"It's the peach blossoms in the mountains, right? It's also a good material for sake brewing. ”

I don't know who spoke.

The whole journey was carried out in this relaxed state, until there were about 100 miles away from the location of the monuments marked on the map, everyone gradually realized that they were not traveling, and gradually began to get serious, especially the historian Freeman, who ate and slept every day with a map, let alone when he traveled, every mountain and river he passed by would be compared with the map, but the more so, the deeper his brow wrinkled, and finally he had to gather everyone in the tour group, and then announced a very serious problem in public:

According to the map, the monuments at the destination of this trip are gone, and further on, they will only get farther and farther away from the monument gates.

"Did you miss it?"

"Possibly!"

Freeman pointed to the location of the crowd on the map, where there were prominent landmarks, so he couldn't be mistaken.

Commander Huo Yining looked at the map, and indeed followed the tips on it, and the current location of them had rushed to the front of the monument, which means that the monument was pulled to the back by them.

"Then let's turn around and go back. ”

"That's all it takes, but we've missed it once, we can't miss it again, we have to find it with a clear goal, and this map is drawn to scale from the pages of an ancient book, so the map should be fine. ”

Freeman spread the map on the table, and everyone gathered around to look at the markings on the map.

"There is a lake here, very close to the monuments, we can use this lake as a reference, if we can find the lake, the monuments are easy to find. ”

Alan said, pointing to the crescent-shaped lake on the map.

"But when did we see the crescent-shaped lake along the way?"

"If there really is such a hu nearby, I'm sure someone must know about it. Maybe we'll ask along the way and someone will know. “

"It's a good idea, and we're going to try it next. ”

After some talking, they finally made up their minds, turned around and went back the way they came, only this time they searched very carefully, and when they came to an inhabited place, they would stop and ask them for news of a crescent-shaped lake, but they would find nothing.

On this day they walked to a town in the far west of the empire, where they had passed by when they had come before, but they did not stop long before heading north along the road.

There are only about 100 households in the town, not to mention compared to some large towns, even compared to Tiesong Town, which is in the ancient city of Aocheng, the scale is more than ten times smaller.

It's already April 15th, and it's only three days before the gates of the monument open, so this town will be their last hope, and if they miss it, they will lose their last chance, and the result is that they really become a tour group.

The time of arrival in the town happened to be at noon, so the group lived in the only hotel in the town, there are more than 20 rooms in the hotel, usually most of the time are vacant, now the expedition team arrived, immediately full, Andre waved his hand, this small hotel was chartered by the expedition team, asked the boss to refuse all other guests, the boss of course is full of promises, this season there are not many guests, can meet such a big customer, the boss really can't ask for it, how can there be a reason to refuse.

The group put down their things and gathered in the only bar next to the hotel, waiting for Alan to come to the back kitchen to cook a leg of mutton for everyone, fortunately, most families in the western part of the empire have cattle and sheep and other livestock at home, as long as they are willing to spend money, fresh mutton can be bought at any time along the way.

With Allen's current level of fire magic, the leg of lamb was quickly roasted, and the kitchen over there prepared a few snacks and rum for them, because everyone knew that after today, it was estimated that the expedition would be over, so at this time, everyone did not have any hope, but relaxed their mentality, so they ate and drank, talked and laughed.

Only the historian Freeman's expression was a little listless, and Andre's performance also seemed a little absent-minded.

The bar was not large, with more than 20 tables, and at this time, in addition to the small team of the expedition, only three other tables of customers were drinking, and they also looked like locals.

In this early spring season, adventurers have not yet begun to enter the area.

Alan specially ordered two cans of rum to come up, ready to have a good drink with Elvis.

Before the wine came up, Alan took the map from Freeman's hand, and Elvis spread the map on the table to do the final research, Alan looked at the crescent-shaped lake, and was a little puzzled, such a characteristic lake, why no one has heard of it?

After all these years, the lake has dried up, or has simply been changed beyond recognition by geological movements. It seems that this trip is really going to be empty-handed, but it's okay, at least I can get my wand earlier.

"El, take out your wand, I'll admire it. ”

"Don't you appreciate the way? Besides, you're pretty good. ”

Elvis now treats his wand as his life, and he takes meals with him, and he is a little reluctant to borrow even his best friend.

"You mean this?"

Alan took out a three-foot-long piece of fire pine from the table and showed it to Elvis.

"Yes, you're an authentic fire-based wand, and mine is a pineapple, earth-based wand, not for you. ”

"I just want to appreciate the magic array above, which was carved by the teacher himself, the most beautiful earth-based magic array on the continent. ”

"You've admired it dozens of times along the way, and if you continue to appreciate it, the runes on the surface of the wand will be smoothed out, and I don't want to hold a bald stick as a wand. ”

"You just say to borrow or not, right?"

"Don't borrow!"

"Then break off the relationship!"

"If you break up, you break up!

"Then you are not allowed to eat the leg of lamb I roasted today. ”

"Well, I can only watch for a quarter of an hour.

"Two quarters of an hour!"

"Two legs of lamb!"

"Can you finish eating?"

"I can't finish eating, I'll pack. ”

For the quarrel between the two, the members of the investigation team did not know how many times they heard it along the way, and they were already surprised, but the other diners in the bar saw the two magicians arguing for the first time, and they all showed curious expressions, especially the owner of the bar, who was full of concern about this incident, because he was worried that once the two magicians fought, his wooden house would probably be burned down by a fire. And he knows that the identity of this group of people is not simple, and he is afraid that there will be no way to claim compensation at that time.

Fortunately, the last two magicians finally reached a compromise and did not make a move on the spot, and the boss put down some apprehension. PS: Another new book of the fourth child recommends "The Real Kepler 452b", Oriental Fantasy, please support it, I believe the new book will bring surprises to everyone!

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