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The twelve-meter-tall fortress-level tree man strode along the newly built road, leaving the snow-covered town of Blackwater behind.

Such a majestic body, in the northern border covered in silver, seems relatively small, but only Lu Bin, who is standing on his shoulder and looking into the distance, knows the speed of the tree man, which can be called a meteor in stride.

The path that the tree man walked out of with his feet was soon discovered by the merchants trapped in Blackwater Town, and when they realized that this was an excellent business opportunity, they immediately organized people to follow behind.

As for the official position, there is no statement on this, after all, the number of houses in the town has been crushed by the thick snow and the roofs are quite large, and just helping the wounded is enough for them to be busy for a while.

With Heishui Town as the center of the territory, the manors and villages radiating to the surrounding area have become a good place for merchants to make a fortune, and winter clothes, flour, jerky, vegetables, and even charcoal and dry firewood with large reserves have rich returns.

Waist-deep snow could not be an obstacle for merchants who were determined to make a fortune, and the smartest people used the road that the tree people had traveled to advance to the nearby villages first, while the manors in other directions did not have this convenience, so they could only hire mercenaries or short-term workers at high prices to open the way.

Lu Bin remembered the words of a certain life coach before the crossing: "If capital has 10 percent profit, it will be used everywhere; if capital has 20 percent profit, it will become active; if there is 50 percent profit, it will take risks......

"I believe that these daily necessities will be sold at least double the original price, and the trapped people will have to pay obediently if they want to survive. If the lord does not come forward to organize the rescue, people who take advantage of the fire to rob and make disaster fortunes will bloom everywhere. ”

After all, Blackwater is a pioneer territory that has just established its foothold, and there are many things that need to be learned and adapted, and this sudden snow disaster is the test paper placed in front of the high-level leaders led by Lord Neil Austin.

Fortunately, not long after the merchants opened up the "trade route", the official rescue convoy that had been preparing for a long time set off, temporarily requisitioning the passage that had just been opened, and the guards led by the knights with swords, although the merchants were no longer angry, they had to pinch their noses and acquiesce.

The large amount of relief supplies entered the surrounding villages, which not only gave the people in the territory the confidence to persevere, but also directly lowered the prices of various daily necessities, but later compensation and exemption from the "transaction tax" of some goods satisfied many merchants.

Lu Bin, who knew nothing about this, successfully instructed the tree people at noon to arrive at the outpost of the Dry Bone Wasteland, a bungalow converted from a warehouse for storing sand and gravel.

Lu Bin saw the messy footprints around the warehouse, and the bright blood in the snow was extremely eye-catching, and immediately remembered the wolf removal task not long ago.

As soon as he stood up, Lu Bin's left hand took out the Book of Brigade Mages, and the talisman of his right hand was all "lit up", and he instantly entered a combat state.

But there were no hostile people around, and Lu Bin immediately instructed the tree man behind him to open the door of the warehouse, because he had already seen that someone inside was blocked with heavy objects.

The stronghold-level treant obeyed the Guardian's orders, his body swaying slightly, sprinkling excess snow, and then kneeling on his right foot and bending his left knee, stretching out his right vine-wrapped right hand towards the warehouse door.

A dozen old vines the thickness of thumbs of the mountain stream are like poisonous snakes sticking to the gate to burrow into the cracks around them, and their tiny rhizomes tightly grip the warehouse gate full of copper nails.

Then, Shun Ren pulled back hard, and two three-meter-high door panels that allowed two four-wheeled carriages to enter and exit side by side broke the fixed iron of the door post in an instant, and fell on the thick snow with a clatter.

Lu Bin walked over without hesitation, but as soon as he saw the sand and gravel sacks piled up behind the gate, five or six spears were poked out of the dark warehouse.

Fortunately, he had already prepared, and instantly fired the defensive rune in the palm of his right hand, and an invisible force field wall with a hardness comparable to basalt immediately appeared.

The full force of the rudimentary wooden spear shattered and shattered on the spot in an instant, leaving no trace of it except for a few white spots on the wall.

"It's me, you'd better see it clearly!"

Lu Bin knew that they didn't mean it, so he suppressed his anger and hurriedly reminded him, and later there was a chaotic sound in the warehouse, but the sand and gravel sacks that formed the defense line did not move at all.

"I'm worried that I'm a fake, the Treants behind me don't cheat, and no one else in the North can summon a Friend of the Forest of this level except me. ”

The tree man who had demolished the door of the warehouse just now cooperated with the guardian to lower his body in a very timely manner to vouch for what Lu Bin said.

The people hiding inside no longer dared to hesitate, and they took action to dismantle the sand and gravel bags that formed the defense line, but because they were very careful, they were frozen by the cold weather, so that after doing it now, it had no effect at all.

"Should I praise them for their work, or should I reprimand them for doing everything they can to save their lives?"

Lu Bin's patience was about to run out, the blood stains outside were still fresh, and he wanted to find out as soon as possible, the guild members in the warehouse, the current specific situation, whether there were any casualties, what happened?

"Do it!

With Lu Bin's order, the fortress-level tree man once again stretched out his right hand that was entwining the vines, but this time he didn't pull it back, and pushed it into the warehouse according to the natural instinct of the friends of the forest.

"Stand back, stand back!"

Lu Bin saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly reminded the people in the warehouse loudly that his words were too timely, when the sack full of sand and gravel was pushed down by the tree man, except for a few exclamations, no one was injured.

Later, Lu Bin summoned more than a dozen sunshine mushrooms from the "Elven Waste Capital Elundelle" to illuminate the dark warehouse where the windows were sealed, and only then could he see the situation inside.

Twenty or so guild members, wrapped in thick sacks at this time, resisted the cold of winter, and shivered from time to time to keep warm because of the lack of food.

Lu Bin's cold and hard heart just now suddenly became soft, and he asked the tree man to take off the winter clothes and food that he had gathered from the meeting station, and a large pile of dry firewood was lit on the spot, and the heat wave rolled towards the surroundings.

In the dark warehouse, the members of the guild who were hungry and cold suddenly felt the warmth they had not felt for a long time, and they took off their stinging sacks, changed into winter clothes to protect themselves, and crowded around the fire to keep warm, roasting jerky and boiling flour paste by the way.

"I can't stay here, I'm going to take you guys to add. ”

As soon as Lu Bin's voice fell, he immediately won everyone's applause, they are all good at road construction, they originally wanted to save time on the road back and forth, make a few more money, so they agreed to stay in the warehouse, but the weather suddenly changed overnight, directly from late autumn to midwinter, and they were frozen enough.

These are nothing, the real killer is the wolves that appear out of nowhere, approaching the warehouse when the wind and snow stop for a while, trying to catch the trapped humans.

Surprisingly, they are no ordinary wild wolves, not only know how to use various tactics, but also use a wide range of detours to paralyze the vigilance of humans, sneaking into the snow to set ambush traps.

Fortunately, the members of the guild reacted in time, so that the wolves did not succeed, and in the chaos of the battle, they seriously injured the most ferocious wolf leader and scared them away.

The foreman of the road construction team saw the thoughtful expression on the face of the guild leader, and then looked at the tree man outside, and immediately understood: "The wolves were not frightened away by us, but they found that Your Excellency and the tree man were approaching, and they left in a hurry knowing that it was not an enemy. ”

Lu Bin nodded lightly: "This is just a warehouse for stacking sand and gravel, and the land is almost the same for road construction materials, so it has no value." The wolves attacked in retaliation, and I wasn't worried if it was for other purposes...... We should leave as soon as possible. ”

It was just a moment, and he thought a lot from his previous experiences, such as the beasts trapped underground, the dark wizards who were scattered in all directions after being struck, and especially the latter, who was the most dangerous.

If they secretly drive the beast to deal with themselves, they are not afraid, and the most worried thing is that the target will turn to ordinary people. Storming the towns in the core of the territory, because the casualties are too great, should not be replaced by villages and manors of different distances.

"I have to inform the officials of Blackwater Town of this news as soon as possible, otherwise there will be another wave of wolf plague after the heavy snowfall, which will make it even worse, and it will exhaust the vitality of the Overdraft Pioneer Territory. ”

At this time, Lu Bin did not know that the lord had sent a rescue team led by the knight with the sword, and it was obvious that Lord Nell Austin's staff had not missed any unexpected circumstances.

Despite some resistance from the guild members in the warehouse, regardless of whether their lives were at stake, they fully cooperated with the orders of "Lord Reiz".

The blazing fire was extinguished with the snow outside the door, and the boiling batter was not yet hot, and two or three sips drank their own portion, which warmed the hungry and cold body a little, and as for the oily barbecue, it would be a pity to abandon it, and some people were not afraid of being hot, and wrapped it in a clean sack cloth and carried it into their arms.

Lu Bin was worried that the two dozen people would slow down the march by the two dozen people on the treeman's body, so he asked people to make sleds out of tree bark and instructed the guild members to make ski poles from tree branches.

Not long after they left, hundreds of wolves were summoned, but the smoke-filled warehouse was empty.

A giant wolf with silver fur lowered its head and sniffed a few times, and suddenly stood up, looking at the footprints of the tree man larger than his own head, extending in the direction when he came and went, and his eyes flashed and he didn't know what to think.

"We can't go far! ”