Chapter 1057 Attack on Gretel and the Golden Road in the Rainforest
Gretel hurried hard, practicing transforming into a leopard, practicing walking, running and climbing, practicing understanding plants and animals, and practicing all the skills of living in the rainforest.
I fall dozens of times a day, roll around thirty or fifty times, and bump into here and there countless times...
Those who heard it were sad, and those who saw it were in tears. If it hadn't been for the soft body, increased agility, and unlimited supply of healing skills after transforming into a black panther, Gretel would have been thrown to the ground.
Even so, when he woke up every morning, he would be in a ball, rolling around in bed, not wanting to get up.
If you are in a hurry, just hurry on. He is a good mage, why should he lower himself to the level of an animal...
I don’t want to get up... I don’t want to turn into a leopard... I don’t want to practice transformation...
Want sleep……
"Gretel! Get up!"
In another compartment of the mage's cabin, Cerela shouted energetically.
Grete turned over again and covered his head with the quilt - although in the constant-temperature mage's cabin, the value of the quilt was limited to psychological comfort:
"I didn't hear...I fell asleep...don't look for me..."
"Get up! Breakfast is ready! - If you don't get up, I will disband the mage's hut!"
"Ugh...Serila, you're a bad learner..."
I just stayed in bed for a while, why did I bring up the quilt...
Bernard and Mr. Hawthorne studied in silence, trying to follow along and practice whatever lessons they could learn.
Ms. Jasmine quietly took care of the logistics. Occasionally, she took the time to comfort Grete with a few words:
"This is how it was when you first started learning the art of transformation..."
"When I first started, I stumbled and couldn't walk steadily... And I chose the wolf shape transformation, which doesn't require jumping or climbing. It's much simpler than your leopard shape..."
"Don't be impatient, take your time. Ask Sister Yue Ge, do the elves on Elf Island be able to run and jump as soon as they transform, or do they take ten or eight years of practice?"
Gretel raised his head in response, and saw a trace of embarrassment on Ash Yuege's face that was too late to restrain.
Of course... I learned it slowly!
Young elves, who has nothing to do and practice hard! The lifespan of an elf is so long, and the days on the Elf Island are so long, why do you have to practice hard every day?
Play the piano, sing, collect dew on flowers to make elf wine, collect pollen and nectar to make snacks...
Study magic, plant flowers and plants, take care of trees, take care of various animals...
There is so much fun in one day, why should we spend all our time training, fighting, and advancing?
After transforming several times a day, the young elves transformed into little wolves, little bears, and little leopards, huddled together in a furry ball, and crawled and rolled together for one, two, three, or five years. They naturally learned it!
But Grete can’t!
From the land of the eagle to the fertile forest, a forest guard like her turns into a leopard and rushes at full speed, and it only takes a month;
If, like now, a group of people ride phantom horses or monsters and drive straight through at a speed that is not too slow, it will only take three or four months.
If they arrive at the Fertile Forest, Gretel will still look like he is now. He stumbles with every step, slips with every third step, and falls to the ground with every fifth step...
It is difficult to move in the rich forest!
Where others can easily jump over, you have to crawl over using your hands and feet, and you might just slap yourself on an ant's nest!
Even if he can barely walk, it's hard to convince other forest guards, other elves, or other natives that this cub is a strong healer——
Would you entrust the life of your companion to a half-elf cub who looked very clumsy and obviously unskilled when you first met him?
"Gretel, hurry up and transform! We won't be practicing running today - we'll start with practicing perception!"
When Gretel was in dire straits, there were still some people in the far south who were also in dire straits.
"It's time to set off! Let's check all the boxes and the mules and horses for the last time to make sure that each one is the strongest and strongest!"
A tall soldier with short black hair, a short black beard on his upper lip, a pale complexion, was shouting to the entire team:
"Fill your water bladders! Check your food! In the next month, if you don't want to eat the mud chunks of the indigenous people, just keep an eye on your food packaging!"
"There are also water purification beads! Anti-mosquito incense! High-top thick-soled shoes! Check them all! We have to walk in the jungle for a month. If something happens during this month, there will be no priest from the cathedral to save your lives.
!”
In front of him, a small team of 200 people, from officers to soldiers, responded one after another, each checking their armor, swords and water bags.
As for the coolies who serve the mules and horses, those with tan skin and flat faces, they are much silent:
The gold, silver, and precious stones carried by these mules were all mined from their hometowns and excavated by their compatriots with their flesh, blood, and lives.
Now, they are packed in boxes, tied to mules and horses, and continuously transported through the dense forest to the other side of the sea.
It turns into the golden crown on the king's head, the necklace around the neck of the noble lady, and the shining gold and silver thread on the bishop's robe...
If those metals and gems had souls attached to them, I'm afraid the anger and hatred stained on those gold and silver jewelry would be enough to drag the wearer to hell!
"are you done?"
"alright!"
"Let's go! Rod, you lead the first team, John, your second team, Clemon, your third team..."
The black-haired officer kept giving orders. The team filed into the depths of the rain forest along the narrow mountain road that could only accommodate one person or a mule.
Soon, this small team was submerged in the vast jungle and could no longer be seen.
This team set out from the Governor-General of Pellu, one of the four major governor-general areas, passed through the Isthmus of Vasco, and arrived at the waters of the Storm Islands. Then, these precious gold and silver gems were loaded at the port and sent directly back to the kingdom.
——
Decades ago, an expedition team from the Kingdom of Brolin and the Holy See of Glory conquered the Kingdom of Pellu, captured its king, and plundered the kingdom's treasures.
During the subsequent exploration, the explorers discovered that the Kingdom of Pellu had rich reserves of gold and silver and was worthy of continued rule, thus establishing the Viceroyalty of Pellu. However, transporting the harvest from the Viceroyalty back to the kingdom was not an easy task.
:
To the south of the Governor-General of Pelleux, there are endless mountains with continuous snow-capped peaks reaching into the clouds. If you do not take the land route and rely on shipping, it will take several months to reach the southern tip of the New World.
And there, the wind was strong and the waves were high, and the rapids were swirling, pushing the huge ice blocks into crazy collisions. What was left for ships was far from a safe channel, and could only be regarded as a narrow path.
From the Governor's Mansion to the east, there are endless dense forests. In the words of the elves, they are the fertile forest, the torrent forest, the rain song forest... In short, they are large tracts of rain forest;
But in the eyes of predators who are not close to nature, but are just arrogant over nature, it is just an endless forest, extending from the mountains in the west to the east coast. No one has ever walked through this road.
As for the west... the kingdom is in the east, why are you transporting gold and silver to the east and west? Besides, the west is a vast ocean, and no ship traveling in that direction has ever returned, except for the legendary elves' ships...
So only the north is left. Go north, north, open the sail, all the way north, to the narrowest and thinnest part between the southern half and the northern half of the New World.
Then, abandon the ship and go ashore, cross the Isthmus of Vasco, and reach the ocean on the other side.
In this way, the distance they walked on land, including the twists and turns over mountains and ridges, was only six to seven hundred miles. And these six to seven hundred miles of road are almost absolutely safe. To the east is the Storm Islands under the rule of the kingdom; to the west is the endless ocean; to the south is the Viceroyalty of Pellu that has been included in the rule, and to the north?
Not to mention, this section of the Isthmus of Vasco is still considered the boundary of the Governorate of the Storm Islands, even further north...
Oh, further north there is an indigenous country called the Eagle Country, but it is thousands of miles away from the isthmus. Their hands have never been stretched so long.
Of course, something has happened in the Eagle Kingdom recently, and it is said that it has colluded with the evil pagans. For this reason, the Governor has also made a series of arrangements, just in case.
However, what this team transporting gold and silver needs to be wary of most is the indigenous people and magical beasts along the way, as well as the unpredictable majesty of nature.
"Those nasty humans are here again."
In the rain forest, a dark green figure flashed behind the tree trunks, almost blending into the dense canopy. He looked at the team from a distance, his brows furrowed, and the tips of his ears trembled slightly:
"The people who destroy nature are here again..."
Sissoyan sighed.
Those outsiders opened up the mountain forests and cut down the trees. They sent strong men to kill the powerful monsters near this passage. If they couldn't kill them, they drove them away. Two hundred miles to the south and two hundred miles to the north, they created a man-made tunnel.
corridor;
They drove slaves and used mules and horses to carry backpacks of cobblestones to pave a road in the vast jungle. To this day, the bones of slaves, together with the piles of cobblestones, still guide the direction of this post road;
They even wanted to destroy this jungle - he once followed the team that opened the post road and heard them say with his own ears, "In the future, when we have enough manpower, we will open a canal here to allow ships to pass from one side of the ocean to the other.
You can reach the other side directly..."
How many forests and plants will be destroyed, and how many animals will lose their homes?
Sisuoyin tightened his green cloak tightly to cover his weather-beaten face. As the guardian of this rain forest, he had been worried about it for many years. He asked for help from his compatriots in the Fertile Forest, Torrent Forest, and Yusong Forest.
, they themselves cannot spare the manpower;
Asking for help from the compatriots on Elf Island, life on Elf Island is actually not peaceful...
Fortunately, year after year, the people who opened the canal did not come. He looked at the horse teams meandering on the mountain road and sighed softly:
"Forget it, there are experts in this team, we can't beat them. It's better to go to the front quickly and notify the people in the surrounding villages to hide, so as not to be ruined by them..."
Sissoyen leaned against the tree trunk behind him and blended in quietly. After a moment, he appeared outside another tree trunk in the distance. Using the big tree in this way, he kept moving, and soon he was far away.
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