Chapter 13: The Outpost of the North
If you look down from the sky, the Great Rift Valley looks like a winding vine that runs through the north and south of the heath. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Countless tiny branches and leaves stretched out from the vines and stretched out in all directions, dividing the wasteland into countless hills and ravines. Walking here, there are almost no traces of the human civilization world, and all that comes to your face is a desolate and powerful atmosphere.
Yang Shou walked on the road, raised his chin, sniffed the dry air carefully, and his expression showed a hint of enjoyment - not that he liked the dry sand wind, but that he missed the memories that the sand wind evoked.
Staying up late, clearing the wasteland, being maliciously PK, teaming up together to take revenge, brushing out good equipment, getting up in the middle of the night to go out to eat barbecue to celebrate, and getting drunk...... I have worked hard in the orc kingdom for many years, and when I look back, what I miss the most is those friends~
Two days have passed since the undead attack, and the undead seem to be frightened by the combat power displayed by the human army, and have not appeared again.
Yang Shou couldn't wait for this situation to happen, and he finally had time to relax in the past two days and sort out his memories well.
The further north you go, the rougher the road in the rift valley becomes, and it's not as comfortable to lie in the car as you would be if you walked on your own. Fortunately, Yang Shou is full of physical strength now, which is far from comparable to a few days ago, and this level of trekking is just a small meaning.
It's just that Danny is an idle character, as long as he has time, he will definitely pull Yang Shou to ask questions, which makes Yang Shou regret a little, why did he tell Danny about the history of the orc kingdom a few days ago.
"Brother Yang, you said that this time to transport supplies, why don't you take the waterway to the east, it's fast and comfortable, and you won't be so tired." Danny followed Yang Shou like a curious baby.
In this wasteland, in addition to the Great Rift Valley, there is also a Nushui River in the east, which is the two hubs of north-south transportation. This great river starts from the highest mountain in the north, passes through the Steel Empire, the Elven Ancestral Land, the Human Triple Alliance and other countries in the south, and flows into the sea, making it the longest river on the Miracle Continent.
"This season is the dry season of the Nushui River, and it is easy for large cargo ships to be dragged to the bottom when they are launched,"
Yang Shouting liked this shy little soldier, and said with a smile: "Speaking of this, in fact, more than a hundred years ago, the Great Rift Valley was also a waterway. At that time, the rain was abundant, the prairie was endless, and the canyons were full of clear water, and with his eyes closed, he could catch fish from the water, and with a stick he could smash into the grass, he could hit a fat rodent. ”
"Wow......"
Danny was extremely surprised, and soon made up the infinitely desirable picture in his brain, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and his curiosity was immediately hooked: "But but, how did it become like this now?" ”
"It's a long story, I'll have a chance to tell you about it later,"
Yang Shou laughed, then pointed to the huge truck beside him, and explained: "Continuing the topic just now, if we go to the Nushui River, we will also pass through the territory of the Whale Clan of the Orc Kingdom, those big guys in the water hate the Steel Empire to the core, and they won't go crazy when they see our warships?" We are transporting supplies, not going to war. ”
Danny scratched his head a little puzzled and asked, "Why, haven't we always had a peace treaty with the orc kingdom?" ”
"Ha, well, you can ask Adjutant Jane." Yang Shou snorted and snorted at the female adjutant next to him.
Jane kept walking behind Yang Shou, bowing her head and listening carefully to what Yang Shou said.
Yang Shou and Danny chatted these days, although Jane didn't participate, but she listened to it all in her ears, and couldn't help but be shocked by the depth of Yang Shou's knowledge.
It seems that there is nothing he doesn't know, as long as Danny dares to ask, Yang Shou dares to answer. Every night when she went back, Jane talked to Caroline about it, and there were many things that even Caroline didn't know.
After a few days, unconsciously, Jane's curiosity about Yang Shou became stronger and stronger, and seeing Yang Shou leading the topic to herself, she glanced up at Yang Shou.
Little soldier Danny blushes every time he sees the beautiful Jane, and this time is no exception, and his heart said Brother Yang is really, how can this iceberg beauty pick up your words?
Danny was about to change the subject, but unexpectedly heard Jane say, "Imperial nobles like to eat whale meat. ”
"What?"
Danny was stunned for a moment, and didn't react for a while, and then saw Yang Shou next to him make a gesture of killing and then eating, and then he suddenly understood, and his little face immediately turned pale: "He, he...... Do they eat fish? No, you mean...... They kill whale people to eat? ”
"Most of them are blood relatives of whale people, and those whales that have not evolved into higher human forms have occasionally whale people,"
Yang Shou took off the water bag from Danny's waist, took a sip, smacked his lips and said: "Whale meat is very precious, a pound of whale meat can be sold for 10 gold coins on the black market, you can go to the Nushui River to see it, whaling boats abound." ”
Blood relatives are orc-born brothers and sisters who have not developed into human form for various reasons, but still have simple intelligence.
"But! But...... How could the empire allow such behavior? Hearing this, Danny looked incredulous.
"Hmph, because the owners of those whaling ships are Imperial officials." Yang Shou snorted lightly.
Hearing this, Danny's young heart was greatly impacted, and the words "people eat people" and "imperial officials" kept repeating in his mind, feeling like a stone was blocked in his heart, and it was very uncomfortable.
"That's just a small group of black sheep, and His Majesty the Empire will never allow this to happen." Seeing this scene, Jane hesitated for a moment, but still explained.
However, perhaps even she herself found this explanation weak, and there was a rare lack of confidence in her tone.
Yang Shou gritted his teeth and snorted, noncommittal to Jane's words. If His Majesty the Emperor really made up his mind to make good relations with the Orc Kingdom, how could such a terrifying thing happen?
Danny was hit hard, and he was listless all the way, and in the heart of a simple teenager, I am afraid that he would never have imagined that there would be such a thing in the world.
Yang Shou looked at it in his eyes and didn't say much. This world is so cruel, you can only face it, you can't escape it~
But after all, it was a teenager's heart, and when the first civilized city appeared on the boring march two hours later, Danny's mood quickly improved again.
"Brother Yang, Brother Yang, look, the front has arrived!"
Danny's excited voice came, happily pointing ahead, dancing with his hands, and exclamating all kinds of exclamations.
In the distance is a small town built against a hill.
The stone and wood structure of the city wall is semicircular, sitting north and facing south, the head of the city stands guards wearing hats, and the sun shines on the west, shrouding this small city in warm sunlight, which perfectly coincides with the picture in Yang Shou's memory.
"Whew...... Northern Outpost~" Yang Shou curled the corners of his mouth slightly and muttered.
"Miss said, I can't follow you when I enter the northern outpost, you should be careful"
Jane's voice came at the right time, paused, and added, "Don't go to places you shouldn't go, that's what Miss said." ”
Yang Shou laughed, squeezed his eyes at Danny, and made the boy blush. After more than a month of military camp life, Danny naturally knows what the "place not to go" is.
Jian glanced at Yang Shou expressionlessly, led the horse and turned away.
Yang Shou grinned, watched the other party leave, and then turned his head to look at the outpost in the distance.
I'm back again!
……
The arrival of the army turned what was once an ordinary day into a carnival day for the traders in this small city.
After nearly a month of continuous trekking, the soldiers all have their own pressures to release.
I bought all kinds of fruits, stuffed them into my mouth and pockets like crazy, plunged into the bathhouse and refused to come out, and I was invited to the room by a beautiful woman in sexy clothes, and walked out refreshed after half an hour......
Not counting the hundreds of guards guarding supplies outside the city, the remaining soldiers were enough to fill the small city.
"Strange, why didn't you see Bill?"
After entering the city, Yang Shou searched for a long time in the crowd that swarmed in, scratched his chin and said: "This old thing, obviously said that he would meet here, should he secretly go to meet his old lover." ”
Bill has been to the northern outpost many times, and there are many acquaintances here, and with Bill's help, Yang Shou's plan will become much easier.
At this moment, there was a commotion at the city gate, and the soldiers who followed the gate came and quickly separated the pedestrians in the street, clearing a clearing in the middle of the road.
Four burly leopard warriors walked in from outside the city first, with ring-shaped tattoos on their faces, and they walked rhythmically.
Heavily armed and carrying a pair of slender scimitars behind their backs, these agile warriors are known for their ancestral swordsmanship in the orc army, and almost every one of them is a top-notch scout.
Immediately following in was a guard of honor dressed in magnificence, and in the middle of the guard of honor was a large man in a light green robe.
This guy is more than three meters tall, fair-skinned, with two huge ears that almost cover his head, a long nose hanging down to his chest, a kind expression, and a smile from time to time to greet the people around him.
He is an elder of the elephant clan, and looking at the color of the other party's robe, he is still an elder.
The elders in the orc kingdom are roughly equivalent to the counts or marquis in the human empire, and their status is respected.
The Elephants in the Orc Kingdom are not only brave and fierce, but also often emerge wise men who are good at strategy, so the Elephants are also the most powerful family in the Orc Kingdom.
The Elephant Elder was surrounded by a group of warriors and quickly walked away, and order on the street returned to normal. In frontier cities like the Northern Outposts, orcs and humans live side by side and live in peace for centuries. So far, the tension between the two countries has not affected it.
The first time Danny saw an orc, he shook Yang Shou's shoulder and said excitedly, "Wow! Is that an elephant man? How tall, if they put on armor, wouldn't they be more powerful than our velociraptor knights? No, no, the knights of the empire are so high in martial arts, they must be more powerful than them......"
Listening to Danny's chatter, Yang Shou smiled, and said in his heart that this elephant man was obviously too old and his back was hunched. The elephant warriors in their prime are half a meter taller, how can ordinary people imagine the shocking scene when they charge?
But...... The high-ranking people of the orcs, what are they doing at this time in the north, does it have anything to do with that?
No.
Yang Shou shook his head and quickly denied his speculation.
If the orcs had noticed it now, Thomas would never have gotten it before the orcs did it in the game.