The morning in the Black Forest is full of water vapor, starting from the lake at the source of the valley, our team has been walking in the jungle for ten consecutive days, in this dangerous jungle, the most terrifying thing is not the threat of those high-level magical beasts to us, nor the spears of those spider-man warriors who fled and walked in the jungle, but the primitive ecological environment of this Black Forest.The python of the same color as the bark coils on the ancient vine, motionless, like the stem of a parasitic plant, and when you walk past it, it will spit out scarlet snake letters, open its cold eyes, and its fangs often have paralyzing neurotoxins, and if there is no antidote, it is likely to kill people directly.There is also a kind of poisonous ant, these swarms of poisonous ants have a hard carapace, the mouth can secrete a corrosive acid, the most terrifying thing is that the western Zhejiang poisonous ant has the ability to fly, each is almost as big as a locust, covering the jungle, like a cloud of black clouds.Although this poisonous ant is afraid of fire-based magic, it has a large colony, and it is difficult to get rid of it once it is targeted.Luckily, our team has a lizard-maid who is experienced in the jungle, she can easily see through the various camouflage in those jungles, and she can also identify poisonous weeds, and she is proficient in elementary herbalism, and can skillfully help Qige handle various herbs.However, she also has some shortcomings, she is not good at cooking.In Takama's eyes, walking in the jungle, everything can be grilled, and her recipe is very simple, anything that can be eaten, put it on the fire and roast it, even if it is delicious to her, and she has a good appetite and dares to eat anything.In this regard, Qige is also very helpless.In our team, not only is Qige very picky about food, but Lucia, who is a half-elf, is also very strict about food.She has an almost paranoid level about things, the elves like to eat fruit and fish, fruit is a little easier to manage, how can you find some delicious fruit to eat in the great earth forest, but since we left the valley, it has been several days since we caught fish, these days, Lucia has been feeding her hunger with fruit and wheat cakes, not getting enough protein, her physical strength is declining very quickly, I must find a way to get some fish back, otherwise, this experience may drag her body down.Hiram and Jossena also came from aristocratic families, they have never suffered hardship, and they are not very suitable for this kind of traveler's diet, I heard that some aristocratic circles in the imperial capital are popular to eat spider leg meat, so when they killed a giant spider the day before yesterday, they roasted a few spider legs, but I didn't expect these two people to be so disgusting that they didn't even eat dinner.As for those few secret roasted spider legs, the lizard-maid Takama ate them with relish.The giant spiders escaped from the spider-man camp and scattered throughout the forest, lurking in the canopy of trees, stealthily feeding on some of the birds and critters in the forest.After getting acquainted with the temperament and characteristics of the giant spider, we began to use the giant spider to hone the fighting skills of the team members, and now that the members of the team are all members of the Sword and Rose Society, Lucia decided that the first training mission of the team in the jungle was to try to fight the giant spider in close combat.When she said this, Hiram and Josenner's faces turned green, but these two seniors with aristocratic pride were still veterans of the Sword and Rose Society, and they joined the Sword and Rose Society when they were at the Royal Academy of Magic in order to be close to Lucia.Now, it is also in pursuit of Lucia that he managed to come to the Hierro plane and be in the same group as Lucia.As for Lucia's suggestion, it is also reasonable.The main purpose of our society is to equip the mages with some basic martial arts, and when the warriors rush to us, at least we can draw our longswords to block their weapons.So the two of them could only bite the bullet and raise their hands to say yes, but in their hearts, they still looked forward to me and Qige raising some objections.After all, Qige is the teacher who set off with the group, and the main purpose of coming to the Hierro plane is to collect rare magical herbs in this black forest, find new species in magic plants, and have the responsibility of supervising the safety of the team.But apparently they didn't know Kige, who was a strong adventurous spirit and liked to face new challenges, and there was no way she could stop Lucia's proposal.As for me, I raised my hands to agree with Lucia's decision, because I needed those spiders.In a glade, a few of us stood in front of a giant spider with all its legs cut off, shivering as it lay on its back on its back.Josenna kicked the giant spider hard, rubbed his mud-stained leather boots against the soft skin of the giant spider's abdomen, and spat at the giant spider's body roughly.He was almost injured by the giant spider when he was fighting the giant spider in close quarters just now, so he showed a look of resentment.Hiram on the side hurriedly stretched out his hand and grabbed Jossona, organized him to continue to abuse the giant spider, and then said to me: "Jijia, are we a little too cruel, how good it would be to kill that big guy directly, why do you have to cut off all its legs, and then let it fend for itself in the forest, I estimate that it will either be eaten by other beasts in the forest, or starve to death, it is against our chivalry!"
”Hiram is an aristocrat, and he has the character of a gentleman in his bones.If it weren't for my ice shield just now, maybe Josenna would have suffered a little injury, but his arrogant and frivolous nature really should be changed, otherwise, he would definitely suffer a lot from it.Josenna didn't want to kill the giant spider so easily, he wanted the giant spider to pay more.So he immediately retorted to his friend: "Hey, Halleym, we are magicians, don't come up with a knight's code of conduct to bind us, okay?"
”Josenner's meaning is explicit: we are not knights, and we do not have to abide by the virtues of knights.Hiram shrugged his shoulders, exhaled slightly, and said, "Anyway, I don't think it's good to do this!"
I stand by my opinion. ”I crouched in front of the giant spider, the recurve knife in my hand swaying in front of its eyes, and its eyes followed the recurve knife in horror and kept turning from side to side.I pondered for a moment, and then said lightly: "For giant spiders, my approach must be very cruel, but for the original people in the Black Forest, it is a kind of help, these giant spiders are very strange to those carnivores in the Black Forest, they are alien species from the abyss, they have almost no natural enemies in the Black Forest, their arrival is bound to cause some damage to the ecological environment of the original Hiero plane, what we need to do, It's to clean up those giant spiders as much as possible, and it's clear that with our current capabilities, we can't do it at all. ”This is the crisis of the Black Forest of the Hiero plane, and if it is not handled well, it will really be as I said, and in a few years, this place will become a lifeless devil's forest.I continued: "But we can help the original animals of the Black Forest, get acquainted with these big creatures, for example: we can cut off their legs and wait for the predators of the jungle to eat them, it's a process of starting from scratch, and if these guys have no natural predators in the Black Forest, then it won't be long before these spiders dominate the forest." ”I paused, glanced over everyone's faces, and said, "Nobody wants to see something like that happen, does it?"
”Hiram weakened and whispered, "Of course, Jiga, you're right!
”I managed to convince Hiram that this guy has been struggling lately, and after I subdued the giant spiders, I always didn't kill them directly, but just cut off the spider legs, and then abandoned the giant spiders and left them to fend for themselves, which Hiram didn't think was chivalrous.I do this, naturally, for my reasons.Actually, my real idea is: I want to transport these giant spiders that have no ability to resist back to the underground warehouse in Xinliu Valley, each giant spider is a very valuable treasure to me, they are like a loom that can spit out tough spider silk and make tough spider silk demon cloth.So, every time I subdued a giant spider, I would cut off all the legs of the giant spider with an axe, and then persuade them not to kill the spider and leave them in the Black Forest, Lucia and Josenner had no special problem with this, but Hiram was a very stubborn person, and he thought that I was a little too cruel to do this, and always tried to convince me to end their lives after defeating the spiders.Thankfully, though, I was able to convince him.At noon, our team usually hides in a cool place for a short lunch break.The sweltering and humid conditions of the Black Forest make us sweat a lot, and wet clothes are difficult to handle in the hot and humid jungle, and the only way to dry them is with the help of a campfire.During the hottest part of the day, we chose to rest, and at this time, the lizard maid Takama was in charge of the guard, and apart from the necessary rotation of vigilance at night, Takama took on almost all the guard tasks in our team.As usual, I left the camp during my lunch break and headed out into the forest, and Takama, accustomed to me slipping out at this time, sat on the trunk of a large tree, and when I looked at her, she only nodded to me slightly, and looked elsewhere.I went back the way I came, found the giant spider, which I've been doing for the last few days, and opened the portal and called out the Minotaur Ruka, who would lead the orcs to drag the giant spider back to the underground warehouse.Today I did not return to camp as quickly as I used to.Instead, he followed Ruka into the underground warehouse.I saw that in the dwarf Bernd was taking some orcs to build new pens deep in the cave.These beast pens are made of thigh-thick square oak wood, nailed into a very regular cage, each giant spider is packed into the cage, just enough to fill the square beast cage, this dwarf is proficient in although he can't forge, but for making some ordinary tools, he is still very skilled, the most important thing is that those young orc warriors respect him.When he saw me, he quickly got up and hurried towards me, as if he had something to do with me.I stopped and watched Bernd, with his two little short legs, walking up to me, standing in front of me, and saying, "Hey, Giga, I just have something to discuss with you!"
”"I can't stay too long, I'm just coming over to see what's going on here, why don't we talk as we go!"
I said to Bernd."
Alright!
Then I'll cut a long story short. ”He rubbed his hands, touched his big red nose, hesitated for a moment, and said to me, "Jijia, I want to borrow the drawings from your treasure chests." ”I stared at Bernd because I wanted the answer from his mouth: why did he have this idea!"
The last time I cleaned up those goblins, I seized a batch of drawings that included some architectural drawings that I wanted to take out and study!"
Bernd looked at me a little nervously, his big nose was a little red, and it was obvious that there was a heavy smell of wine in his mouth, this guy wanted to hold his breath and try not to let me notice, but at this time, he suddenly burped loudly.All of a sudden, the surroundings became quiet, and the orcs chatting while nailing the wooden cages stopped talking.The atmosphere became a little awkward."
It's fine, but you have to make sure that you're in a clear head when you go over those drawings, and I don't want you to accidentally soak those precious drawings in the barrel!"
I looked up and glanced at Bernd faintly, and said.Then, ignoring the drunken Bernd, I turned around and continued to walk inside with Karantso.I want to see how those giant spiders are doing in their underground caves.A few days ago, Karantso had already shown me a spindle of spider silk, which was thin and tough, and its refractory was much better than ordinary twine, cotton thread, and silk.As she walked, she told me that Bernd had come back from catching a lot of goblin slaves from the underground caves, and that he wanted to renovate and expand the underground warehouse, including wine cellars and warehouses for various functions, and this matter was supported by her, so in recent times, the food has been running out very quickly, and it won't be long before I will face the food problem again.Karantso and Bernd have always objected to my blind construction of a mountain town outside the circular valley, and they are more concerned about the expansion of the underground warehouse.Karantso said that she was going to return to the orc village, gather her men to bring some wood and copper ingots to the underground warehouse, and also bring back a batch of meat products, it seems that they want to expand this place into a stronghold, and they have already begun to make preliminary preparations, and the goblin slaves they have captured have already begun to dig some new storage rooms.I guess the timber that will be brought in in the near future is to support the caves that have been excavated.I found that this section of the tunnel, at Bernd's suggestion, had been built with a wooden frame every ten meters, and it looked like a mine hole.This dwarf Bernd really has a lot of experience in underground caves, but he is a little too fond of drinking.