169. The secret of the Valley of Xinliu
As I passed through the valley pass, I flew around the stone foundations of the mountain city on a magical ride, and then pointed to the huge foundations and painted my vision to Karantso.
I want to build a mountain town here.
I want to make this Willow Valley my territory.
Seeing that everything here was beginning to take shape, I said to Karantso with emotion: "When this mountain city is built, it will cross this mountain pass, and then the whole circular valley will be the back garden of this mountain town." I want to build a 100-meter-high watchtower on the top of the hill on the left, look, right there, the mountain is very steep, but the top of the hill is very flat, and the castle is built on the mountain, so I can encapsulate it in the city, I think with such a high pedestal, it shouldn't be too difficult to build a watchtower! This mountain city must have a very strong wall......"
I spoke to Karantso about my plans for the mountain city.
She sat behind me, wrapped her arms around my waist, and pressed her side face against my back, and I could clearly feel the softness on her chest.
Along the way, she has been whining at me, I think these words may have been accumulated in her heart for a long time, she is a female orc warrior who seems to be very strong, probably the orcs in the village think so too, everyone sees her as the leader of the village, everything is waiting for her to decide, she has a lot of pressure on her shoulders, and she has been silently bearing it all the time.
Now that she finally has someone to talk to, she doesn't want to hear me talk about the mountain city and the future plans of Xinliu Valley, she just wants those people to be well fed, warmly clothed, and have a stable home, she just wants to quietly watch little Ella grow up.
But all that seemed to have changed from the day she walked into the slave market, and I came into her life.
Beyond the foundations of the mountain city, we headed towards the interior of the circular valley, and on the ridge of the mountain I could already faintly see the infant World Tree, which had grown more than two hundred meters, and the leafy foliage covered the entire island in the middle of the lake.
Karantso sat behind me, wrapped his arms tightly around my waist, whispered to me, and whispered about the trivial things that happened in the Xinliu Valley: "I will help you take a good look at this place, but the first thing you have to solve is the population problem here, this place is really big, there are too few people in our tribe, and once the people are scattered, some things will inevitably be a little stretched when you sit up!"
She sighed softly: "Many of the people in the village are guarding the underground altar and the material warehouse there, and there are still people who need to manage those barbarian slaves, and they also need to divide the manpower to take care of the medicine garden in the valley, and they also need to hunt in this mountain wilderness, looking for the ethereal directional portal, all these things need manpower, but the people in the village are all less than two hundred, and there are many young mothers who are breastfeeding, and they need to stay in the village to nurse their children and take care of the elderly." ”
I didn't expect Karantso to have so many troubles, listening to her lying behind me, although it was all in the past, but the process must have been very difficult.
She continued: "After all, there is still a shortage of manpower, we have too many things stored in the altar material warehouse, so many golden ciders, stacked in the cave tunnel for several kilometers, and bundles of magical herbs, red copper ore, ironwood wood, so many materials, without using a large number of people, we can't see it at all, if it weren't for the cleaning up of those goblin tribes this time, I'm afraid that a lot of things would be stolen, but now we can finally be quiet for a while." ”
The road was quiet, only the sound of the wind and her whisper: "When you were a falcon in the city of El, what I feared the most was that you kept sending these barbarians with slave collars around their necks to the Xinliu Valley, and later, I didn't know what was crazy, and actually went to the wilderness with you to capture those barbarians frantically. I know that if I get it back, I will only be the one who suffers. ”
As she spoke, she actually fell behind my back and laughed 'sneering', and then stopped for a long time, and then continued: "Those savages have great tempers, rough and brutal personalities, and are not afraid of death or whipping, and to tell the truth, the slave collar with the magic of punishment has very little restraint on them. I kept watch over the quarries day and night with the orc warriors, and every day I had to lock them in iron cages, fearing that if one of the barbarians escaped and rushed over several ridges into our village, it would be a big problem. ”
I didn't know how Karantso managed the barbarian slaves, only that the slaves seemed to be obedient, so I listened carefully to her story.
Karantso said: "At that time, I was afraid that they would escape from the iron cage. Later, I gradually figured out their temperament, and also knew that this group of barbarian slaves actually did not ask for much, and they also knew that they were the losers of the war, and defeat meant death and slavery, in fact, as long as we provided them with enough food, so that they could sleep comfortably when they were tired, then they would not make trouble. ”
"Haven't you met a barbarian who disobeyed her discipline?" I finally asked her, holding back my curiosity.
Karantso lifted her head and rested her pointed chin on my shoulder, her breath spraying in my ears and feeling a little itchy.
Then I heard her say: "Of course, there are many dishonest among those slaves, they are so powerful that they look down on us orcs, and always try to provoke us, but if anyone is dishonest, I will put him in an iron cage and starve him for three days, they are very afraid of hunger, and this punishment is more effective than whips and sticks." ”
I didn't know that the barbarians were afraid of hunger, but when I thought about it, I laughed to myself, how could the barbarians who had crossed the Punma and invaded the province of Sloit be hungry?
Karantso continued: "Later, there was a great escape of the barbarian slaves, and the barbarian slaves hid in the mountains and forests, and I had the people guard the pass of the circular valley and the village at the same time, and drove the yellow sheep back to the sheepfold. ”
Knowing that the matter had passed, and that the village had not been destroyed by the barbarians, my heart was still tight, as if I had been held by a big hand.
This was the first time she told me: "Those barbarians don't know how many orcs there are in the village, they don't dare to attack the village rashly, and then I transferred all the orc warriors back, fought with them a few battles, trapped them in a valley forest, they hid in the valley and did not dare to come out, there are not many small beasts in this mountain forest, after those little beasts were eaten by them, they began to dig wild vegetables, gnaw the bark, and when they could not even find the bark, and were about to starve to death, they were forced to run out and surrender to us!"
Speaking of this, she smiled proudly, it was a very proud thing to be able to defeat those barbarians.
"Those tree fairy friends of yours are still helping us take care of the nurseries of those magical herbs. Karantso said, her arm sticking out from behind, pointing to the nursery around the lake below the circular valley, where a few tree elves were busy among the ridges, and those lush magical herbs were growing wildly under the halo of the Lord of the World Tree.
Karantso looked very happy and said to me, "The magical herbs in the nursery have grown much faster with the care of these tree elves, and these tree elves also want to have some simple communication with the plants, since they took over the management of the herb garden, the magic herbs have never died of illness! ”
Then, I heard Karantso say in surprise: "Hey, why didn't you see Noi?"
The soft light from the sky makes the round valley in this col much darker than the rest of the place, and several huge arched tree roots in the valley cross from one side of the lake shore to the other half of the lakeshore, some of them are several kilometers long, and the diameter of those dry roots can even reach tens of meters, like a natural arch bridge.
The wood of these roots is much harder than ironwood, and the World Tree seedling said to me: These are the roots of the original dead World Tree.
The counter-current of time and space like a golden ribbon brought a slightly dim light to Xinliu Valley, and these golden rays of light fell into the clear water, making the lake sparkle under the ripples of the breeze. A naked orc female warrior suddenly rushed out of the lake like a big black fish, revealing her beautiful upper body in the clear water, her long wet hair clinging to her back, and the crystal water droplets hung on her smooth skin, like beads with broken threads, and kept falling down.
She lowered her head and gently stroked the water with her hands, and walked towards the shore step by step, and when she showed her bulging lower abdomen, I remembered with some surprise what Karantso had just said, that she had placed a pregnant young orc in charge of the herb garden for me.
This can't help but make me sigh a little embarrassed, if it weren't for the lack of manpower, I don't think Karantso would have arranged it like this.
Standing on the arched treeroot bridge across the largest lake, Karantso called out to the orc girl by the lake: "Noi!"
As if hearing Karantso's call, the orc girl in the lake raised her head in surprise, her eyes kept looking for the source of the sound, and answered in a crisp and high-pitched voice, the voice kept echoing in the valley, and when her eyes were beating with joy, she immediately blushed when she saw me and Karantso.
'Ah!', like a mermaid, jumped back into the lake, and looking at her nimble movements, it was impossible to tell that it was an expectant mother with a big belly.
Karantso jumped down from the magic handle, patted me on the shoulder, looked at me with some teasingness, and said, "I'll go talk to Noi, and you can go see the old tree spirit yourself!"
Jumping straight from the arched root bridge dozens of meters high, like a pop falling in the night sky, without any fancy movements, just shrunk his body together, and when he smashed it on the water, he couldn't see any splash, and after a while, Karantso came out of the lake beside Noi, but he didn't expect her water to be so good.
In order to avoid embarrassment, I hurriedly rode the magic handle towards the island in the middle of the lake.
Probably sensing my presence, the leaves of the entire World Tree were rattling non-stop, and the sound was like the applause of tens of thousands of spectators.
In the sea of my spirit, I remembered a loud voice like a bell: "Here you are, my friend!"
"Yes, at your call, I'm coming!" I replied silently in my heart.
As soon as I entered the boundaries of the island in the middle of the lake, I immediately felt the strong breath of life, and two tree fairy wizards wrapped in sackcloth stood on the shore, as if to greet me, I stopped on the shore of the lake, jumped off the magic handle, and put it in my magic pocket.
The old wizard of the tree elves saluted me slightly, and then said to me in a hoarse voice, "Welcome, Lord Jiga!"
I put my hand on my chest and saluted the two tree elf wizards and said, "Thank you for your selfless help, Wizard Master!"
The green eyes of the two tree fairies emitted a soft light, they were all wrapped in a layer of dead bark, they looked a little old, holding a wooden staff in their hands, hearing me say this, they hurriedly waved their hands to me, and said apologetically: "Due to the excessive aging of our bodies, it is difficult for us to leave the shade of the master's tree, and those magic herbs of the lord are all taken care of by our children, I am sorry that I can't help you personally." ”
As we talked, we walked towards the World Tree.
"In any case, the nursery of these magic herbs is under your care!" I thought for a moment, bowed my head and took out the two wands from my magic belt bag, these staff used to be the belongings of these tree elf wizards, the last time I fought, I defeated the three tree elf wizards, captured these two fir staffs, and now I return them to these tree elves.
Obviously, these are just Dryad casters who have enlightened their primary wisdom, and they don't understand my intentions. But they knew that these two wands were extremely precious, and when they saw that I was a gift from them, they quickly accepted them, and thanked me very much. I was also stunned, I didn't expect that in the minds of this tree goblin, there was no memory of the past, they were just the guardians of the World Tree.
When I came to the World Tree, I didn't expect it to grow so tall in just three years.
I wanted to continue walking into it, but then a soft voice came from my spiritual sea that was incomparably clear: "Oh no! ”
I paused, staring at the World Tree in front of me.
A deep voice came into my mind, and the World Tree explained to me: "I set myself in a time reversal, around my body, there is another time standard, and the time flow rate here is nearly a hundred times faster than the time flow speed of your current location, that is to say, you spent a standard year in the Roland Continent, and it has actually been a full hundred years for me!"
I asked it in amazement, "Are you saying that in the intervening three years, you've actually grown three hundred years old?"
The World Tree was silent for a moment, and replied silently, "You insist on saying the opposite, in fact, it is not wrong. So please don't step into my time rules!"
I got down to business: "I feel your call in the sea of spirits, is there anything wrong?"
The World Tree said politely, "I'm sorry, because I can't maintain long-distance spiritual communication for too long, so I called you over." That kind of long-distance spiritual communication was too draining for me. ”
I pressed on, "What are you looking for me?"
Because I'm in a hurry to leave, I'm worried that I might not be able to catch up with the plane training activities of the Royal Academy of Magic.
The World Tree continued to say unhurriedly, "I know you've been cleaning up those goblins in the Underworld lately, thank you very much for all this you did to Xinliu Valley, yes, I'd be much more comfortable without those moths in the Underworld, otherwise they would always dig up the rhizomes of my underground part." ”
I was speechless and said, "You didn't just call me over to say thank you!"
The World Tree finally got to the point: " Of course, more than that, I feel a breath of destruction in you, there are some vague records in my memory inheritance, the disintegration of this floating mountain seems to be somewhat related to that breath of destruction, that earth-destroying explosion, it should be said that it was caused by the goblin clan at the beginning, but unfortunately the lock of my inheritance is not fully opened, and I can't provide you with more detailed information, but please promise me not to use that kind of destructive power in this land, they will destroy this half-plane world!"
I was surprised and asked, "You mean the fire phosphorus bomb?"
"Yes. The World Tree was silent for a long time, giving me an affirmative answer.
I didn't expect the 'Ultimate Fire Phosphorus Bomb' made by the goblin clan to be so powerful, so according to my guess, I continued to ask the World Tree: "You mean, a long time ago, there was a big explosion here that blew the floating mountain into nine pieces?"
"Yes. The World Tree fell silent again.
Oh my God! What happened here, how powerful a fire phosphorus bomb is needed to completely blow up such a whole floating mountain, you know, this floating mountain at my feet is only 800 miles deep, which is only equivalent to one-ninth of the entire floating mountain! 2k reading web