He Ming dragged his heavy footsteps to knock on the gates of the post stations, which were surrounded by high guardrails and had people keeping vigil at night. Hearing this knock on the door, the guard on duty soon came. He was startled when he saw that He Ming was startled, and looked around vigilantly to make sure that nothing was chasing this young man covered in blood.

The guard quickly opened the door and helped He Ming in, and quickly closed the door again. He Ming, who relaxed for a moment, almost lost consciousness, but when the guards helped him into the post station and asked him about his condition, he still cheered up and told them why he was doing this.

"When I got to the last station, I saw that it was still early, so I wanted to get to Beach City early, so I continued on the road. But I didn't want to walk until it was dark, and then I met a half-orc not far from here. ”

There are very few orcs in this area. The guard couldn't help but ask, "What happened to that orc?" You're covered in blood, where are you hurt? He Ming said: "I cut its stomach open, and it should be dead by this time." It splattered blood on my body, and I wasn't hurt except for a scratch on my chest. ”

As he spoke, his eyes began to be hard again. The guards saw that he was very tired, and asked no more. After helping him change his bloody clothes and giving him some water, he rested in a corner of the inn.

I slept until the afternoon, and when I woke up, He Ming still couldn't move for a while. The heavy blow of the strong orc made the bones hurt all over his body, and it took him a long time to struggle, and he realized that he couldn't walk today. In addition to the pain of being beaten, a severe hunger pang hit him, so he tried to get to the guards.

At this moment, a man with red lips and white teeth and a full face walked in, followed by a team of carts. The man, who looked very wealthy, said to the post guard with a surprised face: "Hey, Lao Xu, meet again, guess what I saw on the road just now?" The guard Lao Xu hurriedly got up and said, "Isn't this the shopkeeper Xia?" It's hard work, what can you do that surprises Shopkeeper Xia? ”

The shopkeeper Xia pointed to a head hanging on the car: "We are on our way as usual today, and we saw a half-orc warrior being disemboweled and dying in the middle of the road not far from here!" We're about to take this head to the Align and see if we can find a champion to reward him for doing it! Lao Xu was also surprised and said: "Wow, the skin is dark green so big, but he is a particularly powerful half-orc, who killed him silently?" ”

When He Ming heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with this half-orc?" Lao Xu showed an expression like a jack-of-all-trades and said: "It seems that you don't know much, we have been fighting with the half-orcs here for many years, and we still know about the half-orcs, the general half-orcs have brown skin, it is said that when the half-orcs live for a long time, the skin will turn green, and the darker the color, the more terrible." A dark green orc like this is called a half-orc warrior, but it's dangerous! ”

Then the shopkeeper Xia spoke there in a general manner: "You see that such a half-orc is very harmful to us, and killing it can be regarded as a great achievement, according to the judgment of the contemptible people, judging from the situation of the corpse, it was killed in the middle of the night last night." ”

As he was talking, Lao Xu seemed to think of something, and looked back at He Ming: "Yesterday, in the first half of the night." Wow! The shopkeeper said contemptuously: "What's the matter, Lao Xu, making a fuss and seeing a ghost?" Lao Xu said: "Last night, this young man came to the post station in the middle of the night, and he said that he killed a half-orc!" ”

Shopkeeper Xia's lofty expression changed instantly when he heard this, as if he had seen a ghost: "You... You're a teenager running in the middle of the night to kill a half-orc warrior? How could you be there in the middle of the night? You weren't sent by the king of Hades, were you? ”

He Ming was a little embarrassed: "I was helping my master Mr. Longxue send a letter to Biqi, and I wanted to deliver it earlier, so I met it by walking more at night, and I actually couldn't beat it, I was lucky to win." ”

Shopkeeper Xia touched his beard when he heard this: "Mr. Dragon's Blood's senior apprentice, no wonder, no wonder." But I see that you are also injured, don't walk at night today, this half-orc warrior will be rewarded by the city lord if he is killed, and now Biqi is also recruiting warriors to protect everyone, and you see this we call the devil necklace, I took it from it, the half-orc can enchant some jewelry and improve your attack ability, you can keep it yourself, but you can't make people think that Xia is a greedy person. With that, a necklace full of sharp teeth was handed to He Ming.

He Ming accepted the necklace and hurriedly thanked Shopkeeper Xia. Seeing that it was already afternoon, he decided to rest here for another night and leave the next day, during which he figured out that Xia's shopkeeper Mingxin was a well-known wealthy businessman in Biqi, and now he mainly traveled back and forth to Biqi, the border village and Ginkgo Village to sell goods and grain, and at the same time Xia Xin also understood that he was going to send a letter to Lord Wang.

In this way, He Ming was still on the third day before he could reach Biqi City.

Beach City is a magnificent city with a history of more than 1,000 years, the whole city is amazingly large, and it is protected within its tall and strong walls and wide and deep moat. Even in the darkest of times, the humans inside relied on their protection to survive safely. It's just that the construction of the city wall has long been lost, and there are now mythical ancient books about its construction process, so for thousands of years, people have only made some repairs to this city wall, but it has never been expanded.

Although there have been many claims from other parts of the Marfa continent for thousands of years, Beach City is now a lonely city, with countless poisonous snakes blocking its way in the valley to the east. Although there are people in the northeast of the White Sun Gate from time to time to make a living in Beechcraft, the road to that side and the Walma Forest are completely occupied by orcs, and the natives of Beechcraft can't pass through it at all, and the mountains in the north and the sea in the south are not yet ready to explore.

He Ming got up early the next morning, felt his strength regained under the activity, took his things, put on the devil's necklace full of sharp teeth, and sure enough, a kind of fighting spirit surged up. When He Ming left the post station, he saw that Xia Xin was also ready to go, so he went with the convoy and went to Biqi.

This post station is actually not far from Biqi, they rushed to Biqi City at noon, Xia Xin asked his men to go to the warehouse to unload the goods, and he himself asked He Ming to wrap the head of the half-orc warrior and take it, so he took him straight to the mansion of Lord Wang.

Lord Wang is in his fifties, with shrewd and shining eyes and overworked wrinkles, and he wears white clothes all year round. The people of Biqi City knew that he was an official who tried his best to do practical things without putting on a show, so most of Beech's official business, civilians came to him to do it. So when Xia Xin took He Ming to Lord Wang's mansion, although noon was almost over, Lord Wang was still busy with affairs and didn't eat.

Xia Xin saw that Lord Wang was still busy, so he led He Ming to wait outside without disturbing Lord Wang. It didn't take long for Lord Wang to look up, and Xia Xin came, so he came out to greet him with a smile.

Xia Xin hurriedly met with Lord Wang, and added fuel and vinegar to introduce how He Ming was extremely brave, killing a half-orc warrior like a god descending from the earth, hoping that Lord Wang could declare a reward for He Ming. Lord Wang was quite happy to hear this, so he turned around and asked He Ming in person.

He Ming listened to Xia Xin's nonsense and blushed a long time ago, how dare he say more, and he couldn't debunk Xia Xin's truth, so he gave a salute to Lord Wang, took out Mr. Dragon's Blood letter and the horn ring and said to Lord Wang: "The villain also defeated that monster by luck, and this time I came to Beechcraft to deliver a letter to you for my master, Mr. Dragon Blood." Please take a look at it, Lord Wang. Hearing this, Lord Wang nodded, took the letter, opened the cover, squinted his eyes and looked at the letter, and his smiling face became serious while looking at it.

After reading the letter, Lord Wang said: "This matter is not simple, you two might as well have a light meal in the house first, and wait for me to find out if there is a connection to this matter." Xia Xin hurriedly said: "This little brother will stay here to eat, the villain's shipment is coming, and it has to be handed over, so I won't bother and say goodbye." ”

Lord Wang obviously didn't have the heart to keep him, so he said goodbye and beckoned He Ming into the mansion, and went to the study to read the classics while asking the servants to prepare lunch.

During the meal, Lord Wang only took a few mouthfuls and continued to read his classics, leaving He Ming to sit and wait in the living room, in an official's house He Ming felt a little uneasy, he tried his best to maintain a steady appearance, looking a little stunned to sit there, at this time Lord Wang's servant came over to He Ming and smiled and said: "Little brother, don't be so restrained, although Lord Wang is our official of Biqi, but he has never had a shelf, the huge Biqi is that everyone likes our Lord Wang." ”

He Ming smiled and still didn't know what to say, just sat up straight and waited. After more than an hour after the meal, Lord Wang finally came out of the study next to him, nodded to He Ming, and then sat next to He Ming. He Ming stood up suddenly, and Lord Wang motioned for him to sit down first: "Sit down, I checked the classics about the orcs left a long time ago, the former orcs did develop a certain degree of civilization, and the records at that time were that humans and orcs had been at war for territory, and then the half-orcs suddenly broke off their civilization, and now for example, the devil necklace on your body is said to be the product of the ancient civilization of the half-orcs." ”

"And the spells of creating mutations and manipulating puppets are only slightly mentioned in ancient books and cannot be verified, but we must pay attention to your discovery."

He Ming listened to the highly respected Lord Wang talk about the ancient orcs, and his curiosity couldn't help but mention: "Then Lord Wang, since the half-orc civilization was broken at that time, why are we, who once fought for territory with them, still suppressed by the orcs here?" “

Lord Wang's expression began to become a little depressed: "According to records, at that time, the orcs were indeed driven out of Biqi and forced to the Walma Forest. Unfortunately, before the complete victory, there was a civil war on the human side for territory, and some of the losers fled east from the Viper Valley, which caused more damage to the combat power of the human race than the war with the orcs for many years. Then the orcs carried out a final counterattack in desperation, and the humans lost a large part of the land again due to the weakening of their strength too much.

"But those long-term things have little to do with our current crisis, because the current crisis of our human race is mainly the earthquake ten years ago, and our human beings are far more affected by that earthquake than those barbaric and ignorant monsters, so the living space is much smaller now, and it will be better in the future."

Lord Wang said again: "Little brother, in addition to this, the half-orc warrior you killed is a hidden danger, the half-orc, who is usually only active in the northwest, suddenly ran to the south of Biqi, fortunately you found out, otherwise there may be a big mess." And such a half-orc warrior has always been the target of the bounty in the city, and it just so happens that I also deal with this kind of affairs here, you can take these bounties, you must know that the warrior apprentice sent from Mr. Dragonblood is not a novice. And if you don't have money in Biqi, you'll soon be out of the mix. ”