Chapter 146: The Jungle of Melmoth
The carriage "wheeled, wheeled... Slowly advancing, a convoy of hundreds of people walked on the main road.
It is not entirely correct to say that it is a road, because there is only one path with yellowish ground, which is supposed to be made by some kind of animal migration and trampling.
It was surrounded by shrubs and grasses, and purple-black berries grew in it.
Farther away are the mountain peaks, as far as the eye can see, a few wild goose-like birds hovering in the mountain stream, and above are white clouds.
Locke, dressed in armor, dismounted and kicked the mud marks on the soles of his boots, bent down and picked a berry on the side of the road, wiped it with his sleeve, and threw it directly into his mouth.
It's so sour, I just swallowed it for a while, and then I spit it out.
"Bender, where are we now?" Locke beckoned to his lieutenant.
Bender hurriedly ran over, took out the map he was holding from under his armpit, spread out one hand, and gestured with the other, "It's almost out of the Jungle of Melmoth, half a day at most!"
Nodding to Adjutant Chong in understanding, Locke turned and mounted his horse and headed for a carriage in the center of the line behind him.
"Are you going out soon?" In a delicate carriage, Angelina lay on a red mat, lazily and slightly intellectually flipping through a thick book.
"It's coming!" Locke greedily glanced at the whiteness of Angelina's neck and turned his head to look elsewhere.
He knew what was currently in this team, so he didn't dare to be presumptuous at all.
After talking to Angelina for a while, Locke stopped reading and continued to walk towards the back of the convoy.
Grace and the four women sat in two carriages, one for Xia Qian and Rafi, and one for Grace and Christine.
First of all, Xia Qian was in the carriage, as soon as she saw Locke coming, Xia Qian happily looked through the carriage window, hugged Locke's neck, and gave Locke a fragrant kiss.
"Be careful, don't twist your waist!" Locke leaned over and dipped his face into a large lip print.
Locke rode on the horse, Xia Qian sat in the carriage, so that both of them could make such difficult movements, not because the coachman was very skilled in driving the car, it can only be said that they often 'practice'.
"I miss you!" Xia Qian said with a blushing face.
The corners of Locke's mouth curved and smiled, "Didn't you just feed you last night?"
Xia Qian gave him a pink punch.
Raffi looked at the pair of dog men and women who showed affection as if no one was around, "Ahem!" Pretending to cough her throat, Xia Qian retracted her leaning out body and restrained herself a little, but Meimu kept looking at Locke.
Locke looked at Rafi, who was also wearing armor, and complained, "What kind of armor are you wearing when you ride in the carriage, isn't it too hot?"
"You don't have to worry about it!" Raffi turned away from Locke, even though she knew that her young lady had followed the man, but she, the maid, had always been unapologetic to Locke.
Locke didn't bother to pay attention to her, not to mention, Raffi looked very heroic in a military uniform, and Locke should appreciate a vase.
After a long time with Xia Qian, finally under Rafi's glare, Locke walked to the next carriage.
"Brother!" The little girl Christine had already seen Locke coming, but Locke stayed by Xia Qian's carriage for a long time and did not move, so that the little girl kept thinking about it, and secretly scolded Xia Qian in her heart that the little goblin knew how to seduce her brother.
Christine and Xia Qian have always had a good relationship, but this is a separate occasion, and when it comes to Locke, Christine refuses to let anyone except her aunt.
Christine also wanted to follow the example of Xia Qian and leaned out to hug Locke, which frightened Locke on the horse and Grace in the car.
"Be careful of falling!" Grace quickly grabbed and slapped the little girl on the head.
Christine puffed out her mouth, not reluctant, just to hug.
Locke had no choice but to stretch out his arm, and the little girl happily hugged him, and was lifted out of the car window by Locke.
It can only be said that Christine is too skinny, she is obviously fourteen years old, but she still has no two taels of flesh in her body, it seems that she is ten years old, and some people will believe her when she says it.
"There is no diaphragm. Locke asked with concern, although he was not wearing full-body armor, but it was also a half-body chain mail that was not light, and the iron lock hooked parts were even smaller pieces of inverted iron pieces.
"No!" Christine sat on Locke's shoulder, waving her hands in the curious play, and she had to stay in the carriage for days on end, she was already suffocated.
While Christine was playing, Locke took the time to wink at Grace there, 'I'll come to you tonight!' This is the code of the two of them, one night husband and wife, Locke made an expression, and Grace knew what he meant.
"No, Christine is still here!" Grace refused, but Locke didn't give her a chance to refute, turned around and led Christine towards the back of the convoy.
"What did Auntie just say no?" asked Christine curiously, she had just been playing and didn't hear what Grace said.
"Your aunt said you can't be so thin anymore, look how light you are!" said Locke, who danced his arm playfully, and Christine giggled and hugged Locke's arm tightly.
After playing for a long time, Christine blushed like a red apple after stopping, and people couldn't help but want to take a bite, "It's not anyone's fault that it's thin!" Christine gasped and puffed out a small mouth.
She envied Xia Qian's figure very much, and every time she took a bath, she secretly compared them, hating two parts of herself that never grew flesh.
Her aunt Grace is also so big, and Christine once asked Grace how to make those two bigger, and was greeted with a slap in Grace's anger.
Holding Locke's arm, Christine lay on Locke's shoulder like a cat, her face was red and she didn't know what to think, and when Locke wasn't paying attention, she did some tricks to kiss Locke's neck, and Locke just didn't see it.
Then there was her sister Leah, who was doing embroidery in the carriage, which she had not been learning for a long time, and which had been taught to her by the nobles who had come to visit Locke from time to time in the royal capital.
Faustin's noblewomen were fond of fine clothes and handkerchiefs, especially among the nobles who lived in the royal capital, and each beautiful handkerchief or ribbon from their own hands allowed them to show off for weeks.
"Stop pricking your hands. Locke said to Leah in the carriage, he had persuaded him several times before, but Leah didn't listen, and the day before yesterday, the carriage tripped over a stone, and Leah's index finger pierced a deep needle hole, and kept bleeding.
Because his sister didn't listen, Locke could only scold the driver who drove the car, and then replaced him with a more skilled veteran.
"Good. This time Leah was surprisingly obedient, because she remembered how her brother had stopped her bleeding the day before yesterday.
Locke, this guy was holding Leah's finger for a long time before he let go, making Leah blush.
"Don't you want to see your confidantes?" Leah put the embroidery down and looked out the window as if nothing happened.
"Uh. Locke was speechless, from the moment he brought the four Grace girls to the team, Locke knew that it would always come like this, he thought it would be Angelina who made trouble, but he didn't expect Angelina to act indifferent, but his sister Leah was unhappy.
Seeing that Locke was embarrassed not to speak, Leah didn't continue to say him, "Come on, Christine, sister hug!" Leah shouted at Christine, who was hanging on Locke.
At the first sight of Christine, Leah, like most women, loved Christine very much, and in the past two days, Christine and Leah have also become acquainted, and they ran into Leah's carriage after three days.
"No, I'm going to hug my brother!" Christine said categorically, causing Locke and Leah to laugh uncontrollably.
Before nightfall, the convoy finally made its way out of the Melmoth jungle.
"Don't worry about the snooping eyes of the Karamans. Adjutant Bender breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't relax, we're not out of their borders yet!" said Locke, patting him on the shoulder.
Half a month has passed since they set out from Flor City, and they are all on the road these days, approaching the Karaman Kingdom a week ago, and Locke and the others have always felt like they are being watched.
However, knowing that there was an adult in the convoy, Locke didn't worry about anything, and just led the convoy to speed out of the Karaman Kingdom.
The Jungle of Melmos was their last route through the Karaman Kingdom, and if they walked a little further, they could go beyond the borders of the Karaman Kingdom and reach the sphere of influence of the next Zituson Kingdom.