Chapter 10 The Wooden Knife in the Stump
The sun is rare and very warm.
On this late autumn morning, the entire abandoned town that had been abandoned for sixty years no longer gives people a feeling of coldness, terror and desolation. The flowers, plants and trees here show a dazzling and bright color, as if they are going to hit people's hearts, making people wish they could grow three heads and six eyes to deeply imprint all of this.
In short, this is a beautiful country with full colors all over the screen.
Qin Ge stood on the cross street of the small town for a moment, and even if his education was not high, he would not pile up gorgeous words. But at this moment he was really pleasing to the eye, so he had no interest in searching for the mysterious wooden knife.
The sky is really blue, the sun is really warm, and the colors are really bright, so bright that Qin Ge feels that he has never seen such brightness in his memory in the past 17 years of life. It seems that everything is gray and smelly.
This is incredible.
Qin Ge swears that he is not the poet mentioned in the book.
"So this is another strange thing. It shouldn't be a problem with my senses, but a problem with this small town."
Qin Ge said to himself that when he was outside the town, there were also blue sky and white clouds, green grass, and yellow and red forests, but there was absolutely no such refreshing feeling.
He didn't know what other people felt, but he almost died because he suffered a serious injury before. Although he was rescued by Wu Li with precious potions, he looked almost healed. However, if compared with Qin Ge's peak state, he would be at least three or five levels away.
But now, after just standing on the cross streets of this small town for less than ten minutes, Qin Ge felt that he was so energetic that he could kill a cow.
If he still thinks it's just an ordinary thing in this situation, then he would be too stupid.
Moreover, Qin Ge has always been excellent in sensory sensitivity, and his mother has said more than once that he would be a good melee warrior, although Qin Ge likes and most yearns for becoming a magician.
"This is actually the center of the entire county town. Two streets that meet north and south form a cross axis. The area extending around along the cross axis should have been the most prosperous area in the entire county town sixty years ago, but that wooden knife probably wouldn't appear here, so I'll wait here."
Qin Ge jumped to a half-collapsed traffic police booth. A mountain pear tree grew nearby, with lush branches and leaves, but not many mountain pears were born.
I picked one and took it with a bite. It was sweet and sour, and it had a lot of juice. It had an indescribable fragrance and was delicious. It was rare. You should know that even if ordinary soybeans have a sweet and sour taste, they were also very astringent and had a lot of residue. It was okay to taste it, but it would be a disaster.
So Qin Ge was not polite. He picked all the pears from the trees in a few seconds, and then he sat on the collapsed booth, basking in the sun and eating the pears. He was very comfortable when he ate the pears. Somehow, maybe it was because of the warm sun, so he felt sleepy and didn't even think of warning, so he fell asleep.
This time, he slept until the sky was dark. When Qin Ge woke up again, he heard a noisy sound and many people were arguing.
“What’s the situation?”
Qin Ge opened his eyes and found that he had fallen into the guardhouse, a cluster of half a human-deep weeds covering him, as if no one noticed his existence.
It should have been a long time, at least about four or five o'clock in the afternoon, which means he slept for at least seven hours, which is really strange.
But there is more than this strange thing, and there is a pear tree missing on the top of my head.
Qin Ge got up from the grass and picked a few yellow leaves above his head. He saw that the pear tree that was still lush a few hours ago had been cut down, and the rest was a piece of wooden stake.
Almost all the bounty hunters surrounded them. Although they were not tense and were facing each other, they were also very emotional.
The reason for their quarrel is naturally very simple. In the past seven hours, they have basically searched the entire county town - that is of course impossible, but at least according to the clues provided by Wu Li, they can rule out many areas.
So at the end, someone thought of the pear tree at Crossroads.
Isn't it? It was originally a crossroads, with asphalt ground. There was no garden forest that could be seen from all directions, and only vehicles and pedestrians passed by here. How could a pear tree suddenly appear?
Isn't it possible that someone ate a pear and then spit the pear core here specifically?
As for whether the wooden knife of the handicraft will take root and sprout again, it is basically no longer considered. All they have to do is to eliminate all suspicions.
In this way, when a group of bounty hunters cut off the pear tree, they saw the suspected wooden knife in the tree stump.
Now, the bounty hunters are not arguing with the ownership of the wooden knife, nor are they thinking of monopolizing the wooden knife, because this is witnessed by many people. According to Wu Li, as long as you find the wooden knife first and pull it out, you can get ten more gold coins.
So, these bounty hunters are discussing whether to negotiate with Wu Li and give more gold coins? After all, it is not true that those who meet are part of each other.
"I think this is a bit strange. This wooden knife cannot be pulled out, at least it cannot be pulled out easily."
At this time, someone suddenly spoke, it was the bearded man who left a deep impression on Qin Ge during the test. This guy's spear pierced very imposing.
But someone immediately sneered and retorted.
"So, Wang Dong, are you planning to pay each of us 20 gold coins?"
"That's right, we are bounty hunters. This is the order of the Black Iron-level anti-virus hunter. What qualifications do you have to question? Or even if you want to question, why bother us, haha, just go to the noble adult and say no, or you might as well go to the government to complain."
Someone teased again.
"But don't you find this strange? This wooden knife was inserted here and turned into a pear tree. Why didn't Wu Li come to pick it up in person? Also, what happened before is too strange. Don't forget what era this is, but if there is any disturbance, you have to consider the invasion of the virus."
The spearman Wang Dong still insisted on his own opinion.
"Scared! Wang Dong, come and make a big spell for grandpa. I don't know how many virus hosts have killed me over the years. I don't have much experience than you. What's more, the five antivirus hunters outside were selected and passed the assessment from the government. Are you questioning their identities? Why do you question? Just you are a bounty hunter?"
"Yes, we just work, and we are considering so much about what to do. The most important thing now is how to negotiate with those anti-virus hunters. Anyway, I have made a profit of these twenty gold coins."
The crowd quickly started to quarrel again, and there were people with all kinds of opinions.
There are only three bounty hunters who support Wang Dong.
Thirteen bounty hunters chose to negotiate with Wu Li.
There are three bounty hunters who choose to follow the crowd.
The choice of neutrality belongs to the later ones, without negotiating power, and only wants to receive the basic reward of ten gold coins, eight bounty hunters.
Five bounty hunters chose to take the wooden knife for themselves, thinking that this thing can be sold on the black market for a lot of money.
Seeing that the quarrel here could not tell the result in a short period of time, Qin Ge got out of the guardhouse and sneaked away, and no one noticed him.
Five minutes later, Qin Ge climbed onto the roof of a four-story building, set up a 98K rifle on it, and took out a triple scope from his backpack. Here, the field of vision is wide and the shooting range is good. It is the only way to find Wu Li outside the city.
Yes, Qin Ge also disagreed with pulling out the wooden knife and giving it to Wu Li.
But under the current circumstances, he could not stop those people from pulling out wooden swords. For example, the extremely brave spearman Wang Dong, only three people supported him. How to stop him? What to stop him?
So the best way is to not talk nonsense, leave the person behind first. Anyway, if Wu Li really dares to enter the small city, if he really has a ghost, then during the day, he will probably have killed his four companions who dare to enter the city.
Chapter completed!