Chapter 601: Radiant Wind Grassland
On a simple dirt road paved with gravel on the Yan Cave layer of the "Snow Forest Cave", more than 30 tall "Snow Moose" march in a word, these "Snow Moose" are as tall as elephants, and there are two black leather cans like water tanks hanging on the left and right on their backs, and some sundries such as tents and wooden boxes are also carried and piled up into a small mountain.
Even though each "snow moose" has a variety of goods piled up on its back, it is not slow, the pace is powerful, the panting is even, and there is no fatigue.
It can be seen that the endurance of this moose is extremely strong, and the caravan men and guards sit on the back of the moose in pairs and threes, swaying between the journeys, which makes people sleepy, and from time to time someone stretches his waist and fights.
Walking at the end of the caravan was a black-spotted moose, on its back sat a black-haired man with closed eyes and delicate eyes, a Zhongzhou person, although there were many Zhongzhou people who traveled to the northland, but it was not common.
This son is wearing a black eagle suit, his hair is tied with a crown, and a white jade hairpin is inserted on his head, which is Liu Yu.
Liu Yuta left Moby Harbor on a mercenary cargo ship, passing through more than 120 stations, which lasted more than three months, and arrived at the terminal of this cargo ship route, "Panshan Bingzhen".
Starting from the "Panshan Ice City" and then heading east, he flew for four days in the lonely Han Ice and Snow Forest before arriving at a remote town in the Snow Forest.
The destination of this trip, "Niuguo Town", is in the "Yan Cave Layer" deep underground in this remote town, and after resting in this town for a few days, Liu Yu took over an escort task from the town's adventure union.
The mission is to escort a caravan to the Underground Cavern, which will sell spirit wine along the way, ending in the "Limestone Town" deep in the Flame Cave layer.
According to the road map given by Kate, this is also the place where Liu Yu passed through to "Niuguo Town", so Liu Yu took over this escort task.
It's not that I fell in love with the reward of the hundreds of low-level spirit stones, mainly by the way, this underground cave is complicated, even if there is a road map, I am afraid that I will go on the road alone, I am afraid that I will take a fork in the road, not to mention the delay of work, but also very unsafe.
Although the route of the caravan is compared with the planned road map in Liu Yu's hand, there are many detours and it will take a few more days, but it will eventually arrive at Limestone Town, and when it arrives at Limestone Town, it is only half a day's journey away from Niuguo Town.
Liu Yu has been going underground with the caravan for seven days, and the caravan has been on the road almost all the time for the first four days, quickly passing through the "Ice Cave Layer" and "Mystery Cave Layer", and after arriving at the "Yan Cave Layer", the journey slowed down, passing through various post towns and began to sell spirit wine.
Presumably, the "Ice Cave Layer" and the "Mystery Cave Layer" are too close to the ground, and the spirit wine cannot be sold at a good price, so the caravan passed by some post towns a few days ago and did not stop marching.
The caravan mainly sells several kinds of spirit wine, the largest quantity is a kind of liquor called "White Volt", these days when resting, Liu Yu also tasted, the taste is strong and spicy, astringent and bitter, very not suitable for Liu Yu's appetite, to another kind of fruit wine with a higher price, light aroma, to be quite delicious.
The gravel dirt road under the foot is the post road that connects the underground post stations everywhere, and there will be road signs at the entrance of some corner holes to indicate the direction of travel.
And there are many pedestrians on the road, and the road becomes more and more simple when it reaches the "Yan Cave Layer", the stone road has become a dirt road, and there are few pedestrians on the road, and there is no one for half a day.
At this time, there was a cheer in front, it turned out that I saw the street sign, and I would arrive at a post town not far ahead.
When they arrived at the post town, the caravan would rest for a while, and at the same time sell all kinds of spirit wine on the back of the moose to the taverns in the town.
After about half an hour, the caravan arrived at a post town built against the stone wall of the cave.
The town is not large, there is only one street, and the streets are lined with various shops, and the houses are made of large and small stones, so except for a "mercenary club" which is a three-storey wooden building, the other shops and houses in the town are all low-rise bungalows.
After the caravan settled into a restaurant, the caravan steward began to visit the town's tavern owners to sell the caravan's spirit wine, while the empty guards and men went to the taverns in the street to fool around.
These people naturally don't go to the tavern to drink, and they don't drink less wine along the way, but in addition to wine, there are also women in the tavern.
Liu Yu naturally didn't have this preference, so he asked the store for a room, checked in and began to practice, according to the experience of the past few days, the caravan needed to stay here for at least half a day, Liu Yu just took the time to practice the "Psychic Eye" and "Dao Soul Heart Sutra".
But I didn't expect that this stay was three days, it turned out that starting from this town, arriving at the next post station, you need to pass through a huge cave grassland, this grassland cave is ravaged by wolves, entrenched in a large number of second-order "cave wolves", and some large wolf packs have been born in the fourth-order "Steppenwolf King", which is very dangerous.
From time to time, there are passing caravans and pedestrians who have been attacked by wolves and suffered heavy losses, and if they do not go to the next post station, there is only such a way, even if they spend more time detouring, the caravan is not willing to take this risk.
After all, the whole caravan is too large and the target is too large, and with the addition of a "snow moose", the risk of being attacked by wolves is even greater.
For example, the caravan escorted by Liu Yu is composed of more than 30 "snow moose", the scale is not large, the number of guards is limited, and it is hard money to run back and forth underground.
Compared with those big business travelers, there are nearly 100 "snow moose" alone, which can carry a large number of goods, and there are a large number of guards, and they can make a lot of money after a trip.
In the underground cave as a walking pack merchant, the small caravan only wants a smooth journey, if it loses a few "snow moose" in danger, this trip is considered a wasted run, and the price of each "snow moose" is as high as tens of thousands of spirit stones, so this time the caravan will stay in the town for so long.
Because they had to wait for the arrival of other caravans, the small caravans generally traveled in groups through the cave grasslands, and several caravans set off together, although in this way, the goal was greater, but the guards of several caravans joined forces, so they did not have to be too afraid of being attacked by wolves.
After all, the "Cave Wolf" is only an ordinary second-order spirit beast, and its combat power is not high, unless it encounters a large wolf pack led by the "Steppenwolf King".
However, after the "Cave Wolf" advanced to the "Steppenwolf King", his intelligence increased, and he generally did not take the initiative to attack a caravan with a large number of guards.
On the fourth day, the spirit wine caravan escorted by Liu Yu set off from the town, and there were two other caravans at the same time, one was a grocer who purchased spiritual materials, and the other was a grain merchant who transported spiritual rice, and the three caravans added up to nearly a hundred "snow moose", marching in a mighty line, like a long dragon.
An hour later, the caravan passed through the mouth of a large half-moon cave, and suddenly an endless plain appeared in front of it, surrounded by weeds, not unlike the open grassland on the ground.
It's just a little darker, and when I look up, the top of the cave is extremely high, and it's black, like a dark night.
It is said that this cave grassland is extremely wide, the caravan walks for most of the day to reach the post station at the other end, as the caravan marches inward, the scenery becomes more and more novel, the grass on both sides of the caravan pokes out from time to time with small heads, it is a kind of small spirit animal "cave rat" that is good at digging holes.
According to the accompanying guards, this kind of cave rat is rampant in this grassland, with strong breeding ability and a large number, which not only attracts a large number of fierce beasts such as "cave wolves" and "night eagles" that prey on them.
There are also many adventurous helpers who specialize in catching these cave rats and selling them, these cave rats are very fat, and the post house tavern generally bids seven or eight low-grade spirit stones for one end, which is also a way to earn spirit stones.
In addition, some low, nameless glowing vegetation growing scattered on the grassland slowly appeared, and these vegetation emitted a faint aura of various colors, which was very beautiful.
The most eye-catching thing is that there are a lot of dandelion-like glowing grasses floating in the air, flashing and swaying with the wind, just like the starlight in the night, like a dream.
Therefore, this open cave grassland has another poetic name "Yingfeng Grassland", such a dream place, if it is not for the wolf plague, I believe that more adventurous domestic workers will come to visit, especially for those young couples who have not yet confirmed their relationship.