Chapter 238: The Togolese Hills

In the middle of the Noah continent, there is a long and narrow hilly area from the Great Rift Valley of the Demon Dragon in the east to the Brussels Swamp in the west, the whole hilly area is composed of thousands of large and small mountains, some areas are denser, and some areas are much looser.

In addition to being one of the most famous geographical indications on the continent, the Togolese Hills also have important political significance, as the human coalition defeated the main orc force in the Battle of the Togo Hills three hundred years ago. After expelling the orcs, Julius the Great and Higg the Great established their respective empires, and when they divided the border between the two empires, they also used the Togolese hills as the boundary, and established several checkpoints in them.

Although the hills of Togo are not high, they are densely jungled, and the most abundant wildlife on the continent lives, although this does not mean that the hills are uninhabited, on the contrary, many areas of the Togolese hills have traces of human activity. Although there are no large cities in the hills of Togo, there are many small towns and villages dotted around, which are either road nodes between Jus and Hig, family areas for woodyards and mines, or places for adventurers. Due to the large area covered by the Togolese hills, not to mention the east-west direction, and the widest part of the north-south direction is also two hundred miles long, the dividing line between the two empires of Yus and Higg is not particularly clear in every place, and there are many areas in the hills.

In the middle of the Togolese hills, there is such a small village, the village is located in a mountain pass, backed by a large dense jungle, the jungle is dense with birds and beasts, and there are all kinds of precious plants and herbs, it is said that some people have also found gems and gold mines in the rivers deep in the mountains, so every year a large number of adventurers pass through the mountain pass where the village is located into the mountains to hunt or find all kinds of resources needed. At the pass, there is a small village of thirty or forty families, except for a part of the hunting area, the rest of the families depend on providing various goods and services to the adventurers who travel to and from the mountain every year.

Twenty years ago, a family suddenly moved into the village, and to the surprise of the villagers, the father and the son were the only two members of the family.

After the two arrived, my father spent some gold coins and hired villagers to build a house for him on the side of the road leading to the mountain pass, and bought a lot of goods outside the mountain, and from then on started a business of adventurers' supplies. The business of the small shop was not very prosperous, and the father was an alcoholic, so he did not make money, and if it were not for the father's savings, they would have had a very poor life.

His father was a straightforward man, and he was also very righteous, and he was very good, at least the adventurers who went in and out of the mountain pass were not his opponents, so after the father helped the villagers send away a few adventurers who did not pay for food and did things to the women of the village, a father and son immediately won the acceptance of the original villagers and became one of them, because the father was often drunk, so his children were often taken care of by the neighbors next door. Among them, Aunt Hill, who is closest to their house, often takes the children to their home for dinner, and Uncle Hill often makes a few toys for the children to make them laugh, and perhaps this is also the happiest time for children to live in the Togolese hills.

Later, at the age of thirteen, the child was taken away by an old man wearing a pointed hat, reportedly went to the big city, and never returned. Eleven years have passed since this incident, and if it weren't for the fact that a young man who suddenly came to visit the door today mentioned this matter, Aunt Hill would have forgotten it a little.

"You're the little Kante?"

Hearing the young man reveal that his name was Alan Kanter, Hill was stunned for a while before realizing that the young man in front of him was actually the son of his former neighbor Duran Kanter, the little kid who often ate and drank at his house and liked to chase his big yellow dog all over the mountain.

"When I was a child, I used to play at the great god's house, and my aunt forgot about me so quickly?"

It was Alan, of course, who had left Higg, and returned to his home in the Togolese hills with Jean and the two elves to recuperate, and the matter of revenge had come to an end, and he wanted to meet his father, and then go north to Hollanster to talk about a big matter. But I never thought that when Alan returned home with great anticipation, all he saw was a somewhat dilapidated house. The wild grass growing in the yard and the cobwebs crisscrossing under the eaves all indicate that the house has been deserted for many years. The door of the house was locked, and through the broken windows it was possible to see some miscellaneous items piled up inside.

Where did my father go?

Anticipation turned into a belly of doubt. In order to find out his father's whereabouts, Alan had to find his neighbors. Fortunately, Uncle Hill's family is still there, and when I saw Aunt Hill, she was wearing an apron and flipping the dried herbs by the wall, and Alan could vaguely recognize the appearance of Aunt Hill in her childhood memories, but Aunt Hill had completely forgotten about her former neighbor.

When Allen revealed herself, Aunt Hill rubbed her eyes vigorously and looked at the smiling and polite young visitor in front of her, and the facial features on the young man's face did have the shadow of Durรกn Kanter, at least eight points similar. However, Aunt Hill craned her neck and looked behind the young man, the young man was not alone, and there were three people with him, a pair of handsome young men and women, the man was tall and handsome, with sharp faces, the woman was gentle and soft, ice and jade, and most importantly, the dusty temperament of the two people made people have an unreal illusion, as if they should only exist in myths and legends, at least a palatial and flowery palace, not her humble country courtyard. However, looking at their respectful attitude towards the young man at the head, it was like a pair of retinues, and what surprised Hill even more was the woman who accompanied the young man, although the woman was young, but she was born beautiful, and her dignified demeanor made her beautiful face seem to exude a holy radiance, which made people respect and feel more cordial at the same time.

"Is it really you?"

Back then, the children of poor families could have such a temperamental retinue and such a graceful woman, the ancestral tomb of the Kanter family must have been smoking, no, no, no, it was a fire, and the smoke was directly billowing and the fire was soaring into the sky.

"Aunt Hill, they're my friends. โ€

Seeing Aunt Hill looking at the three people around her in a daze, Alan hurriedly introduced the three people to Aunt Hill, and all three of them stepped forward to say hello, which made the great god feel cramped for a while, because she had never seen such an outstanding person in her life, even if she once went to a small town outside the mountain and saw the lord of the city from afar, the lord and lady of the city compared to these people, it was like a hillbilly who had never met before.

"Aunt Hill, he's really the same Alan Kanter, we can all testify. โ€

The girl seemed to have seen the aunt's hesitant heart, and took the initiative to prove it for Alan.

"Kante's son is out, I don't even dare to admit it. โ€

Aunt Hill, who was originally skeptical, heard the girl's words, and immediately stopped questioning Allen's identity, because she suddenly realized that she was not qualified to be deceived by others, and the children of the Kanter family were not worth being impersonated by others.