Mercenaries and Adventurers

After sleeping until noon, Zhao Ji woke up, stretched contentedly on the bed, and opened the wooden window in the house. Outside the window is the park across the street. It is noon in autumn, and the sun is high in the sky releasing heat, but the local entertainment enthusiasts in the park are still practicing enthusiastically.

Zhao Ji had heard it in the tavern before, and these people were doing program practice for the harvest celebration in late autumn. At the end of autumn, the most important rye in the area will be ripe and harvested in a large area, and most fruit trees are also ripe for fruit. The kingdom will begin to celebrate the second most important celebration of the year - the Harvest Celebration.

Kendall City is a border county area with a small population and a weak economy. There has never been a foreign celebration team here to organize the harvest celebration, and it is all organized locally in Kendall County. Zhao Ji observed and inquired when he went to the park occasionally in his spare time. The few people who have been practicing in the park are bards who eat and sing, and shepherds who are in charge of religious music in the temple. It’s strange. Instead of being the leader, there are two bards, a man and a woman. Most of the other people who occasionally come to practice are amateurs, mostly ladies and young masters from wealthy families, as well as their elders.

After listening to the reciting of long poems from the opposite park, which was weak due to the hot sun, Zhao Ji went downstairs to eat.

He ate a lot in the morning, so he is not hungry now. When we came to the restaurant, there were not many people there. Zhao Ji remembered that he had heard that the chamber of commerce had a big shipping order to do today. At this time, most of the stewards and drivers in the chamber of commerce should have left. Did Mula go with him and didn't have time to say goodbye to him.

I casually took a few crackers and a small dish of sauce. Today's lunch was obviously different from the usual lunch because of the small number of people in the chamber of commerce. The kitchen is lazy today, Zhao Ji thought to himself. Pancakes are strong dry noodles, thin and tough, torn off and eaten with mushroom sauce. Mushroom sauce is made from dried common mushrooms, ground into fine powder and added to soybean paste. The original ordinary soybean paste looks delicious with the blessing of mushroom powder. This is due to the mushrooms. It would be even better to make cherished mushrooms with more umami.

It's a pity that there is obviously no technology for artificially cultivating mushrooms in the local area. The mushrooms we eat now are wild mushrooms that grow in the field grassland. Farmers and peasant women who work abroad mostly pick up mushrooms and take them home to eat by themselves. Only when they find a lot of mushrooms at one time will they take them to the market in the middle of the slums for sale.

Chef Whitnier sometimes goes there to buy vegetables and other foods that the Chamber's own fields do not produce. He has promoted his cooking skills in the restaurant more than once, bragging that there are no ingredients he can't cook, and every time Aunt Dilu will argue with him that he has never seen Chef Whitier cook a dish Delicate dim sum eaten by nobles.

Chef Whitnier yelled that the things he had never eaten were not counted, as long as he had eaten, he would be fine.

While eating pancakes dipped in sauce, Zhao Ji was thinking about how to deal with the siege of the swamp slime monster. As long as he hunts a slime monster, it will attract a large group of slime monsters nearby. The slime monster has long-range slime spit, which is very dangerous for a person without armor like him. He has never heard of acid-resistant armor that can reduce muscle and bone, and he doesn't know which materials can resist acid.

Hey, he, Zhao Ji, doesn't even have decent clothes, and he still thinks about having an acid-resistant armor. He's thinking too much.

Then what should be done? How can you fight against a large number of slime monsters?

Zhao Ji thought about it for a while, and only came up with a few not-so-effective methods. None of these methods were particularly effective, and they could only be said to indirectly help him fight against a large number of slime monsters.

The first one is to cut down the dwarf trees and bushes near the swamp and lay them on the road to enter and exit the swamp, so that it is very convenient and fast to enter the swamp and exit the swamp when you are surrounded by slime monsters. He no longer stepped on the muddy water of the swamp, but quickly entered and retreated on the trunk of the tree.

The second is to make a cloak made of water-soaked leaves to prevent the slime and acid from the slime monster. Once it is sprayed by the slime monster, the slime and acid will only fall on the leaf cloak, because the cloak is more water-stained. Effective against mucus and acid.

The third method is about the defense of the head. He plans to borrow a rattan basket slightly larger than the head from the chamber of commerce, put the hood upside down, fill it with some dry leaves, and only expose two different parts in front of the eyes. Big hole to observe.

If these measures are used, Zhao Ji feels that he can fight a large number of slime monsters. Even if you can't beat it, you can retreat back to the outside of the swamp. It was good that the slime monsters couldn't come out. Once they were out of the swamp, he could probably defeat them one by one based on the slime monsters' slow crawling. But it shouldn't be such good luck. Although the slime monster is a monster without a brain, it also knows how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Because the mushroom sauce was a bit salty, Zhao Ji drank a bowl of water after eating the crepes. He lay on the table thinking about how to avenge yesterday, but one or two slime monsters couldn't calm his anger. He had to find a way to wipe out the slime monsters, and the money exchanged for the slime monster's corpse would greatly fill his wallet. Only then can he buy good equipment to hunt more powerful monsters.