Chapter 63, Traces of Northern Wolves! (Happy New Year!)

After dawn, Kil, who had not slept all night, woke up the young hunter and carefully put the lizard's head and claws into a bag.

The lizard's head was still alive, and when Kiel put it in the bag, it opened and closed its mouth in an attempt to bite him. How could Kil be bitten by such a clumsy attack?

Although it looks scary, a white-scaled lizard with only one head left cannot hurt anyone at all. After staring at it for a while, Kil couldn't match the monster's patience, so he gave up and put the whole thing into his bag.

After the night passed, the lizard's severed tail was still hanging in the air of the carriage, twisting and turning. If you poke it, it will squirm back and forth lively.

After eating some simple food, Keir removed the saddle from the horse and connected the reins to the other two horses pulling the cart. The saddle, backpack, and weapons were all thrown into the carriage. Kil just lay down in the carriage wearing his armor and fell asleep.

Before falling asleep, he reminded the young hunter that if he encountered anything wrong, he should wake him up as soon as possible. Because in the middle of the night yesterday, Kil noticed that there were several pairs of wild beast eyes in the distant snowdrifts that reflected the light of the campfire, quietly staring at the two of them.

"Could it be those spies from the wolf pack?" The young hunter was a little uneasy, especially since there were only two of them at this time and they had an important mission.

"No matter what it is, since they didn't attack us last night, they won't have a chance during the day. Don't stop on the road, they won't be able to catch up no matter what it is!" Kil said firmly, pointing in the direction of Hekou Town in the south.

"Okay, it's up to you. Drive!"

The young hunter whipped his whip and drove the three horses forward.

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After sleeping drowsily in the bumpy carriage carriage for a long time, Kil woke up energetically around noon.

He was lying in the carriage, looking at the lizard's tail hanging in the air, rubbing the short beard on his chin with his hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

"This thing looks like it might be very powerful if you drink it with wine?" He muttered nonsensically.

After thinking wildly for a while, Kil got up and patted his companion.

"Are you awake Kil? I guess we're almost at Hekou Town." The young hunter drove the carriage quickly along the path he came from.

"Very good! Nothing happened on the way?"

"When I first started running, there were some howling wolves behind me. But I quickly got rid of them. Haha, our carriage is empty! It feels like flying when we run! Look!" The young hunter pointed at the carriage excitedly. Both sides and behind the carriage.

After the three horses started running quickly, their twelve hooves fell and then rose up, bringing up a large area of ​​soft snow on the ground.

The snow was scattered behind the carriage and did not fall for a long time.

Keir stood on the driver's seat, holding the hood of the carriage with his hands, looking behind him. He felt that the carriage at this time was very imposing, as if there were thousands of troops behind it.

Sitting down, he motioned to his companions to slow down: "After running for so long, let the horses rest."

They gradually slowed down, and then Kiel and the hunter wiped the sweat from the horses. Kiel also fed three horses some beer he had not finished drinking.

The horses seemed excited after drinking some beer. The two then covered the horses with linen cloth to keep out the cold.

This time, after they hit the road again, they slowed down. This place is close to Hekou Town, and the terrain has become flat. Although there are no fields yet, there must be no danger around.

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In the middle of the afternoon, they arrived outside Hekou Town. There was some problem when entering the town. The militiamen guarding the north gate of the town did not want to let the two people and the carriage in.

For these militiamen, there are very few people coming in and out of the north side of the town in winter, let alone carriages from uninhabited areas. They saw Kiel riding on a horse and expressed great fear of the weapons and equipment all over Kiel's body.

"We are Knight Lanisa's subordinates. We just left town from here two days ago! We are not some unknown dangerous person." Kil said loudly.

But the militiamen above retorted: "You said they were under the knight, but what about the other knights? Where are the knights?"

Kil said that the knight had other important matters and did not follow him. But the militiamen did not accept this rhetoric at all.

"What should we do? It seems that nothing we say is of any use now. Why don't we use some coins to see?" Kil complained to his companions.

There was some hesitation on the young hunter's face: "Isn't this bad? We have often dealt with them in other seasons before, but it was all the old hunters in the team who were familiar with them. I never said a word to them anyway."

Kil's eyes rolled: "Well, there happen to be two old hunters in the town. How about asking them to find the old hunters to prove our identities?"

"Just do it."

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"Hey! We are really a team of hunters under Knight Lanissa. If you don't believe it, you can go to the town now and find our old hunter to prove it. We are here." At this point, Kil asked his companion in a low voice: " Where is our stronghold in the town?"

The companion gestured: "Opposite the tavern with a bucket of fresh fish on the sign."

"By the way, there is a house opposite the tavern where we have a bucket of fresh fish on the sign. If you ask someone, you can prove our identity. Please go and verify it and I will give you money." shouted After finishing, Keir took out a handful of iron coins and copper coins from his money bag and threw them on the door.

"Hey, Keir!?" His companion was about to stop him, but Keir had already scattered the money: "What if they take the money and don't find anyone?"

The words of my companion were heard by the militiamen above who were fighting for the coins: "Fart! Are we that kind of people? We just go find someone after taking the money."

After saying that, the two militiamen withdrew their heads and ran down the wooden watchtower to go to the place where Keir said to find someone to prove it.

Other militiamen became less tough after receiving the money, and instead boasted about Kiir's generosity.

Kil rolled his eyes under his helmet and visor, but he no longer planned to use the money. Giving too much money will arouse greed in people's hearts, which is not good.

After a while, the sky gradually darkened.

If we were in the wild mountains and forests, it would probably get dark very quickly right now. But near the flat Hekou Town, the darkness at dusk seemed to slow down.

Urgent footsteps sounded from the other side of the wooden door, followed by an argument that included curses. Immediately afterwards, the voices of the militiamen apologizing came.

The north gate of the town opened soon.

Five hunters walked out quickly with bows and arrows, followed by several militiamen who kept bending down to apologize.

"Kiel! Fick! Just come here. Is it safe on the road?" An old hunter came over and asked.

Kil jumped off the horse and hugged his companions: "On the way there, Knight Lanissa was there, so it was safe. But on the way back, when we were camping at night, we were attacked by a ferocious monster."

"Monster? What kind of monster? Are you not injured?" the companions asked quickly.

Kil smiled and pointed at the lizard's tail that occasionally swayed in the air in the carriage: "It is a very tenacious white lizard in life. Although it has hard scales, it was still defeated by the two of us. But no I was able to keep the guy's body, but only cut off the head and the discarded tail."

Kiel's words confused everyone. What does it mean to cut off the head but not keep the body? The body and the head are not from the same family, right?

You are indeed right. This tenacious lizard can move its body without its head. Kil didn't check for a moment and was escaped by it.

The hunter team walked towards the town while talking about their respective situations after separation.

The militiamen guarding the gate held their money bags in their clothes in embarrassment, but Kiir did not mention the money to them.

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After returning to their base, the old hunters rented the front yard of a nearby resident, where they could just leave their horses and carriages without disturbing the town manager when there was no female knight.

If you can solve it by yourself, you can solve it by yourself. There is no need to use the relationship between knights.

There was nothing in the carriage. After parking and feeding the horses, Kil and the young hunter Fick who accompanied him followed the group back to the stronghold.

While eating, the old hunters showed the food supplies and other consumable supplies they had purchased in the past few days to the two of Kiel.

Everything is packed into strong sacks, which are full. They can be quickly loaded onto the carriage early tomorrow morning, and then we can set off and leave here together.

Gere and Fick also talked about their journey.

"Since everything is going according to the previous plan, let's rest early. But since Kiel and the others met the vanguard spies who may be the wolf pack when they returned, we all have to cheer up when we hit the road tomorrow!" An old hunter said so.

Everyone shouted in unison, and after finishing their meal, they checked the weapons and equipment that had been checked several times.

The guy on Kil's body had the most troubles, so he checked his weapons again and again before going upstairs to rest.

Early the next morning, the hunters brought the carriage and horses over. Just renting a residential yard for one night, the old hunters only spent five iron coins. They are really good at bargaining. Keir felt ashamed. He had easy money, so he didn't care much about spending it. He didn't expect that he could save money like this.

Together they loaded heavy sacks of food onto the carriage. A hunter stood in the carriage, and another hunter stood on the driver's seat. He took the bags of supplies carried out by everyone and handed them to his companions in the carriage.

In this way, after the collective work of seven people, all the preparation materials were transported to the carriage in just one meal.

The old hunters went to the upstairs of the stronghold to check to make sure that no one had left anything important in the house, and that there were no safety hazards such as open flames in the house.

Then they closed the strong wooden door of the stronghold house and fastened a metal lock on the wooden door.

"Let's go!"

Everyone set off, but Kiel was still alone on his horse, while the others were sitting in the carriage.

There were two people sitting in the driver's seat, and the others were crowded in the carriage, commenting on the lizard's tail still hanging in the air. They bet whether eating the lizard's tail would be beneficial to the human body.

Some people say that the lizard's tail is so alive that they don't want to touch it anymore. Some people think that this lizard tail is so vital that after eating it, it will definitely extend the lives of some seriously ill or old people.

But these are all guesses. Everyone has little experience and knowledge, so they can’t tell for sure when they encounter this strange thing. So everyone agreed that after arriving at the supply point camp, they would find Knight Lanisa to identify this thing.

Lanisha Knight had studied in a big city and read books, so she would definitely know what this was.

Keir is the group of people who believe that this thing is beneficial to people. The reason is very simple. This thing was obtained by him and Fick through defeat. If it is judged to be beneficial to people, the two of them have the right to decide on this thing. use.

Kil secretly asked Fike, and Fike said he wanted to take it home for his parents to try. His very young sister was also in poor health. Maybe she could improve her health by eating this food and grow up healthily.

Kil is much simpler, he will eat the food directly, and if everyone wants to eat it, he can give it to everyone to try. But I must have eaten a large portion by myself. When I came to the other world, maybe it was the first time I ate such strange food, excluding mushrooms.

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After leaving the city, everything was calm at first. It seemed that all the animals had been subdued by the winter snowfall, and each one secretly hibernated to avoid some hungry predators.

Although the physical functions of old hunters are not as good as those of young people, their years of hunting have made them much more vigilant than ordinary people. On the carriage, the two of them noticed some traces that others would not notice.

"Kiel! Come here, come here." An old hunter who took turns sitting in the driver's seat called over Kiel who was following the carriage.

Kil rushed to catch up with the carriage that was slowly advancing: "What's wrong, uncle?"

The old hunter didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What do you call me uncle! My grandson is about the same age as you."

Kil chuckled: "What's that called? Master?"

"I am a hunter, how dare I be called such an honorific? Let's get down to business, there is something wrong with the snow on the hill on the side. You can ride over and have a look. Pay attention to safety and have your weapons ready at all times." The old hunter pointed out They looked at a hill on the side of the front not far from the traces left by their previous carriage.

Keir followed the other party's instructions and saw nothing wrong at first glance.

"Snow on the trees!" the old hunter pointed out.

Keir suddenly realized that compared to the snow on the trees in other places, the snow on the trees in this mountain bag was too little. It looked like something had touched the trunk of the big tree. A lot of the snow had fallen from the branches and leaves. It fell, revealing its evergreen flat needle leaves in winter.

Keir nodded, bumped his horse to signal the horse to speed up, and soon arrived at the foot of the mountain before the carriage.

It's not easy to climb up this hill, which is only about ten meters tall, on horseback. After all, you don't know whether there is a stone bottom, grass, or a depression under the snow?

Kil dismounted, put the wooden spear on his shoulder and climbed up.

On the other side, the carriage also slowed down slowly, waiting for Kiel to signal it was safe before they crossed the front.

While piercing the snow with the tail of his spear to see if it was possible to walk under the snow, Kil carefully looked at everything on the hill.

He sniffed and vaguely smelled something.

He lifted up the visor of his helmet to expose his face, took a deep breath through his nose, then smelled left and right.

The smell of blood.

He stopped, closed his helmet, then took off the shield behind his left shoulder, and held it on his left forearm in advance.

When he slowly climbed to the general level, he seemed to hear some heavy breathing. Like a broken bellows, it was definitely not a sound that humans could make.

The corners of his mouth curled up under his visor. He raised the spear, then held the middle part of the wooden pole and rotated it.

The movement had no meaning, but in the carriage behind, the hunters stopped the carriage, and then quietly took out their bows, arrows and daggers. One person climbed onto the sturdy roof of the carriage, squatted down and placed an arrow on the bowstring.

The two people jumped off the carriage and stood on both sides of the carriage, guarding both sides.

One person untied the thick linen that was tightly closed at the back of the truck and watched their approach carefully.

The two hunters sitting in the driver's seat stood on their seats, also ready for battle.

Keir moved gently, trying not to make any other noise except the crunch of snow under his feet.

When he came to the top of the hill, he saw messy snow depressions and small patches of snow buns that had been pushed up after hiding things.

"Hmph." Kil glanced at the big tree on the top of the hill, but in the cover between the leaves and branches, he looked directly into a pair of ferocious beast eyes.

"It's a wolf!" Kil yelled, and at the same time he jumped forward, stabbing the wolf hiding in the tree with the spear in his right hand.

The opponent was more dexterous than he imagined. He stepped on the trunk and branches of the tree with all four legs and jumped, breaking through the leaves and snow, and landed directly on the snow beside him.

The soft snow kept it unscathed, so as soon as it hit the ground, it let out three urgent short howls in succession.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!" As soon as this guy's cry ended, the wild wolves that had been hiding under the snow in the north of the hill suddenly burst out from the ground one by one, shaking their heads and covered in snow.

However, the carriage was not on the route in front of them. It was still parked in front of the hill.

"It's the Northern Wolf! I can recognize this sound as soon as I hear it! Kiel! Retreat! We'll cover you here!" The old hunter yelled, calling for Kiel on the hill to come back.

After Kil heard this, he gave up his opponent, threw his spear down the mountain, turned around and jumped back.

The small hill had no height. After Kil jumped down, he rolled twice in the snow, then stood up quickly, glanced left and right, and found his spear.

The commanding northern wolf on the mountain also jumped down with a howl.

However, he was hit in the body by two bows and arrows in the air. They were shot by an old hunter with amazing archery skills.

However, more than fifty meters away, the sudden shooting became more accurate and less powerful. The old hunter was anxious to shoot, and before the bowstring was fully drawn, he saw the right moment and loosened the bowstring.

Therefore, the northern wolf who was shot in the body just staggered after landing, roared, and then rushed towards Kiel as usual.

"Well done!" Kil was not afraid of him, he was just a wolf alone. Besides, he was not in Dorallin Village now.

Kil stood firm, holding his shield upright, waiting for the northern wolf to pounce.

He wasn't worried at all that this guy could knock him to the ground. These days of eating and training have made him grow rapidly and his body has become much stronger. At the same time, he was not only wearing thick winter clothes inside, but also wearing his hard cowhide full-coverage armor. He had a long sword and dagger hanging on his waist, a shield and a spear in his hand, and a heavy gun on his back. ax.

The sum of these things and his weight has already exceeded one hundred kilograms.

This wild wolf, which weighs only 50 to 60 kilograms, is not easy to knock him down. If he had run a certain distance and then accelerated to pounce, it should be possible, but the wolf had just been injured in the air, and if he pounced again after landing, it was hard to say whether the force would be half as strong as a full-strength strike.