Because of Ian's instructions, the caravan's meal tonight was quite good, except for the fresh oily dough cakes and broth, and the caravan steward was happy and gave each of them a small piece of smoked meat.

The cured meat is made from very large pieces of venison, first coated with a fine layer of sea salt, then covered with cheap rock salt, left for half a month, and then placed in a cool, dry cave where it is fermented by a wild mushroom for two months.

During fermentation, a kind of incense that was previously unique to the indigenous people is required to soak the aroma into every part of the meat with the yeast bacteria, making the meat extremely tender and delicious.

Because it is a traditional food used in indigenous rituals, it can only be eaten by shamans and chiefs, so it is also called 'shaman smoked meat' or 'Nansugi bacon'.

The chefs at Port Harrison have refined the process to make it a local specialty. This smoked cured meat has an extremely long shelf life, and is very flavorful, fresh and delicious, whether in soup or sandwiched in dry food, making it ideal for long-term walking adventurers and caravan reserves.

Ian also liked the taste of this smoked meat, and used it to hang the broth, it always reminded him of the ham and bacon of his hometown, but there are no such magical fermentation bacteria and umami flowers on earth, which is a unique delicacy of the Terra continent.

A full meal, everyone's faces were full of oil, and the morale of the human head that Ian brought back was calm, and the anxiety caused by the attack of the monster was completely banished.

It was actually quite uncomfortable to sleep in the carriage, because there were a lot of things, and even Ian's thin figure seemed a little cramped, and it was hard to imagine how tall and big guys like Qingchao and Scott could be crammed in.

But fortunately, Ian can fall asleep while standing, and he is about to approach the second energy level, and the level of brain development is rising, and ten minutes of deep sleep can meet the needs of a day.

The next morning, the steward's nephew and third brother rode back to Harrison with the dejected ghosts, heads, and papers, and they were no doubt rewarded.

And Ian and the others moved on.

The clouds drifted, the rain came and went, the sun and the moon rose and fell for five days, and the caravan passed through several towns, including Trois-Rivières, the most important transit point for water goods in the South Ridge.

Located on the banks of the confluence of the Iwalk, Jet and Kilber rivers, and close to the sea, the city of Trois-Rivières could not expand its urban area.

Because it is essentially a large village and town built on the only solid soil in the middle of the swamp, it is only here that the residents of Nanling have built a 'city on the river' with rocks and planks, as well as various canal bridges.

Here, the caravan delivered a shipment of goods, then a new shipment was placed, and Ian met with the head of the White Chamber of Commerce in the area.

The boy was warmly entertained, and respectfully asked Ian to review the operation of the local chamber of commerce.

Ian knew that the other party wanted to leave a good impression on him, and when he became an elder in the future, he might have a chance to be promoted back to the Harrison Port headquarters, so he also walked around with face.

"It's a pity that you came a little early, in the middle of the rainy season, the water potential in the Three River Basins will rise."

The steward with a goatee looked at the dense merchant fishing boats on the Three Rivers and couldn't help but sigh with some emotion: "At that time, the most valuable goods in the entire Nanling Colony and Autonomous Region would flow into Three Rivers City, and the prices would be much cheaper than at other times. ”

Ian was indeed interested: "Oh? After that, I really had to see and learn when I had time. ”

The Iwok River runs from northeast to south, the Jet River runs from northwest to southeast, and the Kilber River runs through the Bison Mountains, this waterway is the real hub of Southridge commerce, and occasionally even produces second-level Warcraft materials, which are the most expensive harvest of the year for the mountain people and natives, enough to exchange for a large amount of supplies here in the empire for the rapid development of the tribe.

"By the way, if you have the following alchemy materials, you can help me buy a batch first, this is my alchemy coat of arms, and I can go to the public account over there in Port Harrison."

Since there is a low-price period, it is natural that it cannot be let go of the cheap, Ian gave a batch of commodity lists, most of which are alchemy potions and inscription-related materials, and the steward naturally agreed.

The caravan stayed here for a day and departed at noon the next day.

Not long after leaving Trois-Rivières, he arrived at the last pass where Ian and the caravan had to go.

The mouth of the Indigo Mountain Gorge of the Nanling mountain people.

After that, there is the vibrant Nauman plain.

Indigo Mountain, also known as Gongshan. A mountain that seems to have been coated with metal, and in the sunlight, it emits a strange blue-colored light towards the surrounding area.

It is said that 400 years ago, an ancient dragon, the Iron Dragon, inhabited the area, and its powerful force infects the surrounding mountains, changing the physical properties of the petrophysics of the area.

The local mountain people, wherever they are located in the mountains, revere this dragon as the 'mountain dragon god', and they settle on the mountainside in order to get closer to this ancient dragon, which is so powerful that it is like a god, and build houses and shrines on the rocks infested by the dragon's power, and graze cattle and sheep for the dragon god, and sacrifice them year after year.

The ancient dragon didn't seem to care about the actions of these villains, and although he didn't feed the mountain people or destroy their villages, he never really sheltered them.

The rock infected by the power of the ancient dragon is called 'steel stone', and its surface is almost metal, but the inside has become tough, and it has become a special building material, used to build a level fortress that is almost impregnable, even if the power of the alchemy cannon is in front of the fortress made of steel stone, it is no different from a light breeze.

At that time, the Nineteenth Army of the Empire was ordered to open the mouth of the Indigo Mountain Gorge, and it ran rampant all the way, but it was frustrated for the first time in front of the strong fortress of the mountain people.

The dragon is now gone, and in the legend of the mountain people, the dragon god was awakened by a violent snowstorm, and he shook away the anomalous frost disaster that even the South Ridge covered in plain white, and caused the sun to reappear.

The mountain people, who were on the verge of extinction due to natural disasters, were given a chance to breathe.

Then He let out a roar that shook the mountains, flew into the high sky, and never returned.

According to scholars' speculation and analysis, the frost disaster that swept through the Farut Mountains, Nanling and the entire Baissen Mountains 400 years ago was the migration process of another ancient dragon that inhabited the Karan Mountains, the 'Ice Dragon', but this sudden interruption of the migration may be related to the obstruction of the steel dragon.

Scholars believe that this was a rare, lose-lose battle for the territory of the ancient dragons, but the mountain people firmly believed that the dragon gods chose to fight to protect them, and that they should always maintain the dragon god's lair, maintain sacrifices, and wait for his return.