After reaching a employment agreement with Lin Rufeng, Meng Chen summoned 80 knights and 20 rangers as mercenaries stationed in Taoyuan Village this time.

In addition, Meng Chen showed 4 basic language skills books in southern Xinjiang, and ordered 4 mercenaries with slightly higher intelligence attributes to learn.

Not only that, Meng Chen also hired 2 additional village elders of Lujiao Village and entrusted them to follow 100 mercenaries to Taoyuan Village, specifically responsible for communication and exchanges with Taoyuan Village.

These village elders are old and sophisticated, Meng Chen just explained a little, and the two village elders immediately patted their chests and promised that they would not be fooled by the people of Taoyuan Village.

According to the employment agreement, the mercenaries are only responsible for guarding Taoyuan Village, and they should not encounter too much danger.

Even if several fierce beasts attacked Taoyuan Village, these 100 Tier 4 soldiers could easily deal with it.

Seeing the team of Taoyuan Village go away, Meng Chen secretly said in his heart: "Isn't Taoyuan Village backed by Xiao Yize?" Lin Rufeng hired the soldiers of the City of Hope, could it be that something was wrong with Xiao Yizhe, or did he leave Taoyuan Village temporarily? …… In any case, the employment agreement is tentatively set for three months, and it is always good for the City of Hope to earn at least 30,000 gold coins! ”

Towards the end of the evening, the Dilong Valley Market was closed, and after the statistics of Ellie and Milan, the City of Hope had a lot of harvest today.

A few days flew by, and the preparations for the long journey were finally completed.

Early in the morning of February 5, Meng Chen, Alfred, and Shakya led 50 champion knights, 50 wind rangers, and 200 elite knights to quickly leave the Earth Dragon Valley.

Although this expedition is not huge, their momentum is unstoppable.

At the front of the group was a large Mochizuki rhinoceros, more than six meters tall and nearly fifteen meters long, with a bright silver special saddle attached to its broad back.

Meng Chen was sitting leisurely in his exclusive seat at the moment, while Alfred and Shakya were in charge of controlling the Mochizuki rhinoceros.

The Mochizuki Rhino was followed closely by three hundred soldiers, all of whom were mounted on fourth-order demonic beasts, which were more than five times larger than ordinary fierce beasts, and their strength was probably equivalent to that of low-level fierce beasts.

Dilong Valley is more than 860 miles away from the Hengduan Mountains, and according to the current speed of the team, plus the time to rest and camp on the way, it is expected to arrive at the Hengduan Mountains in the afternoon of the next day.

The path chosen by Meng Chen and the others was almost a straight line, so it was inevitable that they would need to cross more than ten fierce beast territories.

However, for Meng Chen and the others, ordinary fierce beasts are not even qualified to let heroes shoot.

With just a few Wind Ranger joining forces, they can shoot an ordinary beast.

The next day, Meng Chen and the others successfully arrived at the edge of the Hengduan Mountain Range.

Looking at the towering mountains in the distance, there is a vast and endless dense forest in front of it, and the wisps of clouds and mist over the dense forest make people feel that the clouds are deep and do not know where to go.

In front of an open flat land, Meng Chen ordered: "Rest here for the night tonight, and enter the Hengduan Mountain Range early tomorrow morning!" ”

"Yes! Your Lord! The crowd bowed in response.

While the soldiers were setting up the camp, Meng Chen led Alfred and Shakya to patrol around the camp within a radius of ten miles.

Due to the abundance of fierce beasts and monsters in the Hengduan Mountains, the information that the City of Hope can collect is very limited.

Through fragmented sketches, travelogues, and other materials, scholars have pieced together a map of the Hengduan Mountains.

Alfred held the map in his hand, and after comparing the surrounding landform environment, he said respectfully to Meng Chen: "Lord Lord, the deep dense forest ten kilometers ahead should be the misty forest in the southwest of the Hengduan Mountain Range. According to a travelogue of the Southern Xinjiang Chronicles, there is a monster named Dream Raccoon in the Misty Forest, which resembles a dog and a fox, understands human language, and can use the fog to manipulate warriors to kill each other! ”

Meng Chen nodded and said, "Although the information comes from a travel book of Zhiwei, and the content recorded in it cannot be fully trusted, we must also take necessary precautions. Tonight, you and Shakya take turns to lead the soldiers on duty, and you must not let any bulls, ghosts, and evil gods get close to the camp. ”

"Yes! Your Lord! Alfred and Shakya replied in unison.

That night, Meng Chen lived in the main tent in the center of the camp, surrounded by thirty-two military tents with ten people.

As for the Mochizuki rhinoceros and three hundred demonic beasts, they lay around the edge of the camp around the military tent.

Mutter~! Mutter~! Mutter~!

At midnight, there was a slight chirp in the night, and a thin mist loomed around the camp.

At this time, it was Shakya's turn to guard the camp.

Shakya immediately realized the anomaly on the outskirts of the camp, and immediately ordered the champion knight beside him: "Notify Lord Lord and Commander Alfred immediately!" ”

"Yes! Shakya Advisor! The Champion Knight replied.

Just as the champion knight turned to leave, the fog outside the camp suddenly became thicker, and a grunt suddenly poured into the camp.

Under the erosion of these strange fogs, the thirty fifth- and sixth-order soldiers on duty in the camp, as well as a few demonic beasts that sensed the abnormality, suddenly fell into a half-asleep and half-awake state of confusion.

Shakya also fell into a trance, but he soon came back to his senses.

Drink~!

Realizing that the crisis was coming, Shakya clasped his hands in front of his chest and drummed up the spiritual power around his body and burst into a shout.

A soft white jade-colored light spread from the surface of Shakya's body to all sides, forming a phantom of a jade pillar with a height of more than ten meters and a diameter of nearly two meters.

Rise~!

At the same time, a melodious dragon roar sounded, and a dragon phantom more than 20 meters long appeared around Shakya out of thin air, constantly circling around the jade pillar phantom.

After Shakya unfurled the Panlong Jade Pillar, the mist within a radius of tens of meters was immediately repelled by an invisible force, and the bewildered soldiers nearby gradually woke up.

At this moment, a blue-white shadow rushed into the night.

Whisper of the Wind!

Alfred wielded his rapier and swung a stream of blue-and-white light that blew away the fog that enveloped the camp.

As the strange fog quickly dissipated, several dark shadows appeared near the camp.

Cuckoo!

As if aware of the difficulty of the target, one of the shadows chirped twice and ordered the other shadows to quickly evacuate.

Several black shadows moved at high speed in the night, pulling out gray phantoms.

In less than two breaths, the black shadows had already escaped a hundred meters away.

Shadow of the Wind! Traces of the Wind!

Alfred wouldn't have let them flee easily.

A series of blue-white shadows appeared, and Alfred flashed in an instant, sweeping through the sharp wind blades, slashing towards the fleeing black shadows.

Ji! Ji! Ji!

The strength of the black shadows was unbelievably low, and with a single sharp wind blade, they could easily be cut into two pieces.

After Alfred accidentally killed three Shadows, he finally managed to catch two Shadows alive.

However, the most dark shadow took advantage of Alfred's spare time to escape.