Chapter 62: The Caravan
In a vast wilderness on the outskirts of the Black Horn Domain, here is overgrown with weeds, and from time to time there are scattered piles of broken bones mixed with the rubble, and it is only after a long time that a little sound of beast activity can be heard, and it seems that even man, machine and life are far away from this wilderness, a dead and lonely scene.
If someone stays here for too long and is not strong enough, they will easily be affected by this negative and strange atmosphere, and their personality will become irritable and crazy.
Next to a pile of mud-stained bones, a black figure the size of a house cat quietly poked out half of its body from the hole, and the black shadow turned its head vigilantly, and the pair of bloodshot yellowed eyes quickly scanned the surroundings to observe the surrounding movements.
If an experienced mercenary passes by at this time, he will find that this is a first-order magical beast that is very common in the wilderness - the Shadow Mouse.
The strength of the Shadow Mouse is not very strong, but its speed is very agile, it is cautious by nature and good at sneak attacks, it can be regarded as a relatively difficult low-level magical beast.
Suddenly, the Shadow Mouse's head turned to the other side of the wilderness, its yellowed eyes staring at the rolling hills, its ears covered with delicate black hair twitching slightly, and the beast's keen hearing told it that something was coming quickly in that direction.
The shadow rat nudged its limbs lightly on the ground, its body shrinking back into the shadow of the cave, a pair of yellowed eyes staring in the direction from which the sound came.
It didn't take long for a gray figure to appear between the undulating hills, and in the sight of the shadow mouse, the gray figure approached at an extremely rapid speed, and the shadow mouse slowly shrank its body deeper into the cave, its simple mind reminded it that a creature with this speed was definitely not something it could provoke.
The gray figure quickly swept over the pile of broken bones, and suddenly stopped on a high hill next to it, and some dazzling light shone on the gray figure in the afternoon, revealing an ordinary face, which was none other than Garten, who had left Canaan Academy.
"It's been almost five days, so you should be on the edge of the Black Horn Domain, right?" Garten muttered in a low voice, looking into the distance with a calm gaze, and then took out a map from the ring and compared it repeatedly, finally determining where he was now.
"Thirty or forty kilometers ahead, there is the Great Plains of Pointe-Noire."
"As long as you avoid the Black Storm, cross the Great Plains of Black Horn, and go to the nearby Heluo City, you can take the Flying Beast directly to the Gama Empire, and you don't need to continue to run on foot."
"It's a pity that Canaan Academy doesn't provide flying beasts that return directly to the Gama Empire, and if students want to go back, they can only cross the Great Plains of Black Horn and ride flying beasts in the cities outside."
"And the other forces in the Black Horn Domain have not mastered the special route to avoid the Black Storm, and the flying beasts can't fly over the Black Horn Great Plains, otherwise I should be almost in the Gama Empire by now." Garten looked at the rolling hills in the distance and said slowly. "This may also be a training for students from Canaan Academy, if they can cross this distant and dangerous journey alone, then this student will also meet the standard of graduating from the outer courtyard in terms of strength and mentality, and there is even a few possibilities to pass the inner court selection competition and enter the inner court to continue cultivating."
"If the strength of the students is too poor, they can only wait until the end of each month, and let the instructor of the academy personally take the students through the Black Horn Great Plains, and then take the flying beast back."
Garten put the map in his hand into the ring, rested for a while, and after recovering his strength and fighting spirit, he quickly swept forward again, he planned to come to the border of the Black Horn Domain before dark, and then find a place to rest, so that tomorrow he would have enough time and energy to deal with the Black Horn Great Plains, where there would be a black storm at any time.
Twenty kilometers ahead of Garten, a long caravan was slowly moving towards this side, and by the look of it, it seemed that it had just come out of the Great Plains of Pointe-Noire.
However, this is not surprising, the area of the Black Corner Domain is only equivalent to a small country, and it is very chaotic, full of dangers, production cannot operate normally, many materials need to be transported in from the outside, and the prices here are extremely high, as long as a batch of scarce materials are transported from the outside, they can even earn almost double the profits, which is enough to make most businessmen take risks, even if they know that there are many robbers in the wilderness, they still can't stop the greedy hearts of merchants.
In the center of the caravan, a middle-aged fat man with a fat head and big ears wiped the sweat beads on his face with his sleeve, and several sturdy guards were protecting him in the middle.
"At the current rate, I will probably be able to go to Xigucheng tomorrow afternoon, and I will be able to sell all this batch of goods by then." The middle-aged fat man squinted at the distant scene for a while, and said slowly. For a merchant like him, who is accustomed to walking this route, the route on the map is deeply imprinted in his mind, and he himself is a living map.
Then the middle-aged fat man turned his head to scan the front and back of the caravan, and found that after passing through the dangerous Black Horn Great Plains, those hired mercenaries were obviously relaxed, and were smiling and chatting with each other, and the middle-aged fat man's fat face suddenly showed a dissatisfied look.
"You can't really expect anything from these mercenaries, don't these fools know that this part of the journey through the Great Plains is the most dangerous? Most of those robbers chose to shoot along the way! ”
The middle-aged fat man shook his head and whispered to the bearded guard beside him.
"Lei Ling, wait a minute, you go and remind those mercenaries, let them cheer up and be careful, if they fall on the last stretch of the road, they won't even receive commissions."
"Also, let our guards be careful, they are also veterans, they should know what to do."
"Yes, Master Matthew."
The bearded guard answered, and immediately turned away to carry out the middle-aged fat man's order, while several other guards continued to wait by the middle-aged fat man's side.
Just a few hundred meters away from the caravan, a thin man in black clothes was lying on the ground, his eyes fixed on the advancing caravan, his body motionless.
In this wilderness, which is dominated by dim tones, even the sharpest eyes of the mercenaries will not notice that there is still a person hiding here.
"Tsk, this time I actually let Uncle Duolun find a big fat sheep." The thin man said triumphantly with his chin pressed against the dirt on the ground.
"Judging by the size and number of people in this caravan, the goods on the cart are worth at least millions of gold coins."
For a spy of robbers like a thin man, eyesight and experience are very important, to judge whether the passing caravan is worth the shot, and whether it can be eaten, if the judgment is too different from the reality, so that the team loses manpower, then everyone's anger is not something that his little spy can bear.
"There are forty or fifty people on the other side, and they don't look like they have a big fighter, with our strength, there should be no problem in eating this caravan."
"As a discoverer, I'm sure I'll be able to get tens of thousands of gold coins by then!" The thin man licked his somewhat dry lips, forcibly suppressed his imminent heart, and quietly watched the caravan slowly move forward, until the caravan completely disappeared from his sight, then suddenly jumped up and ran away in another direction.
"Haha! I'll tell the Great Chief now! ”
A gust of wind suddenly blew in the wilderness, and the shrill laughter of a thin man was faintly heard in the wind.
If someone were to look down on the earth from the sky at this moment, they would see a small gray dot and a long procession slowly approaching......