Several bonfires were lit, and the aroma of boiling broth wafted in the iron pot on top of them.

This was the evening of the fourth day that Mu Shao'an led the team into the east bank of the Anduin River, but so far, they had not seen any living creatures except for the two lost wild boars, let alone those fallen gray dwarves.

"Gray dwarves exist, one hundred and twenty years ago, I had the honor to enter the world of the Lord of the Rings to carry out anti-virus missions, of course, the timeline has entered the Twin Towers, the army of the demon lord Sauron, there are some gray dwarves, they are very ferocious, their eyes are red, like beasts, and they will release all kinds of evil witchcraft, if you are not careful, you can be hit. ”

It was a leader seconded from the Storm Hunting Group, Geng Shilong, who spoke.

"Actually, I'm more curious, little city lord, why do you have to hunt those gray dwarves, wouldn't it be better to have the energy to contact the dwarven tribes in Iron Mountain or El Castle directly? Beside the campfire, another bearded man spoke, he was the butcher's younger brother Six Cakes, and the actual commander of the trapped camp.

"Drink the soup, the six cakes, your level of broth is very high. Mu Shaoan just smiled slightly and changed the topic.

Everyone laughed, and each of them held a big helmet broth and poured it for a while, the broth was very delicious, and steaming, in this cold spring evening, it was really comfortable and affordable.

And at this time, Mu Shaoan suddenly raised his head, his gaze swept in a direction in the darkness, and he smiled without saying a word.

Although his strength has been greatly weakened due to his young age, his mental power is as high as 15,000 points, so in fact, on the third day, he has already discovered that there are unknown creatures watching from several kilometers away.

This kind of powerful beast intuition is something that others can't have, of course, if it is replaced by a special profession like a sword immortal or a druid, then Mu Shaoan has nothing to say.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Mu Shao'an and the others continued on the road, but in fact, there was no road, it all depended on Mu Shao'an's own temporary wit to guide the way, of course, Geng Shilong, and the six cakes They didn't understand the reason.

In the middle of the day, a hill appeared in front of me, and some light green trees grew sparsely on it, but the grass on the ground grew very spiritually.

Mu Shaoan walked in front of the team, looked left and right, looked again, and occasionally pulled up a weed from the ground, put it in his mouth and chew it, and saw that the six cakes and others didn't know why.

"That's right, this is it, get ready for battle!"

Spit out the blades of grass in his mouth, Mu Shao'an shouted, and immediately everyone quickly assembled into an array, but what was a little strange was that they had just assembled into an array, and hundreds of low figures quickly appeared behind the hills a few miles away, wasn't that a dwarf? No, it was an evil gray dwarf.

Six cakes, Geng Shilong and the others were stunned at this time, but they were also extremely convinced.

Their little city lord has been chattering all the way, but he didn't expect to have this kind of ability.

"Stay here, I'll negotiate with them. ”

Mu Shaoan didn't know where to find a big package and staggered on the road.

"Little city lord, there is an evil gray dwarf on the other side, do you want to think again?" shouted Six Cakes, he felt that this little city lord was still very good-tempered, and he really didn't want to see him torn apart by the evil gray dwarf.

The fallen grey dwarves of the Lord of the Rings are almost indistinguishable from beasts.

Mu Shaoan just waved his hand, still walking.

The gray dwarves on the opposite hill were really irritable, like jerboas on the keyboard, whining and grinning.

However, they did not charge, obviously feeling the horror of Mu Shaoan's military formation.

When Mu Shao'an walked five hundred meters away from them, he suddenly threw down the package on his back, turned his head and ran, while those gray dwarves whined, stepped away from their little short legs, and chased after them.

Mu Shao'an looked back and looked carefully, and saw that the gray dwarves had gray hair and beards, which were a little weird compared to normal dwarves.

Seeing this, he was even more relieved and continued to run back.

And the hundreds of gray dwarves caught up with them, and gathered around the package, tearing for a while, but soon there were louder screams, and they seemed to have gone completely berserk.

"Little city lord, are you okay, what kind of empty city trick are you playing, those gray dwarves seem to be crazy, if you want us to rush a wave, I promise to destroy them all in three rounds, no, no, no, capture them alive in five rounds!"

"Rush to your sister, go back!"

Mu Shaoan waved his hand, led the people back to the location of the camp last night, and then waited patiently.

In the afternoon, the sentry who was guarding outside the camp suddenly shouted, and it turned out that three gray dwarves were walking straight up and asking if they should shoot?

Mu Shao'an hurriedly greeted him and shot your sister, Lao Tzu's arrangement has just taken effect.

Vetoed the escort of the six cakes and others, Mu Shao'an walked out of the camp directly to show his sincerity, and looked at the three gray dwarves who looked very old, well, anyway, their hair and beard were completely white, and they were thirty meters apart.

Mu Shaoan spread his hands and said that he did not bring a weapon.

After the three gray dwarves observed him for a moment, one of them said in the lingua franca of Middle-earth, "May I ask who you are?"

"I'm a businessman. Mu Shao'an was concise and to the point.

The three gray dwarves on the other side were silent, and then muttered a lot, and finally said very simply: "How much salt do you have?

"I have as much as I want, and I have not only salt here, but also flour, meat, fruits, vegetables, charr tobacco, rum, dark beer, whiskey, Moutai, everything, and as for the price, it depends on what you have. Mu Shaoan smiled, his face harmless to humans and animals.

Hearing his words, the three gray dwarves on the opposite side were simply round-eyed, and their slightly swaying beards were enough to show the excitement in their hearts.

"Your Excellency, in order to show our sincerity, and to hope that we will be able to buy more salt, grain, uh, a small amount of tobacco, please accept our gift. ”

A gray dwarf pulled out a large yellow-orange-orange thing from his waist pocket, then another large piece, and another large piece.

Bull head gold!

Mu Shao'an's eyes blinked, and he was quite happy in his heart, of course the gray dwarves were not stupid, they had a high IQ, and they also understood the meaning of gold, but--things had to start from the beginning.

Everyone on earth knows that if a person does not consume salt for a long time, then the body will be weak, the hair will turn gray, and eventually it will evolve into a white-haired woman.

In the same way, dwarves are also human beings, and if they do not consume salt for a long time, their hair will turn gray and their bodies will be weak, which is the origin of gray dwarves.

Of course, this is what Mu Shaoan guessed.

As for why the dwarves are short of salt, the reason is also very simple, dwarves are born warriors and miners, think about why so many humans went to settle in Changhu Town when the Dwarf Kingdom of Lonely Mountain was prosperous, and why did the endless stream of merchants form a dense forest ancient road?

It's not because the dwarves don't produce, they don't farm, they don't know how to mine salt, they don't know how to make wine, well, farming and making wine are not very difficult, and salt is the most important.

At the beginning, the humans of Long Lake Town purchased a large amount of materials from the Charr, Bray, Rohan, and Gondor on the west bank of the Anduin River through Rivendell, Gao Pass, and then through the Anduin River, through the dense forest ancient road of the dark forest, and finally entered Long Lake Town, and transported to the Dwarven Kingdom of Lonely Mountain.

This is a path to wealth.

But then the dragon Smaug destroyed the Lonely Mountain, and at the same time destroyed this path of wealth, in fact, it could be continued at first, but until the battle of the five armies broke out, the orcs raged, and this road of wealth completely collapsed.

The reason why the dwarven tribes such as Iron Mountain have weakened is actually related to this road of wealth.

But more dwarves are losing their kings, their homes, and the mines they live in, and they are nothing but wandering around in the wilderness.

Ladies and gentlemen, it was a primitive wilderness, everything was a blood-drinking, if it was humans, it was fine, after all, humans were full of all kinds of life skills, but what about these wandering dwarves, in addition to digging holes, mining, forging weapons, at most they would also farm a little.

Therefore, it is conceivable that in the past few hundred years, they have wandered in the wilderness, drinking blood, sleeping in the open, freezing in the cold, scorching summer, diseases and pestilences, hunger and wild beasts, living and changing in torment, and finally becoming the so-called degenerate, evil, and unforgivable gray dwarves in the mouths of some high-ranking people.

That's right, there was no food, they had to hunt like wild beasts, there was no salt, and their hair and beard gradually turned gray, so they really became monsters.

It's okay for now, but in a dozen years, when the shadow of the demon lord Sauron gradually expands in the east, these gray dwarf tribes wandering in the wilderness will naturally be demonized.

It's all about living.

Who is in a position to condemn whom?

This detail, those who have the layout of the big army can't think of it, Mu Shao'an can think of it, can't they think of it, but it doesn't make sense to think of it.

Because they don't want to be businessmen and engage in economic arteries.

Mu Shao'an now wants to open the Moria pit and connect the Anduin River, and he still has the Pascarard grassland and hundreds of square kilometers of fertile land in his hands, it only takes two or three years, and the materials produced on this land will be extremely abundant.

Food, salt, wine, and tobacco were transported to the Oriental Wilderness, where they were sold to the gray dwarves who drank their blood, and then exchanged them for more ore, steel, weapons, and even gold.

Turning around, he used gold to buy important goods, elven weapons, charr tobacco, leather from the north, spices from the south, and this huge and abundant commodity could also flow into the hands of the people of Denland.

Once this commercial hematopoietic cycle is opened, hum!