Lyon and buckram rode North on horses bought from villagers. Naturally, there is no good horse in the small village near the forest, so the knight bought it from the villagers with all his property expenses. It is just a camel''s pony. In addition to its remarkable load capacity, the speed and reaction ability of this kind of horse are more than one notch lower than Lyon''s former mount.


    To his surprise, although it was the first time he came into contact with horses, his retinue seemed to have mastered the essentials of riding. In other words, the horse that the elf sat on actively cooperated with bakm''s movement. And it is not difficult to see from the gentle movements of the genie not touching the neck of the mount that he treats animals more kindly than humans.


    Lyon wanted to make a joke with his retinue on this point, but before he could figure it out, the traces on the side of the path attracted the attention of the Knight Commander.


    "Stop." The blood lion said, strangled the reins of the mount, turned over from the horse''s back and walked to a nearby haystack.


    "What''s the matter?" Out of curiosity, buckram followed his current mentor to the side of the road, and when he dismounted, he did not forget to make his two buddies quiet. The horses were a little confused by the rider''s orders.


    In the face of the elves'' questions, Lyon did not answer him with words. The knight frowned and searched through some messy traces in the haystack. Soon, a straw stalk with abnormal color appeared in his hand. Lyon put the grass under his nose and smelled it. The wrinkles on his brow became more obvious.


    Buckram watched the blood lion''s movements, and followed Lyon''s example, and continued to search for the traces that the knight had searched. More strange straw stalks appeared on the haystack with the movements of the elves. Taking off one of them, buckram watched carefully what made the grass look so different from its peers. He soon found out that the reason for the strange color was some liquid dropped on the grass.


    "Blood, rat human blood." The spirit''s tone became serious, and the memory of fighting those rat shaped monsters made his right eye ache.


    "About a day or so. I''m not sure how many." Lyon made his own conjecture by the taste and solidity of the blood. He looked at the grass stalk with rat blood in his hand, and his eyes were full of uneasiness. The knight turned his head and looked at the road. The village where they were taken in was less than half a day''s journey. This kind of village can''t resist the attack of rat man.


    "Maybe it''s from the guys who chased you before." The genie shrugged and said, this is not unreasonable. Lyon is not far from the forest. It is not impossible for the rat man to take a long way to chase him.


    But the knight shook his head. He threw the straw back and said.


    "We can''t take the risk. Can you follow the blood? "


    The blood stained grass was hidden under the haystack, and apparently the bleeding rat man noticed that it would expose his whereabouts. Under such circumstances, it is difficult for the blood lion to keep tracking the enemy. That is not what he is good at. But his retinue was not. The elf, who grew up in the forest, was extremely sensitive to clues that would be ignored by ordinary people. The knight noticed this on the way out of the forest with Lyon.


    Lyon was right. Buckram did. Although most elves leave the familiar forest, it is difficult to reach an understanding with strange plants and lands in a short time, but buckram is not among them. Because he was not accepted by the forest from the beginning. When his kin completes a hunting through simple induction, the young elves have to force themselves to find clues from the traces left by animals. This long training has made him a stronger tracker than the spirits older than him for many years.


    "Are you sure?" Asked the genie, who did not think Lyon had made the right decision. Even if there were rat people wandering around here, buckram felt that there was no need for the two of them to venture after the rats. At most, they just had to go back and remind the villagers. What''s more, the knight has been emphasizing the urgency of time. In such a situation, he has to waste time here, so that the elves don''t know whether it is worth it.


    "We have an obligation to protect them." The blood lion said silently. He turned to take his weapon from his horse, a hunting knife, and the knight''s saber, which he had purchased from the villagers together with the horses, was no longer suitable for use in the previous battle against the rat people.


    "It''s their own responsibility to protect them." The knight''s words made bakm frown. In the elf world, he should be responsible for his own safety rather than others. It is irresponsible to rely on others to protect himself. However, although he murmured, he did not disobey the orders of his knight, and the elf began to examine the traces in the grass.


    Lyon tilted his head, and he heard Barkham complain. How to explain the content of the knight''s Creed like this spirit makes him feel a little annoyed. You know, most of the elves are extremely individualistic. There is no law in the elves'' tribes, and all norms are determined by tradition and elders. And unless it''s to protect children or the elderly, elves rarely help those who can defend themselves. Indifference is the impression of many human beings on elves."Found it." The blood lion didn''t worry for long, and buckram soon found more traces left by the rat man. He raised his hand to the knight to follow and walked into the deeper grass beside the road. The knight held the hunting knife upside down in his hand, tied the horses to the trees beside the road, let them eat the grass on the road, and then kept up with the elves.


    Buckram''s speed was so fast that the waist length weeds could not affect the spirit''s movement at all. He took Lyon over a protruding rock and came to a depression with its back to the forest, which was only three kilometers away from the village. It was a natural shelter. The soil slopes around it were higher than the earth''s surface, which could effectively block the cold at night and the vision of the creatures in the slope.


    The knight and the elves lie in the downwind of the pit. They look at the beasts in the pit and exchange their views. Six rat people, not bad rat people, but strange creatures transformed from human beings are hiding in it to avoid the glare of the sun. Although the sun can''t really do harm to rats, it will undoubtedly make them slow down. Generally speaking, small-scale rat people don''t like to wander around in the daytime.


    Lyon poked out half his head and looked at the rat men carefully. Two of them were injured. The injury was not serious. One cut his leg and the other broke his tail. The blood lion guessed that these guys should have chased the defeated Kingdom soldiers to the nearby area. He only hoped that the soldiers chased by the six monsters would survive as lucky as him.


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