Pavatiga has a very unique urban system, at least in Shure's opinion, unlike any other city in his home world, the Eastern and Western Continents.

In Pavatiga, sometimes we do refer to the city itself, but more often than not, we do refer to a city itself, but rather to a complete system of affiliated towns, villages, and various ancillary facilities.

This peculiarity is due to the heart of the city.

In order to protect the inhabitants of the city in the energy environment of ferocious or strange monsters and dangerous natural phenomena, the gods gave the heart of the city to intelligent beings, and the heart of the city is very important to the city, especially like the wood elves and sea elves, the race that built the city in a special environment full of monsters, the heart of the city is even more essential.

However, a complete country cannot only have cities, and villages and towns that are mainly food production are obviously more important to the country than cities.

Therefore, after a long period of research, intelligent beings have found a way to make subtle adjustments to the heart of the city, which can reduce the coverage of the heart of the city, and then transfer this reduced area to other areas within a certain radius, most of which are fifty kilometers, so as to form an urban system with the city as the core and towns and villages as the outer edges, which is the most common name of the Pavatians - the metropolitan area.

There is no need to worry about safety within the city, at least in most cases, and outside the city, there is the line between life and death.

This is true of all cities, and Gravel City is no exception.

Gravel City also has a city, and although most of the area is barren, at least it can still ensure the safety of travelers, but when the traveler's footsteps step out of the city, no one can predict what will happen in the next moment.

It was already afternoon, but the sun was still high in the wilderness outside the gravel city. The carriage of the sun god Sur seems to be particularly fond of this barren land, and it is always attached to the sky, and the heat of the sun chariot scorches the earth, making the wilderness like hell.

Under the still dazzling sunlight, the sound of camel bells, a long procession came from the end of heaven and earth.

More than thirty camels lined up in a long line, which was already a large caravan for the sparsely populated western wilderness, at least larger than most caravanserais.

In the caravan, at least half of the camels were carrying a full load of goods on their backs, and all the goods were tightly wrapped, which looked very heavy, and the camels slowed down.

The other half of the camels were seated passengers, most of whom were ordinary people, who looked weak and weak, and whose physical fitness was far worse than that of the warriors, and who were drowsy under the scorching sun because of the loss of water.

This is, of course, Mia and her digging team.

The excavation team of thirty people, at least more than half of them are ordinary scholars, and a few other part-time scholars' mages, ordinary scholars have received preferential treatment, and they can happily sit on their hunkbacks and bask in the sun, although basking in the sun is not a preferential treatment, but compared to the high-level warriors who walk on their legs, they are much happier.

The vast majority of the fighters are walking, and these strong men use a loose formation to protect the members of the excavation team and important equipment in the middle, which is the last and most reliable barrier for the excavation team. However, there is one thing that makes Mia feel very headache, these fighters with strong personal strength seem to ...... Bad learning with a certain battle priest.

Shortly after departure, the white-winged man in the team, who claimed to be an ordinary mercenary named Yuri, found Shul walking with a kind smile and a dodgy Saf walking together, and the key thing is that the two of them did not seem to be affected by the sun at all. If you look closely, this guy hides in the shadow of the camel from beginning to end, and the tall camel gives them the best shelter.

Anyway, there were many camels and shadows, so Yuri also hid, and then, in addition to the necromancer who was lying on the bone chaise longue and was carried by the skeleton, and the skeleton helped the necromancer with the umbrella, the seven high-ranking mercenaries hid neatly to one of the team, and only poor Mia and two unlucky old mage assistants were left on the other side.

It's a pity that Mia is keen, and she found out before she left the city, and forcibly adjusted the position of the team, otherwise everyone would be able to cool down for a while.

"Anyway, I didn't leave the city, did I? Seeing the angry smile on Shuer's face, with Mia's coldness, he almost smashed it with a punch.

However, after he made such a fuss, the atmosphere in the team was much more harmonious, and the common prank narrowed the distance between these self-esteemed fighters, at least they began to have a preliminary communication with each other, and they were no longer as cold as at the beginning.

Maybe that's what he's lazy for?Exchanging glances with the necromancer, Mia looked thoughtfully at Shure's silhouette.

Sure enough, I still want to beat him up. This was Mia's final conclusion, for Shure was now sitting comfortably on the back of a camel, and he had pulled up an awning for himself with a leisurely face, as if he were on vacation.

But Mia can't say anything, because first, he didn't leave his responsible position, and second, this is his own treatment.

The mercenaries don't have camels, but the Gravel City Lord Guards who escort the digging team do.

Although this fifty-man western camel cavalry is only the lowest-level warriors, it is well-trained to adapt to the environment, and they are very reliable in guarding the periphery, enough to scare off most of the predatory monsters, so that the mercenaries in the inner circle only need to deal with those special monsters with strong individual strength.

However, even with good training, the world outside the city is still too dangerous, and even high-ranking warriors may not be able to protect themselves, let alone these lowest-level warriors.

Therefore, just two kilometers away from the city, a team of nearly 100 people encountered a surprise attack.

The environment was so open that there was no living creature around, and no one noticed any danger, but a minute later, two members of the excavation team and seven camels fell, seriously injured and dying.

Due to the lack of food in the wilderness, there are not many large demonic beasts, but the small demonic beasts are dense, and the excavation team has suffered heavy losses only after accidentally destroying the nest of a group of scorpions.

The scorpions, named Ilte's hair, are one of the most hated creatures of wilderness travelers. Ilt is the Lord of Poison, and with his name, the poison of these scorpions can be imagined.

They tend to huddle in their nests and easily avoid clashes with large creatures, but once their nests are attacked, they will launch a fierce counterattack against the attackers and flee as fast as they can.

The point is that these scorpion's nests are featureless, and even the most experienced traveler in the western wilderness can be unlucky enough to provoke them, and if they are stabbed by their tail hooks, they will be paralyzed within twenty heartbeats, and they will surely die if they are not treated within ten minutes.

Two ordinary scholars' camels were paralyzed by stabbing wounds, and the two suffered the same fate when they rolled off their camels, and the camel riders who wanted to disperse the scorpion herd were also affected, and five camels were injured, but fortunately the riders reacted quickly and did not land, so they escaped.

The scorpions fled in a hurry, but the problems were just beginning.

There are many poisonous insects in the wilderness, and the knights do carry an antidote in case they need it, and if it is used by two scholars, although it cannot remove this scorpion venom, it can delay the onset of poison, and it is enough to take them back to Gravel City to find professional help.

But what about camels? The antidote is for humanoids, and it has little effect on camels, and the camels are too large, which will further reduce the effect.

Therefore, in the face of poisoned camels, the western cavalry had no choice but to send them on the road with their own hands to suffer less pain, which is also the most common way to deal with them in the western wilderness.

The hearts of the five cavalrymen were dripping blood, and the tears could not be controlled, these elite warriors in order to cultivate a relationship with the mount, get along with each other day and night, eat and walk together, they have long regarded the mount as their closest partner, and now they want to kill their comrades with their own hands, everyone's hands are trembling.

As a result, just when everyone was crying and ready to start, the seven camels suddenly came to life, stood up and shook the earth, and spat in the face of their master as if nothing had happened.

Not only the camels, but also the two injured scholars also stood up with a blank face, the people who were poisoned by Ilte's hair in the past, even if they were detoxified, would have to lie in bed for a day or two to recover, but these two were actually alive, which made people suspect that the scorpion just now was just an illusion.

Of course, it couldn't be a hallucination, the owners of the wounded camels were holding their alien comrades and weeping with joy, they didn't notice, but the other cavalry and high-ranking mercenaries noticed, behind them, the black-robed Shur shook the holy robe, drew a circle on his chest with a modest smile, and pulled the girl next to him back into the shadows of the camel caravan.

Huh? Hiding in the shadows again?

No, no, no, that's not the point, the point is that everyone just remembered, yes, there are high-level priests who specialize in healing in the team this time.

Priests can more or less use a little general detoxification magic technique, and the low-level and high-level are no exception, but the toxins they target are not comprehensive.

There are not many priests who delve into the specialized detoxification arts, and the detoxification techniques in the general detoxification techniques are enough to deal with most of the scenes in the adventure, as for the more esoteric specialized detoxification techniques, if you want to remove different types of toxins, you have to make certain changes when releasing the gods, and use different variants to increase the targeting. Both the recording and the study were too cumbersome, and the differences between inputs and outputs were so great that most clergy members chose to give up.

Of course, Shuer's exaggerated memory perversion is an exception, and in his opinion, these things still need to be memorized?

As a result, Shur became a hero in the eyes of the western cavalry, and they stubbornly believed that the hero must be very tired after saving two people and seven camels at a time, so they insisted on taking care of the hero and giving him a camel to ride.

After all kinds of excuses, Shuer, who did not want to hurt the enthusiasm of the cavalry, could only reluctantly accept their kindness.

Well, reluctantly accept it, if the expression on his face wasn't so unpleasant, maybe someone would believe it.