Volume 1 Border City Chapter 59 Crossing the Border
Early the next morning, Han Xiao and Zhang Chong saw three carriages and a few horses at the door of the inn, and a few Cangming students last night, except for Tie Zhaoyun, who was carrying a box, everyone else was carrying weapons.
Han Xiao glanced at Zhang Chong, who was empty-handed: "You don't seem to have any weapons?"
Zhang Zhong glanced at Han Xiao and said, "You are not and no." ”
Han Xiao scratched his head, he actually didn't bring weapons during the time after leaving the teacher, and he once found some shops to get a blade to take advantage of, but he was always so hot and never satisfied, and finally he simply didn't bring weapons, which was more convenient in many cases.
Zhang Zhong directly boarded the carriage at the front, and then faced Han Xinhua: "The last one is yours." ”
The middle carriage was driven by a middle-aged man, who had no cultivation, and should say a member of the caravan.
Han Xiao walked to the last carriage only to find that the carriage was not sitting, it was full of goods at the moment, looking at Tie Zhaoyun who was sitting next to the driver's seat, Han Xiao looked at Zhang Zhong with a black line on his face.
Zhang Chong seemed to have expected this scene a long time ago, drove the first carriage and walked forward slowly, turned back to Han Xiao and shouted: "You don't have any ability, I think this coachman is quite suitable for you, don't pick and choose, otherwise be careful that I will kick you out of the group." ”
Among Zhang Chong's other juniors, Lan Ningsheng sat in the carriage in the middle, and there were caravan leaders inside, and Zhang Chong's carriage was also full of goods, only Zhang Chong was alone at the moment, and the other students were riding horses.
Han Xiao got into the carriage, looked at Tie Zhaoyun, who was sitting on the side, and said, "Either you go to the carriage too, it's windy and sunny outside, and it's not suitable for you to be a girl." ”
"No, I don't. Without the slightest superfluous words, even in this warm southern weather, Han Xiao could also feel a trace of coolness from this woman, and then thinking about her title of Jianghu, Han Xiao looked at her face as if she was getting more and more pale.
After getting into the carriage, Han Xiao also noticed that several people around him seemed to have some smiles on their faces, and in this early morning arrangement, Han Xiao, who had become a laughing stock, began to quickly integrate into this new group, and even Luo Qi, who was hostile to him yesterday, didn't care so much.
In the hearts of these students, they always thought that Han Xiao was a person similar to Zhang Chong, but judging from the situation that Zhang Chong unintentionally revealed in what he said just now, this person seems to have little ability, he is a rookie like them, and even his cultivation may be weak.
Among these students, Guo Yifei, Meng Shi and Feng Xu are already cultivators of the master realm, although Tie Zhaoyun is practicing medical Taoism, he is also about to break through to this level, Han Xiao looks ordinary, in the hearts of several people, I am afraid that even if he has a little cultivation, he must be weaker than most of them.
Guo Yifei and Han Xiao were relatively familiar, and looked at Han Xiao, who was driving the carriage a little rusty, and quipped: "Don't say it, Little Brother Han's dress really looks like that." ”
Han Xiao ignored him directly, but the fine lines on his forehead became more profound.
Everyone didn't have any scruples this time, they laughed directly, and Lan Ningsheng, who was in the carriage, also poked her little head out of it, but she only saw a few companions laughing, and nothing else happened.
Zhang Zhong also laughed in the first carriage, to say that he was somewhat worried when he received this task at the beginning, after all, it was in Ole, even Cangming's name may not be easy to use, but now that there is such a strong reinforcement, he is a lot more relieved.
Speaking of clothes, Han Xiaoye found out that he had been wearing coarse linen clothes all along, although there were no broken stains or anything, he was definitely dressed from a poor family.
Look at the people around again, Tie Zhaoyun next to him is wearing a blue dress, well-cut, with a large slit on the lower body, while maintaining feminine charm, it also ensures the flexibility of action, Guo Yifei, Luo Qi and Gu Hai are directly leather armor boots, but the styles are different, and Meng Shi is wearing a tights, although it is not very classy, but it is by no means a material that ordinary people can use casually.
The last Feng Xu is amazing, directly dressed as a traveling boy, but between his wide sleeves, Han Xiao can vaguely see a little cold light inside.
Han Xiao thought for a while, Zhang Chong seemed to be the same as yesterday today, the most ordinary martial artist was dressed as well, and the blue dressing that entered the carriage seemed to be a black lady's leather armor and a green short skirt, and he didn't care too much.
Looking at the carriage that was getting farther and farther away from him, Han Xiao shook his head, in fact, it was not bad to be a coachman like this, at least the trouble would not find him first.
It's also good to have Tie Zhaoyun sitting next to him, he can cool down and have a fragrance on his body, and the most important thing is that he is quiet and pollution-free.
While Han Xiao was thinking about these messes, Tie Zhaoyun was also always paying attention to this person who was not in the original plan.
Although she was two issues later than Zhang Zheng, because of her excellent medical skills, she entered the group earlier than Guo Yifei, and she also knew Zhang Chong very well, and she categorically would not believe what Zhang Chong said just now.
Judging from Zhang Chong's attitude towards this person, Tie Zhaoyun could still sense some differences, and even faintly felt that Zhang Chong had a trace of awe for this young man who was one year younger than himself.
Or that women's intuition is always so terrifying, neither Han Xiao nor Zhang Chong thinks that Zhang Chong has any awe for Han Xiao, but Zhang Chong's intentional or unintentional performance still makes this delicate woman detect some reactions in his subconscious, but this feeling is vague and vague.
The carriage quickly drove to the checkpoint of the fortress, and as Han Xiao expected, it passed the checkout and exited the fortress smoothly.
When the group was speeding on the road to the Ole Empire, there would still be patrols from the border army from time to time to interrogate, and they were all quickly allowed to pass without exception.
Han Xiao looked at the jungle between the border between the two countries, he had lived here for more than two years, and since the red village was gone, this trade route seemed to be much safer.
There are even a lot of caravans applauding the destruction of the Red Village, although the Red Village generally does not hurt people's lives, but there are indeed a lot of goods and property looted over the years, which makes many caravans have a headache, and some caravans have invited mercenaries to encircle and suppress the Red Village, and have protested to the Blood Dome official, but without exception there is no follow-up, and over time they have acquiesced to the existence of this village.
Later, Hongzhai was about to become an official organization that charged tolls to the Blood Dome before the fortress.
Han Xiao always felt that for Hongzhai, he was just a passerby, but he didn't expect that he had already fallen into it.
This is also normal, after all, he has been dependent on his teacher since he was a child, and he rarely has contact with other people, but after all, people are social creatures, and the more he has such an experience, the easier it is to unconsciously have deep feelings for some people in a place.
Han Xiao collected his thoughts and said to the girl who had been sitting quietly next to him, "Give you a suggestion to deal with your face." ”
Tie Zhaoyun was stunned for a moment, then he understood what Han Xiao meant, and without speaking, he directly took out a box of ointment from the box behind him and began to apply it on his face and other exposed skin.
It didn't take long for a white, tender and watery beauty to become a dark and rough peasant woman, and even Han Xiao felt that her facial features had changed slightly, and the original aroma on her body was gone, replaced by a faint sour taste.
When the convoy stopped to rest, Tie Zhaoyun ran in front of Lan Ningsheng and dealt with her with the little girl's extreme reluctance.
Zhang Chong, who was at the front, wanted to come over and explain something, but after seeing this scene, he stopped, smiled and walked back.
The relationship between Blood Dome and Ole is very tense, there are too many grievances between the two countries, and I even heard that the current emperors of the two countries still have an unconfirmed love triangle relationship, anyway, the two countries have a deep hatred like the sea.
Just as the Blood Dome will interrogate the Ole people, the Ole will also take care of the Blood Dome.
They have proper procedures and legitimate reasons in this line, and Ole will definitely let them go, but it is also very likely to pick something in the middle and embarrass everyone, especially since there are two beauties in the team.
However, under Han Xiao's reminder, Zhang Chong's worries were completely erased.
After crossing the open buffer zone specially set aside by the two countries, the convoy smoothly came to the border acropolis of Ole, during which several waves of Ole cavalry came forward to interrogate them, but found nothing suspicious, and then let them go.
Unlike the big fortress in the southern region of the Blood Dome, there is no natural danger to defend on the side of Ole, and there is no way to go through, and it is impossible to directly seal the southern Ole outside the border with a century-old Xiongguan like the Blood Dome.
There are no fortresses on the border, but five smaller acropolises, all of which can take care of each other, which is tantamount to artificially transforming the border into a large offensive and defensive position.
Han Xiao and the others came to one of the acropolis at this moment, called Greystone Fort.
From a distance, the whole castle was full of stones, gray stone, hard and cold, and from time to time there were square holes in the towering city walls, and there were faint figures flickering inside.
Although the castle is not big, but the city gate is extremely huge, which is also to facilitate the main battle cavalry of Ole to quickly attack and support other acropolis and deliberately left, the whole gate has fine iron and stone, made of molten iron, and the way to open is also through the mechanism in the towering round tower on both sides of the giant gate, if you want to rely on manpower, I am afraid that it will take a lot of trouble.
Before entering the city, everyone could see all kinds of spires in the city, red and blue, round or square, which was obviously different from the exotic style of the blood dome, which still made the young people in the team quite excited.
In the past, they had naturally learned all kinds of information about Ole in the book, after all, Ole was the biggest imaginary enemy of the Blood Dome, but it was still very novel to actually see the layers of colored clouds that seemed to be floating in the air.
Han Xiao didn't have this kind of idea of them, and it wasn't the first time he had come to Ole, he preferred the Blood Dome to here, because Ole's seemingly beautiful spire often brought more crises to people like him, and the people in the city would almost be completely exposed to the vision of the people in the tower, especially the towering tower of the Military Affairs Department in the center of the city, which was specially built for this purpose.
When they were still some distance away from the city gate, they saw a group of cavalry dressed in the uniform armor of the Olebian army coming up.
"Blooddome?" led the way by a blonde man dressed in a standard knight's outfit in the Ole language, but the pronunciation of the word Blooddome was still the same.
Zhang Zhong at the front did not answer, and a short and thin old man with a whipped beard stepped down from the carriage in the middle, walked up to the knight unhurriedly, and said in fluent Ole Chinese: "This lord, we are merchants from the Blood Dome, mainly engaged in the trade of tea and silk. ”
Several cavalrymen rode directly to the two carriages carrying goods and began to check for something, and a few cavalrymen were always paying attention to Guo Yifei and a few of them, but they didn't do anything on purpose, after all, it was normal for the caravan to have an escort.
The men who inspected the cargo nodded to the leading knight and left the carriage.
Seeing that there was no problem, the leading knight focused his eyes on Guo Yifei and the others, and his eyes lit up when he swept over Tie Zhaoyun's body, but then he lost interest after seeing her appearance and rough skin.
He is not a womanizer, but if he often does it to the women in the team, especially the beautiful women, he can directly force out many things hidden by the team, which is also an unwritten rule formed by the investigators on the Blood Dome team, and the reason why Han Xiao reminded Tie Zhaoyun is also based on this situation.
"Mercenary tokens are all taken out for me to see. The knight said to a few people.
Guo Yifei and the others would not resist, and obediently gave the token to the other party, including Tie Zhaoyun and Lan Ningsheng, as for Zhang Zhong and Han Xiao, who were driving the car, they were ignored.
The leading cavalry mousse is a low-level knight registered in the Knights' Palace, which is almost the same as the late stage of the entry realm of the Blood Dome.
In the entire East Road, the martial arts division of Blood Dome, Tianshuang and Ole is basically the same, but the knights of Ole are knights, which are divided into low, medium and high levels, and there are holy knights on it, and each holy knight will generally have an exclusive title.
The remaining two big countries on the East Road, the Great Sun Kingdom is relatively complex, which is related to the many sects in their country, even if the Great Sun Holy Sect is at least divided into the Divine Sect, Zen Buddhism and the Spirit Sect three different systems, the Divine Sect adopts the division of the priesthood, and Zen Buddhism is the Buddhist Gate, as for the Spirit Sect, the most unique is divided into the first spirit, psychic, melting spirit and Dharma King, the special place is that these four levels have nothing to do with their own cultivation, and the Spirit Sect also has the division of the world's medical path, even if there are people within the Spirit Sect, they can't figure out the relationship between the members.
The business alliance is famous for business and miscellaneous studies, and it is also his strength to accommodate various families, so there will be various situations in the business alliance, and the proportion of people from all countries in the business alliance citizens is not small, it is a place of cultural integration, freedom, openness, and democracy.
Mu Si looked at Guo Yifei's mercenary token, he could recognize the words of the three blood domes of the red lady, but he was not very clear about the meaning of their representatives, so that everyone avoided some ridicule.
Although there is nothing wrong with everyone, Mousse's verification of the token has obviously been a long time, which is much more than normal.
Looking at Mousse's gaze back and forth between the various personnel and the carriage, the leader of the caravan, the short and thin old man, walked up to him, took out a bag from his arms, and the cavalry around him was very cooperative and turned his gaze to other places.
Mousse weighed it for a moment and smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, you can go over." Then he had one of the cavalrymen behind him enter the acropolis with the caravan to go through immigration formalities.
The crowd passed the level without any danger.
After everyone disappeared, the smile on Mousse's face suddenly disappeared, and he suddenly beckoned to the people behind: "You go and inform the examiner that this team will be included in the key monitoring objects." ”
"My lord, do they have any problems?" the man asked, puzzled.
"There is no problem with personnel information, customs clearance certificates, and goods, so we can only let them pass through, so let all parts along the way pay more attention. Mousse replied.
"Then why do you care so much about them, sir, is there less filial piety?" the man asked with a smile.
"You'an, don't just look at one thing, on the surface they are fine, but just escorting some tea and silk, don't you think their strength of the lineup is a bit too strong? And they are all of the same age, and their manners and temperaments are similar, they are obviously uniformly trained, not a normal mercenary group. ”
"My lord, could it be someone from the Blood Dome Army?" asked You'an, a little worried.
"It can't be people from the military, how can people from the military make it so easy for me to perceive the problem, apparently these people have not been specially trained in camouflage and counter-reconnaissance capabilities. Moreover, what they give, not less, but too much. As he spoke, Mousse also flipped the bag in his hand.