Chapter 189: Hunting Since it is a tribe that goes deep into the mountains to the Zakutu people, there is no need to bring too many people.
On this trip, Char left Hawke and Russell behind, only brought Shalbadodoro and ten of the best mercenaries, and borrowed a few bows from the Landis people like the Gallens caravan, and then set out on the road with Azuo and other Zaku natives.
The tribe of the Zakutu people was in the east of the red wilderness, and after crossing the long river all the way to the east, they entered a vast mountain, which was as large as the sea, and the tribe of the Zakutu people was in the deepest part of this mountain forest.
These Zaku natives finally came up with some real skills, and the mounts they summoned made many mercenaries mutter, but under Char's strict orders, they rode on these giant wolves that were summoned, and everyone's advance speed was only several times faster.
And after Char's warning, the attitude of Azuo and other Zaku natives has also been reined in, at least when they watch the mercenaries being tortured helpless by the treacherous conditions in the mountains and forests, they are no longer the attitude of holding their arms and watching the excitement.
Some of the Zaku Tu people took out the medicines they had brought with them, which were quite effective in repelling mosquitoes, and some of the Zaku Tu people took the initiative to take on the responsibility of opening the way ahead.
As for Char, this turtle has a lot of interest in Ah Zuo's mount Fuck, this is a screaming lizard, a monster, a real monster, was actually used as a mount by this Zaku native, this kind of thing, riding is much more magical than a horse, if Uncle Ben also gets one to take back, when the battle is on the battlefield, how arrogant and arrogant Moreover, this lizard on Ah Zuo's ride was obviously the leader of all the mounts in the team, and as soon as this giant lizard roared, the other giant wolves cowered and surrendered.
This giant lizard runs extremely fast, and can move and jump, Char watched for a long time, saw a lot of benefits, and his attitude towards Ah Zuo was also much more affectionate, and he deliberately talked about it from time to time, but the topic was inseparable from the matter of this lizard mount.
Ah Zuo is not a fool, he quickly understood Char's intentions, this Zaku native said very simply: "Lord Char, if it is something else, we Zaku people are the most generous to friends, as long as you like it, what does it matter if it is given to you" Hearing this, Xia Ya immediately smiled, and the sentence "Then thank you very much" was about to be said, but Ah Zuo continued: "However, this mount can't be given to you." ” "Uh" The turtle blinked.
"It's not that I'm stingy."
Ah Zuo shook his head and said: "Our Zaku tribe is best at driving beasts, and the skills of driving beasts are passed down from generation to generation in the clan, but outsiders can't.
And these mounts are also captured by our Zaku people, and then slowly tamed before they can be used, the mount only obeys the orders of the owner who tamed it, if it changes its master, then it will not obey in death.
The mount is loyal to its master, that is the tradition of our Zaku tribe.
So, even if I give it to you, you can't drive it. ” When Char heard this, he was skeptical, glanced at Ah Zuo, and Ah Zuo smiled and said: "You come to our tribe this time, in this way, if you are free, I will take you to hunt in the mountains, find a way to hunt a young beast, and I will teach you a little taming method, you can take it back for training for two years, and you can use it."
The mount that has been tamed since childhood has the most feelings for the master, which is incomparable to anything else. ” Char was overjoyed at this time, the ability of the Zaku Turen to tame beasts did make the turtle very enthusiastic, and the more he looked at this Ah Zuo, the more pleasing it became.
The group advanced in the mountains and forests, and the natives and the mercenaries gradually got along, and the mercenaries accepted the mosquito repellent medicine given by the natives, and took off the skins they carried.
These mercenaries carried two skins with them, one for water, and the other for liquor.
Whoever is a mercenary eats this bitter meal, there is no one who is not good at drinking, and there is even a saying in the mercenary circle: A mercenary who can't drink is not a good mercenary.
Mercenaries love to drink, on the one hand, they live in hardship and danger all year round, so they naturally need to relieve the pressure and irritability in their hearts.
On the other hand, wine also has a very good effect on mercenaries, mercenaries carry wine when they travel, not only to satisfy the stomach, but also to carry the wine, when they are injured in battle, treat the wound, drink a few sips, can relieve the pain, or use those spirits and soju to clean the wound, but also greatly reduce the possibility of wound infection and rot.
The mercenaries carried strong liquor, and after it dried up like a knife cut in the throat, the stronger the wine, the more popular it was with the mercenaries.
These Zaku natives are good warriors, and naturally they all like to drink, but unfortunately the brewing skills of the Zakutu people are too far worse than that of Byzantium, once the human mercenaries carry this kind of strong wine into the mouth, these Zaku natives will be drunk one by one, and immediately cheered, and then there are many Zaku natives pulling the mercenaries back and forth and shouting, wanting to exchange the things on their bodies for wine with the mercenaries.
The Zaku tribe is rich in gold, and these Zaku warriors also wear a lot of gold jewelry, and many warriors even have an awl hanging around their necks, which is a gold coin of red gold.
The two sides exchanged for a while, and many mercenaries exchanged their wine bags for the gold ornaments on the Zakutu people, and both sides were naturally happy with each song.
The mountains are rugged and difficult to navigate, and there are hidden and invisible dangers everywhere, along the way, fortunately, the relationship with these Zaku Tu people has improved, with the help of these veterans in the mountains and forests, Char's pressure has been greatly reduced, otherwise, no matter how powerful he is, in this dangerous mountain forest, it is really difficult to take care of these subordinates one by one.
Char became more and more familiar with these Zaku Tu people, and more or less learned a sentence or two of Zaku Tu language, and by the way, he also talked to Ah Zuo in some words, seeing that these Zaku Tu people wore gold with them, and they didn't seem to value these gold very much, so they casually exchanged them for wine with human mercenaries.
This kind of behavior makes the turtle not excited Naturally, the idea of making a deal with the Zaku tribe was born again in my heart.
After asking Ah Zuo for a while, it turned out that the transactions between the Zaku Tu people and the human caravans had never been too much, and only a very limited number of human chambers of commerce could gain the trust of the Zaku Tu people and conduct some limited transactions with the Zaku tribe.
What's more, the Zaku tribe seems to have some resistance to trading with humans, and most of the Zaku people have the same thoughts: they always think that those humans outside the mountains don't have many good things, and they are all cunning and greedy.
Therefore, even those chambers of commerce do not get much gold in exchange for the Zakutu people every year.
Moreover, there was another trade route, which was a small road located on the south side of the mountains and forests, and the road there was slightly flatter and easier to walk, and the carriages and horses could barely pass through.
Char was not surprised when he heard this, after all, there must be another trade route for such a thing as trade, otherwise, it would be difficult to walk in the mountains and forests where he walked this time, and these dozens of people walked so hard, if it was a caravan and horses, it would be impossible to come over.
"It's not that I won't take you on that trade route."
Ah Zuo was afraid that Char would misunderstand, so he took the initiative to explain: "That trade route is in the south, and I heard those merchants say that they started from the town south of the wildfire plain, and walked directly to the northeast without passing through the red wilderness of the goblins, bypassing the south side of the long river.
That place was too far away from us, and if we were to take that road, we would have to walk south for many days before going south to the south of the Wildfire Plain and then east, and it would be possible to walk back and forth for an extra month or two. ” Char didn't mind too much, but carefully inquired about the location of the secret trade route in the mountains and forests leading to the Zaku tribe, and took out his clothes and drew them down, and then carefully put them away.
These Zaku natives are all excellent hunters in the mountains and forests, and with the help of these people, the food of the mercenaries has also been greatly improved.
That night, several Zaku natives rode wolves into the depths of the forest, and after less than half an hour, they carried out a hunted porcupine, this kind of porcupine is a low-level magical beast, the mane of the whole body is sharp like thorns, when angry, the roots are erected, and they can also shoot out to hurt the enemy, so they are called porcupines, in addition, the appearance is similar to that of ordinary mountain wild boars.
This pig weighed more than 100 catties, and those natives skillfully disemboweled, took out the internal organs, chopped off the limbs and divided the bones, and even Char, the old hunter, couldn't help but sigh when he saw it.
As for the good pigskin, it was carefully folded and wrapped by them.
Char noticed that these Zaku natives were very shrewd in hunting skills, and there was no scar on the intact pigskin When these natives hunted porcupines, they used the method of throwing spears, and these guys threw short spears in amazing ways, and there were no wounds on the body of the porcupine, only a big hole was poked out of the eyeballs, which was so deep in the brain that it was thought that a spear of the Zaku natives was pierced into the eye by the Zaku natives, and it penetrated the brain and died.
This skill of throwing spears also made Char a little excited, when he saw the fire rhinoceros mercenary group's ability to throw short axes collectively, Char was moved, but after all, the tactics of the fire rhinoceros mercenaries throwing short axes are too expensive to build, and it costs a lot of iron to build a short axe, and to play a short axe, throw it out at one time, then this kind of consumption is inevitably too great, with Char's current family background, he really can't afford to equip it.
This short spear throw of the Zakutu seems to be more suitable.
The short spear is much simpler and easier to make than the short axe, and the short spear does not use any iron, and can even use sharp wood as a substitute for the iron trees around the goblin tribes, the wood is as hard as iron, which is a good material.
The turtle then put down the shelf, and carefully asked these natives along the way for the kind of techniques and skills of throwing short spears, Ah Zuo saw it in his eyes, and quickly understood Char's intentions, but he didn't say anything.
The road was originally smooth, but on the sixth day, these Zaku natives, who were still walking leisurely, suddenly changed a little.
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The beginning of the matter is this: these Zaku natives have a penchant for hunting, and every day they hunt, they will catch an extra prey, maybe a roe deer, maybe a pig or something, and the extra prey will be caught but not killed, and thrown away far away from the camping site.
Early the next morning, a native ran to see the beast, and Char knew very well that this was a warning.
Early in the morning of the sixth day, after a native who ran to check on a roe deer that was left outside last night ran back, his face was a little ugly, and he muttered to Ah Zuo for a while, Ah Zuo's brows were also twisted, and Char walked over without hesitation: "What's the matter?"
Ah Zuo glanced at Char and hesitated slightly: "You and I will go and have a look." ” The roe deer that had been thrown outside last night was gone, and there was only a pool of blood on the ground, and a few pieces of flesh and limbs that had been torn off.
The blood marks on the ground formed long drag marks, and the blood stains reached the grass next to them.
Ah Zuo looked at the grass around him, checked some marks on the ground, looked back at Char, looked serious, and only said: "We're being targeted."
From the seriousness in Ah Zuo's expression, Char saw an unusual jealousy.
"Let's turn around and head south first."
Ah Zuo quickly made a decision: "Maybe you have to take a detour." ” Char didn't make any objections to this decision.
He was essentially a hunter who was familiar with the rules of the mountains, and he knew that in this kind of place, when encountering things, it was best to listen to the arrangements of these natives.
The outside is the outside world, and the inside of the mountains is the world in the mountains.
In this kind of place, if you don't listen to these natives, you are afraid that a poisonous spring will be enough to give the lives of a group of mercenaries here.
Even if the turtle is half a mountain person, after all, this is not his territory, and he is not familiar with many things here.
But what should be asked is still to be asked.
"What is it?"
Ah Zuo hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "Old opponent."
When I came out of the tribe this time, I was attacked by this old opponent on the way, and I lost two of my men at that time, but it also caused the other party to suffer a lot.
I didn't expect to go home this time, and I was actually targeted by them again on the way. ” After a pause, Ah Zuo added: "It's a group of lizards, poisonous lizards." ” Char knew very well that the "lizard" that Ah Zuo was talking about was not something like a small gecko in the usual sense, but must be a big guy similar to Ah Zuo's screaming lizard mount The team quickly turned south in a veer.
After confirming that their group was targeted, the Zaku natives behaved very seriously, while the mercenaries, who didn't know much, didn't seem too nervous because they didn't know the horror of the poisonous lizard.
Even Char wasn't too worried, in the eyes of the turtle, it was just a huge lizard, even if it came to a group, what would it be But soon, everyone tasted it.
The first difficulty was that food began to run short.
After walking south for two days, the Zaku Tu people actually failed to hit even a single prey, and Ah Zuo's expression was very serious: "Those guys are very cunning, they are eyeing us, but they will not attack immediately, but lurk around us, there is such a group of things, the surrounding animals have long been scared away by them, where can they still hit the prey."
These things are cunning, they just want us to go hungry first" If you can't hunt prey, you can't eat meat, so you can only eat dry food.
Then the second difficulty was drinking water In the mountains and forests, it is naturally impossible to drive a cart to bring more than a dozen buckets of water.
Anyway, with the existence of these indigenous Zaku people, there is no need to worry about where to find water sources in the mountains.
But after walking south for two days, he encountered two pools on the way, and Ah Zuo strictly forbade everyone to take water "Those things are cunning, they know how to starve us, and they know how to make ghosts in the water.
Don't forget their name: poisonous lizards. ” Ah Zuo's words were very effective, the two pools encountered on the road, the water looked extremely clear, but one of the mercenaries did not believe in evil, and secretly took a sip, but after a while, his face was black, his mouth and nose were bloody, and he lost his breath after convulsions for a while.
Char was so annoyed by this that he gathered the mercenaries together and lashed out at them.
After all, these mercenaries haven't been with him for too long, and they have brought a lot of unruly wild surnames, but seeing that some people have died of drinking poisoning, the rest are naturally much more honest.
The water on the body could not be supported for long, and at the request of Ah Zuo, everyone saved all the water for the mount, after all, if the mount fell, everyone could only walk on the soles of their feet.
As for the people, these natives also have a way.
A few Zaku natives searched for a while beside some bushes and grasses with short knives, and dug out some of the soil with some big, plump roots, all of which looked gray and gray, like tiny potatoes.
This kind of thing is put in the mouth and nibbled on it, it is well hydrated and full of juice.
It's enough to quench your thirst.
And this kind of rhizome is very abundant in the mountains and forests, and it is not difficult to find.
The only thing that has a fly in the ointment is that the juice of this rhizome tastes a little sour, and everyone can tolerate this taste at first, but after eating too much, when I sleep at night, my stomach is so sour that I have a convulsion and stomach pain.
The next day, I lost my appetite for food.
In the past two days, many mercenaries have lost a lot of weight.
The Zakutu also made a move: when they were resting at night, they let some wolves out, and after they were released, they naturally wandered around the camp.
In Ah Zuo's words: No matter how careful people are, whether it is sight, hearing or feeling, they are not as sensitive as these beasts, and these wolf vigils are much more effective than people.
But even so, the situation is getting worse and worse.
The immediate reaction was Ah Zuo's mount.
The screaming lizard became more and more agitated, and when it stopped, its two paws were gouging around the ground, and if someone accidentally approached it, it would attract its agitation with its teeth and claws.
Char saw it in her eyes, and it was clear: those things were getting closer and closer.
After walking like this for a few days, even those Zaku natives in the team showed some fatigue.
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After eating dry food for a few days, and being tormented by the sour juice to the stomachache, everyone was a little unbearable, every day when walking, the mercenaries were listless, gnawed dry food for a few days, everyone felt weak hands and feet.
Every day, Ah Zuo carefully sent people to search everywhere in groups of three or five, but found nothing.
Those poisonous lizards are more difficult than you imagined.
On the evening of the fourth day, the night watchmen were alarmed by the roaring sound of the woods, and soon they were awakened, and when the Zaku natives immediately summoned the great wolves back, they counted the number and found that there were two missing.
And the people who sent it out found the carcasses of the two wolves.
Both wolves were torn to shreds, and the huge, sharp tooth marks left on the flesh and bones made people feel a little chilled at the sight of them.
Obviously, the two wolves were directly bitten off their necks: according to Ah Zuo's explanation, when those poisonous lizards attacked the target, they bit the target and did not let go, and then injected venom into the target's body along the teeth, which soon caused the target to be poisoned and paralyzed, and lost the ability to resist.
"We're going to pick things up."
Ah Zuo pulled Char aside and whispered: "These guys are in a hurry than I expected, we must lead them to the south as soon as possible, there is a forest in the south, lead these things there, I have a way to deal with them." ” Ah Zuo's feeling is accurate.
The next day, when they were on their way during the day, the group was walking quietly, when suddenly a green shadow appeared from the bushes next to them without warning The attack came so suddenly that even the wolves acting as mounts did not notice it in the slightest A mercenary sat on the back of the wolf, and the green shadow that came out jumped directly to the ground, and then two green shadows rushed out, one of which directly bit the neck of the giant wolf, and in this case, the other wolves actually had no murderous surname, and after the same kind was attacked, they let out a howl of horror, and one by one shrunk their hind thighs and retreated back with their tails between their legs.
The mercenary who was thrown to the ground was quickly bitten by two lizards and dragged into the bushes next to him.
Char's reaction was the fastest, he flew and jumped over, grabbed a short spear that had just been sharpened from a stick last night and threw it, he had been practicing the spear throwing skill for a long time, and a spear accurately shot into the eye of a lizard, piercing through the head The other mercenaries also reacted, drew their swords and grabbed them, and the green lizards quickly disappeared into the bushes, stopping the mercenaries' intention to pursue them in an anxious cry.
Char also shouted at his mercenaries.
Just look at the bitten mercenary again, one leg was bitten off, the sharp jagged tooth marks were very obvious, and after a while, the skin was black, and it didn't take long for him to die.
Char saw it in his eyes, his face was pale, his face was black and terrifying, and his eyes kept flashing with a light like fire.
The dead poisonous lizard made Char finally see what this kind of thing looked like.
This poisonous lizard, the body shape is about the same size as the screaming lizard, but the skin of the whole body is turquoise, it is very difficult to distinguish in this green bush, the green skin is full of hard horns, the sword is difficult to penetrate, and there are two rows of sharp serrated teeth on the side of the mouth, which are extremely sharp, Char personally took a fire fork to cut open the head of this poisonous lizard, and dug out two poison sacs in the roof of the lizard's mouth, inside is a ball of green venom, Char carefully packed it with the bottle he carried, and was silent.
That night, when everyone stopped to rest, Char didn't say hello to anyone, and one person took a fire fork and went into the woods and disappeared.
It wasn't until the morning that Char returned, covered in grass clippings and dust, but he was carrying a poisonous lizard on his back, and the lizard was captured alive by him, but it didn't die.
Char directly knocked off the lizard's legs and feet, and used a fire fork to pry off the beast's teeth one by one, and when he was walking for a whole day, Char took this thing with him, and every time he walked a section, he waved his hand to cut it on this guy's body, and every time he moved, he was very measured, and the cut was not light or heavy, but he was poor for this lizard, and he was stabbed at least ten times a day, and he didn't lose his breath at night.
It's just that along the way, he opened his mouth and kept letting out a kind of high-pitched and terrible howl, which was very strange, some like the cry of a frog in a pond in summer.
But with this thing howling all the way, this day, there was no more attack.
"Screams of the same kind are the most deterrent."
Char said coldly in the face of Ah Zuo's puzzled eyes: "This principle is applicable to any race. ” Hearing this, Ah Zuo stared at Xia Ya for a long time, and when he faced this human again, Ah Zuo's eyes had a hint of a different meaning than before.
"This poisonous lizard is a magical beast that lives in groups, and there are at least twenty of them in a group.
This thing is the most vindictive, the last time I went out into the mountains to the red wilderness, I fought with this group of things, killed two, and they stared at me all the way until I walked out of the woods.
They won't give up when they come back this time. ” Ah Zuo looked at Char's gloomy face and said, "Tomorrow at the latest, we will walk through a stream, that water is living water, I am not afraid that those things will be poisoned, it can just replenish our drinking water, but after crossing that stream, we will enter the territory of a demonic beast."
There's a great thing living there, we don't have to go too deep into its territory, walk around the edge, that monster is the natural enemy of these lizards, most of these lizards don't dare to go in, we can take the opportunity to get rid of these things. ” "What is it?"
Char asked bluntly.
Ah Zuo hesitated for a moment, smiled bitterly and said the answer: "By the name you Byzantines gave it, Tusk Lurker."
To be continued 〗Hanyu Pinyin "" is simple and easy to remember: