Soul echo

Chapter 54 Autumn

Winter is the season of sleep, spring is the season of awakening, summer is the season of growth, and autumn is the season when vegetables and fruits are fruitful and animals are strong.

The end of autumn is the end of a samsara, and winter is both sleeping and storing—under the brutal cold, countless lives are hiding and waiting for a stronger vitality and vitality to erupt in the coming year.

But the premise of all this is to be able to survive the severe cold in winter. If not, life will come to an end in winter.

Goblins can be seen everywhere, especially in autumn.

Because they have to collect enough food to survive the cold winter, if they can't collect enough food, they will consume the excess goblins.

The ferocious goblins will show a 'timid' character when the number is very small. However, once their number exceeds twenty, they will become extremely fierce and brutal, even dare to challenge large carnivores.

Since even large carnivores dare to challenge, it is not impossible to attack a human village.

When the village chief learned from the hunter that there were indeed traces of goblin activities around the village, he hurriedly notified the whole village and asked them to check the walls of the village and whether their houses were damaged, lest the village be destroyed by goblins. I don't know if it has been invaded.

The villagers got busy, and the caravan began to prepare.

This is not only the mountain village's own business, as an important supply point of the trade route, any merchant should do his best to maintain it within his ability.

Moreover, the mountain village has accumulated a lot of wealth. The village chief took out the public property of the mountain village and hired caravans to help them clean up the goblins that appeared near the mountain village.

Regardless of the number of those goblins, the mountain village must clean up the goblins at once, and not let any goblin go, otherwise, the goblins may come back again by this time next year.

Zhong Ye is also preparing, but unlike others, they also need to prepare various weapons and props, just in case, but he only needs to bring the moonlight, and at most a few throwing knives and a A hatchet.

He was eating, satisfying his hungry body.

If ordinary people need to rely on time and inheritance to evolve their race and genes, then fighters who understand the "source of extraordinaryness" allow their bodies to evolve.

Just like the descendants of extraordinary people are bound to be stronger than the offspring of ordinary people, or they are physically stronger, or less prone to illness, or smarter, and their strength will be passed on to future generations along with their genes.

Licking the oil on his hands, Zhong Ye had some guesses about his increasing appetite recently.

——I may have to 'transform'!

"Are you all ready? It's time to go!"

A rough shout came from outside the door, Zhong Ye washed off the oil with water, wiped off the water from his hands, and put on his gloves.

In addition to weapons, they also need to bring torches and lanterns. If there is no accident, they will search until night.

Just now, the leader of the caravan told them a serious fact: the caravan will not leave until the goblins entering the mountain village are cleared.

Even if a few days of delay on the road may delay the delivery of the goods to the destination, the goblins must be cleared before leaving.

Many people don't care, they all got the commission from the village head, and the leader of the caravan promised that the commission would not be less than half a cent, so why not take the money before leaving?

As for the rest of them... no one will pay any attention to their protests.

Some villagers and guards were left to guard the village to prevent other monsters from attacking the village when the main force left, and the rest followed the hunter into the forest.

Zhong Ye couldn't remember where he found the trace of the goblin, but the hunters were very familiar with this mountain forest, and they could touch that place with their eyes closed.

After the number of goblins increases, tribes will be formed, and the adult goblins of the tribe will go out to hunt and patrol.

They will hide the location of their tribe when they go out, so it is impossible to find the goblin tribe just by following the traces.

Even experienced hunters are sometimes deceived by their prey, not to mention goblins who are much smarter than ordinary animals.

The villagers and mercenaries dispersed at the spot where the trace was found, some of them followed the trace to find it, while others took this place as the center and radiated in all directions, searching in a blanket manner.

The captain of the caravan's guard was not in the search queue. He took the rest of the guards and villagers to guard the mountain village, so the host of this operation was Cole, the old hunter of the mountain village.

The old hunter, over fifty years old, had stopped hunting. He just learned about the goblins around the village and spontaneously petitioned to join the action.

His tracking ability and shooting ability are quite powerful, and the arrows he shoots can even compare with muskets.

It was only because he was getting older and his physical fitness was declining, and his son had learned all his abilities, that he didn't continue hunting.

The old Orion did not follow those footprints. Although there have been no goblins around the mountain village in recent decades, he has been invited by other villages to help them eradicate the goblins around the village, so he knows very well that that cunning little monster It will not leave such obvious traces.

Those traces were probably used to mislead the trackers, because they also left a faint smell around there.

The human nose has trouble picking up that smell, but many carnivores can.

To follow those trails is to fall into a trap and find nothing.

The old Orion wandered in the forest with his tracking skills, climbing up the branches from time to time, standing on the tree and looking around, and crouching down from time to time to rummage in the grass.

Moss under rocks, fallen leaves, and tunnels dug by insects can all be clues.

With his keen 'sense of smell' and tracking ability, Old Cole wandered around the surrounding mountains, collecting all the clues he could find, and they all pointed to the back of the several mountains.

During this time, he also found other traces left by goblins nearby, all of which were new, so it was no wonder that the young people in the village did not find them.

"Goblins didn't nest around here in the first place..."

Twisting the gravel with his fingers, the old Orion looked at the direction of the foot of the mountain and muttered to himself.

Several middle-aged and young hunters followed behind him. They were all his students and descendants.

Looking up at the setting sun, the old Orion turned to them and said, "Go and call the others and say that we have found it."

The other hunters nodded and left one after another.

After they left, Old Cole started walking towards the foot of the mountain.

There was no sign of any bio-inhabitation at the foot of the mountain, but everything he could find pointed to it.

Experienced hunters are occasionally deceived by their prey because they are careless. However, once the hunter is serious, no matter how smart the prey is or how delicate the arrangement is, in the eyes of the hunter, it is just a joke.

Old Cole believed in his ability very much. Since the evidence points to the foot of the mountain, the goblin must be hiding at the foot of the mountain.

The old Orion walked down the mountain and was about to search the vicinity when he heard a sound coming from the side. He immediately pulled out the hand crossbow hanging from his waist, "Who?"

The index finger is already on the trigger, and the arrow will shoot with just a light press.

Seeing the figure coming out from behind the bushes, the old Orion raised his eyebrows and retracted his crossbow, "Is that you?"

If he remembered correctly, it was the mercenary who first spotted the goblins.

Zhong Ye walked out of the jungle with a big sword on his back, and was also a little surprised to see the old Orion.

Relying on his near-extraordinary perception, he searched for a long time before finding this place, but he didn't expect someone to be faster than him.

Zhong Ye nodded to the old Orion, drew out his big sword, and slashed at the vines on the side mountain wall.

The vines fell together, revealing a low hole to the old Orion.

Looking at the dark hole, the old Orion's pupils dilated, then he frowned again and took a closer look.

"...The entrance of the cave should have been formed by collapsing inwards, no wonder the goblin's hiding place was not found here."

Seeing the entrance of this cave, Zhong Ye suddenly remembered the group of goblins that the caravan encountered a few days ago.

"Has there been an earthquake near here in recent months?"

The old Orion suddenly realized, "Speaking of which, there was indeed an earthquake a month ago, but it wasn't that strong... What are you looking for?"

Old Keer watched Zhong Ye lower his head to search on the ground, and then picked up a big stone from the ground.

Zhong Ye approached the hole, stretched his hand in, and let the stone fall freely.

boom!
Soon, a voice came out.

"Sure enough, it's not inside the mountain, but underground..."

(End of this chapter)