Thinking of the early warning of the City of Hope, Meng Chen immediately summoned Alfred.

After deliberation, Meng Chen announced the official establishment of the early warning team.

The early warning team consists of eight elite soldiers, divided into four pairs to take turns guarding the detection map, keeping soldiers on duty for twelve hours a day.

In the following five days, Meng Chen consumed a large amount of gold coins and soul power to send the soldiers with full experience to the training camp for advancement.

The steel gate of the blacksmith's shop was also installed in the opening of the parapet.

At the same time, Alfred led a large number of soldiers to hunt the dragon in the banana forest in the central region of the Earth Dragon Valley every day.

After several extermination operations, the ground dragon in the plantain forest was almost completely slaughtered.

At this point, there is no biome left in the central region of the Dragon's Valley that can stop the large-scale hunting of the City of Hope.

The entire central area of Dilong Valley covers an area of nearly 120 square kilometers, of which the banana forest occupies about one-third of the area, and the remaining nearly 80 square kilometers are home to a large number of animals and plants.

As long as all the medium-threat creatures are cleared, the entire central area of the Dragon Valley will become a new hunting ground in the City of Hope.

As for the southern part of the Earth Dragon Valley, Alfred had led his soldiers to explore.

It was a silent swamp, and there seemed to be some danger hidden in the swamp, and Alfred did not dare to go any further.

Since the swamp area was not rich in resources, after Meng Chen ordered that it was forbidden to approach, he didn't pay much attention to it.

This day was the fourth transaction agreed between Meng Chen and Mu Lao, but the caravan in Shanli Village never appeared.

Meng Chen was a little ashamed in his heart and said: "Mu Lao and Shanli Village, I have been cheated, it shouldn't be a big problem, right?" ”

Although the Shanli caravan did not come, Meng Chen was not idle.

At present, there is only one fortress and two guard towers near the parapet wall of the mountain pass to the north, which is clearly unable to cope with the increasing pressure in the future.

Therefore, Meng Chen planned to add two fortresses and four guard towers near the parapet.

With the two sections of the wall just completed, the City of Hope's building queue is on a cooldown, just in time to expand the fortifications at the mountain pass to the north.

Three days later, two forts and four guard towers were built.

Meng Chen dispatched one hundred and fifty soldiers to garrison the three forts near the mountain pass to the north for a long time.

Among these one hundred and fifty soldiers, there are forty swordsmen, forty archers, thirty elite swordsmen, and forty elite archers.

In addition, among the grass ferns near the mountain pass to the north, there are twenty three-bow bed crossbows hidden.

After arranging the defense line of the northern mountain pass, Meng Chen secretly said in his heart: "With the current strength of the northern mountain pass, even hundreds of scalper knights will not easily break through the gate of the protective wall!" ”

As it was close to noon on this day, Alfred came to Meng Chen, bowed down and said, "My lord, a convoy has appeared outside the parapet wall, it should be a caravan from Shanli Village. ”

"Three days later than the agreed day, has the caravan from Shanli Village finally arrived?" Meng Chen laughed.

Meng Chen and Alfred then set off for the northern mountain pass.

The convoy outside the parapet wall was indeed a caravan from Shanli Village.

This time, the caravan in Shanli Village was much smaller than before, with less than forty ox carts.

After introducing Mu Lao into the parapet, Meng Chen smiled and said, "Mu Lao, you are three days later than the agreed day!" ”

Mu Lao arched his hand and said with a gloomy face: "It's not the third child of the Niu family, if you insist on saying that Niu Hanzi is missing, it was done by our Shanli Village, how is this possible?" That day, the old man had already made concessions, but he didn't expect that Manniu Village would still mess around! ”

Meng Chen pretended to sigh and said, "A few days ago, the people of Manniu Village also went to Dilong Valley and broke the gate of Dilong Valley. The leader was very angry, but he was forced by the power of the Barbarian Cow Village, so he could only choose to swallow his anger. Are the people of Manniu Village so unreasonable? ”

Mu Lao sighed and replied, "The reason why Manniu Village is so arrogant is because there are more than ten people in their village who worship under the three major sects of Wumeng City. Among them, Niu Ao, the boss of the Niu family, has even become a deacon of the Blood Refining Sect. That's why Manniu Village is so tough and becomes a tyrant within a radius of 300 miles. ”

"The three major sects? I don't know if Mu Lao can talk about it in detail? Meng Chen asked.

Mu Lao touched his beard and said slowly: "Wumeng City was originally established by three major sects, and these three major sects are the Fuyao Sword Sect, the Blood Refining Sect, and the Rock Gate. Among the three major sects, the Fuyao Sword Sect was the strongest, but it rarely paid attention to the trivial matters outside the Martial Alliance City. The Blood Refining Sect is the most bizarre, and the number of disciples is the largest, and they often intervene in the battles between the villages outside the city of the Martial Alliance. Rock Gate is good at defending and fighting, so it has always been extremely low-key. ”

Meng Chen asked again: "Elder Mu, I heard that the disciples in the three major sects are divided into outer disciples, inner disciples, elite disciples, etc., what is the point of this?" ”

Mu Lao said with a smile: "There is actually not much difference between the outer disciples and the inner disciples, they are both forging realm martial artists. It's just that the outer disciples live outside the Wumeng City and can only rely on their own penance on weekdays, while the inner disciples live in the Wumeng City and will get more sect resources. The elite disciples of the three major sects are martial artists who have broken through the forging level and entered the realm of quenching the body. If an elite disciple has no hope of advancing to the ranks, and if he contributes enough, he can become a sect deacon. ”

"Forging Body Realm Martial Artists, Quenching Body Realm Martial Artists, and even higher realm martial artists...... Du Hai is just a martial artist in the Body Forging Realm, and he can force Alfred and use the skills of losing both. I don't know if the current strength of the City of Hope can compete with the martial artists of the Quenching Realm? Meng Chen sighed secretly.

After continuing to chat for a few words, Meng Chen and Mu Lao started this transaction.

This time, the trading goods were all metal ores, so it didn't bring too many surprises to Meng Chen.

Thirty-eight ox carts, totaling 600 stone of metal ore, of which 40 stone of gilt silver, 120 stone of cuprite and 440 stone of other metal ore.

It didn't take long for the caravan of Shanli Village to slowly leave the Dilong Valley with forty-eight sets of swordsman equipment and ten sets of elite swordsman equipment.

After getting a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the forces of Wumeng City, Meng Chen felt a strong sense of urgency about the current situation.

Manniu Village is worried about Meng Chen's blacksmith, even if Meng Chen doesn't kill Niu Han and the others, with the domineering style of Manniu Village, sooner or later he will have to fight Meng Chen.

With the current strength of the City of Hope, it may not be too difficult to sweep away the entire Manniu Village, but the deacon of the Blood Refining Sect behind the Manniu Village gave Meng Chen a secret headache.

After all, deacons are in the middle of the three major denominations, and the power in their hands is still quite large.