Chapter 34 The North Wind and Cold Forest, the Evil Lumberjack
(Suddenly I found that the fourth chapter was missed, and it was too troublesome to modify the chapters, so I put them in one chapter. Please forgive the author Jun for being lazy.)
The sunset and the moon rises, and the day and night are recurring, and three reincarnations have passed.
It's early morning now.
Straws of golden light spread across the field through the clouds. The sunlight covered the snow layer and dispelled the chill. The air was filled with a thin layer of mist. Where the white mist was everywhere, the sea of clouds was rippling, and the pine waves were hidden, revealing the vast plain snow scene.
Three black dots slowly moved on this land, revealing a clear human-shaped outline as the footsteps echoed.
Walking in the front was a girl dressed in a cool dress with only long shawls. Although she couldn't see her face clearly, the plump waves on her chest that could not be suppressed, and her tall figure were tempting with a hint of youth and maturity. She and another slim beauty with tender black hair, one in front and one behind, stood a boy wrapped in snow-white bear skin, who looked like a polar bear walking bent down from a distance, silently guarding the middle.
These are the three Roxas who were on the road in the morning.
Although the area he came to was not the inner layer of the Arctic Circle, the cold brought by the high latitude was still so cold that it exceeded the tolerance of ordinary people. Fortunately, the sun was clear during the day, and when taking care of the earth, it finally brought some warmth. Otherwise, Rorschach, who had been used to a comfortable life for a long time and was wearing midsummer, would have been unable to hold on.
As soon as the sky was dawn, he got up early and started the first step of the newcomer's mission with the sheepskin map found in the broken house.
Even if there is the translation benefit of the reincarnation space, he could not start to understand the text information written in the common language of Azeroth World without any trouble. Because as a student of the Celestial Empire who is a normal social student and is used to the three-point and one-line dead cycle when going out, Rorschach has no way to determine his own parameters and position just by visually measuring the distance between the sun and himself. And trying to identify the direction through the blurry zodiac signs in his mind, in this different world with a dazzling starry sky is obviously even more delusional.
However, this embarrassing problem was solved perfectly with the arrival of the two corpse girls.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the identities and origins of the two obedient beauties who are now accompanying Rorschach.
Unlike the beautiful young girl with long-haired purple hair who was born in the meat-selling comic "Academic Revelation" who was born in the meat-selling comic "Academic Revelation" who was just a modern ordinary high school student with excellent swordsmanship and calm temperament, the novel "Xuan Qin" is the first female lead "Ji Yanran". When she first appeared, the story was half past. The number of women in the previous article was as many as twelve, but each had its own beauty and different styles. It can be said that a hundred flowers compete for beauty, from the beautiful and pitiful widow "Beautiful Silkworm Girl", and from the beautiful and arrogant noble princess "Wu Tingfang" and "Zhao Ya", and so on
As for the cold and lonely princess of Zhao State, "Zhao Qian", the beautiful assassin who is full of hatred, "Shan Rou", the female characters who have long been surrounded by the protagonist, can be said to have concentrated most of the elements and images that the heroine could appear in the novel at that time. Under the shining of this kind of star, readers whose tastes are satisfied naturally have formed a fixed impression of bias in their hearts. In this way, no matter how amazing the women appear in the subsequent text are, they can easily cause repetitive and relatively aesthetic fatigue, and thus be suppressed and become passers-by.
But this kind of thing that was almost a foregone conclusion could not withstand the creator Huang Yi saw that the situation was not good and personally turned over the table to cheat. Seeing that "features" were already rampant and could not touch people's hearts, he simply used the "unobtainable perfection" in his heart as a prototype to create a goddess image that was almost impossible for humans to achieve.
This is also the origin of "Ji Yanran". Although her debut was a stunning character of the four countries with the role of singing and dancing similar to a famous prostitute, it soon led to the noble bloodline of its descendants of Yue. In the sharp turn, the author also used the reason of "displaced and lonely in childhood" to make her become the three major swordsmen of the Wei Kingdom second only to the swordsman Cao Qiudao. However, at this point, the creator Huang Yi was still not satisfied and arranged for "Zou Yan", the founder of the Yin-Yang family who proposed the theory of the Five Virtues in the Warring States Period as his teacher to accompany her, thus giving her the talented female attributes of a cadet. It can be said that this martial arts is better than kindness and soft, beautiful and beautiful, and surpassing Feng Fei, and cute, straightforward and not inferior to Wu Tingfang. It is simply the result of the previous article's collection of all the heroine's characteristics and further sublimation after it was combined.
In this way, the author avoids the readers' comparison of their favorite women in their minds in a nearly "rogue" way, because no matter which one the readers like, they can always find some of them in Ji Yanran, but they also feel that they are more vivid and stunning than the prototype. No matter how they compare, they cannot feel annoying.
Fortunately, after becoming the Corpse Girl, this beautiful beauty has no rich feelings and amazing wisdom of the past, but the memory knowledge in her mind is still preserved. Although it is impossible to think smartly or innovate, under clear commands, it is not a problem to simply use the fixed knowledge in her mind. Naturally, with the help of this "female Zhuge", Luo Xia, a road tycoon, can easily use the map in her hand.
But the wool roll in his hand is not the kind of universal plug-in in the game after all. The route is sloppy, but even the content only draws the rough terrain of dozens of miles. Fortunately, two clear routes were finally marked: one is to the largest nearby pioneer settlement, "Hainime Town", and the other is to cross mountains and trek to the end of the northern coast. It has not been signed, and it is only marked with a hammer mark. I don't know whether it refers to a blacksmith or a mine cave.
Rorschach thought for a while, and finally decided to go to the crowded town to find out the situation, figure out his own position, and then continue to move towards Valgard. And, more importantly, there...
Replenishment can be obtained.
Rorschach naturally could not have expected that an assassination would become the prelude to a wonderful adventure. In order to be light and convenient, he had only half a bag of awakening chocolate except for a black gun. This little food was consumed at night. The reason for activating early was not so much a good biological clock influenced by the peristaltic stomach and intestines.
Although the greenery along the way is actually mostly cold moss plants, which does not mean that the temperature is warming up. Once it is at night, there is no cover from the hut, and the cold temperature alone is enough to freeze it into a ball of ice.
From the dark and light morning to the high sun hanging at noon, after nearly four hours of difficult journey, the terrain in front of him began to change. The originally deserted wilderness gradually turned into undulating hills, and the vegetation on the roadside began to become dense, but most of them were fir trees covered with silver or shrubs with single shadows, and they would not bear any edible fruits. What surprised him was that after walking such a long way in the primitive wilderness, he could not find any trace of wild animals. Even the confrontation between birds was sparse and was indeed somewhat inconsistent with the surrounding environment.
"Maybe Azeroth's hibernation period is earlier than the earth." Rorschach shook his head and stopped thinking about this question. He held his legs and gasped for a while. After a while, he felt the soreness subsided. He then opened the wool map for warming his chest. After some comparison, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
According to the information on the map, if you move forward at this speed, you may walk through this forest and walk below the river for half an hour to reach the place of the town on the map.
With the motivation to move forward, the hunger in his abdomen subsided a little. He relaxed his sore muscles slightly, accelerated his pace, and started his journey. Because of the intense exercise, he was sweating all over his body, and even the chill of the weather became unsatisfactory.
Soon, Rorschach was surprised to find some differences. If the entrance to the Shanlin was still the primitive and wild natural scenery, and when it was close to the other end of the river, there were obvious traces of people. He even found a winding and narrow dirt path with footprints left by long-term trampling and ruts of carriages.
With the road, the direction of progress will naturally be clear. The speed of Rorschach, which saves the identification of the journey time, will further increase. Soon, a gurgling sound of the river flowing. In the map display, there is a small logging field along the lower bank of the river. If you walk eastward for more than ten kilometers along the logging field, you can find the only town.
But when he arrived here, he slowed down and did not rush forward. Instead, he carefully looked around and looked at the surrounding environment:
At this moment, he stood on the hillside, and through the gaps where trees crossed, he could vaguely see cold waves. The water surface was shining with silver light under the sunlight. Above the river, that is, at the bottom of the mountain, there were a large area of open space, with countless tree stumps lingering around, revealing the scenery after the cut down. If you continue to look into the distance, you can also glimpse the black edges, which seem to be the outline of the roof in the logging site.
"It seems normal...but why do I always think something is wrong?" Roxar pondered for a moment, ignoring the pain of hunger, and his brain started to run rapidly. After all, the blueprint of this world, whether it is the expansion expansion of World of Warcraft or the prototype of Warcraft, as far as he knows, although Northrend's Arctic continent was isolated from the world for thousands of years, it is the base camp of the evil villain "Scourge" that runs through the entire plot, and he has no choice but to be careful.
He compared the map, looked at the overall situation for a moment, and suddenly realized.
The tree stump at the bottom of the mountain was originally drawn with round open spaces, but it continued to extend upwards, but suddenly turned into seven or eight crisscrossing gaps. It was no longer a logging method that spreads outward from the origin, but a complicated and straight line. It seemed that after the logger cut off the trees in front, he ignored the wood resources near the sides and continued to collect towards the next one in front. This was very different from the ordinary people's thoughts of saving trouble, just like...
"It's like a monkey who has no wisdom and is driven by instinct alone. When he sees the watermelon in front of him, he will immediately throw away the sesame seeds from the previous moment..."
"Doesn't have basic judgment, can you rely entirely on visual effects to support your actions?" Rorschach recalled a certain game he had played before, and had a vague premonition.
He hesitated for a moment, and directly moved the path, walked towards the most remote logging road in the lower right. Finally, he stopped on a tree stump, looked carefully, and a solemn look appeared.
At this moment, even if he had no experience in cutting down, he could easily detect the strangeness of these stumps. There were no smooth marks of jagged teeth on the edge of the remaining trunk cylinder. On the contrary, there were still seven or eight cuts left in the bark below. It was not like the slash of an axe blade, but more like the repeated twitching of sharp claws, with a faint smell of rotten odor.
Moreover, in order to collect the wood fully, loggers often only leave the last ten centimeters of tree stumps that are difficult to eradicate. However, the fir trees in front of them only cut off the upper part, leaving about half a meter high space, just like a group of dwarfs who are unable to bend over with spondylosis. They can only cut off the wood that is blocked and helpless against the remaining resources.
Luo Xia then looked down at the ground. Unfortunately, the climate here is cold, and the soil under the forest is similar to hard frozen soil, making it difficult to leave footprints. He is not a professional who is proficient in case detection, so naturally he can't see any clues.
Roche thought for a while, suddenly sneaked into the forest sideways, and then followed the stumps on the roadside. Although his pace was extremely slow, as the distance narrowed, a faint rust began to sound in front of him, and from time to time a strange whimper sounded, as if a beast was deliberately gasping for breath.
With his condescending terrain, he easily saw the scene more than 20 meters away. He couldn't help but jumped in his heart, and a cold chill appeared. He stared at it for a moment before shook his head slightly and said, "Sure enough... the worst situation happened."
Two ugly monsters, one big and one small, were lying under the tree. Their bodies were curled up and hunched, like wolfdogs standing deformed, but the heads protruded were human facial features, but their cheeks were deep, their teeth were bared outside, and their gums were exposed out like they lost moisture. The yellowed teeth were opened and closed, and they were biting against the fir trees, making crunching sounds from time to time.
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The monster, al-ghūl, originally originated from the Middle East, is not a dead spirit in ordinary people's consciousness, but a transformed demon who can transform into animals in the opposite direction of the angel attributes in religion. Its usually looks like a rotten "sty dog" prototype with obvious regional characteristics. They usually rob the tombs, feed on the flesh and blood of the dead's corpse or the young children, and lure travelers into desert wastelands to kill and devour. The evil name in the desert is enough to make any Arab warrior holding a scimitar and a keen belief in the Arab warrior shudders and cannot move.
However, with the thousands of years of religious disputes between the Western European world and Arabia in history, the continuous advancement of the three Crusades, and then the opening and decline of the Silk Road. The continuous collision and exchange of Eastern and Western civilizations led to the image of desert ghouls gradually flowing into the Mediterranean basin, and finally extended to India and the Far East, which derived the image of Brahma and similar in Egyptian mythology of the immortal ghouls. Even now, it has been widely spread and is active in various game creations, film and television screens, and literary creation.
In the once very popular strategy game setting of "Warcraft III: Frozen Throne", the ghoul became the basic melee unit of the Scourge, and also worked part-time as a hardworking undead who worked in gold mines and wood collection tasks.
But it does not mean that their strength will be much weaker than the legendary demon prototype.
This monster infected by the undead plague has completely lost its human shell. Its limbs are as narrow as cheetahs. Although the muscles of the whole body are atrophy, they have become tough. Their claws are sharp enough to easily dig open the thick bark, and there is even corpse poison in the black fingers. According to the introduction in the game, this monster seems to have the ability to eat corpse recovery.
What's worse is that the two ghouls did not act alone, and there was a group of accomplices standing beside each other. However, rather than being companions, it would be better to call them "coulds": on both sides of the two big and small loggers, seven or eight white skeleton monsters. These dead bones were not all constructed by human bones, but were like animal models that were pieced together. Roche vaguely identified the bent skeletons of cattle and sheep. These animals who worked for their masters during their lifetime were not allowed to rest after death. Several logs were pressed on their concave spines, as if standing still as tools for carrying resources.
However, Roxa was sure that if he rushed over like this, these skeletons would probably not be able to watch the show obediently. Although the skeletons transformed by these animals seemed to be weaker, if they rushed forward, it would cause a lot of trouble. He retracted his head and thought for a moment, and suddenly asked the corpse girl who was serving by her side:
"Can you solve these monsters?"
If these two girls gave the veto answer, Rorschach turned around and retreated without saying a word. Judging from the linen fabric worn by the two ghouls, most of them were infected by civilians in nearby logging farms after death. If even the lowest-level team could not be matched, he could only give up on this area, go around several times, and then turn the corner to the town for help from the indigenous forces.
After hearing his questions, the two obedient and well-behaved beauties looked at each other silently, and then began to act like tacitly. The girl with long purple hair bowed and bowed in a traditional Japanese posture, then took a few steps back with her holding the Taidao at her waist. Before Rorschach could react, she walked in a small tone of small steps, which seemed extremely slow, but in the blink of an eye, she crossed a dozen steps away and approached the undead team that was focusing on logging.
"She is alone..." Luo Xia was stunned. Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by a cold and stiff voice.
"Okay..." Under Roxa's surprise gaze, the beautiful black-haired beauty standing beside her suddenly stroked her hair, showing a classical ladies' beauty. Her pale face was wearing a light smile. She stared at Roxa and said slowly and slowly:
“We… protect…master.”
No...I was surprised...so how did you communicate with each other? You could make detailed plans and arrangements just by looking at each other. Could it be that it is information sensing similar to insects?
Roxia felt a mess in her heart. When she heard the obedient name of the beauty "master", she suddenly recalled some of her indecent actions yesterday. She suddenly felt a little embarrassed. She had to stammer and turned her head to look at the battlefield on the other side.
The next second, he suddenly understood why Bai Wu's useless man could be relaxed and comfortable in the adventure of infinite space, and he also vaguely understood why the Reincarnation Space threw a pink newcomer like him into this dangerous magical world.
The purple-haired girl holding the knife first tentatively stepped forward. Seeing that the evil ghosts had no response, she pursed her lips and chuckled as if she had lived. Her dignified and gentle expression showed a bloodthirsty madness. Her slender five fingers gently stroked the hilt of the knife around her waist, and suddenly chopped her toes seven or eight meters away from the enemy. Luo Xia, who was hiding on the side, felt a shock in the eardrum, and a twisted roar seemed to sound in the air.
This beautiful and delicate girl with long hair and high school students suddenly turned into a cold white light, and her body flashed like a lightning, just like a bird. She could only hear a soft moan in the air, and a snow-white horse swayed in the wind. Roxa could only see a few lightning-like sword lights flashing, followed by two sharp blades tearing into the flesh in his ear, and then...
Then he was shocked to find that the battle was over.
One big and one small, two ghouls who were infected with transformation from strong humans had no time to react. They were just rolled up by the rippling sword light, and the two heads had already flew high, sliding out two ejected arcs, and fell to the ground one after another. And it seemed that due to the evil taste of the mover, the lips of the two skulls with a gap were just aligned up and down, rolling down together in a kiss.
As for the seven or eight cattle and sheep skeletons that were carrying the cattle and sheep on the side, it was a bit beyond Luo Xia's expectations. She just stayed motionless with the logs on her back, allowing her master to be beheaded and showed no resistance. This action made Saeko, who was about to continue slashing, stopped her sword force, turned her head to look at Luo Xia on the side, straightened her body, and waited for the next instructions.
Not a rigid acceptance of orders... do you have the most basic judgment?
Luo Xia shook her head, vaguely understanding the strength and intelligence of the corpse girl, and then she got up and approached the past under the protection of another Miaoman lady.
However, when he showed his body from the forest, the originally still animal skeleton suddenly became restless. He looked around for a moment and made a "crack" loose sound all over his body. Then he turned his head and looked at Roxa at the same time. Two light blue flames appeared in his empty eyes.
"Why did it suddenly move again? Do the beauty have privileges in front of the undead?" After killing Qiu Zi in person, Luo Xia's mentality became much calmer. At least he didn't feel afraid of falling down in the face of such an attack. He laughed at himself and his body had already retreated. His right hand quickly touched the gun holster on his waist and prepared to face the enemy.
However, his response was obviously in vain because someone took the lead.
The protector who had originally landed behind him moved in a flash and had crossed to Rorsch in front of him. He felt a fragrance like musk and lily coming, and then he watched the exquisite and beautiful woman move forward with her sword and face the cattle and sheep skeletons rushing towards the heavy logs.
Unlike Saeko Mushima's sharp and thin sword light, this stunning beauty from the pre-Qin period in China was like a demonstration of a wonderful singing and dancing. Facing the charge of seven or eight skeletons, the whole person took the initiative to fall into it, surrounded by white bones but cleverly avoided the impact of edges and corners from all directions, and then the person suddenly turned like a top.
"Swish————”
It was like a bright white lotus suddenly unfolding, and the figure seemed to be holding a sharp sword, but a soft and wide snow training that directed Ruyi, or like a knife cutting into butter. A circle of lingering white bones flew into snow in the blink of an eye. The soft black hair flew like silk, and in an instant, it closed a thread again. The dance stopped and the person returned, the sword was like a sheath, and the person had retreated.
At the same time, the skeleton monsters constructed by seven or eight animals suddenly stiffened for a moment, and then made a crisp sound like a bean. However, at the same time, the skull and the ghost flame inside were cut through, losing the support of magic power, and were immediately crushed into pieces by the heavy wood on the body.
Seeing all this, Luo Xia was silent for a moment, suddenly felt cold in his heart, and sighed with lingering fear: "Fortunately, the real world sealed this physique... Otherwise, I'm afraid even if I hold a cannon in my hand, I can't even squeeze out the time to pull the trigger, and I'll be..."
Before he could continue thinking, the "Book of Reincarnation" suddenly jumped out, and he automatically opened the pages, and lines of handwriting appeared.
"Rothar Adventurer (lower of the Black Iron level)
Kill the Ghoul*2, low-level bone construct*8, and a total of 124 survival points are rewarded.
Temporary trigger side missions - ‘Eliminate evils’.”
"Trigger side tasks
Name: Eliminate evil
content:
Condition 1: Kill the woodcutting ghoul team in the forest (1/9)
Condition 2: Burn the wood stockpiled by the undead people in the logging yard to slow down the construction progress of their bases
Condition 3: Kill the undead people in the logging field and ensure that the Cursed Mage Apprentice ‘Schiller Cohen’ dies.
Reward: For each completed item, 500 points of survival points will be rewarded; for two items, one bronze inferior card will be awarded; for three items, you will receive the thanks from "Freydens".
Punishment for failure: For each item that fails, 1000 survival points will be deducted. If all failures are made, 1500 survival points will be punished."
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(ps: The following is not the main text, it is purely a complaint from the author.
To be honest, the authors of the Hou* Palace and many female protagonists should really learn this trick from Mr. Huang. This kind of female characters that shape a sublimated collective palace is simply to eliminate the source of verbal war among readers with different tastes in the novels of many female protagonists...
No wonder "The Legend of Qin" can become the second book that is based on the actual type of Ma Pu Mei, but it is also wonderful and very popular and so popular that it is made into a TV series.
By the way, the first book is "The Deer and the Cauldron".
In the previous article, the protagonist is an ordinary person. You must force him to participate in the plot early. I believe you don’t want to see the funny story of the Chinese high school students who have Olympiad Mathematics and Olympiad ++ Lich Arcane Singing, Bad students knocked down the Death Knight with a brick, and the academic master pierced the rune sword with a ballpoint pen... (Although if you think about it carefully, it seems quite interesting.)
Chapter completed!