On the snowy hill, a little brown thing was moving dexterously.

It sometimes ran with lightning, sometimes it raised its upper body and sniffed the air with its nose. Its big black eyes looked around, as if it was looking for something.

This little thing with only a fluffy tail is naturally a "cool card".

At this time, it was sent by Daren to look for the wandering trolls!

Cool Card moves fast, and in addition to dealing with trolls, it is also a good player in the reconnaissance environment. As a magical animal that is human, Cool Card can understand Daren's simple instructions. For example, now, it knows that its task is to find the kind of "large and bulky guys" and lead them to Daren's side.

As for the members of the kitchen knife team, they are still guarding the "Cave Savage Hill" at this moment, waiting for the restless cave savages who come out to breathe...

“Kuka?”

While searching, the little squirrel suddenly shook his nose hard, because in the cold air, a strong pine nut fragrance floated into his nose, making his eyes lit up in an instant.

The little guy's attention was easily diverted, as if he had forgotten the task assigned by Daren, and followed the fragrance and chased after him.

After a moment.

In a snowy field with dead trees, there is a half-human-deep snow pit, and there is a ball of ashes that have lost their temperature at the bottom of the pit, but there are many roasted and cracked pine nuts buried in the ashes. The oil fragrance after the nuts is heated can even be smelled by humans when they get close to them, let alone cool kids who like to eat pine nuts.

The little thing whispered twice, her eyes almost turned into a heart-shaped shape, and her saliva became secreted at a faster pace...

"call out!"

The little thing seemed to be brown lightning shot straight into the bottom of the snow pit.

But just as its claws stepped on the ashes, the bottom of the pit suddenly collapsed! It turned out that the snow at the bottom of the pit was just a thin layer, supported by something, almost without any force... Then a fine net fell from the sky, and the dead trees around it trembled, sprinkling large areas of snowflakes, quickly covering up all of this again.

Everything happened very quickly, but it was simple to say. It was just a common trap for hunters, but it was designed with exquisite enough design.

Even Cool Cards were hit.

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"It's been so long, why haven't you come back yet?"

It was noon soon, but the people in the kitchen knife team still did not see the familiar brown figure. Everyone was inevitably worried, even bald Justin was like this.

Daren frowned tightly, with a bad premonition.

Nowadays, there are trolls everywhere, and even they have met a troll passing by here. How could Kuka not find one for so long?

Did you encounter an unexpected situation?

Or maybe... it decided to leave itself?

It is inevitable that Daren thought so. Just as it jumped onto itself for no reason, Daren still doesn't understand why Kuka is willing to follow him. It's just that the little guy's strong reliance on himself has made him subconsciously recognize one thing, that is, it won't leave!

Until this morning, I couldn't see Kuka's figure all morning. Facing the endless snow scene, Dailun was a little panicked.

Although there is the factor of "no coquet can be easily hunted without cool cards", there is also a considerable factor that Daren has already fed some feelings for feeding small things every day. Thinking that it may have run away from now on, I feel empty in my heart. But worry can't change anything.

When the sun was west, the sky was getting darker, and the cool card never appeared.

This is undoubtedly a huge bad news for the entire kitchen knife team! More than a dozen soldiers all looked ugly, as if they saw the Golden Tower slipping through their fingers. Vice Captain Quincy led everyone to search for the nearby six circles, almost searching for several kilometers, but still fruitless...

Eventually people had to accept a cruel fact: the cool card was lost.

The wilderness at night is more dangerous than during the day... Even the largest kitchen knife team in Bailita dares to spend the night in the wild, so people have to set out on their return journey.

Fortunately, Quincy comforted Daren that the kitchen knife team will come here tomorrow, and there may be a glimmer of hope to find it back.

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"Crazy..."

Under the night, one hand suddenly pulled the net out of the snow, and the torch in the other hand took a closer look, and you could see a brown squirrel curled up and shivered.

"Hey! It seems that my skills are not unfamiliar."

Seeing the little thing's extremely humanized expression of grievance, the person who was holding the net couldn't help but chuckled!

But he quickly closed his mouth again and quickly put the little squirrel into a solid cage forged by fine iron. It is said that the mouse can drill through the smallest hole as big as a skull, but the gap between the cage is narrower than that of the Kuka skull, as if tailor-made! Then the man looked carefully at the surroundings covered by the night and tiptoed away.

Through the moonlight, you can see this person wearing a large gray cloak with a hat.

There are a lot of obscure and complex symbols and patterns on the gray cloak. After wearing the hood, the person seemed to be integrated with the night, and even the sound of breathing was almost inaudible... But although the cloak could cover the thin figure, the giant axe on his back that was not commensurate with his body shape could still be clearly identified.

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"What, you want to withdraw from the team?"

The next evening, Justin and Quincy looked at the brunette boy in front of him in surprise.

"Well... Thank you for your hard work today and everyone has been looking for me all day. Since Cool Card really can't be found, it doesn't make sense for me to stay in the kitchen knife team." Daren sighed, his expression a little sad.

"It seems you have your own plans?"

"Well, my light dust should be enough to condense the next star, but I haven't mastered the previous skill perfectly yet." Deren shrugged, "Next, I will concentrate on my skills, and maybe take on some mercenary missions."

He didn't say that what he wanted to practice was [injury transformation]. When being a mercenary and being beaten, he could constantly activate the injury transformation...

The two captains still believe that his first skill is [Running].

"Bah, I just got a little bit of a favor with you guys, why are you not thinking about it and going to be a mercenary again?" The bald Justin immediately cursed unhappily.

"Is it for money?" Quincy looked strange.

"Uh, that's right... I heard that many magicians and archers have been scrambling to hire mercenaries to hunt trolls recently, and the commission level of mercenaries has increased a lot..."

"Then, I'll quit too." At this moment, another person suddenly interrupted.

The three of them turned their heads and looked at it, it turned out to be the calf Hans.

"Why are you..." Daren looked at him in confusion, "Isn't it good to continue to stay in the kitchen knife team? If you want to become a stronger soldier..."

Hans shook his head and interrupted Deren: "I'm going to be a blacksmith."

"What?" Daren was even more shocked.

"I haven't told you that my dad is in Bailita." Hans smiled relievedly, "Didn't I say I already have a place to live? In fact, it's the blacksmith shop next to the stone bridge in the town. My dad is the chief craftsman there, and I've been learning craftsmanship from him recently."

"Wow." Justin whistled, "Hans, I'll ask you to repair weapons in the future."

Hans seemed to have never heard of it, put his hands on Daren's shoulders, staring at the brunette boy seriously and whispered:

"Since Jeremy's death, I have vowed to protect every village's friends. But these days I have fought with you and gradually discovered that you don't need my protection because you are already better than me." Hans grinned, "Then, I can also be at ease to be a blacksmith."

"But my promise remains unchanged. In Belita, you are my only brother! Deren, come to me if you need anything... Your shield seems to be damaged very lightly these days. Since you are going to take on mercenary missions, then give me the shield to repair it, and you won't charge you money!"

"This shield is my grandfather's work, and I happened to repair it. And I just learned a secret recipe of alloy the day before yesterday, and I will definitely strengthen the shield to make it stronger for you... By the way, what are you calling it? The Shield of the Self-Defense Corps?"

Seeing Deren nodding vigorously, little Hans seemed a little dazed and stroked the heavy shield.
Chapter completed!