Chapter Twenty-Nine: Stop, Rest
In the Forest of the Dead, which is the easternmost land of the continent of Oran, the weather in April is a little humid and cool, not as cold as winter, nor as disturbing and inconvenient as the rainy days of early spring.
In the north, there is the Warcraft Plain, which connects to the westernmost part of the Eastern Continent, and below is the mountain land with continuous mountains and dragons, as well as the Forest of the Dead in the shape of a long strip, wide at the top and thin at the bottom. The Forest of the Dead was as long and narrow as a pincer, enveloping the western side of the Sea of Darkness. The proximity to the sea creates a line of defense for the Forest of the Dead, keeping the waves of the Sea of Darkness out of the land, and only the strongest sea breeze can pass through this barrier and bring the smell of the sea into the forest.
Romena's convoy is now heading east, to the seaside, to the sea of darkness. Romena's convoy – or more accurately, Lulunaka's – had been heading east for a week. It's been a week since the conspiracy and the massacre, and the convoy is long since the place where the massacre took place, and even if anyone passed by the bloody place, they would probably be able to find clues as to what had happened, and they would not suspect Lulunaka's convoy at all. As for the unnatural dirt bags, it may be curious, but no one will dig up for them to see what is going on and find out what is going on. Not to mention that the dug up is definitely not gold and valuable things, if you see a rotting corpse, then in addition to the stomach, you may be cursed by this forest of the dead - in this place, sometimes death is not the end, but the beginning. If the dead are left unstable, then their anger and resentment may be vented on the living. No one wants to be the unlucky guy who is being targeted by the dead.
Lulunaka's convoy was on the road to the east. Lulunaka had taken the convoy in a more remote way than the route that Romeona and Olga had deliberately led to the Forest of the Dead, where no one had ever walked it. In the beginning, there were no problems with the road, but now it is getting wilder and narrower. Some sections of the road have been paved with roots of trees or vines of plants, cutting the road into several sections. Sometimes the road is too bumpy, and it takes some effort for the team to get through.
Five carriages lined up in a very slow line, slowly moving towards the front of the road. The convoy of five carriages is not large, but it is a bit large for a small team of only five people. If everyone was in charge of a carriage, they could barely get the carriage moving, but neither Romeona nor Julius had experience in driving carriages—although Romeona was not a pampered lady of the true nobility, that did not mean that she, a girl who had been a poor child of the castle of Kings, could drive a carriage; Julius lived in a village, and had not been anywhere for more than a decade except the village and the forest, and had no chance to learn to use a carriage except to watch the convoys passing by the village from afar.
Thus, in the beginning, in addition to Lulunaka, who was in charge of leading the carriage, Olga and Padin were each responsible for driving two carriages at the same time. This is not an easy job, and it is often necessary to follow the carriage and use the whip to correct the path of the horses, so that they can eat the whip and move honestly and not drag on the road. For an ordinary adult man, it is also a relatively hard work to work by the side of the carriage like this, but for a warrior with abundant physical strength, it is not a difficult task, although it is a bit overkill. Coupled with the fact that Lulunaka didn't let the team go fast, the slow pace of progress had been going for a week, and it was impossible to feel the day when it came out of the forest, which also made the team's progress much easier. Lulunaka didn't seem to be in a hurry, not caring at all how far she could walk in a day, and when it was almost dark, she would stop.
The convoy traveled at this pace for a week, during which time Julius learned how to drive a horse-drawn carriage, and Olga had half the work. It was a new experience for Julius, who had not laid down the reins and whip for several days after learning how to call the carriage, and had slept in the carriage. Because Julius could also help, it made the carriage a little faster. Lulunaka, who was at the front of the convoy, was never in a hurry, which made the carriage that followed behind no matter how fast it was, and she would stop depending on her mood, so that the whole convoy would also stop.
As it was now, Lulunaka stopped the carriage she was sitting in. As soon as she stopped, the carriage that followed behind could only stop. The convoy stopped on a relatively desolate road. Bushes are overgrown, and foliage and vines extend to the road, and the weeds on the road are palm-high. It's a deserted road, and it looks like no one has been passing through it for a long time.
"Why did you stop?" asked Olga, who was in the back. He was in charge of the horses in the middle of the convoy, with Julius' carriage in front and Lulunaka in front. Behind him was Pattin, who was still in charge of the two carriages.
"That's all for today, take a break here. Lulunaka turned her head and shouted behind her.
Olga asked the horse pulling the cart to stop, dismounted, and walked to the front of the convoy. He came to Lulunaka's side and asked, "It's still early, is it too early to stop?"
"It's getting late, Lord Olga. Lulunaka laughed. She pointed upwards, where the sunlight could only dappled and sprinkled on the ground under the shade of dense foliage, and the fact that it was not noon when the sun was at its most intense made the light in the forest much dimmer. A breeze blew through the forest, shaking the branches and leaves, and the sound of the branches swaying was heard and drifted over the convoy. "There's a stretch of road ahead that is rather barren, and if you keep walking now, you'll fall asleep tonight to the accompaniment of the reptiles, and maybe you can hear the howls of monsters coming from afar. If you want to go, I think it's better to leave early the next day and go straight through it in one day. ”
Speaking of this, Lulunaka paused, "Of course, if you have to keep walking, I don't have a problem, it doesn't matter to me anything, the bugs are still quite good." But for Romeona, it's not so friendly...... Maybe a grimace spider the size of a baby's head will crawl on her face?" Lulunaka covered her face with her hands and fingers apart, looking like she was mimicking a large spider crawling on her face, "Although the bigger the spider, the less poisonous it is, but on the other hand, the strength and teeth are not so soft...... There will be heavy bleeding. ”
At the mention of Romeona, Olga's face was a little more difficult. Lulunaka's words sounded reasonable, but after a week of getting along, Olga suspected that she would take things in a serious direction for one reason or another. It wasn't that she had any purpose, but that she thought it was funny, or that she suddenly lost the mood to keep going, so she simply found an excuse to stop.
From behind came Julius's shout, "Did something happen, how did it stop?"
"It's time to stop and rest!" Lulunaka shouted to the back. When Julius heard this, he only answered, did not speak again, and dismounted from the carriage and began to prepare the things for the fire to be set up for camp. As for Pattin, after hearing Lulunaka's shout, he didn't even reply, and after calming the horse, he began to prepare for camping like Julius.
Olga knew that Lulunaka had made up her mind to stop here for a night's rest, and that no amount of talk would change her plans, so she didn't bother to say anything. As he was about to return to the convoy, Romeona pulled back the curtain and poked her head out. After a major accident a week ago, Romeona's body and mind have suffered a lot of blows, and she is not used to traveling far away, but she can still hold it up, but it is not very good. Her face was much better than before, but her lips were still a little pale, and the haggard look on her face made her look much more mature—or rather much older. A teenage girl, her complexion and temperament look like a twenty-year-old woman.
Luo Miona replaced the flower skirt that was inconvenient to move around, and wore an ordinary and rough short shirt and long skirt, looking like a peasant girl, and there was no sense of nobility at all. "Are you going to stop, set up camp and rest? ”
"Oona, these jobs are ......" Olga wanted to let Luo Miona have a good rest, but was interrupted by Luo Miona, "I am not a nobleman anymore, there is no need to be so squeamish...... You can't be a person who eats idle food and has nothing to do. ”
As soon as Romeo Ona said this, Olga really couldn't say anything to persuade her. As Romeona said, she is no longer a nobleman, and the half-witted and unpopular Romeona who is a nobleman has been "written to death" by Lulunaka. Now here is just a commoner, and the commoner is not qualified to wait for others to serve like the nobles.
"Isn't it very good, and it's not a lot of work. Lulunaka laughed, and it seemed that she didn't stop Romeona from thinking at all, "Girls are much more careful than you men who are quick but rude. ”
Lulunaka had said so, and Olga knew she couldn't persuade Romeoona any longer—she had already gotten out of the carriage and gone to the back to help.