Chapter 404: Blackwater Swamp

Now there is a very fatal problem in front of Murong Feng, that is, how to transport these ten tons of weapons and equipment back to the ground. Because Ashkandi did not hesitate to refuse the request for free home delivery, Murong Feng could only find a way to transport these weapons and equipment back to the ground by himself.

Although Murong Feng's satchel can hold a lot of things, it definitely can't hold ten tons of goods. The most important thing was that the only way she knew to get back to the surface was blown down by herself.

"If I had known, I should have asked Yasuo if there was a road to the ground near here!" Murong Feng said in deep distress.

"Young man, what are you muttering?" Ashkandi, who had just made a small profit, was also in a good mood, and when he saw Murong Feng sighing at the mountains of weapons and equipment piled up, he thought that the other party regretted it, so he asked.

Murong Feng smiled bitterly: "The master really doesn't hide it, I am going to transport all these weapons and equipment to the surface, but I don't know if there is a road to the ground near here." ”

"Shipped to the surface?" Ashkandi was surprised: "Young man, what are you doing transporting these weapons to the surface world?" In addition to the uncivilized natives, the surface is full of powerful prehistoric monsters, so you don't plan to sell these weapons and equipment to the uncivilized natives, right? ”

Murong Feng didn't expect that the underground civilization would have such a perception of the surface world, obviously the long-term isolation made these aborigines living in the underground world never expect that the surface world had evolved into a high elf civilization that was not weaker than them.

"Yes! I'm just going to sell these weapons and equipment to the natives. Because those natives have a lot of precious medicinal materials and furs in their hands, they can make a lot of money this time and again! Otherwise, what do I do with how much garbage I buy? Murong Feng said casually, and then lamented: "It's a pity that a road to the surface that I finally found has collapsed. ”

Ashkandi's mind moved. "I've heard of one thing," he suggested. It seems that the goblins of the mechanical city have used a drill machine to punch through a tunnel to the surface a long time ago. However, when they sent a number of expeditions to the surface to explore, but nothing was heard, the goblins resealed the tunnel. ”

"Really?" Murong Feng's eyes lit up, and he said gratefully, "Thank you so much, master." You've done me a great favor. Murong Feng turned his head again to look at the weapons and equipment that he couldn't take away for the time being, and pleaded to Ashkandi: "Master, I'm going to go to the Machine City to explore the way, and these weapons and equipment are all stored here with you first." As soon as I reopen the road to the surface, I'll send someone to transport the weaponry. What do you think? ”

Ashkandi nodded, "Yes, but you send someone to transport it away as soon as possible, and I will only give you seven days at most." Because the black iron ore I ordered from Blackstone City is about to arrive. When the time comes, I'll have to make room to stock up on the black iron ore, so I'll have to move the garbage outside and throw it in the yard, and don't blame me if there are a few pieces missing. ”

"Okay! No problem! I try to go early and come back as early as possible! Murong Feng agreed, then turned around and left, suddenly stopped and turned around and asked with a smile: "May I ask the master, how to get to this mechanical city?" ”

Ashkandi couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "Follow me." Then he took Murong Feng back to the shop, rummaged through the cupboards, took out a dusty animal skin and said, "This is a map I drew when I traveled around when I was young. Although it is only 300 miles in radius, it also details the location of several large cities in the vicinity, as well as some danger areas. See, we've just closed a big deal. That's it for you. ”

"Thank you, Master." Murong Feng hurriedly thanked, this map was no less than an artifact for Murong Feng, who had black eyes in the underground world. I can't help but be excited. Murong Feng stretched out his hand to take it, but Ashkandi suddenly took it back, and said with a strange smile: "Young man, you haven't told me how you crushed that piece of black iron ore!" ”

Murong Feng laughed, picked up a piece of black iron ore casually, and then pinched it hard, and the ore shattered into slag with a click, and said with a tooth: "Because I have a lot of strength, I crushed it!" ”

Ashkandi swallowed his saliva when he saw it, and handed the map to Murong Feng with a sneer, for fear of annoying her and directly extending the terrifying claws to herself!

After receiving the dusty map, Murong Feng immediately started to shake, and as a result, the house was full of coyote smoke.

"Get out, get out, cough cough, don't shake in my store." Ashkandi said frantically.

Murong Feng went out of the door directly, and came to the outside of the store to unfold the animal skin map and take a look.

The center of the map is the Falling Star City, a radius of 300 miles is basically Karma's sphere of influence, according to the map to the north 270 miles is the Black Rock City, after arriving at the Black Rock City, and then go east more than 100 miles to the east is the mechanical city established by the goblins.

Murong Feng put away the map, turned around and shouted at the smokey shop, "Master, I'm leaving, you don't have to send me." ”

"Roll !!" Ashkandi's angry roar was immediately heard in the room: "You guy has soiled all the shelves that I have managed to clean!" You'd better get me back within seven days, or I'll throw that pile of garbage out into the street. ”

Murong Feng chuckled, turned around and left.

When he came, he entered from the south gate, and now he was going north to Black Rock City, Murong Feng naturally came to the north gate, which was the livestock market in the city, and he smelled a fishy smell from a distance. Murong Feng followed the customs of the villagers and spent three hundred gold coins in the livestock market to buy a high-quality strange horse with horns and scales on its head as a means of transportation. This saves a lot of time and avoids attracting attention.

With a map as a guide, Murong Feng rode a horned scale horse all the way and hurried, and it took more than two hours to come to Black Rock City.

This is a black city built on the mountain, and strangely enough, there are no tall walls here, only smoke rushing into the sky, no less than thousands at a glance, constantly spitting billowing black smoke into the sky. As a result, the city is always shrouded in thick smoke.

Murong Feng slowed down and rode into the city, where he found that the entire city was simply a highly industrialized city, full of steel mills and machinery factories. The vast majority of the city's workers are dwarves, goblins, and gnomes. Other races are rarely seen. After all, in such a harsh environment. Normal people will definitely get sick if they stay for a long time. No wonder the city didn't even have its walls built. Of course, the absence of walls does not mean that there are no defenses. When Murong Feng entered the city, he sensed that there was a powerful aura in that black stone mountain, even more terrifying than the giant dragon he had encountered before.

Murong Feng didn't dare to stay here longer, so he found a tavern and inquired about the itinerary and learned that there was actually an airway between Black Rock City and Machinery City that used airships as a means of transportation, and there were two flights in the morning and evening every day, but unfortunately Murong Feng couldn't catch the airship on the morning shift, and the evening shift would not set off until the airship flew back from the Machinery City in the afternoon to be loaded with goods and guests. Murong Feng was in a hurry, it was impossible to waste half a day here, not to mention that Black Rock City was only more than a hundred miles away from Machinery City. It took more than an hour for a single fast horse to arrive.

With a decision in his heart, Murong Feng went offline and logged in to the game again after lunch. This time, it was rerouted to the east, and the horses were galloping. Both sides of the road are basically barren Gobi, and occasionally one or two freight convoys can be seen moving slowly on the road.

Regardless of the size of these convoys, there are a variety of armed escorts, and it is clear that the road will not be peaceful.

Even Murong Feng's single-handedness would have aroused the vigilance of these caravan guards, and if she hadn't wisely kept a safe distance, it might have caused some unnecessary misunderstandings.

After galloping for hundreds of miles, a tavern made of bricks and stones appeared beside the desolate avenue. Murong Feng saw that many of the caravans' men and horses had stopped here to rest, and after thinking about it, he slowed down and walked towards this tavern.

Riding a horse to the front of the store, Murong Feng turned over and dismounted, and tied the horned scale horse to the stake. I put some hay and water in the manger and went straight into the store. The store, which was originally quite noisy, suddenly became eerily silent because of her appearance. Everyone was turning their heads to look at her.

Murong Feng pulled the cloak on his body, walked straight to the corner, found an empty table and sat down, everyone retracted their eyes and continued to talk in a whisper. A tall bartender walked up to Murong Feng and asked in a deep voice, "Guest, what do you want to eat?" ”

Murong Feng pinched his throat and said hoarsely, "Bring me a glass of water and bread." ”

The bartender raised his eyebrows and asked, "We have freshly baked ham sausages here, as well as home-brewed ale, why don't you have some?" ”

"No, thank you." Murong Feng refused.

The bartender pouted, "Okay, please, later." Then he turned and walked away.

Murong Feng took advantage of his efforts to open up his perception and eavesdrop on other people's conversations, but at the moment, most of the people in the tavern were of different races, and Murong Feng couldn't understand the alien language used in the conversation at all, and occasionally a few were speaking the lingua franca, but unfortunately they were talking about meaningless things.

Soon the bartender brought a glass of water and two slices of toasted slightly blackened bread that Murong Feng had ordered, "Please use it slowly." ”

After the bartender walked away, Murong Feng quietly poured out the clear water and replaced it with the water he had prepared in advance, and drank it slowly, as for the two slices of baked black bread, he didn't touch it at all.

A glass of water under the stomach, Murong Feng was about to check out and leave, when suddenly a person rushed in from outside the tavern door and shouted loudly, although the other party used the lingua franca, but the speed of speech was too fast, and the pronunciation was not standard, Murong Feng didn't hear what the person was shouting at all. However, when the people in the tavern heard this man's shout, they all became agitated and squeezed out of the tavern.

Murong Feng suppressed the curiosity in his heart, and waited until he finished settling the account before walking out of the tavern, only to see that several caravans outside were all preparing horses. They then converged to form a large mixed caravan and set off towards the east.

Murong Feng turned around and called the bartender to ask what was going on? The bartender's expression was slightly surprised, but he still answered the situation truthfully: "Thirty miles further on, there is the boundary of the Blackwater Swamp, and this is the only time every day that you can safely pass through that ghost place, otherwise you will have to wait until tomorrow to pass." ”

"Blackwater Swamp?" Murong Feng threw a silver coin to the bartender and sent him away directly, then took out the map and looked at it, according to the map, there was indeed a swampy area halfway from Black Rock City to Machine City, and Ashkandi drew a crooked road map through the swamp on the map, but it did not indicate what time period to pass safely.

Murong Feng put away the map and thought about it, then took the horned scale horse and rode far away to follow behind the mixed caravan.

After traveling for dozens of miles, the long convoy ahead suddenly extinguished the torches, causing the nearby light to dim suddenly.

Murong Feng looked puzzled, although the dome here also has a luminous fungus blanket, but the number is very rare, at most it reaches the level of starlight, and this kind of illumination is no different from the night. As a result, the convoy lights torches for illumination.

Now those convoys suddenly extinguished the torches for lighting, making Murong Feng confused for a while.

But soon the convoy in front of it lit up brightly again!

Murong Feng was surprised: "This is a searchlight!?" I'm rubbing, what kind of high-end lighting tools do you have, why don't you take them out earlier? ”

Just as Murong Feng looked surprised, suddenly a stench of tar came to his face, almost smoking Murong Feng!

Murong Feng hurriedly held his breath and looked up into the distance, only to see a boiling black swamp suddenly appear on the wilderness a few miles away.

Even after a few miles, you can still see a stream of black water fountains rising into the sky, reaching a height of 100 meters, and then floating down again.

"What is this?" Murong Feng was amazed, and rode his horse away from the avenue to bypass the convoy to the edge of the swamp. Then he turned over and got off the horse and walked to the edge of a puddle where the black water gathered, squatted down to take a closer look, and immediately his phoenix eyes widened, with a look of disbelief!

Murong Feng suddenly got up again, and looked into the distance, only to see that the black swamp in front of him had no end in sight, and countless black fountains rose and fell one after another, forming an extremely spectacular scene!

Murong Feng saw that his delicate body trembled slightly, his breathing was short, his eyes were even more shining, and he couldn't help but lose his voice: "This is, this is, it's oil!! (To be continued......)