For White Socks, 5 miles is just enough to complete the warm-up run. In the past two days, Neo has used the Pearl of Life on it once a day. White Socks' condition has reached its peak and is exceeding it. It runs fast and powerfully.
Jumping up and down, even Neo can clearly feel that kind of vigor.
The outline of the land surrounded by unfinished walls built of stones and large timbers made Ratheno look a bit ambitious. It was being planned into a town, and it was not just a matter of walls. The village
Compared with Cropp, the houses are obviously much more regular, and the roads are naturally straight and clear. It has been getting rid of the appearance of a natural village, but this process has stopped abruptly. What Neo sees is only desolation and dilapidation.
White Socks slowed down and cautiously carried Neo towards the center of the village.
The wind and snow only covered up some of the traces. There were traces of weapons in many places on the walls, doors and windows, broken arrows, blood frozen by the cold...
Neo made a rough estimate that the attacking party should be a certain tribe of humans and beasts, and there were a large number of them. The time was about a day ago, and the fighting was fierce at that time.
"It's really surprising that such a tragic battle happened here."
Neo thought about it, in a small village like Latno, where the young adults could not even reach the hundred, how could they fight against a group of large aliens who made a profession of killing? Moreover, the condition of the houses on the street showed that the fighting was intensive.
It was so intense that there was a fight in almost every room.
"It feels like the Cordim broke into not a grape-growing village, but a military camp somewhere!"
Ouch...
A wild beast roar came from the village hall in the center of the village.
"We've been discovered, let's act accordingly." Neo said, jumping off White Socks, and easily tore open the chain leather buckle of Anqiu. White Socks was not used to this kind of "corset" when fighting with White Socks.
Bang! The already scarred door of the village hall finally died under a heavy blow and turned into debris flying in the sky. A werewolf howled and charged towards Neo while the debris was flying.
"Who wouldn't forget to bet against a door during a fight?" While Neo was muttering to himself, the werewolf had already rushed over, waving a pair of sharp claws that were too huge for ordinary werewolves.
Attack with all your strength
In just a few clicks, Neo was able to tell that the werewolf was indeed delirious. The series of actions were more about venting than attacking. Apart from the fierceness, the only highlight was that it was full of loopholes. In just 20 seconds,
, leaving at least 9 opportunities for Neo to die.
White Socks, who was wagging his tail and running away, muttered: "Why are there mental illnesses among werewolves? What bad luck!"
"It means that this guy's mind is active enough on weekdays, and he has been stimulated enough not long ago!" Neo said while dodging and parrying, and it would not be very difficult for a martial artist who is proficient in fighting skills to deal with a madman.
Neo originally planned to tire this guy to death and then decide how to deal with it, but after seeing that the guy was showing signs that the more exhausted he became, the deeper he went crazy, and that he wanted to turn himself into a permanent madman, he changed his attention.
, taking a chance, Neo pointed his finger at the middle of the werewolf's forehead, and the Pearl of Life went straight into it. This was the only way Neo could think of. A basin of cold water would definitely not work on this guy now.
The calming and soothing properties of the natural healing power came into play. When the pathological excitement was suppressed, the overdraft of life force immediately turned into a flash in the pan. The werewolf was like a puppet with no power source, soft and powerless.
The werewolf state was released, and the right claw that was swinging down was too strong, causing her to stumble down, and she became a beautiful girl lying on the snow with a sultry figure.
"Miss, you are drooling, and you are gone!" Neo said, obviously with a bit of revenge.
The female werewolf wiped the drool from her face, covered her chest with one hand, and protected her lower body with the other. She wanted to stand up, but halfway through she felt too embarrassed, so she squatted down again and started to cry.
"This is boring!" Neo scolded secretly, holding the gray spear, he stepped past the female werewolf and headed towards the village hall.
There was no cloak to wear, nor a word of comfort. Perhaps it was Neo's ungentlemanliness that made the female werewolf helpless, or maybe she felt that there was no point in crying all the time. After a while, the female werewolf stopped crying and raised her head while wiping her tears.
Looking down, she finally landed on White Socks who was squatting not far away watching her performance. Miss White Socks bared her teeth at her very domineeringly, "What are you looking at? Have you never seen a beautiful woman? What a stupid girl!"
At the same time, Neo had entered the village hall
The structure of the village hall in Rathenau is similar to that of Kropp. Enter the small hall, turn left and pass through the corridor. Go to the end and turn right inward, which is the inner hall.
Among the broken furniture, traces of cuts and slashes, Neo also saw the body of a strong werewolf.
Walking forward, Neo sniffed and whispered: "Bloodline..."
Look at the logo on the left chest of the werewolf's armor. The emblem was picked out and removed in a hurry. The mark is still "West Wind..."
With these two clues, the situation was basically clear. Neo turned around and came out. The female werewolf was picking up broken clothes from the ground to cover her body. When she saw Neo, she shrank and looked over with a little fear in her eyes.
"If you don't show your fangs, you should at least learn to control your anger!" Neo said with a bit of contempt in his tone.
Humans say: Man, be brave! Werewolves say: Hey, show your fangs
In the jungle, showing weakness will only cause hesitant opponents to pounce immediately; in human society, women's appearance will often arouse men's bestiality, especially in this wilderness, where kings are far away.
Judging from the reaction, the female werewolf understood what Neo meant, but not everything
Neo was too lazy to argue with this big-breasted and brainless woman and asked directly: "Why would I let you two go?"
The female werewolf shook her head, "I don't know. After the fight, they muttered a few words and then suddenly retreated."
"What are they?"
"human beast"
Neo snapped: "You lied! With the size of human beasts, they can't move in a room where humans live, and there is no way they can leave so many traces of battles."
"I, I don't!" Although the female werewolf looked frightened, she still argued: "They can transform into human form!"
Neo said nothing, just stared at the female werewolf with cold eyes.
The female werewolf became more and more frightened. Looking at the way she was trying to pull on her clothes to cover her body, she obviously thought that Neo had bad intentions, but the piece of cloth was just that little, covering her breasts and exposing her legs. Plus, she has such a figure.
She is indeed proud, but her movements are more likely to arouse male sexual desire
In fact, Neo was only considering the credibility of what the werewolf said. Neo chose to believe it because the werewolf's explanation sounded unbelievable.
Shh!
Neo whistled and called the white sock, asking it to notify the team members, while he investigated further.
Although the dead werewolf did not wear a battle emblem or military rank, looking at the sophistication of the armor, one could tell that his status was high. Why would a West Wind Fury team come here at this time? Neo didn't have to ask the female werewolf.
, and just remember the smell of the dead werewolf officer.
Walk around, stop and smell carefully, including picking up some snow... This kind of behavior is only for those who lack logical thinking. What Neo did was to walk around the various rooms in the village. He wanted to know, then
After the dead werewolf officer was dragged to Ratno, where did he stay the longest and visit the most frequently?
Latno is not a big place, so we quickly found a place that met our requirements, the most eye-catching villa and large house in the village.
The big target is confirmed, and then comes the details. Inside the house, the smell is retained far more completely than outside where the wind and snow are raging. Of course, the well-developed sweat glands and strong body odor of the werewolf are also important factors that make the search so efficient.
A private small wine cellar, just like the vegetable cellar of the old blacksmith Macon in Turres, stacked! A basement within a basement
Pressing the button and pushing open a secret door covered by a wine rack against the wall, Neo thought to himself: "Traces, clues! This is why we should pay attention to personal hygiene and use as little spicy food as possible.
…”
In a secret room of more than ten square meters, some old documents, paintings, calligraphy, and corals are placed on the old wooden shelves. On the floor are piles of bulky gold-inlaid and sterling silver products, as well as items that seem to be worth a few small coins.
Armor and these things can only scare those little thieves who have no knowledge and will touch other people's pockets for three or five silver coins.
"The problem is, if it's just such a small amount of bits and pieces, it won't be worth the exquisite mechanism arranged at the entrance!" Neo believes that there are still mysteries in this secret room.
He guessed it right
A smaller secret room with only a small wooden frame and two sturdy-looking solid wood iron hoop boxes.
The shelves are full of exquisite small boxes, square, flat, long, and tubular. One of their common features is sealing wood and sealing wax. As the name suggests, they can be used as sealing wood and sealing wax.
The biggest feature of materials is their excellent sealing performance, and the items they can be used to carry are generally energetic items, which are also commonly known as magic items, although this name is not entirely accurate from an academic perspective.
Compared with the mystery of these items on the shelf, the items contained in the two boxes are much more intuitive and tacky.
Lined with red velvet, it contains gold coins, gems, and some pure gold utensils, wine cups, table knives, and even scepters and crowns... The gold coins are not from the same dynasty, and the styles of the vessels are also obviously different.
A fortune that is unwilling to be made public, and may even be a fortune that comes from abnormal channels.
Neo moved the box. It was very heavy. He tried his best to move it with difficulty. After moving the box, he saw the mark clearly. It was new. These two boxes were the reason why West Wind Kuangzhan came here. They were not taking them away, but
It's shipped
Neo closed the secret room again. Before doing so, he casually took out some fine dust-like powder from a small leather bag tied on his belt and sprinkled it around.
After coming out of the villa, Neo returned to the village hall and searched for household registration information. Finally, he found the information he wanted in a blood-stained book. The owner of that villa was named Marsa Olivier.
He closed the book and threw it aside casually, "Olivier, Viscount Erdrit, is an important member of the Olivier family."
The female werewolf was guarding the body of the dead werewolf again. Neo ignored it and left. In fact, Neo had considered whether to kill someone to silence her. Once this woman died, the blame for the treasure would be logically placed on the head of the barbaric alien race.
But he found that he couldn't be so cold-hearted, so he found a good reason for himself: this woman may not know about the treasure, and even if she does, she may not be the only omission. The so-called killing her will solve the problem.
Unknowingly, unconsciously, it is just his own imagination
Barritt came with his team members, and everyone showed varying degrees of shock at the tragic situation in Latno Village. Borglem also said with a hint of sarcasm: "Some warriors must have mistaken Latno for a rope."
Ers is here to guard!" Obviously, he also saw for the first time that so many traces of battle could not be left by the confrontation between the villagers and the aliens.
Barritt's expression was solemn. Apparently, he realized that there were more powerful enemies on this land that were not easy to mess with. For the newly established Gale Team, the level of crisis had greatly exceeded the limit.
Mach, on the other hand, paid great attention to the broken arrows and the marks left by the weapons. He looked a little strange. Neo saw it and felt that he might know some information that others did not know. He thought about it when he had free time.
talk to him
Lifting up his visor, Neo tapped the frame of the sleigh with his gray spear. After attracting the attention of the team members, he loudly said: "Yesterday we lived in the castle, today we live in the villa." He pointed at Ollie with his gray spear.
The Weir family's villa, "Have you seen it, this is it"
The positive and positive topics made the team members feel a lot more cheerful. Neo was right. Castles and villas, places that would normally be looked down upon by domestic dogs if you stayed nearby for a while, can now be visited openly.
You can live in it and do whatever you want. The feeling of lawlessness is quite fresh.
"Hagen, you lead Edward and Tony to cook; Borglem, you lead four people to clean up the villa according to last night's standards; Barret, you lead two people to collect items, clothes, ingredients, and ironware from door to door.
Even the broken wheels, if they are not used, just collect them first and pile them in the empty space in front of the village hall. Remember to put them in categories; Maher, you are still responsible for taking good care of our four horses. Everyone pays attention.
Empty notebooks and pens, our butler Chebman doesn’t have a ledger yet, Dick, Wiz, follow me, we have endless blacksmithing work, let’s get moving!”
After the task was assigned, the team members split up and Neo ordered White Socks to patrol around the village. With this partner around, Neo felt at ease with the security work.
Ratnor's blacksmith shop was obviously of a higher standard than Cropp's, and the aliens did not loot iron tools when they left. While Neo was happy, he also felt sorry for the human-animal team that invaded Ratnor.
Care more and more
Worry can also be turned into positive motivation. It didn’t take long for Ratno’s small iron smelting furnace and field equipment to be put to use. The content of this build is mainly armor based on shields, and also includes the equipment needed for vehicles.
Spare parts are not only to replace damaged ones, but also to quickly produce a third or fourth sleigh when needed. Neo estimated that if Barritt searched Ratheno according to his instructions, the supplies would definitely exceed
limit
"Captain, we also found some valuable little things." In the report after the search, Barritt pointed to a small pile of items to Neo.
Scattered coins, gold and silver jewelry, and so-called family heirlooms from some years ago. Just looking at these things, you can tell that the villagers of Latno are not prepared to deal with the aliens. Neo can only make a rough judgment that they have underestimated the aliens' combat power.
, and at the same time overestimated the strength of the West Wind Berserkers.
"These are two good things!" Hagen, who came out to join in the fun, pointed at the two large tin buckets and said
Neo nodded. The plates of this kind of iron bucket were produced through roller presses and reel machines driven by steam engines. They are flat and even, and a large sheet is made into the barrel body. It looks beautiful and is strong enough. The key is to hold the goods better.
For a meal for more than 20 people like the Gale Team, a bucket of vegetable soup and half a bucket of rice or noodles are just right for cooking raw materials such as 'rubber'. Having such a bucket is also convenient for many Neos. When participating in militia training, they saw the military
Fang used a similar barrel, so a rough estimate is that this thing should be the property of the annihilated West Wind Fury team.
"If we judge from the condition of these two barrels, there should not be many people in this werewolf team and there are third parties?" With this question, Neo began to pay attention to other collected items.
As a result, the cart used by the werewolf team (destroyed) was found, and they also saw several bags of soybeans and oats that were obviously rationed to the army. They were fodder for the army horses. Apparently some of the army horses were unlucky and were first used as food.