Surdak rode out of the dark and narrow gate hole, and a wide valley appeared in front of him.

The valley is flanked by towering and steep mountains, and the green forests are still at the foot of these mountains, and in the middle of the mountains that you can look at in the distance, there are huge rock thorns as sharp as knives rising into the sky, and the peaks of the mountains on both sides of the valley are inserted into the sky, and the snow is hidden in the clouds.

Many of the indigenous people of the White Forest Plane are hidden in the valleys and forests between the mountains, and these tribes live a life of half-hunting and half-herding.

Passing through this valley, you will see the red pine forest on the edge of the Warcraft Forest north of the town of Dodan.

The aboriginal horseman of the town hall rode along a winding mountain road at the front.

There are some large and small pools on both sides of the road, some of which have dried up, revealing the cracked soil at the bottom of the pool, and some small pools are full of red insects, attracting many waterfowl to 'chirp' around the pool.

A river in the valley had dried up, and the valley was covered with fine-leaved glass grass, and the half-meter-high grass stalk had already borne heavy grass seeds.

Walking out of Dodan Town means truly entering the White Forest Plane, although this valley is also the territory of the Grimm Empire, but without this wall behind it, there will be a feeling that the local natives may be killed from the mountains at any time.

In fact, the garrison patrol of Dodan Town had to pass through this gate every day to the end of the valley, and that undulating slope was really the border of the occupied area of the White Forest plane.

If you want to expand your territory in the northern part of the White Forest Plane, you have to continue northward from that border.

Of course, it is not difficult for all the noble lords to expand their territory.

The challenge is how to hold the territory, build walls to keep out wild beasts, build some sentry posts, or remove all potential dangers that may exist in the area, although these methods can temporarily incorporate large areas of land in the valley north of the city...... However, the tide of demonic beasts in the White Forest Plane Forest Beasts has dropped, and unless a northern wall similar to Dodan Town is built at the exit of the valley, it will be difficult to stop the fierce beasts in the forest.

The topography here is very different from that of the city of Highlandza, with taller and more majestic mountains, denser and more compact pine forests, and the mountains are clearly layered.

The guide had only heard that an adventuring group had been sacked by a bandit group mixed with local natives in the mountains and forests on the east side of the city, and had only known the general location of the place where the incident had occurred, but had not been there.

He rode along the mountain road for a while, and when he saw a fork in the road ahead, he walked towards the pine forest at the foot of the mountain range on the east side.

The wilderness in front of them seemed inaccessible, and the little beasts that lived here were extremely cute, and they were not too afraid of people, and when they heard some wind and grass, they would 'swish' into their hiding places, and after a few minutes, the little beasts came out of their caves and watched curiously as Surdak led a cavalry team through the mossy barren meadows not far away.

Andrew looked around and could see that the inhabitants of Dodan rarely came to the north of the city walls, and that the fertile soil had no sign of being cultivated, and that clusters of low shrubs had grown on the ground, on which some air-dried berries hung from them.

Unexpectedly, the land north of Dodan Town is also quite fertile, and the grassland between the valleys in front of me is very suitable for grazing.

Surdak planned that in the future, it seemed that he would be able to save most of the forage by opening the gates of the city and driving out the Guborai-horses and stocking them in this valley without having to prepare the forage every day.

At the foot of the hill the pine forest was so lush and full of branches that the cavalry had to use machetes to make a path through the woods, but fortunately, the groom guide was very familiar with the place, and led everyone to find a path hidden in the pine forest, which was overgrown with weeds, but there were no branches to block the way.

Sure enough, in such a leafy mountain forest, you still need a guide who is familiar with the surrounding situation.

As we went deeper into the pine forest, each of these tall and stout red pines required several men to surround them, and the gaps between the trees became wider, and the canopies above the heads were tightly connected, blocking almost all direct sunlight, and without sunlight, the shrubs and trees in the woods were very sparse, and it was the huge trunks that often bothered the cavalry battalion to rush to the woodland.

These trunks are more than two meters in diameter at their thickest and reach tens of meters in length across the woodland.

The cavalry had no way to climb over the trunk of the tree, so they could only ride around on their horses.

The aboriginal guide stopped ahead and said to Surdak, "Although this is close to the town of Dodan, this is already the territory of the Inta tribe, and the Inta tribe occupies a large area of mountains and forests east of this valley, and this mountain forest between the valleys is only a corner of the forest that we see, and the woods at the foot of these mountains are everywhere in this mountain range. ”

Presumably the aboriginal guide has fully integrated into the life of the town, and I heard him say:

"It is difficult for our cavalry and heavy infantry to form a battle formation in this mountain forest, so the warriors of the Inta tribe have always been active in this mountain forest."

Surdak looked at this pine forest, there were almost no large beasts in the mountain forest, it was estimated that it was the hunting ground of the Inta tribe, and it was not clear that the adventure group was sacked by the natives of the Inta tribe, thinking of this, Surdak said to the aboriginal groom guide: "Can you tell us about the adventure group that was sacked?" ”

The guide looked a little unnatural, and barely squeezed out a smile at Surdak, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and the dark purple gums looked a little oozing.

Surdak thought that he wanted some benefits, and felt that it was not easy for the guide to ride hard and lead the cavalry battalion into the mountains and forests, so he did not feel that there was any problem in taking out a few silver hammers, so he took out ten silver hammers from his arms and stuffed them into the hand of the guide pulling the reins.

The groom guide looked at the silver hammer in his palm in a daze, and hesitated for a moment before he came to Surdak's side and whispered: "Although I don't know much about them, I also know that they are not a regular adventure group, and they usually mainly shuttle through these mountains and forests, looking for those lone prey in the mountains and forests. ”

"If they want to hunt Warcraft, shouldn't they go to the Warcraft Forest further north?" Surdak asked curiously.

Andrew said in a deep voice with a cold face: "Only slave traders don't need to venture to the Warcraft Forest, they only need to wander around the mountains and forests around the indigenous tribes to capture some local indigenous slaves. ”

The groom guide's expression was also a little unnatural, but he still said:

"That's right, now that the beast tide is coming, almost all the adventure groups that hunted monsters that entered the Warcraft Forest have evacuated Dodan Town, and only those slave traders can still find an opportunity to hunt slaves in the mountains and forests."

Andrew snorted, as an indigenous warrior of the Nanai tribe, it is estimated that this kind of thing often happens on the maca plane, so I heard him say:

"I'm afraid this group of slave traders has offended the tribes in the area around Dodan Town."

The groom guide couldn't help but glance at Andrew, looking at his rough face, which was obviously different from the Grimm Empire, and found that he was an native, his eyes were a little more kind, and said to Andrew:

"That's right, the people in our town don't dare to leave the city alone, for fear of encountering retribution from those tribal warriors along the way."

Surdak frowned and said:

"Mayor Marco is with his men to help these slave traders find their lost belongings?"

The groom guide didn't expect to keep his mouth shut, and said so many hidden things at once, and muttered:

"The mayor has to come out and make a show, but they probably won't be able to find anyone."

Surdak asked the groom guide, "Why?" ”

At this time, Andrew explained to Surdak instead of the groom guide: "It is impossible for the people of the indigenous tribe who have the ability to loot this group of slave traders, it is estimated that they do not have this strength for the time being, there should be another group of people eyeing this group of slave traders, maybe it is other unclean adventure groups that eat black." ”

The group walked through the pine forest, and soon came across a team that had followed Mayor Marco out to search for the missing people of the expedition group, who had already scattered through the mountains and forests to search for them.

When Surdak saw the search team, they were in the glade, dealing with a freshly slaughtered porcupine, and they had also lit a bonfire in the forest, apparently preparing to deal with the porcupine, and they were about to roast it on the spot.

When the search team saw a large group of cavalry emerging from the pine forest, they also looked at each other for a while, not knowing what to do.

A search team member raised the porcupine in his hand, subconsciously stood up, and gave a military salute to Surdak.

"Where's Mayor Marco?" Surdak sat on his horse and asked the search team condescendingly.

The search team member hurriedly put down the porcupine in his hand, pointed to the depths of the woods, and said, "Sir, the mayor of the town has searched in that direction. ”

Surdak nodded, and turned away without saying a word.

Seeing Surdak leave with more than two hundred cavalry, the search team members let out a long breath and sat down by the campfire.

"Who are those warriors?" Surdak asked the guide.

The guide hurriedly said: "They are members of the armed team of the trading group, and they are usually responsible for the guarding task of transporting goods by the trading house, and they are a team organized by the trading house at the expense of the trading bank. ”

Surdak and his party were lucky, and before dinner, they found Mayor Marko, who was gathering the members of the search party in the mountains and forests.

I saw dozens of search team members around him, riding a blue-scaled horse, walking majestically at the front of the team, wearing half a set of demonic pattern uniforms, a strong man with a beard and a big red nose, and scolded the entourage around him: "Just a few people, they actually let them slip away, what a group of rice buckets......

"Mayor Mare, look at ...... opposite"

An attendant behind him whispered.

At this time, the strong man with a full face and beard raised his head, rolled his eyes and looked towards Surdak, and he couldn't see clearly in the jungle, and when the two sides approached, the strong man with a beard took the lead and walked towards Surdak.

Loud to Surdak:

"Heh, I'm Marko, you're Baron Surdak, your letter of appointment arrived a few days ago, I waited for three days in Dodan Town, I didn't expect our first meeting to be here."

His voice was loud and rough, and a cold light flashed in his eyes when he looked at Surdak.

Although it was fleeting, it fell into Surdak's eyes, and Surdak puffed up his chest, mounted on his horse, and gave him a military salute before saying:

"Mayor Marco, the Luther Regiment Independent Cavalry Battalion has come to report."

Search parties were gathering around the pine grove, and Mayor Marco sat on his horse, and said to Surdak in a haughty manner:

"I guess you've heard that there is an adventure group in the town that was looted by the bandit group here, and I brought people here to search the mountains last night, and I have to give an explanation to the members of the adventure group who were killed, but unfortunately I just let the bandit group slip away. It's great that you're here in time to help me with all this trouble. ”

"Mayor Mare, are we still going to take the team?" The attendant next to him asked in a whisper.

Mayor Marco angrily rebuked the entourage: "If you don't close the team, you will be a wild man in the mountains and forests, go back!" ”

Surdak didn't expect that this mayor of Marco was such a powerful nobleman, he looked more like an officer who led the troops to fight on the front line, and he didn't discuss anything with Surdak, so he directly gathered the search team scattered in the mountains and forests and returned to Dodan Town in a mighty manner.

This time, the cavalry brigade had just arrived at its destination and returned to the town the same way.

Back in town, it was completely dark.

Hundreds of people rode back to the town, and suddenly many residents of the town ran out to watch, Surdak wanted to return to the garrison and have dinner with the cavalry, but when they parted ways, Mayor Marco suddenly turned around and said to Surdak: "Baron Surdak, tomorrow the town hall will try the members of the bandit group, and you can also attend!" ”

"Okay!" Surdak agreed.

He was also a little confused for a while, didn't he say that the bandit group had slipped away? So who will be judged?