Chapter 12: A Dangerous Journey (10)

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I'm sorry! I finally finished moving, but in the early morning of the fifth day, my wife gave birth ahead of schedule, a week earlier than the due date, and I was caught off guard, not to mention the book, and I didn't even bring a change of clothes, so I sent my wife to the maternity insurance. But fortunately, the mother and son are safe, and I have been upgraded to be a father! o(n_n)o~――

Diaper change went! Good night everybody-

The dwarves suffered heavy losses from an attack from an unknown enemy, and even if the attack was advanced due to Fei Yun's current attack, the group still had to face the huge trees that lay on the ground more than twenty kilometers away. So after a certain journey, the huge convoy had to stop again.

Only this time no enemy would have run out to attack them, but even without them, they spent quite a long time clearing the road. Because everyone, including the gray dwarves, was afraid that new enemies would suddenly run out of the forest, and when they were cleared, their trip would be delayed again. However, no matter how slow the progress of the work was, the dwarves did not change their careful way of working, and even everyone spent a considerable amount of time checking their surroundings while cutting wood.

Fortunately, there were not many trees blocking the road, and the dwarves did not delay their journeys very strictly. On the third day after the attack, they finally made their way through the vast forest that surrounded Altinis, and slowly made their way towards the south of the Hansting Empire. The once huge Hansting Empire was now centered and focused on the south, but the undead who appeared in Hugodi blocked the shortcut from the south to the north. The Hansting Empire, which had been greatly weakened by rebellion and division, was hit again, and now the only option for the south of the empire to send supplies to the cities in the north was to go around a large circle through the dangerous area of the Western Great Wasteland to Xijing, and Chen Kai and they were now also advancing to the Western Great Wasteland. In fact, originally transferred from Altinis to Adog, that is, Chen Kai's birthplace, and also went to the southern dwarf empire, but Adolic was too close to Adog, so there were many undead, and the dwarves basically did not choose this path for safety.

One of the remaining ones is naturally from Altinis across the Great Western Wasteland, and this path will not be chosen by the dwarves. Therefore, the dwarves chose only one route, which was to go directly from the south of Altinis to the city of Mephis, located south of Adolik. The city, which had been nearly destroyed at the hands of demons, slowly began to recover after a while. The most important thing is that there are a lot of players who are active here.

From Altinis, of course, through the northwest corner of the Great Heath, and into the city of Candorhat, the city with the largest trading market, Lostyrovs. The road from Candorhat City to Miffis is slightly safer, but before that, that is, Chen Kai and his way to Candorhat City have to pass through a rather dangerous Great Wasteland area. This is also the reason why Chen Kai and the others did not choose this road when they went to Altinis, but chose the relatively safe Efira route. It's just that the Efila route is farther than the one they have chosen now, and although it may not be a few days away from the road, it will be more hidden for the dwarves to choose the more dangerous Great Wasteland route. After all, there are fewer merchants on this road, so that the dwarves can hide what they need to hide from being exposed.

It's just that what Chen Kai can't understand is that now the dwarves obviously don't need to hide their purpose, because the enemy is about to beat them out and even Xiang out. If it weren't for the appearance of the terrifying Lori hidden in the carriage, Chen Kai might have been lying in the pile of dead people like those dwarves who hung up. Chen Kai, who was sitting in the carriage, looked at the Altinis giant tree, which could no longer see its shadow, and sighed. From the time he knew the route of the dwarves, he knew that if he wanted to write to Seram, he would have to wait at least until he reached the city of Kandohat, and according to their current degree, it would not be possible to reach Kandorhat City in less than half a month.

Of course, the dwarves are not slow, on the contrary, because they have obtained some war horses from those men in black, the dwarves have migrated faster than in the past. Chen Kai and the others also obtained three war horses, which happened to replace Lal, who was tired of pulling the carriage.

Ral, who had regained his freedom, let out a loud hiss excitedly, then squinted his eyes at the unlucky ones who had replaced him, and followed Chen Kai and their carriage with his head tilted back and flicked his tail in an extremely arrogant manner. Of course, he couldn't be happy soon, because Chen Kai directly included Lal in the pet space.

"These gray dwarves are abominable!" Zhao Tiezhu bit the bread in his hand, and there was a hint of indignation on his face, the reason why he was so angry was very simple, that is, the path chosen by the dwarves. Bypassing Ephila directly and traveling through the Great Western Wasteland to Candorhat made Chen Kai's idea of buying supplies on the way come to naught. In order to survive the days of this journey. They now have the option of reducing their food consumption and then taking turns hunting to replenish the meat in their backpacks.

"Not really! We are not allowed to have anything to eat, and we are not allowed to rest a little longer in the same place, so that every hunt is like a war! After decomposing a reindeer that had just died, Xuehaifeng wiped the deer blood on his hands, and like Zhao Tiezhu, he glanced in the direction of the gray dwarves with an extremely resentful expression.

"That's it! At least we managed to collect enough food! Chen Kai looked at the huge black bear lying beside him. In order to kill this guy weighing more than 2,000 kilograms in a short time, it took a lot of effort. After all, this black bear was already about to be regarded as a demonic beast, with a trace of the blood of the Earth Bear, and the earth shock wave that burst out in an instant almost caused Chen Kai to capsize in the gutter. After all, Chen Kai was not wearing armor, as long as he was slapped by this black bear that was almost close to the demonic beast, he would definitely be shot and fractured, and even killed directly. But now the black bear was lying on the ground. And its bear paws have been roasted by Chen Kai and them on the bonfire.

"That's what Honey Bearpaw should do?" Looking at the piece of wild honey placed in the middle of the bear's paw, the saliva in Fei Yun's mouth was quickly evolving into a waterfall. Although the honey on the bear's paw has not yet been fully integrated into the bear's paw, his nose can already smell an unusually delicious sweet smell.

"Whatever he does! As long as you can eat it~! Su Xinghe looked at the deer legs on the side of the bear's paw on the bonfire. Drops of blood were dripping from the deer's legs, and Su Wan was grabbing the salt cubes and rubbing them on the deer's legs, relying on the power of the flame to gradually infiltrate the salty taste into the fresh meat. In order not to let the power of the flame directly roast the deer leg, Su Wan had to hold the deer leg a little distance away from the bonfire, but from time to time she would put the salt in her hand around the flame and roast it. The salt on the salt cubes can penetrate into the meat more easily when grilled at high temperatures. This deer leg was not Chen Kai's dinner, but Su Wan used to store it as food. When the leg was covered with a white layer of salt frost, she put it in a large wooden bucket and stuffed it into her backpack.

There are already more than a dozen deer legs in this vat, and underneath these deer legs are pieces of pickled venison. These things are their food sources for the next half month, and of course, the flour in everyone's backpack, just because the gold coins in their pockets were not enough for Chen Kai before, the flour they bought was only enough for half a month. So if they didn't want to go hungry on the rest of the journey, they needed to gather more food, and because of this, Su Wan pickled venison and other meats for consumption.

"Yes! If you can eat it, you can eat it! Anyway, do you have anything to eat? I'm dying of hunger! Guan Yu pulled a wild boar that had just been slaughtered and walked slowly back to the camp, and when passing by a few black dwarves who were cooking, Guan Yu cut off one of the thighs of the wild boar he was dragging and threw it to the other party. On the one hand, it lightens the amount of things he pulls, and on the other hand, it adds food to these black dwarf friends.

"Why didn't you take it when Aardman gave you barbecue just now~" Slowly handing the buttered bread in his hand to Guan Yu, Chen Kai said softly. As for who Aardman was, it was naturally the big black dwarf who handed him a piece of barbecue meat when Guan Yu walked over on the road, and there was a shallow scar on Aardman's face, but this scar was left by the black-clothed men who came to attack not long ago.

"You don't know that the meat he roasts is not delicious! It's no wonder that I can't find a daughter-in-law with such craftsmanship! Guan Yu took a hard bite of the butter bread in his mouth, he knew very well that there were not many opportunities to eat butter bread before he arrived in the next city.

"Yes!" Chen Kai nodded lightly, Aardman's barbecue taste is indeed unpalatable, even if it doesn't look like the meat is burnt, maybe it is burnt inside, this technique is not something Chen Kai and they can learn at all. At least Chen Kai can't learn such a barbecue technique, he can't do it on the outside, but it is as charred as charcoal on the inside.

"Anyway, I'll be out of the forest tomorrow! Are we really going to continue to follow those dwarves through the Great Wasteland? Guan Yu put down the half-eaten bread in his hand and said slowly. When Chen Kai heard his words, he didn't stop cutting the fur of the black bear in his hand, but just paused slightly.

"How else? I promised Seram to escort the Black Dwarves to the borders of the Empire, though safe delivery is out of the question! Chen Kai sighed, and the knife in his hand made several cuts in the originally intact bear skin, which made the quality of the bear skin drop a lot.

"But the Great Wasteland is too dangerous!" Guan Yu said softly. When he was in the lower ranks, he had run a lap on the Great Wasteland, and it was only on the edge of the Great Wasteland. As a result, he was very unfortunate to encounter a half-lord-level wilderness monitor lizard that wandered to the edge of the wasteland, and a mouthful of lightning spat down and hundreds of players, including him, directly turned into flying ashes. Although now Guan Yu's level has reached more than seventy. But he was instinctively afraid of the desolate yellow earth.

"Dangerous?" Chen Kai looked at Guan Yu's face and suddenly smiled, and the latter looked at Chen Kai's smile with a hint of depression on his face. For he suddenly realized that he had developed a fear of danger, and that he was fearing it without any reason.

"Huh!" In the end, Guan Yu smiled self-deprecatingly to hide his embarrassment. One hand unknowingly touched the blade of judgment placed beside him. At the touch of his fingers, the Dawn Temple's holy artifact trembled slightly. It's just that this tremor is too slight, even Guan Yu himself didn't show it.

Night once again covered the land, and as we approached the edge of the forest and were about to enter the western wilderness, the moisture in the air began to decrease. There was no thick mist rising on the forest road, but Chen Kai and the others were still surrounded by a faint mist. Bonfires flickered in the night, like twinkling stars in the sky. It's just that most of the dwarves are now cowering in the carriage, ready to sit and run away. All the dwarves who were able to take up arms were kept vigil in groups, and the gaps between the carriages were blocked by the dwarves with pieces of wood to avoid the tragic scene before they died. Of course, only the outer carriages of the camp were blocked with wood, and the carriages in the middle were ready to flee at any time.

The carriages were not even pulled off. Even the horses that were pulling the fiber were still on the side of the carriage. All the dwarves, women and children are ready to run away at any time, of course, preparation is one thing, the dwarves have already known that there are basically no enemies within a dozen kilometers of the surrounding area after sending out scouts. Therefore, although the dwarves are ready to run away at any time, many dwarves know in their hearts that there should be no enemies around. In the shadow of the firewood, the dwarves kept shuttling, adding firewood to the campfire to keep the campfire burning.

At this moment, Chen Kai and the others were sitting or lying around the campfire, although they showed very strong combat effectiveness in the last attack of the black-clothed people, which was also of great help to the gray dwarves, but they still stayed on the periphery of the camp and did not get permission to enter the center of the camp. Although Chen Kai was very dissatisfied with this, it was only dissatisfied.

The gradually dimming bonfire was surrounded by Fei Yuan, Hulansi and others, who had already slept in their clothes, while Chen Kai was constantly fiddling with the bonfire with an iron chisel in his hand, and then casually threw a piece of wood into the bonfire to prevent the dim bonfire from going out. Opposite Chen Kai, Zhao Tiezhu yawned, holding an iron chisel with a piece of barbecue in his hand, and the fat on the barbecue dripping onto the bonfire made a sizzling sound. A hint of the smell of burnt meat permeated the surroundings, reminding Zhao Tiezhu, who was holding an iron chisel, to raise his hand a little higher to prevent his supper from turning into charcoal.

Not far from Zhao Tiezhu's side, Fei Yun was cutting a crossbow arrow shaft with a knife, and his body was still wrapped in bandages, if he used too much force, the wound would pull the wound, and the corners of his mouth twitched. The night is a favorite of thieves, because they can find a lot of hiding places in the night, but at this moment Fei Yun does not need to hide but leans comfortably on the side of the carriage.

No matter from what point of view, Chen Kai's current situation should be said to be very comfortable, but even Zhao Tiezhu, who was yawning and barbecuing, always had a trace of vigilance in his heart at this moment. Because the place where they are now can be said to be only one step away from the Great Western Wilderness, it only takes half a day to enter the gray-yellow land.

For players, the Great Western Wasteland is a place where risks and opportunities coexist, at least when the player's level enters the sixth or seventh level mark, the Western Great Wasteland is an extremely important leveling and adventure location for most players of the Hansting Empire. Tens of thousands of players enter the market every day with their belongings. Tens of thousands of players have also left the place, and tens of thousands of players have become nourishment for the barren weeds on the soil on this gray and yellow land. Players collect herbs in this wasteland to obtain ores and explore the ruins of those former cities under the wasteland, at least Chen Kai has heard of no less than ten ancient wasteland cities that have been discovered by players. Of course, there are not many treasures in these wasteland ancient cities, and the most of them are all kinds of terrifying monsters.

For Chen Kai and them, the Ancient City of the Wasteland was not the reason why they were afraid of the Great Western Wasteland. What really made Chen Kai feel jealous of the Western Wasteland was the countless beasts and even demonic beasts that infested the wasteland, as well as the horse thieves and bandits who survived in the Wasteland Mountain. These villains who escaped from the cities of the Hansting Empire took root in the Great Western Wasteland and became a cancer on the wasteland that threatened merchants and adventurers, and no one knew how many horse thieves and bandits there were in the entire Great Western Wasteland, but there was no doubt that there were definitely more than the Golden Great Plains. For the dwarves, their large ranks and the few in them can effectively deter the beasts of the western wastelands. But it couldn't deter the horse thieves and robbers.

Therefore, the dwarves are actually very worried about being attacked by horse thieves after entering the western wilderness, so those gray dwarves are also a little worried at the moment. The only people in the entire camp who are really not worried are those black dwarves who don't know what the Great Western Wilderness is, and of course, the so-called lack of worry is only relative.

When the campfires in the camp began to slowly go out. The first rays of morning light in the eastern sky began to spread its light on the earth. The entire dwarven camp began to wake up in less than half an hour, and the campfire, which was about to be extinguished, was re-lit for breakfast in a short time. A cacophony of voices echoed throughout the camp, turning the entire dwarven camp into a vegetable market.

After the dwarves left, the camp remained for travelers who didn't know when they might reappear. But not long after the dwarves left, an archer with a huge bow slowly walked out of the forest, and the sound of horses' hooves and weapons and armor clashing in the forest as his feet hit the ground.

Masked men in gray-and-yellow cloaks slowly emerged from the forest, their bodies more or less stained with dew, and their bare eyes shimmering with an eerie glow under the masked scarves. There are at least more than 5,000 masked people hidden in the entire forest, and almost all of them are a war horse, and they are also very high-level war horses. (To be continued......)