Chapter 63 Battle of Hunters
People who move in the mountains and forests all year round often have to face the threat of wild animals, and their perception of danger is much better than those of urban people who live in pampered life.
The moment he noticed something was wrong, the woman aimed by Xin Sheng tried to hide back into the cave.
The arrows shot out by the high-pound bows faster at the beginning. Although the woman from the Order God Cult had avoided as much as possible, Xin Sheng, who was prepared in advance, still injured her in a flash.
"Sher!"
The sharp arrow penetrated the woman's left shoulder, and the force attached to the arrow destroyed her body balance, making her unable to control her left shoulder lift back while dodging.
Xin Sheng was ready to miss a single attack when the first arrow was shot. After all, this was the first time he used the Artemis Bow in actual combat.
The result is quite gratifying.
The woman with unbalanced steps hit the mountain wall unsteadily, and the bow of Artemis, who was pulling the strings, shot a second death arrow.
The divine woman with rich hunting experience has detected Xin Sheng's whereabouts through the direction of the arrow shooting.
However, this hunt was caused by Xin Sheng's intentionality and no intention, and the opportunity was lost. With Xin Sheng's continued hunting without any relaxation, this member of the Divine Cult still failed to escape the bad luck.
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"Madman" Zoisme, the name of the woman shot by Xin Sheng.
Zoisme has actually been famous in Fokis for a long time, but these fames are all notorious things that are despised.
In the eyes of locals, Zoisme's mental state is not very normal.
She is better at her animal companions than humans, she is like a wild untamed beast, and is very disgusted with the rules of the human world.
Fokis locally rumored that Zoisme once tied the Apollo priest who scolded and tried to correct her barbarity to a tree in the wild, deliberately attracting wild wolves to bite them.
People's words are terrifying, because Zoisme's rebellious and wild nature of disobedience to the priest's discipline, the rumors about her are becoming more and more outrageous.
Some people say that she would take her wolves to guard the road leading to Delphi every day and attack passers-by.
Some people also said that she even dared to attack the pilgrims who wanted to see Pitya in the street, dragged them back to her cave and swallowed them alive.
Regardless of which of these rumors are true and which are false, Zoismei is indeed a hunter, and she even tamed a very rare alienated big white bear.
This white bear is not a species of the Arctic, and it is impossible for polar bears to appear in Greece.
Judging from its size of more than two meters long, the alienated white bear should be the largest bear in the world - the brown bear, also known as the grizzly bear.
This kind of hair color alienation is not common. Most alienated animals will be disliked by the ethnic group. Some animals will even throw the alienated cubs into the wilderness and let them die on their own.
Xin Sheng speculated that Zoismei should have picked it up when she was an alienated white bear when she was still young and started to be tamed since childhood.
After shooting Zoisme, Xin Sheng found some animal skin letters from the cave where she lives, which revealed her name and some of her interpersonal relationships.
The black robe and mask that Zoismei had replaced before were thrown in the hole at random, and fragments of the golden artifact of Eden were also thrown aside.
Dahuang was still restraining the white bear outside, Xin Sheng took away the fragments of the artifact and temporarily put down his plans for careful study.
"Shh!"
Hearing the owner's whistle, Dahuang, who was walking in the forest, immediately turned a corner and ran in the direction where the whistle was coming.
Brown bears are one of the largest carnivores on land, with a body length of 1.5 to 2.8 meters and a male weighs 135 to 545 kilograms.
The ultimate running speed of a brown bear can reach 56 km/h, which theoretically will not be much slower than rhubarb.
But this is just a theoretical speed and must be achieved without any obstruction.
The huge body will be hindered when running through the dense woods.
In contrast, rhubarb can flexibly travel between the shrubs and the groves.
The white bear was so angry that it roared repeatedly during the pursuit, but it could not catch up with the prey hanging in front of it.
Zoismei is a hunter, and so is Xin Sheng.
When hunters live in the wild, in addition to relying on their own strong abilities, traps also need to be prepared.
Xin Sheng found many traps in Zoisme's cave, including a large trap.
When Dahuang took the white bear back to the vicinity of the cave, Xin Sheng gestured in the distance to signal Dahuang to bypass the front.
The clever hunting dog understood the owner's meaning, but the big white bear following behind knew nothing.
"roar!"
The brown bear who entered the hunting state was extremely fierce. He found Xin Sheng standing in front of his nest. He had guessed that his owner might be in danger.
The furious big bear was invisible to Xin Sheng's actions of bent his bow and arrow. It believed that human bows and arrows could not shoot through its thick fur.
This is true. When modern people encounter brown bears in the wild, even shotguns used for hunting are difficult to penetrate and defend against truly hurting brown bears.
Of course, Xin Sheng dared to stand in place and pull the bow with a swagger.
When the big white bear pounced about twenty meters in front of Xin Sheng, as the crisp mechanism triggered the sound, the running white bear's left front leg suddenly fell, his bulky body lost balance, and he roared and slipped to the ground.
Under the influence of the momentum, the big white bear lies on the ground and slides for a long distance.
"Swoosh!"
Calculate the amount in advance, and Xin Sheng had already prepared the arrows and left the string.
The arrow penetrated through the white bear's left eye, directly destroying its brain.
The huge white bear lost its vitality before it even got up from the ground, and its exhausted body stopped in front of Xin Sheng.
Xin Sheng squatted down and gently stroked the white bear's head while still widening his right eye.
"Rest in peace, big guy."
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When Xin Sheng successfully killed Zoismei and her animal companions, the man in black robes tracked by Daedalus finally stopped.
Seeing the short man enter a small manor with his own eyes, Daedalus did not leave immediately and continued to hover in the sky.
"Cry!"
The cry of an eagle from the city attracted the attention of another bird of prey.
Icarus, who was standing on Kassandra's shoulder, suddenly raised his head, and Natiya also followed its gaze into the air.
Natiya and Xin Sheng acted together for more than a month and could initially understand the meanings of several commonly used calls by Daedalus.
"Dadalos should be sure of the other party's place."
Kassandra, who has always been very strong, seemed a little fragile at this time. Natiya had never seen her show this expression before.
“Alixios…”
Kassandra's mood was very complicated, full of self-blame and joy of reunion.
She thought that Alixios who fell off the cliff would definitely not be spared, but she didn't expect to see him again here... as an enemy.
Herodotus was somewhat worried about Cassandra's unstable emotions.
"Kassandra, what did you and Xin encounter in the cave? What are the plans of the Order God Cult?"
“神教……”
Kassandra calmed down and used it to slap her cheeks, forcing herself to concentrate.
"I don't know what Xin has discovered, so I will tell you what I saw."
Kassandra said solemnly: "The power of the Order God Cult is spread throughout the Greek world, and the top leaders of the Peloponnese League and the Delux League have their own personnel."
"The Church of God tries to control the scale of the war through the top levels of both sides, so that the war that swept across Greece will continue until their people come to the forefront and become leaders of Athens and Sparta, thus controlling the entire Greek."
"Just by their conversation, there are also their people in the temples of the Olympus gods all over Greece, even Pitya..."
“普罗米修斯啊……”
Herodotus, who had always been calm, couldn't help but whisper the name of the god he believed in.
The legend of Prometheus stealing fire is very famous. He is the god of wisdom in Greek mythology. It is said that humans were created by him, and he also taught humans various knowledge and skills.
"We must tell the leaders of the two camps this news as soon as possible to stop the plot of the God Cult."
Chapter completed!