Chapter Seventy-Eight: Arriving at the Territory (Part II)
Chen Shihao did not go to the territory immediately, but ran to the tavern, strolled around the tavern with a glass of ale, and when he saw an adventurer who liked to gossip, he immediately sat down and invited them to drink, and then began to inquire about the situation in Shanxia Village.
After some busyness, Chen Shihao also has a clear understanding of this mountain and gorge village, this village is said to be a few decades ago when the tiger cat has not moved here, relying on mountain goods and cross-border trade in the border area, it is full of prosperity, there are hundreds of households and thousands of people in the big village, but later the tiger cat moved in, and the opposite Gaoke Kingdom Wushan Earl began to nervous again to use this side as a testing ground, and I don't know why, there was also an otherworldly passage in that place, and the little demons of the abyss ran out from time to time to play.
As soon as these disasters came, this Shanxia Village immediately collapsed, and now there are only a hundred villagers in Shanxia Village at most, relying on that little bit of land to grow some food, picking a little yam for some change, it can be said that Shanxia Village is the poorest place in Mao'er Town, because the first place of the three major threats in Mao'er Town is Shanxia Village!
Hearing this, Chen Shihao's face turned a little green, the territory transferred by Baron Chur is really wonderful! It is the first road for those nobles of the Wushan Earls of the Gaoke Kingdom to invade, the first road for the tiger cat to get out of the valley, and it is also the place where the abyss crack must be located every time it appears! It can be said that Shanxia Village is the worst place in Mao'er Town! How can hundreds of villagers still survive in such a place?
Although Chen Shihao has a headache now, it is not his style to avoid being in trouble, hundreds of villagers can survive in such an environment, and he should be even more able to be a lord, right? Since he is so poor there, he should bring them some gifts when his new lord takes office.
Chen Shihao, who had this idea, bought a domesticated and mature, much like a cow-like first-class demonic beast with 5 gold pounds, more expensive than a war horse, this herbivorous demonic beast has a docile personality, long life, full of patience and great strength, although there is no other way to attack except for collision, but it is also the best mountain animal power.
Then he spent 10 shillings to buy a light four-wheeled cart, and then bought a batch of food, clothing, farm tools, wounds, needles and threads, and other miscellaneous daily necessities. At this time, Chen Shihao found that there are a complete range of goods in Mao'er Town, except for luxury goods, other goods are really everything!
Put the cart that became heavy on the magic cow, the kitten lay on the cart early, Chen Shihao, who had never driven an ox cart, flicked the whip with some caution, and the demon cow slowly pulled the cart and walked forward.
Originally, Chen Shihao still wanted to hire a few adventurers, but unfortunately he only had 5 gold pounds on him, and after studying and purchasing, 360 gold pounds was left with such a little money, so it was naturally impossible to waste it. There is a third-level kitten beside him, plus he has a bit of force, I really don't believe that the tiger cat is out of the valley at this time, and the abyss crack appears at this time!
The adventurers in the town naturally saw Chen Shihao alone and a beast carrying a large amount of supplies on the road, and no one who knew or was cautious had a bad idea, but they couldn't stop some poor and crazy adventurers from putting their ideas on Chen Shihao, a young man. So as soon as Chen Shihao left the town, the adventurers immediately followed three or four out. The old adventurer who noticed these couldn't help but say to his companion with disdain: "What an idiot! How dare an ordinary person buy so many things in public with gold pounds, and take them with him?"
"That little guy thinks he's a nobleman, right? The companion had a different opinion, but he also quickly showed a puzzled look: "If it is a nobleman, how can he be alone?
"Hey, that's why I said those guys are idiots, and I don't see that the little nobleman's magic pets are all third-level bobcats!
"Rank 3 Demonic Beast?!Damn! That's the existence that at least a Rank 7 Samurai or a Rank 2 Knight can fight! Are you dazzled? Can the nobles whose territory is placed in this Cat Town have a Rank 3 Monsters? That little nobleman is not from the Earl of West's family!" his companion was full of surprise.
"Hey, I'm born with an accurate premonition of danger, otherwise I wouldn't be able to enter and exit the Cat Valley unharmed! Just now when I saw the little nobleman's bobcat pet, I felt extremely dangerous, but I couldn't detect the bobcat's breath, so I naturally knew that this was a demonic beast above the third level!" The adventurer looked smug.
"Well, the second-level demonic beast doesn't know how to hide its breath, big brother, your premonition is so strong, my brother will eat with you in the future!"
"Haha, what do we have to do with each other, absolutely no problem!" the adventurer immediately triumphed.
Chen Shihao sat on the rickety ox cart, while letting the demon cow crawl along the winding mountain road, while looking at the surrounding scenery, the forest coverage rate of this world is really high, as long as it is separated from the human gathering place, all you can see is green colors. In such a world, the air is naturally incredibly fresh, and every breath is enough to make people feel refreshed.
However, the only bad thing about too many forests is that there are too many demonic beasts, it is this mountain road, Chen Shihao has encountered more than 10 demonic beasts rushing out, but most of these demonic beasts near the road are first-level demonic beasts, and the bloody demonic cow alone is enough to be fearless, plus the kitten raised his head and stared at him, these first-level demonic beasts immediately ran away without waiting for Chen Shihao to react.
So Chen Shihao has always been in danger, until he reached a place that was about to go downhill, Chen Shihao couldn't help but pull the reins to stop the ox cart, because the strong men dressed as four adventurers had blocked the road.
"What do you want to do?" Chen Shihao asked coldly as he gripped the hilt of the saber he had just bought. The kitten stretched out and squatted at Chen Shihao's feet, tilting his head and squinting at the four adventurers in front of him.
"Hmph, boy, if you know each other obediently, then we only need money and don't want to die! If we don't know how to live, then we will have both wealth and life!" said an obvious ringleader adventurer.
"I'm a nobleman!Looting my belongings, aren't you afraid of being wanted by the kingdom?" Chen Shihao shook the waist card on his waist and said naturally.
"Hmph, we naturally know that you are a nobleman, so we are not prepared to spare your life! I just wanted to save some effort for our brothers!" the leader said coldly and drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers, kill him!"
"You must know that harming nobles is hunted down by kingdoms all over the world!" Chen Shihao still said indifferently. This is the information that Chen Shihao got after becoming a nobleman, because the gods in this world are supreme, so unless it is a hostile religion, no one dares to mess with any priest of the gods when he travels everywhere.
In the face of such privileges, the nobles who controlled the secular power under the gods were naturally red-eyed, and after a worldwide communication, all the countries of the world formulated a law for commoners to kill nobles and hunt down the whole world under the witness of the gods. Of course, tenant peasant revolts, accidents on the battlefield, or unknown assassinations do not fit into this law.
"Haha, there is no shop in front of the village here, there are no outsiders around, who knows that we killed you, a nobleman!" The leader swung his iron sword with a smug face, and his three subordinates were already excited to raise their swords and rush up.
Chen Shihao shook his head and said, "Kitten." The squatting kitten immediately meowed, and its body jumped up like lightning, only to see a black shadow flash, and the four adventurers only came to scream and clutch their necks, spraying blood and falling to the ground. In just a few seconds, the kittens easily tore their throats with their claws.
"It's really not fun. Chen Shihao shook his head helplessly, got off the ox cart, and washed the body while moving the body. Finally, after throwing a few captured weapons and a small bag of pennies onto the ox cart, he waved his whip and the ox cart continued to move slowly.
Chen Shihao didn't know that not long after he left, several adventurers ran out of the mountain forest, they checked the scars of the corpse with heavy faces, and wiped a cold sweat on each of them: "Damn! It's actually a level 3 demonic beast! Fortunately, we didn't act first, otherwise we would have died!"
"Damn! These nobles are too hateful! After coming out to practice, they actually have a magical beast that can hide their breath! This is not deliberately sending us to death! No wonder the old adventurers say don't easily provoke the nobles! The background is too deep!" After rejoicing and cursing each other, they scolded and left.
Chen Shihao, who has been safe all the way since then, finally saw smoke rising from the side of the road between the two mountains after the sun was about to set and completed the sunset exercises.
Looking at the topography of Shanxia Village, Chen Shihao understood why this village had suffered so much, and dared to feel that it was blocked by this inevitable road! However, Chen Shihao couldn't help but wonder, since the geographical location of this village was so good, why didn't Count West build a checkpoint here? Not only could it be used as an entry tax collection, but it could also block the enemy's attack. Is it because those tiger cats and abyssal little devils often come and go here, which makes the cost of building levels too high, so they simply abandon it?
As the ox carts got closer and closer to the village, Chen Shihao had already seen that the village built on the side of the mountain road was all made of stone granite houses, but unfortunately the village was surrounded by wooden fences, and there were such sparse farmland and vegetable gardens on the hillsides and ground near the village.
Dusk was approaching, the children were chasing chickens and playing with dogs in the wooden pen, the woman began dinner, and the man either walked back from the farmland, or came out of the mountains and forests with his prey on his back. Seeing this, Chen Shihao naturally recalled the scene in his village, and couldn't help but be obsessed all of a sudden.
It's just that Chen Shihao's appearance broke the calm, first of all, the dogs barked desperately in this direction, but they were annoyed by the kitten's angry meow, and the dogs immediately fled back to the stone house with their tails between them.
This strange scene made everyone stunned, but in an instant, those hunters immediately threw down their prey, ran quickly to draw bows and arrows, and those farmers ran directly to the hunters with farm tools to stand guard, and the women in the village immediately pulled the children to hide in their homes, and a cry just sounded and immediately fell silent, and the whole scene immediately emerged with a solemn atmosphere.
Chen Shihao scratched his head and patted the kitten's head with some embarrassment: "What's the mess, it's misunderstood, isn't it?" Ignoring the aggrieved kitten's whining defense, he got off the ox cart and walked slowly towards the hunter farmers, and raised the waist card and shouted as he walked: "Don't get me wrong, I am the new owner of the original Baron Chur's 800 acres of land here!"
Hearing Chen Shihao's shout, coupled with seeing that Chen Shihao was only one person, the hunter and the farmer all laid down their weapons, and each turned their heads to each other, Chen Shihao vaguely heard something: "What should I do?!The new old man is here!""I haven't paid taxes for several years, are you going to start paying them again?!"How about driving him out?"No! We can't offend the nobles! Otherwise, our whole village will be unlucky!""Bullshit nobles! Our current life is guarded by ourselves! Why do these damn nobles collect taxes?!"
Hearing these words, Chen Shihao couldn't help but be speechless, it seemed that they didn't welcome their new lord at all. Just before those villagers could argue a unanimous opinion, Chen Shihao got closer and closer, the position in the center of the two sides suddenly appeared spatial distortion, and when they saw this strange situation, the villagers immediately roared: "The demon is coming!" and immediately ran towards the stone house.
And Chen Shihao drew his blade with a wry smile, he was really fucking unlucky, he had just arrived at the territory and encountered the abyss crack, it seemed that he had to fight against the little devil, I hope this little devil is not powerful, and the number is not too much, otherwise he will wait for the end.
Chen Shihao, who had already made a state of vigilance, saw the kitten staying by his side without hesitation, staring at the crack in the space with a serious expression, Chen Shihao couldn't help but want to reach out and stroke the kitten's head, it was really a good feeling to have a partner at this time.
It's just that Chen Shihao's hand hasn't touched the kitten's head yet, and his brain suddenly became in a trance, and he couldn't help but be stunned: "Isn't it less than 3 days since the last time?