The sun's rays fade into the glorious sunset, and as night falls, the moon begins to glow softly.

After a long day of trekking, the team finally entered the area of Black Rock Mountain, and the fat man sat on the ground, the priest still exercised his body when he was an apprentice, and he had been pampered all these years, how could he afford this kind of suffering.

"No, I can't walk anymore, so let's camp here and rest. ”

Ina looked at her surroundings and frowned, "No! not here! Let's go." ”

"I really can't walk anymore, I have to rest here, no matter what you say, you can't change my decision!" The fat man gasped heavily, and he didn't care about getting dirty, he lay down on his back to the sky, and his bulging fat belly fell together in a large way, making Chen Rui think of some kind of amphibian on the earth.

Ina shook her head, ignoring the fat man's complaints, and led the team onwards, walking for a while, and throwing a sentence from a distance: "This kind of terrain, coupled with the cover of night, the enemy only needs to smash stones down the mountain to turn us into meatloaf in our sleep." ”

The fat man gasped for a moment, thinking of the rockfall ambush he encountered before escaping into the terrible woods that day, he couldn't help but shudder, and he didn't know where he got the strength, so he got up again, intending to keep up with the team, and only walked a few steps, but he tripped over a stone under his feet, and if he hadn't been supported by the arm on the side in time, he would definitely have fallen and gnawed on the mud.

The fat man nodded to Chen Rui, who was holding him, and gasped and said, "Thank you, Richard." ”

Chen Rui handed over a bottle of potion: "Drink this, it should help your physical recovery." ”

The fat man opened the cork and drank it with a grunt, feeling that his strength was recovering rapidly, and his triangular eyes lit up: "What kind of recovery potion is this, it works so well! Is it a master-level potion?"

"Master...... Almost, this is a gift from my teacher, but unfortunately it's just such a bottle. ”

Chen Rui was right, this bottle was a recovery potion concocted by his teacher Tetenis, and it had reached the quasi-grandmaster level. And it's a bottle of zuihou, but in the exchange center of the super system, there is also an inexhaustible supply of grandmaster-level recovery potions.

"My friend, I am ashamed of your friendship, I have to confess to you, in fact, I secretly hid a few pieces of refined wheat cakes and never took them out to share, I will share them with you now......" The fat man took out a few pieces of bread with a touched face.

Due to the destruction of the carriage, the mount was lost. The original abundant food and supplies were lost, and the fat man usually had to gnaw on the raw and cold dry food with the mercenaries, and when he was lucky, he could only get some prey to make a tooth sacrifice, and he didn't expect that there were still private goods.

"I'm just as touched by your candour, but, Xiexie. I really don't need it, I won't take it!' because my friends need it more than I do, okay, let's keep up with the line. Chen Rui smiled, patted the fat man's shoulder, and walked forward.

In fact, he knew very well in his heart that the dead fat man's private inventory was more than a few wheat cakes, and the so-called "frankness" was naturally reserved, otherwise why not take out the jerky he had stolen in the morning and share it?

The procession continued to march. It wasn't until Ina chose a suitable hillside that she stopped to camp,

"Don't light fires, don't make noises, narrow the patrol, try not to alarm the dwarves of the hills. Ina instructed as she assigned tasks and organized everyone to rest and be on guard.

The exhausted fat man hid in the tent to rest, and secretly nibbled on some of the inventory hidden in the space bracelet inside. Then lay down. A few minutes later, there was a snoring sound in the tent.

Chen Rui sat among the mercenaries. Listen to the bearded Silva tell tales about the cave dwarves.

Compared with the cave dwarves who indulge in the underground mining of various mineral deposits, and the forest dwarves who are only willing to be in the company of elves, the hill dwarves who are proficient in forging have more intersections with humans, and most of the dwarven craftsmen in human society are hill dwarves.

The dwarves of the hills love the wine and food of humans, and humans covet the various equipment forged by the dwarves. Shrewd merchants came to the dwarves' settlements and exchanged relatively cheap food and wine for equipment made by the dwarves, making huge profits from them, and some even took advantage of the dwarves' careless and impatient nature to defraud them by various means...... As time passed, many dwarves began to enter the human shijie, and after coming into contact with all kinds of humans, the dwarves finally woke up to the deceptions they had suffered.

After being fooled again and again, the dwarves' favorability towards humans turned into disgust, and they no longer traded equipment directly with humans, but sold equipment and bought supplies through dwarves or special spokesmen in human shijie. Many dwarven groups even list humans as undesirable targets, such as ...... The dwarves of the hills that inhabit the thick earth castle of this Black Rock Mountain.

A young man who had just joined the mercenary group asked, "This time we just passed through the road, so it shouldn't cause hostility from the dwarves, right?"

The bearded man thought for a while and shook his head: "It stands to reason that it shouldn't be, but the world is unpredictable, and no one can say what will happen in the next minute." As mercenaries, we have to be prepared for the unexpected at any time, for example, right now, I have a premonition that something might happen tonight. ”

Looking at the nervous look of the young mercenary, the bearded man and several people around him laughed, what kind of premonition is this, it is obvious that the old bird is teasing the rookie.

Suddenly, Chen Rui's eyebrows raised and he looked into the distance.

Soon, Samuel also showed a vigilant look and slowly stood up: "It seems that you are right, Silva, remember not to 'hunch' casually in the future." ”

Everyone was taken aback, and Ina knew that Samuel would never talk nonsense, so she hurriedly picked up the giant shield and ordered: "All personnel are ready for battle! Remember, if it is a dwarf, you must not strike first!"

The mercenaries hurriedly picked up their weapons and lined up in a defensive formation, and the fat man Mana who was sleeping was also woken up.

I saw a black figure rushing towards this side, and in the blink of an eye, it had surrounded the hillside.

As far as could be seen by the moonlight, there were about four or five hundred people who came, and these figures were generally short, armed with metal armor and shields, and in the other hand they held a relatively large hammer or battle axe. Judging from the footsteps on the ground, the weight of this suit of armor and weapons was much heavier than that of ordinary equipment, but these figures still maintained a steady forward speed, which seemed to be a matter of course.

"The Great Shield Warrior of the Hill Dwarves!" Ina was secretly surprised, it stands to reason that even if the territory of the Hill Dwarves here, with the number of their squad, they were generally just warned, and it was impossible for so many regular troops to be dispatched.

"Put away your weapons! Remember not to be hostile! I'll try to negotiate with them. Ina saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly asked everyone to lay down their weapons and show friendship, with the terrible combat power of these big shield warriors, once a conflict broke out, except for Samuel, who might be able to escape with his life, the rest of the people were spared.

Ina didn't know Samuel's true strength level, and she didn't know that there was a more powerful existence than the deputy head in the team, and if you really wanted to calculate it according to this strength, the dwarves were in a more dangerous situation.

The dwarven shield warriors soon surrounded the hillside, and a dwarf led by a dwarf stepped out, shouting in a somewhat awkward lingua franca: "Despicable thieves, give you a minute to return to the dwarves what does not belong to you!

Everyone looked at each other, and Ina finally understood where the misunderstanding was, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "This is a misunderstanding! We are just passing mercenaries!"

"You still have forty seconds!" the dwarf turned a deaf ear to Ina's explanation, and with a wave of his hand, the dwarves behind him began to change their formation and make an offensive posture.

Ina knew that this was by no means a bluff, that most of the dwarves were paranoid, and that it would be difficult to change what she had decided, so she quickly shouted, "I'm a friend of Blackbeard Tyklin! I can assure you with Tycklin's beard that my friend and I have absolutely nothing to do with this matter!"

This guarantee is not ridiculous at all, because the dwarves value their beard the most, and as soon as this sentence came out, the dwarf led by him was suddenly stunned: "Are you really a friend of Teklin?"

"Yes, my father used to be good friends with him, and I remember that he had a habit of singing after drinking......"

"That's right, Teklin does have this habit......," the dwarf's tone softened a little, and became aggressive again, "No! You humans are very cunning and untrustworthy! If you don't want to be reduced to pulp under the dwarves' axes and hammers at once, give up all resistance at once and follow me back to the castle of the earth!"

Ina quickly thought about it for a while, looked at her companions, and finally nodded, in the current situation, it is not advisable to fight hard, otherwise not only will she not be able to pass through Black Rock Mountain, but she will also be attacked and chased by dwarves.

So, all of them were confiscated and escorted by the dwarves continued their march towards the mountain road.

Although the visibility at night is not high, the dwarves are extremely familiar with the environment, and it took about three hours to finally reach the dwarf residence of the hills, the Thick Earth Castle, after turning the difficult terrain of the mountain path.

Despite the fact that the dwarves were not tall, especially in front of the tall Silva, who could only reach his waist, but the castle was imposing, with countless vines wrapped around the tall gray-white walls, like an ancient giant with his head bowed and contemplating in the moonlight.

It was late at night, but the gates were wide open, and rows of fully armored dwarves stood in two rows with torches and weapons, and it was clear that something had happened in the castle of Thick Earth, which should have something to do with the "thieves" mentioned by the dwarven leader of the Great Shield Warriors.