Roddy's answer seemed a bit too "practical", and "practical" reached the point where Sally couldn't accept it. She looked at Luo Di in a daze, and murmured: "But you said why you saved me... You said you did it for—"
"It's for this country—I know that many people will take this sentence as a joke, but I really mean it." Rody shrugged, looking at the little girl who seemed to be in a daze, but also felt that he seemed a little too unfeeling , thought for a while, and said: "If you have the confidence to make Francis disappear, I can consider helping you a few more times."
Like a joke, Roddy casually blocked Sally's words. But these words made her look slightly fixed. Ordinary people might think that he was blowing nonsense, but after witnessing what Rody did, Sally realized some deep meaning in the words.
"What you said...are you serious? Are you willing to swear?"
Sally raised her palm slightly, and asked softly very seriously.
Looking at Sally's bright and shrewd eyes, Rody suddenly realized that this little girl was far smarter than he imagined. The meaning of her gesture of raising her palm is self-evident—similar to what later generations call "high-five swearing". In Cracked Earth, although the social structure is relatively primitive and backward, the principle of "contract" sometimes appears to be stronger than that of modern society. Even stricter.
After making an oath, both parties must abide by it. Most of the time, this is more useful than signing any contracts and regulations—needless to say, Sally wants to tie herself to the same chariot as her.
Although it felt like a language trap, Rody thought about it, and felt that if it was possible, it would not be a dream for Sally to become a "lever" to change history. Now that I have such contact and trust with the other party, then...why not let her be the core point of all future plans
"If you take it seriously, I will take it seriously."
With a plan in mind, Rody stretched out his hand and made a vow. Seeing that he actually agreed, Sally swept away the depressed expression just now, and the corners of her mouth turned up immediately, feeling as if she had finally gained some upper hand in the conversation with Rody, with an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.
Looking at her appearance, Rody couldn't help feeling a little funny. But after extinguishing the bonfire, he put his mind back on fighting the OSS. After pondering for a while, he raised his hand and handed the little girl a long dagger that he carried with him, and said casually: "Maybe it will be useful in the next battle." , take it."
The battle with the scorpion king "Secres" is not easy, especially when Rody is currently only level 3 and Sally has almost no combat power - but for an experienced "ranger" player, it is not easy to single out various bosses Always a challenge this group loves to practice.
Similar low-level dungeons, at that time, there were various videos of "perfect completion of non-injury technology flow" circulating on the Internet, many of which were produced and practiced by Roddy himself—in short, he fully believed that he could rely on ten Come and kill this OSS with only one arrow and two swords.
After nightfall, the visibility of the forest was extremely low. Rody walked in front, as if he didn't worry about the beasts that might be thrown at any time before. He naturally knew that this was because the front was in the OSS war zone, and there would be no other things around this area. biology.
But in Sally's eyes, this calmness made Roddy's image in her mind even more mysterious. She kept fantasizing about the past of this guy with "seven years of experience as an adventurer" in her mind, and her expression unconsciously revealed a hint of admiration—before this, she had never thought that she would meet such a weird guy, Curiosity in her heart almost filled her brain—but the guy in front of her was like a log, and she didn't speak a word along the way, which made her quite depressed.
After walking for two kilometers, Rody started to make traps in a woodland full of thick and giant trees—he dug seven pits with huge diameters scattered on the originally flat ground, and Sally wanted to help However, Rody didn't stop him, and pointed to this side and asked her to help dig the hole, making Sally panting from exhaustion. In the darkness, Sally finally couldn't bear the doubts in her heart. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked, "Why do I have the illusion that you have faced these beasts many times?"
Rody, who was humming a strange song, raised his head, shrugged and said, "Your intuition is correct, I have been an adventurer for seven years."
These words are now a complete shield, blocking Sally's various questions. He dragged hard and hoisted the heavy boulder trapped by the vines above the excavated pit. Thanks to the thick trunks of these trees, the vines were also extremely tough. Shaky but remarkably stable.
".Is it scary what you're about to face later?"
Sally squatted aside and couldn't help but continue to ask.
"Conserton's cavalry brigade may be able to handle it, but scout troops like Finks Village will die as many times as they come."
Roddy didn't brag about the strength of the scorpion king "Secres". Level 10 may not be considered a high level for humans, but after adding the "boss template", it is not uncommon for the strength to triple. What's even more frightening is its huge body and the defensive power of its solid carapace. For players around level 5, almost no blood will be lost when hit on its carapace.
"Then. Are we really going to face this kind of monster?"
For Sally, Rody, who killed ten orc wolf cavalry by himself, was already extremely powerful in his mind. In addition, he killed dozens of creatures marked "extremely dangerous" in the book last night. She already had almost paranoid confidence in Rody.
This was not at all like the usual objective and calm Sally, but she didn't notice it at this time.
"To be more specific, I am the one facing this monster," Rody swung his scimitar continuously and chopped down a thick tree trunk, abruptly sharpened it and transformed it into a heavy and sharp spear, and hung it with vines with all his strength. Above the woods, "There will be a lot of little scorpions appearing later, when I can't take care of you, you'd better use that dagger to kill everything that gets close to you."
"Little scorpions? Can't you trample them to death?"
"No, because these scorpions are estimated to be about the length of your calf." Rody stretched out his hand and gestured, "When you step on its head, you will be stung by the scorpion tail. Maybe four stings are enough to kill you, so remember to walk around the tree trunk run."
"Around the tree? Can't you climb the tree?"
"They crawl faster than you."
While talking, Rody took out the fresh fish he caught the day before and threw them into the deep pit. After thinking for a while, he walked around among the big trees in the forest several times to demonstrate for Sally: "Their shortcoming is the speed of movement." Slow down, you can't keep up with you in a circle, so this is enough for you to circle until I end the battle. If... If you are stung by the tail needle, don't stop, close your eyes and run around the tree trunk, otherwise you will have hallucinations And besieged."
Sally listened blankly, she felt that even experienced hunters would not understand this knowledge, and even if someone told her this, she would definitely think it was nonsense—but seeing Rody's serious expression, she Still clenched the dagger in his hand and nodded.
"Okay, that's all there is to say. Remember not to scream no matter what you see, otherwise I will be working hard here for nothing, understand?"
"kindness."
Luo Di was about to turn around, but found that the girl in front of him seemed hesitant to speak, stopped in doubt, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Why?"
"No—nothing."
Maybe it's too much tension.
Rody couldn't understand what she was thinking, his mind was full of ways to deal with OSS, he shrugged, then turned and walked into the darkness.
But he didn't hear Sally's pouting and complaining behind her—
"Can't even say a word? What a... idiot."
Rody didn't know that he had done another stupid thing of "destined to be alone forever". At this moment, his mind was trying his best to recall the location of the lair where the scorpion king "Secres" was, and found the exact location in the dark Afterwards, Rody scanned his attribute list—
HP: 150\/150
Level: Level 3
Experience Points: 1468\/1500
There is only 32 points of experience to be able to upgrade. Rody frowned, but he also understood that there was no way to do it. In this dungeon, basically all creatures that could provide experience were killed by him, and the poisonous mosquitoes and bee swarms that infested during the day He can't handle it, and now he can only rely on himself.
For killing the boss, he is confident that there is no problem. This is not as full of variables as when dealing with orcs, but it is one of the few combat experiences in the game that can be practiced repeatedly.
In front of him was a dark cave with a diameter of more than five meters. Rody stepped forward. He took an arrow transformed from a wooden stick and shot it into the cave—because he knew that the arrow would definitely not After hitting the target, Rody naturally had to save the few remaining arrows.
This is the step of "inducing monsters" before the start of the regular dungeon, and Rody is very familiar with it. But before he could turn around and retreat, he suddenly smelled a pungent smell. This vision made Rody frown slightly, because he had never encountered such a situation when he was playing a copy before.
Instinctively noticed that something went wrong, but the arrow that attracted the monster had already shot into the dark cave...
"boom!"
The sudden crashing sound indicated that the Scorpion King in the cave had been annoyed, and it was too late to say anything. The vibration of the ground kicked up some sand, and Rody immediately turned around and retreated, heading towards the trap he had set up a hundred meters away. go.
"hiss-"
The Scorpion King's hiss sounded, and when it rushed out of the cave, it first declared its sovereignty to the surroundings angrily, and then began to look for the enemy who disturbed it. When it saw Rody's back running fast, it did not immediately pursue it. Instead, he violently raised the giant claw in his hand, and smashed it to the ground!
"Boom!"
A miraculous and frightening scene happened, several rapidly expanding cracks suddenly appeared on the ground that was hit, and extended towards Rody's direction - Rody heard the strange cracking sound on the ground in the distance, and instinct Sensing something was wrong, the movement of running suddenly stopped, and the body slid to the right to avoid...
The blasted air wave rushed out from under the ground and hit the tree trunk beside Rody!
"boom!"
The giant tree embraced by the three of them burst open from the middle, and the splashed sawdust crashed and flew, almost knocking Roddy down.
"Fuck... what the fuck is this!?"
Rody, who was desperately running to the distance, was covered in cold sweat at the moment, and lost his self-confidence in an instant, because he discovered a very serious problem. The guy in front of him was not the Scorpion King Therix at all!
The Therix in Roddy's memory doesn't know how to use magic skills at all, and he doesn't have such a ferocious appearance - the Scorpion King in his memory is four meters long, but the crazy guy who is chasing Rody is at least six meters tall !
The pincers and scorpion tail are two sizes bigger than Therix.
Could it be that at this point in time two years before the server opened, Scorpion King Therix hadn't "appeared" yet
This deduction made Rody cold, but his legs were running faster than ever before - he opened the bow without turning back, and it was too late to say anything, because he had judged that the guy behind him might have exceeded level 12. The level may even be a level 15 OSS.
Just as Rody wanted to run away from the warning range quickly—but then realized...Once the OSS battle of this kind of story dungeon starts, it is impossible to get out of the battle!