MTL - Mercenaries and Adventurers-Chapter 47 , swamp-thoughts and weird trees

With the bright moonlight, Zhao Ji found the tree path in the northwest of the swamp that had been laid during the day.

The water surface of the swamp reflected a lot of moonlight, making it difficult for Zhao Ji to see the path under his feet. For the sake of hunting safety, he planned to walk up and down the tree path a few times before hunting to get familiar with it. Otherwise, it would be bad if you got stuck in the soft muddy water of the swamp because you were not familiar with the road when you started fighting.

Entering the swamp along the tree path, Zhao Ji tried not to make any noise other than moving, for fear of alarming the monsters in the swamp. Although I am not afraid of those monsters, it is more important to be familiar with the road under my feet now, and the monsters will not run away.

Along the way, Zhao Ji passed through several rare lands in the swamp that he specially selected during the day. He has cleared the plants here in advance, there are no bushes to cover them, and the view is good.

This is the battlefield he designed. As long as the slime monsters crawl out of the muddy water of the swamp to the shore, Zhao Ji can easily kill them with weapons. Once the situation is not good and surrounded by slime monsters, he retreats to another small island along the paved tree path, and then fights again.

Zhao Ji nodded in satisfaction, feeling that there is nothing wrong with this combat method.

Slime monsters will be attracted by dead slime monsters. On the one hand, slime monsters can destroy the creatures that cause slime monsters to die, but on the other hand, they will also be used to make slime monsters gather in large numbers. Opponents, it will cause a large number of deaths of slime monsters. It was Zhao Ji who wanted to understand this, and then discovered his opportunity to make a lot of money.

While advancing silently, Zhao Ji was thinking about these things.

He came to this world in the form of a dead body, without language or writing.

When he came, he was injured. In order to recuperate from his injuries, he owed a large sum of money to the Foxtail Merchant Guild who treated him. Fortunately, he met the warm and friendly Mr. Jamura, made friends with a large number of chamber of commerce employees through fables or idiom stories in the original world, and formed a good relationship with the unknown small religion believed by the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce.

There are magical supernatural powers in this world. Of course, the locals all believed that those magical arts, gods, religions, magic, monsters, warcraft, and alien creatures were all real, existed since ancient times, and were true.

Zhao Ji is very curious about those things, and really wants to get in touch with them. But his status is not enough. He is just a foreigner picked up by a big chamber of commerce in Kendall City on the road. He has no property, no special ability, and nothing to prove his status.

His Zhao Jide alias Joe Keel, a lost and injured foreigner can only operate here.

However, now he has finally found a chance. Or would it be nice to be a monster hunter? Every monster can be sold for a price. A slime monster can be sold for ten copper coins, and it can be sold for a little more when it is made into an envelope. According to his observation, there are at least several hundred slime monsters scattered throughout the swamp south of the city. Of course, he can't find every slime monster out of the mud one by one, but he can use the habits of the slime monsters he finds to wipe out the active slime monsters.

Rough calculations, at least a few gold coins can be earned. Compared with this, one silver coin earned from betting is not a lot, and of course, he is not too small.

Once he has money, he will have better equipment, a complete set of equipment. He can hunt more and more powerful monsters.

He is often active in the tavern, and often hears rumors of some monsters. Where are beasts haunted, where are monsters haunted, who was killed by monsters, who went out and disappeared, who saw what monsters, who picked up what rare treasures and so on.

The people here have been with monsters and beasts all year round, and they already have a whole set of methods to fight against those things. For example, building high walls and wooden barriers to protect towns and villages, and even farms farther away. Or rely on the well-equipped town guard to regularly cut down some monster beasts that often disturb people. Or rely on religious personnel with divine power to join various religions to seek protection.

What's more, Zhao Ji heard that somewhere in Kendall County, there is even a knight order from the empire to support the kingdom. Zhao Ji heard people chatting that every knight is capable of fighting ten fully armed guards, and all the knights in the empire have that kind of martial arts.

When he came back to his senses, Zhao Ji had already reached the end of the path of trees. It has gone deep into the swamp here, and there is still some distance from the center of the swamp. During the day, UU reads www. uukanshu.com He has already felled all the swamp and dwarf trees around here to make a tree trail under his feet.

So Zhao Ji looked around at this time, and there was an open space.

Good vision is an important part of combat. This is an experience he learned from games and history books in his previous life. Now it seems that it can also come in handy in the battle of hunting slime monsters with real swords and guns. The open environment allows Zhao Ji to observe the number and attack direction of the slime monsters in advance. When they move underwater, they will produce faint ripples on the water surface, especially when the full moon is today. Compared with yesterday, it is much easier to see. It's clearer.

"Huh?" Zhao Ji saw a strange thing appearing in the direction of the center of the swamp.

Looking by the bright moonlight, is that a plant?

The plant-like thing is about four or five meters high, short and thick. The reason why it is said to be a plant is because the thing protrudes from the muddy water of the swamp, branching around and extending upwards at the same time. There are more than a dozen large and small luminous flowers blooming on the top of its head, and each flower is unfolding towards the direction of the moon. Depending on the distance, Zhao Ji analyzed that each flower must be half the size of a person.

The reason why it is said to be similar to a plant is because Zhao Ji saw that under the flower, the branched branches protruding from that thing were moving back and forth, and the front end of each branched branch was sharp. Spike.

What is this? He remembered that when cutting down the dwarf trees during the day, he had cut down all the trees from the northwest of the swamp to the center of the swamp, and the trees in the swamp were generally one or two meters high, and he had obviously never seen this thing during the day.

Did it come out of the mud of the swamp?

Zhao Ji felt a little nervous, because he had passed by the location of that thing more than once during the day, but he didn't notice it.