Chen Kai and his party didn't know that they had wandered around the ghost gate, in fact, it was impossible for him to know. Not to mention how far the two sides were at the moment, the smoke from the burning carriage alone was enough to obscure everyone's vision.

The raging flames lasted for more than an hour, and the dazzling flames were clearly visible even after Chen Kai and his carriage had left more than ten kilometers. But after the carriage had been running for more than ten kilometers, the speed of the carriage began to decrease, and finally it slowly returned to the speed of travel, which was about ten kilometers per hour.

If it is on a flat road, maybe the carriage can reach a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, but Chen Kai's current location is a wasteland without roads, if it is not for the smooth road surface, it is not even possible to guarantee the current speed, the most important thing is that now Chen Kai and the horses they pull the cart are not enough, so that the group can only use this speed to travel on the wasteland.

For pack horses pulling carts, the carriages pulled by themselves are a bit strict, and there is a tendency to overload and overcrowd, and the carriage originally pulled by four horses is now only two horses left. Looking at the struggling horses, Chen Kai estimated that after leaving the wasteland, these excellent pack horses would become crippled old horses, so he had to choose to get out of the carriage and move forward on foot to reduce the weight of the crew on the carriage. In fact, it was not only Chen Kai who did this, but others as long as they were physically sufficient, even the dwarves themselves did so, trying to save the horses' bodies, and at the same time acting as a protector of the entire convoy.

Armand found hundreds of dwarven muskets from the large dwarven convoy, as well as a large number of magic crystal gunpowder and bullets. A large part of these muskets were equipped into the hands of dwarven women who would not otherwise have to fight, sitting on horse-drawn carriages and acting as musketeers with muskets. As for the original dwarven musketeers, each carried at least three muskets, and Amand's own five muskets, of course, carried a battle axe at his waist. Although the power of the dwarven musket is very strong, no matter how strong the musket is, it cannot damage the skin of creatures above the sixth order, and only the bullets with the best matching characteristics in these muskets can penetrate the skin of high-level creatures. Armand's zuò muskets definitely fall into the latter category, and of course those special bullets are also the reason for the unique power of his muskets.

Therefore, after getting the new magic crystal gunpowder, Armand made a lot of bullets. Of course, the best armor-piercing bullets have no way to make them because of the lack of materials and tools. However, just the bullets made at this stage are enough for Armand to use, and the weight of the musket is not light, especially for Armand with five muskets on his back, and the sweat on Armand's forehead began to flow like no money after just walking a few kilometers. But the dwarf had no intention of putting down his musket, and in fact he had taken it as exercise.

"Will Armand still hold on?" Fei Yun sat in the carriage and shouted to the dwarves below, among all of them, only Fei Yun was still sitting in the carriage with Zhao Tiezhu, who couldn't walk, there was no way, the weight of the heavy crossbow was too heavy, and there was no roof of the carriage as a shooting platform, it was useless at all. In order to manipulate the heavy crossbow in time, Fei Yun was given the privilege of staying in the carriage.

"It's okay!" Armand didn't look up and continued to walk, not wanting to waste too much of his body by talking. As Armand finished speaking, his ears suddenly heard some movement, and Fei Yun in the carriage quickly turned the direction of the heavy crossbow. Aim for the place where the sound sounds.

"Who!!" The musket in Armand's hand was instantly raised, aiming in the direction of the sound. Almost as soon as Armand's voice sounded, a black shadow jumped out of the grass, but the next moment, neither Armand, nor Fei Yunyi, nor anyone else attacked him. For out of the grass jumped out of a dwarf, a dwarf with blood on his back.

"Help me!!" The dwarf only said these two words and fell directly to the ground, Chen Kai could clearly see the deep wound on the dwarf's back, and at the same time saw the enemy chasing after the dwarf.

"Mouse?" Looking at the enemy rushing out of the grass in front of him, Chen Kai's first impression was that the other party's head looked like a mouse.

"It's the Steppen!" Xu Fei drooped his head and glanced at it casually, and then stopped paying attention to these two guys with mouse heads. In his eyes, the two Steppenmen had basically been labeled dead. In fact, Xu Fei didn't think that two Steppenians could hunt down this dwarf so wolf.

"Bang! Bang! With two gunshots, the Steppen-Man who rushed out wielding improvised weapons was shot in the head at close range by the musket before he could go into a frenzy. Most of the nezumi had their heads blown off and threw themselves to the ground, and then more muskets were aimed at the grass to kill the hidden enemies in the grass. But after a few minutes, none of the Steppenmen appeared, which made the dwarves who had wanted to practice their musket skills sigh.

"Do you know this dwarf?" Chen Kai glanced at the bandaged dwarf. After being rescued by Chen Kai and them, the dwarf fell into a coma, and he didn't wake up even when he was drugged. At the same time, Chen Kai and the others also found that the wound behind this dwarf was very hideous, and there was an incomparably strong evil power attached to the wound, obviously as Xu Fei expected, this dwarf was not injured in the hands of these two rat men.

"I don't know! He's not a black dwarf! How could I know that! Armand said softly. But he wasn't wrong. He really didn't have an impression of the gray dwarf, but of course one of the gray dwarves in the team knew him.

"It's Bilberg! I know him! He's a member of the scout team sent by the main city! "The Grey Dwarves who spoke were one of the few remaining Grey Dwarves in the entire convoy, and they were the last remaining of the hundreds of Grey Dwarves in the entire escort process. In fact, these gray dwarves don't like to talk much now. They felt even more guilty than Chen Kai and the others, more than two thousand of their clans died in one day, and it was obvious that this death would definitely not be caused by their black dwarf clan. The reason for the death of thousands of his fellow clans in one day could only be those carriages, or the strong men in the carriages, and the gray dwarves who arranged for this formation.

"It's good to know!" Chen Kai slowly breathed a sigh of relief, after all, if it was a dwarf he didn't know, then the group would have to consider the origin of this dwarf. In fact, Chen Kai didn't worry about whether this dwarf was an evil creature or not, because Chen Kai directly used the holy flame to burn the opponent's wound when he was dealing with the other party's wound, and removed all the evil power on the wound. If the opponent is an evil creature, then the holy flame attached to the palm of his hand will burn him to the ground.

"Let him rest well! Maybe we'll know something when he wakes up! Chen Kai sighed and put the dwarf into the carriage, the rickety carriage was not a good place for the wounded.

"Boss! Do we need to search around for any living dwarves? Fei Yun looked at the dwarf who slowly disappeared behind the carriage door and asked softly. At the same time, the other dwarves also looked at Chen Kai with a look of hope.

"I guess not! He is a scout to escape, and the other dwarves ......" Chen Kai did not continue, but everyone knew the meaning behind his words, that is, it was impossible for other dwarves to escape.

"Let's do a search! Maybe there are dwarves who have escaped! Xu Fei slowly stretched out his neck at this time and said, his words made Chen Kai feel puzzled, the most important thing is that it is not safe around now.

"Do you really need to do this?" Chen Kai looked at Xu Fei hanging his neck on the carriage and said, because he felt that it was too dangerous to do so. The entire convoy was now extremely weak, and if it were to be divided to search for survivors, it would be necessary to waste more time and put the convoy in greater danger.

"Yes! Of course, we have to find a safe place to settle down first! We need to rest before we can search for survivors, and most importantly we can wait for others to join us while we search for survivors. Xu Fei patted the simple map in his hand with his hand, which was the most important thing that the dwarves had searched for from the convoy. However, Chen Kai and the others did not find the remains of the dwarven powerhouse. I don't know if the other party fled or left with those carriages.

"Okay!" Chen Kai finally chose to agree, of course, he knew very well that it was impossible to find a few people when he searched for survivors now, and Xu Fei's biggest purpose was to wait for the others to join them after they were resurrected. Crossing the wasteland can be dangerous, but it's at least much safer than having an entire convoy travel thousands of miles to pick them up. The more people there are, the bigger the target, and the more dangerous it will be in the wasteland. As for the safe place Xu Fei chose, it was not far from their current location, of course, there was no safe place to do anything in the wasteland, because there was no real safe place in the entire wasteland. Chen Kai: They chose this small valley is only the so-called safety, there are very few such canyons in the wasteland, because there are few mountains in the wasteland, and there are only small hills.

So the cliffs around this small canyon are not very high, only three or four meters, in fact, in general, it is not a good place to hide. First of all, it simply does not have a sufficiently strong defensive perimeter. Secondly, the entrance and exit were too narrow to accommodate carriages, and most importantly, there was no water source in a small canyon, and the place was very small. Such a small place is just right for a convoy of only a few hundred people, of course, they can't build a well-equipped defensive camp here, they can only simply lay out a simple camp.

The group quickly set up the camp. Just looking at the canyon cliff wall that was less than three meters high overhead, everyone felt that the camp's defense was a bit weak. If someone blocks the entrance and exit of the canyon, then there is no place to run. However, Chen Kai estimated that no one should be able to block the entrance and exit of the canyon for a period of time under the attack of a dozen dwarven musketeers, and the problem of the cliff walls around the canyon would be better solved, that is, just place some traps on the cliff walls. Because of Chen Kai, they have no intention of staying here for a long time. The whole camp was not carefully built, but they carefully built the escape route.

The dwarves cooperated with the ecliptic to dig an underground passage in the canyon that led to more than a hundred meters away, and in the spell of the ecliptic, this passage took only one afternoon to build, except that it was not very strong, and the whole passage was very perfect. Of course, for Chen Kai, he won't get into that passage even if he is killed. Because he won't be able to climb out after getting in.

After setting up the camp, Chen Kai began to wander around with a few dwarves, in fact, these dwarves also knew very well that their own people might not survive, but there was always one hope. After all, the dwarf Biborg, who was rescued by them not long ago, is an example, although this dwarf has not woken up until now, but at least he is still alive.

When Chen Kai left the camp, Xu Fei began to instruct the dwarves to clean up the ground in the camp and began to set up a cauldron to prepare food. The so-called people are iron rice, rice is steel, a meal is not hungry, panic, even if you encounter great difficulties, you must fill your stomach and then talk about it. As puffs of smoke rose from the camp, the whole camp finally regained a little bit of life. Of the more than 300 dwarves in the camp, there are less than 80 adult male dwarves, and the rest are underage children, women and children. So the garrison of the camp is actually very problematic. After all, those adult male dwarves were not all warriors, but now they had to act as warriors.

For example, a few dwarves who followed Chen Kai, let alone picked up a war hammer as a warrior before, they didn't even use muskets. But now they have to put down their tools and take up arms, because they have to fight to defend their families and people. Of course, it is also fortunate that they are black dwarves who are not weak in combat power, and if they are gray dwarves who have been on the ground for a long time, they may not be so easy to adapt to. The black dwarves in the underground have a certain combat ability even if they were once only craftsmen, and if they are gray dwarves on the ground, it is estimated that they may not be able to use weapons other than farm tools.

The dwarves with a few muskets on their backs rode pack horses and followed Chen Kai's ass to form an improvised survivor search team, carrying some dry food in Chen Kai's backpack. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that these dwarves were in a hurry, Chen Kai would still hope to wait until he had eaten before setting off. It was impossible now, so he could only lead the dwarves hungry and move quickly in the direction of the former dwarven convoy. According to the map that Chen Kai copied from Xu Fei, there were probably only a few places around the entire dwarf camp where there might be survivors.

Therefore, Chen Kai and the others only need to focus on searching these places. Then just look a little bit along those areas. In fact, if the dwarf scout woke up, Chen Kai and the others didn't need to search like this at all, they only needed to ask the dwarf scout, and they could roughly determine where the survivors might be kept, so that they wouldn't waste their time. In fact, if Armand was a little more reliable, Chen Kai and they would not have to be so lucky, because in the end, it was Armand Chen Kai who did not participate in the search for the dwarves' corpses, so if Armand recorded the death toll at that time, and then compared with the total number of black dwarves, you can roughly understand whether there are survivors.

It's a pity that Armand didn't pay attention to this, and Chen Kai didn't remind them because of time problems and worries about the enemy, and now that he thinks about it, Chen Kai feels that he was in a hurry. If you had paid a little attention at that time, maybe you wouldn't need to be so troublesome now, looking for survivors who may not have zài in a dangerous wilderness, and Chen Kai really felt a little depressed when he took this task. Of course, he didn't want any dwarves to survive. But in Chen Kai's heart, he already felt that there should be no dwarves alive in such a situation.

Although Chen Kai had put the word survivor in his mind like other dwarves, Chen Kai still began to search for the so-called survivor in the wasteland very dedicatedly. From the unburned ruins of the dwarven convoy, slowly searching along the predetermined route, the heat emitted by the scorching flames could still be felt even from a long distance. The ashes falling from the mountain overhead like snowflakes made Chen Kai have to put on his hood, and the dwarves behind him did the same, wearing gray hoods, following Chen Kai's buttocks step by step to search the grass. I hope to find my people who may survive in this bush.

Since the ground around the camp had already been cleared by the collision of two unnatural forces, there were no plants on the scraped ground at all, not to mention that many traces had been removed. Chen Kai found almost no traces outside the camp except for the traces left by his group, which means that after the fire broke out in the camp, no surviving dwarves came back to check. Of course, this is actually normal, after all, the dwarves probably believe that the fire was unleashed by the enemy. Naturally, they will not run back to the net.

So Chen Kai gave up the idea of finding traces of survivors around the camp, and instead began to take the dwarves to search the grass, which is the place where they are staying now. Located less than two kilometers away from the dwarven camp, this is one of the areas that Xu Fei circled on the map with possible survivors. Because most scouts will search for such places where tall weeds grow so that enemies don't hide in the grass. This meadow area is lush with grass leaves, although they are all gray-yellow leaves, but all the weeds are nearly one meter high, and there is absolutely no problem hiding a few people in such a large meadow.

"Anyone?" While brandishing sticks and searching the meadow area, Chen Kai and the dwarves also tried to lure out the dwarves who were hiding with their shouts, but there was no doubt that there was no response other than the empty echoes around them. Not only is there no one in this area, not even animals are alive in the dead zone. (To be continued......)