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As the caravan progressed, hills and rocky hills gradually appeared in front of everyone, and the road began to become rough. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info There is even a faint mountain line on the horizon in the distance, which is the Greywind Mountains, and the Great Desert of Ainook is on the other side of the mountains.

The Glorious River, which has been running parallel to the road, begins to fork here, of course, not in two directions, but by the convergence of two rivers with different origins, thus forming a three-way estuary, and the town of Locke is at the upper end of the three-way estuary, a town surrounded by water on three sides, with only one side facing the Grey Wind Mountains with a tall wall. The river is fast, but fortunately it is not too wide, and there is a rudimentary wooden bridge through which caravans can pass. A short distance after the wooden bridge was the gate of Locketown, but the caravan did not seem to have any intention of entering the town, and the whole group made its way directly along the dirt road leading to the Greywind Mountains, and finally stopped near a small rocky hill a few miles outside Locketown.

A large caravan passed through the gate without entering, but the tax collector who was on duty at the gate of Locke Town crooked his nose angrily. For all towns along the Black Road Trade Road, trade taxes are absolutely the most important guarantee for the prosperity of a town, trading goods in the town, providing food, lodging and supplies for passing merchants, and collecting toll taxes

Well, the taxes of Locke Town are a little unreasonable, the character of the city guard is a little worse, and the new city lord Fitani and the young master of the Red Blade are a little greedy and stupid, which causes a large number of merchants to refuse to stop here, so that the tax revenue of Locke Town has dropped significantly, but these cannot be an excuse for the tax collector to do nothing. 5?

It's just that as a slightly sane tax collector in Locke Town, he can't just go out of town to block the road to collect taxes, wouldn't that be a robber who blocks the road and robs? Thankfully, the tax collector felt that he had not done his work in vain, and after the caravan had set up a camp, although the cattle and goods were left in the camp and arranged, not all of them were willing to stay here for the night, and some of them (including merchants and mercenaries) chose to enter Locketown, after all, there were not enough good wine and women in the wilderness.

Perhaps to take revenge on these "thieves" who deliberately evaded the toll tax, the tax collector imposed several times the usual entry tax on everyone who entered the town, which made everyone who wanted to enter the town to have fun very dissatisfied, but except for a few guys who were really worried about money, the others still cursed and paid the money into the town.

The early town of Locke was a mining town similar to the city of Miraba, where thousands of human and dwarven miners toiled in the mines, and it was in a better commercial location than Miraba, and it was the first human town in the west of the Black Road of Merchuang. 5. It's just that as time goes by, for some reason, the miners here gradually become fewer and fewer, and more and more Mega people are hired by caravans from the East to transport the merchants' goods to Noisy Water City, West Cambe, and even further afield Deep Water City and Luskan. Only a small number of dwarven miners are still active in the old mines that have been almost exhausted, not that the Greywind Mountains are really short of resources, but that the dwarves do not have enough manpower to open new mines.

Nowadays, Locke Town has lost its status as a mining city like Miraba City, Fort Ferba and other cities, but thanks to the blessing of the Black Road Trade Road, it has not lost its former prosperity because of this, and even attracted more guests, thieves, thieves, and wandering warblers have no ruffians and scoundrels, because a group of mercenaries from the east have brought a deformed order to the dark side of the city, if it were not for the stupidity of the city's new ruler, I believe that Locke Town would be much more prosperous than all the cities along the Shining River.

William and his family chose to stay in the camp, and the newly purchased luxury tent was propped up and fixed in the eyes of everyone with envy and ridicule, in fact this expensive tent was not suitable for adventure and long travel, because it was too heavy to carry, and the bracing was too cumbersome, and it was extremely troublesome to put away, and in case of danger it was equivalent to the loss of a large amount of painful wealth, far less cost-effective than an ordinary adventure tent (the wealth of buying a luxury tent was enough to cover nearly a hundred ordinary adventure tents).

But these so-called troubles are not a problem for William's family, the process of erecting the tent is cumbersome, then the tent is regarded as a daily entertainment game to do, the whole family of five plus a cat and cat insect who pound luàn to do it together; William has a space ring to send together, and the "carrying problem" is not a problem at all, although in order to hide the clumsiness, he did not put the tent into the ring these days, but it took some effort to let the Los beast carry it, but William was willing to let no one do it.

The tent was erected, William set up the copper pot and prepared to cook, the giants and the little girls crouched on the side and watched, not far away the cats and insects were "bullying" Jace, of course, you can also think of it as a hunting practice for the snow lion as a child. The cat is already half the size of a wolfdog, and the cat still looks like a cute cat, but the slightly tender paws and a mouthful of small rue teeth tell everyone that it is not the kind of domestic cat that has no prospects.

The little thing pounced on the struggling halfling to the ground, then arched its máo furry head over Jace's body - it hadn't learned to bite its prey with its teeth. Jace desperately pushed the fluffy head of the cat and the cat worm away, and shouted as he ran: "Damn it fuck off, you big toothless cat William, come and save my little girl, take care of your pet" but after not running a few steps, the halfling was thrown to the ground again by the cat and the worm, and then the halfling got up again, and was knocked down by the cat and the worm, which is really an interesting trick for the little thing.

The town gates in Locke are closed before sunset, so anyone who wants to stay in the town or stay in camp will decide where they want to go. Seeing that the sun began to fade, Celis came to William, who was preparing firewood, and said, "William, I have to leave for a while." ”

William watched as Phinea split a log apart, watched as Millet Salle and Miruna stepped forward to pick up the wood chips and stuff them under the copper pot for cooking, before looking up at Celis, but instead of speaking, they waited for her next explanation.

Cyris continued in an inexplicable and solemn tone, "In fact, my real destination is Locke Town, where there are some troubles waiting for me to solve. William, I hope you can."

Celis seemed to want to say something, but she couldn't say it after all, but instead changed to a happy smile and smiled, "It's a pleasure to walk with you and your family all the way, Mr. William." But I have a suggestion, you'd better get out of here before sunrise tomorrow, or you'll be in a lot of trouble," and then the pretty woman said a few hellos to the others, and hurried out of the camp, walking towards the town gate of Locketown.

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