Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight red light leopard
Warriors who reach the fire level must join the hunting team. This has become an unwritten rule in Fire Fox Village.
The higher the ability, the more resources they enjoy, and naturally they have to bear more responsibilities for the village. Therefore, Fire-level warriors must join the hunting team and assume the responsibility of hunting for food in peacetime and charging ahead in war.
It's just that Lin Ze is a little different. He is the hero of the competition. Thanks to him, Fire Fox Village can keep the fire source stone veins. He is also a genius who broke through to the Fire Ring level at the age of only 20. Now he is even more important to Fire Fox Village.
Faintly surpassing Lin Yingning.
In this world where the living environment is harsh and power is paramount, it is undoubtedly a very exciting and ecstatic thing for a 20-year-old Ring of Fire warrior to appear in a small village. As long as such characters can grow up smoothly, the future will be bright.
It will definitely lead the village to develop and grow rapidly.
Therefore, the senior officials of Fire Fox Village couldn't help but become cautious in their attitude towards Lin Ze. For things that were almost a rule, such as joining the hunting team, they had to ask him what he wanted before making a decision.
Hearing Lin Yingning's inquiry, Lin Ze suddenly looked thoughtful.
He didn't want to be special, but if he joined the hunting team, he would inevitably be distracted by many things and slow down his cultivation speed.
I don’t know if he saw Lin Ze’s concerns, but Lin Yingning considered it and said: “Cousin, I have discussed it with the elders. If you join the hunting team, you will directly serve as the deputy captain and be responsible for taking charge of the new team.
Fire source stone veins, this way it won’t delay your cultivation time too much.”
As soon as a soldier in the village is promoted to Ring of Fire level, he is immediately promoted to deputy captain of the hunting team. This is also one of the unwritten rules of Fire Fox Village.
As for putting Lin Ze in charge of guarding the mines, it was an arrangement made by Lin Yinning and the elders after careful consideration.
Lin Ze is the genius that Fire Fox Village has high hopes for. He should spend more energy on training and strive to improve his strength quickly. It is undoubtedly a waste to let him be as busy hunting as other members of the hunting team, but doing nothing
If they did, they would tell the truth and make the other soldiers dissatisfied, so after thinking about it, they finally decided to send Lin Ze to take charge of the fire source stone veins.
In order to prevent the attack of ferocious beasts and the trouble caused by the Fire Bear Village, Mine Lode must send a Fire Ring-level warrior to take charge. Lin Ze's strength is just right, and other people are responsible for the specific defense matters. He only needs to be in the middle to coordinate, and the affairs are easy and simple.
, it won’t delay your cultivation, and you can kill two birds with one stone.
After Lin Yingning explained the joints in detail, Lin Ze readily agreed.
A defense at the mineral vein had been established early. When the mineral vein was discovered, Huohu Village had already made preparations for mining and defense. It was only when Firebear Village intervened midway that it had to be interrupted. Now the mineral vein has returned to its original owner.
It will be much easier to restore it again.
Lin Ze went to the mining area that day.
The so-called mining area is actually a group of wooden houses surrounded by wooden fences. It is where the villagers who mine and the soldiers who are responsible for guarding live. Further inside are the mines leading to the underground. When Lin Ze arrived for inspection,
From time to time, I saw villagers carrying baskets full of fire stones coming in and out of the cave entrance.
Under the dim moonlight, the fire source stone in the basket exudes a hazy red light.
After agreeing to be responsible for guarding the mining area, Lin Ze also received a promise from Lin Yingning and the elders that from now on he would receive a monthly training subsidy of 300 Fire Source Stones.
Although he is extremely talented in cultivation and is the hope of Fire Fox Village, it is impossible for the village to invest all its resources in him. 300 Fire Origin Stones is already a large amount.
Lin Ze didn't bargain. With his current cultivation speed, 300 Fire Source Stones per month would be enough. After all, it would take time to adapt to the rapidly growing spiritual energy and to train his soul energy.
Furthermore, he didn't want to exhaust his efforts. Although occupying all the resources in Fire Fox Village could quickly increase his spiritual energy in a short period of time, it might not be a good thing in the long run.
Let Firefox Village develop and grow. Having a village behind you can save you a lot of unnecessary trouble.
After patrolling the mining area, Lin Ze told others not to disturb him easily, and then returned to his residence to practice in seclusion.
In order to save time, he simply moved his residence in the village to the mining area and decided to live here from now on, which surprised and admired Lin Yingning and the elders who knew about this.
Time passed gradually like this.
With sufficient fire source stone support, Lin Ze's cultivation progress has been rapid, but in just one month, more than one-third of the fire ring has been ignited.
This was under the premise that he had allocated part of his energy to training his soul energy. Even so, this training speed was still appalling. If the aborigines of this world knew about it, they would definitely be shocked and speechless.
As the area ignited by the fire ring increased, the fire element affinity and flame power scales also increased. In addition, the spiritual energy also increased a lot. Lin Ze felt that there were faint signs of breakthrough in the spiritual energy skills.
If you light the fire ring a little more, the spirit element should be promoted to level 4.
This made him quite happy.
Since he began to practice the fire power system, although his strength has improved in all aspects, the growth rate is not satisfactory. The increase in the spiritual energy skill and the flame power scale has greatly improved his strength, barely allowing him to stand firm at the hero level.
Intermediate level, if the Ling Yuan level can be promoted, the improvement in strength will be self-evident.
However, just when Lin Ze received his second month's training subsidy and was about to start a new round of training, the deputy manager of the mining area found him in a hurry.
Lin Ze is the general manager of the mining area, and the deputy manager is a seventh-level fire fighter named Shi Wenjie. He is fair and fat, and looks more like a businessman than a soldier. When he found Lin Ze, he looked frightened.
The sweaty face looked very funny.
"Manager Lin, something serious has happened!"
Hearing these words, Lin Ze couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, feeling a little funny for no reason, and asked: "Tell me slowly, what's wrong?"
Shi Wenjie wiped his sweat and said anxiously: "A red obsidian leopard appeared under the mine!"
Red obsidian leopard?
Lin Ze pondered for a few seconds, vaguely remembering that this seemed to be a kind of ferocious beast, and it seemed to be quite powerful.
"Didn't the garrison team in the mining area handle it?"
"Yes, we have gone." Shi Wenjie swallowed his saliva, with a wry smile on his face, "But the number of red obsidian leopards was unusually large. Eight fire-level warriors went down to check, but they were quickly pushed back and died.
one."
Lin Ze raised his eyebrows, thought for a moment, and then left the wooden house and walked outside.
"Let's go, let's talk as we walk."
The two of them rushed towards the mine. On the way, Lin Ze asked Shi Wenjie about the Red Obsidian Leopard. After the latter's explanation, he finally got a general understanding of the Red Obsidian Leopard.
Red leopards are ferocious beasts that are very common in fire source mineral veins. They are mutated from fire source stones and feed on fire source stones. It can be said that they are similar to associated ores, but ordinary fire
They are usually found wherever Originium veins are located, so it is very common to find Red Obsidian Leopards under the mines.
For example, in the small fire source stone veins that Firefox Village used to control, one or two red leopards would pop up from time to time during the mining process, but they were quickly killed by the soldiers stationed at the bottom of the mine, so they could not cause too much trouble.
The strength of this kind of ferocious beast is not yet Fire level. It is stronger than ordinary warriors, but weaker than Fire level warriors. Any one picked in the hunting team can deal with two or three of them by himself. Therefore, although the Red Obsidian Leopard is often in the mine
Appeared, but it wasn't too much of a problem.
However, the number of red obsidian leopards that appeared in the mine this time was too much. There were no less than fifty by sight. In groups, even eight fire-level warriors could not defeat them together. Ordinary villagers mining fire source stones were even more vulnerable.
There were more than ten casualties.
"How come there are so many red obsidian leopards?" Lin Ze asked.
Shi Wenjie shook his head and said: "I don't know. In the past, more than three red leopards never appeared in that mine at the same time. But here... maybe it's because this is a large mine with rich reserves of fire source stone.
So there are more red obsidian leopards?"
His tone was full of uncertainty, after all, he had never encountered anything like this before.
Lin Ze pondered: "Where are the mining villagers?"
"Everyone has been evacuated. There is no one inside. I have people seal the entrance of the cave to prevent the red leopards inside from escaping."
Lin Ze nodded, and as the two of them walked quickly, the entrance to the mine was already in front of them.
The entrance to the cave, which is about ten feet in diameter, is now tightly blocked by rocks. Only faint roars can be heard coming from inside. There are four members of the hunting team guarding the cave entrance.
"Captain!" "Captain!"
Seeing Lin Ze appear, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly came forward and said respectfully.
Lin Ze waved his hand, pointed directly at the stone blocking the entrance of the cave and said: "Move the stone, I will go in and take a look."
"Captain, there are a lot of red leopards inside. How about we wait for support from the village before going in?" A member of the hunting team hesitated and advised.
There were so many red obsidian leopards that it was impossible to deal with them with the garrison force in the mining area, so as soon as Shi Wenjie got the news, he notified the village to ask for support.
Lin Ze glanced at the sky after hearing this. The sky was dim and the sun would soon set completely. Traveling in the wilderness at night was no different from seeking death. Even if Fire Fox Village wanted to support the mining area, they would have to wait until tomorrow morning to send people over, and there would be a lot of time on the way.
Go for most of the day.
Thinking of this, he shook his head.
"No wait, I'll go in and investigate first."
After a pause, he added, "I'll go in alone, you don't have to follow me."
Shi Wenjie and others immediately looked at each other, but after thinking about it, Lin Ze was a ring-of-fire warrior after all. Even if he couldn't defeat the group of red leopards in the mine, it shouldn't be difficult to escape, so he gave up the idea of admonishing him and followed suit.
Talk about moving away stones.
The dark cave entrance was immediately revealed, and the beast's roar from inside became clearer and clearer.
I don't know if the red obsidian leopard destroyed the torch, but there was no light inside. The dark entrance looked like a beast's mouth eager to eat, waiting for uninvited guests to break in.