"Look, through the last of the woods, you will reach the Arch Cliff, everyone, work hard!" shouted Morgan at the front of the convoy, pointing to the silhouette of the mountain looming in the distance.

Arch Cliff is just a popular name, in fact, the mainland is not only called Arch Cliff, all the cliff caves in the shape of arches can be called like this, the two cliffs of this nameless cliff are arched together in the sky, it seems to be in contact with each other, but there are actually a lot of gaps.

Frequent walkers along this trade route will be familiar with this cliff, as it is a landmark of the trade route, and after passing through the dense forest, after walking over the arch cliff, you will reach the avenue leading to the stone fort, which also means that the journey is smooth.

Just as Morgan urged the coachman to speed up and rush to the arch cliff not far away, the sound of horses' hooves quickly approached the front of the convoy, and Douglas, one of the guards of the caravan, grabbed the reins of the horse and slowed down the gallop of the frost horse, keeping it parallel to the speed of the carriage, leaning closer to Morgan, and whispered: "Dr. Devany said that she had found a precious medicinal herb, and wanted the convoy to stop for a while for her to pick." ”

Morgan was stunned when he heard this, and then his displeasure rose to his eyebrows, the people of the north have the custom of hospitality, this is not a lie, but as a guest, your behavior can not be too excessive, too overstepping, and even make the host of the hospitality feel unpleasant, this is very bad, at this time the merchant group is a few steps away from passing through the arch cliff, and is suddenly stopped, this feeling will be uncomfortable for anyone.

He subconsciously wanted to refuse, but then remembered that after the three sisters and brothers boarded the convoy of the merchant group, Daphne had treated the members of the merchant group many times, and Hodge had solved extremely important problems for the merchant group, after all, the other party also helped him, and it happened to be almost noon, so he took the opportunity to order: "Okay, let the convoy stop, let's build a fire here and cook and rest for a while." ”

At Morgan's command, the convoy slowly stopped, everyone stepped out of the carriage, and the members in charge of cooking began to set up a campfire to prepare food for lunch.

"What the hell are you doing?" Daphne of course didn't want to rest in the convoy at the moment, pretending to come to the forest and bend down to pick the mushrooms under the tree, cherishing the medicinal herbs? She skimmed a few mushrooms with black umbrella lids in her hand, and thought to herself, the only thing that can be counted as medicinal herbs in this forest is this poisonous herb mushroom called the Black Death, and this weakly poisonous mushroom is far from being rare.

Daphne glanced at Hodge, who was also bending over to pick next to her, with a slight complaint, obviously reluctant to carry such a big black cauldron.

Hodge skillfully dug out a black death, straightened up and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with his empty hand, twisted his body to look at the diagonal back, the outline of the arch cliff not far away was already quite clear, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and said: "Those people just now are not like soldiers, the army rarely uses a cross-bladed scimitar, but many mountain bandits like this kind of knife." ”

"Huh?" asked Devonne, confused, "You mean those twenty men, they looked at me in disgust anyway...... Wait, you're trying to say that they are mountain bandits disguised as soldiers, and the real cavalry has already been killed by them?"

"Quite possibly. ”

"But what does that have to do with you asking me to call the parking team?"

Hodge twisted the corners of his clothes, carefully pulled out the dirt between his fingers, and said: "Think about it, if they are mountain bandits, there is no reason to let Dun Luo go, the carriages have been looked through by them, and these belongings of the merchant group are enough to lure any mountain bandits to loot, but why did they let us go without doing anything?"

"I thought about it all the way until I saw the cliff and thought of a possibility. ”

"If they make a move just now, although it is a sure victory, but three experienced veterans will also bring them a lot of heavy damage, what if they can snatch Dunluo's goods without killing a single person? You see the location of that cliff, it happens to be at the exit of the dense forest, that is to say, it is a dead end of the field of vision, just out of the dense forest, they will be completely exposed under the top of the cliff, if they go around the cliff and throw some heavy objects down......"

Daphne was slightly stunned: "Will it?"

Hodge shrugged: "I don't know, anyway, my gut tells me that the cliff is not quite right." ”

"Then what are you going to do, go around the cliff and have a look?"

"It's just a conjecture now, and it doesn't have to be so troublesome to verify. ”

Hodge took out the familiar dinner knife from his boots with a pout, wiped the blade on the hard leather surface of the boots, and while everyone else was gathered in front of him, he quietly touched the snow camphor that tied the horse, carefully untied the hemp rope of one of the horses, supported the horse's back and slowly adjusted one direction, slammed the knife into the horse's butt and quickly pulled it out, hid in the grass next to it, and shouted forward in a panicked voice.

"Shocked!

The members of the merchant group sitting around the campfire hurriedly turned around, only to see that Frost Horse's eyes turned blood-red, and the sharp pain caused it to burst out at a speed far beyond normal, and the people in front of him hurriedly avoided the side, only to feel a black shadow flash in front of them, and then a biting wind blew in front of them.

The sound of the frost horse's hooves thundered and quickly disappeared at the end of the forest, and before the others were out of sight, it was already rushing out of the dense forest, its sturdy hooves glaring at the gravel, panting and running ahead without hesitation, about to cross the arch cliff.

Mutation!

The cliff sounded dozens of times more violent than the sound of hooves, it was the sound of stones rolling, countless stones fell from the top of the cliff, dense almost obscured the sky, if the black clouds pressed to the bottom of the cliff, the frost ground horse seemed to be aware of the abnormality, raised the horse's head to see the completely dark sky, raised his head and let out a terrible wail, thousands of large stones were pressed down, the frost ground horse's original position exploded a burst of blood mist, but it was quickly covered by more stones.

The loud rumbling sound was heard far away, and the members of the merchant group, who were already quite close to the arch cliff, watched this scene in shock, everyone's body became extremely stiff, cold sweat broke out on their foreheads, and the dust and ash even passed through the dense forest to their vicinity, you can imagine how loud the movement of this mountain rock falling.

If it weren't for the startled horse rushing by at this time, the merchant group was passing by the bottom of the cliff, and thousands of boulders were falling, then ......

Everyone's breathing involuntarily became short, and there was a clear joy in their eyes when they looked at each other.

Farther away, Hodge made his way through the grass back to Daphne, looking up at the cliff top in the distance, his expression cold, his instincts not deceiving him.

"Later, if they ask me where I've been, remember to find an excuse to prevaricate. ”

He turned to leave, but was pulled by Daphne: "You're going to the top of the cliff?"

"They are mountain bandits, and it is impossible for the fat sheep not to eat them, even if they don't go now, they will find them, and it will be even more troublesome when the time comes. ”

"I'll go with you. ”

"You're too conspicuous when you cast spells, and you'll attract unwanted attention, so I'll just go alone. ”

Hodge turned back and smiled at her, "It's just twenty ordinary people, don't forget, I'm your best apprentice." ”

With that, he quickly disappeared into the forest.