The three members of the Secondary 2 team gave the villagers the only remaining gold bar to wrap around, and then led He-man to bid farewell to the villagers who had been grateful for their kindness and embarked on the path of cultivation again.

According to Ye Fengliu's original plan, he originally planned to spend money to hire some villagers to sell all the way, and when He-Man's sympathy overflowed, he would wait for the opportunity to find a few group performers to rehearse the scene of selling himself to bury his father and forcing He-Man to bow his head.

But he didn't expect that on the third day of the road, a tragic story would happen in reality that was a hundred times more cruel than he imagined. So much so that before the three members of the secondary two squad could take action, Seaman took the initiative to choose "abandon the darkness and turn to the light".

Although happiness came a little suddenly, it also came at a great price.

Although the recorder who followed behind the princess group had been killed by the cavalry when they cleared the field, and the three members of the secondary 2 squad also relied on Shang Yi's mental scanning skills to wipe out all the cavalry, once the fleeing villagers were arrested, the matter would still be quickly exposed.

Ye Fengliu couldn't judge how the king would deal with this matter at that time, so for the sake of insurance, he simply gave up the idea of continuing to go to the Sealed Demon City along the official road, and instead cautiously chose a secret passage that few people knew.

This secret passage was told by the village chief to the second team and others after seeing the gold bar, and it was also regarded as their unintentional reward for their good deeds.

Originally, they had to go through another seven days from Beach City to the Sealed Demon City, arrive at the Shanhai Pass between the Zhitian Mountain and the Wave Bay, and then arrive at the boundary of the Woma Forest after passing the customs, and then continue to travel north along the official road in the Woma Forest for ten days, and after ten days they arrived at the fork of the White Sun Gate and the Sealed Demon City.

Among them, Shanhaiguan is the first military defense center to the north of Beach City, and it is also a necessary place to pass through from Beach City to the north, and it is the 10,000 cavalry of the First Cavalry Corps of Beach City that are stationed here.

If you don't pass through here, then you can only choose to forcibly climb over the Zhitian Mountain, which is 11,000 meters above sea level, and the cliff is as steep as a knife, and its difficulty is comparable to climbing over the Wolong Snow Mountain, which blocks the Marfa Continent and the Shenlong Continent.

The village chief told the second team that the secret passage refers to an abandoned mine in the Tianshan Mountain Range, and it is said that through this mine, you can directly pass through the Zhitian Mountain and enter the Walmart Forest, and it is also the only way to reach the Sealed Demon City from Beach City without going through the Shanhaiguan.

However, the reason why this mine was abandoned was that the orc tomb was dug up more than ten years ago, and a large number of demonized orc skeleton warriors swarmed out of the ancient tomb, which had brought a lot of trouble to the Beech country.

Later, Liu Gaozong, the king of Beech, sent 5,000 soldiers into the half-orc tomb to remove the monsters, but unfortunately the soldiers lost most of them and still couldn't explore the entire territory of the ancient tomb, and finally had to seal the ancient tomb.

I don't want to think that a soldier who was sealed in the orc tomb because he fell behind escaped from the Walma Forest, and did not return to the army incognito.

This soldier is the nephew of the old village chief, so the old village chief can know the secret of the mine to reach the Walmart Forest.

Since he planned to take the secret road, Ye Fengliu simply gave up and continued to travel along the official road, but followed the village chief's instructions and went straight along the northwest direction.

According to Ye Fengliu's statement, it is all used to walk anyway, it doesn't matter if there is a road or not, whether you have experience or not, it is better to climb mountains and wade through water.

In this way, the four of them went straight along the northwest direction for six days.

Along the way, the farther away from Beach City, the more sparsely populated, and the poorer the people's families became.

Today, it was Ye Fengliu who was in charge of guiding and taking care of He-Man, and in the morning, Shang Yi and Li Hui took the lead in the routine collection of materials and monsters.

Looking at the newly rising sun through the bare branches, Ye Fengliu led He-Man, whose hands and feet were covered with blood blisters, to slowly walk on the slippery land.

In the past few days, Seaman has become like a different person, arrogant, naughty and willful and other bad habits are gone, and his immature face is more sad, tenacious and steady.

He-Man Zhicong volunteered to follow the three members of the secondary two squad to practice martial arts, and she had already used up three basic skill books for each profession for the first time, but she had only learned the warrior skill "Basic Swordsmanship" and the Taoist skill "Spiritual Force Combat Method".

Only then did Ye Fengliu know that the success rate of the brave in using the skill book to learn skills was not 100%.

Even with the basic skill book, there is a possibility of failure, and the failure rate with the advanced skill book is even more alarming.

He also understood why the major guilds attached great importance to talent when accepting apprentices, because the higher the talent, the higher the success rate of using the skill book.

And He-Man was able to learn warrior and Taoist skills in one go, and it was obvious that these two talents were much better than mage talents.

It obviously makes sense that the reward for becoming a mage in the side quests of the system is 1000 more reincarnation points than for becoming the other two classes.

This fact made Ye Fengliu secretly complain, you must know that although he and Shang Yi and Li Hui have secretly reconciled, the bet has not been abolished. So for him, it is a small matter to lose the bet contract at that time, and it is absolutely unacceptable to lose face if he is beaten.

Ye Fengliu watched Seaman staggering forward, while stubbornly wielding a wooden sword to practice "basic swordsmanship" and "spiritual power combat techniques", and even blood was slowly oozing from the rags wrapped around her hands, so he nodded with relief, and said secretly in his heart: "Maybe I can bet more on her, whether it's to win the bet, or for that possibility......"

In fact, Ye Fengliu had already told He-Man that practicing like this would not increase the experience value of the skill, but He-Man still seized all the time to practice hard, which made him finally have a new understanding of He-Man, and began to seriously consider the possibility of accepting He-Man as a god.

Walking until noon, Ye Fengliu found a dilapidated village not far ahead.

The village is quiet, there are no chickens and dogs, and there is no smoke in the cooking. He thought it was an abandoned village, but he didn't know that he pushed a family away at random, but he found a few women and children who were sitting on the kang in a huddle and looking at him in horror.

Ye Fengliu withdrew embarrassedly, but his heart was extremely heavy, it seemed that there was no clothes to wear in this village.

Then I saw that there was no grass and no bark for trees within ten miles before entering the village.

Ye Fengliu thought to himself, it seemed that all the things that seemed to be edible had already filled the stomachs of the villagers.

This time, he pushed the door to check from house to house, and after walking around, Ye Fengliu deduced that more than 20 families in this village should have provided their only clothes to the men to go out to find food, while the women and children were collectively at home to keep warm, this miserable scene even Ye Fengliu was shocked inexplicably when he saw it.

Ye Fengliu once again deduced that the old and weak among these people should have starved to death a long time ago, and the surviving ones must not be able to survive this cold winter.

It's just after the autumn harvest in September, but the villagers don't wait for the leaves to turn yellow to cover up the greenery in advance and usher in winter, what is the country of Beachy doing? Aren't you ready to give the people a way to live?

Just as Ye Fengliu was waiting for Shang Yi and Li Hui at the entrance of the village, a group of men with wooden faces and pickaxes appeared at the intersection of the village.

They didn't seem to intend to enter the village, and they walked through the entrance of the village and still walked abruptly.

Ye Fengliu stopped them with deep doubts.

"Are you going to farm?"

The leading black and thin villager was a little dissatisfied with Ye Fengliu's abrupt questioning, but his simple nature still made him answer honestly:

"Half a month ago, the official family forcibly took away our seeds and even rations on the grounds that they were preparing to fight against the monster riot."

"What else do we take to farm? Now even the grassroots cotton clothes have eaten into the stomach. Seven days ago, my father starved to death on the edge of the kang with the stalk in his mouth on the bed. ”

"We can't do the bastard thing of eating and eating, but we can't watch our wives and children starve to death on the edge of the kang."

"So we borrowed a pickaxe, and while we still had the strength, we were ready to try our luck at the bottom of the Tianshan Mountain."

"What luck? Can you dig up food there? He-Man heard the tears in his eyes, and he couldn't hold back his tears.

She had already made up her mind that if these people were going to get food, then she planned to go with them, and one more person would be considered a little more strength.

You don't have to think about hunting, wild animals have long been eroded into monsters by demonic energy, so it's good not to come and eat people.

As for the almsgiving, the second team of the second team came to perform chivalrous acts in the name of the Knights of Justice along the way, and gave the last gold coins and the last rations in their pockets to the poor people. Now they are only better dressed than these people.

"There's still some grass and bark there, but we can't survive the winter with those things, so we're going to try our luck in the Beach Mine, we're miners there, so if we can dig up some good ore and sell it to the town for some food, maybe we'll be able to get through this winter."

"However, as the once in a hundred years monster riot is getting closer and closer, there are more and more monsters on the other side of the Tianshan Mountain. If we can't come back this time, my wife and children are estimated to be ......."

The black and thin villagers who were talking to Ye Fengliu and He-Man were a little choked up when they said this, and they continued after a while: "Forget it, it's useless to tell you this. It was still early, so we had to hurry away. ”

"If you are in a hurry, set out early, and go quickly, for you should be able to reach the village ahead before dark." There are a lot of monsters here after dark, and it can be very dangerous in the wild. ”

"Don't worry," Ye Fengliu stretched out his arm and stopped the villagers with a smile on his face, "Maybe we can make a deal." ”

"No kidding." The thin black villager's face turned cold, "We don't have anything but a little strength." ”

"Since you used to be miners in the Beechcraft Mine, I'll trade that little bit of your strength." Ye Fengliu suddenly held his hands round and flat in front of his chest, "I am a knight of justice, and all sin and darkness will be punished by the flame of wrath." ”

"I'm ......" Ye Fengliu finished pretending, and just wanted to continue, when suddenly the voices of Shang Yi and Li Hui came from beside him:

"I am a knight of justice, and all sin and darkness shall be punished by the sword and shield of wrath."

"I am a knight of justice, and all sin and darkness shall be punished by the spirit of wrath."

"What's wrong with Brother Ye, where are the bad guys?" Li Hui, who was holding an iron pot and carrying a large iron cage as high as a hill on his back, looked around with a confused expression.

Shang Yi was wrapped around her body, and several wild vegetables in the basket were tossed to the ground, and one was hanging on her head.

"What are you doing?" Shang Yi seemed to notice that the situation was not right, and looked at Ye Fengliu with unkind eyes.

Seeing that the three masters had all posed as knights, He-Man had no choice but to raise his wooden sword on the spot with a red face and whispered: "I am a knight of justice, and all sin and darkness come to accept my righteous punishment." ”

"Why do you feel so ashamed to shout the slogan of the Knights for the first time......" Seaman lowered his head deeply.

"Ahem......" Ye Fengliu tried to change his embarrassed expression back into solemnity, "What was I going to say just now......

Looking at the villagers with dull expressions, he finally regained his memory, "We, the Knights of Justice, are willing to help you remove all threats from the Beechcraft Mine so that you can resume mining." In exchange, you can help us dig up the blocked orc tombs! ”

"What, you're kidding!" The expression of the black thin villager changed from sluggish to frightened, "It is unthinkable to clear the monsters in the Beechcraft Mine, and you are absolutely crazy when you open the Orc Tomb." ”

"Village chief, maybe they can really do it......" A skinny arm behind the black thin villager pointed to the large iron cage that Li Hui was carrying.

The iron cage was full of all kinds of monsters writhing and screaming wildly, these were the "experience points" that Shang Yi and Li Hui had spent the morning preparing for Sea-Man.

"Okay, it's death left and right, let's fight." The black thin village chief stared straight at the monsters in the cage and swallowed and foamed hard.

As soon as the village chief's words fell, Ye Fengliu heard the system prompt: "You found the side quest Beechcraft Mine, help the villagers clear all the monsters in the Beechcraft Mine, and reward 3,000 reincarnation points and an E-level plot crystal after completion." ”