It has been three days since I came out. When I looked up, I saw the vast expanse of white.
Claude sighed, stamped his feet, and made a small hole in the frozen snow. After thinking about it, he decided to go back. He shouldn't have come to the Kermida Swamp. I originally thought it would be okay to come at this time.
I easily hunted a few Niros crocodiles, but I forgot that in such a cold weather, even the Niros crocodiles could not come out of the swamp.
You should check out the habits of Niros crocodiles. I wonder if they also hide and hibernate. I went to the Kermida Swamp so rashly to hunt down a few crocodiles and sell them for money. In the end, my trip was in vain. I just wandered here.
For three days, not even a ghost was found.
He patted the black horse Jamie on his back. The black horse Jamie snorted, lowered his long horse face and rubbed it against the leather hat Claude was wearing. This was his way of showing intimacy.
"Okay, let's go back. It's hard work for you to travel such a long distance this time." Claude climbed onto the sled, pulled the reins and turned the horse's head. He shouted at the black horse Jamie and pulled the sled towards Bailu Town.
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The wind is biting, but luckily it doesn't snow. The weather is sunny, and occasionally the sun shines on the earth. It's already mid-February, and in about ten days the snow all over the mountains and fields will thaw, and then the mountains and fields will be covered with mud and snow.
The formed streams flow everywhere. But that also means the arrival of spring, the revival of thousands of trees, and the mountains, forests and fields will soon be covered in green.
But it’s not easy to hunt in spring. After a winter, the fur of those animals is withered and dull, and they are so skinny from hunger that they cannot be sold for a high price even if they are hunted. Therefore, spring is not the season for hunting. It is best to hunt from the end of autumn to before winter.
During this time, all carnivores and herbivores, whether they were carnivores or herbivores, had eaten fat to survive the winter, and their coats were shiny. The prey caught at that time could be sold at a good price.
Claude felt a little miserable. As a time-traveler, he had to rely on hunting to earn money to buy magic materials for alchemy magic experiments. Is there any time-traveler more embarrassed than himself? It's a pity that there is no other way. Who asked him to time-travel to this place?
In this different world, there is still a society that is very taboo on magic, so that if you want to learn magic, you have to do it secretly...
Claude didn't want to mention the bad things at home anymore. When his father returned home, he had the final say. Although he had lost his official position, Mr. Morsant was still very busy, and I don't know what he was busy with. But once in a while, Claude came home.
I feel that my father has changed a lot. At home, Mr. Morsant rarely spoke, he just kept smoking his pipe and hiding his face behind the smoke.
My mother is in good health and is still responsible for the kitchen and housework. She also takes care of her younger brother Booker and her little snow dog. My sister Anna has already started the first grade of junior high school and goes to school happily every day. As for Albert, he is still the same.
As usual, he went home to sleep and eat every day, treating his home as a hotel. It is said that he returned to Sir Fox as his personal secretary, and after returning home, he used sweet words to please his parents.
Claude resumed his daily work at the forest farm and went home every few days to visit. Several times he wanted to discuss with his father how much money he had spent on his family after his arrest, but he always said
I can't open my mouth if I don't say it. Claude feels that if he asks his father for a debt, he will become the same scum like Albert. It's all for his family, so just spend the money.
, at worst, I will find a way to earn some more...
It's just that Claude didn't expect that in the next half month or so, he wouldn't hunt any valuable prey at all. The biggest prey was just a lame old mountain wolf. There were many scars on the fur and it couldn't be sold at a high price. So he threw it away.
Only one silver thaler was sold in the open-air market.
Verikro had come to the forest farm once, when he accompanied his father, Uncle Kuberik, from hunting in Bailuzhou, and brought an antelope hind leg to Claude. After eating and drinking in the cabin, Verikro
Luo listened to Claude talking about his hunting experience, and told Claude with a smile that if you want to hunt good prey at this time, you can only go to the deep mountains and old forests to encounter wild beasts and deer. Just in the mountains and forests around Bailu Town
If you wander around, unless you are very lucky, you won't be able to find any big prey.
However, Verricro warned Claude very seriously not to wander into the depths of the mountains alone. In fact, the threat from wild beasts to humans is not great. The biggest fear is that they are not familiar with the terrain and surrounding environment, and get lost.
In those mountains and forests, and it is now covered with heavy snow, it is impossible to accurately identify the situation under the snow. If you accidentally fall into those snow nests and cannot climb out, the sky will not work and the earth will not work, and a person can only be frozen.
Die inside.
Vericro's words made sense, and Claude gave up the idea of going hunting deep in the mountains. He really didn't care about wild beasts, but he would be in trouble if he accidentally fell into a ravine or snow nest. Claude
I don't want to take the risk either.
But remembering that Verricro said that he and his father drove a sled directly across the Quemida Swamp to Egret Island, Claude thought of Niros Crocodile. At this time, the entire Quemida Swamp was covered with heavy snow and was frozen to the bone.
The sled can run freely on it. You can go to the deepest part of the swamp and find those Niros crocodiles.
But Claude's dream was in vain. He let Jamie, the black horse, pull the sled around the Quemida Swamp for three days without seeing any trace of a Niros crocodile. Only then did he realize that crocodiles also hibernate.
I had no choice but to leave empty-handed with my head down.
The next day, he returned to the forest farm in the evening. He went back to the cabin to boil water and took a hot bath. He also made some hot things to fill his stomach. Claude came to the small study and stared at the alchemy magic talisman array on the square table.
After watching it for a long time, I felt very helpless.
When I didn't have an alchemical magic talisman, I wanted to get one. After I finally got one, I couldn't afford the expensive magic materials due to lack of money. This alchemical magic talisman could only be used as a decoration. I haven't done alchemical magic in a long time.
Tested it? Claude thought about it, it must have been more than a month. If his father hadn't had an accident and he had spent all the money around him, then he might have already completed the test of the trial production of the flintlock gun.
There are still eleven Sullivan gold coins. It seems that he has to exchange one to buy magic materials for testing. But to exchange the Sullivan gold coins, he has to go to the underground purchase point in Julian. Claude is not willing to go and deal with it.
When dealing with this fat old man, I always felt unsafe in my heart. Perhaps it was because he was tricked so badly by this fat old man when I went to the underground purchasing point for the first time. Claude subconsciously put Julian on the list of profiteers.
List, unwilling to make any transactions with him again.
Otherwise, we should still have the idea of fighting the Black Snake Club. After so many days, the venue of the Black Snake Club should have reopened. Claude seriously thought about this idea, and now the military control in Bailu Town is still continuing.
The county garrison battalion is still guarding the town. Although the Bailu Town garrison brigade has been established, it is basically still conducting formation and basic training in the military camp. It is likely that the county garrison battalion will have to wait until they have a certain combat capability before the county garrison battalion can be withdrawn.
Walk.
Then the current boss of the Black Snake Society, Bedelir Bronch, should also be in the military camp with his fourth squadron, which is mostly composed of members of the Black Snake Society. There are more than fifty people in a squadron, which is basically the Black Snake Society.
The backbone of the Black Snake Association. This is when the Black Snake Association's defensive strength is at its weakest. Even if it encounters the same situation as last time, I can give them a severe lesson and loot the casino generously before leaving.
go.
This matter has come to an end, and Claude is excited. Now he only needs to carefully arrange the escape route into and out of the town without being noticed, and choose a good time to enter the town. Claude decided to set off directly from the forest farm, because the white deer
A wall of ice and snow was built around the streets leading in and out of the town, leaving only the gate to be guarded by soldiers from the garrison camp. If I had not entered the town, there would be no suspicion on my head in the future, and the soldiers guarding the gate at the street would testify for me.
, to prove that he was in the forest farm and not in the town...
The weather is very good at night. Isn't there a saying that it's a dark night to kill people and a high wind to set off fires? Tonight is a very suitable time to go for a robbery. There is no light from the stars and the moon, and the sky is dark, making it difficult to see the distant scenery clearly. Claude once again
Putting on a gray-black burqa, he quietly left the cabin and walked down the mountain path to the forest farm.
There is still a lot of snow on the ground, but it is frozen hard and will not leave any footprints when you step on it. You just need to be careful when walking to avoid slipping. After going down the mountain road, there is a street gate not far away.
, there was a bonfire lit there, but I didn’t see a soldier standing guard at the gate. I thought he might have hid inside and warmed himself by the bonfire.
Claude shook his head. It's very simple common sense. You can't see the movement in the dark when you are in the light. You can't see the scene outside the town when you hide by the campfire. There is no use in standing guard like this, really.
If an enemy comes to attack, I'm afraid they won't be discovered until they are right in front of them, but by then it will be too late...
However, Claude was very careful to use the cover of the miscellaneous trees beside the road to leave the sight of the street gate and walk along the edge of the town's houses towards the lake embankment. There is a steep slope there, about six or seven meters tall.
Meter height, Claude can use the Feather Fall technique to quietly fall to the lake embankment.
After walking for about half an hour, Claude has reached the end of the steep slope, and there is the lake embankment below. The main reason why he chose to enter the town is that it is relatively desolate and there are few houses. There are still people fishing here when the weather is hot, but this will no longer be the case.
It was nearly ten o'clock, the weather was cold, and no one wanted to come here to blow the wind.
Claude took out a coil of fishing line from his backpack and tied one end to a miscellaneous tree on the steep slope. The other end of the fishing line was tied with a lead pendant. Claude gently threw it to the bottom of the steep slope. He came down.
You can use the feather falling technique, but when you go back up a steep slope, you need to borrow strength. It is best to use a climbing rope, but a climbing rope hanging from a steep slope is more conspicuous and easy to be discovered. Fishing line is more
Once it's hidden, as long as Claude casts a Feather Fall spell on his body, he can easily climb up without his own weight relying on the fishing line.
After falling quietly from the steep slope, Claude once again chose to approach the public dock from under the lake embankment, passing through the grove and lakeside alley that he was familiar with. This time he planned to go through the secret road from the last casino.
There is a way in, but I don’t know if the secret passage is still there.
About half an hour later, Claude was already standing outside the shabby shack at the exit of the secret passage. He listened carefully, but there was no sound at all in the shabby shack. He walked around to the front door and found a crude
A large iron lock hangs on the dilapidated wooden door.
Turning around and looking at the alley, there was no movement. Claude cast a magic hand, and then cast a precise control, inserting the needle-shaped magic hand into the keyhole of the iron suspense, and then turned it into a key.
After adjusting the shape slightly and twisting slightly, the iron lock opened with a "pop" sound.
After sneaking into the broken shack and closing the wooden door, Claude found the exit of the secret passage based on his impression. However, this exit was also closed with a heavy wooden door, and it was locked from the inside. After pushing it a few times, it seemed that there was something inside.
It's closed with a latch.
It doesn't matter, a magic flying arrow made a hole as big as a finger in the thick wooden door. Then the magic hand reached in through the small hole and easily removed the latch inside, and the door opened.
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Claude entered the secret passage, closed the door and bolted it again, then cast a Pearl of Light, held it in his hand, and walked along the secret passage. After a while, he arrived at the small room under the bed.
Lord put out the Pearl of Light in his hand, climbed up the wooden ladder against the wall, and pricked up his ears again, listening to what was going on above...