Originally he wanted to find Nidis, but Duck told Roddy that Nidis was not in the tavern, and Roddy also felt a little embarrassed to meet Nidis, so he gave up.
When the three returned, Miao Ge was taken to the Duke's Mansion. Although Dake was a little strange, he also knew the relationship between Miao Ge and Duke Tulip. But seeing the way Miu Ge looked at the young man named Rody from time to time made him feel a little strange.
In the Duke's Mansion, the first meeting between Miss Nicole and Miao Ge was not as awkward as Rody imagined - Nicole looked calmer and Miao Ge was also calm.
Nicole had long expected that Miao Ge must be an outstanding woman. When she actually saw Miao Ge standing in front of her, she couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in her heart.
Nicole only felt that the woman in front of her was naturally extremely beautiful. Her long satin-like hair gently stuck to one side of her face, making her look gentle and charming. What is particularly fascinating is Miao Ge's temperament - there is a faint tranquility on that beautiful face, a kind of indifference as if he doesn't care much about the things around him, a kind of heartfelt feeling. Favor or disgrace. The first thought in her mind was: How could her brother abandon such an outstanding person so easily
But of course she wouldn't say such words. She just couldn't help but sigh and took Miao Ge's hand, smiling and saying: "You and I can go in."
Miu Ge glanced at Rody and saw Rody nodding slightly, then smiled softly and followed Nicole.
Obviously, after seeing the two women leaving, Roddy let out a long breath. Dan Yuewu's expression was a little complicated. He didn't speak from the beginning to the end, just biting his lip and tapping his toes gently.
In the remaining time, the remaining three people prepared some tools. Under the guidance of two jungle experts, Dake and Dan Yuewu, the three found what they needed and then rode out of the city.
Several major and minor roads leading to the hunting ground had already been blocked by the army, so Roddy and the two of them naturally had an unobstructed journey. There are four small military camps guarding the outside of the hunting ground. Three hundred Royal Guards are stationed here. Rody ordered them to wait outside, and he and Dak Danyuewu rode into the hunting tent...
It was quiet inside the hunting ground at night. After all, it is a family-run hunting ground that has been in business for hundreds of years. There is an artificially mined market in the forest. Although it is simple, it can barely allow horses to run. But after the three entered the forest, their horses slowed down.
Horse hooves trampled on the grass and land, making a rustling sound. Rody rode the horse at the front, and Dake and Danyuewu walked side by side behind, forming a triangular shape. All three of them were armed and on alert at all times.
From time to time, there were hares and other animals that came out to look for food at night in the grass. They were frightened and jumped out from the roadside. Duck and Dan Yuewu looked around carefully. As they got closer and closer to the lake in the center of the forest, the expressions of Dake and Danyuewu gradually became serious.
The journey was peaceful until we reached the lake in the center. The remnants left behind yesterday are still there, including the destroyed temporary camp, a fallen tree that was smashed to pieces next to it, and the huge corpse of the monster that Roddy killed.
Dak behind him suddenly whispered: "Wait!"
Roddy left and reined in the reins, and looked back. Duck sat on the horse, but closed his eyes. He seemed to be feeling something, and then sniffed twice with his nose.
His expression became more solemn, he turned over and jumped off the horse, holding a prepared baggage in one hand, and slowly approached the body of the huge monster.
Rody and Dan Yuewu also dismounted, casually tied the horse's reins to the tree next to them, and followed Duck over.
Suddenly, Duck rushed up to a tree, squatted on the trunk, touched the branches, and sniffed under his nose. He jumped down from the tree, approached the monster's body, looked around, and carefully searched the surrounding ground.
In the cold wind at night, Dak looked solemn, as if he had discovered something was wrong. Dan Yuewu glanced around and frowned.
Rody said in a deep voice: "Did you find anything?"
Dak took a deep breath, turned around and said, "It's a little strange..." He glanced at Dan Yuewu and said, "Did you notice it?"
Dan Yuewu nodded and said slowly: "The trees here are a bit strange... Have you noticed that all the trees near the lake are very tall and strong and grow extremely well! This is very strange... According to common sense. It is said that in the jungle, there are usually more animals near water sources! The vegetation here should be often trampled by animals, but did you see... I looked around just now, and there were very few animal footprints. !”
Rody thought for a moment and said, "It seems so. We went hunting yesterday and only caught some prey on the periphery of the forest. The further we went inside, the less prey we could see. The last few we caught were The wild boar was encountered on the outskirts, and we finally drove it to the nearby area and killed it. There seemed to be very few animals around the lake here.”
Duck nodded and said: "This is a bit strange... Generally speaking, there are animals in places close to water sources, unless... Animals like to divide their territories, especially for some large beasts, unless there is The beasts are active around the lake and have designated this place as their own territory, not allowing other animals to come near... "
Rody shook his head: "Impossible... Although this is a forest, it is the family's hunting ground after all. At most, there are some slightly larger things, such as wild boars. No matter how powerful the beast is, there will be no more. This is a place for nobles to hunt. Those ferocious beasts may hurt people.”
Dan Yuewu suddenly said: "Listen!"
"Huh?" Rody was stunned for a moment: "Is there any sound?"
Dan Yuewu glanced at Dak and whispered: "There is just no sound! This is strange!!"
Dak whispered: "That's right! In such a large forest, there is no sound of birds singing..." He shook his head: "I just looked at several trees. There are no bird's nests, not even footprints..."
When the two said this, Rody also noticed something - thinking that when he entered the southern mountainous area, there were always birds chirping in the mountains and forests at night. He thought back to yesterday when he came to hunt during the day. Apart from the chirping of birds at the outskirts of the forest, once we got close to the lake, there was really no sound except for the movement caused by people - and no chirping of birds was heard.
"Rody... did any of you jump up the tree to check yesterday?" Dak suddenly asked.
"no, what happened?"
Duck looked gloomy: "There are footprints on the branches! Those are the marks of people stepping on the ground!"
Rody's color changed slightly and he frowned: "Has someone stepped on it?"
Dak sighed and whispered: "I just saw it, and the traces are a bit strange... Although I'm not sure, I suspect... it might be those vampires!"
Say it. Dan Yuewu couldn't help but shudder. He leaned closer to Rody subconsciously. Rody said in a deep voice: "Vampire? Are you sure?"
Dak shook his head: "Not sure... The smell is very vague. I guess even if it is a vampire, it is the lowest level of vampires. But only the little bats of vampires will fly around and land on the branches."
Rody frowned - the matter actually involved those vampires.
Duck slowly walked to the two of them and whispered: "There are no birds here, so there must be some special reason. I'm afraid there is probably something strange here."
He thought for a while and said, "Did you really find nothing during the day?"
Rody shook his head: "No."
Dan Yuewu thought for a moment. You said: "Is there something that only haunts at night? And after all, this hunting ground has been abandoned for a long time. People from the Tulip family never come in on weekdays. There were so many people during the day yesterday, and even if there was something, they didn't dare to get close. of."
"You can try it!" Dak suddenly smiled widely.
Duck walked over and unbridled the horses that the three of them rode. Then he whipped the two horses hard twice on their buttocks. The two horses felt the pain and ran away. They looked in the direction of running outside the woods. Duck looked calm, but his own horse Brought over. He took off the saddle and other things, and then drove the horse to the woods near the lake.
Patting the horse's neck gently, Duck sighed in a low voice: "Although it was a little cruel, I have no choice but to apologize to you."
He suddenly pulled out his knife and cut the horse's two front hooves with two deep wounds visible to the bone! The horse immediately let out a mournful neigh, struggled violently and fell to its knees on the ground.
Duck sighed, turned around and walked back. Pulling Rody and Dan Yuewu back behind the tree.
The three of them looked at the injured horse kneeling on the ground and struggling in the moonlight, backing up and kicking hard from time to time. It seemed to be trying to stand up, and it let out a mournful hiss. The blood from the wound was already flowing on the ground.
Dan Yuewu seemed to be a little unbearable, and couldn't help but gently pulled Roddy's clothes. Roddy looked calm - he had killed countless people on the battlefield! Just sensing Dan Yuewu's emotions, Rody smiled at her and patted her shoulder gently.
Duck took out a black bottle, poured some strange potion from it, and carefully sprayed some on his pants. Dan Yuewu looked at Roddy's surprised expression and said with a smile: "That's for hunting... The nose of a beast is much more powerful than a human's. It's to cover up the smell of his body so as not to let the prey notice it!" Having said this, Dan Yuewu also took out a bottle from her arms and said with a smile: "This is for our Silver Moon tribe hunters, give it to you."
Rody also followed suit and lightly sprayed the liquid in the bottle on his body - the liquid seemed to have a faint smell of grass.
"Is it useful for us to wait like this?" Rody couldn't help but frown.
Dak shook his head: "I don't know... I hope this bloody smell can attract things." After thinking about it, Dak whispered: "It's not good for us to stand here. Let's wait in the tree."
The three of them found a big tree and jumped on it, but Dan Yuewu stood with Rody intentionally or unintentionally. He just stayed on the tree trunk calmly.
Dak had already taken down the long bow behind him, and was holding a sharp arrow in his hand, looking around with bright eyes.
Time gradually passed, and the injured horse was still struggling on the ground. Because the wound on its front leg was too serious, it could not stand up. The neighing sound gradually stopped, and only a helpless breath spewed out from its nostrils from time to time. It seemed that he was gradually losing strength.
Rody was a little anxious, but when he saw Dak's face was calm as usual, even Dan Yuewu next to him was very calm. He couldn't help but smile, thinking that they were indeed much better at this kind of thing than he was.
By the middle of the night, the horse had gradually stopped moving. It was obvious that it had lost too much blood and was already dying. Rody stopped talking long ago under Duck's signal. Just wait quietly.
Finally, I suddenly saw Duck gently waving his hand... There was movement! Looking in the direction of Duck's finger, there was indeed a subtle rustling sound in the woods by the lake in the distance... The sound was very low, almost covered by the wind. But Rody's eyes were sharp, and he still saw a black shadow in the bushes, as if he was quietly waiting for something, and there were also three green things like will-o'-wisps flickering...
Dak made a silent gesture, and Rody nodded, but his fists could not help but gradually clenched. Danyuewu leaned against Roddy's side, leaning on Roddy's shoulder intentionally or unintentionally, seeming a little nervous.
I finally saw a rustling sound coming from the bushes again, and then the grass parted to both sides, and a dark shadow slowly moved out...
Although the distance was relatively far and it was night, Roddy could still see clearly that it was a wolf-like thing!
The reason why I say "similar" is because the shape of that thing is somewhat similar to a wolf, but there are many differences: its size seems to be larger than the strongest wolf Roddy has ever seen, and its black fur is black and shiny. , the ears are pointed and erect... wait, its eyes!
Roddy finally understood what those green will-o'-the-wisp things he saw just now were - those were its eyes.
It actually has three eyes! In addition to the normal eyes, there is an extra eye in the center of its forehead! In the night, three eyes emitted a scary green light.
It carefully walked out of the bushes, walking very slowly and leaning very low. What's even more surprising is... it's deep and drags two big broom-like tails!
Every time he takes a step, the two tails behind him will sweep gently to eliminate the footprints left on the ground!
What a cunning guy!