Chapter 157: The Western Boundary of the Great Western Wasteland (End)
When Chen Kai learned the news of the hideous evil dragon, it was already a day later, and what he saw was also the evil dragon in a non-combat state. Although the appearance has not changed much, the size has shrunk significantly, from nearly 25 meters in combat state to less than 15 meters.
The Dark Knight on the back of the massive monstrous dragon in a state of battle was so small that it was almost as small as a person in a bus. However, even if the size is reduced, the dark knights riding on the back of the fifteen-meter-long evil dragon look quite small, after all, these dark knights are only more than two meters tall. The most important thing is that they were originally only dark knights, and they were not equipped with dragon spears. The only dragon knight who doesn't have a dragon lance can rely on is the dragon under his buttocks, but even so, fifty evil dragons with hideous appearance and absolutely hideous combat power are definitely a terrifying force.
Even if these evil dragons can't fly and can't be, the impact force they produce on the ground is enough to instantly crush an elite force of 10,000 people, this is still Chen Kai's roughly estimated combat power, and it is based on the fact that the body length of these evil dragons is only 15 meters. There is no doubt that the impact of their massive bodies will be more terrifying when they are in a combat state, but it is still impossible to fight against a high fortress. If Barbat took these evil creatures to attack the fortress, then the result would be that the fortress's army would be directly bombarded to slag.
However, for the appearance of these monsters, Chen Kai and they became more worried, if it weren't for the fact that the spare wheels had all been damaged and needed to be remade, it was estimated that Chen Kai and they had already begun to rush day and night. Of course, the other thing that reassures them is probably the speed at which these dragons move, even though they have the size of an earthwalker. But the speed is definitely not as terrifying as that of the Earth Walking Dragon. Ordinary crocodiles can reach speeds of eighty or ninety kilometers when hunting, but they cannot run very far, and even after being demonized, they cannot get rid of this defect. The only thing that has changed is that their instantaneous sprint speed has become more terrifying, and they can reach a terrifying speed of one hundred and twenty or even one hundred and eighty kilometers per hour in a short period of time. But this speed is only for a few minutes at most.
Most of the time these crocodiles can only move at speeds of forty to fifty kilometers, which is quite fast, and the other thing that is more is that they are very edible. Fifty monstrous dragons rounded up a herd of thousands of wasteland bison, and they all ate them, leaving the players without even a single piece of slag. Barbat was also troubled by this, because he found that if it weren't for the Great Western Wilderness, a place rich in beast resources, he would not be able to feed these terrible evil dragons. At least half of the day, these dragons are eating. Then it's time to hurry. It was precisely because of this that Chen Kai had time to make the wheels, otherwise he would have asked everyone to abandon the carriage and ride on the war horse to hurry.
"Balbat, this guy can make such a terrible monster! Damn it! Chen Kai used a knife to cut a piece of wood, and he needed to cut the solid piece of wood into a qualified wooden stick to act as the spokes of the wheel.
"Just look at the dragons. I can guess how terrible they are! I can't even get rid of it when we're tied together! Although Fei Yun's words were a bit demoralizing, if he really encountered those terrifying evil dragons, the result might really be as Fei Yun said.
"I guess so!" Zhao Tiezhu sighed, because he estimated that even if he used the Earth Shield, he might not be able to withstand the claw slap of this kind of monster. The fifteen-meter-long body size was enough for this monster to burst out with a striking force of more than one or two tons in an instant. In the face of such a blow, ordinary players simply cannot block such an attack alone.
"We must get out of this wasteland quickly!" Chen Kai's words were a little bitter. Although they had already distanced themselves from each other by a considerable distance, the time that had been delayed for a few days in the wasteland swamp had been shortened again. Now they still have nearly three to four days to buffer, but if they continue to move slowly like this, they will surely be caught up and killed by Barbat's army.
"......" Everyone fell silent when they heard Chen Kai's words, and then began to quickly cut the wooden blocks in their hands, and even the dwarves sped up their work in this atmosphere. At the same time, the second elven mage in the carriage couldn't bear the feeling of losing his power, and began to use the fragments of the realm world to plug the gap in his magic source, becoming the second spellcaster who was gradually recovering his power. According to this speed, basically when Chen Kai and they arrived at the fortress. This elven spellcaster will be able to restore the magic power of the fù archmage level.
It's just that even the archmage still can't fight against Barbat's army alone, so Chen Kai and they must move quickly. When the last spoke is loaded onto the wheel. Fei Yun quickly rolled the heavy wheels towards the axle. At the same time, Chen Kai and the others began to clean up the site, taking everything they could take away, and preparing to continue making the parts of the wheels and axles while they were in a hurry. Although making such things on a rocking carriage will reduce the accuracy, and the durability of the things that come out of the guide will be very low, only in this way can they rush quickly, and Chen Kai does not need these axles to support them for a long time, and basically replace one after traveling dozens of kilometers. In order to make up these axles and wheels, Chen Kai and his team cut down almost every tree on the road that could be used as a material. For the wasteland, which is relatively lacking in trees, their behavior can definitely be called ecological destroyers.
The crazy galloping carriage is definitely a terrible killer of the life consumption of pack horses, but Chen Kai and they have no choice. If the lives of these pack horses are not consumed, then the next thing to be consumed may be their own small lives, but in order to make these pack horses last for a while, Chen Kai and they have to contribute their Andean war horses. Horses with more terrible strength and endurance will hold on for longer after becoming pack horses, but the result of doing so will damage the horses. If Chen Kai and the others used low-level war horses, then at the end of the day, these war horses would become worse than pack horses. After all, war horses pursue speed and sprinting power, and their own supporting capacity is not as good as that of a pack horse, and dragging a heavy carriage will cost them their lives.
Only the Andean war horse, which is almost like a warcraft, can withstand this kind of attrition. Of course, in order to keep these war horses' bodies from being harmed, Chen Kai fed them with a diluted fountain of life. Although it was only one drop at a time, his own fountain of life was running out. If he continues to consume like this, it won't take him a few days, and he won't have the fountain of life to make the elixir. Fortunately, Nero Alu knew about Chen Kai's situation, and once again gave ten drops of the fountain of life, using these fountains of life to dilute the drinking water, although those pack horses were already skinny, but their vitality was still quite vigorous. They only need to be given a few days to rest, and these pack horses can become quite strong, but unfortunately Chen Kai and they don't have this time.
Therefore, these pack horses that could have survived eventually died, and they were buried in the wasteland by Chen Kai and them. It's just that the pit dug is not very deep because of the time, so it is easy to be dug out by scavengers in the wasteland, which is definitely quite a dangerous thing. Because Barbat, who was following behind them, once he spotted these horses, he would quickly determine the direction of Chen Kai's movement. So Chen Kai and the others had to use these poor pack horses to set a trap again to mislead Barbat, that is, to bury the body of the pack horse on another route in the direction of their own gallop.
Relying on the ability of the two wyverns to fly at high speed, poor Fei Yun once again played this pitiful role, and was led to his destination by the two wyverns in a miserable scream. Relying on the wyvern's clever brain, of course. Chen Kai and the others could barely understand the map they had drawn, and of course they could only distinguish the important signs that looked down from the sky. It would be too difficult to really tell them the way.
Although this is very troublesome, in the end, it seems that Chen Kai and they still succeeded. The players who followed them soon found the first buried pack horse carcass. The scavengers of the wasteland have dug the carcasses out of the pits. Moreover, according to the decomposition of the corpse, it is also very consistent with the time when Chen Kai and they left. So when the second pack horse carcass was found, even Barbat was the first to think that Nero Aru was going in this direction.
Although he thought that maybe it was a trap, he was sure of it when the third place where the pack horses were buried after a hundred kilometers had been discovered. Because no one wastes so much time laying out a road that confuses the eyes of others, knowing that if you go 100 kilometers, the two roads will deviate more than 2 or 300 kilometers, and it is a bit too wasteful and cumbersome to spend so long to lay out a road hundreds of kilometers away.
It's not that Barbat didn't think about Chen Kai's flying dragon, but he didn't expect that the flying dragon could fly so far with people, after all, in his eyes, Chen Kai's flying dragon was able to fly more than 100 kilometers during the growth period, which was the limit. It's just that Barbat didn't know that Chen Kai's flying dragon had dragon blood, let alone a hundred kilometers, even if it was two hundred or three hundred kilometers, there was no problem. So they were led astray by the carcasses of those pack horses. Although the ultimate goal is still a fortress on the border of the Western Wasteland, if they want to catch up with Chen Kai in the wasteland, they will not be able to understand the fact that they have been deceived immediately. Catch up in a different direction.
By the time Barbat found out about the problem, the distance between him and Chen Kai had been stretched by nearly two hundred kilometers at least for this reason, that is, at least one day's journey. Of course, this is not a straight line, and if you go in a straight line, it will only be more than 100 kilometers. A large number of hills, lakes and sandy areas have become the biggest obstacle to Chen Kai and Barbat, and it is only by relying on these terrain that Chen Kai can not be discovered by the war puppets sent by Barbat.
After all, even if Balbat can control these war puppets, the distance is not too far, and after more than fifty kilometers, the war puppets will be in an uncontrollable state, and then operate according to the originally set mode. Although Ness implanted these war golems with very strong combat soul cores, he did not implant his own mind into them. After all, the soul core required to control such a huge war puppet requires a special system, and if you cultivate a war puppet with a mind, the cost will be very high. The soul fire of thousands of undead has not been able to cultivate such a core with intelligence, and Ness obviously will not invest so many resources in mass-produced products, what he lacks most now is resources.
Twelve mass-produced war golems were already Ness's greatest support for Balbat, and if he were to exert the soul core of his own consciousness for these war golems, it would be almost like robbing the demigod with a knife. If it weren't for Barbat's sacking of Kandohat, a lot of resources would have been gained. Maybe he won't even get these twelve war puppets.
There is no doubt that Barbat was quite angry when he found out that he had been deceived. Because their current position is Yan zhòng, they have deviated from the road, even if they are directly towards the fortress on the border of the Western Great Wasteland. At least three days behind Chen Kai. At this time, Barbat suddenly felt that he was a stupid donkey, and even more unfortunately, one of the players happened to grab a wild donkey in the wilderness and prepare it for dinner that night. As he led the donkey past the camp, Barbat's cry made Barbat angrily raise his bow and shoot a terrifying feathered arrow. The thick feathered arrow instantly shot the calling stubborn donkey from the middle, and the shattered donkey body blew the player out of the way who was tugging the donkey's neck.
"Speed me up!" The angry Barbat roared, but unfortunately, no matter how angry he roared, he couldn't change the fact that while they were still on their way on the wasteland, Chen Kai and the others had gradually approached the fortress on the western border of the Great Western Wasteland. A massive fortress between the canyons and three areas, the whole fortress looks like a monstrous beast lying on the horizon in the night. Devours all enemies that try to attack it.
To the east of the fortress is undoubtedly the monster-filled Great Western Wasteland, while to the southwest is the border to other countries, with only the northeast being the road to the interior of the Hansting Empire. From here, it is very close to the imperial capital of the Hansting Empire. It's less than 500 kilometers, and it's a flat, plain terrain. It can be said that this fortress is the most important barrier to the border and the core of the empire, without which the army of any country can instantly rush into the heart of the empire and threaten the imperial capital of the Hansting Empire.
Therefore, this fortress is definitely not Chen Kai, they have been in the redstone fortress at the beginning, and the fortress is even more formidable and terrifying. After all, the Redstone Fortress is a stronghold of the Rohan Empire. And this fortress in front of him is the fortress of the Hansting Empire. Just those towering mage towers, this fortress completely exploded the redstone fortress where Chen Kai and the others had stayed at the beginning. In any case, the status of the Redstone Fortress has been reduced due to the Rohan Empire's inclusion of Andorson in its rule, but the current fortress will never be able to decline in status. After all, only this place has the possibility of building a fortress and holding the road to the Hansting Empire.
If the Red Stone Fortress had the status of the fortress in front of them, then there was no doubt that there was nothing to do with Chen Kai and them at that time, they only needed to stay in the city and eat melon seeds, and there was no need and possibility to participate in the battle on the city wall at all. However, no matter how weak the Hansting Empire is, this fortress in front of him will not withdraw the troops in the fortress, because this is an act of self-destruction of the Great Wall.
So when Chen Kai and the others gradually approached the fortress. The Hansting Imperial cavalry, who were patrolling the area, quickly spotted them and surrounded them. It was not unheard of for these cavalrymen to see a caravan, but there was absolutely no caravan that would run so wild in the moor at night. Not even tolerated the body of the pack horse.
"Stop! Merchant? The leader of the cavalry team rode his horse and rushed in front of Chen Kai, before pulling out his weapon, he saw Chen Kai sitting in the carriage with a huge body, in the night Chen Kai's body was like a terrifying monster, so he subconsciously grabbed the weapon.
"Put your name on it!" When he stopped the carriage, Chen Kai had already signaled everyone to slow down, because as long as they encountered the patrol cavalry of the fortress, it meant that they had entered the entire protection range of the fortress. If Barbat doesn't want to die, then it definitely won't appear within the confines of the fortress.
"Kaichen? Saint? Lapston! Of course, you can also call me a former Baron Berkner! Because of the loss of the territory, as a landless nobleman, Chen Kai's reputation among the nobles plummeted. However, Chen Kai estimated that the captain of the cavalry team in front of him should have heard his name, even if he hadn't heard of his noble badge.
"I know you! An unlucky lord, but what are you doing here? I've heard from those traveling merchants that you've been disheartened and ready to go back to your birthplace for the rest of your life? There is no doubt that the words of this cavalry captain are completely hearsay, and Chen Kai has not heard a lot of such things, and sometimes rumors often spread faster than reality.
"To support my family! Life is so helpless, when I was about to stand at the top but suddenly pushed down, and now I need to earn that poor gold for my stomach! Chen Kai spread his hands helplessly, of course he didn't tell the truth, because he knew that even if he told the truth, the cavalry captain in front of him would not believe it.
"Really? But you're still welcome here! Your Excellency! The cavalry captain's words were tinged with a hint of sarcasm, and there was no doubt that being able to ridicule a landless nobleman was a rare opportunity for a soldier of his class. Although it was not clear that he would face Chen Kai's duel, it was obvious that Chen Kai was not in the mood to do this. (To be continued......)