Chapter 4: The Way to Enter the Warcraft Forest

"A pastor of a loving God does not watch others being plagued by sickness. Lina waved her hand impatiently, signaling not to disturb her to continue reading: "After you find a good place, just ask the bartender to notify me tomorrow." ”

The bearded mayor scratched his head in embarrassment, he couldn't sit still here with some excitement, and was eager to inform the townsfolk who needed treatment of the news. In fact, in the cold ice town, many people are plagued by illness, the cold weather makes many older people have a little discomfort in the joints of the lower limbs, usually it is not a big problem, but when it snows on a cloudy day, the pain will be unbearable, just like this snowstorm for many days, there have been fifteen or sixteen old people lying in bed in pain and unable to walk. In addition, there are usually a few patients in poor health in the town, adding up to more than 20 bedridden, with the ability of the town pastor can not be cured at all, even if you want to invite some powerful priests to treat, you can't do it, after all, the nearest city is more than 400 kilometers away from here, and the priests are not willing to travel back and forth for seven or eight days, just to treat the twenty or so townspeople. But now that a passing priest is willing to help, and seems to be very powerful, it's hard not to get excited about the rather responsible mayor of the town. The mayor hurriedly put on his hat and gloves, put on his thick coat, and after a few words of explanation to Catherine, he trotted out of the tavern, looking at the remaining three men strangely as he left.

In the eyes of the mayor, the other three people were indeed very strange, a girl with a short blue ponytail had been dragging her chin and staring at the ceiling in a daze since she entered the door and sat down, and from time to time she muttered some unintelligible words in her mouth, and it was difficult to know what she had been thinking about as if she was sleepwalking. The other blonde girl had to pull her blonde hair in front of her after sitting down, otherwise the long hair would drag on the ground, this long-haired girl had not changed her demeanor since she sat down, she was motionless like a delicate puppet, and her eyes did not even change at all, if she hadn't walked in by herself, and occasionally blinked, I am afraid that the mayor would really treat her as a puppet. As for the only male among them, the mayor could only smile wryly, and in just ten minutes, six empty wooden cups had been placed in front of him, and the second stewed venison was about to disappear from his mouth. Even a local, drinking six large glasses of spirits would feel a little uncomfortable, but this person didn't feel it at all, if it weren't for the black-haired girl who was the leader glaring at him, I'm afraid the seventh glass of spirits would have disappeared long ago.

However, there are always a lot of weirdos among the professionals, and there are even more surprising adventurers, and the mayor, who is almost fifty years old, also traveled in the north when he was young, and has seen a lot of professionals, and he still has a certain tolerance for their quirks, so he didn't show excessive surprise, just glanced at it slightly, and left in a hurry.

"It's a few more days to wait, and this blizzard really doesn't come at the right time. After the bearded mayor left, the six of them moved to a table in a corner, and Catherine frowned and said, "In this way, all the time we have grabbed in the past few days has been in vain, alas, I really hope that this snow will stop soon." ”

"You can't stop and you can't go. Pannis swallowed the venison in his mouth with great difficulty, and was just about to pick up the wine glass, but he put it aside under Catherine's forced gaze, picked up another glass of water and poured it into a sip, before beating his chest and continuing: "We have been traveling in the snow for eleven days in a row, especially the last part of the road, there is no time to rest for two days and one night, we must rest on the spot for a few days, otherwise even if you can support it, Lina and Freya will not be able to support it." Rushing in the snow is already exhausting physical strength, coupled with rushing forward so desperately, if you don't rest, I'm afraid you will really stay in the Warcraft Forest forever as the mayor said, and it will be too late to regret it. ”

"Well, you know more about the snowfields than I do, you have the final say. Catherine sighed, pressed her forehead and said, "I really underestimated the cold here, I used to think that the environment of the knight academy where I studied was cold enough, but I didn't expect it to be so cold here, it feels even colder than the frozen hell where we used to cry in the cave." ”

"Although the temperature in the south of the Falar Empire is not low, after all, there are four seasons in a year, which is not like here. Pannis said: "As for the frozen hell, in fact, the temperature is about the same, but there is wind on the snowfield, the wind and the snow are a pair of good friends, they can be combined to increase the power of several times, most of the people who were frozen to death on the snowfield were killed in the wind, if you can find a shelter from the wind, as long as the time is not too long, most of them can be rescued." ”

"It's scary to hear what you say. There was no one else, Lina regained her true nature again, and said curiously: "But this is the first time I know that it turns out that when I am traveling on the snowfield, I can move without moving my feet, but my waist and arms are more uncomfortable." ”

"That's what skiing is, no way. Pannis said: "If we don't travel this way, we will probably take several times longer to get here." I've been here once before, just in time for the end of winter, and there's a stretch of the road that I skied through. ”

"Is this how everyone here goes?" asked Lina, "I always think it's strange to travel like this." ”

"Of course, when you go out in winter, you always rely on skiing to get to places that are close. Pannis nodded: "It's faster than walking, you can walk more than 50 kilometers in one day and one night, and it's also less strenuous than running." ”

"What about the distant target?" Lina asked, "I'm afraid ordinary people can't stand it if they slide like this for a few days in a row." ”

"In the distance there are sleds, just like our carriages. Pannis replied, "They rely on domesticated deer and dogs to pull sleds, as you must have seen when you entered the town just now, and every family has a few deer and a group of dogs, which are used for sledding, especially the dogs, which can not only pull sleds, but also assist them in hunting, which is very useful." It's a pity that for the people on the snowfield, those animals are as important as their families, and they can't be sold to us, otherwise we would have had a lot easier. ”

"So we're going to keep skiing into the Warcraft Forest?" Freya asked, "Can you ski in the forest?"

"If you are a local and are used to skiing, you can go to a densely populated place with skiing, but we don't have that kind of technique, if you really ski in, I'm afraid you won't be able to go far and hit a tree, and the speed is very slow, so you can only walk in. Pannis shook his head and said, "However, in fact, we don't necessarily have to enter the Warcraft Forest, no, to be exact, we don't necessarily have to rely on ourselves to enter the depths of the Warcraft Forest." ”

"Huh?" Catherine raised her eyebrows and asked in a low voice, "You haven't said anything about the specific situation in the Warcraft Forest before, I guessed that something is wrong, do you have a special way to notify the dragon clan?"

"I? I don't. Pannis shrugged and whispered, "But, I don't, there are others who have this method." ”

"It turns out that the Bailong Dominion really has the favor of the dragon clan. Catherine was surprised, "This is a secret that I have never heard of before." ”

"Although the dragons are lazy and boring, some people have been worshipping them for thousands of years without asking for anything in return, and these people are becoming more and more like dragons for unknown reasons, even if those dragons are hundreds of stones, I guess they will be moved. Pannis pursed his lips and whispered, "Although I can't say that I have any favor for these admirers, it is always possible to give some convenience, such as emergency contact, a little help in the event of an irresistible crisis, and so on." ”

"That's enough. Catherine suddenly looked at Pannis suspiciously: "You don't seem to be particularly friendly to the dragons, and you seem to be a little resentful when it comes to them, so you ...... Oh no, I mean, what happened?"

Pannis didn't hear some hints vaguely revealed in Catherine's words, but just shook his head and said: "Actually, it's nothing, it's not their problem, it's that I'm a little angry with most of the individuals in their group, uh, it's kind of anger, in fact, they don't have any mistakes, the problem is myself, but it's hard for me not to blame them for something, do you understand?"

"Apparently not. Catherine shrugged as she did in Pannis: "But it doesn't matter if you understand or not, the important thing is whether we have a way to tell those people from the Bailong Dominion to contact the dragon clan for us? ”

"Well, there's a good chance that the dragons will come to pick us up. Pannis nodded, "Moreover, I also have a way to persuade those humanoid dragons in the Bailong Dominion to help us contact the dragon clan, so I just said that we don't have to walk in on our own." ”

"In other words, I did the wrong way to calculate my time. Catherine lowered her head and calculated, "Sigurne said three hundred days at most, so my plan is to hope to solve the problem within one hundred and fifty days, and it will be dangerous beyond one hundred and fifty days." In this way, if we don't need to waste dozens of days drilling around in the Warcraft Forest, then we really don't need to be in such a hurry as we are now. ”

"That's true. "Still, the sooner this kind of thing is resolved, the better." ”

"Of course. Catherine replied, "Tomorrow, tomorrow Lina will help the townspeople with their illnesses, Freya and Vivien and Eva will accompany her, and the two of us will go to the liaison first?"

"Yes. Pannis nodded, "It's been a long time since I've seen anyone from the Bailong clan, but they're actually quite interesting, you can see it." (To be continued.) )