Chapter 7: Turning North
87_87057 As soon as Bai Qi came out of the shack, Balmain and the indigenous soldiers also rushed into the camp.
Balmain was followed by only a dozen warriors, most of whom were wounded, and it seemed that the casualties of this group of indigenous warriors were not small.
Balmain held the giant axe of the gnoll leader in his hand, and the uninjured soldiers behind him held the bronze shield of the gnoll leader, Bai Qi's six throwing spears, and the weapons and shields of five gnoll warriors.
Balmain came to Bai Qi and bowed deeply: "Your Excellency Lucas, the great Chosen Warrior, this time without your bravery, we would have attacked the Rogbidus tribe without permission, and we would definitely have been wiped out, please allow me to express my most sincere respect and gratitude to you. ”
&nb%≥,a@nshu≌ba.sp; After saying that, he handed over the giant axe with both hands and said, "These are your trophies. ”
Bai Qi thought for a while, shook his head and said, "We said before, I will only select three kinds of loot......
Balmain said: "No, no, no, if it is an ordinary gnoll tribe, of course such a distribution is reasonable, but this is the Rogbidus tribe, the most powerful gnoll tribe in the Asyr Mountains!" Although it is now decayed, it is not something that we trainee warriors can provoke, you killed the seven most powerful gnolls in this tribe, which is equivalent to one person destroying more than half of the strength of this tribe, these are of course your trophies, we only need the heads of those ordinary gnolls warriors. ”
Bai Qi thought for a moment, took the huge battle axe from the other party's hand, and used the query function of the soldier's insignia on it.
"This is a powerful battle axe forged by the orc clan in the world of the Star of Enlightenment, and with the blessing of the orc shaman, it has great power."
"This item is only valid in this world."
Bai Qi looked at the battle axe and thought for a while, and said: "I, Lucas, are the ones who speak, the weapons and shields of the gnoll leader, and the staff of the elder jackal in the shack belong to me, and the rest of the things belong to you, I still have something to do, I won't return to Yasuo City soon, and I can't take too many things with me." ”
Balmain said respectfully: "Great Lucas, Chosen Warrior, you can rest assured, we will send the heads of the leaders and elders of the Rogbidus tribe to the Yasuo Temple for you, and no one will dare to encroach on your merits." ”
Bai Qi nodded indifferently, asked them to put their javelins and loot at their feet, and then said to the warriors, "You guys go to the camp and search for the loot." ”
The warriors scattered happily.
After the warriors left, Bai Qi waved his hand and put all the things on the ground into the storage space, although these indigenous warriors seemed to be blind to the sudden appearance of a weapon in his hand that was not originally stored in Zài, but Bai Qi still did not want to use the storage space function in front of them.
The indigenous warriors tossed around the camp for half an hour before stopping, and many things that seemed to Bai Qi to be complete garbage were collected by the warriors.
After collecting the booty, the indigenous warriors climbed up the hill again, and Balmain told him that five warriors had died in the battle, and eleven more were seriously wounded, and that they were going to return to the village with the bodies of the wounded and their comrades.
Bai Qi waved goodbye to the indigenous warriors in the camp.
Bai Qi stood in the camp of the gnolls, watching the indigenous warriors disappear into the hillside.
After waiting a long time, to make sure that the native warriors had left, he turned and walked off the platform, crossed the stream, walked out of the valley, and walked north along the foot of the mountain.
After walking five or six kilometers along the foot of the mountain, Bai Qi turned west again, and after walking through the forest for more than ten kilometers, his eyes suddenly emptied, and an endless field appeared in front of him.
Bai Qi trekked around the fields on the outskirts of the city-state for more than an hour in the forest on the edge of the field, walked more than ten kilometers, and finally saw the road directly north of the city-state.
To the north of the city-state of Yasuo is an endless vast plain, on the plain is an endless sea of forests, in the east of the plain, a mountain range stretches to the north and south, that is the Assyrian Mountains, the aborigines of the city of Yasuo used to call the section of the Azores east of the city of Yasuo called the Black Rock Mountain.
A straight road runs from the north gate of the city of Yasuo to the edge of the forest, and this road will stretch for three hundred kilometers through this forest sea to the city-state of Suemia to the north.
Bai Qi glanced at Yasuo City from a distance, turned around and plunged into the vast forest.
To facilitate commerce, the Yasuo and Sumerians built two forts deep in the forest.
Generally speaking, caravans going from Yasuo City to Sumea City will depart from Yasuo City in the early morning, arrive at the transit fort near Yasuo City in the evening, rest in the fortress for one night, continue the next morning, arrive at the transit fort on the side of Sumea City the next evening, rest for another night, and arrive in Sumeia City in the evening of the third day.
When Bai Qi entered the forest sea, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, but this was not a problem for Bai Qilai, and he began to run along the rough road after entering the forest sea.
For Bai Qi, whose basic physique is more than forty points, it is not too difficult to run a hundred kilometers in three hours.
In fact, Bai Qi caught up with a caravan from Yasuo City ten kilometers away from Yasuo Fortress.
The guards of the caravan are mainly guarded against goblins, gnolls and robbers who may rush out of the forests on both sides at any time, and they are not particularly wary of humans. And the captain of the guard of this caravan seemed to know Lucas, and he asked Bai Qi, who was panting, if he was going there.
Bai Qi couldn't help but feel a little depressed, his height was too conspicuous, and he could only use the same rhetoric he had told the tavern owner that he planned to go to the dwarven city in the north.
His remark drew laughter, and the caravan took him in without much difficulty.
The caravan transit fortress is located on a flat platform on the side of the road, which is a small stone city with a side length of fifty meters, and the city wall is about the same size as the city wall of Yasuo City, with a height of more than ten meters and a thickness of about three meters, and four defensive towers are built on the four corners of the stone city.
The gate of the stone city is connected by a log of a certain thickness, through the guò winch lifting and closing, the center of the stone city is a circular stone castle with a diameter of fifteen meters, from the appearance, this stone fort is no different from the stone castle in the village outside Yasuo City, and the internal structure will not be too different, the stone castle is the last line of defense of this stone city.
Around the stone fort was a ring of tall and spacious stone houses, which could be used for both goods and people, and although they were simple, they were very sturdy.
There were a total of eight caravans resting in this transit fortress today, and the largest caravan was escorting more than twenty large wagons.
In order to prevent rain and dampness, the caravan drove the wagon directly into the stone house, unloaded the horses, and led them to the stables behind the stone house to feed.
Despite this, half of the stone houses around the stone fort were still empty, so Bai Qi chose one and spread some hay in the corner, planning to deal with it here at night.
After laying the hay, Bai Qi felt a little hungry, today day, he ate all the dry food prepared in the storage space, according to Adrian, the dry food in the storage space is used in emergency when it is absolutely necessary, if it is used, it must be made up at any time, so as not to really encounter extreme situations and cry without tears.
One of the large and humble stone houses built around the stone fort stands out because it is a wooden house, and a flag fluttering at the door of the wooden house depicts a wine glass, indicating that it is a tavern.
The men and slaves of the caravan were busy at the urging of the caravan steward, but the guards of the various caravans were relieved of their burdens as soon as they entered the castle, and they all gathered towards the tavern.
Bai Qi walked around the stone city and found that this tavern was the only shop here, and if you wanted to eat, you could only eat here.
Pushing open the door of the tavern, a strange smell of wine mixed with the smell of barbecue, oil smoke, and men's body odor came to his face, and most of Bai Qi's appetite was suddenly gone, but he couldn't go hungry, so he could only frown and walk in.
The area of the tavern is quite large, and the visual difference is only 300 square meters, but eight caravans and nearly 200 guards almost filled the tavern, and more than a dozen female slaves shuttled back and forth between the wine tables, and barbecued meat, bread, and ale were brought up like flowing water.
The warriors who had been on the road for a day were still energetic at this time, and the sound of talking and laughing made the tavern boil.
There was a large table in the center of the tavern that could seat twenty people, but at this time there were only eight people, and the other warriors subconsciously stayed away from this table, leaving a vacant piece in the middle of the tavern, which was very conspicuous. With Bai Qi's eyes, it was natural to see that the people sitting next to this table were all Chosen Warriors.
Bai Qi didn't have to guess to know that these eight people should be the leaders of the guards of the eight caravans.
The eight Chosen Warriors seemed to be saying something funny, and they all laughed out of breath, and some of them even slapped the table while laughing.
Bai Qi knew that Yasuo's Chosen Warriors didn't have a good face when they saw him, and he didn't want to cause trouble, so he went to the corner, sat down at a table where no one was around, waved a slave girl, and asked what was sold in the tavern.
The slave girl told him that there were only three kinds of food in the tavern, barbecue, bread, and potato soup, and Bai Qi could only let her serve each of them to herself, and after ordering the food, he suddenly remembered that the thing called ale that he had drunk in the morning tasted good, and asked the slave girl to bring him a cup too.
The food soon came up, the large pieces of roasted meat were golden in color and fragrant, the bread was dark in color, but it was clearly freshly baked, and it exuded an attractive sweet aroma, and the bowl of potato soup was thick, which looked bad but smelled good.
Bai Qi took a sip of the cloudy ale, nodded with satisfaction, picked up a piece of bread and was about to put it in his mouth, when he suddenly heard an exaggerated cry from the large table in the center of the tavern: "Ha, isn't this Lucas who wants to go to the city of dwarves to pretend to be a dwarf?" ”
Bai Qi looked up and saw that at the oversized table in the center of the tavern, a burly native man who seemed to be taller than him was looking at him with a playful face.
He couldn't help but be depressed, lowered his head, stuffed a mouthful of bread, and didn't intend to pay attention to him.
Bai Qi's movements seemed to infuriate the man, and he dropped the barbecue in his hand and stood up and walked towards Bai Qi.
Today, he was ridiculed for his height all day long, and Bai Qi had already held back the fire in his belly, and this big man's unrelenting reluctance completely angered him.
Bai Qi spit out the brown bread in his mouth that tasted good, and looked up at the big man coldly