Chapter 142: The Shadow of Mephis—When the Death Knell Rings (1)
Chapter 142: The Shadow of Mephis—When the Death Knell Rings (1)
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Two days later, Chen Kai appeared at the side door of the Dawn Temple in a carriage, and two cloaked men flashed in from the side. Chen Kai pretended not to see it, walked into the stable of the temple and led Lal and Momo out, and took away a month's worth of food by the way.
Although "driving" is the first time to drive a carriage, Chen Kai is still able to make the two horses obedient, at least under the guidance of the system, he can make the two horses walk slowly. As for running fast and turning, Chen Kai didn't want the carriage to overturn on the road yet, so he didn't plan to try it.
At this time, in the main square of Adorik, more than a dozen carriages with huge carriages were lining up for players to line up and get on and off the line, and the carriage that was originally only used to load goods was pulled over by the leader of the Raging Lion Mercenary Regiment, Lula, and after being modified, it became a special vehicle for Chen Kai and the lying corpse group formed by them.
"29983002" Captain Lula struggled to count the numbers on the side, and there were at least more than three thousand players crammed into a dozen carriages. Fortunately, players don't take up space after they go offline, otherwise these carriages would have been stuffed long ago, let alone walking.
The wagons will also be loaded with some cargo after the player goes offline, as space cannot be wasted. Of course, the loading place is at the back of the carriage, that is, at the back of the carriage. All carriages were eight-wheeled, with huge wooden wheels embedded with iron bones and a rubber-like substance.
In the middle of the convoy, Mr. and Mrs. Mark were waiting in their carriage, little Dole was held by his mother and sat in the carriage, and the same girls sat in the carriage while pinching Dole's little face and chatting with Lady Mary.
"Captain Lula, everyone is ready to go" Chen Kai carefully drove the carriage to the main square, and then Xu Fei and a few of their spellcasters opened the carriage and sat inside, of course, they chose to ignore the two people wearing cloaks inside.
From Chen Kai's mouth, they knew that these two were Rong En and Bass, and from the smell of meat coming from under the larger head canopy, they could know that Buzz was solving his food at this time.
"Okay guys, let's go," Captain Lula happily put away the record, this was the proof of the fee he had when he arrived at his destination, if it was missing, it would be a lot of gold coins gone. After he shouted, the dozen or so hired coachmen shook the reins slightly, and slowly left the main square with a cart full of goods and the mercenaries who sat in the carriage to protect them.
In less than half an hour, the carriage had passed through the city gate and officially stepped into the trade route to Miffhis. Chen Kai also got off the carriage, rode on Lal and slowly followed the carriage. For war horses, if they don't exercise for a long time, the fat on their bodies will increase, which will affect the running ability of war horses.
Captain Lula swallowed his saliva as he looked at the twelve Andean horses running around the carriage, if he hadn't seen the temple emblem on the horses, he would have wanted to ask Chen Kai if he could sell one to him. In particular, the leader was a head taller than most Andean horses, and the sound of the horse's hooves was like thunder when it stepped on the ground.
No matter which mercenary the mercenary's first reaction after seeing Ral, he thinks that Ralr is a horse king, and he is a very young one. From any point of view, Ral will not be more than three years old, and the horse king who has just turned three years old can only appear in this world if he has inherited the bloodline of a high-level demonic beast.
Mephis wasn't far from Adok, but only in terms of the territory bordering it. In fact, the city of Miffeus is at least 200 kilometers away from the city of Adolik, and this is only after the bridge across the Miluo River is repaired.
The bridge was only halfway built now, so Chen Kai and the others would have to walk for at least three days to get to Mephis City, passing through two small towns on the way to replenish food. The group members of the lying corpse will need to go online to breathe, or buy some supplies from the town, and it may take longer to reach Mephimus. In real time, it is a day and a half, which is already very fast for a carriage with a maximum speed of thirty kilometers per hour.
Horses need to rest after running for a long time, otherwise even if the horseshoe is nailed, the horse's hooves will have problems. More often than not, the carriage can only travel at a speed of ten kilometers per hour, which is why it takes a long time to reach Mephimhis.
Loye is a border town in the town of Adolik, about 60 kilometers away. Some distance beyond is the wilderness between the new Earls of Adolic and the Counts of Miffus, a 50-kilometer-long wilderness area that serves as a buffer zone between the two towns. Although Count Adolic was able to expand his territory by another 20 kilometers after entering the town, the new Count of Adolic was unable to expand due to the limitations of the town's population and soldiers.
The earl's focus is still on the area of Adog, after all, the emperor has placed him here to defend against the monsters in Adog. Otherwise, it would not be too low to put a new legendary-level master in that three-pole main city as a city lord.
The area of Loye Town as a vassal territory of Count Adolic is not very large, but in the small town of Loye there are nearly 5,000 soldiers stationed, and there are also some mages stationed. Of course, the business of Loye Town is also extremely developed, and as the town leading to Miffhis, merchants and adventurers come and go constantly shuttling through the modest streets of Loye Town.
It is said that the town of Loye, which has only 20,000 permanent residents, is visited by 50,000 merchants and adventurers every year. The large amount of commercial taxes and trade is also the reason why Count Adolic stationed soldiers of nearly a legion here, and the protection of taxes is to protect the money bags of the empire and the count. After all, most of that legion was from the Emperor ** Regiment, and the rest were the local army of Adolik.
After stopping at the camp outside the town of Loye, Lula formed the wagon in a circle and pitched the tent in the middle. It is most unwise to go into the wilderness at night, although the trade routes in the wilderness are very busy, and there are many thieves and horse thieves who crisscross the wilderness.
Lula didn't want to be greedy and be robbed in the middle of the night by those elusive horse thieves. Although he was not necessarily afraid of the horse thieves, if the carriage was damaged, he would have to pay money. Lula didn't want to use his own private money to subsidize this unnecessary loss.
Of course, there are also benefits to resting in Luoye Town, and those players who have been offline can come up and take a stroll and find some good things in Luoye Town by the way. After all, Luoye Town is a trading town, and there are a lot of things in it, as evidenced by the shops on both sides of the street.
Use SMS group reminders later, in a short period of time. Half of the more than 3,000 players went online one by one, and then got out of the carriage and rushed into Luoye Town.
"It's another group of fools who increase taxes for Luo Fat" Rong En lifted the curtain on the carriage and looked out, the Luo Fat Man in his mouth was Luo, the tax collector of Luoye Town? Ambaniya. His favorite thing to do was to stay at the gates and watch the silver coins put into the boxes of the entrance tax on the side, and his mouth was full of grinning when he saw the group of thousands of travelers enter. The players who came running over seemed to him like shiny silver coins.
"Bishop Rong En can get off the carriage" Chen Kai drove the carriage to the door of his tent, and then knocked on the door of the carriage, and the first person to get off the carriage was not Rong En but Xu Fei. He got out of the carriage and lifted the hood from his head and looked to the side before he lifted the curtain of the tent, and at that moment Bas and Ron rushed into the tent.
At this time, Lula saw Chen Kai carrying a roast pig and a lot of bread into the tent, and he could even see a large piece of ham being removed from the carriage.
Chen Kai did not bring the roast pig and ham into the tent after removing it, but walked towards Lula, who was building a bonfire.
"Let's eat together with Captain Lula" Chen Kai pointed to the roast pig on his back and said, the roast pig was very large, and if it wasn't for Zhao Tiezhu and him carrying it, it would almost not be able to lift it.
"Good guy Balu old tavern roast pig, only half a month to have the best goods, this territory knight is really rich" Lula Captain next to a native thief looked at the roast pig that was carried over and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, it was all roasted with fine wild honey with various spices after the roasted tender skin.
"It's not good," Lula swallowed as she looked at the roast pig, but it wasn't a good habit to think about eating from her employer.
"It's okay, I have to ask you to take care of it these days, after all, it's the first time we're going to a big city, and some things don't move and you seniors still need to take care of them" Chen Kai directly put the roast pig on top of the bonfire that had just risen, and began to roast it before Lula objected.
A strong fragrance slowly wafted through the camp, and Bass, who stayed in the tent, took a light breath and felt that his students were really a bit of a loser. Such a good roast pig does not honor his mentor, but lets those mercenaries taste it first.
However, Buzz didn't wait long before he saw Chen Kai open the curtain of the tent and come in with a huge roast pork leg. Bas cheered and was about to use his hand to take the roast pork leg, but when Rong saw it, he reached out and slapped his palm off.
"Be careful, so many little ones are watching" Jon also hadn't eaten for almost a day, and his stomach was only grunting with hunger. When Chen Kai and the others stopped for lunch, Rong En only nibbled on a dry cake, but Buzz ate half a wild boar leg.
Chen Kai put the roast pork leg on a plate, then used the golden knife to cut the pork and put it on the freshly baked toast he had just bought from the town's bakery. Add fresh leaves and a little salad dressing to make a homemade pork burger.
Buzz took it directly after Chen Kai finished making a hamburger, and didn't care about the hot steam of the pork, stuffed it into his mouth and bit it. Bishop Rong En cut the hamburger into several even portions with a dinner knife, and ate slowly with the wine that he turned over from Chen Kai's room.
"Fortunately, all the good wines are hidden in the backpack" Looking at the bottle of wine that had been turned out, Chen Kai felt that he should change the new wine storage location to a more secluded place.
After cutting the meat, Chen Kai did not eat inside the tent, but returned outside to be with those mercenaries. He needed to know more about the lives of the mercenaries, and to know from their mouths about the surroundings of Miffhis, such as the filthy places or ruins.
Rong En watched Chen Kai disappear into the tent and smiled, then knocked a big hand that reached out to his dinner. Bas had a lot of food in his mouth, but his hands didn't stop for a moment, and he didn't plan to eat Bishop Young's dinner when he finished eating.
At this time, the store manager Mark also came to the bonfire at Chen Kai's invitation, holding a wine bottle in his hand. Under the suppression of his wife, he had not been touched by the smell of alcohol for a long time, and he could finally drink a little. As a result, they made a fuss until midnight that night, and the next day everyone woke up feeling sore.
"Are you all together? Captain Lula? Chen Kai asked, yawning, standing next to the bearded swordsman.
"It's all together, but there are two merchants in the back who want to join the team, Burkner Knight, do you think it's okay?" Lula said, pointing to the merchant who was driving two freight wagons next to him.
"You decide, as long as they can keep up with the speed, and if they don't have the spies of the thieves," Chen Kai said with a yawn, and then climbed onto his carriage and leaned there, of course he didn't fall asleep, but squinted at the two merchants.
Although he didn't want these two merchants to join him, after all, the more people there were, the higher the chance of them being discovered. After all, the natives are not the players of those lying corpses, especially those two merchants who are always staring around. However, Bishop Rong En told him that anyone who was a thief's spy could be let in, as long as Chen Kai paid more attention.
The two merchants joined the carriage after paying a hundred ducats, and chose to follow at the back of the procession. A few skinny old horses were pulling the heavy wagons slowly, and Chen Kai looked at the speed of the horses and worried about whether they would die directly on the road.
The price of a horse is very cheap, about a few tens of gold coins a horse, and if it is this kind of skinny old horse, the price will basically not exceed five gold coins. So the two merchants directly replaced the horses with six or seven horses, although the speed was a little slower, but the transportation cost was much lower. At least in the eyes of the merchants, the old horse had eaten much less.
Of course, this qiē has nothing to do with Chen Kai sitting in the carriage, after buying enough food in Luoye Town, even if they enter Miluo Town in Miffhis, they don't need to get off the carriage to buy food. At least Bishop Jon doesn't have to nibble on dry bread anymore, but can eat some fresh meat, and of course he has to get past the greedy Bass.
The huge convoy of wagons slowly left the town of Luoye, and in the distance from the town, a group of guys in various armor were staring at the trade road not far in front of them. Constantly choosing a fat sheep who is easy to start with and has a lot of oil and water.
While the game is close to noon, the real-life time is just 10 midnight, and it won't be long before a new day arrives for the real-life crowd. And Chen Kai and the others are still continuing to advance towards Mephis, and the area they are now in is a huge grassland.
As the junction of Mephis and Adorik, the Miluo Wasteland is not a wasteland worthy of its name, but is full of life. The various tributaries of the Miluo River bring abundant water to this wasteland, and if it were not for the annual rainy season, it would have been divided by the two counts in the presence of the emperor.
Chen Kai: Not long after the rainy season ended, the roads were full of muddy mud and thick branches of various sizes, most of which were brought down from the upper reaches of the tributaries. Occasionally, stones glittering in the sun or gold hidden in the gravel will be seen, but of course it's almost impossible to pick up unless you're lucky.
After leaving Luoye Town for more than twenty kilometers and entering the wasteland, the speed of the two merchants behind him became slower and slower, and by the time they reached the depths of the wasteland, the carriage of the two merchants was basically about to make Chen Kai unbearable. And just when Chen Kai and the others were about to break out, the carriages of the two merchants went directly to the nest.
"I'm sorry Captain Lula, something happened to our carriage," said the merchant who claimed to be Ike rubbing his hands and another merchant named Cato as he walked up to Lula.
"Is the wheel broken?" Captain Lula said as he looked at the merchant named Ike.
"Yes, yes, Captain Lula's eyes are so good, it's ...... so far away," the merchant named Ike froze for a moment as he looked at the wheel of the high-ranking swordsman who was holding it in his hand as a hula hoop behind Lula.
"Is your axle broken?" said a high-ranking swordsman on the other side, who was two meters tall, waved a wooden axle in his hand and smiled evilly at Cato, who was slowly sweating on his forehead.
"No, my car doesn't break down, you can continue on the road right away," Cato just turned around and wanted to leave, when he was pulled to the ground by Lula.
"Kaisers? Michelan, and the second-in-command of this poisonous scorpion, Ferruschi? Mr. Ral!" Lula looked at Ike as he was pressed to the ground by his men, and smiled evilly.
"I forgot to tell you, last month your leader, the scar-faced poisonous scorpion didn't cut the grass cleanly, and the little guy who escaped just happened to tell you two what you look like," Lula had just finished speaking, when he saw the faces of the two merchants who were still struggling.
"Tsk! These two carts are really heavy enough, at least a hundred large stones," Captain Lula kicked the boxes taken from the two merchants' carts and knocked them to the ground, and under the surface of the linen were dozens of huge rotten stones.
"Okay, Captain Lula, don't play with these two unlucky guys, although the bounty of the two of them is not low, don't delay the trip, take those old horses and carriages away together, as for the stones, don't stuff them, throw them out" Chen Kai looked at the two former thieves underground and said to Lula, if it wasn't for Lula and he said a word, he wouldn't believe that these two guys who looked honest and like farmers were actually members of the Wasteland Thieves Gang Poisonous Scorpion, and one of them was still the second-in-command.
"Don't worry, the knight of Berkner, we can't delay anything, we pack our things very quickly," after saying that, several people from the Berserk Lion Mercenary Regiment had already repaired the two carriages, and used their traveling horses as horses to pull the two carriages slowly.
As he walked, he threw the rotten stones in the box into the grass, and just as Chen Kai asked the coachman to continue on the road, the voice of Bishop Rong En came from the carriage.
"Kaichen asked the mercenary to bring the stones in his hand, don't let him lose them, it's best to pick up the stones just thrown, remember that there are faint blue cracks on the stones, don't pick up the others." Rong En's hurried voice reached Chen Kai's ears from the carriage.
Chen Kai felt very strange, what did it matter with a few rotten stones. However, he obeyed Jon's request, picked out the blue cracked stones from both carriages, and stuffed a few into his backpack before sending them into the carriage.
"Wake up, damn you, you pig is still sleeping, wake me up," Bishop Ron's voice came from the carriage, with a hint of anxiety and anger, and then Bass's screams.
After a while, there was a short knocking sound from the carriage, and Chen Kai listened to this agreed signal very strangely, because it was the sound of Rong En and him stopping the car. Although he felt strange in his heart, Chen Kai still obediently stopped the carriage.
"What happened to the Burkhner Knight? Why park?" Lula walked very strangely to Chen Kai's carriage, and at this time he saw the door of the carriage open, and out came two guys in black cloaks that he had never seen before.
"Lord ~ Your Excellency the Bishop" Lula froze as she watched the black-haired guy in the lead lift his hood and reveal the bishop's robe inside.
"Where are the two thieves?" Jon grabbed Lula's collar and said eagerly, and then he quickly let go, for he saw two sturdy unlucky ones tied up in the back compartments of the two carriages.
"Say~~ Where did you get these Demon Star Silver, tell me quickly~~" Bishop Rong En angrily raised the poisonous scorpion second master above his head, and then the power of the Holy Rank uncontrollably unfolded at that moment.
"Lord~~Your Excellency Bishop~~ You haven't taken off the strip of cloth from his mouth," Lula squatted on the ground to resist the pressure of the Holy Order on Rong En's body. Chen Kai and the others had already turned over and hid on the other side of the carriage, where they looked at it with their heads probed, and the second master who was lifted above his head by Rong En was already so frightened that he peed his pants.
"Waste, you're still the scorpion's second-in-command," Buzz ripped the strip of cloth from his mouth and took him from Jon's hand and pressed him to the ground. The two of them stepped on the hands of the poor second master, and the momentum of the Holy Order directly drove Lula and them to Chen Kai's side.
"I said, Knight Berkna, why are there such two Holy Orders hidden in your carriage? One of his ** is the bishop of the Temple of Dawn and the other is the chief knight? Captain Lula and his regiment members squatted pitifully beside Chen Kai, watching the unlucky second leader being forced to question by Bas and Rongen.
I don't know if it's called Ferruschi? What did the Second Leader of Lal do that made the two Holy Orders angry, they even executed the poor Second Master before he was even tried by the sheriff. The sound of cracking bones in my ears, and Ferruschi? Lal screamed, and Captain Lula knew that his bounty might be gone.
There was a crisp sound of a broken neck, and the poor second boss was directly twisted by Buzz after he had finished telling how old he was to peek at the woman's bath.
"Kaichen turned to the scorpion's lair, this waste has no idea where these magic star silver came from, I hope the poisonous scorpion will know" Buzz's face turned pale, and he changed the ruffian-like look he had last night, and at this moment there was a sound of horses' hooves from the forest not far away, and the other person in the carriage suddenly whined happily.
But when his gaze saw the two Saint-Rank powerhouses who were gradually converging their aura, that excited expression turned into fear. He tried to shout loudly for his companions to run, but the strip of cloth on his mouth blocked his voice, and he could only let out a dull and hoarse whining.