Chapter 42: Outpost Supply Point
On the ship, Ward was raising his hand to say goodbye to Nancy, and the Ades and their sisters officially left today, taking a medium-sized brig to the mission location designated by the Mage Guild.
In the shadows of the docks, the two Marat-speaking disciples were watching the Adès and their sailboat from afar, until the sailboat sailed out of the river bay and disappeared from view, and the ranger turned his head and asked the druids unwillingly, "Just let them go?"
"What's the solution, if he doesn't go to the Adventurers' Guild to recruit warriors, the people we arrange won't be able to enter their team, and don't forget, their team also has two rangers, and it's easy to be found if you track them down in the forest. The druid turned and left the darkness and walked towards the west gate.
The ranger took two steps after him and said with a fierce look in his eyes: "Otherwise, we will catch the sister of the female ranger and wait for Ades to come back and design a trap for him." ”
"You're crazy, now that the woman has moved in with Nancy, you're going to challenge an intermediate mage head-on?"
After making sure that the Ranger would not go crazy to challenge a mage, the druid lowered his posture a little and said to the Ranger: "The main thing is that we are not manpowered, we have to resist the attack of the forest one, we are already very short of manpower nearby, Nancy is still a disciple of the Emerald Goddess, do you think we can resist the attack of their several churches on our own now? Let's lurk down first, there will be a chance later." ”
The two talked as they walked, and Nancy, who had not appeared on the other side of the dock, looked meaningfully in the direction they had left.
On the boat, Mia took the hard leather armor that Evis specially made for her, and wiped it carefully, the design of this leather armor is basically the same as that Ades uses now, but the arm armor and leg armor are much more complete than those worn by Ades, and the defense is stronger than Ades's leather armor, and it can be seen that Mia cherishes this leather armor very much.
Evis was comforting her winter wolf in the aft compartment of the sailboat, and the winter wolf was probably going to suffer these days on the ship, trapped in the small aft compartment all day, unable to move.
And across the room from Mia, Ades was asking Ward for some magical knowledge, after all, Amherst, who originally taught Adus, was just a wild mage, and in terms of magical knowledge, he was not as proficient as an academic mage like Ward, let alone the spell-casting skills taught by the master and apprentice in the academy.
The middle channel of the Hongshui River is relatively safe in the whole Hongshui River, the upstream water is turbulent, the reef is numerous, and the cargo ship is driven by the current to hit the reef without having time to dodge, and the ship is destroyed and killed.
The downstream water flow is slow, but the river sand from the upstream alluvial has also precipitated, the channel has become shallow, and it is easy to run aground, which is not the most dangerous, the most dangerous thing is that there are some large predatory beasts in the water, large bay crocodiles and the like, if the boatman dares to go into the water to save the stranded cargo ship, it will basically be eaten.
Of course, if you don't go into the water, a hunting beast like a large bay crocodile will not attack a hard-hulled ship like a cargo ship, after all, there is more to eat underwater, so there is no need to be so aggressive.
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The location of their mission this time is at the junction of the middle and lower reaches, and the town of Locke is one of the outposts into the plain rainforest, which used to be the front line of human exploration of the rainforest, and the place where man and nature are at war, it should have been a prosperous town, but unfortunately in the past hundred years, because of the lord, it has become a bit depressed and desolate.
After a short voyage of two days, the sailboat docked in the depressed town, where they repaired for the night, and the next day they entered the rainforest without stopping, and they had to reach the supply point in the rainforest in two days, where the mission began.
"If you go from here, you should be a supply point. Ades folded the map, put it back in the makeshift space bag that Verina had given him, and pointed to the fork in the road on the left and told everyone that the map had been prepared by Nancy for Ward early in the morning.
Following the trail, the four of them walked a short distance to find a supply point in a mountain col, a village where Terran and halflings lived.
On the secret sentry of the cliff, the patrolling halfling appeared early in the Adès, and in a burst of wooden whistles, the wooden fence in the village opened, and two Terrans riding velociraptors came out of it. "Adventurer, what is the matter with you coming to our remote village?" the first to ask was the Terran warrior who thought he was holding a spear.
Adès took two steps forward and gave a chest salute to the two warriors: "Dear pioneers, we are adventurers from the upper estuary town, this time we are here to enter the rainforest to collect some magic materials, we have no malicious intentions, we just want to stay in your village for a short time and replenish supplies." ”
When the two village guards heard Ades' words, their expressions relaxed, and they made eye contact, and the warrior who asked first got off the velociraptor and came to Ades and the four of them to salute: "Several respected adventurers, please forgive us for our caution, for friends, the gate of our village will always be open to you. ”
"Come with me. The warrior led the Ades and them towards the village, and the warrior who was still riding on the velociraptor went back to report to the villagers.
Entering the village, the warrior introduced the architecture of the village to Ades, focusing on the defensive buildings such as the arrow tower, and the implication was nothing more than to ask Ades and them not to underestimate the combat effectiveness of the village, some Terran and halfling children were curious to observe Ades and their strangers from behind the trees next to the house, it seems that no adventurer has been to this village for a long time.
The warrior led them to a wooden building in the middle of the village, which was much larger than the other houses in the village, and seemed to be the residence of the village commander, and the warrior pointed to the table made of stakes on one side of the hall and said, "This is my residence, you can sit as you like." ”
On the walls of the hall are some blowing arrows, bows and arrows, and some unknown animal skins, which are used for decoration.
"Dear friends, maybe you'd like to try our food. "The hosts were very enthusiastic to invite them to a lunch, it was lunch time, they did not refuse, it was a very pleasant thing to eat dry food for a few days with steaming food.
"What kind of egg is this?" Seeing an egg the size of a child's head in front of her, Mia, a girl who was a little autistic, couldn't help but ask, she had never seen such a big egg.
The warrior replied with a smile: "This is a distant relative of the Velociraptor, the egg of a herbivorous dinosaur, similar to the egg that our human race often eats. ”
Adès tasted it, it was similar to an egg, but the taste was a little rougher: "There is no shortage of rainforest grasses, don't you hatch them and raise them? Meat is higher in nutrition than eggs." Ades also asked curiously.
"These herbivorous dinosaurs are similar to the birds we raise, and they also lay eggs all year round, and now the eggs we eat are relatively smaller, and the larger ones are used to hatch. ”
Ades, they understand that eugenics is a way to domesticate wild beasts.
"With all due respect, friends, it's not a good time for you to enter the rainforest. The warrior took a few bites of the dinosaur egg and said to Adez.
"Oh......" All four of them looked up, all four of them looking at the warrior with an inquiring look in their eyes.
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