Mercenaries and Adventurers

"Polu! How are you?" After cutting off the blind wolf's head, Keir and other young hunters surrounded him.

Polu's face was full of pain, his arm was bitten and dragged by the northern land wolf, and it was repeatedly bitten here, the whole was already tattered. At this moment, it was stuck in the sharp teeth of the wolf's mouth, bleeding profusely.

"My hand, it's finished, it's finished, save me, save me." A lot of blood flowed from the wound on Polu's arm. At this moment, his face was a little pale, and his voice was weak.

When Keir saw it, he quickly put down the weapon he was holding tightly, and opened the wolf's mouth. Everyone hurriedly took out the horrible arm stuck between the sharp teeth.

"It's all like this." A young hunter gritted his teeth and looked at Polu's arm, and smashed his blood-stained fist **** the snow, splashing a little snowflakes: "How will he use a bow and arrow in the future?"

"Don't worry about that, he's bleeding, hurry up, squeeze his injured arm tightly, stop bleeding, or he'll die!" Keel finished speaking, demonstrating how to control the blood on the arm where the wound was located Then he and the two hunters lifted Polu and moved him to the carriage.

The other two hunters held Polu's elbows and armpits tightly, tightly holding the blood vessels in his arms to prevent the blood from leaking out.

This trick is very useful, the dripping blood will soon stop flowing, although Polu whispered that he was cold, but everyone knows that Polu, who is wearing a thick hunter suit, is not because he is really cold, but because he is cold. It is the body's warm blood that is lost, so the whole body feels very cold.

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Everyone quickly carried him to the side of the carriage, opened the wooden board at the rear of the carriage, and sent him to the inside of the carriage.

First, they used ropes instead of human hands, and tied their arms tightly to prevent bleeding. Immediately afterwards, the old hunters took out the ointment prepared in advance from under the driver's seat of the carriage, and washed Poluna's **** and **** arm with the water they drank from their respective arms. A light green dilute ointment was applied to the arm where the muscles had been torn apart and spliced ​​together.

"Ah! It hurts!" Polu yelled out in pain.

The two old hunters were overjoyed, and said in unison: "It's right that it hurts, it means your arm is not finished! You can keep it!"

Polu cursed, he couldn't stand the pain, and he didn't care whether the two old hunters were elders, so he uttered all kinds of obscenities.

Everyone ignored him, and watched nervously as the two experienced old hunters treated Polu's wounds.

Put together with the hemostatic ointment was a roll of clean cotton cloth, which was unrolled, cut with a clean sharp knife, and wrapped around Polu's arm.

Finally, the knot was tied tightly, and after waiting for a while, the rope that bound the arm was untied.

With the very effective ointment to stop the bleeding, although Polu was still screaming in pain, his life and half of his arm were finally saved.

One person took care of him, while the others got out of the carriage and began to discuss Polu's situation.

"There's no problem. Although it's injured like that, at least the arm is saved, so it won't be amputated and become disabled." An old hunter wiped the blood stains on his hands with snow.

Only then did everyone notice that they were more or less stained with blood, so they all imitated it and wiped their palms with the snow at their feet.

Another old hunter looked at the northern ground wolves who had been killed nearby: "I didn't expect them to try to ambush us. It seems that those wild beasts are also cunning. Well, and there is no more way out. This time we can take one breath!" Killing so many northern land wolves is thanks to Kiel's ability."

Kiel pulled out the long sword from his waist a little, and showed everyone the long sword that looked normal at the moment.

"Is it a one-off?"

Keir shook his head: "No, you have to bask in the sun."

Everyone looked up at the sky and found that although it was no longer snowing, it was still cloudy and there was no sun overhead.

The old hunter waved his hand and told the young people to drag the dead northern land wolf over and try to recover the arrows they shot before. Now that Poru was badly wounded, they had to rest here for a while, or at least start a fire to keep the wounded warm.

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Keir came to the place where Poru was dragged by the northern land wolf before, briefly wiped the ax on the spot, and put it behind his back. The shield was also transferred from the belt to hang on the back. Then he grabbed the head of the northern land wolf with one hand, and walked back with the wolf corpse on his shoulders.

This northern wolf is not light. No one except Kiel carried the wolf's body. They all grabbed the wolf's tail and dragged the killed northern wolf to the carriage.

"Skin me all these **** things!" The old hunter rubbed his waist and said angrily to the young people.

So, everyone drew out their daggers and hatchets, cut open the northern land wolf from the side of the abdomen, and carefully peeled off the wolf's skin. Another old hunter simply cleaned up the snow on the ground beside the carriage, set up a fire, then got Polu out of the carriage, and leaned against the fire to keep warm.

"How is it? Is it still cold?" The old hunter fiddled with the fire to make the flames of the fire more vigorous.

"It's much better. It's not cold anymore. It's just that my arm hurts." Polu hissed softly, but he still held back most of the pain tenaciously. After all, although everyone was busy, they were all secretly looked at his situation. The strong Poro doesn't want to give everyone a weak image.

"It's okay if it hurts, remember not to sleep for the time being, wake up, and eat more."

After a moment of silence, Polu still asked about his arm: "My hand?"

After thinking for a while, the old hunter said: "Well, I saved it. If I send you back, maybe I can find the church to heal you. But this is the decision of the knight. We have to send the supplies to the supply point camp first. That's the most important thing right now."

"I know. Let me lie down for a while." Polu's complexion changed, and finally he leaned on the wheel of the carriage, and tightened his cold hunting cloak with his other uninjured hand.

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"Hush!" After dealing with a wolf, Keel took the spear that his companion unloaded from the northern land wolf, and whistled towards his horse.

"Yu Lu Lu Lu." Soon, his horse trotted over. There was a circle of snow hanging around its mouth, obviously just after secretly trying to clear the snow on the ground, it went looking for edible hay.

"You know how to eat, are you not injured?" Keel waited for the horse to come over, touched its ears, and checked its condition.

Very good, the wolves didn't attack it just now. Those wolves came here specifically for human hunters.

It appears that for several years Knight Lanisa organized the Winter Hunter Crusade, letting these clever beasts know of an ambush ahead of time. To be honest, if the old hunters hadn't been sharp-eyed and discovered something wrong with the snow on the branches on the roadside hills in advance, they might have been ambushed by these wild beasts.

At that time, it will certainly not be the case that only one person is injured now.

After processing the wolf skins, everyone ate something around the fire, put the gradually frozen wolf skins on the carriage, and everyone set off on the road again.

"Keil, why do you keep this wolf head?" In the carriage, a young hunter held a wolf head that Kiel had beheaded, and asked Kiel who was following the carriage.

"Ah, that. I have a friend who likes to collect the heads of monsters. I thought it would be a pity to throw them away, so I wanted to take them back as gifts for him."

"Anyone else likes this thing? That's strange," the hunter muttered.

Next to him, an old hunter who was resting in the carriage explained: "Don't be surprised, there are many rich people who like this thing very much. They don't have the guts to hunt in dangerous uninhabited forests, so they can We had to collect some animal heads from us. But, Keel, it’s okay to be cold here now, after you go to the camp, it will be warmer there, you can’t just take this thing in, it will stink after a few days!”

"Then what should we do?" Keel was dumbfounded, he thought he would be fine in such a cold winter.

"You dig out all the flesh and blood in this skull, leaving only the fur and bones, and then let the other party find something to refill it by themselves." The old hunter talked eloquently.

"Okay! Just do as you said, or throw the head over, and I'll deal with it with a dagger right away."

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After going on the road again, the group of them finally arrived at the supply point camp the next day.

Knight Lanisa went to Wumi Lake Village and hadn't returned yet. After Keir and the others arrived at the camp tower, they quickly unloaded the supplies and moved them to the small warehouse on the second floor. The injured Polu was asked to rest by everyone, so he had to sleep in his own room.

Considering the situation afterwards, the four old hunters asked the young people to go to the nearby forest to cut some thick logs and come back. There are enough tools in the camp, and they can just get the resources needed for the forward camp before the knight brings people back.

After all, the supply point camp is still some distance away from going deep into the northern forest. It may be closer to Wumi Lake here, and it is still almost far away from the forest that hunters will enter later.

So Keel took three young hunters to cut down trees on the edge of a forest that protruded from the whole in the distance.

They have the detection alert of the sentry tower in the distance behind them. If the people on the watchtower see some danger, they will blow the whistle to remind Kiel and the others to retreat to the watchtower.

Dressed neatly and taking two axes specially used for logging, after leaving the camp, Kiel first sharpened the rusty logging axes on the nearby stones before setting off.

Logging is not difficult, and most hunters who often wander in the forest know how to log.

First, choose the right tree.

A tree trunk that is too slender is not acceptable. After all, even if you cut it down, you will not be able to use it, and it will waste your energy and time in vain. Secondly, old trees that are too thick are not acceptable, not only because they are difficult to cut down, but also because in this deep mountain and old forest, everyone is afraid that this old tree has mysterious power. Its revenge is not good.

The people including the hunters all believed this, and Kiel also believed it. After all, this is not the previous life. There are really all kinds of weird or unimaginable things in this different world.

In addition, the inside of the trunk of some old trees is mostly occupied by some animals. These animals have hollowed out part of the trunk as a family residence. If you cut down this kind of tree, you have to be prepared to be attacked by these small or big animals plan.

The type of tree is also very important. Some big trees look luxuriant and grow well, but their wood is soft, or has a lot of water, or has a lot of oil inside. These are not suitable for making things.

It is necessary to choose a good material with less water in the trunk, straight trunk, and dense wood. It would be better if the material of the tree itself can repel insects, which will prevent the wood from being eaten by insects and ants after a long period of use.

But Keel and the others are just making some simple things, so they just messed around with the choice of wood.

Several people came to the outermost edge of the protruding part of the forest, and directly chose a big tree with a thick waist as their target for felling.

Next, is the second point of logging. They have to choose a suitable felling angle, so that the fallen tree faces outwards, so that they can simply trim the excess branches, and then pull the entire trunk upside down with a horse. Get outside the camp.

At this point, Keir had no experience, so he followed the instructions of a hunter, grabbed the ax tightly and started chopping.

Wherever you want to fall, you have to chop more when you swing the ax to cut trees in the first wave. In this way, after the other side of the trunk is also cut in half, the side with the larger gap will naturally fall to this side.

Of course, it is better and safer to use a rope to tie the tree to the tree before felling, and then use people to pull down the big tree when the felling is almost done.

But Keir and the others did not bring such a long and thick hemp rope for logging. Secondly, this logging safety method requires a lot of manpower. It is difficult for the four of them to pull down the big tree after simply cutting it down. .

Lanessa Knight might be able to.

But is it possible to let the knight do this?

Of course it's impossible.

So, after Kiel cut his side in one breath, he took off his helmet panting, hung the helmet on his waist, and breathed in the cold air.

"Keir, look at your head, it's steaming!" The companions laughed and teased when they saw the steam coming out of Kiel's hair.

"Hey, wait a minute, you too, who are you laughing at?" Kiel replied, although it was tiring to swing the ax at full capacity like this, it was indeed a good way of exercising. Not only did he exercise his body, but he also allowed him to spontaneously master several swinging skills of the ax in the continuous swinging of the axe.

Soon, Keel learned the technique of using his body to breathe with the ax swing from his companion who was cutting the tree trunk on the other side.

Breathing does not affect the movement of the arms, and it is not like Kiel swinging the ax continuously in one breath. Instead, the rhythmic two people each use a felling axe, and you come and go to chop one side of the big tree.

"The tree fell! Be careful to avoid it!"

Everyone heard the crackling sound of the last piece of wood on the trunk of the big tree, so they all hid in the safe place they had expected in advance to prevent being crushed by the trunk of the fallen tree or scratched by the branches.

boom! The sound of crackling branches and breaking sounded continuously.

The big tree fell down.

One end of the top of the tree fell to the outside of the forest, and a large amount of snow was blown away by the fallen tree, and the snowflakes flew, hitting people's faces with pain.

When the snowflakes floating in the air fell again, the four of Keel walked over and chopped off the branches with an axe. The thick and usable branches were taken one by one to a cleared space outside.

Other twigs were taken as well, and these could be used to light a fire for warmth and cooking, or to make torches.

Split one end of the thick twig, then insert two thin twigs in a cross shape, then clamp more material into the spread twig, fill it with animal fat or soaking oil, and finally fill the center of the torch with some flammable something will do.

After cleaning up the branches other than the trunk, Keel and the others cut down the trunk into sections at a distance of three meters. Otherwise, the heavy trunk could not be moved by manpower or horsepower.

"Keil, look quickly, it's a rabbit!" A companion suddenly pointed to a piece of ground not far away that was overwhelmed by the trunk of a big tree. Rabbits poked their heads cautiously out of their burrows.

The surrounding snow was blown away, and they saw the rabbit hole. Otherwise, there was a thick snow on the ground, and they would not be able to find the rabbit anyway.

The companion is a hunter, so hunting is naturally unnecessary for him. Sure enough, with the sound of two bowstrings vibrating, the gray rabbits poking out from the two very close cave exits were shot in the head by arrows.

"Ha, how about eating this at night! It's just a good time to take the skin and make a handbag for Polu to hang around his neck." The young hunter was very happy.

Pulling the rabbit's ears with his hands, he pulled them out at once.

Interestingly, he continued to lie down at the mouth of the rabbit's cave, listening to the cave with his ears.

"What's the matter, is there a girl calling you inside?" Keel squatted beside him and said jokingly.

"The girl doesn't have one, but there is still a litter of little rabbits~www.readwn.com~ After finishing speaking, he got up, rummaged through the branches he had cut, and found a slender and soft branch.

He cut off one end of the branch with his dagger, and then whittled out a wooden hook.

Gere squatted, watching him perform.

The young hunter stretched the long branch down the rabbit hole, fiddled with it a few times, and finally stuffed his entire arm into the rabbit hole.

After a while, the branch with the wooden hook protruded from a hole next to it.

"Wrong, wrong! Come out from the side!" Kiel quickly reminded him.

"Yeah, it looks like I had to go in another direction just now." After speaking, he pulled out his arm, and then stretched the branch into the rabbit hole again.

Keel waited for him for a while, then saw him burst out laughing.

"Ha, got it. Let's go!" Following the movement, he pulled the branch out of the rabbit hole.

Keel saw a rabbit not much smaller than the shot gray rabbit hanging from the hooked end of a branch.

"Rabbits come in litters, and there must be more." He grabbed the struggling baby rabbit, removed the hook from its fur, and wrung the rabbit's neck, throwing it to Keel.

Gere took the rabbit and pinned the ears of the smaller rabbit to his belt. The ears of the two largest rabbits are knotted and draped over his shoulders front to back.

He continued to squat beside him, watching his companion's performance, while waiting for the other two companions to drive three horses over to fetch wood: "I'm just going to see how many rabbits you can hook with this method!"

"Hahahaha, then you have to be prepared to be surprised. I didn't brag. This year I made more than 30 of them in one go. Although the tools are better." The young hunter said confidently.