Being experienced mercenaries and partners in the same closely-knit hunting mercenary group, it is naturally impossible for Henry to incite them to turn against each other with just one word. Otherwise, they would not be able to exist until now. ↖,
This is why the sage left after just one sentence and chose to talk to the oldest and most experienced hunting expert in the team - if Henry had started talking as directly as some young people, If a Jedi talks about some of his own ideas, the other person will feel disgusted and stand on the opposite side and refuse to accept what he says.
Only one effective word is enough. Once the other party raises suspicion, the veteran mercenary will naturally launch an investigation.
These small actions he made did not fully explain to Mira. The twenty or so people who have been living together for a period of time have too few moments to be alone. The main thing that Henry sensed was that something was wrong with the strong man who was the leader of the team. It was the details from before. When it rained, the team leader clearly showed anxiety when they were carrying the car. And every short hunting trip in the past period was led by the hunting expert. He stayed with the team.
Even if other people notice these two things, most of them will ignore it. After all, Ye Yin is hiding in the forest, and many novice mercenaries are like this in such an environment. It is understandable that he would be anxious - and the latter , as the two most important members of the team, the team leader sitting at the rear and the hunting expert responsible for planning the operation obviously have to stay one to hold on to the battle.
The so-called clues are there, it just depends on whether you have the ability to discover them, or if you don't have enough knowledge to base your judgment on, then you are blind. We have mentioned before that the skin of the Aya Snake Dragon is more expensive than gold, and we have also mentioned how the team's various material preparations and personnel configuration are sufficient and complete. So let me ask, a leader who is dispatched by an organization to perform such an important task, who is capable of doing the job that a captain should do and who arranges all materials and personnel in an orderly manner, will start to feel uneasy because of this situation like a young man. How likely is it?
Yes, maybe others have prepared all this for him, or maybe he is so nervous because he has sat in this position for the first time - but what are you willing to use to verify this lucky guess? Your life .
If his uneasiness and anxiety were due to fear that his secret of colluding with outsiders to steal these dragon skins would be exposed, and every time he asked a hunting expert to lead a team to hunt, it was to get rid of him and have the opportunity to do something like If someone leaves a mark or something like that, then he chooses to dismiss the matter as no big deal and not delve into it. When the cooperating bandits came over, guess what, in order to avoid leaking the news, the mercenary What will the captain do?
A bag of gold coins can make you work hard to keep a secret, but an arrow through the heart can make you keep a secret forever.
After encountering an unexpected attack, everyone except him and his collaborators died, and the goods were stolen. After the frustrated team leader returned to the mercenary group, he was either dismissed from his position by his superiors or everyone chose to forgive him, but he felt that The responsibility lies with me because I killed so many companions and newcomers, so I chose to retire. After the perfect ending, he went to work with the bandits he had cooperated with before, got the gold coins obtained from selling the dragon skin, and lived a happy life somewhere. If Henry's inference was correct, this would probably be the scenario that would follow.
Anyway, there is nothing new in the world. As long as anything is happening now, it has probably happened before. After all, things are changing, but people are still the same.
Suspicions only remain at the level of suspicion for now. What Henry said to the old mercenary in the evening two days ago was obviously intended to make him an expert who better understands the composition of the mercenary group and the identity of the squad leader. Go spy and get information - after all, he and Mira are just hired outsiders. Even if the sage has the vision and ability to judge some details and raise doubts, it will obviously be easier to arouse suspicion if he walks around and spies.
The interests and interests are the same. If it is as suspected, after the team leader achieves his goal, everyone else who has nothing to do with him will die - he is not worried that the old hunting expert is partnering with the team leader, which involves some A trick of power. In order to prevent division, a mercenary group will usually allow its cadres to have a certain degree of competition. The decentralization of power advocates to prevent a single person from having too many people. He is so confident that he plans to establish his own company and poach many members.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for this hunting expert, who is the second-in-command in the team, to wear the same pants as the team leader, otherwise he would not have the need to deliberately separate each other - the sage thought this way, and then today At noon, he saw the hunting expert running to discuss something with the team leader. After that, several other orange-brand mercenaries were left behind this time. Only they and a few newcomers went out hunting.
It was obvious that the squinting old mercenary with a goatee, after two days of paying attention and fermenting doubts in his mind, was planning to put it to the test.
'What an old fox' Henry shook his head in amusement.
He and Mira continued to do their own things without interfering with other members of the team. Freelance mercenaries of the same level are naturally well versed in social relations and know that tricking is almost useless. As for the young lower-level mercenaries, without exception, they are very interested in the only female member of the team - many businessmen in the south. There are certainly many playboys among young people who are eloquent and glib, but unfortunately, our little Mira has a higher status than them and there is a language barrier, so they have not been able to do it for a while. Dare to try.
The status of women is relatively low in the mainstream society of the entire Rigal world in this era. Despite this, there are always some outstanding individuals in every era who have achieved achievements that many men cannot achieve, but this still cannot change the general Weak facts. And because of this, when men who were born in a male-dominated society and grew up with the idea that men are superior to women meet women who are more capable than them, a strange thought begins to permeate their hearts.
It is a mixture of desire to conquer and fear. On the one hand, you want to impress the other person, but on the other hand, you are afraid that you may fail and are afraid to move forward.
Our little Mira hasn't really realized it yet, but the situation where she was forced to interact with others based on status or ability when she was weak a year ago is now very rare. The change in destiny that she expected had actually been achieved when she embarked on this path. Due to a series of changes, the girl now has a new level of control over her life trajectory. She was teased and bullied. It wouldn't happen again - but she no longer cared about that.
Each of us may have had such an experience, taking action in order to achieve a certain purpose - perhaps to change something or to change someone's view of themselves - but as the action continues to progress, everything changes. As the level of learning deepens, this initial idea seems to become no longer important. All that is left is to make more continuous efforts to make progress. Learning and progress itself become the goal. Go forward without any distractions, pure and serious, just because of pure thinking. To know more.
With this idea in mind, the future will naturally be immeasurable. Transformation is always about destroying the old and creating the new. If fundamental changes cannot occur from body to mind, then no matter how much you learn, you will never use it on the right path.
After the rain, there was no need to worry about books becoming damp and moldy. Mira sat quietly in a corner of the flatbed carriage and began to read and think in the bright sunshine, while Henry helped her take care of the one-and-a-half-handed sword. There are plenty of weapons-related gadgets everywhere in the Southern Territory. Small grindstones are used as tools for polishing and rust removal. Maintenance oil diluted from animal and plant oils is applied to areas prone to embroidery. Wipe evenly with cotton cloth and retract the scabbard.
The sage's own sword almost never needed maintenance. Now that she knew more, Mira could tell that it was not just the material, but also the surface treatment that caused such a result, but no matter what she was doing now Any books she read were based on common sense, but the girl could never imagine that there was a kind of steel that could be as powerful as Henry's sword.
Her own one-and-a-half-handed sword can be considered a high-quality weapon. The hardness and relative toughness of the steel are very good, but even a long sword of this level will still cause problems if it accidentally hits a stone when wielding it. Some of the curled blades need to be polished and repaired - not to mention fighting with other opponents' weapons at full speed. There is no weapon in this world that can last forever without maintenance and will not become damaged no matter how many times it is fought. of—except Henry of Kramer.
The number of battles they have experienced along the way is not too rare. Even if they don't count battles, when traveling in the wild, Henry often uses it to chop down trees, various tree sap, other liquids, and bones and leather just because he has it handy. Even steel, there were countless cases where Kramer's sword blade and surface were covered with thick corrosive juice or collided with solid materials - but Henry often just wiped it and nothing happened. .
——There is something weird about this sword, and her curiosity has become stronger with the increase of experience. The white-haired girl from Luoan looked at her teacher putting her half-handed sword aside, and was in a daze for a while. Thinking of these things, she stared at Henry closely with her bright eyes.
"..." The sage frowned, but the girl immediately shook her head to indicate that it was nothing and continued reading. The communication between the two of them is almost without words. As the saying goes, Henry is not a person who particularly likes to talk. Even if he occasionally wants to speak, his tone is usually calm and unhurried, and he is indifferent. After being together for a long time, our Luoan girl will inevitably start thinking more than talking.
It doesn't matter even if they don't use words in daily communication. For them, this is proof of their close relationship, but in the eyes of others, it seems that both of them are not good at words. In addition, they are outsiders and young people from the southern city-state. A certain young mercenary who had been secretly observing Mira for several days suppressed some misconceptions about girls on the west coast. He thought he was very charming, so he ran over and wanted to talk to her.
We have mentioned before that because a large number of Thoradin people came here, the local area has a West Coast-Thoradin-Laman mixture of Pidgin language, and naturally, many young people here are more or less I have been exposed to some such cultures. So, a young junior mercenary who was not very fluent and had a strange pronunciation and could only speak a few basic words but still full of confidence came to Mira with a smile on his face.
"Can I, can, take a look at your book and paper?" The young man with many loopholes in his words said this. Mira raised her little face and glanced at him, and then continued without saying anything. He lowered his head and continued talking.
The awkward atmosphere began to spread. Those peers behind him booed and then laughed. The young man seemed to want to go further, but Mira had no intention of paying attention to him, so he walked over dejectedly. aside. The more cheerful and sociable temperament of the people in the South can be seen here. After the first young man's attempt to strike up a conversation failed, the others were not frightened. Seeing his failure, another young mercenary patted his partner's cheek. I ran over with confidence on my shoulders.
"Hey, miss, don't be a millionaire! You said, come here and I'll teach you some fun things -" This young man's grasp of foreign languages is relatively better than the previous one. He spoke in West Coast with a strong accent. Common Language said this, and then Mira ignored this person and continued to explain to herself: "Are you curious why I can speak your language? Haha, actually I traveled there a few years ago. Pass——" "Please give way." The girl said to him: "You are blocking my light."
"...Uh." The embarrassment only lasted for a very short time. After all, the Southerners were eloquent businessmen. The young man changed the topic and planned to continue, but he chose the most stubborn one. Topic that should not be chosen: "Young lady is at the blue card level, but it is still too hard for a girl to do this kind of thing. Have you ever thought about finding a man to be your escort?"
He said this with a smile, and then suddenly began to show off some superficial knowledge about fighting to prove that he also knew this industry. Mira ignored him, and when he finished speaking in a hurry, the girl Then she spoke a few words in a calm tone very similar to her teacher.
"You can't beat me." "Pfft——" "Pfft hahahahahahaha——" She answered this simple sentence in Lamani, so several people nearby burst into laughter after hearing it. Even though they were eloquent, the young mercenaries could only leave in despair in the face of such a fact. Their perception of girls on the west coast as simple and easy to be seduced by sweet talk has slightly changed, but the businessman's Their temperament dictates that these guys will probably make some more attempts in the future - no matter what, the situation was uneventful. There was a rustling sound in the nearby woods, and several people who had gone out came back.
The number of wild deer this time was smaller, probably because the environment here was different as we moved forward. However, the hunting team also brought back a small deer. Apparently after crossing the hillside, the terrain here is relatively gentle and close to areas with abundant water sources. The creatures will also be larger - both prey and hunters.
Mira looked at Henry. The returning people all looked a little tired. It was not very easy to capture the agile wild deer. Several young people were panting, and just as the strong man leading the team moved toward the other side, As the cauldron on one side walked away, the white-bearded hunting expert with squinting eyes looked at the sage.
The white-haired Luoan girl looked at the two people. The hunting expert nodded slightly towards Henry, while the sage was silent for a while and responded with the same action. (To be continued.)
