Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Not smart enough

"It's not a good sign. Dagon, I'll give it to you Say..." Balder pa ta pa ta beat the flint with iron and finally made a fire star on the velvet mushroom, a subterranean plant with a lot of fiber that is great for starting a fire. He broke off the small piece of velvet mushroom, placed it on the peat with both hands, and then spread a layer of soft velvet mushroom fiber on it. "Dagon, sudden coldness is not a good sign."

"Why is this happening?" Dagon grabbed more peat and began to build a reflective wall of stone around the fire. The so-called reflective wall is a simple shelter, which can reduce the wind formed by the cold air and allow the heat of the fire to gather more to the other side.

"Drag the big guy over here, leaning against the mountain wall behind you, and squeeze as close as you can." Balder guarded the flame carefully until it slowly ignited the peat. "I guess, most likely this is caused by underground changes. There were frost snakes before, but now there is cold air, probably an icy piece of land has moved nearby."

"Will it threaten? Us?"

Bald thought for a while, then shook his head: "I don't think it's a big problem. You didn't feel the vibration, did you? Neither did I, which means that the moving field is not in the vicinity."

"Then why is the cold coming?"

"You have so many questions." Balder leaned down, covering his beard with one hand, hu hu blowing on the peat Let the flames burn more vigorously. He used the time of this work to think about the Dagon problem, and after a while he said: "Dagon, how are the five elements of nature distributed throughout the world?"

"Distributed according to the terrain. Gold is in the cave and wood is in the wild, water occupies the waters and fire rises to the sky, and the earth covers the earth to form mountains and rivers."

"Yes, you memorize well, you are worthy of being a child of Neil's family." Balder said: "Elemental power can move along the trend of the terrain. I estimate that there should be some kind of mineral vein nearby, which is more friendly to gold and Water Element, so as to attract the cold aura in the distance. If you search carefully with this cold air, you should be able to Verify my conjecture."

Dagon's eyes shined and said, "Mr. Balder, could it be a new vein?"

"It's possible. But that kind of Can good things fall on our heads?" Balder shook his head and said, "I don't know how to look for mines, and I don't recommend you to go. You won't be faster than those experts in the miners' union, so you should complete the hunting team well. The trial, okay?"

"Yes, Mr. Balder." Dagon and the companions who were vigilant dragged the others to the warm range of the fire, and then sat down on the outermost side respectively. . The outermost people are the furthest away from the fire, and they use their bodies to sense the temperature changes outside. If you put a sleeping person on the outside, there is a good chance that they will freeze to death in a dream as the temperature continues to drop.

After a while, Balder relieved: "Blessed by God Oli, the temperature has begun to rise, and it seems that the danger has passed. This can also prove my previous guess: the temporary flow of elemental energy caused by underground changes. You The two outside can drink some hot water, eat something, and then go to sleep until the next shift."

Dagon patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. When he saw that the leader of the Balders was going to lie down to sleep, he took the time to ask: "Sir, can I borrow a sturdy belt from you?"

"What do you want the belt for?"

"I'd like to make a grip on the headhunter." Dagon picked up the battle axe, pointed to the hole near the end of it, and said, "If there's a leather ring here, it can be put on the wrist. Rely on Hammer and axe, headhunting axe can better play the effect of hook and belt lock, especially when climbing, to play the role of a pickaxe."

"I feel a little cumbersome, but as you like. Let's go." Balder raised his hand and said, "There are two bundles of belts in the bag next to the bear lizard, you can get it yourself."

Dagon thanked him and went to look. The team leader's bag is neat and tidy, and the contents have been sorted into different categories, and the belt bundles are placed in a very conspicuous place. And next to the belt, there is a stack of thin and striped "cloth", which has a cool feel when touched.

What is this? Dagon touched it curiously. At this time, Balder yawned and asked, "Have you found it? It's in the top middle, the brown one."

"Found it." Dagon hurriedly took out the belt, and the result was Take the stack of "cloth" with you too. He scratched his head sadly, picked it up and put it back again. That is, at this time, he suddenly understood what this piece of cloth was.

The skin of a frost snake.

Thanks to Balder's detailed explanation, the features of the frost snake's appearance, especially the pattern on the body surface, have been imprinted in Dagon's head and surfaced at this time. Everyone has been allocated snake meat, and it is normal for snake skin to be stored in backpacks as spills of war. Dagon smiled apologetically at Bald and found that he had closed his eyes to sleep, so he decided to shut his mouth, quietly closed the backpack again, and returned to the alert position with the belt. Pi was startled, shameful." Dagon wasn't satisfied with his performance. After he sat down, he began to cut the belt, thread it through the hole, and knot it to make a loop that would hold his weight. The work was not complicated, during which Dagon suddenly had a single thought: Why are there so few snakeskins?
Frost snakes are very large, as evidenced by chunks of meat. Calculated from the thickness of the snakeskin leaflet, if the whole snakeskin is stacked, there should be more, much more, not just the size of a handkerchief, only seven 8-layers. He made a rough gesture, and the snake skins were about the size of the blanket sleeping under him.

On second thought, there are still problems. The snakeskin in the bag is very clean and obviously treated. Although I am not a professional tanner, I often pass by the leather shops in Jiangu city and know that the fresh leather needs to be opened with tools such as racks, so as not to shrink, wrinkle and reduce the area. In the wild, there is often no time for such a treatment, so most of the skins will curl up. But the snakeskin in Balder's backpack is very flat, and it has edges and corners when folded, which obviously does not conform to common sense.

If it is said that the snakeskin can be cut and stored separately to explain the quantity, then what can be used to explain the state of the frosted snakeskin? After thinking about it, Dagon felt that he had found a doubt, but he couldn't use this doubt to further expand, and in the end he didn't get any answers.

"Maybe it's just me thinking too much!" He tightened the belt and tugged hard to make sure it was strong enough. "If you don't understand, don't think about it. It's not an important thing anyway. What I should do now is to prepare for the next dream. Especially first, I think about what moves I should use to climb the steps faster."

While staring at the movement of the caves and tunnels outside the camp, plan the movements in your mind. How to use one hand to exert force, how to create a fulcrum to pry the center of gravity, how to climb and swing the body, and finally how to throw the torso up the steps.

Repeating the practice over and over in your mind makes the time for the night watch pass quickly. He woke up the next shift, handed over the sudden drop in temperature and the work of taking care of the fire, and then fell asleep with full confidence.

This time, he still slept very fast, and he found that he really continued the previous plot, hanging on the headhunting axe under the steps, and his stamina was very abundant. Before he could give the order, his body actually moved on his own, completely and accurately executed the movements he had imagined before, and automatically climbed up the steps with a near-perfect posture and in the shortest possible time.

"Is this the case?" Dagon knelt on the steps. The body is still his body, how can it move on its own? "Could it be that the exercises in the mind were changing before, and could affect the activities of the body in this world?"

This is the most reasonable explanation at present, there may be others, but now is not a good time to meditate . Dagon hurriedly got up, carrying his flaming headhunter, and ran up the steps before the steps disappeared.

Eight Level 11 steps, you can rush up after a few breaths. Dagon put the tip of his head axe in front and charged into the rays of light at the end of the steps. The intense light dazzled him, and then the brightness dropped sharply. With tears in his eyes, he struggled to open his eyes and found himself back in the ring of fire.

"Asshole!" he growled.

"Don't be so hard on yourself, you've succeeded. At least a small step."

Dagon turned around immediately, and the previous weirdo was standing two meters behind him , applaud him gently with both hands. "Dagon, you have worked hard to leave the realm of the soul and find a habitation in the spiritual stage..."

Pu chi! Out, Dagon hit the killer. He rotated the headhunting axe and pulled it out, exerting force from his waist and abdomen, rotating his shoulders, arms and wrists, and cutting the monster's neck with the axe blade, ready to behead him.

He wasn't able to make it because the odd man had the axe blade in one hand. His strength was incomparable gigantic, using only one hand, and even seemingly fingers, overpowered the strength of Dagon's arms. The headhunter was completely motionless under his grasp, and even began to shatter. Dagon wrestled with it, and the final exchange was the complete collapse of the first hunting axe!
The shards were all flames, scattered like exploding fireworks. In bright radiance, Dagon dashes at the freak, throwing a fist at his wounded eye socket.

"Enough!" With a wave of the monster's arm, he didn't hit Dagon directly, but the wind pressure from his arm knocked Dagon to the ground. "I'm not a monster, you stupid dwarf! I'm the Ancestral Spirit, you have to call me Ancestral Grandfather! You stupid, haven't you heard of Spiritual God enlightenment?"

"Don't think about it Lie to me, you monster." Dagon got up from the ground and spat out blood with four broken teeth in it.

"Why is this Jiangu clan so dumb as a stone? The dwarves are just tenacious, a little ugly, but they have no intellectual defect!" The eccentric shook his head slightly, his pierced eyes and the skull began to heal. It only took a few seconds before he blinked, staring at Dagon with his two intact eyes. "In order to enlighten your elm head and make it easier for you to understand the whole thing, I can show you in front of the Divine Idol in the Temple of Ori, or in front of the holy emblem. If I am a monster, the Ori will attack. Me, right?"

Dagon wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, rolled his eyes, thought about it, and then nodded. "That's a good idea. Why don't you show yourself in adult ceremony?"

"Because you haven't climbed the Star Stone steps yet! There's a lot of things I can't do or say!" The weirdo Spread out both hands and said, "Let's meet again, my name is Rhett Van, and you are Ancestral Grandfather in terms of seniority."

(end of this chapter)