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Chapter 12 The Journey of Crisis (10)

Sorry! I finally finished moving the house, but my wife gave birth in the early morning of the fifth day, a week earlier than the expected delivery date. I was caught off guard, so I sent my wife to the wife for the insurance without even bringing the clothes to change. Fortunately, the mother and son are safe, so I have upgraded to become a father! o(n_n)o~

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The attack from unknown enemies caused heavy losses to the dwarves. Even though the attack was advanced because of Fei Yun's discovery, the group still had to face the huge trees that were spread across the ground more than 20 kilometers away. Therefore, after traveling for a while, the huge convoy had to stop again.

But this time no enemy would come out to attack them, but even without enemies, they spent a long time cleaning the road. Because everyone, including those gray dwarves, were afraid that new enemies would suddenly run out of the forest, and after they were cleaned up, the itinerary was delayed again. However, no matter how slow the work progress was, the dwarves did not change their careful working style, and even everyone would spend a lot of time checking the surrounding situation when cutting wood.

Fortunately, there were not many trees blocking the road, and the dwarves' itinerary was not very difficult to delay. On the third day after the attack, they finally passed through the huge forest surrounding Altinis and slowly moved towards the south of the Hansting Empire. The once huge Hansting Empire's economic center and focus are in the south, but the undead that appeared in Hugodi blocked the shortcut to the south to the north. The Hansting Empire, which had originally greatly reduced its strength due to rebellion and division, was once again affected.

Chuang, the only option for the southern empire to transport supplies to cities in the north is to travel through the dangerous area of ​​the western Great Wilderness, and Chen Kai and his friends are now heading towards the western Great Wilderness. In fact, they originally moved from Altinis to Yadoric, which is Chen Kai and his family's birthplace, and they also went to the shortcut to the southern Dwarf Empire. However, because Yadoric is too close to Yadoric, there are many undeads, and the dwarves basically would not choose this path for safety.

One of the remaining ones is naturally to cross the western wilderness from Altinis, and the dwarves would not choose this road. Therefore, the dwarves finally chose only one road, that is, to go directly from the south of Altinis to Mifes, a city located in the south of Altonik. This city, which was almost destroyed by the hands of the demon, began to slowly recover after a period of time. The most important thing is that there are many active players here.

Of course, from Altinis, through the northwest corner of the Great Wilderness, and then enter the city of Kandohat, which is the city with the largest trading market. The road from Kandohat to Mifes is a little safer, but before that, Chen Kai and his friends had to pass through the very dangerous Great Wilderness area on the road to Kandohat. This is why Chen Kai and his friends did not choose this road when they went to Altinis, but chose the relatively safe Effira route. However, the Effira route is farther than the route they chose now. Although it may not be farther from the road for a few days, it will be more hidden for the dwarves to choose the more dangerous Great Wilderness route. After all, there are fewer traders on this road, allowing the dwarves to hide what they need to hide and not expose them to people.

But what Chen Kai couldn't understand was that the dwarves obviously no longer need to hide their purpose, because the enemy almost beat them up to death. If it weren't for the terrifying loli hiding in the carriage, Chen Kai might have been lying in the pile of dead people like the dead dwarves. Chen Kai, sitting in the carriage, looked at the Altinis giant tree, who could no longer see the shadow. Since he knew the dwarves' route, he knew that he would have to wait at least to arrive at Kandohat City, and it would be impossible to reach Kandohat City at their current speed without half a month.

Of course, the dwarves' speed was not slow. On the contrary, because they obtained some war horses from the men in black, the dwarves' migration speed became faster than before. Chen Kai and the others also obtained three war horses, which happened to replace Lar, who was tired of pulling the carriage work.

Lar, who was regaining his freedom, neighed loudly with excitement, then looked at the unlucky guys who replaced him with his eyes slanted, and followed Chen Kai and his carriage with his head tilted and his ponytail in an extremely arrogant manner. Of course, he was not happy soon, because Chen Kai directly put Lar into the pet space.

"These gray dwarves are so hateful!" Zhao Tiezhu bit the bread in his hand and showed a hint of indignation on his face. The reason why he was so angry was very simple. He went around Effila and went through the western wilderness to Kandohat to let Chen Kai and his friends buy supplies on the way. In order to survive the days on this journey, they can only choose to reduce their food consumption, and then take turns to hunt and continuously replenish the meat in their backpacks.

"No! We don't prepare food for us, and we are not allowed to rest in place for a little longer, so that every hunting is the same as a war!" After decomposing a reindeer that had just died, Xue Haifeng wiped the blood of his hands, like Zhao Tiezhu, and looked at the direction where the gray dwarfs were.

"Okay! At least we have collected enough food!" Chen Kai looked at the huge black bear lying beside him. It took a lot of effort to kill this guy weighing more than 2,000 kilograms in a short time. After all, this black bear is almost a monster, with a trace of blood from the earth bear. In that instant, the earth shock wave burst out and almost made Chen Kai capsize in the gutter. After all, Chen Kai is not wearing armor. As long as he is slapped by this black bear that is almost close to the monster, he will definitely be broken and even beaten to death. But now the black bear is lying on the ground. Its bear paw has been scorched on the bonfire by Chen Kai and others.

"This is what honey bear paw should do?" Looking at the piece of wild honey placed in the middle of the bear paw, Fei Yun's saliva in his mouth was rapidly evolving into a waterfall. Although the honey on the bear paw has not yet been completely integrated into the bear paw, his nose has already smelled an extremely delicious sweet smell.

"No matter how he does it! Just eat it~!" Su Xinghe looked at the deer legs on the edge of the bear's paw on the bonfire. Drops of blood were dripping from the deer legs, while Su Wan grabbed the salt block and rubbed it continuously on the deer legs. Relying on the power of the flames, it gradually penetrated the salt into the fresh meat pieces. In order not to let the power of the flames directly cook the deer legs, Su Wan wanted to take the deer legs a little far from the bonfire, but from time to time she would put the salt blocks in her hand around the flames to roast them. The salt on the salt blocks under high temperature can penetrate into the meat pieces more easily. This deer legs are not dinner for Chen Kai and the others, but are used by Su Wan as food. When the deer legs are covered with a layer of white salt frost, she put the deer legs into a wooden barrel and stuffed them into her backpack.

There are already more than a dozen deer legs in this bucket, and under these deer legs are pieces of pickled venison. These things are their food sources for the next half month, and of course there are flours in their personal backpacks. It is just because the gold coins in their pockets were insufficient before, Chen Kai and the others bought only half a month for use. So if they don’t want to go hungry on the road later, they need to collect more food. It is precisely because of this that Su Wan will pickle venison and other meats for consumption.

"Yes! Just eat it! Is there anything to eat? My stomach is almost starving!" Guan Yu slowly walked back to the camp with a wild boar that had just been slaughtered. When passing by a few black dwarfs who were cooking, Guan Yu cut off one of the thighs of the wild boar he was holding and threw it to the other party. On the one hand, it reduced the weight of the things he was pulling, and on the other hand, it was to add food to these black dwarf friends.

"Why didn't you take the barbecue for Ademan just now?" He slowly handed the bread covered with butter in his hand to Guan Yu, and Chen Kai said softly. As for who Ademan was, naturally, the black dwarf man who handed him a piece of barbecue when Guan Yu walked over on the road. There was a shallow scar on Ademan's face, and this scar was left by the men in black who came to attack not long ago.

"You don't know that the meat he roasted is not delicious! No wonder you can't find a wife with such skills!" Guan Yu bit the butter bread in his mouth hard. He knew very well that there were few opportunities to eat butter-spread bread before he arrived in the next city.

"Yes!" Chen Kai nodded gently. Adman's barbecue tasted bad. Even if there were no scorched pieces, it might be burnt inside. This technique was not something Chen Kai and the others could learn. At least Chen Kai could not learn such barbecue techniques, so he could not do it until it was extremely tender on the outside but it was burnt inside.

"That means we will walk out of the forest tomorrow! Do we really want to continue to follow the dwarves through the great wilderness?" Guan Yu put down the half-eating bread in his hand and said slowly. Chen Kai did not stop when he heard his words, but just paused slightly.

"Otherwise, what's going on? I promised Thram to escort the black dwarf to the border of the empire, although it is impossible to deliver it safely!" Chen Kai sighed and made several holes in the originally complete bear skin, which reduced the quality of the bear skin by a huge margin.

"But the Great Wilderness is really dangerous!" Guan Yu said softly. At the low level, he had run around the Great Wilderness, and it was only the edge of the Great Wilderness. Unfortunately, he encountered a semi-lord-level wilderness giant lizard wandering to the edge of the wasteland. He spitted out a lightning bolt and turned into ashes, including hundreds of players. Although Guan Yu's level has reached more than seventy, he was still instinctively afraid of the desolate yellow earth.

"Danger?" Chen Kai suddenly smiled as he looked at Guan Yu's face. The latter looked at Chen Kai's smile and showed a hint of depression on his face. Because he suddenly realized that he was actually afraid of danger, and he was afraid of it for no reason.

"Haha!" Finally, Guan Yu smiled mockly and concealed his embarrassment. He unknowingly touched the Blade of Judgment beside him. Under the touch of his fingers, the holy weapon of the Temple of Dawn Light trembled slightly. However, the tremor was too slight, even Guan Yu himself did not notice it.

The night once again enveloped the earth. Since it was approaching the edge of the forest, it was about to enter the western wilderness, the water vapor in the air began to decrease. There was no thick fog on the forest road, but Chen Kai and the others were still surrounded by a faint mist. Cangfires were flashing in the night, like stars twinkling in the sky. However, most of the dwarves were huddled in the carriage at this moment, ready to sit and run away at any time. All dwarves, as long as they could pick up weapons, were vigilant in batches, and the gaps between the carriages were blocked tightly by the dwarves, so as not to have such a tragic scene as before. Of course, the only ones that used wood to block the gap were the outer carriages of the camp, and the carriages in the middle were preparing to escape at any time.

The carriages were not even pulled off. Even the fibrous war horses were still on the side of the carriage. All dwarves and women were preparing to run away at any time. Of course, preparation was one thing. After sending scouts, the dwarves had already known that there were basically no enemies within ten kilometers around. Therefore, although the dwarves were ready to run away at any time, many dwarves knew in their hearts that there should be no enemies around. In the pile of firewood under the shadow, the figures of the dwarves kept moving, and they kept adding firewood to the bonfire to keep the bonfire in the camp burning state.

At this moment, Chen Kai and the others were sitting or lying around the bonfire. Although they showed very strong combat power in the last attack of the man in black, they also helped the gray dwarves very much, but they still stayed on the periphery of the camp without obtaining permission to enter the camping center. Although Chen Kai and the others were very dissatisfied with this, they were just dissatisfied.

The gradually dimming bonfire was surrounded by Fei Yuan Hulansi and others who were already sleeping with their clothes. Chen Kai kept fiddling with the bonfire with an iron chisel in his hand and threw a piece of wood into the bonfire to prevent the dim bonfire from extinguishing. On the opposite side of Chen Kai, Zhao Tiezhu yawned and held an iron chisel with a barbecue inserted in his hand. The grease on the barbecue dripped onto the bonfire made a sizzling sound. A trace of burnt meat smell was filled around reminding Zhao Tiezhu who was holding the iron chisel to raise his hand a little to prevent his late-night snack from turning into charcoal.

Not far from Zhao Tiezhu, Fei Yun was cutting a crossbow arrow rod with a knife. He was still wrapped in a bandage on his body. If he tried too hard, the wound would cause his mouth to twitch. The night is the favorite of thieves, because they can find many hidden places in the night, but at this moment Fei Yun did not need to hide it but leaned comfortably against the carriage.

No matter from any perspective, Chen Kai and the others are very comfortable now, but even Zhao Tiezhu, who is yawning and barbecue, is always a little alert in his heart. Because the place where they are now is only one step away from the Western Wilderness, and it only takes half a day to enter the gray-yellow land.

For players, the Great Western Wilderness is a place where risks and opportunities coexist. At least when the player level reaches the level 6 and 7, the Great Western Wilderness is an extremely important leveling place and adventure place for most Hansting Empire players. Tens of thousands of players enter it with their entire lives every day. Tens of thousands of players leave here in a dusty manner, and tens of thousands of players turn into the nutrients for the growing of wild grass on this gray-yellow land. Players collect herbs from this wasteland to obtain ores to explore the ruins of the once-city city under the wasteland. At least Chen Kai has heard that no less than ten ancient wasteland cities have been discovered by players. Of course, there are not many treasures in these ancient wasteland cities, and the most are all kinds of terrifying monsters.

For Chen Kai and others, the ancient city of the wasteland is not the reason why they are afraid of the Western Wilderness. What really makes Chen Kai and others afraid of the Western Wilderness are countless wild beasts and even monsters that appear on the wasteland, as well as horse thieves and bandits living in the wasteland. These villains who escaped from the Hansting Empire city have taken root in the Western Wilderness and turned into a cancer that threatens business travelers and adventurers on the wasteland. No one knows how many horse thieves and bandits there are in the entire Western Wilderness, but there is no doubt that there are definitely more than the Golden Plain. For the dwarves, their huge team and the few in the team can effectively shock the beasts in the Western Wilderness. But they cannot shock the horse thieves and bandits.

Therefore, the dwarves are actually worried that they will be attacked by horse thieves after entering the western wilderness, so the gray dwarves are also a little worried at this moment. The only ones who are really not worried in the entire camp are probably those black dwarves who don’t know where the western wilderness is. Of course, the so-called not worrying is only relative.

When the campfire began to slowly go out, the first ray of morning light in the east began to spread its light to the earth. The entire dwarf camp began to wake up in less than half an hour, and the bonfire that was about to go out was revived in a short time to prepare breakfast. Noisy sounds echoed throughout the camp, turning the entire dwarf camp into a vegetable market.

After the dwarves left, the camp was still retained, for travelers who didn't know when they would appear again. However, shortly after the dwarves left, an archer carrying a giant bow slowly walked out of the forest. As his feet landed on the ground, the sound of horse hooves and weapons and armor collided in the forest.

Masked men wearing gray-yellow cloaks slowly appeared from the forest. They were more or less stained with dew, and their eyes were shining with gloomy luster. There were at least five thousand masked men hidden in the entire forest, almost all of them were a war horse, and they were very advanced war horses. (To be continued...)
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