Frontier town (2)
“Uh…”
Before the barbarian even turned his head to see who had cut off half of his neck, he fell on the woman.
The woman was already powerless. With the help of Xia Ruize, she worked hard to remove the barbarians from her body. The woman got up from the ground and immediately knelt down at Xia Ruize and stomped her head repeatedly. She had tears in her eyes and bleeding foam in her mouth. Without a word, she could only kowtow while pointing to the direction in the courtyard, eagerly asking for help from Xia Ruize.
Xia Ruize ignored the vibration of his wrist and heard the little girl’s scream from the courtyard. It was obvious that another barbarian who had just entered was bullying a little girl.
Now that he has done it, he just couldn´t stop doing it and had solve it all!
Xia Ruize walked into the courtyard with a bloody knife.
The door of a room in the small courtyard was crumbling, and the little girl’s screams and cries came from this room.
Xia Ruize tightened the big knife in his hand, carefully approached the room, and saw that the barbarian inside was violent.
Xia Ruize breathed fire in his eyes, but the angrier he was in his heart, the calmer he moved. He softly stepped across the broken door and stared at the opponent’s neck. Xia Ruize swung his big knife again.
It’s a pity that this barbarian actually felt the blade wind this time, and turned his head at the last moment to raise his hand to try to resist.
The barbarian with more combat experience successfully blocked Xia Ruize’s attack on his deadly position with the price of one hand, and then immediately roared back and tried to pounce on Xia Ruize.
Xia Ruize was shocked, only looking at the opponent’s height and weight, he is not his opponent. If the other party is really able to react, his small body will not be able to withstand a few attacks.
At the critical moment, Xia Ruize only felt that he was calmer than before. He turned the attack direction of the broad sword, swiped it decisively, and cut directly at the evil roots exposed by the opponent.
The barbarian had already raised the sword to counterattack, but the sword in his hand crashed and he screamed with a voice that didn’t sound human.
Taking advantage of this chance to kill him, Xia Ruize, with a calmness that exceeded his expectations, made up the knife one after another, and finally solved the barbarian.
The woman outside the door staggered and ran in, hugging her daughter and crying bitterly.
Xia Ruize, who relaxed a little, vented his whole body, and leaned against the wall behind him. He was stunned to see a floating white iron box appearing on the newly dead barbarian.
Xia Ruize looked at his hand, it was already stained with blood, and the entire battle took no more than five minutes.
In other words, from realizing that he appeared in this inexplicable world to the present in less than ten minutes, he has quickly completed the transformation from a white-collar worker in a peaceful age to a fierce man who ended two lives with his own hands.
And he seems to be in a calm mood now, which is really… beyond his own expectations.
Throwing away distracting thoughts, Xia Ruize stepped forward and reached out to touch the white iron box. The iron box opened, and a crossbow with flashing white light came out.
Xia Ruize touched the crossbow, but the crossbow did not directly appear in his hands, it disappeared before his eyes.
With a flash of inspiration, Xia Ruize raised his hand to check the watch, and found a new icon lit up, and the word of the icon was [Weapon].
Clicking it, there were rows of cards, most of the cards were on a blank gray dim background, and there is only one bright card with a pattern, which was the crossbow from just now.
He saw a crossbow drawn on a piece of white paper, and a detailed introduction will appear when the finger is moved over:
[Crossbow (white lower grade): the attack power is small, the rate of fire is slower, and the range is short. Fifteen arrows will be automatically replenished every hour.]
The weapon seems to be stored in a special space, it did not appear in Xia Ruize’s system space, but with his thoughts, it will appear directly in his hand.
Xia Ruize only wanted to know the reason for this kind of black technology involving the soul, and didn’t plan to explore the reason at all.
Although the introduction of this crossbow stated that it had a shorter range, it was still a long-range weapon. Xia Ruize felt that he had more confidence in living in this dangerous world.
The barbarians are all tall and strong, more than two meters tall, and a body of more than two hundred kilograms. They could completely crush Xia Ruize. If the previous two barbarians were not attacked sneakily by him, He would be done by them.
Without the confidence to fight close combat, with long-range weapons, He could, somehow make up for some physical disadvantages.
Clenching the crossbow in his hand, Xia Ruize left the room and walked to the courtyard gate to observe carefully.
Looking at the mess at the entrance of the courtyard, he realized that the scene needed to be dealt with immediately.
The woman who was worried about Xia Ruize’s departure quickly chased it out and knelt down and begged:
“Strong man! Please help us orphans and widows again!” At this time, helping each other is also helping himself. Xia Ruize helped the woman keep the door and the room. The corpses of the barbarians were dragged to the backyard, covered with pyre, and shoveled on the blood-soaked ground, at least not so obvious.
The courtyard door of the woman’s house had been destroyed. On Xia Ruize’s suggestion, the courtyard door and the room door were opened wide, as if they had been searched and looted.
After tidying up the scene as quietly and quickly as possible, the woman took her daughter and led Xia Ruize into a hidden cellar.
Xia Ruize took the opportunity to ask for some information, wanting to know more about this world.
This small city he is now in is called Bianlu city, which is not actually on the fringe of Daxia1, on the contrary, it is on the second line.
In the past, the barbarians would occasionally plunder during the autumn harvest, but this year, for some unknown reason, news came from the border just after entering the spring. The barbarians had changed, so the border guards moved the guards of the second-line small cities to the front line.
The residents of Bianlu city thought that the front line was waiting, and the barbarian’s changes had nothing to do with them for the time being. They did not expect that the barbarians had already hit a second-tier town like theirs, and while Bianlu city was guarding the emptiness, they rushed into the city to burn, kill, and plunder.
“Oh, I don’t know about the situation in the border… I blame me, if I took the girl to hide early…”
The woman held her daughter who had just suffered a brutality and was hit hard and couldn’t alleviate her daughter, crying and whispering.
The area of the cellar is not small, with a wooden bed on one side and stored grain on the other side.
Standing at the entrance of the cellar, Xia Ruize listened carefully to the movement above his head, listened to the woman’s cry. The more he listened, the more his heart fell.
It can be seen only from the woman’s experience that the barbarians that only appeared in the autumn harvest in previous years, appeared early this year, the picture is certainly not small, this is a full-scale attack by the barbarian against Daxia.
The woman didn’t know what she was in it, but Xia Ruize was different. When the mission was released, the first sentence was “At the end of the summer” which clearly reminded him that this was the background of the dynasty’s decline and the chaos.
At present, the second of his two main tasks has been completed two-thirds, and it seems that it can be completed as long as one more barbarian is solved, but it is uncertain whether he can find another chance for a sneak attack in the future.
In addition, the first main task of the three-day survival is not that simple in the current context.
Thinking about it further, after three days of smooth survival, is it really safe? Xia Ruize was not so optimistic.
The woman told what she knew, holding her daughter and relying on each other, silently weeping.
Xia Ruize fell silent and looked at the mysterious watch on his wrist.
He clicked on [Task] and found two new messages at the bottom:
[Kill a barbarian. Strength +0.1]
[Kill a small barbarian leader. Strength +0.2, Agility +0.2, Physique +0.2]
Xia Ruize hurriedly returned to [Personal], and the body data inside had indeed changed.
Strength has increased by 0.3, now it has become 1.3, agility has increased by 0.2, now it has become 1.2, physique has also increased by 0.2, it has become 3.2, health seems to be related to physique, and it directly becomes 32.
Xia Ruize shook a fist. When he attacked the second barbarian, he felt that his strength had increased. It was not an illusion!
The watch vibrated by itself twice before. At that time, he didn’t have time to pay attention. Now he knew that it was a kill reminder.
The main missions released at the beginning only reminded them that they will be rewarded after completing the main missions.
Now these two kill reminders are clearly telling Xia Ruize that every time he kills a barbarian, he can get reward feedback immediately. This reward is not a puzzling “survival point”, but personal strength that is closely related to survival.
In other words, the more barbarians killed, the stronger the strength and he more likely it is to survive!
It’s hard not to be agitated.
Xia Ruize looked solemn, checked the contents of the watch over and over again, and considered it carefully.
He can see clearly that the increase in strength is the guarantee of his survival.
Holding the crossbow in his hand, Xia Ruize made up his mind and asked the woman:
“Where is the highest place in Bianlu city?”
“Jixiang restaurant, right in the middle of the intersection.”
The woman replied suspiciously, not knowing what the strong man wanted to do.
Xia Ruize asked in detail about the route to Jixiang Restaurant, and based on the woman’s dictation, he drew a picture of Bianlu city. Then he declined the woman’s stay, and decided to leave.
The man in the woman’s family was transferred to the front line, and was hoping that the strong man would stay and protect the mother and daughter, but the strong man insisted on leaving, she had no choice but to give Xia Ruize two pots of water and a packet of sesame seed, and told him to be careful.
There were still four buns in Xia Ruize’s space, but there was no water, and he couldn’t live without eating and drinking. He accepted the woman’s kindness.
In return, Xia Ruize left one of the broadswords he had snatched from the barbarian to the woman, and the other was tied with a rag behind him as crawled out of the cellar. Before leaving, he also helped to arrange the yard, making it seem like it had been looted by the barbarians.
Finding the ladder leaning against the courtyard, Xia Ruize climbed up the ladder and carefully observed whether there were barbarians in the alley. After confirming that it was temporarily safe, he jumped into another courtyard.
He moved forward from the inside, fortunately avoided the barbarians who were looting everywhere, and gradually approached the Jixiang restaurant.
Xia Ruize was taken aback when he saw the Jixiang restaurant.
Notes:
1 Daxia, the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to Tukhara or Tokhara: the main part of Bactria, in what is now northern Afghanistan, and parts of southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Frontier town (2)
“Uh…”
Before the barbarian even turned his head to see who had cut off half of his neck, he fell on the woman.
The woman was already powerless. With the help of Xia Ruize, she worked hard to remove the barbarians from her body. The woman got up from the ground and immediately knelt down at Xia Ruize and stomped her head repeatedly. She had tears in her eyes and bleeding foam in her mouth. Without a word, she could only kowtow while pointing to the direction in the courtyard, eagerly asking for help from Xia Ruize.
Xia Ruize ignored the vibration of his wrist and heard the little girl’s scream from the courtyard. It was obvious that another barbarian who had just entered was bullying a little girl.
Now that he has done it, he just couldn´t stop doing it and had solve it all!
Xia Ruize walked into the courtyard with a bloody knife.
The door of a room in the small courtyard was crumbling, and the little girl’s screams and cries came from this room.
Xia Ruize tightened the big knife in his hand, carefully approached the room, and saw that the barbarian inside was violent.
Xia Ruize breathed fire in his eyes, but the angrier he was in his heart, the calmer he moved. He softly stepped across the broken door and stared at the opponent’s neck. Xia Ruize swung his big knife again.
It’s a pity that this barbarian actually felt the blade wind this time, and turned his head at the last moment to raise his hand to try to resist.
The barbarian with more combat experience successfully blocked Xia Ruize’s attack on his deadly position with the price of one hand, and then immediately roared back and tried to pounce on Xia Ruize.
Xia Ruize was shocked, only looking at the opponent’s height and weight, he is not his opponent. If the other party is really able to react, his small body will not be able to withstand a few attacks.
At the critical moment, Xia Ruize only felt that he was calmer than before. He turned the attack direction of the broad sword, swiped it decisively, and cut directly at the evil roots exposed by the opponent.
The barbarian had already raised the sword to counterattack, but the sword in his hand crashed and he screamed with a voice that didn’t sound human.
Taking advantage of this chance to kill him, Xia Ruize, with a calmness that exceeded his expectations, made up the knife one after another, and finally solved the barbarian.
The woman outside the door staggered and ran in, hugging her daughter and crying bitterly.
Xia Ruize, who relaxed a little, vented his whole body, and leaned against the wall behind him. He was stunned to see a floating white iron box appearing on the newly dead barbarian.
Xia Ruize looked at his hand, it was already stained with blood, and the entire battle took no more than five minutes.
In other words, from realizing that he appeared in this inexplicable world to the present in less than ten minutes, he has quickly completed the transformation from a white-collar worker in a peaceful age to a fierce man who ended two lives with his own hands.
And he seems to be in a calm mood now, which is really… beyond his own expectations.
Throwing away distracting thoughts, Xia Ruize stepped forward and reached out to touch the white iron box. The iron box opened, and a crossbow with flashing white light came out.
Xia Ruize touched the crossbow, but the crossbow did not directly appear in his hands, it disappeared before his eyes.
With a flash of inspiration, Xia Ruize raised his hand to check the watch, and found a new icon lit up, and the word of the icon was [Weapon].
Clicking it, there were rows of cards, most of the cards were on a blank gray dim background, and there is only one bright card with a pattern, which was the crossbow from just now.
He saw a crossbow drawn on a piece of white paper, and a detailed introduction will appear when the finger is moved over:
[Crossbow (white lower grade): the attack power is small, the rate of fire is slower, and the range is short. Fifteen arrows will be automatically replenished every hour.]
The weapon seems to be stored in a special space, it did not appear in Xia Ruize’s system space, but with his thoughts, it will appear directly in his hand.
Xia Ruize only wanted to know the reason for this kind of black technology involving the soul, and didn’t plan to explore the reason at all.
Although the introduction of this crossbow stated that it had a shorter range, it was still a long-range weapon. Xia Ruize felt that he had more confidence in living in this dangerous world.
The barbarians are all tall and strong, more than two meters tall, and a body of more than two hundred kilograms. They could completely crush Xia Ruize. If the previous two barbarians were not attacked sneakily by him, He would be done by them.
Without the confidence to fight close combat, with long-range weapons, He could, somehow make up for some physical disadvantages.
Clenching the crossbow in his hand, Xia Ruize left the room and walked to the courtyard gate to observe carefully.
Looking at the mess at the entrance of the courtyard, he realized that the scene needed to be dealt with immediately.
The woman who was worried about Xia Ruize’s departure quickly chased it out and knelt down and begged:
“Strong man! Please help us orphans and widows again!” At this time, helping each other is also helping himself. Xia Ruize helped the woman keep the door and the room. The corpses of the barbarians were dragged to the backyard, covered with pyre, and shoveled on the blood-soaked ground, at least not so obvious.
The courtyard door of the woman’s house had been destroyed. On Xia Ruize’s suggestion, the courtyard door and the room door were opened wide, as if they had been searched and looted.
After tidying up the scene as quietly and quickly as possible, the woman took her daughter and led Xia Ruize into a hidden cellar.
Xia Ruize took the opportunity to ask for some information, wanting to know more about this world.
This small city he is now in is called Bianlu city, which is not actually on the fringe of Daxia1, on the contrary, it is on the second line.
In the past, the barbarians would occasionally plunder during the autumn harvest, but this year, for some unknown reason, news came from the border just after entering the spring. The barbarians had changed, so the border guards moved the guards of the second-line small cities to the front line.
The residents of Bianlu city thought that the front line was waiting, and the barbarian’s changes had nothing to do with them for the time being. They did not expect that the barbarians had already hit a second-tier town like theirs, and while Bianlu city was guarding the emptiness, they rushed into the city to burn, kill, and plunder.
“Oh, I don’t know about the situation in the border… I blame me, if I took the girl to hide early…”
The woman held her daughter who had just suffered a brutality and was hit hard and couldn’t alleviate her daughter, crying and whispering.
The area of the cellar is not small, with a wooden bed on one side and stored grain on the other side.
Standing at the entrance of the cellar, Xia Ruize listened carefully to the movement above his head, listened to the woman’s cry. The more he listened, the more his heart fell.
It can be seen only from the woman’s experience that the barbarians that only appeared in the autumn harvest in previous years, appeared early this year, the picture is certainly not small, this is a full-scale attack by the barbarian against Daxia.
The woman didn’t know what she was in it, but Xia Ruize was different. When the mission was released, the first sentence was “At the end of the summer” which clearly reminded him that this was the background of the dynasty’s decline and the chaos.
At present, the second of his two main tasks has been completed two-thirds, and it seems that it can be completed as long as one more barbarian is solved, but it is uncertain whether he can find another chance for a sneak attack in the future.
In addition, the first main task of the three-day survival is not that simple in the current context.
Thinking about it further, after three days of smooth survival, is it really safe? Xia Ruize was not so optimistic.
The woman told what she knew, holding her daughter and relying on each other, silently weeping.
Xia Ruize fell silent and looked at the mysterious watch on his wrist.
He clicked on [Task] and found two new messages at the bottom:
[Kill a barbarian. Strength +0.1]
[Kill a small barbarian leader. Strength +0.2, Agility +0.2, Physique +0.2]
Xia Ruize hurriedly returned to [Personal], and the body data inside had indeed changed.
Strength has increased by 0.3, now it has become 1.3, agility has increased by 0.2, now it has become 1.2, physique has also increased by 0.2, it has become 3.2, health seems to be related to physique, and it directly becomes 32.
Xia Ruize shook a fist. When he attacked the second barbarian, he felt that his strength had increased. It was not an illusion!
The watch vibrated by itself twice before. At that time, he didn’t have time to pay attention. Now he knew that it was a kill reminder.
The main missions released at the beginning only reminded them that they will be rewarded after completing the main missions.
Now these two kill reminders are clearly telling Xia Ruize that every time he kills a barbarian, he can get reward feedback immediately. This reward is not a puzzling “survival point”, but personal strength that is closely related to survival.
In other words, the more barbarians killed, the stronger the strength and he more likely it is to survive!
It’s hard not to be agitated.
Xia Ruize looked solemn, checked the contents of the watch over and over again, and considered it carefully.
He can see clearly that the increase in strength is the guarantee of his survival.
Holding the crossbow in his hand, Xia Ruize made up his mind and asked the woman:
“Where is the highest place in Bianlu city?”
“Jixiang restaurant, right in the middle of the intersection.”
The woman replied suspiciously, not knowing what the strong man wanted to do.
Xia Ruize asked in detail about the route to Jixiang Restaurant, and based on the woman’s dictation, he drew a picture of Bianlu city. Then he declined the woman’s stay, and decided to leave.
The man in the woman’s family was transferred to the front line, and was hoping that the strong man would stay and protect the mother and daughter, but the strong man insisted on leaving, she had no choice but to give Xia Ruize two pots of water and a packet of sesame seed, and told him to be careful.
There were still four buns in Xia Ruize’s space, but there was no water, and he couldn’t live without eating and drinking. He accepted the woman’s kindness.
In return, Xia Ruize left one of the broadswords he had snatched from the barbarian to the woman, and the other was tied with a rag behind him as crawled out of the cellar. Before leaving, he also helped to arrange the yard, making it seem like it had been looted by the barbarians.
Finding the ladder leaning against the courtyard, Xia Ruize climbed up the ladder and carefully observed whether there were barbarians in the alley. After confirming that it was temporarily safe, he jumped into another courtyard.
He moved forward from the inside, fortunately avoided the barbarians who were looting everywhere, and gradually approached the Jixiang restaurant.
Xia Ruize was taken aback when he saw the Jixiang restaurant.
Notes:
1 Daxia, the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to Tukhara or Tokhara: the main part of Bactria, in what is now northern Afghanistan, and parts of southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
