Chapter 78: The Republic of Takilia
"Whew!"
But within a few seconds, a gust of mountain wind blew in his face, which made Terry's eyes light up, and the heart that he had just lifted was also relaxed.
Because the previous road was walking in the deep underground, although there was no cold attack, but it made people feel a kind of anoxic boredom, and at this time I could feel such a strong mountain wind, it should not be very far from the exit, under the excitement, Terry's pace unconsciously accelerated a lot.
When Terry came to the end, he found that the exit was not the front as he imagined, but there was a collapse on the left side of the tunnel, and the tunnel ended here, and the front was completely blocked by a huge rock, if it wasn't for the collapse on the side, it is estimated that the tunnel would have become a dead end.
However, since the horse bandits said that they could reach the Republic of Takilia through this tunnel, it meant that the outside of this collapse should be the other side of the Great Snow Mountain of Khalbtar, because the rocks blocking the tunnel looked like it had been collapsed for an unknown amount of time, and the surface was covered with moss and floating earth.
Since he didn't know the situation outside the collapse, Terry didn't dare to be careless, so he first sorted out his outfits, changed the down jacket of the prehistoric civilization, and put on the herdsman's costume of wild boar skin again, holding a Miller Type 621 tethered rifle in his hand, and then carefully felt out of the tunnel.
When Terry's body reached the outside of the collapsed mouth, a warm ray of sunlight shone on him, and a breath of fresh air hit his mouth and nose, causing him to take a few more puffs greedily before carefully examining his surroundings.
This is a downward sloping dirt slope, and the location should be halfway up the mountain, but what makes Terry wonder is that there is no snow around him, although there are no tall trees around, but the pale yellow weeds on the hillside really can't tell that it is a cold winter at this time.
If it weren't for the far left and right to see the white peaks of the tall Kharbtart Snowy Mountain, Terry would have thought that he had reversed time and returned to autumn.
In fact, what Terry didn't know was that it was precisely because of the high altitude of the Great Snow Mountain of the Kharbu Tart that almost all the cold currents coming down from the north were blocked in the south of the snow-capped mountain, resulting in the strange scenery of the four seasons of the mountain in the south, which is why the gang of horse bandits would run here after discovering the passage, on the one hand, to avoid the two of Terry, who specialized in hunting horse bandits, and on the other hand, to come here to avoid the cold.
Regardless, the absence of snow was a surprise for Terry, who took out a simple map from his coat pocket and began to orient himself against the taller references around him.
After a few minutes of comparison, Terry finally determined that he was on the northeastern border of the Republic of Takilia. And here is still more than a thousand kilometers from the capital province of the Republic of Takiria, if you don't use any means of transportation, it is estimated that the daylily will be cold wherever you go on your own feet.
But at this time, not to mention the means of transportation, as far as the eye can see, there is not a single hare in sight on the bare slopes of the mountain, which are full of wild grass.
"Forget it, look at the map, walk about 20 kilometers southwest to see a prefecture in the plateau of Takiria, although there are not many garrisons there, but it is the general's old friend in command, it is better to reveal the news to him first according to the general's wishes, and then borrow a horse with him to go to the capital of the Republic of Takiria."
Since his white horse has been let go due to an unexpected blizzard, he can only act according to the second plan he made before.
Before Terry left, General Opral had discussed with him, and the reason why he used this plan as a backup was mainly because although this commander was considered an old friend of the general, he had not been directly contacted for more than ten years, although he knew that he was now in charge of military affairs in this area, but it was unknown whether he would welcome the revolutionary army to enter, so it was safer to directly submit the real information to Marshal Shi Yexuan until it was a last resort.
20 kilometers, said not far, said near not close, here to the southwest direction, the altitude of the altitude is constantly downward, in fact, the south of the Khalbu tart snow mountain altitude difference is very large, you must know that only more than 1,000 kilometers away from here is the capital of the Republic of Takilia, the altitude is less than 1,000 meters, that is, the average drop per kilometer is nearly 2 meters.
Such an altitude difference made it difficult for Terry to climb from here to the location of the garrison, which made him travel a lot faster, and in more than 1 hour, Terry crossed a lot of river valleys and came to a vast grassland.
Unlike the grasslands of the Yigan Plateau, although the grasslands here are already yellow, there is not a lot of snow, only some sparse ice slag in the darker places, and even some relatively large rivers can see the flowing water of Cen Cen under the thin layer of ice.
From a distance, to the south of the grassland, a small town is bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun.
In the Takilian language, this name means a border city that does not freeze, and it can be seen from this name that although the city is in a cold zone at high altitude, there are tall Kharb tart snow-capped mountains to block the cold current from the north, so it is in a state of non-freezing all year round, and this is how it can form a city with a large number of residents.
The garrison was not far east of the city, and Terry had come along an unfrozen river, probably close to dark, but he didn't meet anyone.
But as he approached the garrison's station, he was stopped by a platoon of patrolling soldiers.
The military uniform of the Republic of Takilia is completely different from the color of the Blue Flag Empire, but the style does look a lot better, at least this grass green military uniform looks a lot more atmospheric than the yellow soldier uniform of the Blue Flag Empire.
"Fellow, there is a military stronghold ahead, please stay."
An officer with the rank of second lieutenant came to Terry's front and kindly stopped Terry from walking down the main road to the barracks.
Terry doesn't understand the language of the Republic of Takiria, and the system doesn't have this data, so there's no way to redeem translations.
"Hello, sir, I'm from the Blue Flag Empire, I don't know if you understand the language of the Blue Flag Empire?"
In desperation, Terry could only try to communicate with the officers in the language of the Blue Flag Empire.
As soon as Terry's blue flag was spoken, both the young ensign officer and the soldiers behind him showed a look of vigilance on their faces, and even many soldiers untied their rifles, pulled the bolt and pointed their guns at Terry.