Chapter 417: The Road to the Holy Mountain Is Not Full of Pilgrims (1)
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Breathing in the fresh air around him, Chen Kai suddenly felt that it was a wonderful thing to return to the imperial capital, at least the air would not be mixed with the smell of foot sweat and blood. Thinking of the smell of blood, Chen Kai suddenly felt that a certain nerve in his nose was touched again, because his twitching nose did smell a warm bloody smell from the human body, as well as the ** sour smell from the undigested food in the internal organs. At that moment, Chen Kai thought of the corpses of those players who died in the Rocky Canyon some time ago, and also thought of the corpses of the beasts that died in his hands, he raised his head and looked around to find the source of this bloody smell. Not far away, a corpse was being cleaned up by a city guard, the appearance of being crushed into a pulp and the broken skull showed that the other party was crushed by the pressure of the space passage when he was teleporting in the space, for this kind of unlucky person who did not have one in ten thousand people, Chen Kai really had no other thoughts except sympathy.
Looking at the pile of bones shoveled into a pile, Chen Kai prayed for the other party's unlucky encounter, as for the winding, Chen Kai would definitely not because he knew who the unlucky guy was. In addition to the fact that players will resort to low-cost teleportation for a few gold coins without taking their lives seriously, the natives in the game who can afford to use the teleportation array will definitely not be stingy with those few gold coins. If they can't afford to spend the money, they prefer to trade in more cost-effective ways of travel, such as horse-drawn carriage transportation. In fact, most of the transportation in the game still relies on freight carriage merchants that travel across the continent, and if this were not the case, then the mercenary industry that relied on protecting caravans to obtain gold would not be so in demand.
Slowly walking out of the teleportation square covering an area of one square kilometer, Chen Kai officially set foot in the urban area of the imperial capital. In fact, it is not necessarily the case to step into the urban area, after all, the distance between the Emperor's ** Department and the Teleportation Square that Chen Kai needs to go to is nearly five kilometers away. Fortunately, this is in the city, and Chen Kai can use the passenger carriage on the side of the street to get there, and if he is in the wild, he will have to ride Lal to hurry.
Sitting in a low-level carriage with a silver coin of one kilometer, Chen Kai slowly observed this familiar and unfamiliar city through the wound. In fact, according to the coachman who drove the carriage, a noble person like Chen Kai would not come to ride in a low-class carriage like him. In the eyes of this old coachman, even the poor bankrupt aristocratic lord will pretend to be very rich after entering the imperial capital, because they feel that their face is more important than the money bag, although the final result of these lords is to walk back to the countryside with food, or simply be thrown into the prison of the imperial capital for stealing or eating overlord meals, but as long as they have a gold coin in their pocket, they will not care about their face.
Of course, Chen Kai would never want to become one of the poor nobles among the aborigines who want to save face, and the low-class carriage is not to save money, but the only carriage that Chen Kai passes in front of him. He didn't have the heart to walk three kilometers to the nearest carriage shop to rent a carriage that only lasted ten minutes, and he didn't have the heart to risk being fined by the city guards and rode around the city on Lal, so the two low-grade carriages passing in front of him became Chen Kai's first choice.
"Damn old fox, bad old man who slams the door, pull must be a miser" Half an hour after Chen Kai relied on the letter in his hand to enter the emperor's ** department, he scolded and walked out of the towering gate of the emperor's ** department, and several guards standing next to him turned a deaf ear to Chen Kai's scolding words, even if he was scolding their superior, the general Hitler who was called the old miser empire? The guards of the Grand Duke of Rameth would not be very angry, because they had seen too much of such things. Every legion envoy from the border will come out with such an expression after seeing the Grand Duke, if they have to arrest each one, it is estimated that there will be at least more than a hundred envoys from each legion every year.
"Carriage NND, go to Lord Berkner's Palace" Chen Kai scolded and walked into the carriage, his only gain this time was the hardship of fifty gold coins and 30,000 points of experience, of course, there is also a knighthood reward given by Count Memphus at the beginning, and now he will make up for the title after it has not been realized. Now the title of the nobles of Chen Kai's fief is already a lord, at least in the official title of the sixth order of the Imperial Duke, the prince and the male commander, Chen Kai has entered the lowest first order, of course, thanks to the role of Chen Kai's title of military knight. Otherwise, he would have to stay up for at least three more months to get the title of Lord, and just the time for the Senate to fight was enough to make the old nobles feel broken.
"Good Lord Berkner's Mansion" As the coachman shook the whip and made a crisp sound, the carriage that Chen Kai was riding in began to move staggeringly, and at the same time, Chen Kai, who was sitting in the carriage, was digesting the benefits obtained after the promotion of the title. Chen Kai didn't have to think about the expansion of the territory, there weren't too many fiefs around the imperial capital to give him as territory, and as for the gold coins, he didn't have to think about the fact that the finance minister of the empire didn't have any extra money to send him because of the two wars, so the only benefit Chen Kai got was a few bottles of the dragon blood of the divine dragon and a special noble emblem of zuò. This emblem representing Lord Chen Kai's status is a medal that can be worn, and in addition to showing Chen Kai's identity, it also has certain attribute bonuses,... The bonus of intelligence and five points of stamina gives this small medal the characteristics of high-level alchemy equipment. Therefore, although I feel that the empire has picked the door a little, Chen Kai is still very satisfied with the medal in hand, of course, it would be even better if the reward was a little more, at least Chen Kai himself would not dislike the reward too much.
In the midst of the rapid hoofs of the horses and the neighing of the old horses, Chen Kai returned to his home in the imperial capital, in fact, when the player is born, he will have a certain logo on his body, which is the logo of his birthplace. For example, if a player is born in Adorik, there will be a home location marker at the bottom of the stat bar, which will show where the player has arrived. However, when the player moves to another city and buys land in that city and settles down, the origin of the attribute bar will change to where the origin is, followed by an additional sentence about where to settle down. When the guards check it, the player can scan it with their eyes in that position, and an additional metal nameplate will appear in their hand, which is used to show that their home address and other information belong to the identity of the game world. Now Chen Kai's identity certificate says that Chen Kai is originally from Adolik and now lives in Xijing Berkner Manor.
Walking into this long-awaited manor, Chen Kai suddenly found that everything was the same as when he left, and the entire manor was a quiet mess, basically not to mention people, not even cats. In fact, even if there was such a long time of uncared for life, they would either become wild cats or starve to death, and Chen Kai and they didn't have the heart to keep pets in the manor, so naturally it was impossible to have cats. Of course, when Chen Kai returned to his manor, in addition to taking some gold coins from the underground treasure room for use, he also wanted to get some potions, and the most important thing was to get the black funeral letter sent by Bass from the letter storage office of the manor. Although Chen Kai already has the task of going to the Holy Mountain to participate in An Luo's funeral in the task bar, he lacks the credentials to enter the Holy Mountain, let alone enter the Holy Mountain, and he is not even qualified to go to the periphery of the Holy Mountain. The news from the mouth of the Grand Duke of Ramus.
Of course, the news should have been conveyed by Anderson to Chen Kai, but unfortunately he had already gone to the Holy Mountain to attend An Luo's funeral one step ahead of Chen Kai, although there was still more than a month before the funeral, but Anderson set off early. Because there is no teleportation array to go to the Holy Mountain, except for using war horses to hurry, he can only take a carriage, and Anderson, who carries a huge family, naturally cannot travel lightly like Chen Kai. Although he is not married as a playboy in the imperial capital, he already has two adopted sons and an adopted daughter who look very similar to him, as for why these little guys look so much like Anderson, according to his family's tradition, it is called fate, but fools know that it is definitely his illegitimate child outside. It is precisely because of this that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess will hate because of love, originally thought that she liked a good man, but she didn't expect the other party to even have an illegitimate child, so what happened later was very unexpected, basically the two began to become incompatible, that is, from lovers to enemies.
In fact, according to what Xuehaifeng learned, the adopted son who did it was not Anderson's illegitimate son at all, in fact, it was Anderson's amorous debt, but this black cauldron was carried by Anderson. Everyone thinks that the three little guys look very similar to Anderson, but they forget that they are actually more similar to Anderson's hanging father, and Anderson naturally can't let his father who died on the battlefield bear such a bad reputation, so he can only carry it himself. Originally, he hoped that Her Royal Highness the princess, who was in love with him, would understand his painstaking efforts, but on the first day the three little ones were brought back, the two of them had a big fight, and almost demolished the entire Anderson mansion. In the end, Anderson became a wanderer, and the eldest princess became the vanguard of the fight against the rogue nobles, and seeing a second-rate nobleman who played hooligans was a holy judgment. This holy judgment basically has an extra expense for the Temple of Life, and of course Anderson also has an extra sin on his back, because most of the second-rate nobles who have been punished will not review their sins, but put all the blame on Anderson, who has become a wanderer.
In fact, Anderson also had plans to take his three adopted sons and daughters, who were younger siblings, to the Holy Mountain to escape the disaster, and by the way, he also had plans to entrust his younger siblings to the monastery of the Holy Mountain to raise, and of course, more importantly, he was worried about the revenge of the nobles who were repaired by the eldest princess. After all, those second-rate nobles did not dare to retaliate against the daughter of the emperor, nor did they dare to retaliate against Anderson, who was a sheriff, but dared to bully Anderson's three adopted sons and adopted daughters. Although it was only an attempt, for the sake of his younger siblings' lives, Anderson decided to send them to the monastery of the Holy Mountain and use the connections of his mentor Charles to place them there.
Here I have to mention another disadvantage of the teleportation array in the game, that is, children under the age of ten cannot withstand the space pressure when teleporting, not only for the player, but also for the aborigines in the game. Therefore, when Chen Kai used his portal to quickly reach the Great Kaisara Fort, Anderson was still driving the carriage through the road to the next city, but because he set off much earlier than Chen Kai, he was now very close to the City of Dawn, of course, at least five or six hundred kilometers away from the Holy Mountain. However, Chen Kai had just set off from the Great Kaila Fort at the moment, and just like when he left the Zela Fortress, Chen Kai also put a cloth bag on Lal's back to pack the little guy, and on the other side was the food of this glutton. Of course, more of the food is stuffed into the backpack, and basically the entire backpack is stuffed with fresh roast lamb shank, which can be eaten as long as it is slightly hot. Not only can the little guy eat enough, but Chen Kai doesn't have to rely on just gnawing bread to solve the food problem.
In fact, Chen Kai is still very worried about taking this road, although he can quickly reach the holy mountain by taking the golden passage from the Great Kaisara Fort, but it takes a lot of luck to cross the grass outside the Great Kaisara Fort. After all, those huge dragon lizards are not easy to mess with, although from time to time there will be soldiers to strangle these dragon lizards, but their breeding speed is too fast, those young dragon lizards are almost under the fortress. This qiē only happened in the past two months, that is, when Chen Kai and the others left the imperial capital. So now the sheriff of Fort Kesara, the one who had beaten the idea of the Great Earth Scepter in Chen Kai's backpack, didn't have time to continue to trouble Chen Kai, even if he wanted to, he didn't dare, and he was even more afraid of being troubled by Chen Kai. It's just that Chen Kai doesn't have any evidence of his collusion with the black-clothed assassins, let alone his handle, and Chen Kai doesn't know that this sheriff named Sanchez has ever beaten him.
The only thought he had when he saw this sheriff was that the other party was too dedicated, and in just a few months, the sheriff was at least five years old, and he hadn't slept a good night's sleep for a long time due to the fact that caravans were attacked by dragon lizards every day. The long list of dragon lizard hunting tasks hanging at the city gate every day has increased exponentially almost every day, and a large number of juvenile dragon lizards are constantly harassing the caravan and threatening the safety of the two fortresses, so Sanchez, as a sheriff, can hardly sleep well. So he naturally didn't have time to pay attention to Chen Kai, a strange acquaintance who just showed his face in Fort Kesara, maybe Chen Kai stood in front of him, and he might not be able to recognize Chen Kailai.
Of course, Chen Kai didn't have time to pavement in front of this old man, so he just hurriedly passed by the city gate and looked around, and then disappeared on the long road. Chen Kai's only impression of Sheriff Sanchez now is probably the graying sideburns and withered cheeks, but after a while, all these impressions disappeared, leaving only the pleasure of riding Lahr on the horse track.
The built war horse gallop road is not the kind of rock roadbed in the northern border area, and the intact war horse road is built with soft and hard soil, after all, the hard rock road is very damaged to the horses' hooves. Because of this, Chen Kai moved so slowly when he was heading to Norman at Zela's Fortress, and he would rather walk in muddy grass than run on hard rocky roads, because that would cause great damage to Ral's horse's hooves. After all, in order to save construction time, and also to facilitate the carriage to transport goods, the first straight road to the Zela fortress was built purely of stone. But the part of the rock is only the surface, and after being destroyed by those monsters and eroded by rain, the rocky road becomes potholed, and if one accidentally steps into the mud puddle that turns into a pond, Chen Kai dare not or can't let go at all to let Lal run. The roads near the fortress of Zela were even worse, the demons had no idea of protecting the roads, and their hideous feet of the opposite sex directly destroyed the rock structure when they stood on the road, so the roads near the fortress were basically gravel roads. But Chen Kai is now walking on the horse road on the Golden Plain, a huge road with a width of 20 meters that traverses the entire empire, connecting the two important cities of the empire in the east and west, Xijing, the imperial capital, and the city of the dawn, the main religious city.
Therefore, the road chosen by Chen Kai is the fastest way to the Holy Mountain, which is definitely much faster than slowly taking a detour from city to city like Anderson, but there is one bad thing, that is, there are too many bandits. This is a very criticized and incomprehensible place, it stands to reason that for a national-level main road, the emperor ** team should always ensure its unblocked, and it is even more necessary to clean up the thieves around at any time, but it is difficult for such a thing to happen in the game world. Not to mention how big the distance of the entire golden artery is, just the hundreds of large and small territories around it are enough to give players a headache for a long time, and these territories directly contradict each other, not to mention who can collect the taxes of business travel on the road, but it has been a battle for nearly a hundred years. In the end, if it weren't for the fifteenth emperor of the Hansting Empire to attack strongly and directly subdue these lords and nobles with a large army, it is estimated that after entering the game, players want to get through the road of guò and hurry, and just pay the toll can make a player fight for a month in vain. It's just that after being subdued, the relationship between the various lords is still not very good, and there will definitely be no fewer people who stab them in the back in private, coupled with the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, the horse thieves and bandits on the Golden Passage are rampant, and the trade route is almost blocked.
As for the order to exterminate the horse thieves, most of the horse thieves were broken nobles or second-rate people who could not get along locally, and they committed crimes in other territories. As long as the plot is not very strict, most of them will be blessed by their lords in disguise, and some of them are even more powerful, they are simply the private army of a small lord, but they just ran into the hostile lord who had an enmity with the little lord and became a robber, and once the wind was not right, he immediately returned to his lord's hands and changed his face to become a pro-guard again. This chaotic change of robbers and armies has made the entire area unusually smoky, and if it weren't for the fact that every caravan would hire mercenaries to escort the goods, it is estimated that the Golden Passage would have become a death artery.
Although it was expensive to hire mercenaries, the guò trade route could save two-thirds of the distance, and some important supplies could only be transported through the guò trade route, so those caravans had to hire mercenaries to protect their caravans. Small merchants don't have that much money so they can only gather together and hire together, so the survival of bandits makes the mercenary industry of Hansting very prosperous, so that those mercenaries are not willing to do the task of exterminating the bandits, because it is not in their interest. This chaotic situation continued until the player entered the game, and now the bandits on the Golden Plains were not only the motivation for players to make a fortune, but also a source of experience for their leveling, as well as a source of territorial merits, especially those sent by rival lords. Therefore, Cheng Dù, who is familiar with these bandit players, definitely knows better than those merchants who have dealt with them all the year round, how many bandits are in that territory on the forum, and which territory the bandit leader is a member or wandering nobleman, and there are more than 300 pages of wanted notices with different bounties. There are more than 6,000 wanted horse thieves, large and small, and there are also big bandits and thieves with names and surnames, and those who are not famous or have a bounty of less than 1,000 gold coins are not eligible to enter the player's wanted list at all.
This wanted notice changes almost every day, with hapless horse thieves turning into gold in players' pockets, and more horse thieves following in their predecessors' steps. When Chen Kai entered the Golden Plains, his whereabouts were immediately known to some well-informed people, and these well-informed people without exception carried the aboriginal publications marked with Chen Kai's worth. As high as five million gold coins, the diamond-level emerging nobles appeared single-handedly in the bandits' den of the Golden Great Plains, and even if the lords behind these bandits tried their best to suppress them, they couldn't stop the greedy people from moving their minds to Chen Kai. In fact, after hundreds of years of development, some lords have no control over the thieves who were once under them, and even some of them have been accused and have been forced to become a place for thieves to sell their stolen goods, so the thieves on the Golden Plains will not be clean, because the territory of some places has been banditred.
Therefore, when Chen Kai galloped on the avenue at high speed, he would always find some bandit spies in the distance, and more importantly, he always felt that the patrol cavalry passing by had very unkind faces. Thinking of the bad rumors that some patrol cavalry cameo robbers, Chen Kai couldn't help but tighten the cloak on his body and the heavyweight armor under the cloak.
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