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After the inexplicable earthquake in the area of Batholi Castle, the villagers who had good things dared to approach the castle and see the changes in the castle, and began to give special lectures after returning to the village. The news soon spread through the towns and villages in the northern part of County Brettnia, and then in the three neighbouring counties near the northern part of County Brettnia. The inexplicable collapse of the ruins of the castle and the sudden change in the surrounding landscape attracted many exploration groups and mercenaries to investigate. As the exploration deepened, the explorers discovered underground structures that had never been found in the castle before. And when one of the explorers dug up a smashed and damaged iron box full of gold coins, all the explorers went crazy in an instant.

Treasure! It's a treasure! It must be the legendary 'Treasure of Bathory'!

Large-scale excavations began, and the entire dungeon was removed from under the ruins, at the bottom of the lake, and from the wooded hills. Countless gold coins and jewels were excavated by one treasure hunting team after another, and then they sat on the ground and divided the spoils unevenly, and began to loot after they failed to rob. And just as these explorers were fighting for more treasure, a large group of undead monsters that had been buried in the ground due to the collapse of the dungeon but had not been destroyed crawled out of the excavated dungeon passages and began to attack the explorers who were fighting among themselves. The appearance of the undead has made the already chaotic ruins even more chaotic, affecting even the neighboring civilian villages. If it weren't for the fact that the governor of Brettnia County, after learning the information about the existence of the treasure, sent a regular army in a nearby city to try to get a piece of the pie, and by chance controlled the spread of the undead horde, the entire north of the county would have caused a big trouble. However, by the time the army had cleared the hordes of the undead and arrived at the castle, the area around Bathory Castle was already full of the bones of treasure hunters - most of these treasure hunters did not die in the process of treasure hunting, but died in the distribution of the spoils after the treasure hunt was successful, or under the sudden attack of the undead monsters. Ironically, due to infighting and being attacked by monsters, most of the treasure they unearthed was cheaper than the last army to arrive. As a result, the army that arrived at the ruins of the castle the latest was the one who benefited the most, which made people feel that the world was impermanent.

However, after such a continuous confusion, no one noticed that although the treasures were large in number, they were missing the best part in quality.

Of course, these things didn't matter to the traversers of the Xuanyuan Adventure Troupe who had already left the territory where the ancient castle was located and embarked on their way home.

Because there's only one problem they're struggling with now.

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"Hmm......" Li Xiang, who was sitting on the ground, frowned and looked at the road in front of him, and then raised his hand to rub the map surface on his lap.

"I said, boss, haven't you decided on our route yet?" Shi Jinxin sat on a big rock on the side of the road, looking at Li Xiang who was looking at the map helplessly.

"Hey, gold. Leave the boss alone. Chen Zhanying greeted from the side. Come and help. ”

Shi Jinxin shrugged helplessly, got up and came to the carriage parked on the side of the road.

"Lift up...... Slow down...... Good! Stand steady. Yang Qianyu commanded several companions to unload the wheels of the carriage and roll it to the side of the road and put it down. Zhan Ying, knock leisurely. Yang Qianyu advised.

Chen Zhanying nodded when he heard this. "Don't worry." After saying that, he stepped forward and took out his weapon 'Thundering War Hammer', and carefully hammered it on the axle.

"Whew-what kind of broken road is this?!" Watching Chen Zhanying reinforce the wheel axle of the carriage, Ruan Kunpeng sighed and complained.

"Hehe, it's an accident." Li Xiang sneered when he heard this: "I just want to pick a remote road to avoid crowded towns, who would have thought that this road has been abandoned like this." As he spoke, Li Xiang shook the parchment map in his hand.

It turned out that after leaving the castle of Bathory, in order to avoid encountering the explorers who went to the castle along the way, Li Xiang decided not to take the main road taken when he arrived before, but instead took a detour to avoid several villages and towns near the castle, and took a detour from the edge of the adjacent county, and then embarked on the road from the west of the county to the county town of Breitnia, and then went south back to the town of Prari. Although such a detour would take more than 200 miles, it was better because the safety factor was high enough.

The plan was pretty good, but there were some mistakes in choosing the path.

The path chosen by Li Xiang existed in the era of the Duchy of Bathory, and later after the fall of the Principality of Bathory, this path that could reach the former center of the principality, 'Castle of Bathory', lost its value, and it was naturally forgotten and abandoned after a long time. Over the course of more than 100 years, the road has been littered with rocks and weeds, and full of potholes and mud. Driving on such a bad road, you can imagine how serious the wear and tear of the carriage was. After walking down the road for nearly 100 miles, the bumps in the ditches and bumps on the road made several carriages in the convoy almost fall apart, and the dilapidated road also caused the endurance of the horses ridden by everyone to lose much more than expected, and even broke a riding horse because of potholes on the way. Fortunately, the companion on the horse reacted quickly enough and got out of the horse in time to avoid injury.

Chen Zhanying worked hard for a long time before the wheels were re-tamped, and everyone installed the wheels back with all their hands, although the whole carriage still looked wobbly when walking, but it could barely be used for riding.

"But it's just barely enough to make ends meet." Yang Qianyu, who was riding a horse, looked at the squeaky and rickety carriages in the team, looked at the riding horse he was sitting on because he was tired and breathing heavily, turned his head to Li Xiang and said, "Boss, we have to find a place to rest." At the very least, our carriages will have to be overhauled or even replaced. ”

"And we're going to have to add some food and water." Fu Bin continued on the side: "In order to load more treasures in the storage space, most of the daily necessities have been discarded. The water on the wagons is not enough to get us back to the town of Praile, and we have to find supplies on the way. ”

"That's right......" Li Xiang patted his forehead in distress. I didn't think it through...... Well, let's stop for two days in the next village and town to replenish our supplies - what's the first village we encounter along this road? ”

Yang Qianyu and Fu Bin looked at each other.

"Ahem." In the end, Yang Qianyu coughed lightly and raised his hand to point at Li Xiang's saddle. "Boss, the map is yours."

"Huh? Hehe, hehe......" The corners of Li Xiang's mouth twitched slightly when he heard this, and after laughing a few times, he took out the map and pretended to check it.

"Hmm...... It's a medium-sized village called 'Kelly Village'...... It looks like it's still about thirty miles, but it's not too far. Li Xiang pondered for a moment, then high-fived and said, "Okay, let's decide to rest there." ”

At Li Xiang's decision, the companions drove away on horseback, leaving only messy horseshoe prints and a few twisted rut marks along the way. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! ）