When he woke up in the morning, Su Wen felt that something was pressing on his left arm, so that his entire forearm and even the palm of his hand were almost numb to the point of losing consciousness. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Su Wen looked sideways and saw that Laetitia was using her arm as a pillow, sleeping soundly. Her hands were tucked in front of her chest, her eyebrows were slightly raised, and her delicate face was tinged with a hint of worry, as if she had had some nightmare, and the delicate body curled up in the sheets made her look even more pitiful.

Since establishing her relationship with this half-elf girl, the biggest change for her has been this. Although Su Wen has not fulfilled the ritual he promised, Laetitia, who was originally trembling slightly when touched, no longer seems to be afraid of physical contact with Su Wen, and she did not seem to resist last night when she learned that there was no two-bed room in the hotel, and even when they were usually alone, except for the fact that there was no substantive relationship between the two, everything else was no different from that of husband and wife.

Of course, in Su Wen's eyes, this half-elf just became bolder.

Su Wen was trying to tense the muscles in his arm and bounce up the sleeping Leticia so that he could start a new day's training plan. But at this moment, Laetitia curled up in the direction of Su Wen as if she had a premonition, and her two hands tightly grasped the root of Su Wen's arm, and the wound there that had not yet healed suddenly hurt, making him almost snort.

If it weren't for the fact that Laetitia was obviously still asleep, Su Wen would definitely think that she was doing it on purpose!

"The host ......"

Laetitia suddenly snorted in a vague dream, and at the same time rubbed her head against Su Wen's numb arm, a few sweet smiles appeared on her face. The friction between his smooth face and his arms made Su Wen very comfortable, but the weird smile on his face made Su Wen creepy, and he couldn't tolerate this kind of scene anymore, so he finally raised his left hand, which was about to be crushed, and woke Laetitia from sleep.

Laetitia was immediately awakened, and after a few seconds of daily stunned, she realized how close she and Su Wen were. In an instant, her cheeks and neck quickly turned crimson, but her body did not move away from Su Wen as if driven by a strange magic, but continued to hold his arm firmly, letting her head stick to it, and at the same time staring at Su Wen intently with some strange look.

"Even if you look at me like that, you still have to get up and train. ”

Su Wen was dissatisfied, this maid's actions are always illogical, shouldn't she be full of shame and hide away with a coquettish cry at this time?

"Hmm. ”

Laetitia agreed, but remained flushed and stuck on Su Wen's arm.

If you don't move, I'll help you move.

Just as he was about to put this sentence into practice, Su Wen felt a soft and hot body come from under the quilt - Laetitia's hands holding Su Wen's arms suddenly loosened, and then burrowed into his arms along with her body. Suddenly, a faint aroma rushed into Su Wen's nasal cavity, coupled with the soft touch of the half-elf girl's whole body, so that for a moment, Su Wen felt that a certain part of his body actually had some kind of strange reaction, but this boring impulse was really insignificant, and it only took a little reason to completely suppress it.

But why did the girl cry again?

"Sorry master, I just had a nightmare......"

Laetitia didn't stay in this position for long, she quickly pushed herself away from Su Wen's arms, and then sat up, her tear-stained face seemed to have a faint disappointment.

Su Wen didn't know where this disappointment came from, but after discovering that she didn't maintain a good habit of sleeping fruitfully, but was wearing tight underwear, she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

I finally got the opportunity, but I didn't send out benefits, I'm really sorry for the audience.

......

Su Wen and Laetitia trained and set off as usual, and the starting point was still the mountain town of Naprado two days ago, the only difference was that the choice of road was 90 degrees different from the big valley they had walked two days ago.

The Northlands are not really the Northlands, at most they are the boundary between the Midparts of the Empire and the Northlands. In terms of distance, Su Wen's original planned route to the Iron Furnace Province was indeed the shortest, but after the outbreak of the Warcraft, he, like most of the caravan groups that abandoned their original plans, changed to a safe route that bypassed the Naprado Mountains horizontally and then detoured from the border of the Northland Wastelands - it would take about five or six hundred kilometers more, that is, at least three or four days, which was not worth it in any way, but few people would joke with their lives because of this little unworthiness.

But the benefits are obvious, at least Su Wen doesn't need to face the wind and sand in the wasteland anymore. And due to the sudden increase in business travel along the way, the road is very lively, and there is no sense of loneliness in the wilderness.

As we got closer to the Northlands, in addition to the significant changes in the architectural style of the towns, the distribution of population and ethnicity in the towns also gradually changed: the number and variety of alien creatures in the northern cities increased significantly, and in addition to humans, half-orcs, and half-elves, many other rare subordinate races also appeared frequently. For example, a strange-looking dwarf like a kobold could not be seen in Trides for half a year, and the only time it appeared was the group of terrorists who were overturned by Su Wen, but in the province of Karlius in the north-central part of the empire, similar rare creatures were all over the streets. A descendant of the forest druids with branches and vines, a fluffy half-sheep man with a heavy blanket, a centaur with strong muscles and a rope pulling a noble carriage, a mercenary Minotaur with a huge axe, and a handsome elven brigade mage who wears elegant and luxurious robes like a prince...... As long as you take a closer look, Su Wen can always find more diverse and novel species.

As for the goblins and dwarves that Su Wen cared about the most, he also saw them in the city as he wished - in a blacksmith shop on a noisy street corner, several stout dwarven blacksmiths were clanging red iron bars, and the blast furnace behind them emitted a strong fire and heat, and due to their height, the location of the furnace mouth would only be obtained by a normal human bending over.

The dwarves are the same as depicted in the sources, they usually have extremely thick bodies and limbs, and very thick hair, and almost all male dwarves are bearded, even the women are known for their stoutness. And because this human-like creature is severely reproductively isolated from humans, even if a warrior comes forward, there is no record of the new species of "half-dwarves" on the Glorious Continent - their bloodlines have always been very pure for thousands of years.

Su Wen went into the blacksmith shop and took a look, and found that the dwarven blacksmith shop mainly sold agricultural tools, and even if there were weapons, most of them were blunt tools such as hammers and plate axes. However, these goods were not evaluated as inferior at all under the appraisal technique, and there were even two heavy plane hammers that were rated as excellent, and of course the price was very impressive, close to 1,000 gold coins.

But there is nothing to do with muskets here, not even parts at all.

Su Wen asked sideways, and the dwarven shopkeeper with a straightforward personality readily told him that this thing was indeed their specialty and that of the goblins, but if he wanted to get it, he had to go to the Iron Furnace Province to find it himself. Even if you can make it here, you won't accept orders, otherwise you will have to roll out of this city.

In this way, the cowboys who blocked the road to sell really didn't lie to Su Wen, and the Duolun Empire really banned the circulation of firearms. It's just that Su Wen thinks that this practice is nothing more than using paper to wrap fire, if the practicality of goblin guns really develops to the level of machine guns, then the long-range weapons on this continent will inevitably undergo earth-shaking changes - in fact, even the current flintlock musket, if it is formed on a sufficient scale, its lethal and deterrent effect on the battlefield has far exceeded that of bows and crossbows.

Su Wen felt that his future plans were likely to lead to this process, but he certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to let himself be the first bird. Change is deadly, and the wheels of history leave no mercy on anyone, not even the different time-travelers.

After another 5 days of trekking out of the province of Karlius, Suwen finally entered the northern part of the empire in the true sense of the word.

The temperature plummeted......

Although it is only the beginning of July, it snows in some parts of the Northland Plateau of the Duolun Empire for 10 months of the year, and if nothing else, the average temperature drops to freezing in August and September, so it is not surprising that this time is full of chills. Born in the Northland, Laetitia seems to have become accustomed to this climate, and buys winter clothes a few days before entering the plateau - in her understanding, Suwen is just traveling during the holidays, and in fact Suwen is doing so.

The journey went smoothly until they crossed the Northern Highlands at the top of the Arlan Mountains, with only six days left to drive from the Iron Furnace Province, when they finally encountered the first real trouble of the trip.

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The city of the Northern Plateau was the coldest city in the Duolun Empire.

Riding in a horse-drawn carriage through the snow-filled streets in the early morning, Su Wen couldn't help but feel that the Duolun Empire was safe. After all, if this kind of plot is placed in a hot-blooded adventure novel, after a journey of nearly 2,000 kilometers, the protagonists are estimated to have even eliminated three or five gangs of robbers, plus bridges such as heroes saving the United States, it is simply not too colorful. But not to mention the robbers who stood in the way of Lyitia, and even half of the petty thieves had never been seen, it was too boring.

Well, then Su Wen got his wish.

When a little boy shivering in the cold wind stumbled past the carriage, and the sharp knife hidden in the palm of his hand was slashing through Su Wen's pocket with the tendency of falling, the latter grabbed the back of his shabby padded jacket by the neck and lifted him up with ease.

"Good technique, there is organization behind it?"

Su Wen asked with a smile.

The little boy who was caught was full of horror, his eyes were tightly closed, and he grabbed the knife tightly, and slashed at Su Wen with his head and face.