The snow came very early this year. It has only just arrived in October, and the snow on Gavin Highlands has already accumulated to knee-deep.
Rubio Manor is located on the cliff in the southern part of Gavin Highlands. At this time, it is completely submerged in the white snow.
Standing on the edge of the cliff and looking around, you can see the boundless white land, and behind it, there are white undulating roofs, white branches like antlers, and white rolling mountains.
The highlands are the fiefdom of Sir Joffrey Rubio. The land is fertile, with large pumpkin fields and wheat fields, as well as a noisy blacksmith shop and an alchemy shop that smokes all year round. When autumn comes, Farmers will plant a large amount of grain in the fields. By the next summer, the wheat in the fields will be loaded into wagons and transported to various parts of Lordaeron. Of course, the most numerous ones here are hunters. The continuous Alterlands to the north of the manor The mountains are the best hunting ground.
However, to be honest, I have never gone there because I lack a certificate from the hunting association. Only the best hunters are qualified to go hunting in the Alterac Mountains after the spring comes. It is said that there are more than There are dangerous bears, snowmen that can spit ice, two-headed monsters that can shatter rocks with one punch, and pythons that can eat people alive.
My father is officially Ser Joffrey, and I wish my father was actually an ordinary commoner. In this way, I don't have to be forced to learn to be a female celebrity every day. I can play in every corner of the manor every day. My exploration range has already reached the edge of the manor.
*
The fire was red, warming the living room where the bear's head hung.
After breakfast, Ilusha cornered me on the second floor. "Go get the needle and thread, Miss Messiah!" She raised her arrogant chin and said loudly, "You are not allowed to go out today!"
That sentence made the two ladies downstairs laugh out loud. They knew who it was without even thinking about it, Sari Rubio and her sister Elijah Rubio.
Although our surname is Rubio, we are different because my mother is not Mrs. Rubio, the very beautiful hostess of the manor. I have heard servants calling me "bastard" behind my back.
I heard that I was brought home by Sir Joffrey on a snowy day more than ten years ago. At that time, I was as young as a mouse. I don't have the blond hair of the Rubio kids, but I do like my red hair. The only thing I had that resembled Joffrey was the eyes, which were as gray as smoky quartz. In fact, I quite like my eyes, but others don’t seem to do so. At least Ilusha and the eldest son of the Rubio family, Ricky Rubio, often warn me, “Don’t look at people like that! One day, you will be beaten because of this look!"
Haven't I already been beaten a lot? When I was a child, I fought with Ricky, and now I fight with Ilusha. Well, thinking about it, actually, they also received a lot of beatings, didn't they?
In the first half of Ser Joffrey's life, he followed a Earl of the Kingdom of Alterac to conquer all directions. At that time, I stayed alone in the manor.
Mrs. Rubio doesn't want to see me, but she is extremely well-educated. She doesn't beat or scold me, but treats me as nothing.
And the servants and farmers in the manor will not provoke me. After all, Joffrey is still very good to me. I have a room as spacious and warm as his daughters, and have as much food and warmth as his daughters. clothing.
Therefore, I grew up like weeds in a field, wantonly and indulgently. I know a lot of things, and I promise, those two pretty ladies in the white house definitely don’t know those things! Not even...those two idiot young masters can't!
I returned to my room, and the hemp-like ball of needlework was huddled in the corner. Did that fishman really think that I would honestly become a female celebrity? Oh, are you kidding me? !
I put on my thick fur cloak, opened the window, and climbed down silently along the shallow pit eroded by the rain in the white house. Through the window on the first floor, I saw Ilusha standing behind the sari, pointing at her sewing. Then, our eyes met, and the sari who finally reacted covered her mouth and almost screamed. Voice!
"Come back! Miss Messiah!" Ilusha yelled angrily. I made a face at her, turned around and ran away.
*
I ran past wooden houses of different heights, past the ping-pong-ping blacksmith shop, past the smoking refinery, across large fields, and through the woods in the north of the manor.
Under that hill, my companion was waving a red scarf at me, "Hey! Miss! Here!"
I supported the big tree next to him and took several deep breaths to calm down my wildly beating heart. "Bird's Nest, are you the only one? Where are Sandor and Fred?"
The real name of "Bird's Nest" is Qiao Wan. He is the son of an Orion family. He does not have a hunting qualification certificate, but he followed his father deep into the Alterac Snow Mountains last time. He was as strong as a calf and as alert as an antelope. He perfectly inherited his father's brown curly hair, which made him look like he was wearing a bird's nest. Plus, he's clumsy, well, very clumsy.
"Forget it, they were forced by their mother to become masons."
"So, tell me what fun you have today."
"Look here, miss."
It was an oak tree next to the high ground. There were grizzly bear footprints under it, and there was a large pool of blood next to the footprints.
The behemoth's paw prints were three feet long, and the tips of the claws pointed toward the Alterac Mountains.
"Its feet are so big!" I couldn't help but exclaim, "Bird's nest!"
"Uh, miss?"
"Haven't you always wanted to be a damn real hunter? Hunt this unfortunate grizzly bear, and they'll recognize you!"
Turning my head, I found him looking at me in surprise, "Wha, what? Hunting? Let's take a look at it at most. It might be four or five meters high, my lady." He frowned and exhaled a big breath. Bai Qi said, "Moreover, look at the claw marks on the tree. They are so powerful that they almost knocked down the tree."
"Oh, my God, you see clearly, it is injured, and it is very serious! This is a good opportunity to get the qualification certificate. If you miss this time, you will definitely have to wait for several years!"
Bird's Nest hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded to me.
I pulled out the dagger from my waist, looked at the blade carefully, and then put the dagger away, "Then, strap on your shotgun and surprise those people in the white house!"
The bird's nest seemed to be inspired by me, and he clenched his fist vigorously,
But what I was thinking in my heart was that this little loser should not run away crying when the time comes!
*
The bird's nest took me over the snow-covered hills, through the second forest, and across two icy streams. Finally, as the sun set, we stood on the road leading to Austria. On the slopes deep in the Trunk Mountains.
This hillside is so steep that you almost have to hold on to the cold rocks next to it to go up step by step.
*
"Miss, we agreed that you will lend me the bear first when the time comes." Bird's Nest walked carefully in front, "Be careful, there is a branch under the snow."
"uh-huh."
"You want to kill that beast and replace that bear head in your living room, don't you?"
"Exactly."
However, what I didn't say was, then...I can smear the bear's blood on my face, scare Sari and Ilya to roll on the ground, oh, yes! Also make sure that Ricky, who is always triumphant, screams like a girl.
Thinking of that, I couldn't help but laugh out loud. I had to throw the bear eggs into the nasty Ilusha Momo's cider. She would definitely turn pale, roll her eyes and faint!
"Please don't smile like that," Bird's Nest interrupted my reverie at that moment, "Every time you smile like that, you're going to do something bad...well, do something."
"Oh, bad things?! I did bad things?!"
"You blocked Alexander's chimney, miss." Bird's Nest kindly reminded me.
"Try your conscience, Bird's Nest. If I hadn't blocked the chimney of his house, he wouldn't have run out due to the smoke. How could you go in and steal herbs to treat Lucia? Can you afford that damn vampire?" Silver coins? The Holy Light testifies, that is definitely not a bad thing!"
"But you were the one who scared Lucia sick, right? If you hadn't put invisibility potion on your head and knocked on her door in the middle of the night..."
"Come on, not playing pranks on Halloween would be the biggest evil thing! Besides," I said, gritting my teeth angrily, "That cousin's Lucia is so hated! I said that in a whisper. The first fish-man said a few bad words. She went to complain in the blink of an eye! The first fish-man hit me with a stick several times!"
"Well, why don't you call Ilusha a fish-man? She actually has a good heart."
"Isn't she just a fish? She screams all day long and swings a wooden stick at every turn! She can't say 'hell' or 'fuck', and she's not allowed to laugh at Lester or quarrel with Rubio's daughters. Uh-huh, I have to say 'thank you' to her after being beaten with a stick, aha, thank you!"
"Uh, okay, okay, what about that time at Blacksmith Schilling's house? You blew up his blower!"
"I swear to the sky, I really wanted to help that elm head. If the accelerant is successful, he can save a lot of silver coins! But that idiot wanted to stop me, and my hand shook... …”
Bird Nest sighed and continued to fiddle with the floating snow and waded on the snowy road, "Okay, whatever you say is right. However, you really shouldn't have treated the young master of the Mograine family last time in Tarren Mill. The nose was bruised and the face was swollen, and even I couldn’t stand it anymore. How could you have the heart to attack that shy and shy boy? You almost beat him to tears!"
"Aha, you are there, right? You saw it too. He is not a girl, and he is as old as me. How can he not even be able to pick up a sword? How can he not even be able to beat a girl? He was crying like A girl, I really want to break the bridge of his nose! After all, which side are you on?"
"Oh! I swear to my mother, I will always be on your side!"
While we were talking, we had reached the top of the hillside and passed through the huge five- to six-meter-high double bear arch carved from obsidian. As far as the eye could see, only the undulating mountains of Alterac were left. The mountains are covered by large tracts of coniferous trees, and the coniferous trees are covered by large tracts of white snow. When the wind blows, the entire mountains look like a white ocean with waves! The ocean is endless!
Between the high mountains in the sky, a huge sunset is embedded in it, plating all the lines in the field of vision with a red color, which is extremely magnificent.
But the grizzly bear's footprints are still extending forward, but they are covered with small snowflakes. If you don't look carefully, you can easily lose them.
"We can't go any further, my lady." Bird Nest breathed into the palm of his hand, pointed at the purple-lighting magic circle in front of him and said, "More forward, only patrols will go. Deep in the mountains , but there is a city with a two-headed ogre, it is too dangerous."
"Is it a city of ogres?" I stared at the endless mountains in the distance, feeling an infinite desire to embrace them. "I have never been to the depths of the mountains. My father doesn't allow me. I will go." After Tarren Mill, the furthest point is Southsea Town...that damn Ricky keeps teasing me for being an ignorant country bumpkin, as if he isn't a damn country bumpkin himself!"
"Uh... I only saw that city from a distance when I followed the hunting team into the mountains last time."
"Have you seen that place?"
He nodded and looked at the large mountain that could drown all sight, "It would take a month to walk through many coniferous forests and over several snow-capped mountains. The city is behind a forest. It's black." Following the fingers of the bird's nest, I saw the smoke lingering in the mountains in the distance.
All around, there was only the whistling of the cold wind and only white. This made me suddenly feel that the world was very high and I was very small.
What will it be like in the distance? I really want to see it.
"It's still some time before sunset. We can go a little further in. Bird's Nest, you are not so timid, are you? You said that you have been to the snow-capped mountains, fought winter bears, and seen the ogre city. In fact, is it the same as Am I bragging?"
"I swear to the Holy Light! That's true! I also made a pair of bearskin gloves and put them on your hands!"
I opened my palms and looked at the pair of gray-black leather gloves. The fur in the gloves was soft and warm. Looking up, I looked at the bird's nest whose face was red from the cold. "Then, my warrior, let's move forward!" When the time comes, I’ll make you a pair of gloves out of bearskin!”
"But……"
"Look, that bear has been bleeding. It's really going to die soon. It must fall not far ahead!"
*
I never expected that the cold wind outside the magic circle could almost blow people up, and the temperature was much lower than inside the magic circle. Even though the bird's nest had reminded me, the sudden drop in temperature still made me shrink my neck in shock and tighten my cloak.
"Oh! This place is actually like this... I just heard that every year, my father has to pay a large sum of money to the magicians of Dalaran for a magic circle that can keep warmth... Hiss... I am the first I agree with this money at once... It's a good deal." As I said that, I almost jumped out of coldness, the ice and snow crunched under my feet, and it was actually much tighter than the inside of the magic circle.
Bird Nest looked at me, a little worried, "Should we go back? Miss? I'm afraid you will freeze."
"What? You want to give up this good opportunity? Oh! My God, it's so cold! Okay, okay, go back...wait, did you hear something?"
"What?"
"Shhh"
I did hear something, behind the cold wind, behind the flying snowflakes, the sound was dull and without a trace.
Bird Nest was also listening attentively. He suddenly lifted up a corner of his fur hat. The wind like a knife suddenly blew his ears red, but he still listened carefully. After a while, he covered his ears with the hat again. And rubbed it hard.
I jumped to his side in a few steps, "Have you found it..."
"Well" he squatted down slowly and carefully fiddled with the floating snow step by step. Three meters away, we finally found bloody footprints again and walked forward. "Over there!" He pointed forward excitedly. , suddenly, we ran forward quietly together.
Soon, I could hear the dull breathing coming from a cave half buried by snow.
call
call
call
The ice hanging upside down on the cave trembled with the sounds inside.
"Inside." Bird's Nest mouthed.
To be honest, I was a little nervous, but with so much blood shed, how much fighting power would that behemoth still have?
Taking a deep breath, I moved my frozen fingers, and then quietly pulled out the dagger. I slowly arched my back and leaned against the side of the cave. Bird Nest took the musket off his back and leaned on the other side of the rock wall.
"Three, two, one, up!" I gave Qiao Wan a look.
Kata
We were suddenly blocked at the entrance of the cave.
At that moment, the sunset stingily withdrew its last afterglow, and in that bright red light, what I saw in front of me stunned me.
Yes, there is indeed a bear in the cave, but the meat on its body is rotten! It should obviously be dead, but it's still alive!
There were no eyeballs in its eye sockets, just two pale fires. The reason why it left blood stains was because it held a dead deer in its mouth! The deer had been eaten by it, leaving only the bones and fresh offal.
At this moment, its pair of white-light eyes had noticed us at the entrance of the cave, and in an instant, its blood-stained teeth began to bared.
oh! Oh My God!
Slowly, it stood up, its huge body almost filling the entire cave! I saw the rotten flesh falling off piece by piece, and the stench emitted made my eyes dazzle!
"Roar" it growled at us threateningly, exhaling ice from its throat.
Zi La La
The ground around it froze, spreading towards us.
"Holy light! What is that?!" Bird Nest was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.
"Shoot! Bird's nest! Shoot!" I screamed, but the trash next to me was shaking all over and couldn't even pull the bolt of the gun.
I almost jumped, "You should go home and put on a skirt!" I cursed angrily, snatched the musket from his hand, raised my hand, and fired!
boom
My shooting skills were good and I accurately hit the bear's face. However, the impact of the gunpowder had no effect except a few dull scratches on the giant bear's face!
Oh my god...
"Run!" I took two steps back and dragged Qiao Wan into the snow.
