The sun is shining brightly.
In June, the huge fireball-like sun seemed to have gone crazy, scorching the world desperately. The air was extremely hot, and the water in a river in the wilderness seemed to be boiling.
Next to the river is a majestic city - Blue Lion City. As the capital of the Blue Lion Kingdom, it is majestic, like an ancient beast lying on the ground. Inside the city, various buildings are scattered in an orderly manner, with the central palace as a dot and distributed in a radial pattern.
Suddenly, the door of the palace opened, and a group of swift cavalry roared out of the city. Pedestrians on the street fled away.
Soon the cavalry team rushed out of the Blue Lion City and stepped onto the smoke-filled dirt road outside the city. In an instant, yellow dust rose everywhere. But this group of cavalry ignored them and kept their formation and rushed straight into the distance.
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Half an hour later.
Richard reached a gentle hillside outside the city and jumped off his horse. The cavalry behind him also dismounted and moved around, vaguely protecting Richard.
The wizard in the dungeon turned pale because he was tied to the horse. After the captain of the dungeon guard untied the rope and grabbed him off the horse, he could not stand still.
The guard captain didn't care about this. After knowing that the wizard was just a liar, all fear had disappeared, only anger. He kicked the wizard to the front of Richard, and then looked at Richard with a smile on his face: "Your Highness, look..."
Richard ignored the guard captain, but looked at the wizard and asked, "Where did you see the python you mentioned? Point it out to me?"
"In..." The wizard looked up into the distance, looked carefully for a while, and finally pointed his finger, "Just under that tree, when I was passing by, the python suddenly appeared and almost scared me to death. But fortunately, it seemed It was not interested in me and swam away quickly, allowing me to save my life."
Richard nodded slightly and turned to look at the guard captain. The guard captain waved his hand vigorously, and the dozen or so soldiers who followed him drew their weapons and quickly moved forward.
Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...
The place pointed by the wizard was quickly reached, but there was not even a rabbit, not to mention a big python.
The captain of the guard looked at the wizard with some evil eyes. The wizard shrank his neck lest Richard think he was lying, so he quickly explained: "The king... Your Highness, maybe the python has gone to other places... "
Richard knelt down and stared at the ground. Pulling open the young weeds, a mark like a flame was revealed below. It seemed that a python burning with light was indeed passing by here.
Richard picked up a little soil with his fingernail, put it in front of his nose and smelled it. It smelled like yellow phosphorus like garlic, mixed with the special smell of sulfur.
Richard stood up, turned around and ordered to the guard captain: "Search forward, pay attention to your feet and trees. Snakes are cold-blooded animals that hate cold and like heat. In this kind of weather, they are likely to be stationary and sunbathing somewhere, as long as there are no You can find it by leaving this area.”
"Yes." The guard captain nodded vigorously, and without saying a word, quickly conveyed Richard's order to his men, asking the soldiers to spread out and start searching.
About ten minutes later, the news came back that traces of a python were found in the grass more than 200 meters ahead, but it was not sure whether it was the one we were looking for.
Richard rushed over without hesitation and was stopped by the guard captain dozens of meters away from the python.
"Your Highness, you have to be careful, pythons are very dangerous." The guard captain said, "How about I ask someone to test it and see if it will catch fire all over the body?"
Richard shook his head and said expressionlessly: "No need."
While speaking, Richard's eyes had already fallen on the grass dozens of meters away. A brown spotted python was lying in it, with its eyes closed as if it was taking a nap. Under the light, the python's surroundings looked a little distorted.
Richard knew that it was the refraction of light produced when light passes through different media.
There is only air around the python. There is only one reason why light is refracted, and that is that the surrounding temperature is very high, much higher than the average temperature of the air. Considering that the surrounding weeds are not scorched, the ignition point will not exceed 200 degrees Celsius, and is most likely between tens of degrees Celsius to a hundred degrees Celsius.
Ordinary pythons can't do this, so the answer is already obvious.
Richard spoke up and said to the guard captain: "Tell your people to prepare. No need to test, just start arresting. Use bows and arrows to test the opponent's defense first. It's best to catch them alive after being seriously injured. Otherwise, dead ones can be used." "
"Yes." The guard captain nodded, quickly left Richard's side, and began to command. There were shouts, and several soldiers with the highest level of archery skills quickly picked up their bows and arrows.
The bows and arrows used by the soldiers looked similar to the medieval English longbows in Richard's opinion. This kind of bow and arrow is generally about 1.5 meters long, and some are up to 2 meters long. The back of the bow is made of a complete piece of bent wood. The wood is yew, which is strong and elastic. Bow strings are made from tanned sheep intestines or beef tendons. The extra long length of the back of this bow gives the arrows great power and a long range, and can shoot arrows up to 350 meters away.
Generally, it can penetrate leather armor at a distance of 200 meters to 250 meters. Within 200 meters, chain armor can be penetrated. Within 100 meters, it can penetrate the strongest plate armor. Within 50 meters, except for shields and special armor, almost nothing can withstand its shots. It can be said to be indestructible.
At this time, the distance between the soldier and the python was about 50 meters.
The four soldiers picked up their bows and arrows, took out a bundle of 24 arrows from the quiver behind their backs, untied them and inserted them directly into the ground in front of them. Each arrow is nearly one meter in length and can be grasped when inserted into the ground without bending down, making it easy to shoot continuously.
After the four soldiers were ready, they looked at each other, took a deep breath, each grabbed an arrow and put it on their long bow, and began to aim.
"Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong", four arrows shot out like meteors, hitting the python, but none of them hit, and the nearest one was more than ten centimeters away from the python. After all, soldiers are not all sharpshooters. On the battlefield, they rely on intensive volleys to ensure their hit rate.
Richard was not angry about this and continued to watch.
The four soldiers who failed once quickly each grabbed an arrow in front of them and shot it on their long bows. This time they took a slightly longer time to aim, and then there were four more "ssssssssssssssssssssssssssss" sound.
The already disturbed python was about to take action when four arrows fell, two of which hit directly. One shot hit the tail, and the other pierced the body directly, and red blood flowed out quickly.
"Hiss!"
The python screamed, as if it was angry, twisted violently, and broke the arrow with two "click" sounds. Opening its mouth, the snake spit out a large cluster of sparks. Swimming towards the crowd, the atmosphere instantly became tense, and several soldiers subconsciously wanted to retreat.
The most excited person at this time was not Richard nor the guard captain, but the wizard.
The wizard almost jumped up, grabbed the guard captain, and said repeatedly: "You saw it, you saw it, what I said is true, there are really pythons that can catch fire here. His Highness the Prince promised me, so I can't kill them." I."
The guard captain was nervous and had no time to respond. He pushed the wizard to the ground with a wave of his hand, pulled out his long sword, calmed the panicked soldiers with his momentum, and shouted: "What are you afraid of! Give me the bow and arrows and keep shooting. , the rest of the people prepare their nets, I want to catch them alive!"
"Yes." The soldiers responded quickly and got busy.