It's not that Li Mengnan knew these words. What really concerned him was that these words were not handwritten, but printed through engraving.
You must know that in this historical era, even in China where printing was invented, printing text was an act that wasted time and money. Only when it was necessary to publish books with huge sales such as "The Analects of Confucius" would engraving printing be used, and ordinary people
If you want to obtain books, you basically still need to copy them.
Since coming to this legendary world, Li Mengnan has never seen printed words. This piece of paper is definitely the first one.
Judging from the layout, this piece of paper was obviously not a page in a book, but more like the wanted notice posted by the mercenary union that they had seen on the bulletin board, except that the portrait of the wanted criminal was missing.
"Guo Yimin, go outside and find someone who can read."
Li Mengnan began to wonder what was written on this piece of paper.
There were not many literate people in this small town. Fortunately, the owner of the hotel where they lived happened to be one of them. With the promise of a tip of ten coppers, he happily followed Guo Yimin to the room and was extremely enthusiastic to help these people who had traveled a long way.
Visitors from the East do text interpretation.
It turns out that this is a summons issued jointly by the Holy See and several kings, calling on all warriors in the territory to pick up the sword and join in the crusade against Dracula's army.
Of course, no one can just talk and make people work hard, and various rewards are also quite generous. Depending on how much they contribute by killing Dracula's legions, participants can redeem generous bonuses at any time, as well as top weapons and equipment in the kingdom's treasure house.
, various combat skills and rare magic spells.
The person with the highest contribution ranking can even get the right to designate and marry a certain princess.
Well, this last point can be ignored for Li Mengnan and others, but for the aborigines of this world, this crusade will undoubtedly be a great opportunity to gain both fame and fortune.
"Boss, you also know that we are outsiders and don't know what's going on here... Do you often organize such crusade here?"
The innkeeper with the red nose hesitated to speak. Li Mengnan glanced at Guo Yimin. Guo Yimin immediately understood and took out a handful of copper plates and stuffed them into the innkeeper's hand.
The hotel owner suddenly beamed, and the fat on his face almost flew up. He immediately said, "Such a crusade is said to have been around since my grandfather's generation. It is held every few years, but it has never been like this."
The commotion this year has been so big... It is said that it seems to be because the Holy See has reached some agreement with several neighboring countries, intending to completely eradicate Dracula and his monster legions at once."
"No wonder you spend so much money. This is obviously a success or failure rhythm... I just don't know if those princesses are beautiful."
The first half of Guo Yimin's sentence is quite serious, but the latter part is quite unscrupulous.
"Boring." PADIO rolled his eyes.
Li Mengnan and others naturally knew that Guo Yimin was just joking, but the hotel owner took it seriously.
After all, in his opinion, as long as he is a person, he will be tempted by such a good thing of gaining both fame and fortune. If he were a few decades younger, he might pick up the ancestral sword and fight against it. This group of people would definitely be attracted by it.
How could the mysterious oriental man who looks like a warrior be exempt from vulgarity?
Thinking of this, the hotel owner smiled and said: "Those princesses are all raised in the castle of the royal capital. Ordinary people like us have no chance to see what they look like. Moreover, appearance is something that can only be judged by each person. I don't care.
Saying beautiful can only represent myself, right?
However, there are at least fifteen or sixteen princesses in the three neighboring countries, ranging from little babies who are still sucking milk to old girls who are over thirty and unmarried. No matter how picky you are, there will always be someone you like, right? Then, right?
Didn’t the notice also say that you can specify it yourself..."
"Okay, I understand, you can go."
After giving the expulsion order to the hotel owner, Li Mengnan closed the door, turned around and slapped the summons order on the table, looked around at the people in the room, and said in a deep voice: "Since we entered this legendary world, we have never been able to win our Chinese
There is news about the other two Dreamwalker teams in the country, which is very detrimental to our mission... and this crusade against Dracula's legions launched by the indigenous forces of this world is obviously an opportunity."
PADIO also agreed with Li Mengnan's view: "Yes, the participation of aboriginal forces can greatly increase the success rate of our mission. As long as we know this news, no Dreamwalker team will give up such a rare opportunity.
We will inevitably gather at the gathering place in the summoning order, and our chances of meeting other dreamwalker teams will also increase."