Standing at the top of the cliff and looking into the distance, a gray cloud suddenly rose above the northern forest, and this gray cloud instantly dissipated into the dusk sky like green smoke.

Aung San said it was a swarm of bloodthirsty hummingbirds, and although each hummingbird was extremely small, the population was so large that it flew like a cloud of smoke.

Surdak thought of his life in the Handanaar Forest Farm, where the largest herd was the red-eyed hyena, with tall fir trees rising into the sky, which was very different from Invercargill in the White Forest plane, and there were more monsters here.

I don't know how, Surdak remembered a lot of life in the forest camp at this moment.

When the second squad goes out on patrol, they will also camp in the wilderness as they do now.

Aung San roasted a deer leg on a bonfire and carefully scraped the last tendons with a knife and put it in his mouth.

Like the veterans in the cavalry battalion, he is also the kind of person who doesn't like to waste food, he can always eat the portion in front of him, and his style of doing things is deeply favored by the cavalry in the cavalry battalion.

Under the cliff was a deep ravine, and Aung San said to Surdak:

"If we want to continue to go north, based on my experience alone, there is no guarantee that we will be able to safely take you through the territory of those group-dwelling demonic beasts, from here on, we have already entered the hinterland of Invercargill forest, the further we go north, the greater the chance of encountering high-level demonic beasts, they will definitely not be as easy to deal with as ironback bears."

"Can we see the ghostly red ants?" Surdak asked Aung San.

Aung San said with a wry smile: "At this time, if you want to see the ghost pattern red ants, you have to go to the Dark Worm Valley, and then walk north for two days to see that huge valley, we need a few experienced Invercargill Warcraft Forest guides, only they know this Warcraft Forest." ”

"Can you take me to visit them?" Surdak asked.

Aung San hesitated for a moment before saying: "They are very repulsive to outsiders, there were many slave traders who came to Invercargill before, they not only hunted monsters, but also natives, so the indigenous tribes here are very vigilant, I can try to contact them, this thing is not guaranteed to be successful." ”

"Then how have they resisted the tide of beasts all these years?" Surdak asked Aung San curiously.

"Their shelter is on the top of the snow-capped mountain in the Dodan Gorge, and as long as they climb over the thorns and stone thorns that rise into the sky, they can avoid the tide of beasts." Aung San took the plunge and explained.

Surdak nodded, looked back at the Dodan Gorge in the distance and said, "This is really a good choice. ”

……

The Ironback Manbear is a second-level magical beast, so fur can be used as a base material for the primary demonic pattern construction, which can be exchanged for money at a trading house.

The magic core in the skull of the bear's head is also very valuable, and Gulit doesn't understand why Surdak must put the bear's paw into the magic box, and the Northland bear that he and Andrew hunted a few days ago is also like this, leaving the bear's paw.

If you're craving meat, wouldn't it be better to have tender bear ribs?

Under the treatment of Surdak's holy light technique, the wound on the ogre's shoulder, which was scratched by the claw of the ironback bear, had quickly begun to heal.

"The last time you and Andrew met that man-bear on the border, I didn't see you hurt." Surdak rinsed the ogre's shoulder with clean water, the wound had quickly crusted over and was not ulcerated or inflamed, the man-bear's paws were free of any toxins, and the wound had not caused much laceration.

"That's different, when we found it, the man-bear was still sleeping in a hole in the ground...... "Gullitham was holding a bear in his hand. legs, while chewing heavily, said indistinctly.

"If you want me to say, you don't need to use your brains when fighting, if a snake lizard's claws catch you like this, it is estimated that the toxins on the claws will have spread to the entire arm." Samira said, sitting on a branch beside her, wiping the steel arrows from the quiver with a linen cloth.

Gullitham laughed unhesitantly and said, "If it were a snake lizard, I wouldn't fight like this." I had killed so many salamanders in the lava cave of Puss Mountain, and I didn't know how experienced I was in dealing with such a big reptile. ”

Samira is slender and has excellent balance, and is able to lie firmly on the branches of a large tree.

She hung the quiver and the 'withered painting' on the small branches of the horizontal branches, supported her chin with one hand, and looked at Surdak who was healing the ogre's wounds under the tree, her pale red eyes fell on the white holy light, and whispered, "If we hadn't been brought out of the maca plane, I'm afraid we wouldn't have had the opportunity to see these worlds." ”

Surdak didn't know what made Samira feel something, and he looked up at the tree.

Samira lay on her side on a branch that came out of the tree, her head without a hood, and her beautiful face was very fair, with a pointed chin and a very small outline.

"Isn't it homesick? When we finish this garrison mission, I'll see if I can get a portal pass for the maca plane, I guess there is no war control over there, and the teleportation pass should be easy to buy, and then give you a month's vacation to go back to the city of Warjmara to have a look. ”

Surdak said as he bandaged the ogre's wound with a hemostatic bandage.

Samira didn't answer, she turned her head to look through the leaves at the starry night sky, her light red pupils glinting with a faint light.

……

The indigenous people of Invercargill built their homes in the middle of the cliffs to ward off the harassment of many monsters.

The natives still live in the caves, and they have iron tools that allow them to carve out the hard rocks of their dreams, and the men of the tribe will run out to hunt during the day, return to the tribe with their prey at dusk, and only need to block the only hole at night, and the whole tribe can spend the night in peace.

Aung San and his squadron of Surdak cavalry rushed to the foot of a rock cliff, and two young natives stood in the canopy of a large tree, holding short flying spears in their hands, and shouted to Aung San from a distance:

"Aung San, have you forgotten your agreement with us?"

"Imperials are not welcome here."

After the two natives finished speaking, they did not wait for Aung San to answer, and quickly jumped off the tree and disappeared into the dense forest.

Aung San carefully led the horse and continued on his way.

Surdak, Gulitham, and Samira followed him, and the team continued to walk forward for five hundred meters, until they came to a crack in a stone cliff, and dozens of local natives with bronze skin suddenly appeared from the crack in the cliff wall overhead.

The natives occupy high points, their bodies hidden in the crevices of the rocks, hardwood bows in hand, and the tips of arrows pointed at the cavalrymen.

The eyes of these natives were very sharp.

Aung San took two steps forward and shouted in the local indigenous language to the indigenous tribal warriors above him:

(They are not those slave traders, they are guests, don't point your bow and arrow at them.) ）

One of the strongest indigenous warriors in the opposite crowd emerged from a crack in the stone and stood barefoot on a large rock.

Pointing to a group of cavalry in front of him, he asked Aung San: (Do you live with them?) That's why you help them speak? Aren't they here to capture our people? ）

Surdak couldn't understand what Aung San was saying.

But Aung San pointed to the north of the Invercargill Warcraft Forest, and spoke a string of indigenous languages.

The strong native warrior actually jumped from the boulder, he only had a piece of animal skin around his waist, his red upper body muscles bulged, and his chest, shoulders, neck, and face were painted with totemic ornaments, and he knew that he had a high status in the tribe at a glance.

It's just that the eyes he looked at Surdak were full of distrust.

Surdak spread his hands and showed that he had no ill intentions.

Aung San exchanged a few more words with the native warrior, who turned angrily and burrowed into the crevice, while the rest of the warriors were still armed with hardwood bows and aimed their arrows at the cavalry in the woodland.

Aung San said to Surdak:

"That man, the first warrior of the Dakuni tribe, he didn't want to believe my words, so I asked him to inform the great elders of the tribe, saying that we can give them some help, and want their people to take us into the Dark Worm Valley in the Invercargill Forest to have a look, I guess we will wait here for a while."

Surdak sighed and said, "It seems that there is still a long way to go to reverse the bad impression that these natives have of us. ”

On the cliffs overhead stood a number of young natives, both men and women, all of them in good shape, almost all of them wrapped around animal skins, and some of the ropes were hung with raw ore and shell ornaments, their faces were markedly different from those of the Imperials, their reddish-brown skin was amber eyes, their foreheads were broad, and their long brown hair was woven together with some white and red feathers.

In a bush beneath the rock wall, a low, dense bush suddenly shook slightly, and no one paid much attention at first.

Surdak thought there was a timid hedgehog hidden inside, even if there was a poisonous snake hidden in the bushes.

But the branches and leaves of the bush were always shaking.

Samira walked over with a light step, brushed aside the branches and leaves of the bushes, and saw three indigenous children who were only a few years old, staring at her with big bright eyes and shaking their heads at her.

The young indigenous warriors on the top of the rock had apparently noticed the situation below, and saw the indigenous children, and there was a commotion above.

Several indigenous warriors were a little agitated, and wanted to call their companions to force back the cavalry in the woodland below and rescue the indigenous children.

But there were more people who were reluctant to act rashly, and a dispute broke out among the indigenous warriors in the cracks of the stone.

Samira paid no attention to the young natives, but took a few apples from his pockets and handed them to the natives, whose eyes widened and stared at Samira, but did not reach for the apples.

Surdak took a baked wheat cake from a sack on the horseback of one of the horsemen and threw it to Samira, who looked puzzled.

When the indigenous children saw the wheat cakes, there was some envy in their eyes that was difficult to hide.

Samira hurriedly tore open the wheat cakes and distributed them to a few of the indigenous children.

The indigenous children took the wheat cake and sniffed it vigorously in front of their noses, revealing a look of intoxication, and then they eagerly took a big bite and chewed vigorously as they handed Samira the berries wrapped in banana leaves.

There were also indigenous children who took out a few green fruits from their bosoms and placed them in front of Samira.

The deal was so pleasant that the indigenous children retreated into the bushes and disappeared in an instant.

Seeing that Surdak and his party did not hurt the children, the young natives above their heads exchanged words for a moment, and then put down their hardwood bows one after another.

Not long after, the indigenous warrior came out of the crack in the stone again and continued to exchange words with Aung San.

Aung San then turned to Surdak and said:

"They only allowed us to send two people to meet their Great Elder."

Surdak glanced at Samira and said to her, "Samira, you go with me!" ”

"Oh!"

The half-elf archer quickly stood up and rearranged the hunting bow and quiver.

Surdak instructed a cavalry squadron leader behind him: "You guys rest here in place, pay attention to vigilance, try to avoid unnecessary conflicts, and wait for me to come back!" ”

"Yes." The squadron leader replied immediately.

The voice of the answer was a little loud, but the young native warriors in the stone crevices were startled.

……

Aung San led Surdak and Samira into the crevice beneath the cliff, and the passage in front of him became narrower and narrower.

Surdak had to squeeze his head down and squeeze sideways through the narrowest place, and the passage only extended less than twenty meters into it, and a circular stone chamber appeared in front of him.

Surdak thought it was a stone chamber, but when he walked in, he realized that he had guessed wrong, it was actually a patio with a narrow bottom and a wide ceiling.

There was even direct light coming in overhead.

Stone steps were carved into one side of the patio, which extended upwards like a ladder.

Surdak looked up, and a group of indigenous children were on the patio, looking down from the cave, and when he saw Surdak looking up, he immediately seemed to be frightened, and he dispersed in a hurry.

The native warrior walked ahead, carrying a bundle of wooden poles and spears behind him, and his body was extremely strong, and he climbed up the stone steps of the patio, glancing back from time to time.

Aung San followed him, followed by Surdak and Samira.

Climbing upwards, Surdak found that the vertical patio cave was actually just a foundation, and the other caves were excavated in circles and circles, and the entire indigenous tribe lived in this rock patio, which felt like a circular skyscraper in reverse.

Surdak walked through the caves and saw a pair of eyes, curious, fearful, and hateful.

After climbing through nine floors in a row, they finally came to the cave where the great elders of the indigenous tribe lived, and two indigenous warriors stood guard at the entrance of the cave, and saw the indigenous warriors walking up with Aung San and Surdak, and one of the indigenous warriors also came out and stared at Surdak with a wary face for a long time.

But then he realized that his fierce gaze did not frighten Surdak at all.

The native warrior scolded him a few times, and the native guard walked back to his original position, glaring angrily at Surdak.

The indigenous warrior led the three of them into the cave, which was a spacious corridor with a very smooth foot, and a few oil lamps lit on one side of the stone wall, and in the dim light, there was a dark cave inside......

……