The black forest shrouded in darkness is more dangerous than during the day. Not only does the temperature drop to the point where water turns to ice, but powerful monsters also like to come out in the darkness to hunt their prey.
In this vast area, under every rotting leaf are layers of remains of the dead.
Those terrifying beings have all kinds of weird habits. They may like to chew live flesh and blood, they may like to torture poor souls, and they may destroy a village just out of boredom.
In a cave in the forest, Savage Todd was struggling to block the entrance of the cave with a large stone, leaving only a small gap for ventilation. He completed this work very carefully, because any negligence would bring fatal consequences.
threaten.
"I don't understand how a rookie like you could come to the Black Forest alone." Todd blocked the entrance to the cave and looked back at a bonfire inside the cave. "This place is not suitable for activities for a novice like you."
Zhou Qingfeng was busy filling wood into the bonfire to make the flames burn brighter.
But Todd cursed loudly again: "Don't burn too much. Do you want us both to suffocate to death? Or do you want to use up all the firewood in the middle of the night and freeze to death? I still want to ask you,
How do you survive until now?”
Being despised by a smelly barbarian, Zhou Qingfeng could only endure it.
This big guy was the big man who was escorted by the goblins during the day. After he was released, he was at least two meters tall, with thick arms and legs, and a body like an iron tower. He said that he was wanted by the tribe's shaman for repeatedly robbing the Magru tribe in the Black Forest.
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The reason why he was captured by a group of goblins was because Todd got drunk in a village and was betrayed by a black-hearted and stupid guy.
Barbarians are strong and rough, straightforward and bad-tempered. They are courageous and extremely tough, and don't have too many tricks. If they are angry, they would rather hit someone with an ax than talk too much nonsense.
Zhou Qingfeng gave himself the pseudonym ‘Victor’. He opened the cage, helped the barbarian remove the ropes that bound his hands and feet, and allowed the barbarian to regain his freedom.
Todd took Zhou Qingfeng to find a temporary shelter. Otherwise, he would have been frozen to death by the cold night if he had no ability to survive in the wild if he was not killed by monsters.
It's lucky for both parties.
The wild is Todd's home. From the moment he is born, this savage has been learning how to adapt to this cruel and unforgiving world.
With Todd by his side, Zhou Qingfeng learned to identify which places in the black forest were dangerous, which places were safe, which foods could be eaten, and which roads could be taken. This knowledge was worth a thousand dollars to him now.
"This snake-necked chicken is also unlucky to be killed by a rookie like you. It probably just fought with other enemies that invaded the territory, otherwise it could continuously fire magic missiles to kill you."
Todd laughed sarcastically, teasing Zhou Qingfeng's ignorance. He returned to the campfire and looked at the chicken roasting on the fire with greed, "Snake-necked chickens are actually quite scary. I usually don't want to mess with them. But this time
The meat from breeder chickens is very delicious, very delicious.”
On the fire rack, the strange chicken that Zhou Qingfeng hunted was plucked, gutted and gutted, and then passed through the rack with a stick to roast. The chicken was roasted until it was golden brown, with fat dripping down, making a sizzling sound, and the aroma was fragrant.
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Todd looked at it with greedy eyes. He was not afraid of being burned, so he stretched out his hand and tore off a thick chicken leg, chewing it with a black mushroom.
While Zhou Qingfeng was warming himself over the fire, he twisted another chicken leg. Before he could unscrew the chicken leg, the barbarian ate the chicken leg into chicken bones in three bites.
This chicken really weighs about twenty kilograms, and a chicken leg weighs three to four kilograms. Zhou Qingfeng finally pulled off his portion of the hot chicken leg, and Todd rudely grabbed the rest of the whole chicken.
In your hands, you are eating and stuffing.
After a long day of running around, Zhou Qingfeng was so hungry that he couldn't eat as much as Todd did. He blew a bite and ate a bite. Before he could finish, Todd had eaten the whole chicken.
A skeleton remains.
The so-called 'snake neck chicken' has very tender meat and is very delicious without any seasoning. Also, the inconspicuous black mushroom tastes really crispy, which not only adds moisture but also has a sweet taste.
Zhou Qingfeng thought that he would not be able to finish the big chicken drumstick in his hand. But he ate and ate all the food. When he felt full in his stomach, he let out a long sigh of relief and felt warm all over.
There is a sense of blissful relaxation.
"Todd, is the Maguru tribe that is offering a bounty to you strong?" After eating, Zhou Qingfeng wanted to ask himself about his current situation.
"Not strong. How can goblins be strong?" Todd shook his head at first, but after a while he cursed bitterly: "Those green-skinned guys are so numerous that they can't be killed. They are everywhere in the Black Forest.
It’s their nest, at least hundreds of thousands of them.”
Hundreds of thousands doesn't sound like much.
In Zhou Qingfeng's impression, the population of a town is only a few hundred thousand. There are so many such towns among flower growers. He continued to ask: "What does the black forest you talk about look like? How many towns are there? The nearest human town to us
how far?"
This question stumped the stubborn barbarian. Todd pondered in confusion for a long time, then shook his head and said: "I don't know what the black forest looks like. I only know that you can go to those places by taking those roads.
The Black Forest in the Icefield Mountains is too cold, remote, and dangerous. There are not many humans here, and there are no large towns. There are only some poor small villages, with a total of only two to three thousand people."
Only two or three thousand?
Such a comparison shows that the goblins of the Magru tribe are very powerful. After all, too many ants can kill an elephant.
"Since this place is so dangerous and humans are so weak, why don't everyone move away?"
"Move? Where can I move?"
Todd smiled bitterly and said: "After the Day of Eternal Darkness, the entire Northland has become very dangerous. It is not safe for humans to go anywhere, and they may encounter monsters crawling out of the abyss at any time.
Except for the cold wind and wood, the Icefield Mountains are considered safe here. If you go to other places, ordinary people can only work as slaves for the superiors. If you really want to move, you can only move to the warm and bright south, which is not easy.
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Zhou Qingfeng stayed for a few seconds, feeling inexplicably panicked. He lowered his voice and asked, "What is the Day of Eternal Darkness?"
Todd was also stunned, "Boy, where did you come from? How come you don't even know about the Sun of Eternal Darkness?"
The barbarian scratched his head again, "I also heard what others said. Decades ago, a powerful demon came from the abyss to the world and built an iron curtain to cover the sky in the north.
Later, although the demon was killed by strong human forces, its descendants remained and continued to harm the North. The iron curtain covering the sky could not be destroyed, and the sun could no longer shine on the ground. Thousands of miles around the North were trapped.
Eternal darkness.”
There's no sun in this damn damn place!
How can people live?
Without sunlight, human farmers cannot cultivate. Food will decrease sharply, population will decline, cities will become deserted, and civilization will naturally wither.
You don't need to think too much to know how terrible this is.
"Then what do humans rely on to survive now?"
"I don't know about other places, but humans in the Black Forest make a living by gathering, hunting and logging. Although it is bitterly cold here, there are many special products. Many adventurers come here to make a fortune.
As long as you make money, merchants will naturally bring bread and ale in. Even if you don't have money, there are a lot of black mushrooms in the woods and a lot of prey. As long as you are strong enough, you can't go hungry.
But now there are more and more monsters, and even goblins have become extremely rampant, making life difficult in the Black Forest."
Listening to the sighs of the barbarians, Zhou Qingfeng grabbed the mushroom as big as a man's head and realized that it was food.