Chapter 11 The Terrifying Bear Hunter

"Seven gods above, what happened here?" A soldier looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but said in horror.

However, no one around answered his question. Everyone looked around worriedly, fearing that those seemingly harmless branches would suddenly turn into deadly weapons.

"Go up and check." Roman assigned a soldier and said.

The assigned soldier was extremely reluctant, but he still had to step out of the crowd, and carefully approached the body. After a quick inspection, he turned around and said loudly: "It's a trap, sir. He should have been killed by some kind of trap." of."

"Some kind of trap?" Roman saw that there was no danger, so he led the people over, looked at the situation, and said with a puzzled face: "What kind of trap is so powerful that it can pierce a person and hang him in a tree?" superior?"

This question left the surrounding soldiers speechless for a moment, because the traps they saw were the same as Roman's, they were traps for hunting rabbits, and this was the first time they had seen such a powerful trap.

Seeing that he couldn't get an answer, Roman didn't say anything else. He could feel that these traps should be used to deal with the bandits, which meant that the people who set the traps were on the same side as him, but he still didn't dare to take it lightly. He has a cautious character. This made him give the order: "Everyone, be careful and keep moving forward." After saying that, he turned to the soldiers around him and said, "What are you doing standing still? Take out your shields and block them from me."

After hearing the order, the soldiers hurriedly took out their shields, held them up to their chests, and surrounded Roman for protection.

The other soldiers assigned to Cold Howl Fort could only guard the perimeter and explore the way forward.

As they went deeper into the forest, they saw more and more corpses. Some of them died in traps like the previous corpse, and many died in weapon attacks, and among the team The veterans could also see that the bandits who died in weapon attacks were all killed with one blow without exception, and they did not know where the attack came from until the moment of death.

This suddenly made everyone's emotions become tense. Everyone invariably fantasized about an invisible and intangible evil spirit. The scary stories they heard when they were children even echoed in their ears, and the hand holding the weapon also Shaking slightly because of nervousness.

In this terrifying atmosphere, the pace of everyone also accelerated a lot. The woods were not very big. Soon they had reached the edge of the woods. The people walking at the front could already see through the gaps in the trees. , and saw the relatively empty flat environment outside.

However, just as the soldier walking in front wanted to speed up and leave this dangerous place, a short sword flew out from nowhere, passed straight in front of him, and was inserted straight into the side. On the tree trunk.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The startled soldiers immediately stopped, shouted loudly, and quickly retreated to the team behind them, holding the spear tightly in their hands and shouting loudly Said: "Someone just attacked me, someone just attacked me!"

"Shut up, I saw it!" Roman, who was following behind, couldn't stand the soldier shouting. At the same time, the soldier's panic shouting also caused a commotion in the team. He immediately shouted loudly to stop the soldier from continuing to shout, and ordered: "Be careful. Be on guard, be on guard, keep your spear facing away, raise your shield, don’t panic, we have more people than they do, and our weapons are better than them!”

When Roman shouted loudly to stabilize the mood of the team, he did not wait for the enemy to attack. Instead, a warrior holding two swords and wearing leather armor walked out of the dense woods not far ahead. He slowly walked to the dagger nailed to the tree, pulled out the dagger and stuffed it into the scabbard on his waist.

Then, the man turned around and looked at the extremely nervous hundred-man team in front of him, looked at the spider flag carried on the shoulders of the flag guard, and said to Roman, who was dressed completely differently from everyone around him, "This Weibo Sir, you are late. I have already eliminated these people, but I haven’t had time to clean up the trophies on them. If you don’t mind, can you help me clean them up? After all, there are too many people and I am alone. I can’t clean it up. Of course it’s not for nothing, I can share half of the loot with you.”

Only then did Roman clearly see what the soldier in front of him who loudly asked him to help clean up the trophies looked like, and at the same time, he quickly remembered who he was.

"Bear hunter, you are the bear hunter Linde from Bai Village!" Roman couldn't help being surprised and confirmed towards Linde.

Upon hearing this, Linde bowed slightly to Roman and said, "I'm honored that you have heard of me."

After receiving the response, Roman recalled the information he had learned about Lind before. Joel's arrangement for Lind alone last night, as well as Lind's out-of-place appearance in the meeting hall, also attracted the attention of the Wieber family, so after the meeting , they sent someone to inquire about information related to Linde, and the person responsible for inquiring happened to be Roman.

At this time, they realized that the civilian soldier wearing two swords in the meeting hall was actually the bear hunter mentioned by the bard in the tavern.

At that time, people in the Webb family didn't care much about Linde after they knew his identity. After all, in their eyes, Linde was just a fifteen-year-old child. They just admired Linde's feat of avenging his father and hunting bears alone. , as for the bear hunting experience in the story, they felt that the bard was just exaggerating for the sake of storytelling. In their opinion, Linde was finally able to hunt the mountain bear, probably thanks to the hunters supported by Bai Village, who also hunted Lin De. De saved from a mountain bear attack.

Roman Wiebe also had the same view, because he was a person who had actually seen a mountain bear, and had also seen how a crazy mountain bear destroyed a hunting team of a hundred people, so he was almost likely to have no chance of Linde at that time. Possible solo mountain bear hunting.

However, now Roman has begun to believe the story told by the bard. He recalled the bandits he saw who died tragically in traps before, and thought of those who died without knowing where the attacks came from. These were all Linde's. Made by humans, it is not impossible for a warrior of this strength to hunt a mountain bear.

At the same time, he also thought that Joel Fohua would agree to Linde's outrageous request and let him guard this area alone, perhaps because he knew that he had the ability to guard this place alone.

While confirming the identity of the person in front of him, Roman signaled his men to take back their weapons, and then asked eagerly: "Before, two bandit leaders wearing plate armor led their men to escape here. Now they..."

"They have been picked up by strangers." Linde also put his sword back into its scabbard, replied calmly, turned and pointed out of the woods, and said: "Their bodies are outside, and you need to clean them up on your behalf."

Although the corpses he saw in the woods had made Roman guess that the people who had fled here had also been killed by Linde, he really felt relieved when he got the answer he wanted from Linde.

Afterwards, he ordered his men to help Linde collect the trophies and corpses. These will be counted as military merits in the future. If it were someone else, he might covet these military merits, but this time he would not do so. This is not just because The unknown relationship between Joel Flower and this bear hunter was more due to the shock and fear that those corpses had just brought to him.

Although he now has an absolute advantage in numbers, he doesn't know why, but he has a feeling that if he falls out with the bear hunters, he will end up staying in the woods forever like the corpses he saw before. .

On the other side, Lind didn't know what Roman Wieber was thinking, but he also thought that Roman Wieber might take away his military exploits. Father Bain had mentioned similar things more than once.

If such a thing really happens, he has no way to solve it. Maybe he can kill Roman Webber and use the terrain here to kill these Webber family soldiers, but if he does that, let alone in the Reach. , I'm afraid he won't be able to stay in Westeros, and will eventually have to flee to Essos, which is definitely not what he wants.

However, he quickly figured out that even if Roman Wieber really took possession of his military merits by force, it would not matter. He only needed Joel to recognize his military merits, because to him, military merits did not matter. Not the most important thing, Joel's recommendation is the most important.

Even if he is robbed of military honors, as long as Joel admits that he really killed so many bandits, the goal has been achieved.

After understanding this, Linde relaxed his slightly nervous mood. While the soldiers were carrying the bodies, he also went to other parts of the woods and dismantled all the other traps that had not been triggered.

Although he didn't know what the situation was like on the other side of the battlefield, but now that Roman Wieber has led a team of 100 people here, the task of guarding this place has naturally been transferred to Roman. He only needs to cooperate from the side. Okay, so naturally there will be no need for those fatal traps.

With the cooperation of more than a hundred people, all the corpses in the woods were quickly cleared out, and the corpses outside the woods were all neatly arranged together.

Seeing the dozens of corpses in front of them, everyone, including Roman Wieber, felt inexplicably shocked. At the same time, they looked at Linde who was sitting not far away, wiping his weapons, with a look of extreme awe.

In the past large and small wars of the Seven Kingdoms, stories of a certain knight beating a hundred often happened. Various knight legends are all over the continent of Westeros, such as the Sword of Dawn, Arthur Dayne and others. After the siege of the Kingswood Brotherhood, there were rumors that Arthur Dayne killed hundreds of members of the Kingswood Brotherhood with his Dawn Strangler.

But people who really understand the battlefield know very well that those so-called knight legends about one against a hundred cannot stand scrutiny. Many of these achievements were accomplished by knights leading their attendants and soldiers. Just because the reputation of the knights is big enough, they will be All the gains were gathered on the knight alone.

However, what they saw now was a living example. One person solved dozens of bandits. Even if it was done with the help of hunting traps, it was still amazing, and it seemed that the fighting process was very easy, because in They didn't see any injuries on Lind's body.

Looking at Linde who still looked calm after the battle, Roman Wieber suddenly had a strange feeling that the son of Orion in front of him, who was of low origin, would definitely become a big shot in the future.

It was this feeling that made him decide to make friends with Linde and place a bet in advance on Linde's success in the future.

After making a decision, Roman walked towards Linde. After coming to him, he pointed at the broad-bladed half-hand sword in Linde's hand and said, "This is the first time I have seen a sword of this shape. Can you show it to me?" Take a look?"

Linde did not refuse and handed over the half-sword that had been wiped in his hand.

After Roman took it, he looked at it and said: "This sword is much wider than the average hybrid sword. It is good for cutting and can even be used to parry attacks. The only flaw is that it is a little short and requires close attacks to do it." Play a role."

Linde listened to Roman's analysis and looked at Roman with a little surprise. It is not difficult to see the advantages and disadvantages of the broad-bladed half-hand sword, but he can analyze it just by taking a look at it. This shows Roman's forging of weapons. There should be some experience.

"Did you design this sword, Mr. Linde?" Roman handed the sword back to Linde and gave Linde a somewhat aristocratic title.

"Yes, this is specially designed for my swordsmanship." Linde did not hide it. He nodded and acknowledged Roman's guess. At the same time, he corrected Roman's title and said: "Lord Roman, you called me wrong. I He is just a commoner, not a noble, so he cannot be called a lord."

Roman smiled and said: "No no! With the strength you have shown, Lord Linde, you will definitely be able to become a noble in the near future. I'm just adapting in advance."

At this moment, Roman didn't look like a nobleman, but more like a businessman, and he made no secret of his intention to make friends with Lind.

Although Lind didn't understand why a wealthy knight like Roman who owned his own manor would take the initiative to befriend him, he could feel that Roman had no ill intentions, which made him couldn't help but quickly weigh the advantages and disadvantages of befriending Roman. .

Regarding the bandits in the Red Lake Forest this time, although Roman's Webber family has some disgraceful behavior, they have perfectly eliminated all bad traces. They should not be punished by Lord Luo because of this incident in the future. The Wan family's punishment will not damage their strength.

Although the Webber family can only be regarded as a second-class noble in the Reach, they have a long inheritance history like most nobles in the Reach, and are married to many nobles in the Seven Kingdoms, such as the Lannister family in the West. There is a relationship by marriage. Tywin Lannister, the current Warden of the West and Duke of Casterly Rock, has the blood of the Webber family, because Tywin's grandmother came from the Webber family.

It is precisely because the Weber family has such a profound foundation that even if the Weber family did something wrong this time, the Rowan family, as its lord, did not directly point out the Weber family's mistakes, but instead allowed the Weber family to Participate in this bandit suppression operation yourself and erase the traces of those wrongdoings.

So no matter what Roman's purpose was in taking the initiative to befriend him, Lind felt that it was a good thing for him.