The winter sun is shining on the cobblestone path, a light gray old horse is pulling the carriage and driving leisurely on the road, a man and a woman are sitting on the simple carriage dressed as two elves dressed as farmers, although the winter in the forest comes later than in the north, but no matter how beautiful the environment is, it can't stop the pace of winter, the two elves are ready to pull the food on the carriage to the town for some winter supplies, recently the southern part of the flower language forest is full of smoke, those damn demons and the armies of several big lords are fighting happily, And for ordinary elven farmers, the most intuitive experience of war is the soaring prices, of course, the price of food has basically not risen, because this kind of material is strongly controlled by the lords, hey, I don't know what things can be exchanged for in the end~

"Stop, stop!" Suddenly, loud shouts came from the trees on both sides of the path.

The two elven farmers in the carriage immediately picked up the nail rake and hoe in a panic, they had never heard of robbers in this vicinity, could it be the terrible consequences of war?

Several snake girls emerged from the bushes not far in front of the carriage, and the two elves could clearly see the patches on the snake women's leather armor, and of course, the sharp weapons in their hands.

"Please~Please don't hurt us, we're just ordinary farmers, you can take away the things you want~~" The male elf's gaze swept over the more than ten snake women who came up, and sadly found that there was no room for escape or resistance, and hurriedly put down the farm tools in his hand, raised his hand and said.

"Sisters, put away your weapons!" The snake girl in the lead commanded, and then she came to the carriage, "I'm sorry, we're not robbers, we're just a mercenary group, passing by here, where is the nearest town?" ”

Mercenary group? The male elf looked at the broken leather armor on the snake woman, obviously more like a robber or a refugee than a mercenary group, "Follow this maple forest path, walk forward for about two hours, and you will arrive at the town of maple forest." ”

"Thank you so much, by the way, it looks like you're going to town?" The snake girl thanked.

"Yes, we are going to sell things on the farm, it's not worth a few dollars, you guys go first, we have heavy things, and the carriage is very slow~" The female elf replied seemingly unintentionally.

"Huh? Are you going to sell these foods? Great, our mercenary group just needs to replenish some food, and we were going to go to town, but since we met here, we don't have to run again, how much do you calculate in total? The snake girl had a very clever expression on her face, and quickly pointed to everything in the carriage.

The two elf farmers hesitated, and when they met this kind of lord who came to buy things with weapons, the price was too high for fear that people would turn their faces, and if they said that it was low, they would suffer a loss, and finally the female elf trembled and said, "About ~ about 25 gold coins ~~~, right?" ”

"Well, no problem, it's almost the same as buying it in the town", the snake girl took off the money bag with a happy face, counted out 25 gold coins and handed it over, "Sisters, move things~"

In a few moments, the snake women emptied all the food from the carriage and disappeared into the jungle.

"This is ~ what is the situation ~ " The female elf counted the gold coins in her hand again in disbelief, usually these things are up to 22 gold, she originally wanted to say a little more first, and then wait for the snake girl to say 22 gold as soon as she has an objection, so that the snake girl can feel that the price of buying is low, and she will not suffer a loss, but she didn't expect ~

"These snake girls are generous~" The male elf breathed a sigh of relief, "Didn't you find that these gold coins are bigger than our flower language gold coins, this time I made a lot of money~"

The female elf quickly lowered her head to check......

A few snake girls carrying food on their backs walked among the bushes, while the snake girl who had just paid walked at the back of the line, carefully erasing the traces of their movements.

"Captain Goertek, don't be so careful~" A snake girl turned back.

"You forgot what happened last time, you can't be too careful, counting these things today, we will have almost enough food for the winter."

The snake girl and her party went around the two hills before they came to the mouth of a cave camouflaged by vines and shrubs, and after reconfirming that they were not being followed, the snake girls disappeared behind the vines together.

The cave was dry, and after a long walk down the winding tunnel, it suddenly became apparent that it was a small valley sandwiched between the mountains, and only the cave that had just entered led to the outside, a good place that the snake maidens had stumbled upon.

"How's it going?" Ellie sizzles over to Goertek.

"There is nothing wrong, this time I deliberately led the team around the vicinity of Fenglin Town to buy things, but during this period of time, we have been buying all kinds of winter supplies, and our gold coins are running out."

"It's good to buy it, as long as it allows us to survive this winter, let's use up the gold coins, after that catastrophe, our tribe has been stormy, and can no longer withstand any twists and turns, this winter is particularly critical, which is related to our confidence in continuing to survive."

"And what about next year, Ellie, what are we going to do next year?"

"At the beginning of spring next year, we will leave here and go north, and we will go to the territory of the Nords!"

"Why, isn't it good here? The Huayu Forest has a warm climate, a beautiful environment, and abundant prey. ”

"This is the territory of the elves, you won't forget the sisters who just joined us on the way, they were driven out of the city by the elves for no reason", in the process of moving with the tribe, Ellie met several snake girls who originally lived in the city of wood elves, they were confiscated by the wood elves, driven out of the city, and some were even directly executed, which cast a shadow on Ellie's heart.

"We don't go to their city, it should be fine", Goertek was a little puzzled.

"The Flower Language Forest is the territory of the wood elves, they have no credibility and honor, greedy for enjoyment, and regard all the products in the forest as private property, we live here, sooner or later there will be a conflict with them, now the wood elves are fighting with the demons, although this is not the southern battlefield of the forest, but no one knows whether the war will spread here in the spring next year, not to mention, this valley is too small to grow food, and there are no Nord ruins to supplement our weapons and equipment, losing force means losing the chance to survive."

"The Nords are savage and ferocious, we don't know much about them, it's dangerous to venture there, and besides, the Nords are at war with the undead, and it's not a happy place."

"Now there is no war anywhere, elves, humans and demons, Nords and undead, dwarves and orcs, there are wars everywhere, so I think that the force of the tribe is the first element of self-preservation, although the Nords are many robbers, but they have more warriors, real warriors, at least we trade in their villages, we don't have to worry about being besieged, the only thing is where they are, it's too barren......"