Thus, the young man continued to move in a circular motion around the mountain to discover his surroundings... However, after walking for several hours, he did not meet any other prey...
The young man paused and thought to himself.
So around the mountain and move wider... It's better to take one direction and walk straight away from the mountain... too."
The young man raised his head and looked at the sky through the spaces between the tree leaves...
"I was walking around for hours and the sun didn't move even a little... It seems like a day on this planet is longer than on Earth... I need to know the ways to calculate time on this planet."
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Thus the young man set a direction, placing the location of the cave behind him and the enormous mountains in the distance in front of him...
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After walking carefully for some time, the young man still did not encounter any other monster and he expected that he would not see anything else in the distance..
"It seems that I need to speed up my walking pace more... This is dangerous, but it is better than wasting time."
Thus the young man began walking quickly, holding his sword in his right hand and a fist-sized rock in his left hand...
. After several hours of walking, the young man began to meet some creatures from time to time. Sometimes he would find a snake hanging on a tree trunk, sometimes he would see an owl-like bird standing on a tree trunk, and sometimes some small rodents and lizards.
"The number of creatures I encounter has increased more than before... Also, even the number of giant trees has begun to decrease with the presence of smaller trees..."
Saying that, he remained silent for a while, observing the surroundings around him carefully as he walked
"As I mentioned earlier, I fought two wolves and saw the corpse of another monster... Maybe it came out of the monster area!? But"
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The young man suddenly stopped, looking into the distance to his right with strange, excited looks...
In the distance, a brown animal two meters high could be noticed... a familiar animal that had not been seen for some time...
"A deer!!.. Also, it is a big deer.. and fat."…
Saying that, the excited young man lowered his body, hid himself from the deer's field of vision, and began walking toward it quietly...
When the young man approached, he hid behind the tree closest to the deer.
.. Lowering his body and holding his sword, the young man repeated the same lunge movement and made a slashing attack on the deer's neck...
As for the deer, it is far from a wolf and does not have a fighting instinct. The moment it heard the unusual sound and raised its head to look, it had already been slaughtered and there was nothing left for its spine to hold it... After standing for a few seconds, it fell to the ground, floundering as blood came out. from him …
Looking at the deer in front of him, the young man's eyes were already excited.
"Deer, deer, food... I haven't eaten anything for a long time, and I haven't eaten venison in a long time... It's my lucky day, hahaha.."
... Suddenly the young man fell silent, his expression turned serious and cautious, and he looked towards a tree a little far away
"Get out, I already noticed you..."
Saying that, after a few seconds, a man emerged from behind the tree where he was looking, wearing gray clothes covered with leaves, carrying a bow in his hand and a knife tied to his waist belt... From his clothes, he could easily be identified as a hunter.
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The young man and the man look at each other with thoughtful and cautious looks...
Then the hunter changed his gaze at the deer's body... After the silence, the hunter spoke first
Pointing to the deer
"What a perfect cut you made..."
Then the hunter looked back at the young man and continued his speech
"You don't look like a hunter but your cutting technique is perfect..."
The hunter was silent for a while and looked at the young man's appearance, then continued
"And you don't seem to be from this region given your clothes..."
The hunter wanted to finish his speech, but the young man cut him off and spoke in a slightly cold voice
"Cut the nonsense...what do you want??"
The hunter was surprised by the young man's speech and tone, but he smiled in return and spoke in a normal tone, pointing to the slaughtered deer.
"I had been following his tracks for some time, and I hid to approach him quietly, but you beat me to hunting him..."
"How about this, I will buy it from you.. My wife wants to eat fresh deer meat..."
Hearing the hunter's words, the young man spoke directly
"I am not selling and I am not interested in your wife. This deer is mine.. Leave."
Looking at the expression of the young man in front of him, the hunter was a little helpless...
In fact, he did not reject the young man for the reason he said... but he wanted to test the limits of the fisherman's patience in dealing with him... so that he could see how he would deal with him...
What the young man wanted at the moment was a reliable source of information and not just someone to throw him in the nose...
After a short silence, the hunter spoke again.
"Young man, listen to me... You can usually sell this deer for 15 gold coins in the village, and it is not a rare thing, but my wife wants to eat it today, and fresh as well...
I will give you 20 gold pieces for it.. What do you think?? "I really need him"
After listening to the hunter's words, the young man pretended to think a little, then looked at the hunter again and spoke in a less cold tone...
"First tell me where your village is located."
Hearing the words of the young man in front of him, the hunter was more confident that the young man was not from this area. That is why he became more cautious in dealing with him so as not to antagonize him more. In the end, if he did not bring this deer to his wife today, he would live in extreme domestic misery during the coming days...
That's why he became more natural and spoke spontaneously, pointing to his right
"My village is located in this direction, about 30 kilometers away from us..."
Then he pointed behind the young man and continued
"You can find it easily if you follow the riverbed up ahead there."
After listening to him, the young man looked around to determine the direction of the cave he was in. Then he looked at the hunter in front of him and spoke...
"Come, let's go to your village... I will check the price of the deer first..."
Thus, upon hearing the young man's words, the hunter relaxed a little and began walking towards the young man
Upon his arrival, the first thing the young man said would have made him stumble...
"Now carry this deer and let us go from the river."
"But it's your catch and I haven't bought it yet. Why should I carry it for you?!"
"If you don't want it, then there's no need to go on your way and I'll eat it here and now."
Listening to the young man's words, the hunter felt as if he wanted to hit him because of his insolence...but nevertheless he surrendered and carried the deer on his shoulder...
In the end, he would rather do other people's work than face his angry wife for days...
"Let's go. Show me the way."
Thus, the young man and the fisherman headed towards the river first, and from there they set out in the same direction as its course