Chapter 408 Stone Canyon

The dark night, the fresh mountain breeze and the lonely cliffs, this is where Chen Kai is now and what he has experienced. Of course, there were also the rocks that had fallen from the cliff and the howls and angry roars of various wild boars, many of which almost hit his body, but unfortunately in the end, he either gritted his teeth and swung his weapon into the air with his arm that was about to break, or hit the cliff wall and bounced somewhere else. Chen Kai, who was hanging in the air, held the hilt of the sword with one hand, and with the other hand, he swung the mine pickaxe and knocked it on the cliff again and again, digging the rock to get a place to stay. Because he knew that the long sword in his hand had not entered the cliff much distance, maybe the next moment Chen Kai would fall down from the cliff again, and that would definitely kill him.

Chen Kai didn't think that he could stop on the cliff twice in the same way, first, he no longer had that strength, even if he still had nearly 150 points, but in thought, he had exhausted that strength, and secondly, the rocks below were too hard and full of protruding rocks, and there were no slopes for him to slow down. Such a cliff would definitely surprise Chen Kai when he tried to use a weapon to enter the cliff body, and even directly killed him.

Chen Kai, who was hanging on the cliff, endured the sharp pain of tearing his arms all the time, gritting his teeth and hitting the rock wall with a pickaxe, and the worst thing was that he couldn't exert himself. Once the rock is accidentally smashed completely, the long sword that Chen Kai is relying on may slip off the rock wall, and then Chen Kai can only let out a long scream. After nearly ten minutes of excavation, Chen Kai finally carved a small hole in the cliff wall, and then put an iron bāng on it and nailed it into the rock.

This method was used by Chen Kai on the cliff on the edge of the Bone Forest more than a month ago, and it worked very well. Now Chen Kai has dozens of such iron bāng stuffed in his backpack, and one of them is very sharpened to cope with this situation. Of course, Chen Kai did not foresee that he would have to rely on jumping off the cliff to get a chance to escape, but purely to be prepared. At the same time, polishing iron is also a way to exercise blacksmith skills, after all, these iron bāng are all made by Chen Kai themselves, in order to hold the round enough iron bāng, Chen Kai and several non-full-time blacksmiths have thought of a lot of ways. It's just that the iron bāng is still not so rounded, and it looks like a steel bar from a garbage factory workshop. In fact, Chen Kai's iron bāng is not as smooth as those inferior steel bars in reality, at least at the end of the 21st century and the beginning of the 22nd century, even the most rubbish steel bars are close to the standard round in terms of smoothness.

Therefore, Chen Kai basically can't take these iron bāng shapes made in their hands, and can only be used as ordinary materials or as steel drills like Chen Kai as stepping feet on the mountain cliff. After having the first iron bāng as a foothold, Chen Kai's safety factor finally increased slightly, after all, the iron bāng that was nearly twenty centimeters nailed into the rock was more reliable than the long sword that only penetrated the rock less than eight centimeters, and Chen Kai also tied a rope to the iron bāng and tied it around his waist. For the safety of his own life, he made a full set of preparations.

Sitting on top of the iron bāng, Chen Kai's breathing slowly calmed down, and it was not until this moment that he had time to carefully examine the environment he was in. With the help of the glimmer of dawn, Chen Kai could faintly see a pine tree growing on the cliff not far away, and not far from his feet, a shimmering plant was swaying in the wind. This plant, known as the Phantom Grass, is a special ingredient for making zuò fighting potions, but the wild Phantom Grass is very rare because it always grows on top of mountain cliffs. Of course, not all cliffs will grow Phantasm grass, because if this is the case, they will not be so rare, after all, there are only a few places in the Great Rift Valley with the most cliffs, and only a few plants can grow in a few years. Therefore, most of the pills for making zuò fighting qi are made of cultivated phantom light grass, although the effect is acceptable, but it is not as good as the wild one. At least if you want to make a high-grade pill that can instantly restore one-third or half of the fighting qi of an eighth-order powerhouse, you must use a wild Phantom Light Grass, of course, Chen Kai just knows that it is a Phantom Light Grass and it is still wild, and it is worth at least 1,000 gold coins in the market, as for the difference between it and the Phantom Light Grass that is only planted for 10~100 gold coins, he doesn't know.

However, Chen Kai has a wizard teammate who knows how to learn medicine, although He Liwen also doesn't know the difference between wild phantom light grass and planted ones, it doesn't mean that she won't be willing to get a wild one. Just like the almost extinct wild ginseng in reality, He Liwen believes that the wild Phantom Light Grass definitely has special effects that some planted Phantom Light Grass does not have, so she would like to have a wild one for research. Unfortunately, this wild one is not available in the shop, even if it has a price tag, but any wild Phantasmal Grass plant is not for sale.

Chen Kai looked at the Phantom Light Grass, which was about ten meters away from him, and gently pinched his cheek to make the paralyzed facial muscles get a painful sting. Because he found that the swelling of his mouth seemed to decrease, and at the same time the numbness of his tongue also decreased. Of course, it may also be an illusion caused by Chen Kai's own facial muscles being paralyzed, and Chen Kai has no way to determine whether his feelings are correct without a mirror. It's just that in this situation, Chen Kaike didn't have the heart to take out the mirror, he pinched his cheeks not to determine if he was dreaming of seeing a phantom light grass, nor to determine whether his cheek numbness was a little reduced, but to use pain to prick himself and not let himself fall asleep. After all, Chen Kai has been on the run for a whole night, although the time in the game is only half of what it is in reality, but in the eyes of people in the game, it will be a whole night. After Chen Kai found that he was safe, he felt that the cells in his whole body began to strike, and his body continued to decrease, and his drowsiness was like water. But in this case, how can Chen Kai let himself sleep, once he sleeps, God knows if it will fall, and then the fun will be great.

So Chen Kai pinched his cheek hard to prevent himself from falling asleep, and then took out a steel drill again and nailed it to the cliff. He didn't want to let himself fall, but he also didn't want to be tired to death because he was too tired, so trying his best to build a safe environment was the most important thing for Chen Kai. Even if there is a phantom light grass worth a thousand gold not far away, or a wild phantom light grass that has no price, then Chen Kai has to have the life to pick it. With a clanging sound, Chen Kai greeted the sunshine of a new day.

The warm sunlight slowly shone from the sky, dispelling the darkness around Chen Kai little by little, and at the same time, the phantom light grass that was constantly swaying in the wind slowly faded the glimmer on its surface and became an ordinary weed. Yes, the Phantom Light Grass looks the same as the Dog's Tail Grass in reality during the day, except that the uā spike on it will slowly glow at night, and unlike the Dog's Tail Grass in reality, the uā spike of the Phantom Light Grass is white. But this kind of white will slowly change with the sun, and finally gradually become the same as the real dog tail grass, so many times it is easy for inexperienced collectors to confuse the phantom light grass and the dog tail grass, and then make jokes, after all, there are also a lot of dog tail grass growing in the game. So when Chen Kai saw the Phantom Light Grass again, he almost felt that his eyes were gone, because it was now the same as the Dog's Tail Grass.

Chen Kai shook his head, and at the same time, his eyes desperately wanted to see the phantom light grass not far away, but unfortunately, the more he looked at the other party, the more he wanted a dog's tail grass. In the end, Chen Kai felt that he should have seen the wrong thing, and after building a safe wooden platform, he immediately stuffed enough food into his mouth, and then lay down on the wooden board and fell asleep.

While Chen Kai was asleep, thousands of players in Norman City in the south gathered again, and they were about to embark on the journey again with the aim of rushing through the terrifying forest in the north of Norman City. Among the thousands of players, there are also many aboriginal adventurers who have come from other places, and these adventurers are much stronger than the players, at least many of them are sixth- or seventh-order powerhouses. These adventurers are mixed with the players, and they want to use the huge number of players to rush through the forest and enter the northern region with the player, of course, they want to directly complete the city mission issued by Norman City, that is, the task of opening the fortress of Santa Zela in the north. It's a *-level quest with a reward of 500,000 gold, and of course there is another task that all players and adventurers want to complete, that is, to completely clean up the primeval forests of northern Norman, and the level of the quest, after completing the quest, the gold coins obtained are 1 million gold coins.

Of course, none of the adventurers felt that this task could be completed, not to mention the number of monsters in some of the areas that had been explored, and the coercion of the lord-level creatures faintly coming from the north was not something that these sixth- and seventh-order low-level adventurers could compete. Even if the strength of those lords is not necessarily very strong, it may be only a seventh- or eighth-order low-level creature lord, which is not a little worse than that terrifying big lord monster, but even so, they can kill most of the adventurers who go deep into the forest. Therefore, both the player and the arrogant aboriginal adventurers have formed a consensus invisibly that even if they are killed, they can't provoke those lord creatures.

In Norman City's largest inn, dozens of team captains, knight captains, and a dozen aboriginal adventurer captains gather. Although they are clearly divided into three forces, that is, the player adventurer and some aboriginal adventurer teams together, the player knights are alone, and finally the strongest among the scattered players are alone. The reason why the player adventurer and the aboriginal adventurer are together is very simple, because they have cooperated with each other during the adventure, at least this part of the player and the adventurer are definitely more reliable with each other. After all, the existence of the Adventurer's Guild makes adventurers dare not betray each other, and if this kind of thing is known, they will be hunted down in addition to being removed from the Adventurer's Association. Therefore, it can be said that Van Clery was betrayed by his companions that time, it can be said that it is a very unfortunate thing, maybe the mage who betrayed him has already united with the others, but they have not had a chance until then.

As for the Knights, the players are alone due to their largest number, but this does not mean that the leaders of these Knights are better at each other. In fact, the most popular among the entire inn are the Knights' Order's bosses, and their rivalry makes it impossible for them to become close partners, and in Norman, no matter which Knights' Commander wants to trample each other down and monopolize the player power of the entire Norman City. For them, the adventurer player is the wandering traveler, and only the knight player is the overlord of a region. After all, only the noble knight profession can build castles and knights, and then obtain fiefs to become in-game management players, and such types of players will never be at peace with each other. After all, they needed a market to sell the products in their castles, fiefs to obtain wealth to support them, and indigenous farmers to provide for the means of production. If it weren't for the suppression of a higher-level lord, it is estimated that the player lords would have been fighting each other a long time ago. Of course, this kind of suppression does not completely prevent the player knights from annexing each other, as long as you have the ability to obtain the approval of the lord or simply make a request for conquest in front of the lord and get the lord's consent, then you have a chance to start a war to defeat the other party.

Of course, this kind of defeat does not have any benefits, because even if you defeat the opponent, you will not be able to obtain the opponent's territory, and that territory will eventually return to the lord, that is, the city lord. So this kind of unprofitable battle has not been carried out by players so far, and they are more likely to fight with player lords with the support of their own lords and cities that are hostile to their lords. For example, on several occasions in Adogre, he was instructed by the lord of Adolic to attack several other territories close to his other city, and also succeeded in capturing two castles and gaining a third of the land. Of course, with Lin Lei's current title of nobility, it is already the limit to be able to own these lands, and if it is increased, even if the city lord of Adolic appreciates him very much, after all, the most powerful player in the game is not the player, but those old nobles. They will never allow anything to break the rules of the nobility, and if there is, then kill the guy who breaks the rules.

Even if Viscount Adolic possessed legendary strength, he could not stand up to the entire great noble class, let alone that he was a member of this class, and it was impossible for him to oppose him. Therefore, if the player wants to get more territory, there is no other way than to work hard to improve his title, and now the only way is to upgrade the knight by military merit, as long as the military knight is obtained, then the territory of the player's nobles can be at least doubled at this stage, and the volume of the castle and the city wall can also be made taller.

As for the loneliest of the forces, there are only three or four solo players, and although they are the smallest and most inconspicuous, none of them will be taken lightly. This is true even for the high-ranking Indigenous adventurers, because they have enough strength. Perhaps the level gap between Warcraft and players will become obvious, but both aborigines and players belong to humans in the game, and the strength of humans belongs to their own level, and what is more important is combat skills. The lone players sitting in the lobby of the inn have the strength to outperform the first-order or even second-order aboriginal adventurers who are higher than them, especially the player with the King Kong gloves sitting on the chair, known as the Northern Boxer among the players. In reality, he is a master of national arts, and in the game, he has become a top player who pushes the profession of boxer to glory.

"Zhang Ye, why did you come here?" Sitting on a chair, a lone player asked the player with the King Kong gloves next to him, as the first boxer player in the game and almost became a player who advanced to the fifth order, Zhang Ye's name is the loudest among the northern players. Especially not long ago, he used his fist to make several seventh-order aboriginal adventurers put away their contemptuous faces, and even made him the leader of the lone player, although he himself didn't want to be the leader.

"I'll run here how you ran over, but I just want to go to Zela Fortress to find that Fist Saint Saka to learn skills, and it doesn't conflict with your mission," Zhang Ye said to the players around him with a cold face, and the latter listened to his words, and turned his head disdainfully to continue to pay attention to the other players.

The corner of Zhang Ye's eyes swept over the player who was talking to him just now, the other party did not indicate his identity, but he also knew who the person sitting next to him was grinning. is also from a national art family, but Zhang Ye is playing boxing and the other party is playing a knife, and the Daguan knife is not very popular in reality. Even in the game, such a weapon is very rare in this place where the Westernization is very high, after all, the Daguan Sword is suitable for use on horses rather than on foot. But Zhang Ye, a friend who can't be regarded as a friend, can't learn to ride a horse, yes, this guy who can be proficient in a real-life knife book in a few days can't ride a horse in the game, and even as soon as the war horse runs, he catches the tragic guy who can only hold the horse's neck. But no one or no player in a northern city will forget his name, Guan Yu gave a name that is the same as the Martial Saint of the Three Kingdoms, and the guy who also uses the Daguan Sword but can't ride a horse has the same prestige as Zhang Ye and is called the Northern Sword Saint among players.

Of course, these two titles are sealed by players, and the titles that belong to the touted category will naturally not have any genus bonuses if they are not recognized by the system. It's just that Guan Yu's broadsword was really fierce, and after opening the burst of fighting energy, he slashed back a seventy-five-level aboriginal adventurer warrior with one move, and almost killed the other party. This kind of terrifying combat power is not lost to Zhang Ye at all, and naturally has a strong appeal among solo players.

"According to the report of my subordinates, the entire forest is now full of high-level magical beasts, and the difficulty of our way to open the forest road is very high, so I personally recommend that I take other paths" As the most powerful Black Dragon Knights in the Norman City Player Knights, Mo Lin, the leader of the Black Dragon Knights, is undoubtedly the most manpower among all of them, and the entire Black Dragon Knights almost occupy half of the store material transportation market in Norman City, and also holds the resources of the three castles, so he has a very sufficient confidence.

"Boss Mo, you said that you would change your way, so did we lose the loss of our previous pathfinder and throw it into the water?" Speaking is Zhang Desheng, the head of the Flying Dragon Knights who also belongs to Norman City, he and Mo Lin are very disagreeable, but unfortunately the strength is inferior and has been on the suppressed side.

"Then Zhang Lao 2, do you have any good ideas?" Mo Lin looked at Zhang Desheng with a cold gaze, if it weren't for the fact that Feng Feng, the city lord of Norman City? Norman's suppression, he had already broken through the fat man's castle in front of him. At that time, the entire Norman City Knights were basically struggling under his suppression, but unfortunately, the fat man in front of him was so trusted by the city lord that Merlin could hardly do anything about him.

"......" Zhang Desheng's face turned red, he was just used to opposing Mo Lin's opinion, and he really couldn't think of a way for him to come up with it. Everyone knows that the number of demonic beasts in the forest north of Norman City is increasing, and the level is getting higher and higher, and walking through the forest from there is simply an act of looking for death, so Morin's method is actually feasible. Because when he proposed, players who belonged to the Norman homeland immediately thought of the canyon at the edge of the forest, and the place called the Stone Canyon was indeed a good way to get around the forest, at least so far there were no high-level magical beasts. It's just that most of the players have only entered the outside of the Stone Canyon, and no one knows what's going on inside it.

While the players in Norman City were still discussing whether to take a different path through the forest, Chen Kai had just woken up from a sweet dream, and what he didn't know was that the place where he was now was called Stone Canyon by the players of Norman City, and it was also the deepest part of this canyon. F