Fort Wick, the northernmost majestic fortress in the state of Namchanaburi.

At the northernmost end of the state of Namchanaburi there is a huge city wall, which stretches from the northwesternmost part of the state to the north, with a total length of more than 5,000 li. The city wall is majestic, towering into the clouds, facing the Devil's Strait in the north, and overlooking the wind and clouds in Nanchanaburi in the south.

The name of this wall is the Anunas Mountains.

Perhaps it is the twin continents of North and South Bizhou that have the same mind, this city wall does not completely separate the north and south Bizhou, just in the northwest corner of Nanchanaburi, the south end of the Golden Corridor, this city wall left a huge gap about ten miles wide, this gap is called the Dawn Canyon, which means that when you go here, you will walk out of the Golden Corridor and see the dawn.

The Dawn Canyon is facing the Golden Corridor, in front of which is a yellow sand plain about forty or fifty miles wide, about twenty miles from the narrowest point of the Golden Corridor, and this area is called the Belen Desert.

As early as ancient times, the two Bizhou continents began to travel with each other through the Golden Corridor. Kanchanaburi is rich in grain, while Namchanaburi is rich in minerals, and caravans of all sizes pass through the golden corridor every day.

But the weather in this golden corridor is harsh, obviously there is the sea on both sides, but there is yellow sand on it, the wind is constant, and there are all kinds of strange beasts, and both continents have to send guards to protect the caravan.

So at both ends of the Golden Corridor, towns began to be built in both northern and southern Bizhou to rest for the long journey, exhausted caravans. Later, with the rise of various trade unions, the two continents gradually stopped sending troops to escort caravans, and instead hired escorts by various trade unions. In this way, the towns at both ends of the Golden Corridor have added many unions to move in, and the towns have become larger and larger.

But at that time, the town on this side of the state was not Wickburg, but closer to the city of Grosse in Belém. However, more than 100 years ago, there was a conflict between Belém and the Kingdom of Konidad in Kanchanaburi because of the taxes and fees that caravans passed, and the two sides were once at loggerheads. At that time, Belém's national strength was still weak, so in order to cope with this conflict, he started to build Fort Wick in the Dawning Canyon.

The original Fort Wick was just a wall made of wood and stone. Later, after the mediation of many countries in the north and south of Bizhou, the two countries finally did not use force, and Fort Wick slowly began to have residents live in it and became a town. However, due to the harsh environment of the Dawn Canyon and the long distance of supplies, life is very difficult, and there are very few residents except for the caravan passing by.

It wasn't until after the succession of Heather the Great that Wickburg began to change dramatically.

Cisser the Great first demolished the previous wooden and stone city walls, and instead built a huge castle with huge stones, and continued to expand, forming three huge city walls that were tens of zhang high in turn. Each wall was guarded by a separate garrison, and was covered with watchtowers, turrets, and various weapons of war.

In addition to strengthening the defensive function of Fort Wick, Emperor Hisai built a town under the third and highest wall, which was equipped with all kinds of facilities, and most importantly, he moved the market originally located in Grosse City to Fort Wick. With its massive walls, Fort Wick forms a unique multi-storey market.

At the bottom of the floor is the market for all kinds of mineral deposits, and this layer is also the widest, but it is relatively dark. The second level is the forging market, where many processing workshops are concentrated. The third floor is the grain market, which is the highest and surrounded by various granaries several feet high. The fourth layer is where the various trade unions are located. The fifth floor is the livestock market, where leather and other things are traded. The sixth floor, which has poked its head out of the city walls and allows direct sunlight, is a trading place for various precious stones and other rare stones. The seventh floor is dedicated to the market for Illusory Heaven, and this floor can be viewed through a huge terrace overlooking the three walls of Fort Wick and the Belém Desert, and on a clear day, you can see the golden corridor on the horizon. The eighth floor is where all the restaurants, inns, hotels, etc. gather. The ninth floor is the highest point in the whole of Wickburg, and it is on this level that the Hessai Great's palace in Wickburg is located.

Chenguang looked up ninety degrees at the towering Fort Wick in front of him, and if it weren't for Xinzhu, he would have wanted to fly up to see the whole picture of this castle.

Fort Wick also has a tall wall on the side facing Belen, but this wall is much lower than the wall in front of Fort Wick, only ten zhang high, but the gate in the middle of the wall is three zhang high, and is made of diamond rock and whale skin like the front gate. The gate is pulled up by dozens of wrist-thick steel chains, about three feet above the ground, giving people the illusion that they may fall at any time.

The gate was guarded by dozens of soldiers, who were very different from what they had seen before, not only heavily armed, but also solemn, and who had to interrogate everyone who entered and left Wickburg. When Chenguang and his party were interrogated, the leading soldier had a clear expression, and he asked everyone to show their name cards and access documents. When Guo Xinzhu expressionlessly spread out the parchment with one signature and ten fingerprints in front of him, the corners of his eyes were obviously twitching, but this parchment really said that this group of people was hired by the mercenary union to support the guards of Fort Wick, and it was covered with the seal of the mercenary union.

The leading soldier waved his hand impatiently, causing everyone to disappear from sight. As Refuge and Yu Tuo walked past him with a smile, he heard a "bang" and the spear in his hand fell to the ground, but he only stared at the round eyes and didn't notice it at all. Another soldier next to him went over to help him pick up the spear, and asked something, Chenguang quietly asked Niu Er, Niu Er said, the soldier asked is: Sir, are these the legendary old, weak, sick and disabled?

It's no wonder that this soldier would ask such a question, everyone is indeed a little embarrassed to dress at the moment. It turned out that since taking over the mission of the Mercenary Guild in Ludoko City, everyone hastened to Wickburg.

Fort Wick is located in the middle of the mountains, and although the road is smooth, there is still no shortage of dust and mud.

Everyone hurried to the road, and in half a month, they crossed the entire Belém, a full 3,000 miles, leaving early and returning late, with little rest. Yesterday, when everyone passed through the city of Grosse, Xin Zhu actually sold all the carriages and horses in one go, and everyone carried the big and small burdens and asked her, but she said confidently: "We are going to Fort Wick to fight, and then we will cross the Golden Corridor and go deep into Mitarion, and it is very likely that we will die for the rest of our lives, so do we have to take these horses with us to die? Moreover, the city of Grosse is only more than twenty miles away from Wickburg, and it will take less than half a day to get there, and it is much more low-key to walk than to go in with a team of carriages and horses." ”

In this way, everyone came to this Wick Fort on foot with luggage today, coincidentally, it rained heavily, and all the people were drenched in the soup chicken, when everyone arrived at Wick Fort in the afternoon, it was a whole dirty and not a few, all carrying a lot of luggage, with a haggard face, and the old and the small, completely old, weak, sick and disabled.

Everyone really didn't bother to care what others said, just thinking about finding a comfortable hotel early and sleeping beautifully.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to realize this wish. Wickburg is as wide as five miles from east to west, more than three miles from north to south, the passage between each layer is along the mountain wall on both sides of the zigzag, from the bottom to the eighth floor of the hotel, you need to pass through more than 20 slopes of ten zhang high, the journey is estimated to be more than four hundred zhang, more than two miles of road, not to mention that at this time the passage of more than one zhang wide is crowded with all kinds of carriages, horses, and pedestrians.

Everyone carried their luggage and gasped like oxen, and finally after more than two hours, they reached the eighth floor, but by this time the sky had completely darkened, and there was nothing to see in front of Fort Wick.

The crowd quickly divided into search of the mare inn and the employer, named Kakalo.

I never thought that this mare inn was still very famous, because the owner was a woman, and he was a very "beautiful" female shopkeeper, and in this manly Wickburg, it was difficult for such a shopkeeper not to be famous.

The entrance to the mare inn is a five-foot square lobby, and a bonfire burns in the middle of the lobby, reflecting the entire lobby in orange. On the far right of the lobby is a one-foot counter, and the shelves behind the counter are filled with all kinds of wine bottles. Around this bonfire, seven or eight long tables stood against the wall, three or four of which were empty. The rest of the long table was surrounded by dozens of people, including soldiers from Fort Wick, green-skinned subhumans, ordinary merchants, and even a few bearded dwarves who were only half a man tall.

Speaking of dwarves, this is a race endemic to the mountainous areas of northern Namchanaburi, which used to be classified as subhumans, but later, it became clear that these dwarves were too different from subhumans, and had more in common with normal humans. Moreover, the dwarves showed superb manual skills in the war between the human race and the demons, and the weapons and armor they created were much better than those made by ordinary human craftsmen. As a result, the Terrans also accepted the dwarves and regarded them as a minority in the Terrans, similar to the blacks of the Golden Fire Continent. The dwarves were also mostly more optimistic, and soon accepted their identity and entered the society of the human race.

The men at the Mare Inn, with large cups of nîmes in their hands, shouted at the two men who were whirling and dancing around the campfire. One of these two people is a tall strong man, with golden curly hair, upper body, and a thick body hair on his chest, while the other is a young girl, the girl is about eighteen or nine years old, with deep facial features unique to Nchanaburi women, heroic hair, blonde hair shawl, low-cut short shirt, long skirt swaying, and strong men hugging and dancing. When the dance was to the fullest, the girl actually took off her low-cut short shirt, took it in her hand and waved it at the onlookers, wearing only a small underwear, but she didn't care at all, still smiling.

When everyone carried large bags and small bags and pushed open the door of the mare inn, they happened to see this scene. Guo Xinzhu, who was walking in front, brushed his face red to the root of his ears, and the morning light that followed in quickly lowered his head, but he took refuge and held his beard with great interest to look at it.

The woman dancing in the field glanced at the few people who entered the door, and continued to entangle with the strong man. The crowd carefully skirted the frantic crowd along the corner and slipped to the counter.

There was a middle-aged woman in her thirties sitting at the counter, she had an elegant appearance and a faint expression, just smiling at the various people in the lobby, as if everything had little to do with her.

Xu Xun and Guo Xinzhu glanced at each other, and both of them nodded affirmatively, this should be the female boss of the mare inn. The two asked Niu Er to come forward and ask.

Niu Er stepped forward and asked, "Are you the boss?"

The woman looked up at him for a moment, then asked, "Is there anything wrong with you?"

Niu Er said: "I want to inquire about someone, I don't know if you know the boss." ”

"Tell me about it. ”

"We're looking for someone named Kakalu, I don't know if he's here. ”

The woman suddenly laughed, and suddenly shouted into the lobby, "They are looking for Kakalo." ”

There was a sudden silence in the lobby, and then a violent burst of laughter erupted. The dancing woman stopped dancing, carried her short shirt, and walked over. When she came to the crowd, she deliberately straightened her chest, and then asked, "...... you are looking for Look for...... Find a card...... Click...... What to do?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, but they didn't expect such a beauty to be a stammer. Xu Xun blushed and said, "He is our employer, and we came to him to fulfill the agreement." As he spoke, he took out the parchment.

The woman looked at the parchment, shook her head and laughed again, and said, "What a bunch of fools...... Foolish...... Fool. With that, he turned and walked towards the campfire.

Xu Xun said angrily: "If you know, you know, if you don't know, you don't know, why bother to be disrespectful!" As he spoke, he turned around and said to the woman at the counter: "Boss, let's stay in the hotel and give us six rooms." ”

The woman at the counter smiled and said, "I'm not the boss, she is, and she's the Kaka you're looking for...... Well, you don't even know who your employer is, which is a bit stupid. ”

Everyone looked at the boss who was dancing around the bonfire, and then looked at the laughing crowd around them, and only felt very uncomfortable, but fortunately, the voice of the refuge sounded in time: "Give me a pot of wine for the old man, and some more food, my stomach is already rumbling with hunger." ”

Everyone followed the prestige, but he didn't know when he was already sitting at the innermost table, leisurely admiring the bonfire dance.

The crowd hurriedly ordered something to eat, and then crowded to the side of the refuge and sat down.

Taking refuge looked at everyone and said with a smile: "Do you really want to ask that employer to collect money? How can there be a free lunch in this world, if you take someone else's, maybe they will ask you to do something, we have come here, the goal has been achieved, what is the next step, why bother to trouble yourself here?"

Xu Xun said: "The Taoist chief is right, but if we take someone else's, we should give someone an explanation." ”

"If you feel that you owe someone something, you can really help defend the city, as long as you don't throw away your life." And looking at this situation, I'm afraid it's not this Kakaku boss who hired you at all. ”