"What? Gone? ”

"yes." Green sighed, "It seems that three days ago, a large group of marching ants attacked Fort Rock Mound in the early hours of the morning, and the city's defenses were insufficient, and Fort Rock was captured in just one morning. ”

"Three days ago?" Hearing this, we all fell silent, it seemed that it happened to be in the early morning of three days ago, and a lot of marching ants also appeared on the outskirts of Iwacheng, swarming towards Iwacheng from all directions.

"That's too much of a coincidence, isn't it?"

Green took the kettle handed by Niu Kelian, poured a sip of water, and then wondered, "What is too coincidental?" ”

I waved my hand and said, "It's nothing, it's just that just three days ago, Iwaki also encountered a large swarm of marching ants, and it was from Iwaki that we escaped. ”

Hearing my words, Green fell silent.

After a while, he said thoughtfully: "Indeed, it's too coincidental, Rock Mound Fort is one of the most important garrison nodes in Western Xinjiang, surrounded by mountains on three sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the most important thing is that Rock Mound Fort has 20,000 garrisons, and I am really not afraid of these ants in peacetime." ”

Green frowned and continued: "But the strange place is here, just five days ago, the military headquarters suddenly came to the order that day, and recruited all the five thousand black-armored knights and half of the archers stationed in Rock Mound Fort, it was too coincidental, these marching ants seemed to have picked this time to attack. ”

Xiao Nan asked timidly on the side, "Is that a lot of people dead?" ”

Green was silent for a moment before he said, "Yes, many people died, the total number of defenders and residents in the city exceeded seventy thousand, and very few people escaped. ”

"I turned myself into a big tree and survived. At that time, I fell into a state of suspended animation, and when I woke up, there were only white bones all left in the city, and there was not even a trace of minced meat on the bones. But I will probably never forget that tragic scene for the rest of my life. ”

"Rock Mound Fort is gone, and Rock City is gone...... Do you have any plans for now? Green asked.

Niu Kelian shook his head and said, "Originally, we planned to go to Rock Mound Fort to move rescue troops, but now it seems that there is no need for this. ”

Green thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you go to Sand City?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he shook his head with a wry smile, and laughed at himself: "Also, if you can go to Shacheng, I don't think you have to go so far." ”

We were all silent, the current situation, even after a week in this world, I can see that Rock Mound Fort is not able to go, let alone go back, both roads are blocked, so where can we go now?

Niu Kelian still didn't give up and asked, "Your Excellency Green, according to what you said, all the marching ants in Rock Mound Fort are gone, right?" Then can we go in the direction of Rock Mound Fort and follow the official road back to the royal capital? ”

"Don't think about that road...... Greene paused, and continued: "I walked a little bit there, and found that all the official roads along the way were destroyed, and you have to go through the forest to go to that road, if you can safely walk back to the royal capital from the forest without the protection of the spirit symbol, you can consider taking that road." If you want to survive, just go to the desert. ”

We've been talking about it for a long time, and both paths are risky, if you're lucky enough to go through the forest, you'll only encounter solitary creatures like giant spiders, but if you're unlucky, you'll probably face attacks from social creatures like bees or ants, and it's up to you whether you can survive or not.

Relatively speaking, it is much safer to walk in the desert, although you may face a situation where you will not have resources to replenish, and you may either die of dehydration or starvation, but the possibility of encountering social creatures is relatively small.

In this regard, Green offered his opinion: "If you don't let me go with you, I can make sure you find water." ”

Green is a life magician, and the level is not low, it is said that his strength is very close to the great magician, because he is extremely strong, the selection of the living environment is very important, for him, the ideal living environment is the forest, because the forest is very rich in life magic elves.

But at this moment, Green is in the environment he hates the most, this terrible environment full of wind and fire magic spirits makes him suffer all the time.

In such an environment, Green's perception of the life magic elves is much stronger than usual, he is like a stumbling man who has fallen overboard, desperately looking for the life-saving straw, so he can search for all active life magic elves within dozens of miles nearby. It is on this basis that he dares to say that he can guarantee that everyone can find a water source.

However, the most critical question now is not whether we can go on in the desert, but where do we go?

Just when everyone was at a loss, the usually taciturn Big Blue pointed to a point on the map and said, "Let's go here." ”

On the map, where a piece of yellow sand meets the grassland, there is a mountain range called Shuangjieling.

The name Shuangjieling derives from the characteristics of the mountain, which can be explained in two ways, one of which is that the mountain range is the junction of the grassland and the desert, so it is called the Shuangjieling. Second: In addition to the geographical demarcation, it also exists as the boundary line between the Kingdom of Orlante and the Kingdom of Ming, and the two are combined into one, so it is called Shuangjieling.

"I once heard about this place when I was serving in the Black Armor, there is an army stationed there, and this place is closest to us, why don't we go there and ask for help?" ”

Seemingly inspired by Big Blue, Green suddenly realized: "Yes, I remember, there is a magic tower here, and those soldiers are the garrison guarding this magic tower, right?" Otherwise, go over there, in addition to the Black Armor Army, there should be a lot of people from the Magic Guild stationed there. ”

After a long discussion, the final itinerary was finally decided.

Temporarily diverted to the east, looking for the Black Armor Army camp established at the foot of the Shuangjie Ridge, and then asked for help to return to the royal city.

The road is not short, we may need to walk for more than ten days, the only trouble is the water source, if you count the halfway to find water supplies, this time can be longer.

In the chat, time will always pass quickly, the moon that was originally hanging in the air has now risen to the dome, it is late at night, everyone arranged the order of the vigil shift with each other and planned to sleep, tomorrow morning must be rushed, lack of spirit is not good.

Just as I yawned and was about to get into the carriage, Green suddenly reached out and grabbed me.

I looked back and saw that not only me, but Xiao Nan was also caught by Green.

Just as I was wondering, I saw Green's eyes shining, staring at the two of us, and asked excitedly, "You two, do you want to learn magic?" Worship me as a teacher, and I will teach you! ”

"Huh......?"