Chapter Ninety-Two: A Thousand Miles Away
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The mist rose and tumbled in the air, and droplets of water fell from the clouds and fell into the charred fields.
A large herd of rocky gnomes carried rudimentary tools, carefully turning over the burned and hard fields, and mashing the sintered soil bit by bit.
They turn over the thick layers of soil, bury the hard and burnt top layer deep in the field, and then re-create flat ridges in the field.
The carapace of the Flame Eater Ant was removed, and all the flesh was shattered, mixed with various plant ashes, and buried deep in the field.
They destroyed half of the crops outside Big Rock, and their flesh and blood would be used as fertilizer to nourish the wounded fields.
More than a dozen Yuan mages from Big Stone City lined up in a row, slowly walking through the fields. They stirred up clouds, rained droplets, and worked with the rock gnomes to carefully repair the burned farmland.
"Evil!" a gray dwarf in leather armor and carrying an axe crouched beside the heavens and the earth, grabbed a piece of burned and stiffened earth and slammed it on his head, and his heart was so painful that he burst into tears.
Evil, these guys from the Yan family.
In this cruel world, in these damned times, any small piece of land is incomparably precious.
A small field square of rice can grow mushrooms to feed a rock dwarf or two or three rat people, and a field of forty or fifty meters square can support an elite ox warrior with a great amount of food but also great strength.
Like the Wujia Stone Fort before Wu Tie, a few small fields produced a limited number of rock gnomes that can be supported by mushrooms, and those small rock gnomes born beyond the standard will starve and starve to death.
That's why the young Wu Tie will secretly distribute his food to those little guys, so that those little guys can survive.
Even Wu Tie, who has just become sensible, knows the preciousness of the fields and the preciousness of food.
Every field is not just a field, but a life that depends on the production of the field to survive.
In order to attack Big Stone City, the Yan family actually dispatched Flame Devouring Gold Ants and directly burned half of the farmland outside Big Stone City.
In a frenzy...... It's really heartbreaking......
Wu Tie stood in the distance, looking at the gray dwarf who was secretly weeping.
He still remembered this bearded dwarf, on the day of the Yan family's raid, the Flame Devouring Gold Ant rushed to the city wall, this stout dwarf carried two big axes, and was extremely brave and the front line.
He was burned to shreds, but it wasn't until Wu Tie used the Ice Wind Tornado to force back the Flame Eater Ant Colony, and not a single Flame Eater Ant could get past his line of defense in the small piece of wall he was holding.
This is an iron man who is not afraid of death.
But he squatted alone beside the field, clutching a piece of burned and stiffened soil, and there he grinned silently, crying silently.
He's not the only one......
Many of the warriors of Big Rock were far apart, crouching or standing in the fields.
They were all crying secretly, but they avoided their companions and did not let them see their tears.
In the distance, the whispering of a rock gnome could be heard.
The dwarfs of the brigade were sorted out near the burned shack.
Those shacks were built to facilitate the care of crops in the fields, and many rock gnomes lived in the shacks on weekdays.
The Flame Eater Ant Swarm attacked, and at least tens of thousands of rock gnomes could not escape, and they were burned to char as soon as the fire rolled up.
Rock gnomes are inherently petite.
Some of them were burned to ashes by the fire, and some of them were lucky, leaving behind clumps of charcoal the size of a fist.
The rocky gnomes who were grooming the fields wept quietly, digging deep pits in the fields and burying all the remnants of the shack settlements into the pits.
These dwarf slaves in Big Rock, they intermarry with each other, and they are a huge dwarf tribe. The gnomes who were burned to death were many of their relatives, their friends, their brothers......
Even slaves have the power to grieve and weep......
At this point, whether it is the elite warriors of Big Rock or the lowly slaves, their power is equal.
Wu Tie wore a suit of leather armor made of python skin, with a banner hanging from his belt and a wide cloak wrapped around it, standing on the edge of the farmland and quietly watching these sad warriors and slaves.
Lao Bai led six hundred carefully selected nezumi warriors, Blackskin and One-Eyed led a hundred wolf warriors and a hundred lizardman archers, Tie Eighty-eight led fifty Niu clan men, and Shi Meng's two henchmen warrior leaders led two hundred elites of the Great Stone City.
In addition to these people, a little farther away, there were five stone giants ten meters tall.
They were all draped in heavy metal armor and armed with large, specially made weapons, all armed to the teeth, and stood there like five iron towers. Beside them, there were ten iron dwarves and fifty gray dwarves.
These boxy dwarfs are also wearing heavy armor and various weapons.
A large group of men and horses stood far away on a mine road leading to a distant pit, and looked at this side silently.
Lao Bai muttered to himself: "Evil...... So much to eat, so much to eat...... How many animals can be raised, how much meat can be slaughtered......"
The faces of a group of giants and dwarves are not good-looking.
"That's a lot of food...... There are a lot of wine ......" a giant urn muttered angrily: "Yan family...... Hum. ”
Wu Tie turned around and strode in the direction of the mine in the distance.
If you haven't experienced it, you can never imagine what it means to burn so much land and food in this day and age.
Perhaps a lot of old people will kill themselves.
Or many children are abandoned by their parents.
In short, this is a piece of life, which is stifled because of the lack of food.
There was a deep sense of sadness in the air, and what was the root of it all? It's ridiculous...... It's just because, within the Shi family and the Yan family, there are a few elders who have taken refuge in the Immortal Sect.
Wu Tie couldn't judge whether Shi Fei and Shi Meng's actions were right or wrong, but he believed that these elders who colluded with the Immortal Sect were wrong.
If they do something wrong, they will be punished.
It's as simple as that.
Led by Wu Tie, the team that Shi Meng put together to raid the Yanjia Yuanxue walked mightily on the mine road, and they soon came to the most remote mining area in Big Stone City.
The iron ore produced here is not very valuable, and a small vein is almost hollowed out, so there are not many people here on weekdays.
Only the high-level officials of the Shi family knew that in the depths of this mining area, there was a secret passage leading to the Yan family's territory.
In the vicinity of Big Rock City, there are actually three such secret passages.
The Shi family is the largest ore supplier in the Cangyan Domain, and the Shi family's mining team likes to dig everywhere, digging everywhere for so many years, and the Shi family has really dug a lot of similar secret passages to various places.
One of the three secret passages has been used by the Yan family to raid Big Stone City, and it is obvious that the secret of this secret passage has been leaked to the Yan family by some high-ranking members of the Shi family.
However, Shi Meng didn't believe that those elders of the Shi family would be stupid enough to leak all the secrets to the Yan family.
So, Wu Tie and the others walked into this most remote pit, and shuttled up and down the complex cobweb-like mine tunnel for several hours, and finally they came to the deepest part of the mine.
A stone giant strode to a rock wall, he pressed his hands on the rock wall, his body flashed with a pale yellow light, and he recited a very strange incantation in an urn sound.
There was a yellow light rushing on the rock wall, and in the next moment, a piece of mountain rock with a diameter of more than ten meters silently slid to the side, revealing a huge hole. A cold wind whistled out of the hole, causing most of the torches in the ranks to be extinguished.
Lao Bai let out a shrill cry.
A group of nezumi warriors are messing around, and the timid nature of the nezumi is exposed here.
Wu Tie snorted heavily, his hands rubbed together again and again, and white fireballs the size of a water tank roared up, levitating above his head to illuminate the space within a radius of hundreds of meters.
"It's just the wind, it's just ......the wind," Wu Tie yelled at the fried old white.
"Ha, it's just the wind...... Of course I know, it's just a gust of wind, it's not a big deal......" Old Bai smiled dryly, and hurriedly put away the strong crossbow in his left hand, the short sword in his right hand, the blowgun in his mouth, and a quenched steel thorn wrapped around his tail.
Wu Tie looked at Lao Bai speechlessly.
The black-skinned, one-eyed, and iron-eighty-eight old acquaintances laughed 'haha', and Lao Bai laughed dryly, and he didn't know where to get a whip out, and pretended to beat the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons around him with a whip that was not light or heavy.
The nezumi warriors who were easy to scurry all over the ground formed a queue, Wu Tie and a few stone giants took the lead, the elite warriors followed, and the nezumi warriors scurried around in groups of three or five to deliver news to and fro, and the team entered the cave.
At the back of the line, after a stone giant and everyone else entered the secret passage, he stomped his feet heavily, and the mountain rock, which was more than ten meters in size and nearly 100 meters thick, slid back to its place silently, blocking the secret passage entrance solidly.
"What a spacious corridor. Walking in the secret passage, Wu Tie and the others looked around, all amazed.
The narrowest part of this road is thirty to fifty meters high and dozens of meters wide, spacious and deep, the ground is flat, and it is not difficult to walk.
It's not just Wu Tie who walks easily, but even the four-wheeled cart pulled by the limestone lizards in the team is very stable when walking.
Obviously, after the Shi family excavated this secret passage, they must have spent a lot of manpower, material resources and time to widen and level this secret passage, otherwise, how could it have such an effect?
"You stumbled upon this secret passage...... Are you ready to start a war with the Yan family at any time?Otherwise, what are you asking for if you have put this secret passage in order to be so good?" Walking at the front of the team, Wu Tie curiously asked the stone giant beside him who was walking slowly and with 'small broken steps'.
Several stone giants blinked their eyes and thought seriously for a while, and then one of the stone giants said angrily: "This is a ...... Piety ......"
"These karst caves and corridors are the blood and qi of the world......
"Dredging them can bring good luck to us giants and dwarves......"
The stone giant looked at Wu Tie very seriously: "This is our giant and dwarf, the mission of our nature...... It is our mission to make the whole world accessible in all directions, and to make the world's blood and qi veins smooth and accessible......"
"Only the giants and dwarves who have completed their mission can merge their spirits with the ancestral spirits of the stone after death......"
Wu Tie looked at these big guys in amazement.
Is this religious?
'Religious belief', Wu Tie easily found this word from the knowledge inherited by Lao Tie.
For giants and dwarves, this is their faith, and they are unblocking the blood and qi for the whole world......
Well, that's their perception.
But Wu Tie always felt that those guys from the Shi family, they definitely didn't dredge this secret passage for this purpose.
I always feel that the existence of these secret passages is a bit sneaky in it.
Shi Hui is not a good person, so the intention of building these secret passages is ...... That's a good idea.
Gently patting the calf of the giant beside him, Wu Tie asked him, "...... this secret passage?"
The stone giant urn sounded and compared two fingers angrily: "Two thousand three hundred miles long...... It will take about half a month to arrive...... If these little mice, they can hold on. ”
Golem looked down at the nezumi warriors scurrying all over the ground, pursed his lips in disgust, and shook his head.
Lao Bai jumped up as if he had been stepped on by someone's tail, he rushed to Wu Tie's side from the shadows on the side, waved his fist at the stone giant and shouted, "Big guys, don't think that you big guys are powerful...... Lao Bai's children and grandchildren, none of them are bad seeds!"
The stone giants grinned, very innocently.
"Strength, you guys, no......" The five stone giants flexed their arms at the same time, their bulging muscles supporting their steel arm guards 'rattling', bragging off their well-developed muscles and terrifying strength.
Lao Bai's face drooped and shook his head weakly.
And the giants to compare the power?
Ha, is he so stupid?
The Shi family managed this secret passage very well, and a large number of luminous plants were specially planted in the secret passage.
Clusters of glow-in-the-dark mushrooms, glow-in-the-dark vines, glow-in-the-dark ferns, and in many places, even large chunks of fluorescent ore are inlaid with them.
Therefore, the light in the corridor is very good, and there is no need for torches and fireballs of Wu Tie, and everyone can easily walk in the secret passage.
The Shi family even stocked a lot of small creatures here.
Lizards, rats, non-venomous snakes, non-venomous spiders and bats, and more.
Under the regulation of nature, a small self-sufficient ecological circle has been formed in this secret passage that is more than 2,000 miles long.
The rats hunted these little things everywhere and ate them happily, saving a lot of food from the team they carried.
What shocked Wu Tie even more was that in this secret passage, every two or three hundred miles, the Shi family had set up small sentry posts to monitor every move in the secret passage at any time.
Along the way, Wu Tie and the others also took on the task of replenishing these posts with all kinds of fresh ingredients......
In this way, half a month later, they came to the end of the secret passage.