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Chapter 423 Wind and Snow

The howling north wind blows through the surrounding environment, and large white-haired snowflakes fall one after another, and the snowflakes become bigger and bigger as time passes. Chen Kai is now nested in the carriage of the caravan, in fact, the mercenaries of the entire caravan are also shrunk on the carriage, not to mention the hurry, it is good that they can maintain a complete formation. Of course, the caravan has no intention of continuing its journey at this moment, the terrible snow around it makes the journey extremely difficult, according to the mercenary, if you continue to move forward in such a heavy snow, not to mention that the horses can't stand it, just getting lost is a big problem.

So at this moment, Chen Kai and the caravan actually surrounded the carriage into a circular formation, and then piled up the snow on the carriage and the carriage directly formed a snow wall and set up camp to rest. Originally, Chen Kai could set up a tent to rest by himself, but the middle place was still occupied by the carriage after the carriage was surrounded, and there was no spare place to set up a tent at all, so Chen Kai could only borrow the carriage of the old merchant's Luhanas to chat with the old merchant while waiting for the wind and snow to stop.

Just when Chen Kai began to be dazed and a little sleepy, there was a knock on the door of the carriage, and after checking the time, he was depressed and found that it was time for him to be on duty. Although Chen Kai joined the caravan as a traveler, as a combatant with a weapon and a Templar Knight, Chen Kai had the obligation and responsibility to be the night watchman on duty.

"Kaichen Knight, I'm really sorry because the manpower is a little short, and this kind of wind and snow day also consumes a lot of body, so I'm sorry to Chen Kai It was the leader of the mercenary group, Nosadri, who was sorry, as an ordinary E-level mercenary group without a special title, Nosadri had been working on the Golden Great Plains for several years. It's just that because there are too many horse thieves on the Great Plains, the chance of failure of the mercenary group's mission is also high, and several times Nosadri's mercenary group rushed to the D rank, but in the end it was defeated because of the failure of the mission. Now that this mission is complete, their mercenary group is expected to become D-class again, and then regain the name of the mercenary group that has been gained several times and then lost.

"It's okay, it's me who bothered you to deal with Captain Nosadri" Chen Kai smiled at the other party, and then walked out of the carriage. The howling north wind and the goose-feather-like snow continued to fall from the sky, and there were few other colors to be seen in Chen Kai's field of vision except for a patch of white. In order not to let his cheeks freeze, Chen Kai closed the mask of the helmet. Although the cold helmet is made of metal, its inner lining is warm leather, so Chen Kai will not feel cold in the helmet, and the most important thing is that he can also block the wind and frost from blowing directly on his cheeks, and at the same time, with the help of the crystal observation port on the helmet, Chen Kai's vision can be effectively guaranteed. At least in terms of vision, Chen Kai is no longer weaker than those old mercenaries who have been a few years old, and even with the help of the effect of magic arts, he can see in advance what those mercenaries can't see.

In fact, although the Golden Great Plains has been turned into an agricultural cultivation area, the wild animals have never decreased, but most of them are ordinary low-level beasts. According to the classification of danger areas announced by the adventurers' union, the danger level of the Golden Great Plains is only pale yellow, which is a moderately light danger area, and the biggest beasts here are only a few hungry wolves or steppe hyenas. Of course, the most dangerous thing in the whole plain is not these beasts, but horse thieves and robbers who do not know where they will come from.

Chen Kai carefully wiped the crystal observation port on the helmet with a clean rag, and then covered the helmet with a snow shield. When his feet stepped on the snow-covered ground, the creaking layer of snow caused Chen Kai's feet to sink directly into it. After clearing and piling up, the snow in the carriage formation had a depth of five or six centimeters again after only three hours, which made Chen Kai, who had seen the power of the blizzard in the game for the first time, feel a little surprised. It's just that it's just surprise.,After all, as long as there's zài in a game, there's its reasonableness.,As long as it's not a bug.。

Stepping on the soft layer of snow, Chen Kai carefully walked on the ground made of snow. The mercenary is constantly collecting snow blocks to build defensive walls, which is the most time-saving and effective defense method in the winter on the Great Plains. The snow does not melt throughout the Great Plains, and only the roads covered in spells do not have snow cover, and the snow on the surrounding plains often reaches more than a meter at its deepest. The records are relatively average, and often only high, and it is said that one year when the snow was at its thickest, the snow layer reached two metres. So in fact all the animals and humans in the Great Plains store enough food before the first snowfall, after all, it takes a long time for more than a meter of snow to melt completely. Although the roads are covered with snow removal spells, it takes at least a day to clear the layers of snow on them, and someone must activate the spells. In fact, for travelers on the road, especially those walking the trade routes during this season, a snowy day is an absolute scary thing.

For example, those pilgrims who were brought on by kind-hearted old merchants on the road, if they did not encounter a caravan around, these pilgrims might have completely lost their way in the wind and snow and then collapsed in a corner to freeze to death or starve to death. In fact, the highest number of pilgrims die during snowstorms during the season, but pilgrims always head to the Holy Mountain during this season to participate in the Christmas celebrations of the God of Dawn. The last day of December every year is the first day of the new year is the birthday event period of the god of dawn, especially at midnight on December 31, which is the ** stage of the whole event, and the sky will even become full of morning light due to the power of divine magic. In order to take part in this grand celebration, pilgrims from various regions or simply other countries walk this avenue every year. Originally, when horse thieves were not very rampant, pilgrims could still be rescued by many caravans on snowy days, but at any time, the number of horse thieves increased, and the caravans became smaller and smaller, and hundreds of pilgrims would freeze to death and starve to death every year. This is definitely a big stain on the Temple of Dawn, so if there is anyone in the entire Great Plains who hates horse thieves the most, there is no doubt that the Temple is the number one.

However, as a religious power, although the Temple of Dawn has one of the largest cities in the entire empire, the City of Dawn, as a religious territory, and at the same time has a large number of temples in each city as a sphere of influence, it only does not have enough military power. There are only three armed forces in the entire temple from top to bottom, the first is the regular temple guards, that is, the Knights of the Templars, which have the largest number of armed people and the heaviest burden. The most elite part is stationed in the temple, the sacred mountain and the demon gate, and the others act as guardians, and the others are distributed in the various temple guards. The second part is the Priests and Priests of the Temple, which is similar to the distribution of the Templars, and the third is the Divine Punishment Order, which is the only force that the Temple can command. However, the number of the Divine Punishment Knights is too small, only 300 people at full duty, and it can become a thousand-member regiment after adding reserves and attendants, but only 300 people can really enter the battlefield. This is a concession made by the temple in order not to provoke the royal family of the Hansting Empire, and the royal knights of the Hansting royal family can also be called by the temple at some time, which can be regarded as a quid pro quo after the compromise between the two parties.

Therefore, when the Temple of Dawn wanted to exterminate the many horse thieves in the entire Great Plains, and some of these horse thieves were still the lord's private army, it was simply an impossible task. Although the number of horse thieves who die at the hands of the Knights of Punishment in the Temple of Dawn each year is at least a thousand, compared to the number of horse thieves wandering around the entire plain, it is like a drop of water in the ocean. In fact, only the prime minister in charge of the empire's finances knows how many horse thieves there are on the Great Plains, and how many bankrupt peasants join the ranks of horse thieves every year, or how many bankrupt little nobles join this ranks because of poor territorial management. Therefore, the temple is secretly recruiting players to join the task of clearing the wilderness of horse thieves, although the number of horse thieves in each territory is a bit large, and they are much stronger than the players in terms of combat effectiveness, but the temple believes that with the player's growth process, dù will one day be able to completely cleanse the horse thieves in the entire plain, and that day will only be a year or two at most.

Of course, this plan is hidden, and even the middle and lower levels of the temple involved in this plan are not clear why they want a large number of players to go to Dawn City, and they must go through the trade route full of horse thieves. Only the upper echelons of the temple understood that this would allow a large number of players to flood into the Dawn City and accept the task of clearing out the horse thieves, and the more players there were, the more horse thieves would be cleared, at least so far there were no large horse thieves within a hundred kilometers around the Dawn Capital. There are more players than horse thieves in this area, and a gang that has just erected a flagpole to become a horse thief may have been wiped out before it even opened, and the head and contents of the body have been reduced to shiny gold coins in the player's backpack.

It's just that Chen Kai has never accepted such a mission, and his purpose in going to the City of Dawn is only to borrow from there to turn to the Holy Mountain, after all, the City of Dawn is only two hundred kilometers away from the Temple Holy Mountain. It's a pity that now he is trapped in the heavy snow like the pilgrims in the carriage, and it seems that there are still people rushing in this heavy snow, at least in the three hours that Chen Kai has been patrolling and guarding the night, he has helped the caravan accept five or six pilgrims, each of which has been detected by him with divine magic. Only Chen Kai, who confirmed his kindness, dared to let them into the carriage to rest, because he was afraid that some horse thief spies would mix in with the pilgrims.

"I'm sorry, honorable knight, but I may have disturbed your rest, but I would like to ask for your help?" When Chen Kai finished his vigil and was about to climb back into the carriage to drink a bowl of hot broth, an old man shivering in a cloak walked up to him.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Although Chen Kai felt a little tired, he still planned to listen to the old man on the other side of him, in fact, as long as the other party's request was not so difficult to meet, as a member of the Dawn Temple, he had to help him in terms of both responsibility and obligation. Although Chen Kai is unlikely to get paid for helping these pilgrims, he can get some kindness or justice points. So far, the only use of these two stats is for lord knights to stabilize the inhabitants of dìng territory, and generally speaking, the higher the lord these two values, the more reassuring the lord will be. This value is equivalent to the territory stabilizer, and the higher these two values are for non-lord players, the easier it is to be accepted by the strange natives in the game. After all, good people are more acceptable than vicious players. Although most players have the purpose of helping the aborigines with utilitarianism, when this utilitarian behavior becomes a habit, players gradually find that they are more and more accustomed to the habit of helping others.

"It's like this, Lord Knight, who met some pilgrims on the way as we came. Although we tried to help them and persuade them to go with them, they probably didn't believe that there was a caravan ahead of them, so they stayed where they were, and hid in their snowy houses. So I'm here to ask if you can help these people, they're about a kilometer south of here," the old man thought for a moment, especially when he was determining the direction, he hesitated, and after looking around, he was sure that it should be the south, or the south in his mind. Because according to the direction his finger pointed, Chen Kai could be very sure that it was definitely not the south but the southwest. Surrounded by heavy snow, the old man was obviously a little confused about the direction, so Chen Kai was really skeptical that he could find those poor pilgrims in the direction of his guidance.

Although Chen Kai was a little skeptical that he could find those pilgrims, he still sighed and walked out of the carriage formation after seeing the kind green task bar in the task bar. After saying hello to the mercenary on duty at night, Chen Kai rode the spot, one foot deep and one foot shallow, searching in the direction guided by the old man. The whistling north was wrapped in snowflakes and quickly hid the hoof prints left by the war horse that Chen Kai was riding, and at the same time slowly swallowed his figure, and his whole person disappeared in the wind and snow after walking less than twenty meters. Chen Kai opened his portable map, and then looked back, although he knew that the camp was behind him, but through the wind and snow, he saw that there was nothing but gray-white snowflakes. Fortunately, Chen Kai had already marked the camp on his personal map, so he didn't have to worry about getting lost in the snow, but searching for those pilgrims would become a hassle. Fortunately, as he stepped out of the carriage, he borrowed a few blankets from the old merchant, which should have been able to keep the hapless pilgrims wrapped in the wind and snow.

"Come on, Spotted, I'll give you a hot bath when you get back to town," Chen Kai patted his poor mount, he knew how much damage the road would do to the horses themselves in such snowy weather, and the cold snow water might rust the horseshoe and cause the horse's hooves to become infected and rotten. But Chen Kai had to do this, because with his own walking ability, it was impossible to travel more than a kilometer in a short time. Of course, Chen Kai can also use the tool of the sled, but unfortunately he searched the entire backpack but did not find this kind of thing, the only thing similar to the sled is a broken boat board or the remaining part of the boat that he dismantled in the past. It wasn't impossible to slide on the snow with something like this, but Chen Kai couldn't fix himself, at least for a short time, he couldn't carve out enough grooves in the planks to fit his boots. So I can only work hard for the poor spot for a while, and then go back to town and find a special veterinarian to look at it for him. In fact, after walking into the snowy plain, Chen Kai doubted whether those horse thieves would have the courage to come out and rob in such weather, because the surrounding environmental conditions were so poor that he could barely see anything twenty meters in front of him.

After a few minutes, the howling north wind and the sound of trampling the snow became the main music accompanying Chen Kai's progress, and in this environment, Chen Kai tried to search for traces on the ground, and the bulging snow bags around the main road became the first target for Chen Kai. It's just that most of the snow bags are natural snow mounds formed by the snow layer due to the strong wind, and Chen Kai obviously can't tell whether those snow dunes are natural or man-made, so he can only find them one by one. Finally, when Chen Kai found the first pilgrim who was about to freeze, it had been nearly half an hour since he left the camp.

This hapless pilgrim who was about to freeze to death was huddled in a snow cave he had dug out, and if it weren't for Chen Kai's foot through the snow, he might never have been found, and he would definitely only be found by the farmer after the snow melted in the spring, and he was already a corpse at that time.

"Sense... Thank you sir,... Thank... Thank you for saving me," the pilgrim who was almost frozen to death shrunk into a blanket and drank the liquor that Chen Kai handed him, the warm liquor gradually dispelled the cold in his body, and his bruised cheeks slowly turned a little bloody.

"No thanks, do you know where the pilgrims are with you?" Chen Kai asked the other party hopefully, but the other party's expression made Chen Kai sink, obviously he was a lone pilgrim, and this kind of pilgrim was the longest and most troublesome in the entire plain. They were originally poor peasants, and only pious faith and great gods were their only spiritual sustenance, so naturally they had no long things, so they were only poor with a sackcloth and no fur to protect them from the cold.

"Well, will you join me in looking for other pilgrims, or will you stay here and wait for me to come back?" Chen Kai looked at the other party's face and planned to continue to set off, after all, he couldn't escort him alone, and if he delayed on the road for too long, those who could have been saved might lose hope of living.

"I want to follow you," the pilgrim was clearly conscious, and he knew what it would mean to stay in the snow, even with a blanket on his body. Although it is necessary to brave the snow to follow Chen Kai, at least the safety is guaranteed, and the hot liquor can be drunk at any time, which is the most important life-saving thing for pedestrians in the snow.

After following a burden behind his buttocks, Chen Kai once again embarked on a search road full of wind and snow. In fact, if you change to the aborigines, it will be very dangerous to walk in this kind of snowy weather, and only people with strong self-sustaining strength will not be afraid of this danger. Because they can use the power in their bodies to dispel the cold around them at any time, and obviously in the eyes of the pilgrim who did not know the identity of Chen Kai's traveler, Chen Kai has the model of such a powerful person. That's why he blindly followed Chen Kai's footsteps and looked for pilgrims like himself in the snow full of dangers.

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