Chapter 366: Into the Mountain (Part II)

Thanks to Hills' hard work and help, the camping work was completed two hours faster than expected.

A circular camp with a diameter of ten meters rises from the ground, surrounded by earthen walls nearly one and a half meters high and a ditch one and a half meters deep.

Inside the camp, there were ten soldiers armed with spears, a tiger cannon and five crossbows, and the priest of Hills was in charge, and it was unlikely that ordinary soldiers or bandits, forty or fifty people would have taken this place.

At this time, it was getting late, and Luo Ming simply asked them to make a fire to cook and prepare to rest.

By the way, you can also try to fish for mountain barbarians to see how much protection they have against people outside the mountain.

However, the night passed, and Luo Ming was sure that no one came close to detect or harass.

Could it be that these mountain barbarians are really so wide-minded? They don't even do the trivial matter of sending a few people over and stationing at this pass?

Luo Ming simply took out the fragment of the Eye of the Arcane Law, transformed a cloud of cangyan into it and injected it into magical power, activating it, and roughly scanning the area of a kilometer radius near this mountain pass.

In order to save power, such a cursory scan is almost impossible to detect a target as small as a person, just as it is difficult to catch a fish fry with a large mesh.

But it stands to reason that it can at least show the location of a group of people or a tribe.

However, Luo Ming was surprised to find that there were only two tribes within a radius of one thousand meters near this mountain pass.

Moreover, the two tribes are 600 meters and 800 meters away from the pass, respectively.

He pondered for a moment, then looked up at the mountains and made a guess.

"I guess it has something to do with the geography and natural conditions of the Carlow Mountains. ”

Such mountain tribes may also grow a little crop, but neither the area of arable land nor the level of agricultural technology are high enough, and it is impossible for Nourishem to support itself with this output alone.

A large part of their food comes from hunting and grazing, which are very demanding in natural conditions. Neither goats nor wild animals can live on barren land.

The natural environment conditions at the foot of the mountain are very average, and the environment in the deep mountains is good - so the tribes basically migrate to the deep mountains, and few tribes will stay on the periphery.

However, this is just speculation and hypothesis, and Luo Ming has to witness it with his own eyes to tell what the truth is.

Before walking to the mountain pass, Luo Ming and Grant looked at the mountain pass and was a little speechless for a while.

"Nature, it's amazing...... Granty couldn't help but sigh.

And Luo Ming also felt the same way, but he didn't say it.

In front of the two of them, the mountain pass was like a ray of heaven - there were stone walls on both sides, the highest point was more than ten meters, and the lowest point was six meters. In the middle of the stone walls on both sides, there is only a palm-wide gap, and maybe goats and monkeys can barely pass through, but people absolutely cannot.

Although human beings have such tall walls, each one uses a lot of labor and is very valuable.

Whether it is an outsider or a mountain barbarian, it is naturally impossible to pass through here. Luo Ming was sure that he would be able to climb through the six-meter gap, but it would be a little dangerous if he was attacked in the process of climbing the wall.

As for ordinary people, don't even think about this method.

But the Shanmen had their own unique technique - there was a slope behind the stone wall, from which they could climb to the top of the stone wall, and then use rattan and bamboo baskets to hang people one by one outside, or to hang people outside.

This is how they enter and exit during the raids of Vanchy, and it is said that the largest basket is pulled by eighteen rattans and can lift a bull!

Luo Ming naturally had no way to ask the mountain barbarians to let him go, so he could only choose to turn over.

Although he could also choose to use gunpowder to blow open the weakest gap, the momentum was likely to attract the attention of the mountain barbarians. He had come to do research this time, not to conquer the Karlo Mountains - if he did, he would have brought a large army with him.

However, fortunately, he was a swordsman, so naturally there was no problem with his skills, and after putting down all the superfluous things, he only had a roll of hemp rope wrapped around his waist, a few daggers on his body, and a short sword in his mouth, and climbed up.

In the process, he cut an eye into the stone wall every one meter, pierced the dagger into it, and tied the hemp rope there.

This is the skill of a mountaineer that he learned from TV in his previous life, even if he falls down, he can rely on a few support points in the middle to cushion it, so as not to fall directly to the ground.

Even if it is a swordsman, he will not die if he falls from five or six meters, but injuries such as a broken foot may still occur.

In the process of climbing up, he secretly ran his fighting spirit, ready to stimulate his fighting spirit and protect his body at any time to deal with unexpected situations.

However, no one came out to disturb Luo Ming's climbing, and he soon reached the summit, and after looking around to make sure that there was really no one, he made another hole in the summit, stabbed his short sword here, and tied hemp rope to the hilt.

The rope had been knotted many times beforehand, and it was a rope ladder that had been freed from it, and Granty carried their luggage on their backs, climbed up the rope ladder, and in less than a minute, climbed the stone wall.

Next, the two walked down the slope to the nearest tribe.

In the process, he barely stopped to record the terrain and route, which was also thanks to Aya - she and Luo Ming shared a vision, and Luo Ming would help record everything she saw, and as long as she walked around, she was able to create a sand table in the mental image space.

The nearest tribe was only 600 meters away, and for the two swordsmen, even though they both carried backpacks weighing a full twenty kilograms, they were still able to walk like a fly in the mountains.

After only four minutes, the two had already met their first person in the mountains.

No...... Perhaps, it is more appropriate to say that it is the first short spear.

"Stop!"

A short spear stretched out from the forest and landed in front of Luo Ming, flashing with a little cold glow that had been sharpened day and night.

A sturdy young man dressed in a leopard skin and wearing a ghost-like mask slowly emerged from the forest.

Luo Ming is not a master of marksmanship, but he knows a thing or two about it.

This young man, even if he can't be called a master, may not be able to hold up three moves in front of Luo Ming. But judging by his posture and steady pace, ordinary soldiers were afraid that they would be killed if they looked at him.

Moreover, the head of his short spear is actually made of iron!

In this mountain, it is ten times more difficult to obtain an iron spearhead than outside.

Such a character must have an extraordinary identity in the mountains!

Caught in front of his throat by a sharp spearhead, Luo Ming was not offended at all, but smiled with satisfaction.