Chapter 44: The Black Wind
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"Oh, I didn't expect it to be so easy." Barr was somewhat surprised.
With a wave of his hand, a scroll of paper emitting a faint white light appeared in front of Barr's eyes, which was the blueprint for the construction of the medical hall. Originally, Barr didn't have much hope, after all, there were only a few surrounding territories, and he didn't expect it to be handed over so soon.
It was the first-tier town of Copan who traded the blueprints with Baal.
The mayor of Copan Town is a tiger man named Labute. This is the second town-level territory within a radius of 150 kilometers from Hailan Village, after the town of Amos.
"You guys, get these oryx into the pens."
"And all this fodder over here, all moved to the west."
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As Barr passed by the barracks, he happened to meet John arranging work, and handed him the drawings of the infirmary by the way. The timber and stone resources around Hailan Village are relatively abundant, and the village now has a large number of people, and the collection efficiency is very high, and the storage capacity in the warehouse has exceeded 20,000 units.
After walking around, Barr went home, and he was really tired after a busy few days.
After lunch, nothing happened, and Barr drank tea in the council chamber.
After a while, John ran in with a happy face.
"My lord, the goblin miner sent out this morning has found a vein of iron ore."
"Oh, how's the reserves." Barr put down his teacup.
In the past few days, the village has built a lot of equipment, and the consumption of crude iron is very large, and the thousands of units of crude iron harvested by the extermination of the fishman water village have been exhausted. Originally, Baal planned to trade some with nearby territories, but since he had discovered an iron ore vein, he naturally didn't need to buy it.
Even a small iron mine can basically meet the daily needs of the village now.
"It's a medium-sized vein, not far south of the Fish-Man Water Village we just exterminated." John said.
"Hmm." Barr nodded, "You immediately arrange for the goblin miners to mine, and send another team of guards to go with them, although the Fish-Man Water Village has been wiped out now, but you still have to take precautions." ”
These summoned characters are the lifeblood of Baal, and there can be no accidents.
John was ordered to leave.
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Early the next morning, on the way to the Blackstone Mountains.
"Drive, drive."
A black torrent was running south along the coastline, and on closer inspection, it was a group of orc cavalry. Behind the team was a tall rock giant, whose pace was great and not much faster than the cavalry next to him.
This is exactly the same as Barr and the others who rushed to the Blackstone Corridor.
When he destroyed the first-level water village, Baal got an ordinary treasure map, and after he was almost busy with the affairs of the leader, Baal opened the treasure map. As luck would have it, the treasure burial site was located in the Blackstone Corridor on the west side of the Blackstone Mountains, not too far away.
Leaving the affairs of the realm to John, Barr set out with his men. With the giant antelope mount, the speed of everyone's rush has also been greatly improved, but it has only been two hours since departure, and they have already galloped nearly 200 kilometers.
The giant antelope under Baal is particularly conspicuous, a head taller than Lilith and the others, very miraculous, this is the only elite giant antelope that Latin has tamed in the past few days, its speed and endurance are much stronger than ordinary giant antelopes, and it also has a skill that accelerates in a short time.
However, Bart was not so lucky, he was too big for the oryx to carry him, so he had to walk. Fortunately, his speed is fast enough, and his endurance is much higher than that of the giant antelope, and he is quite at ease.
"My lord, there is the Black Wind Outlet ahead, and after the Black Wind Mouth, we will enter the Black Stone Corridor." Lilith beside her reminded.
Barr stared.
Directly ahead, two thousand-foot-high black peaks stood on both sides of the road, like two sharp blades pointing straight into the sky, and the sea breeze blowing from the southeast passed through this slender narrow road, making a whining sound.
Ahead, a convoy of orcs was slowly moving along the road.
Looks like it's supposed to be a caravan of the Rabbit Clan. There were quite a few people in the caravan, but most of them were civilians, and the leader was a middle-aged rabbit warrior with a full beard, who was looking at the mountain pass in front of him with a solemn face. On the beast cart next to her sat a young rabbit girl, who looked like she was going out for the first time, and she was a little excited, looking around curiously.
The Blackstone Corridor is a disputed area between the Orc Empire and the Human Banya Kingdom, where dragons and snakes are mixed. But because of this, the border trade here is also quite developed, and many caravans from both human and animal countries will come here to do business. However, the number of caravans is large, and bandits are naturally rampant, especially here in Heifengkou, where there are many bandits and bandits, and ordinary small merchants talk about it.
Hearing the sound of hooves behind them, everyone in the caravan hurriedly flashed aside.
In the Orc Empire, mounts are not something that ordinary people can easily obtain, and under normal circumstances, only nobles or lords can have them.
Barr and the others "horses" did not stop, galloped past the caravan, and entered the black wind outlet.
The middle-aged rabbit man who led the team brightened up, turned around and shouted to the people behind him: "Speed up, keep up!" ”
Everyone in the convoy behind was also overjoyed, and hurriedly sped up.
There are a lot of bandits in the mouth of the black wind, and small caravans like them, with low strength, are often robbed, and if they are lucky, they are only looted, and if they are unlucky, they will be fatal. Now that there is a team of nobles in front of the road, it will naturally be much safer.
"Father, who were the people who passed by just now, they seem to be very powerful."
The rabbit girl looked at Baal and the others who were far away, and asked curiously.
"Hehe, little Nia." The middle-aged rabbit man smiled, "Which lord's troops should they be, naturally they are very powerful." How, doesn't it look imposing? ”
"Yes, yes." Niyaren nodded.
The Black Wind Outlet is the main way in and out of the Blackstone Corridor.
Border trade, huge profits, there are many forces that want a piece of the pie. Now, the trade of the Blackstone Corridor is secretly controlled by several big nobles of the orcs and human countries, and those large field forces dare not oppose these two behemoths.
Although the large field forces did not dare to come, there were many low-level bandits and bandits, most of them were bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, specializing in robbing some small caravans, and they ran away after robbing.
The nobles of the two countries sent troops to encircle and suppress many times, but after killing this wave and the next wave, they could not be killed at all, and they never dared to rob the large caravans under the nobles, so they had no choice but to let it go.
These low-level bandits are just chickens and dogs, and Barr naturally doesn't pay attention to them.
"Drink."
"Drive."
The artist is bold, and Barr and his party do not stop, running all the way.
At this time, a group of gray-clothed bandits of about level 30 were gathering on the hillside in front of them, and there were quite a few of them, and they looked like seventy or eighty people. A big man with a scarface grabbed a handful of gold from the box in front of him and threw it twice, a satisfied smile on his face.
"These caravans that come to trade in the Blackstone Corridor are really rich." Scarface said darkly.
This morning, they had already robbed two caravans, and they had gained a lot.
"Big brother, there's a group of cavalry in front, we can't grab it." A mountain bandit armed with a bow and arrows ran down from a high place with a happy face.
After listening, Scarface kicked directly on the bandit's body.
"Grab a head, grab it, you dare to rob the cavalry, you don't want to live!"
The bow-wielding mountain bandit whispered with some grievances; "However, I see that there are only a dozen of them, and most of them are less than level 20."
"Wait, you can see clearly?"
Scarface's eyes lit up.
"The villain can see it clearly." The bow mountain bandit cut through the ironclad road.
"Big brother, let's do it."
"Big brother, it's less than level 20, that's a hand-to-hand capture, if you don't grab it, you won't grab it."
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The mountain bandits next to them were in high spirits.
"Okay, then grab it!"
Scarface gave the order, and the bandits immediately went into action, the archers were ambushed on the hillside, their bows and arrows were ready, and the melee profession came down from the hillside and ambushed on the side of the road. As soon as the leader gave the order, they immediately rushed forward and chopped the man into meat sauce.
Da-da-da-da!
The sound of hooves got closer and closer, and in the blink of an eye, it entered the ambush range of the mountain bandits.
"Go, release the arrows!" Scarface let out a loud shout.
Dense arrows flew down from the top of the mountain and shot at Barr and the others, and the mountain bandits who were ambushed on the side of the road also immediately killed and blocked the road.