Pale Emblem

Chapter 65
Rhodes and the others returned to the camp with the captured prey, which were four plump and plump pig legs, wrapped in leather cloaks and stuffed with ice and snow, which could not only be frozen for freshness, but mainly to cover up the bloody smell of wild boar legs.

They didn't take the whole boar back to the camp to deal with it, which was absolutely wise.It is hard to imagine the consequences of disemboweling wild boars in the camp.To be sure, local lords will never give up on thieves who steal their prey.

Lisen, the bow warrior of the Iron Cross, untied the cape and showed the frozen wild boar legs to Vertoc and others.He said excitedly: "There is indeed a small group of wild boars there, fourteen in total. I shot the pig's eyes with a bow and arrow and brought back its four legs."

Rhode also said with a smile on his face: "We are not greedy, these four pig legs should be enough for everyone to eat for two days. We will move west now, I am worried that the hunting just now will disturb the lord of this forest... Mr. Max said , the neighbors of the Shadow Lurkers are also a tough stubble."

The most important thing about getting lost in the wild is finding water, food and a safe shelter.This season, you don't need to worry about water sources, just grab a handful of snow to quench your thirst.There is no need to consider the issue of the sanctuary. The Iron Cross did not plan to stay in the wild, they just wanted to return to the Dissa Alliance.

Of course, the establishment of the city-state is inseparable from the water source, and the city of Rapids is located somewhere downstream of the Krill River Basin.If they find the Krill River and follow the riverbank further down the river, they will always find the half-elf town of Riptide.Also, neither water nor food is a problem.

However, the river banks are fraught with danger, and powerful predators like to use the river banks as their hunting grounds.The closer they are to the krill bank, the higher the chance of encountering a beast or monster.

The professionals of the Iron Cross regiment used to be very confident, but the Shadow Beast taught them a bloody and painful lesson, which made them deeply understand that the Iron Cross regiment did not have the strength to run wild in the wild.

The best option right now is to proactively avoid competing water sources.This will bring two problems, one is that they have no clear direction, and they can only explore the west side by feeling, hoping to encounter the settlement of Riptide; the other is that it is difficult to supply food.

Vertok can smell wild boar 2km away, which is simply wonderful.

The Iron Cross believed that as long as Vertoc was around, they wouldn't have to worry about finding food.

Max is also very important. Even if he is cursed with cold heart and is disabled, the fourth-level dark hunter can avoid danger in advance, not to mention that Max is also an experienced adventurer.

Captain Rhode said with a sigh: "We once spent money to learn wild survival skills from a retired senior adventurer. The old adventurer said, be careful of the 'lords' in the wild, their danger is often beyond We expected it. The Shadow Lurker proved his point. I was just thinking, why don't the Shadow Lurkers nest here? Is the local 'lord' a threat to it? Perhaps, there is also a fifth-order one here. Dire beasts... I think we'd better get out of this damn place as soon as possible."

It can be seen that the slave trader was frightened by what happened a few days ago, and began to re-examine his inadequacies.However, he did not mean to distribute the food to Vertok.

Control over food is a form of authority.

A few days ago, Vertoc didn't understand this truth, but the goblin king Wowo was very sensitive to the control of food.

Vertoc defeated the goblin Wowo of different periods in the Dream Arena, absorbed part of the memory of the goblin king, and began to understand the importance of food domination.

This guy Rhode wants to be the leader, does he have the qualifications?
His personal strength is not the strongest, he has little experience in the field, and he has no special talents.No matter how Vertok looked at it, he felt that Rhodes belonged to the bottom of this small group.

Isn't it joking about other people's lives for Rhodes to be the leader?
Vertoc learned balance and forbearance from the goblin king Wowo, which is in line with the soft and sinister characteristics of the head of the water element of Portanos.

"Mr. Rhodes, I'm afraid you have misunderstood the word 'threat'." Virtok attracted everyone's attention as soon as he opened his mouth, and he continued: "As long as violent animals can prey on shadow beasts, they will pose a threat to shadow lurkers. It doesn't mean that it must be the same level as the shadow lurker. The shadow beast is a second-order monster, and the ferocious animal that hunts and kills the shadow beast should be above the second level, perhaps the third or fourth order, and the fifth order is not excluded. The key is It has super senses and can detect the shadow beasts that are good at stealth in advance; its silent stealth, coupled with the ability to kill with one hit, allows it to carry its prey away before being surrounded by shadow beasts. ; excellent mobility, so that shadow lurkers have no choice but to nest in another place to avoid conflict."

After his rendering, everyone suddenly felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at them in the forest, and even if the professionals hugged tightly, it might not be safe.

Huck murmured: "Could the local lord be a ferocious saber-toothed tiger? This kind of beast is not easy to deal with... They have a strong sense of territory, and they are particularly vengeful, and will actively hunt and kill competitors who break into the territory."

"I heard that the fourth-order vicious saber-toothed tiger can hunt and kill wild monsters alone at night..." said a professional from the Iron Cross regiment tremblingly.

Rhode's scalp was tense, and he lowered his volume unconsciously, and took the initiative to ask: "Mr. Vertoc, do you think the local lord is a ferocious saber-toothed tiger?"

Vertok looked around the crowd calmly, took out his long sword, drew a line on the snow, and said, "This is the Krill River, and both sides of the river are the most fertile areas in the region. There are local lords in each section of the river. No matter what. Whether the lord of this area is a sabertooth tiger, it usually guards near the river bank, which is its core territory and the most important hunting ground. We take the initiative to avoid the river bank, and the possibility of encountering local lords is very small. The bad thing is , It has just entered the spring, and the snow has not completely melted. The local lord will choose this time to patrol the border of the territory, kill the prey by the way, and fill his stomach. "

He was implying that the Iron Cross, hunting wild boars, might be found by the local lords.The fourth-level bow warrior suddenly felt that the wild boar's legs in his hands became extremely heavy, and the cloak package fell directly on the snow on the ground.

Vertok opened the cloak with the long sword in his hand, revealing the bloody wild boar legs inside, and said lightly: "No matter what you do, the freshly cut raw meat will still leave a smell. If you are unlucky, the local lord smells the smell, It's easy to track our location. You're going to take the boar legs with you and save them to eat on the road. This is a serious provocation to the local lord, and it's the stupidest way of provocation."

"In the wild, you have to learn the way of beasts. The local lords will hide the prey they can't eat. The outsiders don't hide their prey. They also mark the prey with urine to attract the local lords. , kill it again, and occupy this territory."

"If you have strong strength, you can have no worries in the wild."

"If you don't have overwhelming strength, eat as much prey as you can, don't even think about taking it away. The local lord will know, you're just passing by. It's busy eating the rest of its prey, or looking for a place to go. Hide the rest of the prey, I don't have time to hunt you down."

Vertoc cut the whole pork leg into several pieces and distributed them to every half-elf present. He took the largest and most plump piece of wild boar and said, "Eat it."

The meat of male wild boar is tough and stinky, and eating raw pork is definitely a challenge.

The gluttony talent allows Vertok to have no psychological barriers to eating raw meat.On the contrary, the automatic adjustment of the mind and body makes the bloody raw pork extremely delicious, which can greatly satisfy his eating desire.The snow-white teeth followed the muscle texture of the pig's leg, tearing the meat into strips, and then inhaling it into the mouth. Vertok's eating was fierce, focused, and very enjoyable, with a peculiar appeal.

Seeing that Vertok was eating deliciously, everyone hesitated for a while, and then picked up the raw pork and gnawed it.

Huck is the firmest supporter of Vertok. He learned from Vertok to bite raw meat. Although it is difficult to swallow, the heart of the mirror allows him to effectively control the muscles of his throat and forcefully swallow the food in his mouth. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Undercover hunter Max also ate raw meat before, and he actually ate even more unpalatable bugs.He cut the meat with a knife and ate it, not slow at all.

The Iron Cross encountered difficulties.They are not real adventurers, and they can't be said to be pampered, but they're not too ruthless.Taking a bite of raw pork, before swallowing it, triggers the physiological response of vomiting and coughing.

Vertok ignored the others, and when Captain Rhode spit out the meat in his mouth, he suddenly raised his head and said in a gentle tone, "Vomiting will make you weak, eat as much as you can... We are unlikely to Build a fire nearby, and when we find a relatively safe place, we can have a fire and eat cooked food, but you have to be able to last until then."

"Crack", "Crack", Vertok buried his head and chewed the hard pork leg bone and slowly ate it.Seeing this scene, the others all gasped, and then focused more on competing with raw pork.

After Vertok was full, everyone had finished.Lisen, a fourth-level bow warrior, took out a cotton towel in a pleasing manner, handed it to Vertok to wipe his mouth and hands, and asked, "Mr. Vertok, I really didn't expect you to have rich field experience too."

In terms of field survival skills, the goblin king Wowo is the top field survival master.It can become the goblin king, in addition to good luck, but also because when it was weak, it made almost no mistakes in the wild.

Vertoc absorbed some of the experience of the goblin Wowo, combined with his gluttony talent, the ability to survive in the wild far exceeds the level of senior adventurers.

The Goblin King is not only good at surviving, he is also good at seizing every opportunity to climb up by stepping on the head of his companions, and his tactics are not like an orc at all.

Just communicated with Huck and Max, and Vertok discovered that the Iron Cross regiment had one fourth-level bow warrior, two third-level bow warriors, and two third-level swordsmen.Captain Rhode himself is one of the third-level swordsmen, and his force is not outstanding, but the rest of the professionals are used to accepting the leadership of the captain.

On Vertok's side, Captain Huck's personal strength inexplicably improved a lot, and he said that this was all due to Vertok.However, Vertok was not impressed by this.Huck also confidently stated that he was confident of defeating the five professionals of the Iron Cross, but he could not guarantee the safety of Vertoc and Max.

Max was cursed with cold heart and was incapacitated, but his class sense and adventure experience were still useful.

Vertoc's personal strength declined, and the five half-elf professionals of the Iron Cross posed a threat to him, at least with the force to kill him.

This also shows that the professionals of the Iron Cross have merit.

Vertok wants everyone to know who is the qualified leader.He even bluffed and deceived, and first got the right to distribute food; he also showed his strength by eating raw pork; by the way, he used a gesture of pity and advice to publicly attack the prestige of Captain Rhodes.

In fact, who knows if there are any ferocious beasts or monsters nearby.But who can say for sure?
Rhodes holds wealth resources in the half-elf city-state, and half-elf professionals recognize his power, but they need an experienced leader who can take everyone out to survive in the wild.

Whether Vertok has this ability will not be mentioned, anyway, he looks more reliable than Rhodes.If the half-elf professionals think about it carefully, they will find that Rhodes caused the Iron Cross Adventure Group to suffer heavy losses, and the situation of Vertoc and others is not much better.No one is smarter than anyone.

However, it is still very impactful that Vertok eats pork raw without changing his face.

The goblins think whoever can eat the most is the best.This intuition is equally valid for half-elves.Compared to Vertok's fierceness, Rhodes who vomited and ate meat looked pitiful.

With such an impression, there is no doubt that the Iron Cross will choose who will be the leader.I'm afraid Rhodes himself didn't realize that Vertok was suppressing him.

"Are you full?" Vertok asked.

The half-elves nodded, indicating that they were full and would vomit if they ate any more.

"Everyone rest in place, I'll prepare something." Vertok smiled slightly, and decided to give the professionals a little time to overcome their nausea, otherwise they might really spit out all the raw pork they ate.

While everyone was resting, Wiltok climbed up the hemlock tree, cut off many branches, and repaired them with a knife into more than 100 simple javelins.

The wood of the hemlock tree is hard and compact, and it will sink when placed in water. It also has good lethality when used to make a javelin.

The gluttony talent can't directly improve Vertok's combat effectiveness, but it can allow him to maintain strong physical fitness for the next five days.The dexterous two-handed talent makes Vertoc very skilled in making various tools, showing valuable logistical skills.

Vertoc repaired the sleigh again, and put all the hemlock javelins on it, under the custody of the undercover hunter Max.He pushed Huck, motioned for the other party to drag the sled, and ordered the others: "Let's get out of here now."

The adventurers of the Iron Cross had increased confidence and followed Vertoc to the northwest.

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At night, thick darkness covered the hemlock forest, and a pair of green eyes seemed to float in the darkness, and they came to the camp abandoned by the half-elves.

This is a group of gnolls. They are about 2 meters tall, with coyote heads, thick and black hair, and high back muscles, making them extraordinarily strong.

Unlike wild gnolls, these gnolls are well nourished, muscular, and equipped with well-crafted hard leather armor and iron weapons. Their green eyes contain a faint red light, and they are all fierce wolves with bloodthirsty power. people.

Among them, the largest gnoll lay down, sniffed the snow with his nose, picked up a pig's trotter, and threw it into his mouth to chew and crunch it.Its face was covered with straight scars crisscrossing its face, as if it had been chopped to pieces by a sharp blade.Strangely, none of these wounds were deep, just scars.

The scar-faced gnoll let out a grotesque laugh and said in a hoarse voice: "There are only eight half-elf adventurers, and their adventure group must be in trouble... We have to find them, eat them, and collect their treasures."

(End of this chapter)