Link, who was walking ahead to explore the road, had to stay alert at all times. Hunting could only be done when the team took a break. Everyone was a little surprised that they saw almost no large herbivores along the way.
Edith speculated that they must have been hunted down by the murderer who attacked the farm, or were forced to move elsewhere due to threats to survival. After there was no food in the wild, the murderer turned to steal the grazing livestock.
Everyone thinks this speculation is reasonable. It seems that the murderer they are looking for is probably not a living thing, but probably lives in groups. Only animals that live in groups need more food.
During the afternoon break, Link took the long-range attacker Qiu Qi to the forest to hunt a few hares and pheasants, and finally managed to provide the mercenary group with fresh meat for dinner.
Seeing that the sun was about to set in the mountains, the mercenary group found a campsite near the valley. The chef lit a fire to cook. The rest of the team first built a defensive fence and alarm device around the camp, and then set up their own tents. The members of the mercenary group had eaten rough food.
After a dinner of wheat bread and barbecue, everyone went into their tents to rest.
Nathan arranged for Steven and Qiu Qi to be on duty together for the first half of the night. They were responsible for two directions of the camp. Qiu Qi was a thin man in his 30s. He was a hunter before becoming a mercenary. He didn't talk much.
After determining the direction they were responsible for, he walked to the other end of the camp, climbed up a big tree, and sat among the branches.
Steven sat under a tree. He let go of his perception and then entered a state of silence. At this time, he had entered the cultivation stage of the sixth blessing of the scroll. The flame ignited in the chest of the soul body. Steven felt the same as in the body.
There are some differences when it comes to the head: when the flame burns in the chest, there will be a little warm feeling. This warmth makes him feel very comfortable, not only the body is comfortable, but also the soul body.
At this time, he could not distinguish the runes that made up the flames. Steven was looking forward to what kind of runes the flames burning on his chest would be. Whether they were the same runes as when they were on his head. He speculated that it was probably not the same runes when they were on his head.
those runes.
In the second half of the night, the great swordsman Teres replaced Steven. He went into the tent to sleep. When mercenaries went on missions, they always slept in tents in the wilderness with their clothes on. They didn't even take off their boots. The sword was always
Keep it within easy reach.
After a silent night, the team set out early the next morning. After traveling along the river valley for a while, they then bypassed a mountain peak. They went up the mountainside from the river valley. After turning around the mountain, they reached the search destination marked on Tim's map.
After having a simple lunch on the grass on the mountainside at noon, Nathan took out the map and Tim's diagram, checked the direction with the compass, and announced that the team was about to reach the destination. They would go around the mountainside and back to the forest area.
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The team then headed towards the back of the mountain, led by Nathan and Link, and after traveling a few kilometers, they came to the outside of a forest. Nathan stopped behind several huge rocks more than 200 meters away from the forest.
The grassland was set up as a frontline camp, and everyone dismounted and began to prepare.
Edith took out a glass bottle from the package and handed it to Linton. Linton opened the seal, poured the green liquid in the bottle into his mouth, drank half of it, and then smeared the remaining liquid on himself.
The sword warrior Kemp whispered beside Steven: "This is a potion prepared by Edith to eliminate human odor! Even the beast with the sharpest nose cannot smell the person who has applied the potion!"
Steven nodded, he was very interested in this liquid! If you are hunting monsters in the wilderness, having this liquid can greatly avoid the risk of being attacked first by monsters.
When he was thinking about returning to the base after completing the mission and looking for an opportunity to exchange a few bottles of this potion with Edith, Linton was already ready to stand up and walk towards the forest.
He held the hunting bow with an arrow in one hand and bowed into the forest. The rest of the people were waiting behind the rocks a hundred meters away.
After a while, Linton walked out of the forest. He came behind the rock, squatted down and said to everyone: "I found something in the forest. There were traces left by large beasts. Judging from the details of the traces,
It is judged to be a brown bear, and there is probably a nest of several brown bears in there!"
Edith said: "But brown bears usually move alone! Are you sure there is more than one brown bear in the forest?"
"Yes! I'm sure there's more than one in there!" Link replied firmly.
Everyone looked at Nathan, who thought for a while and said: "This forest is not small! To find the brown bear's den, you must go in and search carefully, but now we are not sure how many brown bears there are, and there may be some.
Mutated brown bear! Link, you, Edith, and Qiu Qi go into the forest to search. If you are discovered by a single brown bear, lure it out of the forest and come here!"
Nathan turned to the others and said: "We will dig a pit trap near here later. The best way is to try to lure the brown bear out alone and kill it!"
He then said to Edith: "Don't scatter after you enter the forest. Come out before 5 o'clock! If you are chased by two or more, you'd better try to get rid of the pursuit!"
Edith nodded: "I know!"
She took out two more bottles of the same medicinal solution from the package and handed one to Qiu Qi. Then they both used the medicinal solution, and the three of them stood up and walked towards the forest.
The rest of the group found a place on the edge of the forest and began to dig pits. When they set out, they took a few engineer shovels with them and put them on the horse that was pulling the goods when they entered the mountain. They were ready for use at this time.
As time slowly passed, it was almost 5 pm. The pit had been dug and sharpened wooden stakes were inserted at the bottom of the pit. Everyone was camouflaging the pit. At this time, Edith took Linton and Qiu Qi.
Out of the forest.
This time, no brown bear was found during the search, but the three of them also found more traces.
The team retreated to the other side of the mountain, which is two kilometers away from the forest. They will be stationed here tonight. Several long-range attackers went to hunt in the valley. The rest began to set up camp and build defensive fences and alarm devices. After completing this
It gets dark after work.
The hunting trio returned to the camp carrying several hares and guinea pigs, and the chef started to light a fire to cook.
The night passed, and the next day the cook, the coachman and the horses were left in the camp, and the remaining combatants returned to the frontline camp behind the rock yesterday.
After some preparations, the three people who applied the liquid medicine continued into the forest to search, while the remaining four people could only sit behind the rocks and wait patiently.
A few hours passed, and it was almost noon, when Steven faintly heard the roar of a beast from deep in the forest!
He immediately signaled to Nathan and the rest of the group, who immediately came to the pit at the edge of the forest and prepared for battle.
The roaring sound gradually became clearer. At first glance, it sounded like it was coming from a brown bear! But Steven's keen hearing discerned that the sound was not coming from just one brown bear, but from two!