Mercenaries and Adventurers

High in the sky above a long line of refugees, a huge raven that was almost impossible to see on the ground was circling and flying around the group of human refugees.

From time to time, it **** its huge black wings vigorously to maintain its original height in the airflow. Whenever it **** its huge, pitch-black wings, which are much larger than those of an average raven, it will make several unpleasant hoarse crows.

If you look carefully, you will find that this raven has some unpleasant missing parts on its tail feathers and abdomen. It is hard to imagine that a bird with such serious injuries can still fly smoothly in the air in good health.

The raven has a pair of completely dark eyes, which are currently scanning around in a purring manner. It looked below itself and could see a long human team. The team seemed to be quite large and the composition was quite messy. Most of the people were moving on foot, so the moving speed was very slow. This made this team very slow. The raven had to frequently turn around and circle over the group's heads.

There were soldiers in the front, middle and back of the human team carrying swords that could reflect sunlight. Even if the raven was flying at a very high altitude, the reflections on the weapons of these soldiers could be clearly noticed.

The reflection of these weapons did not scare it. On the contrary, the raven was frightened every time it saw the few humans carrying curved sticks, because its group was attacked by such a group not long ago. Humans carrying crooked sticks will be killed.

Dozens of fellow crows were shot to the ground one by one while surrounded by these humans. In the end, only it, the leader of the crows, was wounded and escaped.

"Gah!"

Damn it.

It screamed unhappily, but due to its lack of strength and the height of its flight, no one in the human team on the ground noticed this at all.

The raven's eyes moved again and soon noticed a metal human riding a horse outside the human team. The smart raven understood that this hard-bodied human on horseback was not only the leader of the human team below, but also the target that the great being always paid attention to.

Whenever the human team stops to rest at night, it will follow the instructions of the great being and land on the treetops near where the human team is camping. While avoiding the raptors that hunt at night, it will make a cry to show evidence of the existence of the great being.

Sometimes it will fly over the entire human team at low altitude, and most dull humans will not notice its existence. But when it is close to the metal human on horseback, it will always clearly sense the strong great existence emanating from that human. Come out feeling.

The smart raven was curious and wanted to know why the metal human had a strong feeling of great existence coming from him.

But it didn't dare to get close to such a human being.

Because no matter day or night, as long as it comes slightly closer to the opponent, the shiny, hard metal human will look at it immediately and wave its fist unfriendly towards it.

"Gah!"

Damn it.

The raven screamed unhappily, and then a pair of eyes that were darker than the night glanced around casually.

The slightly undulating ground is covered with wild grasses and wild flowers, and streams flow from the mountains in the distance, converging into a slightly larger natural river in the center of this relatively open land.

There are green jumping frogs jumping around on the gravel beside the water, popping their tongues from time to time to catch various flying insects flying along the river.

The raven was a little hungry, and he couldn't help but feel that when the human team stopped to rest after a while, he would descend and grab a few to fill his stomach.

The sparse woods spread from the foot of the distant mountains to the river. They were quite lively during the day, and the noise caused by wild animals and birds was quite noticeable. Some weak birds in the woods sang carelessly in search of mates, which made the ravens flying in the air quack in dissatisfaction.

They are all ignorant, colorful little idiots. Humph, apart from singing beautifully, they can't even build a good-looking bird's nest.

Thinking of this, the raven remembered his original shiny bird's nest.

That is a luxurious bird's nest that all the ravens on the hundreds of nearby hills would envy! The solidified bright pine resin blocks are spread on the floor of the bird's nest, and are scattered with bright coins in human hands. In the center is a small pile of many beautiful stones that it found from the cracks in the mountains.

What a wonderful thing it is to lay bird eggs in such a luxurious and gorgeous bird's nest! All the female ravens will go crazy fighting for it!

Thinking of this, the raven squawked triumphantly.

But soon, it became lost.

Originally, life was good, and even the new great beings marveled at its bird's nest. But who would have thought that those **** humans carrying crooked sticks on their backs not only killed its crows, but also killed every one of them. The crows' nests were destroyed.

Beautiful colored stones were put into small wooden boxes by those humans, and shiny human coins were also looted and put into those people's leather pockets, mixed with other equally shiny human coins.

Even the bright resin decorating the floor of its nest was pried away by those hateful humans with knives. Damn it!

The unhappy raven flapped its wings vigorously and flew higher. It became angry when it saw the humans below. Hum, flying high and not seeing them makes it peaceful.

But every time he **** his wings, the injured areas on his body will always feel unbearable pain.

This made it scream in pain again.

Angrier.

-

The raven flew high, still hovering above the heads of the human team. At this height, with the poor eyesight of humans, it was impossible to see it even when looking up.

This made the raven a little happy, and with a snap, he pulled out a pile of sloppy feces, and he didn't know which unlucky human would fall on his head.

This made the raven chuckle a few times and seemed to feel better.

The crow was killed, it doesn't matter, it has a great being to rely on, it is bigger, stronger, and more capable of finding shiny things. In just a few winters, it believes that it will rebuild its luxurious bird's nest. , and attract more female ravens to rebuild the flock.

When the time comes, it will take revenge on those humans who carry bent sticks on their backs. It has a very good memory. It has memorized the faces of every human who killed its flock of crows. It will find them one day and grab them. Burning sticks, setting their nests on fire!

He took poisonous seeds in his mouth and secretly mixed them with those people's food.

Drive away the tabby cats from their residence and let the delicious gray-haired jerboas breed vigorously and eat up all their food.

Staining each of their hats and hoods with feces, they were so angry that they dared not go out!

Steal the shining coins from their purses and let the rewards of their daily labor disappear quietly.

Thinking of these wonderful revenges, the raven flying high in the sky quacked happily. Excited, it flapped its wings, ignoring the pain of the small wounds, and flew to a higher place.

"Gah!"

How can stupid humans compare with a raven that can fly to such a high place?

They still have to walk slowly on the ground. How can they compare with the powerful wings of ravens?

Their nests are ordinary and boring, how can they compare with the shining nests of the ravens?

Humans can't even catch mice with their own hands, so they have to hire those nasty tabby cats to guard their food. It's really shameful.

"Ga! Ga! Ga!"

The raven was very happy. It felt that it had figured it out. Although its flock of crows had been defeated and wiped out by humans before, its revenge would definitely succeed. After all, ravens are much stronger than humans! Not to mention that it is now an important messenger of the great existence.

It is with the great being!

The cheerful raven felt better and looked around in the sky.

The human team on the ground has shrunk to the size of an ant. The long team that was originally walking along a vague path now looks like nothing more than that.

The nearby woods also flattened in its field of vision. Although those small other birds had beautiful feathers, they could only fly low in places no higher than the treetops. Now, it could follow them. Like a ferocious falcon, it flies in such a vast sky.

This is the majesty of nature!

The raven couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved when he thought about it. He thought, in the past, was this how the falcons flying in the sky looked at them? At that time, it felt that those ferocious guys were too arrogant. Only now that it was flying at such a high altitude could it experience the feeling of those falcons.

‘In the future, we must let all our crows accept the power of the great existence, so that everyone can fly to this height! ’

It thinks so.

The dark eyes continued to scan left and right, and with its enhanced vision, it saw the mountain leopard preparing to pounce on the birds in the woods, which made it feel a pity that those small and beautiful birds that could only sing and catch insects still couldn't do it.

It saw a family of striped deer bowing their heads to drink water by the stream. Even when they drank water, their companions were always alert to the surroundings to avoid possible risks. But those stupid pointed deer didn't know that a huge python was lurking in the shallow stream.

The raven squawked disdainfully and realized that on the ground, it would be impossible to find the python lurking in the stream. Only in the air could the python's figure be clearly seen.

That guy is slowly approaching that family of stupid fools. I guess a thrilling scene will happen soon, right?

The raven wasn't interested. It didn't care whether the python got something to eat or whether the family of sable deer would be reduced.

His eyes continued to move, past the rolling hills with large rocks in front of him, and there was a small human village not far away. However, the village has long been without human presence, the farmland is abandoned, and the houses are empty.

In the streets and yards of the small village, a group of brown-red foxes ran past somewhere and were occupying the place, preying on the jerboas that had multiplied since humans left.

The raven is a little greedy, because it also likes to eat the little jerboas in human houses.

Different from the big grass rats that live in the wild grass, although the jerboa is smaller, in the eyes of the raven, the small body brings the tender and delicious taste. It is also easier to catch prey, because jerboas give birth to more and grow faster, so they are stupider and less vigilant. They will take the bait when they see food.

Even though those food traps were not set by humans, but by ravens carrying seeds in their mouths.

Thinking that the human team might arrive at the village tonight, it would just happen that it could have a delicious meal in the village in the evening or tomorrow morning.

If you think about it this way, those jumping frogs by the creek don't seem so delicious.

After thinking about how to fill its stomach, the raven slightly bent its wings and missing a piece of tail feather, and flew higher on a gust of hot wind.

Its sight scanned the distance, and there were continuous mountains in the distance on both the east and west sides, making the land beneath it seem quite rare. Even for the ravens, the various monsters and powerful warcraft in the mountains are very dangerous.

After all, no one can tell whether those powerful guys will like to eat ravens!

It had heard that some ravens who occasionally escaped from the mountains said that the flightless monsters and monsters running on the ground were okay. These guys generally would not affect the survival and life of the smart birds. You just need to be careful. Just deliberately **** off those powerful guys.

But occasionally, groups of flying monsters or flying magical beasts appear, and all the birds in the mountains are in trouble. Powerful magical beasts that intend to establish order are not lucky and will not kill all the birds in the mountains and forests. And if you encounter a group of flying monsters, it will be terrible. Not to mention the stupid beasts on the ground, even the smart birds that can fly have to flee to survive.

After all, monsters are monsters, and they are simply not something that ordinary animals can deal with.

Because it had just flown to a higher place on a hot wind, the raven could see further into the distance. Even the mountains in the distance were beyond its sight, and it could see, uh, more mountains behind the mountains.

No, the raven's head turned to the east, its eyes fixed on a direction in the distance.

There is a gray-black river flowing out of the mountain forest. This is not the point, but if you look upstream along this ominous-looking river, you can see that the river flows out of a large forest next to the mountains. of.

This seems ordinary, but this forest has been growing close to the mountains, giving the mountains as if they were covered with green wings.

But behind the seemingly towering mountains, there are not more mountains.

The raven saw that behind that place was a gentle valley that gradually opened up. What's even more interesting is that deep in the valley, there seems to be smoke rising similar to that of a human village.

There seemed to be signs of human life in that seemingly hidden and difficult-to-reach place.

This is very interesting. You must know that there is an uninhabited village not far from the human team below, and the people in it have long been called elsewhere.

It was actually not far from where the human team came before, but why didn't they leave together?

The raven found it interesting and mentally reported the incident to its great being.

Soon, the raven, which had been instructed by the great being, changed its flight direction, no longer hovering above the heads of the human team, and instead flew towards that place.

-

Kiel set up an arbor with his hands, looked across a stone hill in front of him, pointed at the map and said to the two companions beside him: "Look, according to the map, behind the abrupt stone hill in front is Shichui Village."

He shook his head: "Shichui Village? This name is really rustic."

Priest Batal was a little embarrassed: "Although the name is not nice, it has always been good there. I remember that Shizui Village has a unique stone scarecrow. They weave wheat straw into clothing and wear it on the stone scarecrow in the field. It looks like Very interesting!"

Speaking of the scarecrow, Xueyaster lowered his voice mysteriously and said to the two of them: "Do you know that in my hometown or somewhere, there is a story about the scarecrow in the field coming to life and turning into a dangerous monster to attack the farmers? "

Keir shrugged: "I have also heard these stories in the Northwest Province. Isn't your hometown the Western Province? There should be very few people farming, right? So the prototype of this story may be the Northwest Province. Anyway, I heard In the version of the story, a murder occurred in the village, and the murdered person was unfortunately stuffed into the body of a scarecrow in the field outside the village."

"First one person disappeared, and then more people disappeared. People were afraid and panicked for a long time. It was not until crows who like to eat carrion fell on the scarecrows outside the village that they were discovered. And those scarecrows filled with human flesh and blood were not only The eyes will glow red, and they will also work in the fields at night! Just like the deceased people before they were alive! Do you think this is scary?"

Bloody Fangster looked surprised: "You are wrong about this, Kil. My hometown also has good farming conditions. Have you forgotten the endless farmland outside Montoka City? Then It's also the Western Province, okay? In fact, I clearly remember that this kind of incident really happened in my hometown when I was a child. Of course, it's not like a scarecrow came to life, but someone disappeared and was found filled in He found out what was going on in the body of the scarecrow who was guarding the farmland.”

"Ugh—" Kil made a sound of disgust, which aroused the strong dissatisfaction of Bloodfangster.

"Okay, okay, it sounds like the place you used to live in was very 'wonderful', but in fact, the Shichui Village we are about to arrive is just an ordinary village. It was not even established for more than forty years! There is no such thing there. There are no horrific disappearances and murders, and there are no stories of poor people being stuffed into scarecrows and having to work after death. As I said, the scarecrow here is made of local stone, and there is no way it can be filled. Place."

"We should be able to camp in the village before dark. It just so happens that the people in Shichui Village have gone to Yemei Town to take refuge. We should be able to spend the night in the village tonight and borrow the things that are already there."

Priest Batal said with a smile on his face.

Kil shrugged, looking indifferent, but he complained in a low voice: "The speed of the team has slowed down in the past two days, priest, you know the reason. I heard someone complaining about this behind my back more than once."

Priest Batal looked helpless: "Sorry, Kiel warriors, they have caused trouble for everyone. UU read www.uukanshu.net"

Keir shook his finger: "This cannot be solved with an apology. Those people are different from the entire team, and people have very different opinions. You know, everyone, I mean most of the people in the team, they come from all over the world." They are fleeing from their hometown, but they don’t have much belongings with them. And those wealthy followers of the God of Saturn, oh, didn’t I say, they really don’t mind the heavy luggage they have brought with them in the past two days?”

The priest looked embarrassed and sat in the car in silence for a while: "Perhaps I can ask them to find a place to bury their luggage and property?"

Bloody Fangster continued: "This is a good idea. I think it's best to resolve this matter as soon as possible."

Kil originally wanted to add a few words, but suddenly, the ancient **** inside the big bird wood sculpture, which had not spoken to him for several days, suddenly licked his face and spoke to him.

"Quack, human, how are you doing lately?"

Kil was riding on horseback and waved to his two companions calmly when he saw this, indicating that he wanted to take a look around the team. The two companions waved to him, so Kil moved the reins, clamped the horse's belly, and let the blood-licking grass leave the crowd.

So Kil laughed softly for a few times and mocked: "Look who this is? Ah, a silent and excellent god, a black wing that doesn't speak, and a protector of the wilderness who doesn't know what he means? Ah, Sorry, I can't remember your name. Can you tell me again? Ha, I have clearly seen the deal with the gods. This thing is completely a one-sided deal, because no matter what I do, I There's absolutely nothing you can do against a **** who breaks the promise, right?"

The big bird **** was silent.

Then a series of loud quacking birds kept ringing in Kil's ears.

The **** was furious.

He hasn’t been ridiculed to his face like this in at least a thousand years!