Chapter 10: Johnson is captured
He was drunk a lot by Johnson and Krugula last night, so Wren, who didn't need to sleep, ended up falling asleep.
When I woke up from my bed in the morning, I found that I could still fall asleep even when I was drunk. It seems that even God's eternal dream has a way to solve it.
Wren reluctantly got up from the bed, groggy and groggy. But the demonic knocking of Moria outside the door made him unable to sleep. I had to get up and get ready to go. When I got downstairs, I found Johnson and Kruger sitting on the first floor of the hotel with a reluctant face. But I also know that they didn't drink less last night.
After a brief preparation, the group started to hit the road again.
The road from here is all uphill. Johnson had to add himself and Kruger's horses to the carriage. The rest of the convoy had already dismounted and began the arduous cart journey.
Tyran still rode the treasure to the side. Johnson and Kruger got into the carriage anyway. Kruger went straight to the carriage to catch up on sleep. Wren and Molia accompanied Tyran on horseback. Of course, how Wren wanted to sleep in the car with Kruger at this time.
Follow the river that flows through Leeds and is said to have its upstream source in the city of Tia. This river is José's mother river, called the Serra River. The Serra River originates in Tia and crosses the entire San Jose Empire, eventually entering the sea at the only estuary in eastern Jose.
Because of the irrigation of the Serra River, the scenery is good, but Rennes is really not in the mood to appreciate it at all. Listening to Molia talking to Tyran along the way about some of Johnson and Kruger's legendary adventures, this girl still admires the two of them. But Wren sounds like most of it is about killing bandits, rescuing villages infested by monsters, or something. It made Wren bored for a while. But Tyran was curious as if he had never heard of it.
But it's also taken for granted, after all, Wren is a person who has seen a lot of scenes like Dragon Quest in film and television works for a long time, so he naturally feels that these are not thrilling enough.
Leeds Town is really close to Tia City, and Rennes estimates that it is a two-hour journey.
Wren could now see the tall and wide walls of the city of Tia from a distance in the direction of the Serra River. It turns out that the direction of the snow-capped mountain that I have seen all the way is where Tia is located.
The Serra River is still abundant here, which shows how much water is stored in the mountains behind the city of Tia.
Yes, the two main peaks of that mountain are five or six thousand meters above sea level, and the top of the mountain is a white snow-capped mountain all year round. It's just that such a large mountain is cracked in the middle as if it had been cut by an axe. The passage in the middle is the only land passage between the Central Continent and many countries in Shannan.
The city of Tia stood between these two mountains. A sprawling city that occupies the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside of the two mountains.
It can be said that the city of Tia was built on a hill, and the city was extremely strong. The passage behind the mountain is the only road leading to the sixty-six countries south of the mountain. And over the years, the Jose Empire has spent a lot of money on maintaining the walls here. So it makes the whole city even more magnificent.
The city of Tia was not only the gateway between the Jose Empire and the southern Shannan States, but also the capital of the empire in the south, and the imperial family would take refuge here in times of war. First, you can use the tall city walls to defend against enemies in the direction of the central continent, and secondly, you can also make friends with the countries of Shannan to supply you with a steady stream of supplies. Historically, the Jose Empire has been forced to move its capital to Tia City several times. Therefore, the status of Tia City in the Jose Empire is very high, second only to the capital city of San Jose.
From Leeds town at the time of departure, it is uphill all the way to the south, so when you get to Tia, the altitude is not low. So the temperature has dropped by a few degrees. At this point, the terrain has gradually become much smoother. The caravans coming and going along the way are endless, which shows the prosperity of Tia City.
From a distance, there was only one gate in Tia, which meant that it had to be huge. Slowly approaching, you can find that the city gate is fifty or sixty meters wide, and when you enter the city wall, you find that this is only a huge urn city. The city was covered with arrow towers, and heavily armed soldiers stood on top of the city walls to rely on it for protection, and Tia's protection was indeed extremely strong.
Walking out of the urn city, there are four small gates at the junction, and under each gate there is a team of guards to check and collect tolls. Seeing this scene, Johnson hurriedly took out his money bag and prepared to pay. There were still a few teams in front of them, and Johnson and they had to wait one by one.
Wren looked around and saw that there were still many wanted notices posted on the walls of each gate, one of the most recent ones stating that a missionary team of the Holy See of Light had been attacked. I hope that insiders will report to the Guangming Church in the city.
"Name, what is the purpose of coming to Tia City. "At this time, there was already a queue to Wren and them. Wren and Tyran were a little further away from the group, just about to step in.
"My name is Johnson, and I'm from the Boulder Mercenary Regiment. We are escorting the cargo of Baron James of Lead Cow Town, and we are heading to Shannan today. I hope I can let it go!" Johnson said, pulling the leader of Baron James's team. The leader was not ambiguous, and hurriedly took out James's pass endorsement. Of course, he also had a gold coin in his hand.
The rules of Tia were that caravans entering the city had to pay a certain amount of money as a toll. Of course, there will be a constant charge according to the price of the goods, but usually the slightly larger caravans will pay according to the maximum charge of 100 silver coins, which is 1 gold coin. Tia has thousands of caravans that come in and out every day, at least, so the toll alone can collect a lot of money every day.
"Repeat, where are you?" the soldier asked again in surprise and surprise.
"We are the ...... of the Boulder Mercenary Regiment," Johnson had not finished speaking. And he blew the trumpet that hung behind his back. At this time, the soldiers in the urn city also flocked over.
"Captain, they're from the Boulder Mercenary Regiment!" the soldier said excitedly, pointing at Johnson.
"Oh, the Boulder Mercenaries?" the man called Captain rode over and pulled out a stack of papers from his bosom.
"Let me see, the members of the Boulder Mercenary Regiment: Dwayne the Warrior, Kruger the Magician, Moria the Elven Archer, and Johnny the Minotaur Berserker. You have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling Mithril, a material that the Empire strictly prohibits from selling to the Shannan region. Please give up your resistance. The squad leader looked at the group and waved his hand to have Johnson and them tied up.
There is a country of steel in the Shannan region, the Rayman Kingdom, and it is strictly forbidden to sell the Thoryin on the mainland, so as to beware of the Lehman Nation casting a large number of Thur silver weapons.
Moria couldn't help but take out her bow and arrows, but Johnson hurriedly stopped Moria and pointed to the cold and glittering bow and arrows on the urn city.
"Please show me the evidence!" said Moria, unconvinced.
"Search!" the captain waved his hand, and someone came to the wagon of the caravan, and in a short time a large piece of silver was brought out of the wagon.
"Captain, found it, good fellow!
"It's... It has nothing to do with us, we didn't have that when we were in Leadcowtown. James's leader began to shirk his responsibilities.
"Do you have anything else to say?" the squad leader waved his hand, and someone came to tie up Johnson and the four. Wren and Tyran were mistaken for passers-by because they hadn't been too close to the caravan just now, but they had to stand in the crowd at the moment.
"Aren't we going to help?" Tyran asked quietly.
"Don't be impulsive, we'll go over now, we won't be able to help. Wren replied quietly.
So the two waited until Johnson and the others were arrested, and then followed the other passers-by through the checkpoint. Tia didn't charge the ordinary people of the non-caravan, so the two casually made up an excuse to visit Tia and passed without incident.