The air was mixed with the smell of morning dew, moist, with a little coolness, dispelling people's morning sleepiness.

In the carriage, Mann rubbed his eyes and stretched. To tell the truth, he didn't like to sleep in a carriage, and the planks were so cold and hard that he would get up every morning with a little back pain.

At the same time that Mann awoke, Hatsu opened his eyes, scanned the surroundings with his dim eyes, and then lowered his head again.

Last night was not peaceful, and a few people seemed to want to steal their goods, but they were all scared away by Hatsuki.

Of course, Chu didn't appear head-on, she just used her own breath to force those people away.

She is a messenger made of evil, and her aura is a great intimidating force for all life except the summoner.

At first glance, she could feel the things around her, and as they moved westward, the evil attached to them became more and more intense.

Although she is theoretically a villain, she doesn't like this feeling, which makes her have some restlessness in her body.

"At the beginning, let's get ready and go. Mann patted his cheek to sober himself up a bit, and said to Hatsu as he took out another piece of dry food and chewed it in his mouth.

"We need to get to the front as soon as possible, and try to get another shipment before the end of the fall. ”

"Hmm. Chu calmed himself down, and got out of the carriage and untied the reins of the horse.

Just as Hatsu and Mann were about to leave the village, a familiar figure approached again.

Mann recognized the person who had come in, she was the girl who had made him lose money yesterday.

You must know that for a businessman, every loss-making business is a shame, and he will not make the same mistake again in the same place.

"Hey. Mann sat cross-legged in the carriage and shouted to the girl not far away.

"I don't have a copper coin of sweet potatoes to sell you today. ”

"I, I know. The girl still looked timid, but at least she didn't look as weak as she had been yesterday.

With her hands behind her back, she hesitated for a moment before stepping to the front of the carriage and reaching out to hand Mann an object.

"I'm here to give this to you. ”

"Huh?" Mann lowered his eyes as he looked at what the girl had handed her, and in her hand was a bracelet, a very ordinary bracelet, strung together with some stones with a little color, and the rough polishing was estimated to be a little prickly when she wore it.

Mann was stunned for a moment before he bent down and took the bracelet.

"Yesterday, thank you so much. The girl said with a red face.

Then, on her tiptoes, she grabbed Mann on the cheek and kissed him on the side of the cheek before he could react.

After kissing, the girl hurried away, leaving Mann to sit there dumbfounded with his face covered.

Chu held the reins of the carriage, lightly hooked the corners of his mouth, and shrugged his shoulders.

How to say it, being young is really enviable.

By the time he got up on the road, Mann hadn't come to his senses. It was only much later that he took out the bracelet that the girl had given him from the bumpy carriage and held it up in front of him.

"At first, did you think this was worth three copper coins?" asked the boy, who thought that everything in this world could be measured in gold coins.

But at this time, the thing in front of him made him a little unsure of how to estimate the price.

"What do you say?" asked at first glance.

"Probably. Mann looked at the bracelet facing the sunlight and said, "It's worth it." ”

At least, he did receive the girl's thanks, and for the first time he understood what it was like to be thanked.

"Hmph. Thinking of this, Mann chuckled suddenly, threw the uneaten small piece of dry food in his mouth into his mouth, and carefully put the bracelet on his hand.

Sure enough, there are some, and a little heavy.

However, isn't that one of the purposes of his desire to become a businessman, to meet different people and experience interesting things.

Mann grumbled as he ate his dry food, put his hands behind his head, and leaned back on the carriage.

"At first, I wanted to eat meat. ”

After eating dry food for several days in a row, his mouth was almost forgetting the other tastes.

"Didn't you buy it yourself because it was too expensive at the time?" said Chu lightly.

"I regret it now. Mann said with a puff, squinting his eyes.

In the same way, he is now looking forward to it, for the next journey, they still have a whole continent to travel.

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The city of Hiscama is geographically unique in that it connects the wastelands with the kingdom of man, but at the same time it separates the two places.

It is located between a mountain range and is surrounded by rocky peaks that are too high to climb.

For humans to enter the Wastelands from the kingdom, they must pass through the city of Hiscama, otherwise they will have to take twice as many detours.

But for the beasts, they want to enter the kingdom from the barren land, in fact, it is not only the road of Hiscama City, after all, some beasts can completely climb the mountain.

Although the beasts that were slaughtered usually chose to attack from the front, in order to prevent the beasts from entering the kingdom as much as possible, the army stationed in Hiscama had to patrol the surrounding mountain roads in addition to guarding the walls.

But even so, there will still be some fish that slip through the net and enter the kingdom as a disaster.

On a mountain path outside the city of Hiskama, a group of Kingdom soldiers patrolled the road behind the city.

If a herd of beasts entered the kingdom through the mountain path, it was likely to pass through the vicinity, and all the soldiers had to do was dispose of the fish that slipped through the net.

"This shit-like fall. ”

On the road, a soldier crouched on the side of the road, untied a kettle from his waist and took a sip of it.

I have to admit that this autumn is really not easy for them.

"Get up. Another soldier patted him on the shoulder: "There is one more point to see." ”

"Got it. The soldier crouching on the ground rolled his eyes, but stood up helplessly.

The soldiers were ready to leave, but none of them noticed that there was something in the rocks of the mountain road that had been eyed at them, and that they had changed from hunters to prey.

"Ho ······" Behind a rock, a giant gray-black wolf crouched, its fangs bared, its black fur almost blending with the shadow of the rock. The erect beast pupils stared at the group of soldiers, a muffled roar coming from their throats.

As its voice spread, behind the rocks beside the mountain road, one wild wolf after another appeared.

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