Chapter 174: The Latest News from Hajar City
The expeditionary force stayed in the town for a few more days, partly because of Mayor Wadson's kind invitation to let the members of the party and the guests from Siwa City come from afar to see the charm of this remote town.
On the other hand, Edmund was also giving the members of the expeditionary force a rest holiday, which was a little compensation for the gains and losses of this expedition, because once they returned to Hajar City, many of them would immediately arrive at their posts.
Although he said so, Wang Chu always felt that this old guy was thinking about how to deal with the aftermath.
During the chat with Thorin and Vasera, although Vasera deliberately covered it up, it was still seen by Wang Chu, who had been with other magicians for the past few days in order to report the current situation of the team to the high-ups of Hajar City.
And what else can be reported at the moment.
Wang Chu didn't have to think about it to know the loss this time and his plans for the future.
It is estimated that the purpose of taking the Siwa chieftain to Hajar City is also for this reason, if the two can reach an agreement before, as long as Siwa can provide Hajar City with enough benefits, and even they can intercede for it when they are in the imperial capital, and even the accident of the imperial general can be blamed on the Wolf God Cult.
Of course, this is more of your own conjecture, but in the current situation, there is still no escape from such a solution.
As for the surrounding forests, and the kobolds who appeared mining near Hajar City, there was no mention of it at all.
"Are you sure Lunara is in danger right now?" Wang Chu asked the deer several times.
"Of course, big brother, we have to go back quickly, or Lunara won't be able to hold out for long......" The fawn insisted again and again, and it should not be fake that it was caught in this place.
Then why didn't Vasera mention these things at all, or as long as they weren't in the city, they weren't a big deal.
But if it really leads to the fire element again, as Lunara's fears, no one who has come into contact with him so far, whether it is the Grand Magus or the high-level paladins, will not be able to face the existence of the Fire King.
After such close contact, Wang Chu could feel it.
That firework was not ordinary, except for its own Fire Eagle form that could temporarily save its life, any form that rushed past it would drown in its sea of fire.
If it appears in a closer forest, it is estimated that ......
The whole city will be destroyed.
Whether he didn't know or didn't want to say, Wang Chu couldn't guess what these people were thinking after thinking about it.
You won't know until you get back.
It was the seventh day after the team set out again after completing the Poison Spider mission, and they had already prepared enough food and grass to even replace the horses with new ones.
Mayor Wadson invited most of the town's famous people to come and say goodbye.
There are only a few thousand people in a small town, but at most tens of thousands...... Wang Chu looked at the town he was about to leave, and he could almost see the entire town from the official road, like a strengthened version of several villages patched together.
Beside the road, there were also townspeople who saw off the expeditionary force and sent food.
"Take it all, kids. ”
Roasted sweet potatoes, jerky, and hard-boiled eggs were stuffed into the pockets of several students.
"Enough, enough, thank you, auntie. ”
"It's okay, it's all over town...... Take more, and come to town more in the future. "The town of Wadson is close to the edge of the border, and there are very few people who come to it, especially in the west.
As a result, the inhabitants of this area still retain a rare and simple character.
Several students looked at each other and smiled, but did not answer.
We all know that this kind of place may never have the opportunity to come back again in my life.
"Let's go!"
With a roar from the leader, the carriage slowly moved forward amid a group of farewells.
If memory serves, this is probably the first expeditionary force to set off with a civilian send-off.
There are still dozens of days to go from Hajar City, and now it should be faster to get into a new carriage, and there is no other stopping place along the way, the team only needs to go all the way.
"By the way, do you know what happened to Hajar lately?" said Cecia suddenly.
The students were all walking together on horseback, and they were not far from each other, so they could all hear each other, and Wang Chu changed into a stag at this time, and walked on the side with a fawn.
Got news from the city?
He turned his head to look at the red-haired girl on horseback.
"We haven't heard anything from us, Chethea, have you?" asked Cyra, confused.
"Don't forget, what my family is. He raised his lips triumphantly.
Cecia is a family of archmages, oh, a messenger unique to the mage.
"So what's going on over there in Hajar City, we've been out for months, and the snow should have melted. Al said.
"It's already spring, and of course the snow has melted a long time ago...... But when it comes to snow, do you remember that avalanche in the town outside the city in the winter?"
"I remember it happened during a snowstorm, and a lot of soldiers died, and we wouldn't have been sent to the desert if it weren't for that. Lias thought back to it, saying that her appearance was all because of that accident.
Later, the soldiers' families had a conflict with the people in the military department, so they chose to let the students join in.
"What happened to that?"
"Hmm...... The situation is very bad, the location of the avalanche is not exactly in the northwest traffic artery, because after the baptism of lava and then the avalanche incident, there is no one in that area who dares to live anymore, and because the land is corroded by lava, there is no way to grow anything, so there is a famine. ”
Wang Chu had already thought about this, when the lava baptism before, almost half of the wheat fields were destroyed, although later the animals were luckily lured out of the forest, which was a temporary solution to the crisis at that time.
But no one thought about what to do after that, because now it's spring, and once the animals hide in the forest in winter, there is no direct source of meat in the city.
"But that's not the terrible ......rumor," Cecia stopped suddenly.
Look around and no one else is listening.
"What's that?"
"It is said that the area is haunted!"
Poof, Cyra almost squirted out the water she had just drunk.
Haunted, do you believe that?
"That's true, one of my cousins said in a message, it is said that at night in that area you will see faint flickering ghost fires, and those who have died, they will appear at night and disappear again during the day. Cecia was serious.
However, this kind of news does not seem to have attracted the attention of several other people, who are more concerned about the problem of famine.