Chapter 18: 17. Jumanji
Chapter 18 17. Game of the Brave
The tent was filled with a faint smell of perfume. Baron Sidney was holding a thick parchment book and sitting on a chair with a backrest in front of a square table. On the square table was a magic desk lamp with a moonstone wick emitting soft light.
The guards opened the brocade curtain of the tent, and Suldak strode in from the outside. His boots were stained with mud and blood, leaving a row of clear footprints on the beige velvet carpet.
Suldak had a choking smell of blood on his body, and the linen bag in his hand was dripping with sticky blood. He glanced nervously at the footprints left behind, his face With a tense and embarrassing expression on his face, he smiled at Baron Sidney behind the wooden table and gave a fairly standard military salute.
There was a 'puchi' laugh from behind the gauze curtain of the tent bed, but the laughter stopped immediately.
Baron Sidney raised his head expressionlessly.
He is the kind of aristocrat who pays great attention to his behavior and appearance. He always maintains a calm heart and meticulous hairstyle. His eyes fell on Suldak's face.
Suldak only felt that the beating heart in his chest seemed to be grasped by a big hand, and he couldn't even breathe freely. He held his breath, and couldn't help but stand up straight, and said bravely: "Master Baron, we are here The group of aborigines were found in the mountain depressions in the northern part of the forest farm."
Baron Sidney's displeasure was not written on his face, but when he heard Suldak's report, he raised his eyes to stare at Suldak and asked, "Oh? Did you find it?"
Suldak subconsciously touched the half-moon-shaped ribs on the breastplate, and said, "Yes, my lord, they sneaked to the water source to fetch water, and let us take the opportunity to kill three, but unfortunately we couldn't." caught alive."
Baron Sidney's gaze first fell on the blood-dripping bag around Suldak's waist, and then he strode to the back of the desk. There was a parchment map hanging on the edge of the tent. Baron Sidney was holding a magic The table lamp almost stuck the lampshade of the magic table lamp on the map, and pointed to the map and asked Suldak, "Can you understand this?"
Suldak followed Baron Sidney, walked to the front of the map, wiped his hands vigorously, and then drew a large circle on an area of the map, and replied: "My road is in the area of the forest farm."
"Very good, can you point out where the natives of Handanal County were found?" Baron Sidney showed approval in his eyes, and his voice became much more pleasant.
Suldak was not in a hurry to answer, but carefully observed the map for a long time before saying: "Yes, it is probably in this area."
He narrowed down the area he pointed out before, pointed to a ridge marked on the map, and said to Baron Sidney: "These aboriginal hunters are currently hiding in a cliff cave. There is a wide field of vision, and the entrance to the cave is extremely narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack."
Baron Sidney nodded slightly, and put the magic lamp in his hand back on the table.
"The heads of those aborigines are in the bag?"
"Yes, my lord."
After Suldak finished speaking, he was about to untie the linen bag.
Baron Sidney waved his hand, signaling Suldak to back down. And said: "Tomorrow morning, all the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion will be summoned. I will apply to Commander Mond Goss to mobilize the longbow shooters to completely wipe out the area north of the forest farm."
Waiting for Suldak to retreat to the tent door, he asked Suldak who was about to walk out of the tent: "Soldier, what's your name?"
"Suldak, my lord!"
Baron Sidney nodded slightly to Suldak, and said: "Suldak, you have done a good job, I will write your name on the front of the application form for military merit."
Then he waved his hand, indicating that he could leave.
Suldak, who walked out of the tent, waved his fist excitedly.
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The curtain of the tent is lifted outwards, and the room has a faint smell of mint, which can effectively dispel the poisonous mosquitoes around.
He Boqiang looked up and saw the bunch of mint branches hanging on the top of the tent. This smell is refreshing, but at the same time makes it difficult to sleep.
The curly-haired boy Gabi brought a bowl of steaming hot polenta, and sat at the door of He Boqiang's tent, making the sound of "Zi Walk Zi Walk" from time to time.
Businessman Lajin sat opposite He Boqiang, with several dirty magic cores in front of him. He held a magnifying glass in his hand, carefully inspecting each magic core. First, he put it in his hand to feel the weight, and then He bit the protruding part with his teeth, and finally used a magnifying glass to carefully search for the blood marks on the magic core. After all these tests were completed, Larkin let out a long breath, and his tense face eased.
Gabby, with corn mush hanging from his mouth, leaned over to Larkin and said, "Boss, how are you?"
Businessman Lajin put all these magic cores into a purse, put them away carefully, and replied, "There should be some in stock, Little Duck, you guys sneaking into the big mountain before dawn, are you hunting monsters?"
He Boqiang shook his head, and quickly cut his throat, indicating that Larkin got these magic cores from the aborigines.
La Jin nodded, then patted He Boqiang on the shoulder, and said to him: "In the future, you can bring back all the magic cores of this quality, and I will accept them all."
Larkin then asked again: "Are you going to go to the forest farm with Sam and Suldak tomorrow?"
He Boqiang nodded.
La Jin said to He Boqiang: "Be careful, those aborigines got into the forest, just like returning to their own home, you didn't wear that layer of iron skin, leather armor can't stop those wooden spears and wooden bows."
After speaking, Larkin left with Gabi.
He Boqiang lay down on the leather mattress in the tent, thinking about the extremely bad life recently, as if the original world really couldn’t go back, he seemed like a traveler who came to this world, everything in front of him was so different It is novel, and at the same time, it seems that it is out of tune with this world.
Fortunately, the original owner of the body has a very strong physique, which is what He Boqiang should be most grateful for at present.
Recently, He Boqiang followed the second team to be active in the forest area. Lajin's place has become He Boqiang's temporary residence. However, because Lajin took care of He Boqiang, Suldak reciprocated, and traded some magic cores recently harvested by the team with Lakin. .
He stretched out his hand, rolled up the sleeve of the linen shirt, saw that his arm was covered with mottled burn scars, and then closed his eyes, unwilling to fall into that horrible memory again.
To be honest, He Boqiang was a little tempted by Sulzak's invitation, especially when Sulzak said that he would introduce his beautiful sister to him. The teleport pass, go to Surdak's hometown to have a look.
Suldak said that war is a game for the brave.
He Boqiang doesn’t think he is a brave person, but he was able to do so many brave actions before. Thinking about it carefully, He Boqiang feels that he has so much courage. Maybe he just regards everything in front of him as a role-playing game.
He looks forward to hearing someone say 'gameover' to him one day, and then he will wake up from his sleep.
However, Captain Sam said: If you want to live longer in the heavy armored infantry regiment, you must be obedient and honest, and you must not be brave...
Thinking about it, feeling sleepy...
(end of this chapter)