The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 482

It was the third day for the treasure hunting team to enter the mountains.

Ahead is a vast forest with rolling hills that stretch as far as the eye can see.

Lightning lit up the sky, and amidst the rumble of thunder, snow finally began to fall from the dark clouds that had been pressing overhead for more than ten hours.

The snow is falling heavily. I believe it won’t take long before the mountains, already covered with snow, will completely turn into a world of silver.

Due to his status as an outsider, Hei Luobo is not sensitive enough to environmental changes, but there are survival experts in the team who can serve as part-time experienced guides, so there is no need to travel in the snow.

In a large cave that had been cleared, the original opening had been mostly blocked by rocks and trees, leaving only a door that was wide enough for one person to enter and exit.

This is all thanks to Hei Luobo.

His character in this team is that he is physically fit, hardworking, and uncompromising. Even if he has to trek for a whole day, he is willing to spend a lot of time and energy to make the temporary camp look presentable and comfortable.

He is a bit dull and aloof, doesn't talk much, and easily dies down the topic when he does say a few words. He can sit for a long time like a wooden statue, but his sensitivity to the outside world is normal, even very keen, instead of being in a daze.

At this moment, Hei Luobo was sitting by the campfire in a daze.

His seat was very exquisite, with a backrest and armrests, a fur cover and a soft cushion. It was no different from the mountain king's tiger-skin chair.

Diagonally opposite him, the seat of another team member was much more shabby. It was just a leather bag filled with clothes placed on a relatively flat rock. It was OK as long as it didn't get your butt cold.

The two did not communicate.

The team member was concentrating on roasting the bear meat.

I have already eaten, and now I need to replenish my dry food.

The hibernating bears have thick fat, which keeps dripping into the red burning charcoal, turning into small flames and the aroma of oil.

This fragrance and warmth, set against the backdrop of the falling snow outside the cave and the occasional biting cold wind, make people feel particularly comfortable.

Basic needs, such as not being cold, not hungry, and being safe, will then foster a sense of happiness.

Hei Luobo had forgotten how long it had been since he had enjoyed a similar state of mind, so he felt a little nostalgic and a little enjoyable.

Of course, vigilance work has not been neglected, which is a basic quality.

In the inner part of the cave, Harold, Hogan, and Leslie were taking the time to rest. Being able to fall into a deep sleep instantly was a skill, and there was no doubt that every member of this team was proficient in it.

It’s not about mastering some tricks, but about having enough control over their own bodies.

This is not an ordinary treasure hunting team. Every member of this team is at level six, and all of them are elite phenoms.

Because of this, temporary teammates are difficult to recruit, which allows Kuroobo to seize the opportunity.

Three experienced veterans, plus Morin, who is a generation older than the other three and can be called an old hunter, this old combination has been through a lot together and is confident that they can easily capture Black Robo.

This is, of course, an illusion.

However, as long as these people don't act too shady and Hei Luobo doesn't intend to cause trouble within the team, this illusion may last until the treasure hunt is over and they go their separate ways.

Old Molin has superb skills. The jerky he makes has the moisture squeezed out of the meat and is soaked in fat. It is soft, tough and chewy, and can be preserved for a long time. It is also a pleasure to watch him operate it with ease.

Time slipped away silently, the snow had stopped, but the dark clouds had not dispersed, and night fell early.

What was originally just a quiet and cold wilderness began to turn mysterious and eerie.

This is also the reason why the team found a cave to live in early.

The wilderness in this area is very unfriendly to humans.

It is said that it is because of a curse.

When the world tree of the last elven kingdom was burned down, the elven king who spoke on its behalf cursed the area, saying that humans would never be able to live and reproduce here.

This is a very ancient thing, and most of the human beings today have already forgotten it.

It is the kind of forgotten thing that even the legend is not circulated among the people, and professional scholars have to rely on searching for relevant information in the literature.

Hei Luobo suspected that the gods and strange beings had contributed to this, but this was obviously not the point. The point was that most people were not interested in settling in such a thankless place, and there were indeed some extraordinary resources here.

As for the curse, Hei Luobo felt that his status as a foreigner could help him avoid it.

Old Morin put away the roasted meat on the campfire, took out a leather bag with severe patina near the opening from the bag in the corner, opened it, took out bottles and jars, and began to mix magic pigments.

Blood and sulfur are used, and they need to be heated appropriately, so the smell is very strong.

Then he unfolded a piece of magic-treated leather and began to write on it.

Hei Luobo didn't recognize that kind of writing. According to Harold, it was the writing of the elves.

Not only does it look beautiful and have unique charm, it can also communicate with the power of nature.

However, the origin of the world had long been drained away, the laws of nature had been distorted, and nature had long lost its original solemnity and sacredness. Instead, it had become a prostitute who could dress up as she pleased as long as someone was willing to pay.

Naturally, this elven language that once communicated between heaven and earth was buried in the pile of old papers as time passed.

The treasure hunting team dug it out again, clearly trying to use the trick of "using barbarians to control barbarians", and it had proven to be very effective the night before, so it could be considered as being well prepared.

After drawing the words, hang them on the top wall of the cave entrance. After a while, they will connect the sky and the earth here, naturally forming the effect of a tassel air curtain, which can isolate the inside and the outside and ensure a safe night.

Hei Luobo didn't ask what would happen at night if he didn't do this.

His current personality is that he talks less, does less, has fewer problems, and is energetic and loves to work.

What's more, he was not in a hurry to find out what kind of monsters there were here. Since he had already planned to settle down in the depths of this area for a long time, he would have to face the local monsters and snakes sooner or later.

And most of them are mountain goblins, wild monsters, ghosts and evil spirits who win by numbers. Otherwise, they would not be strange people of Harold's strength and level who come to hunt for treasure.

Extraordinary isolation: the air curtain does not affect the air circulation inside and outside the cave. Even if it lasts for a long time, you will not feel suffocated in the cave.

The disadvantage is that the smell will also spread with the air, which will inevitably attract night hunters who follow the smell.

This is the main reason for the need to be on duty at night.

It is easy to say, but also difficult to say. The key point is not to drive away or kill them successfully, but how to drive away or kill them without revealing the "human flavor".

So, Hei Luobo and Lao Mo are in the same group.

Lao Mo is experienced and can provide technical support.

Hei Luobo plays the role of a coolie-type thug, doing his work as ordered.

The night before was relatively peaceful. It was a simple matter of probability. After leaving the nest, the night hunters would always wander around for a while before they could smell the scent and then follow it.

Near midnight, a strange beast came to the door. It was misled by the elf's curtain and could not find the way out, but refused to leave and wandered around.

Old Molin spoke up: "This silly-faced beast has strong vitality and is likely to attract evil spirits. Do you have a way to kill it with one blow without leaving the cave?"

Hei Luobo glanced at Old Morin and nodded silently.

Then he stood up and took the gun parts from his bag. When he bought outdoor camping supplies and firearms in the big town in the north of Stonevania in the Kingdom of Ilulan, Hei Luobo could be said to have gone from empty-handed to fully armed, but the quality was average.

But when you get here, both outdoor products and firearms have been digested and streamlined, and have unique features, at least you can be a qualified wilderness hunter.

This is also one of the reasons why the treasure hunting team is willing to recruit Hei Luobo into the team.

You don't need to go and see them, just look at the tools they use and you can get a rough estimate of their professionalism.

"Click! Click!" After some assembly, the original rifle became a sniper rifle with an intimidating appearance.

Although the technology in this world has stagnated in the steam age, the concept of "sniper" has evolved in terms of weapons.

Of course, Hei Luobo’s ideas are still ahead of their time, but they are not exaggerated.

After all, there are extraordinary beings that allow many technological difficulties to be circumvented unreasonably, so there is no shortage of steel alchemy + shooting ideas among the strange ones.

A special bullet thicker than a thumb is loaded into the chamber, and all the enchantment and inscription effects are activated.

Then came a series of magical effects on the gun. The whole gun was flowing with light of several colors. The specific effects included silencing, reducing recoil, increasing accuracy and power, etc.

To put it bluntly, this is a composite magic weapon, and it is an attack with a relatively long pre-swing time, similar to a charged strike. The overall effect is good and naturally reasonable.

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Hei Luobo held the gun and aimed for a while, then chose the moment he thought was right.

"Puff!" A gunshot rang out.

The bullet entered the forehead of the silly-faced beast and flew out near its anus. The diameter of the hole made when it entered was about four centimeters, and the diameter of the hole made when it exited was larger than an adult's fist.

Without a sound, he fell down immediately, deader than dead.

Old Morin threw out a sickle with a rope at the right time, caught the corpse, and dragged it into the cave with three pulls and two tugs.

Old Morin was somewhat dissatisfied. Hei Luobo's method was too brutal. One bullet had twisted the body of the lion-sized foolish man into a mess, breaking more than just his internal organs.

In this case, the internal organs and even the bones and flesh will inevitably be contaminated, which will be much more troublesome to deal with.

Hei Luobo doesn't care about that. His character is not a caring tool man, but a strange shooter with his own problems.

This fits his life situation of being in his prime but having to run to the border to join a wild group to make a living, and it is also easier to play.

Harold, Hogan, and Leslie were awakened by the sudden smell of blood and feces in the cave, and it was time to change shifts.

So not long after, Hei Luobo went to bed with his clothes and gun in his arms.

Old Morin seemed to be quite capable of taking charge, and it was obvious that he wanted to finish dealing with the stupid-faced beast before he could rest.

That night, Hei Luobo couldn't sleep well.

When he was awakened, the situation outside was in chaos. After asking, he found out that a low-probability event had occurred.

The blood, flesh, and internal organs that leaked out of the stupid-faced beast he killed the night before during the dragging process attracted small scavengers.

Then the small animals attracted predators.

The predator attracted the night hunter who possessed certain Warcraft characteristics.

The moonlight shines through the clouds, making the woods brighter.

Now it has simply developed into a bloody feast of slaughter; evil spirits, deformed beasts and the like have all arrived, and are cautiously confronting each other while devouring the food.

Hei Luobo was awakened by the life fluctuations of evil spirits and monsters.

In fact, he had noticed it a long time ago, but in order to fit in with his character, he wanted to pretend to be asleep. But now in this situation, it would seem fake if he continued to pretend.

After observing the situation outside, Hei Luobo had a more concrete understanding of his bad luck.

It must be said that if they are exposed in this situation, then this small team will have to expose most of their strength if they want to survive.

Fortunately, until dawn, no evil spirit accidentally touched the rubble wall and noticed that the cave was abnormal. The five members of the small team only suffered in anxiety for a few hours.

After this incident, Hogan and Leslie even began to back down.

In Hogan's words, "Our intelligence is still not good enough. There are pseudo-legendary monsters and ancient evil spirits that are not much inferior to them in this area. This is too exaggerated. If we encounter any one of them, we are in danger of being wiped out!"

Lei Sili also agreed: "Yes, if they were not attracted to each other, and the entrance to this cave was not in a very tricky position, we would have been exposed even with the moon beast skin elf script.

This is a warning from fate. We survived this time, but we may not be so lucky next time."

Harold said expressionlessly: "We have invested too much in this project. If we can't get what we want, the accumulation of nearly ten years will basically go down the drain."

Hogan and Leslie were silent.

The accumulation of the past decade that Harold mentioned was not only wealth including equipment, but also the skills they learned and the improvement in their strength during this period.

Maybe some people don’t understand, how can great power be converted when it belongs to oneself?
Of course.

As long as you want, you can quantify and turn it into wealth, especially in this world.

Studying costs money, practicing costs money, books, medicine, hiring teachers, various daily expenses when on leave, etc.

Since everything can be monetized, they have to pay back a huge amount of loans because of this project. Isn't this equivalent to throwing out all the wealth they have invested in themselves over the past decade?
This does not include the time cost.

By the time the debt is paid off, they will all be as old as old Morin, and by then there is a high probability that Morin will not be able to make use of his remaining energy.

If you fail to make money in your prime years and have no pension when you retire, you can imagine a miserable life. Can you accept it?

Some people say that being alive is the greatest happiness.

This statement is both right and wrong. For those humanoid cattle and horses who have never seen the world and have never left their birthplace for more than 50 kilometers in their entire lives, this statement can barely be considered true.

But for extraordinary people like Harold who have enjoyed luxury and seen the scenery from high places, the lower limit of the basic decency of life in their hearts is higher than that of human cattle and horses. Their bottom line is not to live as simply as not starving to death, being able to hear, see and think.

Moreover, their life experiences also determine that they value life more, but they are not as afraid of death as ordinary people. After all, they work in an adventurous job, and they must have seen a lot of life and death. The more they see something, the less they care about it.

As a bystander, Hei Luobo felt that he had a very deep theoretical understanding of the difficulties faced by Harold and others.

In a society with stratified classes, the most common phenomenon is the increasingly severe polarization and the return of the middle class to poverty.

In his opinion, people like Harold are typical examples of the middle class falling back into poverty.

Of course, with Harold and his peers’ knowledge, most of them were unaware of this and instead attributed the main problems to themselves. Looking back, they attributed their youth to recklessness, insufficient effort, missed opportunities, and so on.

Is that right? Both are right!
They just didn't notice that class stratification has led to a lower and lower tolerance for error in the entire society.

This comprehensive stage is becoming less and less friendly to many life players. The originally healthy competition has turned from vicious to lottery buying mode...

Far away.

As a result, the group reunited and reached a consensus, and continued their adventure with full energy.

This is the source of the different joys among people. For Hei Luobo, it is just a role-playing journey, but for Harold and others, it is a fight that risks their lives.

(End of this chapter)