Chapter 68: The Dust Settles
The existential crisis of Takayama Fort was over, and it was naturally time to return.
Unlike when they came, they hurriedly crowded into the cast area and moved in step by step, but they were much more relaxed, and the dwarves had plenty of vehicles for them.
"We should negotiate terms with the dwarves before we leave. Anne felt that Richard had gone too hastily and had not maximized his interests.
Friendship doesn't have to expire and waste this thing for a limited time, and now they are the saviors and comrades-in-arms of the dwarven tribe, and everything is easy to talk about. But if it drags on any further, it's really hard to say whether this friendship will be discounted.
"Anyway, your share will be indispensable when the time comes, don't worry about it. Richard sat cross-legged in the carriage, and an old god was always sitting on the Diaoyu Tai.
There is nothing wrong with Anne's idea itself, the problem is that it is not in the same dimension as him at all.
"But......" The half-elf businesswoman tried to explain the stakes carefully to the lord of Alpine Castle, and Richard quickly became impatient, and gave no more than "um", "ah", "oh".
While talking with a dry mouth, while listening to it drowsy, it is simply a chicken and a duck talking.
"Do you and the dwarves have any secrets hiding from me?" Anne looked suspicious, and began to feel that something was wrong.
"Haha, how can I be. The lord was stunned by the sudden woman's instincts, but at this moment a hairy black head poked out of his pocket, looked around, crawled out and walked to the side, and sat down cross-legged like Richard.
"The little things are so cute. Anne's attention was immediately drawn to Chichu, who she had always thought was a flying squirrel. It was a rat-like beast with the same skin under its ribs, but it had never lived in the forest, and she didn't want to think about how it could be found in the wilderness of a flat river.
Richard reached out and scratched Chiqiu's chin, and the little thing immediately felt so comfortable that "Chiqiu Qiqiu" called out.
For some reason, Chiqiu showed an unusual dependence and closeness to Richard.
While they were still in the dwarven tribe, they kept circling around him all day long. It wasn't that the dwarf didn't want to get this little ancestor away, but it immediately became wilted and almost listless, and it didn't even bother to eat, so it had no choice but to send it back.
Later, Robbie speculated that it might be because the first thing he saw at birth was Richard, and he regarded him as a relative.
At first, the lord thought this was nonsense, but when he thought about the scene, it seemed that it was indeed when he tried to touch the eyeball, and Chiqiu suddenly burst out of his shell.
In this way, the first thing it saw after it was born was probably the heroic posture of its own tactical retreat.
The lord rubbed his chin, and a lot of stubble had emerged from neglecting to take care of it in the past few days, he sighed, and helplessly lifted a silver kettle to pour the liquid into Chiqiu's mouth, which was the goat's milk specially prepared by the dwarves for the Titan relics.
"Little bunny, drink more. ”
Chiqiu didn't grow in size, but his courage grew quickly. Recently, I often jumped out of the car by myself, played crazy for a long time, and then caught a mouse and brought it back to Richard to offer treasure, which made Anne angry to death.
A few days later, the Alpine Fort was in sight, and Richard stood on the roof of the carriage and held the mirror tube to look into the distance.
Then he immediately became anxious: "Speed up!"
The lord actually saw a group of wilderness people in the mirror tube, and they were fighting with the mercenaries of the Voya Trading House who stayed behind in the high mountain fort. Because of the ruthless characters of several of them, they even have a few advantages on the scene.
It's no wonder that Richard himself is at least half responsible for the situation at hand.
Judging by the equipment, race, status, etc., it is easy to see that this group of natives are all his old acquaintances, to be exact, they were slaughtered by the lord outside the dwarven tribe station a few days ago.
After their defeat, they fled in all directions, and out of survival instinct, they naturally formed several sizable teams, trying their best to make a living.
It's like ink dripping into clear water and spreading in all directions. It just so happened that the Alpine Fort Guards stayed in the dwarven tribe for a while after the battle, and a few days was enough time for a certain energetic group to sway ahead of them and actually reach Alpine Fort first.
The relative emptiness of the guards emboldened them, so they decided to make a deal on the spot and talk about it later.
After these people were broken in the first battle, their combat effectiveness was not as good as before, and they happened to be Wang Ba against lepers, and they fought a lot of table tennis.
The barbarians and the centaurs pulled a pocket straggler, sneaking around and closing the pockets.
The remnants of the wilderness were originally in the middle of a fierce battle with the mercenaries, and when they realized that someone had copied the way back, they were about to fight back, and suddenly realized how the other party looked familiar, and immediately raised the white flag with lightning speed.
This kind of enemy is too terrifying! The heart and eyes are smaller than the tip of a needle, and even though they have won, they have followed us for several days! The natives want to cry without tears while waving the white flag.
Richard watched as the barbarians drove the dejected captives together, and he walked over and paced back and forth, scrutinizing them with malicious intent.
The look was like a sharp knife for boning, sharp and precise, and the captives only felt a steady stream of cold wind coming out of the cracks in their bones. They gathered even harder in order to gain some security, and squeezed their companions in the middle to roll their eyes.
"You guys still have a dream, and you dare to go to Lao Tzu's house to steal it. ”
The captives suddenly realized that it was not someone who was chasing but rushing to send them themselves, and they couldn't help but lament their bad luck.
"Since the lord is here, I will be merciful and take a place to eat and live. The lord looked at their sturdy bodies and smiled with satisfaction, "Get ready for your new career as a coolie." ”
The captives collectively breathed a sigh of relief, they thought that the so-called Bao Food and Shelter was to chop up half of the people for the other half to eat. It is a kind of luck for them to have a hard job, which is desperate at the moment.
The Guards escorted the newly-minted slaves away, and Richard himself patrolled around the hills for a week.
The mercenaries were fairly calm, and the lord couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the property and people of the mountain fort had not suffered any actual losses.
This trip of the main force has been out for nearly ten days, and it is false to say that it is not nervous, but fortunately, in the end, everything is in danger.
Alpine Fort got almost everything it wanted—wealth, population, strength, and little fear of being besieged by the natives as it made a name for itself in the wilderness.
In addition, Richard had already discussed with Anne that the Woya firm would open a permanent shop in Alpine Fort in the future, which would be the beginning of the business of this small pioneering territory.
The losses were insignificant in comparison, and with the exception of three warriors killed, the only thing that could be mentioned was the death of one of the captive trolls. According to the leader, after awakening the rocket technique, he broke free from the guard's chaotic trick without staying overnight, and the result was that he was killed overnight.
This made Richard want to scold his mother.
The only lethal spell that the troll has awakened, but it was an accident when he wasn't at home.