The boy named Bayer died very quickly. His body had completely turned black. When he died, his eyes were wide and empty, and his fingers were still grabbing upward...
He died miserably, with a big hole in his forehead. To Du Wei, it looked like the hole was corroded with the strongest sulfuric acid! The skin on his forehead and the skull and bones inside were melted.
A hole came out! All the brains inside were drained...
The soil in this place was too hard to dig a pit for burial. As a last resort, everyone had no choice but to throw the boy's body into the lake.
"This reckless boy..." Beinrich severely broke a branch and threw it into the fire, with regret on his face: "He is the guy I recruited in Fick City. He was originally
He is an excellent hunter. His archery skills are very good, and I even taught him martial arts... He just wants to catch a few fish for everyone..."
Du Wei said nothing.
Beinrich shook his head: "He forgot, this is the damn frozen forest! There are no ordinary beasts here! They are all monsters! Even the fish in the lake are as dangerous! This stupid guy! Bastard! Idiot! Idiot
! It's... it's my fault! I should have reminded him earlier, it's his first time here!"
Du Wei didn't know how to comfort the leader who blamed himself. He thought for a moment, patted the leader on the shoulder, and then said what the leader said during the day:
"This is the adventurous life! Some come, some go! Some die, some live!"
Beinrich quickly returned to normal. He was the leader, and a hundred people were watching him!
He threw away the branch in his hand, then stood up, and went to patrol fiercely. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Stay away from the lake! Bastards! If anyone dares to come near the lake again, I will break his legs!"
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This episode did not add much burden to everyone... Those old mercenaries were used to seeing life and death. For them, the most they could say was: "Oh, that boy is so unfortunate."
During dinner, the eight-fingered Streer came back with the patrol. His face was a little gloomy, as if he had discovered something. However, this cautious guy did not alert everyone, but quietly walked to Beinrich.
around.
"Captain, I found something."
The archer took out a burnt branch from his arms and handed it to the leader.
This was obviously a branch that had been chopped into pieces and used as firewood. It had been burned, but it was not completely burned. There were obvious signs of splitting on one section of the cut.
"It seems that there are our colleagues nearby." Strier whispered: "I found a place where there were ashes of fires buried in the snow, but they were not buried deep. I took a look, and it was about
There are four or five piles, and based on this judgment, there are probably more than thirty people on the other side."
A glint flashed in Beinrich's eyes: "More than thirty? Are you sure?"
"More than thirty at most, not more than forty. I'm sure!" Strier answered firmly: "Judging from the color of the ashes in the fire, they left not long ago, so they shouldn't be too far away from us. And...
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Stri paused for a moment, grinned, and whispered: "Based on the traces I left behind when they camped, these guys have 'quite a lot of luggage' and brought a lot of things with them!"
Beinrich trusted this subordinate very much. Although he only had eight fingers, his archery skills were first-rate, he was cautious, his observation was very careful, and he rarely made mistakes.
A strange smile appeared on Beinrich's face... slightly gloomy: "Oh, in that case, do we have to 'contact' with these colleagues?"
Du Wei didn't quite understand what the group leader said, but Dardaniel's face next to him looked a little unnatural.
In the tent at night, Dardanelle explained to Duwei.
"In the world of adventurers, to put it simply, the weak eat the strong! Especially in a place like this, if you meet a fellow traveler, there are usually only three situations." Dardaniel said slowly: "The first one is that one party is stronger than the other.
Weak, but the weaker party doesn't have anything good that makes people jealous. Then both parties will be in peace.
In the second type, if both sides have equal strength, then everything will be fine.
The third type is that one side is strong and the other is weak. If the weak side still has a lot of trophies in its hands...then there will most likely be consequences..."
Dardaniel smiled and whispered: "Eat black when you are black."
Du Wei didn't say anything. He knew that every circle has its own rules of the game.
•;
Early the next morning, Duwei discovered that eight fingers of Strill and several other old mercenaries were missing from the team.
He did not ask Beinrich where these people had gone, and Beinrich did not tell them.
The mercenaries rested for a night, regained their energy, and started working. They took out a large net with many sharp barbs, some iron clamps for catching animals, and some pine resin torches for burning. Several teams
People were sent out to search for traces of monsters.
In the morning, Strier and others came back. Strier looked a little disappointed. He walked up to the group leader and shook his head: "We can't find them. They may have gone far away."
The group leader shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "It's their luck, and it's also ours. Well, friends, since we can't find our companions, let's do our own work and take your people to rest for a while."
If nothing else goes wrong, Du Wei and Dardaniel plan to help these mercenaries for one more day and help them catch two more magical beasts, and then prepare to say goodbye to them and continue north.
Duwei sat under a big tree and watched Dardaniel helping the mercenaries set up the iron traps for trapping animals. He watched Strier come back, talked with the leader for a while, and then went to rest.
Du Wei breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't intend to interfere with the rules of the mercenaries' game, but he was willing to help the mercenaries catch World of Warcraft, but he didn't want to watch them do shady business, let alone participate in it. It seemed that Ste
Lille did not find the target and Duwei was very satisfied with the result.
He sighed softly and looked at the beautiful lake in front of him, which was like a large mirror... Who would have thought that there was a murderous crisis hidden in the lake?
"It's beautiful, but full of danger." Du Wei said to himself.
"You are right."
The voice behind him startled Du Wei! Then he realized that it was Semmel's voice! This damn woman, who had not shown her face for so many days, suddenly jumped out at this moment!
Looking back, Semel was still wearing a bright red robe, standing so gently behind Du Wei, her white bare feet stepping on the soft snow... Fortunately, she was just a shadow, and shadows are not afraid of the cold.
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Du Wei shrugged: "Oh, you are finally willing to show your face?"
"The magician next to you a few days ago was very powerful." Saimel shook his head: "I can sense the terrifying power of his spirit. I even felt dangerous! That magician has the ability to search for other people's mental power. With his His strength is such that he can even see my existence, so I hide."
"Oh." Du Wei frowned: "Am I not the only one who can see you?"
"This is like this for ordinary people." Saimel whispered: "I am connected with your mental power, but if the other party can explore your mental power, then they can see me... Only Very few strong people can do this. And for the next few days... you lived in a tent with that Dardaniel. Although that guy couldn't see me, if he always saw you alone, Talking in the air will make you think you are crazy."
"Oh? So, I still want to thank you for your understanding?" Du Wei snorted.
Semel smiled, and then sat down next to Du Wei. She seemed not to care about the displeasure in Du Wei's tone, and just sat there quietly for a while, looking at the beautiful Great Round Lake in the distance.
Du Wei turned his head and glanced at Semel, only to find that the woman's expression was strange...
There was a strange expression on her face, her eyes flashed and her eyebrows were slightly twisted, as if she was thinking about something.
"I... I feel very strange." Semel looked into the distance, her eyes sweeping across the beautiful lake, and then the distant forests on both sides... "This place is very beautiful... but, why..."
"What?"
Semel took a deep breath, with a blank look on his face: "I don't know...but I always feel like I have been to this place...I have a very familiar feeling here. At least the scenery in front of me, I I seem to have seen it somewhere."
"Have you ever been here?" Du Wei wanted to laugh, but couldn't.
Don't be kidding... She, Semmel, the memory copy of the real Semmel, has been sealed in the oil painting since she came to this world. She has not left the castle for two hundred years! How could it be possible? to here?
If the real Semel had been here, Du Wei wouldn't think it was strange...but the woman in front of him.
Semel stared into the distance infatuatedly. After a long time, she shook her head vigorously and suddenly smiled, her voice a little low: "You must think I'm talking nonsense, right? There's no way I'm coming. I've been here before, but... I don't know how to describe my feeling... In short, it's just weird."
She lowered her head and thought for a while, then raised her head, changed the topic, and said with a smile: "By the way, your magic has made good progress in the past few days. I saw the slowness spells you used. It seems that in actual combat It really enhances your abilities."
Dardanelle came towards us from a distance, and Semmel sighed: "Okay, I'm leaving, please be careful... I, I think this lake is weird."
After saying that, her body disappeared from Du Wei's eyes.
"Hey, Harry." There was some sweat on Dardaniel's forehead, and he looked very happy: "You know? Beinrich knew that we were leaving tomorrow and said he would see us off tonight. The old one-eyed dragon said he would meet in the evening Get some special food...what are you thinking about, my friend?"
Du Wei stood up, patted the snow on his butt, and said with a smile: "Nothing... Okay, let's start working. We will leave tomorrow. We have to help our mercenary friends today."
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•;
In the evening, the old one-eyed dragon actually made a big pot of mushroom soup! These mushrooms were collected by the old one-eyed dragon along the way.
In such a cold weather, after a few days of eating unappetizing deviled wolf meat, the mercenaries almost bit off their own tongues with such a large pot of delicious mushroom soup!
Beinrich treated Duwei and Dardanelle warmly and took out the last of his wine to see them off. In the end, Duwei even drank two more glasses and fell asleep in a daze.
In the morning, Du Wei was pushed awake by Dardaniel! Dardaniel's face was ugly and his expression was solemn: "Harry! Something happened! Get up quickly!!"
•;
Captain Beinrich's eyes were red! He gritted his teeth, as if he were a beast ready to eat people! All the mercenaries were as if they were facing a powerful enemy! Everyone did not do any work, and they all held their hands silently.
arms……
Du Wei looked at the crowd and found that some people were missing!
Eleven! Eleven people! Missing!
The eleven mercenaries who were responsible for the night patrol last night disappeared collectively!
What is incomprehensible is that they did not seem to be attacked by some magical beast... Even if there were magical beasts, it would be impossible for eleven people to disappear silently! Not even the slightest sound was made!
There were no footprints of monsters or even human footprints around the camp! They did not leave, there were no bodies around, and there were no footprints on the snow!
Eleven people, just like last night... suddenly disappeared collectively!
Beinrich sent half of his men out to search for a long time, but there was still no news! The men who were sent out came back empty-handed!
"Even if they are attacked, they can at least make a sound!" Beinrich growled angrily: "They are all experienced old mercenaries! They can't be killed silently! Let alone quietly.
Go away!! Damn it! We didn’t lose so many people along the way! But in one night, I lost eleven brothers!!”
The angry leader gave the order: "Let's stay here for another day! Damn it! I will personally keep vigil tonight. Everyone should be alert at night and don't fall asleep! I want to see if there is anything here that can make my eleventh
The brothers evaporated collectively!"
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Du Wei returned to the tent to pack his things. He planned to stay for another day. No matter what, now that the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group was in trouble, he didn't want to leave just like that.
"I said, this lake is a bit weird." Semel quietly stood behind Du Wei at some point.