To the east of Victor's territory, at the Chebman family's camp, five wagons loaded with flour and salt were parked outside.

"Captain Gal, the goods have been loaded, twenty thousand pounds of flour, a thousand pounds of salt, ten pieces of chain mail, ten shields, twenty short spears, forty hard bows, and a thousand arrows. One of the guards reported to Gal.

Gal nodded, and several of his soldiers immediately stepped forward to begin counting the goods.

Gal was the captain of the Chebman's guard, and he was to escort the valuable goods to the mountain camp.

Since Pinghu Village was unable to provide the Chipman family with purple cane, the family set their sights on the newly established mountain camp. Although there are only more than 80 people in this camp, they can provide purple cane steadily and exchange it for some living supplies. The Chebman family began to shift the focus of their support to the mountain camp, and Gal was the contact person who lived in the mountain camp.

A few days ago, the head of the mountain camp, Benson, approached Gal and made a request. Benson prepares to lead his men north to take over the free camp, and he hopes that the Chebman family will support his operation and provide him with a batch of supplies.

Gal scoffs at Benson's ambition and stupidity, and asks three questions: Why did the Chebman family help him, how was he going to pass through the territory of the ferocious wolf, and how could he control so many free people?

Unexpectedly, Benson was prepared, he told Gal. He wanted to gather the population and build a village similar to Pinghu Village, and the more people he had, the more purple cane he would provide. Crossing the territory is also very simple, as long as the team is fully armed and maintains a dense formation, the ferocious wolf will not risk attacking, and the mountain people know the characteristics of the ferocious wolf. As for controlling the freedmen, Benson was prepared to use force to deter, plus grain buying. So he needed the Chebman family to provide him with 800 rations to support him for three months.

Gal admits that Benson's plan is well-planned and highly feasible, but he does not think that the family will agree to Benson's plan, because the cost required is too high, and only ten sets of weapons and equipment are worth 800 gold soles.

What Gal didn't expect was that the host of the mine, Lord Bernard Knight, actually agreed, and quickly mobilized a batch of supplies.

"Gal. When the goods are clear, let's leave quickly, and see that it is going to rain again. Bernard, like a giant bear, walked over and commanded Gal.

Gal hurriedly saluted Bernard and said, "My lord, you won't be in trouble if you send so many supplies, right?"

As a soldier under Bernard, Gal was a little worried that Berner would be held accountable by Lord Earl. In his opinion, exchanging thousands of gold sol's materials for purple cane is definitely a loss-making deal, not to mention that he will continue to provide food to Ben Sen in the future.

"Nonsense! Get on your way. Bernard glared.

Gal didn't dare to say anything more, and drove with the convoy to the mountain camp. When he walked away, Berner touched his chin and said to himself: "I didn't expect to be tricked by Baron Victor." ”

When these freedmen flocked to Victor, in addition to Victor, the most anxious was the Chebman family. Here they happily dig Mithril and collect purple cane, but if Victor falls, then the good days may be over. The Chebman family did not want Baron Victor to be impeached, and while they were discussing what to do, Bernard sent back to the family the request for the hill camp.

After receiving this news, Count Chebman immediately understood that the mountain camp must have been secretly arranged by Baron Victor, so they suddenly asked to take over the free camp camp, even ignoring the threat of the ferocious wolf. But at this juncture, Count Chebman couldn't care so much. He researches Victor's plan and finds that things are promising, and at the same time sighs at Victor's good fortune.

Originally, it was definitely an unfortunate thing for the lord to have a wolf plague in the territory, but the situation in Victor Territory was the opposite, and the wolf plague discouraged those free people. It was supposed to be like this, but the paladins actually built a camp to contain the migrating freedmen. Then secretly controlling the free camp has become the best option, once the camp is controlled, there are too many articles to do, at least to encourage a part of the free people to bombard those newcomers. In this way, there are fierce wolves blocking the road outside, and they are being driven by the camp inside, and the homeless people will naturally leave the Victor territory and spread the news when they see that they have no chance. The turmoil will gradually subside.

Count Chebman immediately decided to support Victor. He knew that the process of subsiding this turmoil would probably take a long time, and that it would take a lot of food to support it, but compared to the priceless Mithril, a little food was nothing?

Berner received a summons from the Earl to learn that the mountain camp was secretly controlled by Victor, and Victor did not know that the relationship between the mountain camp and him had been discovered by Count Chebman, but he was very sure that the Chebman family would not sit back and watch him fall.

While the Countess, the Viscount of Buryatia, and Victor were trying to take control of the freedfolk camp, a great catastrophe was looming over the Centaur Hills.

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The Everglades is located on the west side of the Centaur Hills, a series of hilly mountains that separate the Everglades from the Pioneer Territory. The swamp is vast and most of the area is covered with a reed called sawgrass, and among these reeds hide many small islands, which are densely planted with mahogany, fern, oil palm, etc. These plants and sawgrass are so connected that ordinary people can't tell which is an island and which is a dangerous swamp.

And the swamp is home to all kinds of strange creatures. Among them are many fierce and abnormal monsters, such as snake monsters, dragon lizards, bipedal wyverns, six-legged crocodiles, giant dragons, shadow spiders, etc., and of course, the rumored hydra lizard.

Gollum carefully brushed aside a patch of sawgrass, its dark yellow pupils scrutinizing the waters ahead, and spitting out its forked tongue, but it didn't catch any dangerous scent, but Gollum knew that there was a large giant python hidden in the waters.

Gollum decides to take a detour, it's just an ordinary lizardman, not a warrior of the tribe, and the giant snake in the water is not something it can deal with.

The lizardman purred in a large circle, avoiding the giant dragon's territory and continuing towards its destination, which was an island.

The Swamp is full of dangers and death traps, and even swamp natives like Gollum must be careful, having witnessed three brutal hunts along the way. When it dodged a pair of wyverns that had come out to feed, Gollum finally saw the island, and he was relieved that it was safe to get there.

When the lizardfolk landed on the island, they saw a thatched hut on the edge of which a thin, short human girl was crouching on the ground and teasing two horned frogs. She's Gollum's friend, Bertina.

When the little girl saw Gollum, she smiled and dropped the reed pole in her hand, and ran towards the lizardman with her little feet. The two stupid and greedy horned frogs immediately jumped up and ran after them, trying to bite the little girl's heels.

"Bell. Gollum hissed and greeted the girl. Even though Bell doesn't understand the lizardmen's language, that's okay, Gollum knows that Bell never speaks, she just laughs and jokes with herself. So, Gollum is laughing too, and its tail is curled up, which is how the lizardfolk express their joy.

Bell pulled the two fat horned frogs off his heels and handed them to Gollum. Gollum stuffed the two stupid frogs into the bloody mouth full of sharp teeth, and swallowed them in three or two clicks, it was indeed a little hungry after two days of travel.

After Gollum eats two snacks, Bell is about to pull it to play, but Gollum shakes his head, it has risked its life to come here, but it is not here to play with Bell.

"Wizard Emerson! Wizard Emerson! I'm Gollum, I have something important to tell you and Bell. Gollum hissed towards the thatched hut.

"Gollum, aren't your tribes already migrating? Why are you still here?"

A deep, deep voice came from the thatched hut, speaking in a human language that Gollum didn't understand, but Gollum was able to know the meaning of the phrase, which was strange and natural. The priests in the tribe tell Gollum that it is witchcraft and that the human who masters it is a terrible sorcerer.

"Wizard Emerson take Bell and run away, flee to the vicinity of our tribe, hide, the worm tide is coming!" Gollum hissed.

The door of the thatched hut was pushed open, and a tall man entered, his gray hair and beard knotted together, his skeleton large but thin, his haggard face covered with furrows, but his eyes were as clear as those of a young man.

"Gollum, what the hell is going on?" Imerson asked the lizardman gravely.

"Wizard Imerson, the Worm Tide is a demon, they are endless, they drown all life that dares to oppose them, and when they appear, even the heirs of Tevaril will lurk in the waterhole. They appear every 15 years, and this is the year they are seen. Gollum quickly replied.

Imerson frowned tightly, he had been living in seclusion in the Swamp with his daughter Bertina for 9 years, and had never encountered a so-called insect tide. But Gollum was a lizardman he rescued from the ogre tribe, and it had always had a great relationship with him, and now that it was alone and risked his life to warn itself, it shouldn't be a lie.

"Gollum, you said that the insect tide is endless, appearing once every 15 years, and even the hydra lizard does not dare to fight against it, so how can there be creatures in the swamp?" Imerson asked.

"Wizard Emerson, it's been 400 years since the insect tide appeared in the Swamp, and every time they wreak, countless forest centaur warriors enter the Swamp to fight them, and our half-dragon tribe has always defended our homeland with the help of our centaur brothers. This year, the centaurs will not come again, and without the help of centaur warriors, we can only migrate. Grunt hissed.

"Migrating can you avoid the insect tide?" Imerson asked again.

"The insect tide spreads all the way and kills all the creatures that resist them, and as long as they don't resist, the insect tide will not attack. Gollum said.

Emerson only thought it was funny, he shook his head and smiled: "Then what are you going to migrate, if you don't fight them, how can there be such a ridiculous creature?"

"Wizard Emerson, they don't attack, but they will trample you into meat sauce. Gollum explained with his tongue out.

Imerson blushed, but fortunately his hair was so thick that he couldn't see it at all. In fact, Gollum saw it very clearly, but it thought that the wizard's blushing was performing some terrible witchcraft, and it was even more in awe.

"Well, Bell, let's move. Move closer to Gollum so it can come and play with you often. Emerson coughed dryly and said to his daughter.

Bell still didn't speak, she just nodded to her father. Emerson sighed, her daughter Bertina was mute, she had never spoken a word, she had never had a human playmate, she was a lonely child, and a lizardman like Gollum was her only friend.

Emerson stomped on the ground, and Gollum could clearly feel a tremor from the ground, and the tremors became more and more pronounced, and the earth rolled on the ground, and out of the ground came one monster after another, these monsters were like lions, flat heads and sharp claws, and their wide mouths were full of razor-sharp teeth, and they dragged their tails like rats behind them. If Victor had been here, he would have been surprised to find that they were all alien rats.

A dozen alien rats lined up in a neat line, like a team of well-trained soldiers. Imerson walked to the edge of the island and shouted, "Philip, we're leaving, come out quickly." ”

A huge shadow appeared in the water, the water splashed, and a monster surfaced. It was a giant beast seventeen meters long and more than three meters high, its pitch-black scale armor glowed with metallic luster, its thick tail was 8 meters long and covered with thorns, and under its pillar-like limbs were hideous huge claws, and on its neck there were two huge hideous heads, its snort fluttered, and it spewed out a large mist of water, like rain. This is an alienated two-headed dragon lizard.

Gollum bowed its head in greeting to the beast, which had led dozens of alien rats into the ogre's camp and freed itself from the grill. It has a name in the mouth of the lizardmen: the water behemoth, Itugos.

The beast obediently lay down in front of Imerson, and Emerson and Bertina climbed onto the two-headed dragon lizard's back, turned to Gollum and shouted, "Come up yet." ”

When Gollum climbed onto the dragon lizard's back, a dozen alien rats also jumped up, and the dragon lizard turned its head and swept the thatched hut to pieces with its thick tail, and it roared up to the sky and rushed into the water, bringing up huge waves.

"Gollum, you're here to show the way. Standing on one of the beast's heads, Imerson commanded in a high-spirited manner.

"Wizard Imoson, go in this direction, you can reach our tribe in a day's walk, but there is a giant snake on the way, let's go around it. ”

"Let's go in a straight line!"