Chapter 632 [The wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep]
Chapter 632 [Wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep]
On the third day after entering the mountain, Muse vaguely saw some clues about this team, which seemed to be trying to cross the Kilimaro Mountains!
This discovery surprised the Muse quite a bit!
The Kilimaro Mountains are a huge natural barrier on the continent from north to south, stretching across the continent from northwest to southwest, winding for thousands of kilometers. The continuous mountains are like a creeping mountain on the continent.
The only gap in the giant snake is the "Northwest Corridor" in the northwest Desa Province.
In addition, other places are all majestic mountains towering into the clouds... Some mountains are so continuous that there is no end at a glance; some are solitary peaks like clouds, which make people sigh in admiration.
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If you want to cross such a mountain range, you will encounter countless cliffs, steep mountain roads, natural chasms, and solitary peaks, which are naturally dangerous places!
It is said that even the lowest peak in the Kilimaro Mountains is over three thousand meters high!
After the team entered the mountain, they first followed a mountain road all the way up in the past three days. After one day, the mountain road became steeper and narrower as they went further in.
However, although the mountain road is difficult to walk, these wolf knights are naturally extremely agile. Even in such a rugged terrain, if they were human cavalry, they would have been unable to move forward. But those wolf knights,
He can still control the giant wolf, jump and move forward lightly on the mountain road.
Even the six hundred elves gave up their carts and walked on foot. The elves were already slender and their movements were as nimble as the wind, so it was no problem.
The only one who suffered was Muse. Along the way, two days of hiking on the mountain, her feet had already developed blisters. After the blisters burst, she felt burning pain every step she took. Muse didn't want to
He lost his dignity in front of these enemies and just gritted his teeth secretly and persisted fiercely.
A large group of wolf riders walked hard in the mountains. At night, they lit a fire, prepared the food and dried meat that the wolf riders carried, and divided them to eat. The elves did not eat these dried meats, but took some with them.
Muse, on the other hand, felt even more miserable. In this team, it seemed that all the wolf riders were male werewolves, but the elves seemed to have no distinction between men and women. The only one was Muse, a woman.
However, she had not bathed for ten days. When she was on the road with Longbottom and others, she had not seen water for four days. It had been so many days since Bei was captured. At this moment, she felt that there was no place on her body that was not unbearably itchy.
Muse was originally a girl. Although she had suffered a lot after entering the military camp, it was still a bit intolerable to not take a shower for more than ten days.
When they reached the fourth heaven and earth on the mountain road, Langqi began to consciously save food.
After all, it was a group of five thousand wolf riders. Before entering the mountain, they brought a lot of grain carts with them. However, after entering the mountain, those grain carts could only be left outside the mountain. The wolf riders only carried them with them for a few days.
Just rations and dried meat for mounts.
Obviously, the rations they carry with them are not enough to sustain them until they cross the mountain range. According to estimates, if they want to cross this mountain range, even if they are lucky and can take the nearest mountain road, it will take less than twenty or thirty days.
.If you get lost in the mountains, it is normal for you to not be able to get out for two or three months.
Fortunately, these orcs and wolves have natural talents. They will not get lost in such mountains and forests. After walking for a few days, it seems that being in such wild mountains has stimulated the talents in their blood.
Come wild.
Later, these wolves could easily find water sources and the most convenient mountain roads in the mountains and forests without even carefully identifying them.
There are even ground wolf riders who patrol around during their breaks and will soon bring back some hunted beasts to replenish their food reserves.
By the time she reached the seventh heaven, Muse's leather boots were worn out. She could only quietly pull a strip of cloth from her close-fitting clothes, wrap it around her feet, and then walk hard in the worn boots.
The narrow mountain road leads up to a distant mountain peak. Because of the narrowness of the mountain road, the large army is compressed into a long snake queue. The road can only accommodate two wolf riders walking side by side, and the team is dragged for a long time.
The elder is long.
Muse was walking staggeringly, but there were cliffs around him. Looking down, he saw that the winding mountain road and the mountain road below were all filled with his own group of wolf riders.
After climbing over this high mountain, the team finally reached above the "snow line"!
From here, as we continue forward, we can see that the peaks one after another are covered with white snow. The air suddenly becomes colder, and above the top of the snow bee, the oxygen is even thinner.
Si's body could no longer hold up at first, and now he felt as if a stone was pressing on his chest. Even though he took a deep breath, he still felt out of breath.
The thick snow and ice underfoot brought great difficulties to the team.
Muse's boots were already torn. After walking for less than half a day, a lot of ice and snow filled the boots. They were first stimulated by body temperature, melted, and then froze again. It almost caused her feet to freeze.
Fortunately, the elves seemed to be very kind to Muse along the way. Some elves saw that Muse was walking strangely, so they came up and helped her sit down. After taking off her boots, they saw Muse's feet
The few blisters on her ankles had long since been smoothed away, but the originally tender skin was red from the cold. As soon as the elf's hand touched her ankle, Muse almost cried out in pain.
"You have frostbite. Fortunately, I discovered it. Otherwise, if you had walked for half a day, your feet would have been frozen."
Then, the elf took out a pair of boots from the bag he was carrying and handed them to the muse. The boots had a very strange shape, with one tip raised high and a leaf inlaid on the ankle.
What’s even stranger is that when you touch these boots, they don’t feel like they are made of animal skin, but...
"This is made of the skin of a kind of tree vine." The elf looked very gentle and said with a smile: "We, the elves, are a natural race, and naturally we will not kill animals to take their skins. There is a special species cultivated in our clan.
The tree vines will automatically shed their skin every summer. Peel off the surface bark. This bark is strong and elastic, no worse than animal skin."
Muse noticed that the other party used the word "we elves", but this wording was a bit strange. It seemed that he was included in it.
However, this elf spoke the language of the human empire very fluently, and his attitude was very gentle, which made Muse feel a little closer to him.
"Put on these boots and walk in them. Your feet won't get cold."
Muse was a little confused and changed her boots. Sure enough, she felt dry and warm. Her feet, which were originally frozen, soon felt warm.
"These boots are waterproof. In the summer, we also use the bark of this tree to make clothes. Wear them when we jump into the lake without getting wet." This kind elf glanced at the muse again.
clothing.
Muse was still wearing the mercenary uniform. But when he was walking on the mountain road a few days ago, many places were scratched by branches and looked a bit tattered. So the elf took out another cloak and gave it to him with his own hands.
Muse put it on and said softly: "This is a magic cloak. Wear it and you won't be afraid of the cold."
Muse allowed the other party to put a cloak on her, and felt a mass of magic heat naturally emitting from the cloak, and her whole body gradually warmed up.
She didn't know what to do, but she looked at the elf in front of her blankly, and couldn't help but feel a little soft. Although the two sides were enemies rather than friends, these elves treated her very well along the way. At this moment, they were sending boots and
He was giving her clothes, and his words were gentle. He didn't treat her as a prisoner of war at all, but as if she were the same kind.
"You...why are you so nice to me?" Muse shook her head vigorously.
"Because... we are the same." The elf smiled, stood up, and walked forward along the line again.
Muse was stunned and couldn't help but murmured: "Same..."
It turns out that the three sisters of the Liszt family are half-blood elves. Mrs. Liszt only told Angel, but Muse had no idea.
But at this moment, these elves' gentle words to her made her involuntarily feel a natural feeling of closeness in her heart.
With those magical leather boots and magic cloak, Muse finally no longer had to endure the torture of the cold. Just the trek on the mountain road was physically taxing, but it also made Muse feel strenuous.
Especially on high mountains, it was difficult to breathe. After walking for a while, the dizzy feeling made her almost fall off the cliff several times. Fortunately, the elf next to her held her back.
But on the tenth day, despite repeated efforts to save food, the food was finally finished.
Those wolf riders scattered and began to search for food. Fortunately, there were still many blue sheep, snow chickens, snow foxes and the like surviving on the snow-capped mountains.
In this area, there are few people around. These beasts are not afraid of people and don't know how to run away. And the wolf riders move quickly and hunt everywhere.
The six hundred elves also made huge contributions.
They brought with them a kind of plant species unique to the elves. The elves sprinkled these species on the snow, and then used the magic of the elves. Then the seeds immediately grew and sprouted in the snow, and soon they saw a plant in the snow.
One green plant after another suddenly climbed up!
These plants were intertwined like several vines, and soon formed thick tree trunks. The highest point was even more than ten meters high!
The branches and leaves grew in just one meal. The smallest leaves were as big as a basin, and the largest ones were as big as a tabletop.
And then, after six hundred elves collectively chanted a spell, purple light enveloped this small piece of magic plant. Soon, fruits grew one by one on the trunk. In an instant, dozens of big trees grew.
, it is full of fruits!
Each of those fruits was as big as a pumpkin. Seeing this dazzling array of huge fruits, many wolves and elves cheered.
Soon, an elf picked off a fruit and handed it to the Muse. He took out a dagger and gently cut it open. The flesh inside was golden. The Muse took a small bite, and his mouth was immediately filled with fragrance, and the flesh was delicate and full.
, I only ate three or five bites before I felt full.
The other wolf tribes also happily picked all the fruits on the trees and shared them.
After all the fruits were picked, these big trees quickly withered. The green branches and leaves quickly turned yellow and shrank, gradually shrank, and finally turned into a seed in the snow. But this used one
The seeds look yellow and withered.
"Don't worry, it's not dead." The elf recovered the seeds one by one: "We just have to wait for us to find a suitable water source and re-soak these seeds in water for a few days. After a year, it will regain its vitality."
The elves brought a full bag of the seeds of this magical plant.
Relying on this thing and occasionally hunting some wild animals to supplement their supplies, the group persisted for another six days.
On the sixteenth day after entering the mountain, the food was finally exhausted, and even the magical seeds that the elves carried that could produce fruits were all used up.
However, this mountain has finally turned over!
On the seventeenth day, the mountain road ahead was already going all the way down. Gradually, everyone soon crossed the snow line. The surrounding scenery was no longer pure white, and some sparse plants and woods began to appear around it. Occasionally,
You can see small patches of blue sheep living here.
Upon seeing the prey, the wolf clan immediately cheered and dispatched several teams of wolf riders to hunt everywhere. In one day, they captured hundreds of blue sheep, as well as several grouse, mountain deer and the like.
Although Muse was silent most of the time during this trip, she secretly calculated in her mind and remembered that she had visited two peaks and four snow-capped mountains along the way. The direction was also all the way to the west.
As the terrain got lower and lower, the climate here gradually became warmer. The cold wind on the mountain no longer disappeared, and there was a touch of moisture and warmth in the air. And on the nineteenth day.
A heavy rain suddenly came, and the team rested for a day in a mountain valley. The wolf clan separated a group of wolf riders and went out along the mountain valley to explore the way.
When it was almost dawn, Muse heard the wolves suddenly cheering collectively. The howls of thousands of wolves were full of excitement and excitement. One by one, the werewolves looked up to the sky and roared, raising their long knives high and shouting shrilly.
The birds in the surrounding woods flew up in fright.
Muse felt a little scared when she heard this, but the elf next to her said with a warm smile: "Well, don't be afraid. That's because we are finally out of the mountains, and these guys will scream like this when they are happy."
"Out, out of the mountain..." Muse frowned.
Sure enough, after dawn, Muse also saw the group of wolf riders returning from exploring the road. These wolf riders did not come back empty-handed, they also brought back some "prey".
More than twenty cattle and sheep, four horses... and three humans!
Humanity!!
The humans brought back by this team of wolf riders were three men, one of whom looked like he was just an adult.
These three prisoners were all dressed in sheepskin robes and crude cowhide boots. When they walked, they had a strange limp, but still had some bow-legged appearance that had been formed after years of riding horses. They wore dirty sheepskin hats on their heads.
, all the wool has fallen off, and there are still a few pieces of pudding.
After staying in the northwest Desa province for many years, Muse had dealt with many caravans. She could tell at a glance that the clothes of these three captives were exactly the standard clothes of herdsmen on the grasslands!
Herdsmen? Grassland herdsmen?
Muse's eyes darkened a little.
The leather robes of these three herdsmen had been cut in many places, and all three of them had some scars. After being captured by the wolf riders, the face of the younger one of the three showed a bit of fear and panic.
The eyes of the two elders were only slightly surprised, but not much fearful. They looked more like a natural defense!
The skin was roughened by sleeping in the open air on the grassland, and his eyes were cold. The wolf rider was holding a long knife against him. The herdsman stared at the werewolves around him, but his face was full of hatred!
Muse stood outside and said nothing. Several elves walked over and talked with the werewolves for a while. After returning, Muse was told that these herdsmen were encountered by a group of wolf riders who went out to explore the road.
There was a herdsman family nearby with about 17 or 18 people. When they encountered the wolf cavalry, there were about 200 wolf cavalry. As a result, the wolf cavalry wiped out all the herdsmen! Among the 17 or 18 people, there were old, weak, women and children.
Most of them were killed. Although the grassland herdsmen stood up and resisted. Moreover, according to the news brought back from the wolf cavalry, these fierce herdsmen also caused some trouble to the wolf cavalry. The prairie herdsmen have excellent riding skills and have grown up on horses since childhood.
Big, no matter men, women, old or young, they can ride horses, shoot arrows, and swing scimitars.
In one battle, two wolf riders were injured.
There was also a herdsman who, relying on his excellent riding skills and fast horses, managed to escape with all his strength before being annihilated. These three prisoners were their family members who were captured alive by the wolf cavalry after fighting to the end. At this moment, they were already dead.
They were all turned into corpses. The tents were burned down and the cattle and sheep were brought back.
After hearing this, Muse was deeply shocked, but she only had one thought left!
Grassland! We have come to the grassland! We have crossed the Kilimaro Mountains and come to the grassland!!
These five thousand wolf riders, plus six hundred elf warriors, have quietly crossed the empire's barrier and arrived at the grassland on the side of the empire!!!
The three captured herdsmen were interrogated by the wolves, but unfortunately, although the elves had learned the human language, they were limited to the language of the empire and could not speak the language of the grassland people. The only one in the team was
The only one who understands the language of the prairie people is Muse.
But of course Muse herself would not take the initiative. She stood quietly aside and thought carefully.
Muse originally thought that these werewolves would lock her up with the three prairie captives. But she thought wrongly. It seems that along the way, these guys treated her preferentially. It seemed that it was purely because these elves took care of her. But these elves treated the three
He was a prairie prisoner, but he didn't seem to have any favorable impressions. Judging from the eyes the elves cast on the three prairie herdsmen, in addition to hostility, there was even a bit of disgust and contempt in their eyes. It seemed that one more glance would dirty their eyes.
Same.
Since the three herdsmen were not questioned or interrogated, they were quickly killed under the orders of the wolf tribe.
Muse was helpless and watched helplessly as the three herdsmen were stabbed to death. Before he died, the young boy shouted loudly in prairie dialect. Muse heard clearly what the young boy shouted:
"The great Witch King will punish you monsters! The great God of Snow Mountain will avenge you for the bloodshed of the grassland children!"
That night, Muse did not fall asleep. She was thinking in her heart: These wolf riders worked hard to cross the mountains, narrowly escaped death, and came to the grassland. Why?!
Three days later, Muse finally confirmed his guess!
As expected, my group has arrived at the grassland!
After trekking in the mountains for twenty days, even though the wolf riders were elite, they were already exhausted. Due to the lack of food, in order to save food for many days, most of the wolf riders were in a state of semi-starvation, and only a few elites maintained adequate food rations.
, maintaining combat effectiveness.
Under the order of Dominez, the leader of the wolf riders, five thousand elite wolf riders rested in this valley for three full days. At the same time, several groups of wolf riders were sent out to search everywhere. In three days, four hundred wolf riders
The wolf cavalry wiped out more than ten grassland herdsmen's villages, killed hundreds of herdsmen, and seized a large number of cattle, sheep, and horses, all of which became food for the wolf cavalry.
Three days later, the exhausted wolf riders who had been trekking for nearly a month finally recovered. Those werewolves who had regained their energy had a fierce light in their eyes again, and they began to sharpen their blades and wipe their armor with energy.
, while feeding the giant wolf...
Early that morning, under the order of the wolf rider leader, five thousand wolf riders set off and walked out of this valley...
Less than a few miles out of the mountain, the terrain in front suddenly opened up! I saw thousands of miles of green in front of me, endless grassland! There was no end to the vast grassland at a glance!
In the distance, the intersection of green grass and blue sky seems to be connected to the city!
This is the first time for most werewolves to see such an open grassland. Except for these small teams who went out to hunt before, most werewolves couldn't help but draw their swords on the back of the giant wolf and howl!
A wild nature hidden in their blood was inspired by the scenery of green grass and blue sky!
Wolves! They were supposed to live in this kind of world!
This wolf rider has become a bloody wind on the grassland!
Five thousand wolf riders and six hundred elf warriors turned into a killing stream, walking on the grassland for three days! In three days, they burned, killed and looted wherever they went, and every small group of herdsmen who encountered them
, all were destroyed!
Although the grassland people are fierce and capable in riding and shooting, after all, those small groups of herdsmen only have a population of three to five hundred at most, and young adults only account for 30% of the total population. If they encounter such five thousand wolf riders, they will only be bullied.
It's my share.
Along the way, the herdsmen's cattle and sheep became food for the wolf riders, and they burned and killed each nomadic village one by one. The wolf riders encountered almost no effective resistance.
Moreover, the Wolf Cavalry moves quickly, coming and going like the wind, and is gone in one strike. Even when several large tribes on the grassland got the news that such a foreign enemy had appeared, and prepared to organize people to resist, the Wolf Cavalry was
Gone long ago!
Muse followed the team, puzzled as to what on earth these five thousand elite wolf riders were doing here.
Running behind the empire and attacking? But that's not like it.
Although the five thousand wolf cavalry are elite, if they run into the interior of the empire, they will have no choice but to destroy themselves. What’s more, this is a grassland. What does burning, killing, and looting here have to do with the empire?
Finally on the eighth day after entering the grassland.
Wolf Rider encountered a caravan!
This is a caravan coming from within the empire. There are about a hundred people in the caravan, including thirty mercenaries from the Desert Fox Mercenary Group to protect them.
When I saw the long cavalry, hundreds of wolf cavalry roared and rushed forward!
Muse saw the caravan from a distance, and on the leader's horse was a familiar flag!
Golden tulip flag!!
On the grassland, any caravan with a tulip flag has long become an object of awe from various tribes. Due to Du Wei's prestige in the northwest, even the most powerful Saladin on the grassland has to look up to Du Wei.
, on the grassland. Absolutely no tribe dares to rob the caravan flying the flag of the Tulip Family!
But this time, looking at the roaring wolf cavalry, the caravan was obviously caught off guard. It didn't even have time to gather the horses to form a defense, and was directly overwhelmed by the roaring wolf cavalry!
Seeing the caravans of the Tulip family being massacred by wolf riders, Muse flushed, clenched her fists, and gritted her teeth desperately. She was about to go up and fight, but was stopped by the elves around her. Those elves were powerful and even more powerful.
With magic skills, Muse was pressed on the shoulders by two people. She suddenly lost all her strength.
Watching helplessly, hundreds of people in this caravan were slaughtered, and dozens of mercenaries fought to the end. Some were hacked to death by wolf riders, some were bitten to death by giant wolves, and they fought until the last person died!
Finally, several merchants in the caravan were captured. Not only could these merchants speak the imperial language, they were also familiar with the language of the prairie people, but they were prisoners specially ordered by the elves to be captured!
"They need translation." Muse's heart immediately became clear.
Sure enough, when the elves interrogated these businessmen, they did not deliberately hide it from Muse and allowed Muse to stand aside.
Several of them were ordinary businessmen. They spent money to pay protection fees in the Tulip family territory, and then they got the protection of the Tulip flag and the desert fox mercenary group. They thought they could have a safe journey, but they didn't.
Thinking of encountering such a group of wolf riders suddenly falling from the sky!
Several businessmen were trembling with fear. They were just ordinary people, but they said nothing under the destructive eyes and blades of the werewolves around them.
Muse listened clearly and only heard an elf asking in a cold voice:
"How to get to the Snowy Mountains!"
Upon hearing this, Muse's face suddenly changed!
Snowy Mountain!!
In the northwest, who doesn’t know the prestige of the Snowy Mountains on the grassland?
The disciple of Daxue Mountain, the magical wizard...and...
And the Witch King who is regarded as a god by the grassland people!!
These guys, their goal is the Snowy Mountains?!
Unfortunately, although these businessmen can speak some prairie dialect, none of them know where the Snowy Mountains are.
The wolf cavalry is cruel and barbaric. If you ask the first one, he doesn't know. He just cuts it into two pieces with a single slash!
Ask the second one, I don’t know, it’s just a knife if I go down!
When asked about the third prisoner, the man was trembling with fear, his face turned pale, and he smelled a stench, but even his pants were wet.
Muse strode out proudly, looking coldly at the many werewolves and elves.
"Are you going to the Snowy Mountains?"
The elves were all stunned, and Muse looked grim: "I ask you if you want to go to the Snowy Mountains!"
"Yes, we are going to the Snowy Mountains." An elf came over with a gentle face. It was the same one who gave the Muse leather boots and magic cloak when we were on the mountain.
"Let them go!" Muse pointed to the remaining prisoners with a determined look on his face: "I'll take you there!!"