Chapter 74 A monster that doesn’t look like a wild monster
After coming out of the refugee camp, Xu Lai and Su Ya separated. He took a shovel and dug a small ditch next to the Swan Lake, leading to Part of the water from Swan Lake goes into a small pond that the farmers dug before dinner.
Unlike the previous small river at the foot of Pingfeng Mountain, Swan Lake currently has no upstream water source. It may just be formed by the accumulation of rainwater from the sky or underground lake water.
Swan Lake is the source of drinking water for the village. Xu Lai does not want to pollute such a clear lake water if it is not necessary.
And even if it was his own bath water, Xu Lai felt very awkward even if he drank it after boiling it.
So he had such a big hole dug and treated it as his own private bathing pool.
Not to mention, the water of this Swan Lake is not only clear and cool, but if you accidentally take a sip, it is also exceptionally clear and sweet, much better than a hundred-year-old peasant woman.
After taking a comfortable bath, I got up and dried myself with a towel.
At this time, through the faint moonlight, Xu Lai could see his fair and tender skin. The wounds left by the battle during the day were all scarred, making it itchy and uncomfortable.
Xu Lai shivered, stopped thinking about it, put on his clothes and went home to sleep.
When he entered his house, he found that the two trainee shooters whom Su Ya had arranged to rest in the main room were standing obediently outside the door.
Xu Lai asked them suspiciously what they were doing outside. However, the two dolls stood upright and stared at him blankly like fools.
Xu Lai was so angry that he didn't want to say anything. When he got close to the door, he heard the subtle sound of water inside.
With a faint smile, Xu Lai returned to the master room of the village hall. At this time, the witch was already lying on the innermost side of the 2-meter-wide bed.
Xu Lai moved over cautiously, not daring to get too close to the other party, lest he would be so angry that he would not be able to sleep.
That night, Xu Lai slept particularly soundly. After sleeping outdoors for so many days, Feng Dian was finally able to have a good sleep in bed.
As expected, he was the last one to get up. He was not aware of when Su Ya came last night or how the witch and Su Ya left this morning.
After patting his head, these two people would certainly not be detrimental to him, but Xu Lai still wanted to be vigilant. This was no longer that peaceful country.
Outside the house, the soldiers were having breakfast, but Xu Lai’s meal was cooked by Su Ya herself, a large bowl of vegetable and fish porridge.
"Su Ya, I remember you said before that farmers engaged in professional activities can also accumulate relevant experience and change jobs."
Su Ya nodded and said: "This is natural."
Xu Lai said: "Then these farmers, can you distinguish them yourself?
I mean, if you can distinguish them , try to let them do the same work, those who farm are specialized in farming, those who are logging are specialized in logging, and those who are cooking are specialized in cooking."
Su Ya thought for a while and said: "They don't have names, which is a trouble. But I have memorized their faces, and I can classify this group of people."
Xu Lai nodded, and Su Ya reported to Xu Lai the morning's work arrangements.
Due to the shortage of wooden buildings and the need for night patrols at night, many soldiers have not yet fully recovered their physical strength.
Su Ya got up early just to change shifts and arrange for people to take turns.
Su Ya cannot directly mobilize the troops directly under Xu Lai, so he has to deal with it himself when Xu Lai wakes up.
"I have already sent out the scouts. The northwest and surrounding areas of the village when we came were already explored yesterday. This time I asked him to continue south, avoid the group of manticores, and have a look at us. What other wild resources are there in the southwest and southeast? ”
Xu Lai nodded and did not express any opinions on Su Ya's arrangement. There was only one scout, and he should indeed be sent out early to investigate the distant environment clearly.
Touching his chin, Xu Lai drank the porridge in the bowl in one gulp and said:
"Then today, we will clean up all the wild monsters around the village."
Yesterday they only cleaned up the wild monsters near the village and Swan Lake. The farthest caveman's lair was only 5,600 meters away from Swan Lake.
This time we need to go a little further. The troops need to stay away from the three woods and basically clear out all the wild monsters within three kilometers of Qingfeng Village.
Of course, some wild monsters really have no choice but to tolerate them for a while. All they need to do is record their activity range in advance and set up a sign outside the cordon of this range.
For example, the group of manticores do not stay still all the time. They stay still or even hibernate just to conserve energy. Occasionally, they also need to go out to look for food.
However, Xu Lai is not worried that they will take the initiative to attack. No matter how big the strength gap between the two sides is, the wild monsters will naturally avoid the heroes.
This is the rule he summed up after dealing with dozens of different groups of wild monsters.
Of course, if the hero's troops take the initiative to invade the territory of wild monsters, then the group of wild monsters will attack in groups.
Undoubtedly, when wild monsters are active, such as when patrolling or guarding, the original 150-meter cordon becomes unreliable, and farmers need to be kept at a maximum distance of 150 meters from the enemy.
In addition to the manticores and the group of level 4 Medusas, they are all entities that Xu Lai does not want to mess with for the time being.
Passing through the small woods in the northeast and walking about two kilometers further northeast, Xu Lai found a total of 3 groups of wild monsters. In addition, he also found a group of wild monsters that he didn’t know if they were wild monsters. The thing was attacked.
There are three groups of wild monsters, one of which is a boar knight guarding a pile of yellow sand-like resources.
This thing is a thing developed by the stronghold. It uses its own animal taming ability to tame wild boars, and then lets them be controlled by secondary orcs such as bugbears and big goblins. It is not even a regular army of orcs.
However, the strength of a single-minded wild boar and a brainless orc is pretty good, and they are especially fierce in close combat.
The two mercenaries led them to kite for more than half an hour before the group of wild boar knights were killed one by one by Xu Lai's only remaining longbowman.
After killing all the wild boar knights with a basic level of 3, Xu Lai's unique longbow finally advanced to become a marksman.
The first batch of trainee archers who followed Xu Lai have now all been promoted to level 5. There are 6 level 5 marksmen, 1 level 5 flame shooter, 2 level 5 mercenaries, and 1 level 5 knight retinue. people.
The yellow sand guarded by this group of wild boar knights also successfully entered Xu Lai's space backpack. Only then did Xu Lai know that this thing was also a rare resource called "sulfur".
There are two other wild monsters, one is a minotaur guarding a small camp, and the other is an evil ghost guarding a treasure chest.
Xu Lai could not afford to offend the Minotaur for the time being, leaving the evil spirit to Su Ya. Just when Xu Lai was about to go home, a group of about ten people rushed out from behind the small camp. One or two horse thieves.
The reason why Xu Lai said they looked like wild monsters was because these horse thieves only had more than a dozen riders before they charged into his troops.
They said they didn't look like wild monsters, but it was also because their sharpshooters and flame shooters fired a round, leaving two corpses behind, and the group of horse thieves actually ran away.
Thanks to: Shadow of Death Graveyard Rising for the reward
(End of this chapter)