Wei Canglan frowned: "A lot of big shots, who are they, how many people have you brought?"

The guard said embarrassedly: "I don't know about this, I just saw it from a distance, it should be a big man, otherwise I wouldn't have alarmed the steward to greet him personally." Well, there aren't many of these groups, but there are only one or two hundred people together. Wei Canglan nodded and asked some more questions, but the guard's status was not high, he knew very little, and he didn't ask any useful information.

Sending the guards away, Ouyang Feng frowned and said, "There are a lot of big people here, and they have brought so many people, what do they want to do?"

Nangong Tian's face was solemn: "Could it be a trap? They deliberately released a message to lure you over?" Ouyang Feng and they had also discussed this issue before, but Ouyang Feng didn't think it would be a trap, but now it seems that it is not impossible for the other party to set up an ambush and wait for him to come and die.

After a while, Wei Canglan said: "We have arrived here, no matter what, we have to go in and see what is going on, if it is really a trap, we will leave immediately, if we really catch our people, we will find a way to save people, now we have no way out." ”

Nangong Tian nodded, but Ouyang Feng was very grateful and felt a little sorry for Wei Canglan and Nangong Tian, in fact, they didn't have no way out, as long as they just found an excuse to leave now, and Wei Canglan said this, he just didn't want to embarrass Ouyang Feng.

Just as Ouyang Feng and the three of them were discussing the next situation they might encounter and how to deal with it, there was a noise in the courtyard next to them, followed by the sound of a carriage crushing Qingshi.

Nangong Tian stood up and walked under the courtyard wall to listen for a while. I jumped on the wall again and looked at it for a long time. Only then did he come back and say: "The Huafeng Chamber of Commerce is ready to send goods into the mining area." Would you like to get in touch with the old butler and let him in?"

Wei Canglan shook his head and said: "No, if a few of us just disappear out of thin air, it will arouse the vigilance of those people, not only will we have no chance to save people at that time, but it may also affect those people in the Huafeng Chamber of Commerce." ”

Ouyang Feng nodded in agreement and said, "Well, let's wait, since they have all passed, I believe we won't wait too long." ”

Ouyang Feng and the three of them came to the courtyard and listened to the noisy driving carriage away next door. There were many carts and goods, but it took a while to get out of their quarters and march out of the gate in a neat convoy.

Soon after the caravan left, the guard just now hurriedly ran to inform them, saying that it was the one in charge who asked them to come over, Ouyang Feng and the three of them got up and walked out of the courtyard, and when they saw the three horses prepared outside the door, Wei Canglan patted the guard's shoulder appreciatively and said, "You are very good, don't worry, I will help with your affairs." "The guards are overjoyed. In front of Ouyang Feng and the three of them, those who were far away from the gate began to shout at the other guards to open the door. Extremely attentive.

Out of the gate of the cargo station, the three of them rode towards the mouth of the canyon where the fire mine was located, the speed of the three of them was not fast, but their hearts were in their throats, and they were trying to calm down their nervous emotions.

All three knew that once they entered the canyon, there was really no way back. Finally, Ouyang Feng and the others came to the entrance of the canyon, but the three of them were even more nervous, because they saw a scene that made them tremble.

At this time, the carriage of the Huafeng Chamber of Commerce was lining up to enter the canyon, but dozens of guards of the caravan were stopped, and they were being pointed at by hundreds of guards of the Flame Mine with crossbows and bows and arrows, and the old steward of the caravan was talking to the captain of the guard.

Looking at so many cold and glittering crossbow arrows, Ouyang Feng's heart was cold, and he even had the idea of turning around and running, Wei Canglan and Nangong Tian couldn't help but swallow their saliva, in the face of so many deadly things, no matter how good they were, they couldn't resist it, once they turned their faces and made a move, they were not at all sure that they would survive.

Ouyang Feng and the three of them rode past the guards and the guards of the Huafeng Chamber of Commerce, those guards did not stop them, the captain of the guard just glanced at Wei Canglan and then turned his head to the steward of the Huafeng Chamber of Commerce and said: "Needless to say, we want your goods, and the price is according to what I said before, but you can't go in, this is the rule." Rest assured, the wagon will be returned to you when we finish unloading. ”

The old man glared at the captain of the guard and said, "Is it also your rule here to point arrows at us? We are here to do business, not to rob, is it a bit too much for you to do this?"

The captain of the guard was quite polite to the old man, and explained: "I believe you should have heard about it, there has been a misunderstanding between our Centaur Alliance and your holy city recently, and we are doing business for the first time, we have to be careful, I hope you can understand." I promise, as long as you don't do anything to misunderstand us, we won't embarrass you, wait a while, more than 20 truckloads of goods will be unloaded in a while, we have enough manpower, and the ore you want will be loaded and sent out together. The old man took a deep breath, knowing that it was useless to say more, nodded and said nothing, and turned to walk towards the guards, but his face was full of worry, as if he was worried about something.

The leader of the guards walked up to the old man, lowered his voice and said, "Steward, what should we do? If we don't fight with them, if we wait like this, if they find out what is in the car, we won't even have a chance to escape." "The stakes are very high, and the lives of dozens of people are at stake, and the old man can't pay attention to it for a while.

At this moment, there were several wolf howls and howls of unknown animals in the distance, and then a group of men and horses galloped in, and the leader shouted loudly while galloping: "Close the door, close the door, it's a beast tide, go and inform the steward." ”

The captain of the guard looked into the distance and asked his subordinates suspiciously, "That's Jesse, right? What is he shouting? Why is he panicking?"

The subordinate shook his head and said, "It's too far away to hear clearly, as if they are in some danger." ”

At this time, the sentry on the guard tower rang the alarm bell, the bell was hurried and slightly panicked, the captain of the guard was stunned for a moment, and then decisively ordered: "Be on guard, retreat to the canyon and close the gate." With that, he raised his head and asked the sentry in a loud voice, "What happened?" the sentry replied as he rang the bell, but the bell was so loud that the captain of the guard could not hear what he was saying.

The guards slowly retreated in the direction of the canyon, but they did not relax their vigilance against the Huafeng caravan, and the crossbow arrows in their hands were still aimed at the caravan guards.

At this time, the horse team had already approached, and the Jesse in the mouth of the guard captain was the captain of the patrol team that Ouyang Feng had met just now.

Jesse didn't dismount, and shouted to the captain of the guard from afar with a frightened face, "Hurry up, it's a beast tide." ”

The captain of the guard was stunned for a moment, looked at the depths of the trade route, and pulled Jesse, who jumped off the horse, and asked, "What did you say?

Jesse gasped and said hurriedly: "That's right, it's the beast tide, I saw Kong Wu just now, and they said that they encountered wolves, so I took someone to take a look." ”

The captain of the guard asked, "Did you encounter the wolves?"

Jesse was horrified and said, "If only it were wolves." ”

The captain of the guard glanced back and shouted to his men, "Close the door, what are you waiting for?" ”

One of the guards said with an anxious face: "Captain, the convoy is not finished yet, so it can't be closed." ”

The captain of the guard said angrily: "When is it, how much you go in, don't worry about the rest, close the door quickly." ”

Then the captain of the guard helped Jesse off his horse and asked, "What the hell is going on, you should tell me quickly." ”

Jesse glanced back with trepidation: "We did find wolves, but we didn't go far after them, and we found that there were dense beasts hidden in the wilderness on the other side of the mountain, the number of which was definitely more than two thousand, and they were all fierce beasts, tigers, bears, lions, everything, they had already come this way." ”

The captain of the guard was shocked, turned around and ran towards the gate, shouting as he ran: "What's the matter, the door hasn't closed yet, you don't want to live anymore, do you?"

At this time, the fire mine was already in chaos, and the unknown brigade guards heard the alarm bell ringing, and they all rushed to the door, while the caravan's carriage was going inside, and the two sides collided together, and the sound of shouting and scolding and neighing of horses came and went, which was more lively than the market.

Ouyang Feng only heard a few words of the conversation between the captain of the guard and the hike, and when he saw that the scene had become so chaotic, he asked with a blank face: "I seem to have heard what that Jesse said about the beast tide? What is the beast tide?" Wei Canglan and Nangong Tian shook their heads in unison, and they didn't know.

At this time, the old steward of the Huafeng caravan, who was not restrained, happened to pass by Ouyang Feng and the three of them accompanied by several guards, and the old steward stopped and said: "The beast tide is an organized attack on the human stronghold by a large group of wild beasts, this kind of thing has not happened for many years, I didn't expect to meet it today, a few people, hurry up and go in, otherwise no one will survive when the beast tide arrives." ”

The reason why the old man stopped to explain, of course, was not just to give Ouyang Feng and them illiteracy, but to think about whether he could let Ouyang Feng and them take his people into the canyon for refuge, and he didn't think about escaping to the cottage at the cargo station, but it was relatively farther away, and it would delay a lot of time, and the defense of that small cottage was not very good, and it was barely possible to resist human attacks, but it was not possible to face all kinds of beasts, so he chose to go to the canyon for refuge.

Ouyang Feng, Wei Canglan, and Nangong Tian glanced at each other, and they had an idea and a guess in their hearts at the same time, sitting on horseback and looking in the direction of the trade route.

The old man saw that Ouyang Feng and the three of them were indifferent to the beast tide, and thought that they didn't understand what they meant, and they didn't know the horror of the beast tide at all, so he hurriedly continued: "Let's go, if those beasts arrive, none of the people outside will survive." ”

Ouyang Feng came back to his senses and nodded to Wei Canglan and Nangong Tian, although he felt that this beast tide might be related to that dragon, but they couldn't be sure, let alone take risks, and besides, now that there was such a mess here, it was the best time to sneak in and investigate. (To be continued.) )