Six traces of the dream domain empty city

Chapter 14 The Lost People
Huang Quan turned the ogre's body over, inspected it up and down, and finally his eyes fell on the hunting knife in his hand.

The style of this hunting knife is different from other ogre weapons. The blade is extremely sharp, with a row of serrated teeth on the back of the knife, and deep blood grooves are carved on the knife.

Most of the weapons used by ogres are crude and heavy, and some even directly use thick wooden sticks as weapons.But this hunting knife is different, the workmanship is extremely excellent, especially those serrations, the distribution is even, and the error is extremely small.

This is not a weapon that can be made by ordinary hands. Only when the industrial processing technology reaches a certain level can it be possible to make such a hunting knife.Moreover, the style of the hunting knife is quite similar to the portable multi-purpose saber prepared by the empire for soldiers.

There may be coincidences in the styles, but there can be no coincidences in the workmanship and materials.Behind these seemingly uncivilized ogres, there is probably a fairly developed civilization.

If you only look at the level of technology, Huang Quan has not yet put this hunting knife in his eyes.However, hunting knives are just a window. This civilization may only be able to manufacture hunting knives, or it may be able to manufacture many other things.

What really worried Huang Quan was the power represented by the gray sludge.

Huang Quan took the ogre's hunting knife, wiped it clean with a blade of grass, handed it to Yao, and said, "This knife is much better than the one you use now, you can keep it."

Yao took the hunting knife and played with it for a while, showing joy. She also saw the excellent quality of this hunting knife.

"You wait for me here, I'll come back as soon as I go." After saying that, Huang Quan walked into the long grass and disappeared in an instant.

Knowing that he was going to inspect the corpse of the ogre who was shot, Yao just waited where he was.Looking around at the ogre corpses all over the place, she suddenly had a strong sense of unreality.

In the past, even if the two most powerful hunters in the settlement met seven ogres, they would have no choice but to escape.If it wasn't for the corpse of the ogre in front of her eyes, she would never have imagined that someone could kill so many ogres so easily.

Yao suddenly became curious, how did Huang Quan kill the ogre?

Holding her breath, she came to the corpse of the ogre smeared with sludge and stirred it with a branch.She still remembered that Huang Quan just took a simple side step to pass the pounce, and then the ogre fell to the ground and stopped moving.

The corpse of the ogre was turned over, revealing a thin line of blood under the ribs that was the length of a palm.It was a wound, and the incision was extremely smooth.

An image immediately appeared in Yao's mind. When the ogre flew into the air, Huang Quan, who passed by, had already stabbed it in the ribs with the knife in his hand.The knife passed through the gap between the ribs and directly pierced its heart.

When the ogre fell to the ground, it was already dead.It's just that Huang Quan made a move so fast that Yao didn't even notice that he had already made a move.

The girl inspected the other ogres one by one, and the death patterns were exactly the same, all of them had a thin knife cut on their ribs, and then killed them with one blow.Only the ogre she killed herself was so rotten in the chest and abdomen that it was almost smashed into a meat paste, and it had been stabbed so many times.

Yao blushed.

She had planned well at first, and wanted to use the three moves taught by Huang Quan to approach the ogre in an instant, kill the enemy with one blow, and then retreat to a safe zone.But I didn't expect an accident in the first step. I didn't control the distance well and exerted too much force. As a result, I directly hit the ogre, and the next two steps were naturally in vain.

Fortunately, this ogre had probably never encountered such a battle before. He was knocked into a mess and had no ability to resist for a while, so he was stabbed to death by her.

"He also knows how to reflect on his own mistakes, that's right." Huang Quan's voice suddenly sounded behind her.

Yao was startled, stood up quickly, and looked back, it was indeed Huang Quan standing behind him, but he didn't know when he appeared there.

"I, I didn't control it just now."

"You have to practice often, and you have done a good job."

After hearing Huang Quan's praise, Yao felt a little more at ease.

Huang Quan said again: "Go back now?"

Yao nodded, with a worried expression on his face, and said, "It's not a good thing for ogres to appear so close to the camp, and we need to report to the elders."

Huang Quan nodded and said: "It's really not a good thing. On the way back, tell me more about the ogre."

After a while, the two appeared outside the camp, and Huang Quan also knew something about the ogre.

Ogres are mostly tribal, often wandering in groups.All living things in the forest are their food, and so are the people in the settlement, so the people in the settlement call them ogres.

The camp was not the only settlement. There were several similar settlements within a few days' journey, ranging in size from small to large.Small ones have about a hundred people, medium-sized ones have hundreds of people, and it is said that there are thousands of people in large settlements.But Haruka has only heard about a settlement of this scale, and I don't know if it is true or not.

All settlements speak the same language, so it is said that all settlements have a common organization called the Lost Front, and the settlement people are also the lost people.

Yao didn't know what the Lost Front did. She only heard about it occasionally from the elders, but she had never encountered any related personnel.

The greatest enemy of the Lost People is the ogre.

For some reason, these ogres regard the lost people as the most delicious food, and will try their best to capture them.Once the ogres find the trace of the settlement, it won't be long before countless ogres will flock to it.

Once the lost people fall into the hands of ogres, the men will be eaten, but the women will be abused and then eaten.

Not all ogres are ignorant, and there are various divisions of labor between them. For example, the ogres seen today are mostly the lowest-level fighters, while the ogres covered in plaster are hunters, and they are of a higher level.

Before entering the camp, Huang Quan asked, "Are there any ogres with wisdom?"

The low-level fighters I met today are uncivilized compared to the settlement people, and they are only a little better than complete beasts.

Yao thought for a while, and said: "I heard from the elders that there are indeed intelligent ogres. They are extremely powerful and can fight the most powerful warriors in large settlements. However, these ogres are big men, and they will not easily Go to war."

Huang Quan nodded, and there was another shadow in his heart.

Once back at the camp, Haruka made a beeline for the central house, to report to the elders about the ogre encounter.Huang Quan stopped by the pool, he was still a half outsider, not qualified to enter the big central house.

But after a while, the big central room spewed out clouds of steam, and the rapid and piercing whistle sounded continuously, and all the people in the valley came out of the room and gathered in front of the central big room.

Surrounded by everyone, the elder walked out of the big central room.He lifted his cane and paused on the ground a few times. Everyone fell silent, waiting for what he had to say next.

The elder's face was heavy, and his voice became much lower. He said, "I have some bad news to tell everyone. On the edge of the hunting ground opposite the deep ditch, ogres appeared."

"Ogre!"

The news exploded in the crowd like a bomb, instantly making everyone lose their composure.

The elder kept patting the ground with his cane, which made the crowd slowly quiet down.

He glanced at the group of people, and said heavily: "I think everyone knows what it means to have ogres in such a close place. Next, all children and women who are not warriors are not allowed to leave the camp. Hunters When hunting, you should speed up and stay away from the camp, especially avoid that direction, and try to harvest prey in distant hunting grounds. All samurai stopped hunting, divided into three groups, and patrolled around the camp in turn. If you encounter ogres, you must try your best to Lure them far away and kill them, don't let them find out where the camp is."

Several people in the crowd boxed their chests at the same time, saying: "Elder, don't worry."

Huang Quan glanced over and saw that there were only six warriors with boxing chests in total, and two of them were obviously aged.This is all the high-ranking fighters in the settlement, and Juyan and Greyhawk are among them.

The six samurai should also be divided into three groups, with only two people in each group. With this arrangement, if they encountered a team of ogres, not to mention seven ogres, even if they encountered five, they would probably not be able to defeat them.

So in fact, their real mission is to find a way to lure the ogres away. As for the aftermath, it depends on luck.If you are lucky, you will be able to shake off the ogres and return to the camp. If you are unlucky, you may become food for the ogres.

But knowing the possible fate, all the samurai's faces were solemn and determined, and no one shrank or hesitated slightly.

(End of this chapter)