Following in the footsteps of the winter wolf, Alva scurried into the woods. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info turned around in the east and west of the towering cedar bushes, and it took half an hour to leave this extremely lush forest.

The boundary cedar forests around Rogue Town, with an average width of one kilometer, are like a green belt embedded outside the town, guarding the safety of the town.

Out of bounds of the cedar forest, Alva deliberately slowed down. Although the figure of the winter wolf had disappeared into the snowy night, he knew that it must have slowed down.

The basis of his judgment is his knowledge of this place.

Having lived in Rogue Town for more than a decade, he is a running man by nature and knows every piece of land here. At the moment of leaving the forest, based on the shadow of the mountain in the distance, he had already judged that he had reached a thorny meadow on the east side of the town.

Although here, like the others, it is a blank snow-white.

The "squeak" of boots stepping into the snow confirmed Alva's judgment. This is the sound of iron sewn into the sole of the boot rubbing against the thorny and thick rhizome of the thorny grass.

Where thorny grass grows, the ground is covered by a well-developed rhizome network of this plant. These dense, finger-sized stolons are extremely tough, with tiny thorn-like protrusions on the surface, like the stems of roses. Ordinary shoes and boots can't withstand them at all, and they may break their soles after a few minutes of walking. In addition to this, it also has the effect of "tripping horses". Every joint on the stem has roots that grip the ground. A thorny grass that stretches for several meters can have dozens of such connections. This makes them closely connected to the earth. Once hooked by them, it is equivalent to pulling out most of the roots of the grass. And often as soon as it falls, more than a dozen grasses stumble at the same time. Therefore, most animals can only walk slowly on the top.

Thornweeds can be planted on the outer edge of boundary forests, and one of the characteristics is that they are poisonous.

Herbivores will foam at the mouth immediately after eating their leaves, and they will have diarrhea for several days until they are exhausted. Therefore, in the place where there is a thorn grass, you will never see "wind-blown grass and low cattle and sheep".

In fact, they are the first line of defense built by humans. I'm afraid that the importance of blocking the monsters in the wilderness is still in the boundary cedar forest behind.

In addition to this, root spiny grass is an extremely fast-growing plant. After a single harvest, it only takes two or three days for them to grow a metre-tall bush. Through artificial fermentation, the toxins in the leaves can be neutralized and reused by livestock. It is equivalent to playing the role of a ranch.

In places with four distinct seasons, almost all towns are covered with large areas of thorny meadows. This is a new means invented by human beings in the course of their long-term struggle with nature.

Roland's humans have had written language for 10,000 years, and even longer have been raising livestock and growing crops.

According to the authoritative division method, human history is divided into five eras. At least five thousand years ago, in the Tertiary Period, the wilderness was not as terrible as it is now. At that time, humans could graze in the wild normally with the help of hunting dogs and other tamed animals, and there was also a glorious nomadic civilization. But by the time the Quaternary Age arrived, the phenomenon was extinct, and the beasts became more and more terrifying, with one or two new dangerous species emerging every hundred years.

For this people have to rack their brains and fight for their own survival.

Whether it is the cedar forest or the thorn meadow, it is a masterpiece of human beings in the Roland world who use nature and transform nature.

Alva walked briskly all the way, and his years of life experience taught him how to speed through the thorny meadows. With this advantage, he had slowly caught up with the winter wolf in front of him.

But when the other party appeared in his field of vision, he slowed down again, just because he felt that the direction of the wind was gradually changing.

The winter wolf's keen sense of smell, Alva is deeply touched. Although he had been smeared with a scent-eliminating grass juice before tracking, he was careful to sail the ship of 10,000 years. In this way, hundreds of meters away from the beast running in front of him, he slowly walked out of the thorny meadow and into the real wilderness beyond.

The mountains in the distance became more distinct, and he could even name some of the tallest peaks from memory.

A little later, as dawn approached, and the snow was getting thinner, the man who had been stalking his "prey" in the wilderness already knew where he was going.

Even if the Winter Wolf's footprints were completely gone at this moment, he would know where it had gone.

The Pale Dragonlord's Peak, a snow-capped peak, grew larger and larger in Alva's eyes, and the low-sunken canyon to its southeast loomed.

It is the place that Rogue Town, and indeed the entire limestone territory, calls it the "mountain pass", and almost everyone knows it, no one knows it, even the newly sensible child can know that it is the source of calamity.

The canyon behind the pass is the famous "Gorge of the Dragon", and its name comes from the fact that many people have witnessed "dragons walking through it".

This is by no means a rumor, for this corridor-like place, which leads straight into the heart of the Mangcang Mountains, is one of the only two passages in the Great Garland Plains and the Edo Plains. The Mangcang River, which rushes along the gorge, can be reached directly from Garan to Edo. A thousand years ago, it was an important trade route. But the nature of the mutation changed it, leaving it gradually barren. Now it is owned by beasts like the Winter Wolf and humanoids like the Maned Weolls.

In late autumn and early winter, Youlong Gorge will become an alternative traffic artery, which is the only way for many beasts and aliens to migrate. In the early spring, when everything recovers, they will spring up again, which is why the mountain pass is called the "source of calamity".

As we got closer to the Pale Dragon King's Peak, the outline of the "mountain pass" gradually became clear. A large river like a silver curtain gushed out of it, and the river channel was as wide as 100 meters, but only the beaches on both sides were frozen, and the water in the middle of most of the riverbed was still rushing forward.

On both sides of the "mountain pass" are two low mountains at the foot of the Pale Dragon King's Peak. They are pure black throughout, and they are constructed by a special mountain rock. It is high and steep, and its base is about the same as the peak, almost about the same thickness. Make them look like two giants guarding here, and like a broken door.

It was still dark, and when Alva looked up at the "mountain pass" from afar, it really felt like it was a gate to hell.

The winter wolf finally threw himself into the dense pine and fir forests near the mountain pass.

Alva wandered around the woodland, which occasionally let out a terrible wolf howl, which was an important reason for his stoppage.

Anthony's words rang in his ears again.

Especially the inference of that "winter wolf cluster". If it's correct, it means there's a good chance that a wolf king will be stationed here.

The winter wolf itself is already a very powerful beast.

If a large group of winter wolves can be subjugated to it, how high will its strength be?

Just as Alva was stagnant, the forest suddenly moved.

After a wolf howl like a broken stone and gold, a thick smoke rose into the sky with a bright firelight. Suddenly, there was a hurricane again......