Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Journey, I
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Du Qian poked the bonfire with a tree branch for a while, and it was already the fourteenth night after leaving the City of Heroes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Originally, Du Qian's idea was to leave by boat and head west from the sea to the northerly tundra, which would save a lot of time.
As a result, on the night of the decision, Iron Fist and other bear monsters who had been sent to support the Holy Light Sentinel returned in several small warships, and when the original seven warships returned, only four remained, and one of them had a lot of damage on the bow and looked tattered. After inquiry, it was learned that the goblins had reinforced three more galleons, and blockaded the sea, and made an ambush so that the bear monsters who went to reinforce suffered serious losses, and broke three warships, and more than a dozen bear monster tribesmen had no time to show their skills, so they sank to the bottom of the sea with the warships and became fish feed in the ocean.
In this way, the situation became extremely serious, and the situation was much worse than expected, and the Holy Light Outpost could not get effective support in the short term, so it could only wait for the support team to arrive from the land. However, although it is said that it takes up to 10 days from land to the city of heroes to the harbor of holy light, the speed of the army and the traveler is not the same, in the terrain of the grizzly hills, it is very difficult to travel with horse-drawn carts and ox carts to transport resources, and it is far from enough for the army to rely on the supply of new villages along the way, and the soldiers have to bring not only food, but also weapons, the real world is not like a game, a guard can wear a set of equipment, and the armor will be damaged a lot in battle, Weapons and shields need to be replaced, arrows need to be newly forged, so the march also needs to bring replacement weapons and equipment, blacksmith's equipment, and a lot of materials. In this way, the pace of the march was again slowed down.
There was no time to rest, so Du Qian ordered to pick up a few bear monsters and a team of soldiers and dire wolves, and set off directly for the north wind tundra. Speaking of the dire wolf, Du Qian suddenly remembered the wolf king before, and he didn't know what was going on with it in the Holy Light Harbor at the moment, but it was certain that it must have helped Amilcar a lot.
At this time, Du Qian and the others were already on the edge of the Dragonbone Wilderness, and had just used a fishing boat to cross the narrow strait between the Grizzly Hills and the Dragonbone Wilderness the day before, and then stationed at the edge of the Dragonbone Wilderness before dark.
"I hope I won't run into too much trouble..."Du Qian muttered to himself as he stared at the fire.
The Dragonbone Wilderness is the graveyard of the dragons, where these huge legendary creatures have built a tower called the Temple of the Dragon's Sleep, and there are a few other creatures that exist, but they have one thing in common, that is, they are extremely stubborn about their territory and will never allow their territory to be violated, so it is very dangerous to pass through here, and if you are not careful, you may die without a place to bury. Just thinking about the current situation of the Holy Light Sentry, Du Qian gritted his teeth and had no choice but to bite the bullet.
"It's not early, so let's rest as soon as possible." The sentry who had been standing behind him reminded him.
Du Qian bit his lip, took a deep breath, got up and patted the dust on his buttocks, intending to go into the makeshift tent to sleep. At this moment, a loud noise was suddenly heard, followed by a high roll of dust in the distance, and then one after another, and the sound tended to grow louder and louder.
"Damn, withdraw, withdraw!" Du Qian shouted, and without caring about the dry food he brought, he beckoned his entourage to start running.
As soon as the people brought important items, they followed Du Qian towards a place far away from the battle, there is no good stubble in this realm, once they are involved, it is estimated that there will not even be slag left. In the panic, everyone was led by Du Qian to run south, and the dire wolf was scattered around Du Qian in a semi-circular arc, opening the way in front.
I don't know how long I ran, anyway, Du Qian's legs have become sore, and he can't take a step, so he panted and leaned against an unknown tree. Then everyone slowly gathered around Du Qian, forming a circular encirclement to enclose him in the center.
In fact, although Du Qian's speed is very fast, it is too much worse than those hunters, and its physical strength is also unattainable compared to the bear monster, but they are always vigilant against the danger that may come at any time, faintly surrounding Du Qian, and at the same time, in order to prevent the unknown powerful existence behind them from catching up, they are slightly behind and ready to make self-sacrifices to protect Du Qian, so it seems to be much slower.
"City Lord, what now?" Iron Sheet stepped forward and asked Du Qian about countermeasures. The bear monster's physical strength was really speechless, Du Qian was already tired and out of breath, but Iron Hide just spoke without a little fluctuation.
Du Qian leaned against the tree and rested with his eyes closed for a while before he recovered, and then stood up under the gaze of the iron sheet and looked east and west, kicked a small pebble out of an arc at random, fell to the ground and rolled a few times before stopping tremblingly.
"There are some small hills around here, much smaller than the mountain just now, and the more we run in the direction just now, the smaller the hills, our direction should be running south, the further south we go, the closer to the ocean, the more rain near the sea, the terrain will naturally become flatter and flatter, and the woods will be lower and larger." Du Qian briefly analyzed, and then looked at the crown of the tree he was leaning against just now. "With that, it should be right, we will continue south to the coast, and the Holy Light Harbor is to the east of us!"
After thinking about it for a while, Iron Hide tried it using the method of identifying the direction commonly used in the tribe, and then nodded to Du Qian, which was considered to be an affirmation of this conclusion. "Now that the original direction is out of reach, God knows if the two sides of the fight have left, but now that we are here, we might as well continue south, and then follow the coastline all the way west."
Du Qian thought about it for a while, it is not easy to determine the direction of going west directly, but after going south, you only need to follow the coastline, and you can also familiarize yourself with the sea route back to the city of heroes with the walrus. At the same time, every high tide and low tide on the seaside, there will be a lot of seafood, even if you eat too much, you will be tired, but at least you will not worry about hunger, and it is a good choice to go south to the beach.
"Okay, since that's the case, let's continue south, as for tonight..."Du Qian looked up at the already dark sky, and sighed helplessly, "I have to sleep in the open!" ”
Because there was no temporary camp this night, Du Qian had to find a relatively comfortable branch and barely sleep, but he was still woken up several times by the roar of an unknown beast at night, and finally fell asleep when the sky was a little brighter.
When he woke up in the morning, Du Qian habitually wanted to stretch, but he forgot that he was still on the tree, and as a result, he fell from the branch of the tree without paying attention, stumbled several times in the middle, and fell to the ground, fortunately there were no stones on the ground, but there were a few wounds on his arm, and the nearest hunter who was roasting meat hurriedly ran over to help Du Qian up.
"Hey, it hurts!" Du Qian couldn't help but gasp and got up from the ground. "What a fragrant barbecue, where did this meat come from?"