Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 149 The Verdant Hunters Who Create Traps
"ah!"

The sudden light startled Yavso, who was standing on the ladder looking into the cabin, but she quickly climbed up and placed the miner's lamp they had brought next to the one that already existed in the cabin.

Through the crystal lampshade, the two tiny figures with wicks seemed to be embracing each other, and the floor reflected two mottled human-shaped, flame-colored silhouettes.

"I guess they're a family of three?"

Yafso looked up at the two little figures with wicks and said, "We should bring the other lamp as well."

"Taking this lamp back with you is fine too."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he took down both miner's lamps and handed them to Yafso, cut the last arrow on the wall, took off the two ears and placed them in the arms of the female elf's corpse, and then wrapped the corpse in a blanket from the bed.

"What about her?" Yavso asked, looking at the corpse on the bed.

Let's find a place to hide first.

As Cheng Lang spoke, he tore open the dusty bed sheet and carefully tied the blanket covering the body. "We'll have to leave here eventually, and then we'll take her with us."

“That’s all we can do,” Yavso said, already carrying two miners’ lamps and the large ship’s lamp they had brought.

Although they only found a miner's lamp and a corpse on this trip, and they didn't even know where to hide the corpse for a while, both Cheng Lang and Yafso were still quite satisfied.

However, before Yafso, who was carrying three oil lamps, could open the door of the wooden house, a loud "thud!" came from outside.

"Get down!"

Cheng Lang reacted quickly and pressed Yafso down to squat down, but then, more and more loud banging sounds came from outside. At the same time, the two of them smelled the smell of smoke drifting in from the crack in the door.

Gently opening the wooden door a crack and peeking out, Cheng Lang immediately noticed the flaming arrows nailed to the outside of the door.

"Duh!"

Another sound rang out, and a flaming arrow pierced through the crack in Cheng Lang's open door, embedding itself almost on the top of his head into the wooden wall behind him!
"Oh!"

Cheng Lang immediately closed the thick wooden door; he hadn't even noticed the archers who had tried to burn them alive.

"How to do?"

Yafso asked in a panic, "At this rate, it won't be long before this little cabin is completely ablaze."

"Do elves also have night vision like dark elves?" Cheng Lang asked, pulling out the flaming arrow.

“While elves do have excellent eyesight, it is far inferior to that of dark elves at night,” Yafso said with certainty.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Lang looked around the wooden house, then found an axe used for chopping firewood under the bed and began chopping the floor with great effort amidst the increasingly thick smoke.

"Crack!"

With just two swings of the axe, the floor was split open, and a cold wind from the ground immediately blew in.

Dropping the axe, Cheng Lang grabbed the split floorboards to widen the opening, then said to Yafso, "Cover up the miner's lamp. We'll jump down together later. We only have one chance."

"And then what?" Yavso asked.

"Get into the snow, away from this little cabin."

Cheng Lang paused for a moment and then said, "I will try to create an opportunity for you. If you can find him, then it's up to you to deal with him."

"Rely on me?" Yafso panicked for a moment.

"Don't you dare?"

"Dare! What's there to be afraid of!" This young girl, Yafso, couldn't resist such provocation.

"be prepared!"

As Cheng Lang spoke, he pulled the elf's corpse off the bed, and then, together with Yafso, they jumped down through the open hole in the floor while another arrow was embedded in the outer wall of the wooden house.

In that short delay, flaming arrows were driven into all four sides of the wooden house, setting the walls, roof, and even the three surrounding pine trees ablaze.

Where is the enemy?

Cheng Lang quickly glanced around, while also gripping the black cat pendant that Wu Ying had lent him. This was his source of confidence and trump card, but using it in this situation inevitably made him feel somewhat cheated.

"Whoosh!"

Just then, another arrow flew from afar and caught fire on its own halfway through its flight.

"Got you!"

Cheng Lang narrowly dodged a fatal arrow with a somersault, then suddenly stood up, swung his whip, wrapped it around the branch of a pine tree in front of him, and swung across. At the same time, he tightened the whip to increase his height, dodging a second arrow flying towards him once again.

At the same time, Yavso did not leave the burning cabin. Instead, she drew her spider bow, aimed at Cheng Lang, and suddenly released the bowstring.

"Duh!"

Yafso's arrow missed the archer hiding in the distance, but the arrowhead stuck in the nearby tree trunk burst open with a small cluster of spores—glowing spores from the glowing mushrooms in the underground silver mine of Windmill Island.

These spores did not reproduce aggressively, but instead attached themselves to the archer who ran over.

This is enough!

While Cheng Lang helped draw fire, Yafso stumbled and ran wildly through knee-deep snow toward the dark pine forest in the distance.

She was a dark elf, and she no longer cared about her fear of the dark. She knew clearly that only by staying alive and hiding in the shadows could she help Cheng Lang deal with the archer.

Aside from leaving the archer covered in glowing spores, Yafso's arrow also gave Cheng Lang, who had landed again, the opportunity to swing his whip around the tree branch and continue swinging towards his opponent.

At this moment, the archer who attacked them had already redrawn his bow and nocked an arrow while running, but this time, he was aiming at the whip that Cheng Lang had swung out.

"Snapped!"

The arrow struck the taut whip, but did not break the slender, scale-covered tip. At the same time, Yavso fired a second arrow at him.

"Duh!"

The arrow struck a pine tree near the archer once again, prompting him to snort. In his opinion, someone with such poor aim was not worthy of picking up a bow and arrow.

However, before he could draw the bowstring taut again, he suddenly smelled a faint aroma of fresh mushrooms.

"puff"

The arrow he had just nocked was propelled into the snow by the bowstring, and he himself crashed into a pine tree with a thud, nearly being buried by the falling snow.

"laugh!"

At the same time, Yun Ji, who had arrived at some unknown time, knocked out another archer hiding in the shadows with the hilt of her dagger. This archer had already aimed at Yafso.

At the edge of the forest, Shenba was leaning on a long-handled scythe, looking around. Meanwhile, Yunlan was examining the miner's lamp she was carrying, the tiny flame inside almost touching the crystal lampshade.

"Are you guys okay?"

As Yun Ji tied up the unconscious prisoners, she shouted loudly, but then hid behind a tree trunk.

"Fortunately!"

Cheng Lang responded loudly, "Why are you here?" "I came with a lantern," Yun Ji replied cryptically. "They're all outside. Cover your faces so they don't see you."

"There's one alive here."

As Cheng Lang spoke, Yafso had already run over through the snow, raised the spider bow again, and fired another arrow at the pine tree next to the archer, which exploded into an unknown mass once more.

“We can go now,” Yavso said, putting away her spider bow and covering her face with a mask.

"Another corpse mushroom?" Cheng Lang, whose face was also covered, asked.

"Hehe, some dead mushrooms that failed to be cultivated."

Yafso replied smugly, "It'll just cause some hallucinations. Let's hurry and tie him up; he'll wake up soon."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Lang quickly took a few steps and swung his whip to entangle the archer.

Lifting the hood that was covered in snow and a few glowing spores, sure enough, it was a silver-haired elf, and a silver-haired elf with a green paint on its left cheek.

"They are exiled hunters from the Elven Duchy."

Yavso said, "They are mainly responsible for capturing and banishing dark elves. That's how I was discovered."

"They wouldn't be guarding that body around here, would they?"

Cheng Lang couldn't help but look at the wooden house in the distance, which had been completely set ablaze. After a moment's hesitation, he handed the prisoner over to Yun Ji, who was walking over. He then took his whip, ran to the edge of the wooden house, and dragged the female elf's corpse out.

"Hula"

Before he could loosen the whip binding the corpse, the small wooden house collapsed, and the flames were extinguished by the snow shaken down from the pine trees overhead.

The flames that had been lit were extinguished one by one as the snow fell softly. The pine forest fell silent once more.

"Why are you here?"

After rescuing the corpse, Cheng Lang returned to Yun Ji's side, wrapping a whip around the neck of the awakened elf as he asked her a question.

“When we went back, she told us what had happened, and then we followed her.”

Yun Ji's clever reply made Cheng Lang and Ya Fu Suo clearly understand what had happened, but those who were unaware of the situation would not understand what was going on at all.

"How did you find this place?" Cheng Lang tugged at his whip and asked the elf prisoner.

"Who are you? How did you get here?"

The pointy-eared man showed no remorse as a prisoner, arrogantly retorting, "Where are Erlin and his dark elf son, Ryan? Where did they go? Where did you hide the stolen goods? You fish-smelling pirates, how dare you!"

The prisoner was speechless, unable to utter a word.

The whip wrapped around his neck had tightened, making it difficult for him to breathe. The sharp, scaly tip of the whip had even burrowed into his ear like a snake, threatening to emerge from the other side at any moment and make him taste the bitterness of exile.

“I can tell this is your first time being a prisoner,” Cheng Lang reminded him, “but this isn’t my first time killing someone.”

“We still have one prisoner,” Yun Ji reminded her from the side. “It doesn’t matter if we kill him.”

You've already heard it.

Cheng Lang pulled the prisoner to his side, grabbed his pointed ear, and asked, "How did you find this place?"

After saying that, he flicked the whip and loosened it slightly, and the elf, who was already suffocating, immediately began to gasp for breath.

"It's time to answer the questions." Cheng Lang flicked the whip again, and the tip of the whip, which had been inside his ear, probed further in.

"Emerald Falcon"

The elven captive hurriedly replied in a panic, "Our Azure Falcon has been patrolling this area."

"Where is your camp? Are there any other hunters there?" Yun Ji asked.

"It's nearby."

The elven captive quickly pointed in a direction, "Besides the captain, there are nine of us in total, divided into groups of three, with each group having a Azure Falcon."

"What are you looking for?" Cheng Lang asked, shoving the other person as he walked towards their camp.

We don't know either.

The hunter replied with a pounding heart, “We only know that something very important has been lost from the Sin Gold Mine. The one who stole it was Erlin, the mine guard captain who killed Viscount Shenfei. We also found out that his son, Ryan, is a dark elf who should be exiled.”

Who is the female elf in the wooden house?

Cheng Lang asked a new question, "Also, aren't all female elves surnamed Yun, and male elves surnamed Shen? Why?"

"That's a custom that only nobles still maintain."

The elven captive quickly replied, "Although commoners have formal names, they rarely use them."

"Don't avoid the question, who is that female elf?" Yun Ji reminded her.

“She is Faserin, the wife of Erlin, the captain of the Sin Gold Mine Guard, and also the medical officer of the Sin Gold Mine,” the prisoner replied.

"Who banished her?" Yavso asked, voicing the question that concerned her.

"It's not me! It's not me!"

The elven prisoner quickly replied, "It's the captain, it's our captain!"

"Where is he?" Yun Ji asked.

"Frostflower Town"

The prisoner immediately gave the answer, "He's in Frostflower Town! Even the hunters who don't usually patrol here go to Frostflower Town to rest."

As the Q&A session progressed, they had already moved on to the second prisoner.

With remarkable skill, Yun Ji covered the head of the first prisoner. She then woke him up and interrogated him again. After obtaining completely consistent testimonies, they immediately escorted the two prisoners to their camp.

“We need to hurry up”

Cheng Lang said, "One of them is missing, and there's also a falcon. I'm worried."

"Don't worry, I've already caught them."

Before she finished speaking, Yun Lan walked in from outside. In front of her was not only an elf covered by "thorn armor", but also a bird no bigger than the palm of her hand was tied to the elf's chest in a "T" shape with thorns.

"It seems there's really nothing to worry about."

Cheng Lang smiled, pushed the prisoner in front of him and quickened his pace, asking, "Why are you here too?"

“Everyone’s here, they’re outside,” Yun Lan replied. “Don’t worry, we brought all our things too.”

"fair enough"

Cheng Lang had already seen the direction Yun Lan was coming from. Shenba and Gerta were urging their sleds to come this way, and like Yun Lan, they were covering their faces with masks.

(End of this chapter)