On the way the next day.

The road is much easier to walk - after descending the steep mountain road and climbing some hilly low hills, the wooded western forest area of the continent is located.

As the altitude drops dramatically, the temperature has skyrocketed.

When you get here, you don't feel bare on your skin, and you always feel a little chilly by the wind.

Since Vasily was, after all, an ivory tower academy wizard who was not diligent, he really couldn't bear the hard work of traveling continuously.

There is a possibility that the enemy behind him will chase after him, and he can still hold on.

Now, in the next few days, Vasily immediately began to feel that his legs and feet were sore, and Shaman Chen and Shaman took turns to ride the mules for the other two.

After all, they can be regarded as brothers and sisters who have escaped together.

on both sides of the curb.

In addition to hardy conifers such as larch and fir, there are other cypresses with snowflake-like structures, and fragrant trees with thick and strange trunks, and fragrant trees with slightly fleshy and wide leaves.

There are also some long oval fruits that resemble lemons.

The color is like a green winter melon, and the surface is coated with some whitening cream-like powder.

In addition, among the shrubs under the large trees in the woodland, there are some ubiquitous bilberry trees, which resemble blueberries with purple-black flowers. However, bilberry contains more precious active ingredients than blueberries - "anthocyanosides".

When he was on Earth, Chen Xuyuan knew that it was widely used in a variety of therapeutic drugs, including scurvy, urinary tract infections, kidney stones, atherosclerosis, cataracts, night blindness, retinopathy, varicose veins, and vascular lesions in patients with long-term diabetes.

And on this continent.

It's a delicious wild fruit that can be found everywhere.

Because it is very helpful in improving eyesight, it is often picked and eaten by wizards, nobles, soldiers of the army, and ordinary civilians to improve people's night vision and night blindness.

As the mule slowly advanced, Chen Xuyuan leisurely ate the sweet and sour bilberry.

Until an extremely sharp and melodious cry came from the sky, the sound was high and sharp like an eagle's chirp, and the ears trembled when he heard it, and the pores stood up, and he looked up and found that it was a big bird!!~

- No, or should I say pterosaur~!

A pterosaur at least two hundred and three meters in the air still looked the size of a fly.

The actual wingspan width is estimated to be 5 or 6 meters.

However, his appearance as if he was facing a great enemy made Vasily and Sigri a little baffled, only to hear Vasily say casually: "I didn't expect to see pterosaurs, this rare ancient wurm seems to be about to be hunted down on this continent, I thought it was difficult to find." ”

Chen Xu Yuanqi said: "Don't look at it at a height of hundreds of meters, the fluttering attack of these size birds may only take a few seconds to suddenly fall from the sky and snatch away any medium-sized domestic animals and humans, but I don't think you seem to be very nervous?"

Vasily laughed and said, "Of course, don't look at it that big, but it's just an ordinary beast, not a magic beast, and its IQ is not high, and all it can rely on is its natural fangs and claws." The juvenile body of the pterosaur can only be regarded as a two- or third-order beast, and the adult is only at the level of five or six orders at most, and even Sigrid can deal with it. “

"And they're all wary of loud noises and flames, as sound waves can disrupt their brain's sensory balance system. They can be domesticated. Because this thing flies smoothly, it used to be used as a good mount by middle and low-level wizards, and some armies also used this thing as an air scout, but unfortunately it was difficult for artificially domesticated pterosaurs to reproduce. Later, this continent was indiscriminately caught and not much, and everyone stopped, but maybe there are many more on other continents. ”

Chen Xuyuan responded casually, while looking down and thinking: The existing animal and plant biome on this continent has a really large time span, and the creatures that have been extinct in all eras of the earth still exist, plus those many strange magic beasts, it is really a wonderful world.

Here you may find that the reason for the extinction of ancient reptiles such as dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles that people on the earth have speculated for many years and has not yet been determined, and there may be some populations of reptiles that are more evolved than humans.

The world is so big!

You really should go around and have a look, isn't it true that people live to see more scenery along the way?

What's the difference between staying in one place all the time and a salted fish living in a snail's nest?

......

After another three or four days of smooth walking, they began to gradually come across some fleeing pedestrians.

However, in the wilderness, everyone has no sense of security, for fear that they will be robbed of a small amount of property, or killed to make human flesh, and the few pedestrians will run away when they see them from afar.

Until one day at dawn.

Chen Xuyuan and the others were suddenly awakened by the noise of carriages and humans coming from afar.

Several of them hurried out of their covers, ready to prepare their weapons, and then they saw a caravan appear from the far side of the road from which they had come.

But isn't there a war going on there?

Peacetime.

The merchant avoids the big-headed soldiers who wander around the battlefield and often change roles to make cameo appearances as bandits, could it be that the Kudugu army on the opposite side has recently changed its character?

It was a caravan of about two or three hundred people, but it was divided into several parts.

Although most of the people were dressed by hired men in leather jackets and horse coats, they also separated into several piles in a circle, and then followed the first few people who looked like the boss in front of them, driving the wagons and ox carts and the like slowly.

There were also some about thirty or forty people, wearing uniform sleeveless hard leather armor on the outside, with the same symbols painted on their chests and backs, presumably regular mercenary group members.

Some of the thick leather armor worn on the outside has three or four layers, and some have curved chest plates inlaid on the chest to strengthen the armor effect.

They carry a wide range of weapons, ranging from crossbows with thick wooden poles, to regular one-handed swords and shields, to multi-headed thorn ball flails to their waists, or to longbows and crossbows with various decorations.

And the division of labor is clear, there are those who probe with the front foot, and those who look from the side;

There are also those who guard the top of their heads from time to time;

Judging from the momentum, it is really a well-equipped and well-trained civilian military force.

As soon as the scouts in front of them got closer, they immediately spotted a few people who were not hiding, but they had not yet packed their neat bunk luggage, the two mules tethered to the side, and the monkey "thumb" who was playing tricks on the two livestock, and immediately guessed that they were just a few ordinary travelers who had been sleeping on the side of the road for the night.