The Jinshui River flows slowly from west to east, and has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

No one knows exactly where the source of the Jinshui River is, but no one will deny that the Jinshui River is the largest river in the human world. It emerges from the Endless Forest and flows eastward, traveling tens of thousands of kilometers before finally merging into the ocean.

The Jinshui River divides the continent in two, with the north being the land of civilization where humans thrive, and the south being the barren wilderness where barbarians and orcs dance together. The river, which is several kilometers wide, has become a natural barrier against barbarians and orcs.

Standing on a high slope overlooking the eight-kilometer-wide Jinshui River below, Victor couldn't help but be overwhelmed by its majestic momentum.

"It's a pity that there is no sun today, otherwise you would know why it's called Jinshui River." Edwin couldn't help but laugh when he saw Victor's dizzying appearance.

"yes. It was the first time I had seen this great river, and I heard that in the morning and evening, the sun shone golden and was magnificent. Victor sighed.

"Well, what you will have in the future is the opportunity to enjoy the scenery of the Jinshui River. Edwin nodded.

Victor's territory is adjacent to the Jinshui River, and he could have built a holiday estate here and often came to look at the scenery.

"Master, in such weather, it looks like it's going to snow, do you want to go into the Swamp again at another time?" A gust of wind blew, and Victor tightened his cloak.

"It's because it's going to snow that it's the best time to enter the Everglades. Edwin shook his head and said to Victor.

The snow road is difficult to walk, but it will also freeze the ground of the swamp, and the most important thing is that most of the monsters in the swamp hide in the hole on a snowy day, making them much less risky.

"However, Victor's little stove and sleigh were very practical and saved us a lot of trouble. Along the way, you've been coming up with a lot of ideas, I wonder how you can understand so many interesting things at such a young age?" Edwin smiled at Victor, and there seemed to be something in his smile.

"I'm just used to being comfortable, and it's the first time I've walked this far, and I'm always thinking about making myself more comfortable, so I'll think about some gadgets. Victor said disapprovingly in the face of the old scholar's temptation.

Victor's marching stove is a miniaturized version of the previous honeycomb coal stove on Earth, which is lit with charcoal and placed in the tent to make the tent warm as spring, and can also be used to boil some hot soup or something, which is perfect for the big swamp where there is no dry firewood.

The sleigh was designed because the carriage could not pass in the swamp and supplies needed to be carried on the backs of people, so Victor built two carts for the carpenters in the camp that could replace the rockers and wheels.

Of course, the cart has to be pulled by people, anyway, the elite soldiers under Bruce have the strength, and it is absolutely not a problem to pull two carts.

After learning that Edwin was about to go on an expedition to the Everglades and that Nicole would be with him, Victor thoughtfully designed a marching furnace and a small sleigh for them.

Actually, he is mainly distressed by his sister-in-law.

"That's ... Fish-people?!" Victor's sharp eyes caught the bank of the river thousands of meters away, and suddenly several fish-headed monsters crawled up, wandering around.

Edwin craned his neck, his eyes narrowing and narrowing, but no matter how hard he tried, he could only see a few small black dots running around the riverbank.

"It's supposed to be the fish-people, who like to wander around like this on the banks of the Jinshui River, only these disgusting stupid things. Edwin shook his head, he had nothing but envy for Victor's perverted vision.

Fish-people are a type of aquatic orcs, they are short, like a mixture of fish and frogs, their natural scale armor is tight and slippery, with good defensive ability, and their wide mouths are full of terrifyingly sharp teeth, but in fact, fishmen are omnivorous orcs, and they occasionally eat the silt of the river to replenish the salt needed by their bodies.

Fish-people live mainly on the banks and shores of rivers, they have a strong sense of territory, they are hostile to land creatures that invade their territory, and will go out of their way to besiege land creatures, however, when they find that they are no match for the invaders, they will flee back into the water, and when they gather more companions, the fishmen will continue to attack the creatures that invade their territory until they kill or drive the invaders away.

Fish-people are very stupid, although they will be afraid of death, but they can't remember the feelings of fear and pain, this characteristic makes their behavior very stubborn, so some White Tower scholars believe that fish-people are not intelligent species at all, even if they can use simple tools, they also have a certain social nature.

"It's not surprising that you have fish-people in your territory. The banks of the Jinshui River are full of these nasty little monsters. As long as your people don't get close to the banks of the Golden Water, they are in fact the lords of the Golden Water. Edwin patted Victor on the shoulder and said helplessly.

It is precisely because of the brainless and stubborn race of fish people in the Jinshui River that humans cannot carry out fishing and shipping in the Jinshui River.

Although there is nothing to be done about the fish-people in the Jinshui River and the sea, humans will ruthlessly kill the fish-people in other places, otherwise other waters will be occupied by these guys, because these guys are too capable of life!

Therefore, people have always believed that a dead fishman is a good fishman!

"Master Edwin, Victor, everyone is ready, is it time to go?" a crisp voice came from behind Victor.

As soon as Victor turned around, he saw that Nicole Knight was standing there with a smile, and his heart suddenly became hot, and he stepped forward and took the female knight's slender hand and said, "Okay, let's go." As for Edwin, he had long since forgotten about it.

Nicole blushed, but she didn't pull out the jade hand held by Victor, but left side by side with Victor generously, and Edwin had already been forgotten by her.

Edwin looked at the two of them in a daze, as if there was no one around, he opened his mouth to speak, but finally turned into a wry smile with a wry smile, with both relief and regret in his eyes.

Although Nicole was successfully promoted to knighthood, the fate of her and Victor is still unpredictable, as a knight of the York family, she must return to Black Castle after this mission. Although Victor is a lord, he already has a legitimate wife, and his wife is powerful and noble.

So, this may be the last time the two spend together, which makes Victor and Nicole a lot less reserved and more enthusiastic than before.

People in love always want time to be too slow, slower, slower, and slower, but time never stops like the water of the Jinshui River.

After two days of trekking, Victor and his party finally arrived at an entrance to the Everglades.

The Swamp is a mysterious area where few humans have set foot in it, and little is known about it. The last recorded expedition was 1,500 years ago, when Fahilde, the legendary paladin of the Church of Radiance, led dozens of elite Inquisition warriors into the Everglades in order to track down the remnants of the Pantheon. In the end, Fahilde came out of the swamp alive with a team of less than ten people.

Although the Radiant Church is secretive about Fahild's experience, rumors of the presence of lizardmen in the Swamp and the possible presence of a super-level magical beast, the Hydra lizard, are still circulating in the human world.

Therefore, the swamp is also known as the lizard swamp.

"Bruce, don't you really need me to arrange for some men to enter the Lizard Swamp with you?" asked Victor as he checked his equipment.

"Not really, Master Edwin will only explore the outskirts of the swamp and collect some specimens, so it won't be very long. And after we entered the Lizard Swamp, the power in your hands is a little thin, so you have to be more careful during this time, Victor. Bruce politely declined Victor's offer.

Bruce's words sent a hint of gloom in Victor's eyes.

Ever since he killed Gorash, Victor has had the guards take the old ogre's head to patrol the free camps in the realm.

At first, the effect was very good, and after the leaders of the freedfolk saw the ogre's head being held high on the spear by the lord's guard, they began to become intimidated, and no longer dared to blatantly prevent their freedmen from defecting to Victor, and even Bayer was much more honest, and Old Dick even took the opportunity to win over a group of supporters.

These days, more than thirty freedmen have joined Victor's camp, and Victor is very happy about this, because with the cover of the freedmen, he will soon be able to create alchemy auxiliaries and alchemy militias.

However, an unexpected thing happened.

Nelson's subordinate Hammer, while leading the team on a patrol mission, was shot through the thigh by an arrow outside the free camp in the eastern part of the territory.

This camp is another large free camp in addition to Pinghu Village, and there are about 200 people in it. According to the freedmen, the group never interacted with other freedmen, and they would mercilessly kill any freedmen who approached their camp.

The members of the small freeman's camp even thought they were a gang of murderous bandits, but they had never heard of this group attacking other camps, and they seemed to care only about their own territory. As a result, rumors of bandits died down in the territory, but all the freedfolk were told never to go near that camp in the east!

However, these people actually ignored the identity of the lord's guard, ignored the ogre's head on the spear, and shot an arrow through the thigh of the hammer more than 70 meters away.

Afterwards, Victor and Nelson inspect the arrow, which is entirely a cut arrow made of hemlock. Therefore, the use of such an arrow to injure the hammer is very obvious.

This arrogant warning angered Victor and Nelson, and they were deeply confused by the incident.

The body of this arrow is very long, and it cannot be shot with a weapon such as a crossbow, but it should be a companion arrow to a longbow. However, the arrow and the arrow are made of wood, and the weight is relatively light, so it is difficult for ordinary people to shoot 70 meters with it and maintain amazing accuracy. It can be seen that the person who shot and injured the hammer is definitely a strong guy.

This free camp never communicates with other camps, how do they replenish their supplies?

Why did they kill strangers who were close to their camp?

How does a camp that doesn't communicate with the outside world know the identity of the Hammer Lord's guards, otherwise why don't they just shoot the Hammer?

Why would they shoot the hammer in defiance of the majesty and kindness of the lord?

In short, all the questions show that this so-called free private place is full of mysteries and strangeness.

After discussion, Victor and Nelson decided to stay on hold without figuring it out. Because Edwin's day of inspecting the Everglades is approaching, and Bruce has made it clear that he will no longer interfere in the issue of the freedmen in Victor's territory.

Victor has no complaints, as the admission of the freedmen was a decision he made as a lord, and he had to bear the consequences of such a decision.

To this end, he quietly produced 5 alchemy crows, monitored and spied on the camp throughout the day, and Victor believed that after returning to the station, the arrogant free people would no longer have secrets to speak of.

With the Alchemy Tower in hand, even without Bruce's help, Victor is confident that he can handle this problem.

"Bruce, you're right, but I'll have some men set up a makeshift camp here to provide logistical support for you, and I want you to keep a midshipman here with my men. Victor dispelled the thoughts in his head and suggested to Bruce.

Bruce accepts Victor's suggestion.

Watching Edwin, Bruce, and Nicole and their party firmly enter the unfathomable swamp, Black Feather circled above Victor's head, and with a "quack", flew towards the team, which will help Edwin explore this strange world.

Victor stretched out his slender palm, and a snowflake quietly landed on his palm.

It's snowing.

Feeling the coolness brought by the melting snowflakes, Victor suppressed the reluctance and melancholy in his heart, and asked Nelson, "Nelson, do you know why Master Edwin is so old and still has to venture into the Swamp?"

Nelson scratched his head, he was also puzzled.

Edwin's status is noble, and he doesn't need to run for life at all, but now he is brave the wind and snow into the dangerous swamp to explore, what is the plan?

"Because if you go forward, you will not perish. Victor said softly, as if to himself.

The human beings of the last world have climbed to the top of the earth with a weak body after millions of years. During this period, countless powerful species were wiped out, and the reason why humans were able to trample these powerful opponents under their feet was because humans kept moving forward and never stopped.

And the human beings in this world still have many unknown territories and many powerful opponents, but the human beings here also have pioneers like Edwin and pioneers like Victor.

Victor rolled over his horse and said to a confused Nelson, "Let's go, let's go home!"

Like Edwin, he has a lot to go on.