The Westside is a nomadic paradise.

If the characteristics of the five realms of the empire are summarized in words, the northern realm is rough and bold, the southern realm is gentle and modest, the eastern realm is calm and steady, and the middle realm is solemn and solemn, then the western realm should be described as fierce and barbaric.

The bare earth of the West is not suitable for cultivation, and the people of the West have never wanted to become farmers, they are born on horseback, and they should live their lives on wild horses with scythes and wreak havoc through the forests and plains.

This also led to the fact that the people of the Western Frontier were called "Western Barbarians" by the other four realms for a long period of time, and in addition to hunting on their own land, they often harassed the frontiers of the other four realms, robbed the people of their supplies, and committed many evil deeds.

Until a hundred years ago, the Alfred the Great of the Eagle Family set out from the Middle Realm, expeditioned to the other four realms, after hundreds of years of war, and finally the five realms were all under the wing of the Eagle Family, and the Western Realm became a dependent land, and his actions were restricted by the empire, and he rarely harassed the frontiers of other realms as before, but fortunately, the forest resources in the western realm were rich, and hunting wild beasts became the way of survival of the people in the west.

Heitmont Forest is a famous hunting ground in the West, not only the common mountain deer and wild boar, in the center of this forest, you can find many birds and animals that you can't even name on a daily basis, and the value of hunting them is far greater than hunting a hundred wild boars, but at the same time, these exotic animals are also more aggressive, even good hunters have to weigh themselves before entering the forest.

Hunters in the West had finished their hunts months earlier, huddled in their tents before winter approached, and celebrated this year's harvest with venison roasted in a brazier.

What they didn't know was that in the past few months, a rather bizarre change had happened in the Hetemont Forest, and those rare beasts had invariably abandoned the center of the forest and roamed the outer part of the forest, and as long as they were alive, they no longer dared to approach the center of the forest.

The beast's instincts for danger are so sensitive that even the most stupid Greywood Bear can sense the great fear that hangs over the center of the forest, as if it were an invitation to death.

The grass and trees near the center of the forest gradually withered and turned into debris in the wind, and from the eagle bird's view, the Hetmund Forest was originally green, but now there was an extra bald skin in the center, which was strange to look at.

In the cave in the center of the forest, strange creatures are breeding.

It looked like it was supposed to be a person, or ...... At least in human form.

This creature can indeed see the outline of a person, but the strange thing is that the composition of his body is not flesh and bone like a human, but like melted cheese, the body is constantly flowing everywhere, flowing to the ground to form a puddle of pale golden liquid, but it is always dragged upward and backward by some force to return to the body of the creature.

It's like an invisible hand pinching the clay figurine—

In appearance, he looked more and more like a human form, but he was missing an arm, which was his left hand, which for some reason had not been condensed from his body.

He stood in place, but kept his eyes closed as if he was asleep, and after a long silence, suddenly his eyelids fluttered, and when he opened his eyes, his face was still flowing like cheese, and it was impossible to distinguish his eyeballs from his pupils, but he could still see that he did make the action of opening his eyes.

His mouth opened slightly, and the liquid flowed down the skin of his mouth as if it had been melted.

「Ah-Ka-Jekoe-eee」

Obscure notes came out of his mouth, barely making out the language that didn't belong to any race on the mainland.

The higher beings have possessed an inconceivable and incomprehensible intelligence since the beginning of their existence, and it is extremely easy to create even a language, and the sound that comes out of the mouth of a strange creature is a language he has made up temporarily, and perhaps only he can understand the meaning of it.

The meaning of this strange pronunciation is: it smells good.

......

Hodge consulted almost all the ships waiting to sail at Fort Stone's Harbour Docks, and came to the same conclusion.

"The wind is not in the right direction, this ship can't be driven"

He walked down the street next to the docks, looking at the coarse cloth flags that appeared every few distances, standing in the planks of the docks.

According to the captains who told him during the conversation, these flags were the sailing flags of the harbor, and whenever the sailing ships were about to go to sea, they would observe the direction in which the sailing flag was blown by the wind and current, so as to ensure a smooth sailing journey.

At this time, the nearest heading flag was only a few paces away, and the change of the flag could be clearly observed from such a position, and the lightweight coarse cloth flag could detect even the slightest change in the wind flow, and the flag was directed straight to the southeast, which meant that the northwest wind was blowing now.

Usually there is little change in the direction of the wind flow for a few days, but there are exceptions, such as when the flag suddenly turns to the northeast, and it is not long before it falls feebly on the flagpole, but suddenly rises high and points to the southwest.

In a moment's time, the direction of the wind and the current changed again and again, no wonder the sailing team of Stone Fort was reluctant to sail in these days, you must know that the most important thing for sailing depends on the direction of the wind, followed by the ocean current, now the wind direction is so weird, even the most clever navigator is not sure not to lose his way in the voyage, the captain would rather bear the loss of rest than sail, because the strange wind is very likely to cause them to deviate from the original course, sail to the depths of the ocean farther and farther away from the mainland, at that time they will fall into the predicament of lack of water and not get the slightest supplement, before they can sail back to the port will be thirsty to the dead body, that feeling is absolutely uncomfortable。

The captains and sailors called this strange wind the "devil's wind", which literally meant that it was the devil's death music for them, luring them into the depths of the sea.

Hodge's fear now was that the Devil's Wind would last too long and that it would deplete their remaining money, and that they would not be able to afford to rent even the cheapest and shabby inns, let alone the cost of a ship to Adverse Harbor.

Perhaps they could borrow some money from President Morgan while they had not left the city, and with Morgan's generous personality, he might not refuse this request, but considering the particularity of their identities and the dangers they might encounter after being exposed, thinking that the people of the Tunluo Merchant Group were good to them, the less contact they had, the more they would ensure that they would not be implicated, so Hodge finally gave up this idea.

Something has to be done to raise money......

As soon as he thought about this, a very familiar fiery red suddenly appeared in his field of vision, and even though it was cleverly concealed under the gray-black hood, it still did not escape his eyes.

"Daphne?"

The woman passing by turned her head, and sure enough, it was Daphne, who was carrying a leather bag that should have something in it when it shook and a money bag with an extremely unfamiliar pattern tied to her waist.

"What are you doing here? Hera didn't come out with you?"

"She hasn't woken up yet. "Well, I've gone to the herb shop, bought some common ingredients, and sold a lot of the solvents that were about to expire to the shopkeeper." ”

She showed her neat and small white teeth, pointed to the money bag around her waist and grinned, "I didn't expect these solvents to be so valuable." ”