Behind Rody, Nata, who was hiding in the darkness, wanted to leave directly, but seeing the man's solitary and unaware appearance, she just felt that it would be unreasonable for him to kill him like this. After hesitating for two seconds, she finally raised her short bow and slowly drew the bowstring, aiming the arrow at the looming pupils of the leopard in the darkness.
Nata's plan is simple: take advantage of this opportunity to shoot the leopard, and then turn around and walk away... Anyway, the prey is everywhere, and the leopard's skin and meat are cheaper for this human... It can be regarded as this bonfire The reward for saving his own life.
She thought so in her mind, but her finger that was about to let go of the bowstring suddenly froze at the next moment...
Nata's slightly squinted eyes suddenly widened—in the field of vision, the human with chicken wings in his mouth picked up a short bow casually from his side, and his right hand had already grasped two bows at some point. Arrows!
Standing up, turning around, and raising the bow, the long arrow had already rested on the bow window... His movements were casual and smooth, without any feeling of stiffness.
At the moment when the leopard suddenly rose, the short bow held by the human left hand in front of him was already drawn into a full moon.
The steel-tailed leopard rushed out of the shadows with a low growl, its muscles tensed up, and it took three steps and jumped up!
Nata stared at the front with wide-eyed eyes. Everything happened so quickly that all the pictures left only afterimages in her eyes...
The human silhouette in the firelight didn't move extraneously, but the right hand waved and brought out two phantoms one after another.
The vibrating sound of the bowstring was very slight, but the scream of the leopard stopped abruptly after it sounded.
For a moment as if time stood still, the human body holding the bow turned sideways, narrowly passing the beast that might have smashed his chest. After the huge and bloody body of the leopard flew past, this guy reached out and pinched the chicken wings that were always in his mouth, and continued to chew with his mouth moving...
Such a posture seemed unimaginable to Nata, because he seemed to be ready to sit down and continue eating after shooting two arrows.
"thump-"
When the leopard fell to the ground, Rody had already turned around, and continued to turn over the roast chicken above the campfire as if nothing had happened, casually sprinkled some salt that he brought with him, and complained in a low voice, "It seems a little weak" such words.
The "cracking" sound of the bonfire made the atmosphere even more silent, but in Nata's eyes, this "quietness" carried an inexplicably strong chill... Her eyes were set on the leopard, and her hands were originally pulled away. The bowstring was carefully drawn back at this moment.
Nata's movements were very slow, as if she was afraid of making any noise—although she didn't want to believe it, the facts before her eyes had an unimaginable impact on her still young heart.
At this moment, the leopard that chased her to a desperate situation was lying not far in front of her, and the warm corpse had completely stopped moving. If you look carefully, you will find that this guy who is much bigger than Rody has been shot with an arrow in each eye, and he is lying there like a pair of horns growing on his head...
Nata witnessed the whole process of it being shot at close range, and the more she recalled the scene at that moment, the more oppressive she felt, which was almost suffocating. In the tribe, although her talent is not the highest, it is still at the upper-middle level. But after comparing the archery skills she was proud of with this person in front of her, she couldn't help but feel "ashamed". It's rare to see a trace of depression on the ordinary cheeks.
Inexplicably unable to hit the prey, inexplicably being chased by a leopard, and at this time inexplicably being hit by a human being who came from nowhere with terrifying archery skills, this night for Nata... It was really too long up.
The human not far away hummed a song, took out a knife from the bag and cut the chicken, eating with relish, as if killing a steel-tailed leopard just now was no different from picking its teeth. Nata felt that her legs were inexplicably weak, because of the stimulation of the scene just now, she felt a sense of powerlessness all over her body, but after all, she remembered that she was a wood elf, and she still had a hunting mission, so she understood in her heart Leaving early is the right choice.
The humans in front of him are very powerful, even to the point where Nata needs to look up, but after all, Nata doesn't need to have any interaction with humans. Thinking of this, Nata also had an impulse in her heart—she wanted to remember the face of this human being, at least if she had a chance to meet him next time, she would never conflict with him.
She didn't have any other thoughts in her mind, she raised her eyes, and saw that the other party tilted her head slightly, as if casually glanced this way...
Nata lowered her head almost immediately, avoiding to meet the other party's gaze.
Taking a deep breath to adjust her state, Nata had an inexplicable illusion: the other party knew her existence from beginning to end, but she was just too lazy to point it out.
"Ol' kah."
As soon as Nata thought of this, the human not far away said something, the voice was not low - she instinctively glanced at the bonfire in front of her, but found that the figure sitting there was actually...
Disappeared.
His heart stopped for half a beat suddenly, and an extremely dangerous premonition appeared in his mind. She turned around and was about to flee to the distance, but unexpectedly, as soon as she took a step, she tripped for no reason, and her whole body fell forward uncontrollably!
Nata felt like she was going crazy, because she obviously didn't see any obstacles under her feet!
It wasn't a carelessness or a mistake, she knew that she might have been plotted against - under the whirl of her mind, she was about to kick forward and roll out, but just as she stretched out her left foot, she suddenly appeared next to her. One of his feet kicked her calf just right...
"ah-"
In the next second, Nata, who was jumping forward, kicked completely empty, lost all leverage points of her whole body, fluttered her hands and feet in the air and fell towards the ground, feeling like a dehydrated fish with an inexplicable sense of joy .
But before she landed, the belt around her arms and waist was firmly grabbed by hands protruding from nowhere in the darkness, and then she was thrown out—
The scenery was spinning, but Nata breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. The wood elf's natural sense of balance is similar to that of a cat, so she began to adjust her center of gravity the moment she was thrown, and when she landed on the solid ground, her whole body had twisted from the rotation and stood firmly.
But Nata felt more and more strange in her heart, because she vaguely felt...the other party seemed to do this on purpose.
Glancing around from the corner of the eye, Nata found herself standing next to the bonfire, the flame was burning quietly, the orange fire reflected Nata's face, and she knew that the short bow in her hand was useless Immediately she threw it aside, drew the dagger from her belt, and prepared to fight or flee.
The next moment, in the shadows in front of him, a slightly joking voice gradually came.
"You lured a leopard here, but you want to leave without even saying hello? Hey, wood elves really—"
In the darkness, Rody stepped out, the "pretentious" look on his face was unbearable, and the pure wood elf language in his mouth stunned Nata for a while... But halfway through the speech, when Rody saw When he saw the appearance of the wood elf in front of the bonfire, his words were stuck in his throat—
"No..." His tone became hesitant: "It can't be such a coincidence..."
Luo Di stopped in his tracks, his eyes widened, and he stared straight at the short wood elf girl in front of him. His brows frowned into the word "Chuan", and he showed a complex expression that could not be said to be emotion or helplessness, and then He coughed dryly, and asked in a low voice: "Director—oh, no...Aren't you...cough cough, are you—Nata?"
At this time, Nata was already prepared to deal with all emergencies, and even thought of the "worst outcome" if she was defeated. But her imagination was extremely poor, but she couldn't understand why such a situation appeared in front of her eyes: a human being whom she had never seen before spoke her real name in standard wood elf language!
Nata began to wonder if she was in an inescapable nightmare.
She looked at Rody indifferently, she looked very calm, but in fact, her heart was already in a mess. Nata suddenly felt that she was leaving or staying or... the thousands of question marks in her heart finally turned into In a word—
"Who is this human being in front of me?"
"Uh...it should be you, long time no see—it's not right...Actually, we haven't met, so this is the first time we've met."
Rody completely failed to act coercively. At this time, he didn't have the same casual stroll as before. He lowered his head in embarrassment, and took a few steps towards Nata. But when he saw the other party backing away on guard, he remembered that this was his first time. When I met the other party once, I said, "My name is Rody, scout, from the Luciferon family."
He took out an emblem and shook it in front of the other party. The wood elf Nata looked at him, still without any expression or response, but moved the dagger in his hand slightly downward.
After saying this, Rody just looked at the wood elf girl in front of him, his eyes seemed a little direct—Nata and he looked at each other, but felt that the other party's eyes didn't have any meaning of "consideration" or "coveting", and even more so. More, but it is an inexplicable emotion.
"Ha... still the same, with a cold face, as quiet as an iceberg."
Roddy shook his head, and sighed to himself.
I really don't know how I can be so coincidental, the wood elf girl who looks like a girl in front of me is actually his "Ranger" mentor in the game!
Because the wood elves are similar to humans, their life span is only slightly longer than humans, and their appearance is similar to humans. However, they are a mixed race with blood relationship with high elves, so most of them have the common characteristics of elves: handsome men, female beautiful. In Roddy's memory, he only chose an advanced career in the third year after the service was launched. At that time, he found the "Iceberg Mentor" in front of him in the Wood Elf Village of the Silent Whispering Forest, and he has since embarked on the journey of Ranger. path of.
The last time I met the other party was in 596 of the Elon calendar, when the other party was already the first ranger hunter in the wood elf village. Her strength is not very strong, but she didn't continue to practice after crossing the threshold of level 30. In Luo Di's impression, she was just a mentor-type NC.
He and Nata have only had formal conversations ten times. In Rody's mind, Nata is just a symbol, representing a "mentor". As for the other person's appearance... In his impression, that pretty face is almost a mask, and he has never seen it before. other expressions. At first he thought that this mentor was unsmiling, but later he only wondered if she had facial paralysis, or how could she not show any other expressions for several years
So in Luo Di's heart, the other party is really a "three noes" iceberg, and there is no way to communicate at all.
At this time, he suddenly met the other party. Even though Nata was still young at this time, but looking at the other party's expression that was similar to a relief, Rody thought for a while, and felt that no matter how much he said, the other party would not be interested.
He simply coughed twice, and said: "Then...you play with you, and say hello to the village chief Brody for me, and said that the scorpion king named Hanji in the upper reaches of the village was killed by me, and the poison sac was sold to Kig Town , that what—ahem, I'm leaving first, goodbye, good night."
After finishing speaking, he packed up his luggage in front of Nata, left behind the corpse of the steel-tailed leopard, and babbled about Nata's doubtful words... and left.
"I'll go to your village when I'm free, that... just don't shoot me then."
The three horses were led by Rody and disappeared into the night. Rody's words echoed in the forest and gradually disappeared.
Standing in front of the bonfire, Nata looked at the disappearing back of the other party. Her standing figure remained motionless, and even her expression did not change—but when the sound of horseshoes could no longer be heard, she suddenly grew taller. He breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the ground as if paralyzed...