Chapter 188: Echoes in the Valley
Although the large backpack behind Itzhax made people believe that Hao Ren and his party would not lack supplies on the road, the mountain people said that this was their family's habit when they sent off their friends, so Hao Ren still accepted these things gratefully.
This hospitality should be thanks to Betsy's good connections, and it is impossible to see that this mercenary girl has established such a high reputation among these foreigners, and Betsy's explanation for this is very simple: "The mountain people are a very easy people to understand, repay kindness with virtue and repay grievances with grievances, and it just so happens that my personality is similar, so it is easy to become friends after helping them a few times." ”
Unexpectedly, this mercenary girl who seems to have been bent on getting into the eyes of money still has such a simple and clean side in her bones.
After leaving the border village, the group did not delay their journey any longer, and spent the next few days in full speed and on the road.
It was a hard time to travel day and night on the vast grassland, but the magnificent exotic scenery along the way somewhat diverted the attention of the group, and it was not too hard. Riding a horse and galloping in such a vast place is not a novel feeling that can be experienced lightly, even Vivian and Nangong May, who have traveled all over the world, seem to be in high spirits along the way, not to mention Lily: she simply loves this unrestrained wild environment, half of the time she rides a horse every day, half of the time she spreads her limbs behind the team with Yizax, and occasionally carries her own horse for a while, and her travel life is particularly colorful......
Hao Ren felt that if he didn't find a place with people. Lily was soon about to revert back to her pre-fi state: now she had jumped nervously from her horse, and was on all fours...... Race against your own horses.
It's just unbearable to look at it directly.
"You guys are quite interesting," Becky turned to look at Izax, who was running at the end of the group. There is also a four-legged werewolf girl who is racing against her mount, and feels that all the rare things she can see in her life have happened in the past few days, "Ask again, are you sure you are all studying magic?" ”
"But isn't it," Hao Ren repeated this question many times, and now it has basically reached the level of in person without changing his face, and he will come as soon as he opens his mouth. "Lily just took the wrong medicine when she was doing alchemy......"
"Didn't you say last time that she was a magic real yàn when she was struck like this by lightning?"
"Oh, I was struck by lightning while taking medicine, and by the way, my head was caught by the door."
Vivian sighed and communicated with Nangong May next to her: "I suddenly don't want to bully the big dog a little." Treat her well in the future. ”
Lily had no idea what these unconscionable fellows were doing behind their backs, and she gleefully sparked for a while, then scurried up to Hao Ren, and then sprang to the horse's back with unusual agility, despite the fact that the horses were running. grabbed Hao Ren's shoulders from behind and shook vigorously: "Landlord, landlord!" We're almost at the foot of the mountain! ”
People came to shout like this frantically. Lily scurried back to the ground in two by three, ran two steps to catch up with her horse and hung herself back on the horse, the action was called a smooth flow, the whole process was estimated to be scared of a heart attack by outsiders, but this girl played as smoothly as walking on the ground: no matter how strange your personality is, no matter how magical the bloodline is, Lily is the first in Hao Ren's five-person team, and her sincerity is not shaken, after all, even a fierce man like Yitzax is crushed by extra-spec strength, and the real technical fighting master still has to look at Lily.
It's a pity that this girl never put her talent to good use.
Hao Ren was almost shaken off his horse by Lily. It was only after he had finally stabilized his figure that he looked up and saw that the mountain range in the distance was now close at hand: it had appeared on the horizon long ago. But as the saying goes, Wangshan ran a dead horse, and the group was stunned for several hours before rushing to the foot of the mountain.
This mountain range is the famous "Dragon's Back Mountains" in the western part of the Holletta Kingdom, which is named after its continuous and continuous distribution of evenly spaced, violently undulating, vertebrae-shaped mountains throughout the whole process, which stretches from the western inland of the Holletta Kingdom to the depths of the savannah, and is a barrier that Hao Ren and his people cannot bypass when they go to Beinz Blood Lake.
Because on the other side of the mountain range is the sacred Beinz Blood Lake, in order to cross this mountain range, the people of Holletta spent a lot of manpower and material resources to dig large tunnels or along mountain avenues in various places, and some key places were even connected by costly perpetual teleportation arrays (mainly cathedral "sacred buildings" on both sides of the mountain range, and the church and the royal family had to ensure smooth communication between themselves and the holy place at any cost). Hao Ren's original plan was to turn south at the mountain range, take a folded line from the inner realm of the kingdom, and finally take a newer tunnel through the mountain to Guò, but in order to find clues to the "otherworldly woman" who acted two days earlier than them, the group temporarily decided to cross this barrier directly from the mountain path near the border of the steppe in the mountain people's village.
Compared to the two routes, the latter seems to be shorter in a straight line, but in fact it takes about the same time: although the tunnel through the mountains has to take a detour to the inner realm of the kingdom, it is relatively easy to walk, and the ancient mountain road is a direct route, but due to the rugged road and the complicated situation in the mountains, it is actually not a shortcut. Of course, there is no difference between these two paths for a seasoned mercenary with all kinds of stunts.
Betsy is a second-class mercenary, and despite her young age, she must have a real ability to pass the guò test to get this rating today, and she had climbed the mountain range many times before Beinz Blood Lake was raised to the blockade level due to the Orb Incident (mainly to make extra money), so she was still the first to act as a guide this time. Betsy led everyone into an inconspicuous col at the foot of the mountain that was easily missed by rookies, and found the ancient mountain road that sloped upward.
"Be a little careful here," everyone dismounted and walked, and Betsy led the horse to the front, "This area is also said to be one of the relics of ancient civilizations, and there are some strange monsters in the mountain that are difficult to explain, although they are not very difficult to deal with...... But getting entangled can be troublesome, and the road conditions are not suitable for combat. ”
"Speaking of ancient civilizations, they are really everywhere," Nangong May muttered, the bare mountains around here blocked the warm wind on the grassland, and the current altitude has not yet reached the mountainside with more clouds and water vapor, and the dryness of the air makes the Siren girl feel a little unhappy, "How much movement have they tossed?" ”
"Anyway, the movement is so big that it annoys the goddess," Betsy said with a smile, "It is said that the entire Dragonspine Mountain Range was forcibly shaped from the flat ground by the Magic Emperor 'Eloken' of the human magic at that time, which is why it is so abruptly across the plains. My grandfather had told me that Eloken's creation of the mountain range had completely disrupted the blueprint set by the goddess when she created the world, but the reason he did it was simply because he didn't like the cold wind that blew from the west side of the plains, as was the case with the magical emperors of ancient civilizations...... Forehead ......"
Hao Ren tried to remind: "To die? ”
"Yes, die!" Betsy nodded vigorously, "That's a fitting statement. Anyway, my grandfather said that the magic emperor of the ancient civilization was very arrogant, all the magicians at that time were arrogant, the magic emperor of the werewolf 'Sanur' created the sunset volcano, the elf queen Lorisa - also a magic emperor - crossed the authority of the gods to create the semi-immortal tree of life, and let the tree draw nutrients from the sacred spring of the goddess to maintain eternal life, and the magic emperor of the blood clan 'Derian' was the original initiator of the transcendence of divine power to create a perfect life. ”
"Uh...... It's crazy indeed. Hao Ren was also a little amazed at the creative power of the magic emperors back then, and at the same time he began to think about what would happen if these brain-opening "mad scientists" really appeared in front of Raven 12345, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still felt that Raven 12345 would probably find it very troublesome and leave the mess to his censors......
"The Dragonspine Mountains are the creation of Eloken, and there is still the power of the Earth King here," Betsy gushed about the legend she had heard from her grandfather, and then continued to talk to herself, "It is said that the stone monsters that attack people in the mountains today are driven by Eloken's crazy soul fragments, and we had better not encounter that kind of thing, although it is not a big threat, but it is especially difficult to kill, hard." ”
"Boom—"
Almost as Becky's words fell, a thunderous bang suddenly came from the depths of the mountain.
Vivien's 1,800 "Pit Warning Indicators" began to call the police frantically, and she felt that she was afraid that she was going to be unlucky again. (To be continued......)