Yu walked a few steps and stood at Hongye's position. He tilted his head and listened carefully, then shook his head blankly: "Nothing is here"
"I can't hear it too now." Hongye said unsurely, "...Forget it. It may be that I heard it wrong, how could there be someone here. Yu, what did you just say?"
"Oh, I said—"
They two stations are facing the direction of the cave, when Yu turned his head to speak, at that moment, a gust of wind came from east to west, passing through the cave in the lower belly of the cliff, and blowing towards the two people who had not yet left.
"Smell of blood?!"
Yu and Hongye stared at the dark cave at the same time, they smelled the...blood smell coming from the wind!
The two snow werewolf warriors didn't need to communicate and rushed into the cave simultaneously—Ayun and two adult tribesmen were on the beach behind them. If there were dangerous or dangerous creatures around the beach, they could find out in advance.
This cliff protruding from the sea is not high, but wide in area. The naturally formed cave is very deep. There is no light after entering a few meters, and it becomes long and narrow and twisted. The narrowest place needs to be sideways to pass through; As the two snow werewolf warriors deepened, the smell of blood sent by the wind became stronger and stronger, and the smell was numerous and mixed, as if many people were fighting on the other side of the cave.
Climbing and trotting deep in the narrow and cramped cave for a few minutes, wading through the stagnant water in the lower part, the space in front of them gradually opened up, and several bends around, Yu and Hongye finally saw where the smell of blood came from... the two of them both inhaled a cold breath, looked at each other, quickly got down, hiding in the hole and peeking out.
The exit of the cave, on the other side of the cliff, is another long coastline. There are five big boats with broken sails stranded on the beach, and the hull is obviously inclined. There are several artificial grass and wood sheds on the beach, and the siege is similar to a temporary camp. Looks like, there are still a lot of cargo boxes piled up in the camp, which were probably removed from ships.
If this is just a stranded boat resting here, it's fine. The inner sea is a lush sea trade road... But from what the two snow werewolf warriors saw, it's not that simple: on the beach at this moment, simple There is a bloody battle going on in the open space in front of the camp. One side is a crew member who relies on the cargo box as a shelter and yells, and the other side is two elves.
It stands to reason that the number of elves is at an absolute disadvantage, but...in this battle, they are clearly the winners. The crew composed of humans and orcs are not their opponents at all, and they have been killed and retreated steadily, even if they are surrounded by relatively high piles. The cargo box wandered desperately, or from time to time one or two crew members had to make screams of being chopped and slashed...
Hongye suppressed the sound very low, similar to exhaling: "How did the elves fight the caravan?"
Yu shook his head slightly: "Hongye, look behind them."
Hongye shifted her gaze to the direction of the wooden shed, and stared sharply-there were a lot of naked people in the wooden shed with rope tied around his neck. People, there are humans, orcs... It seems there is a elf girl? !
Hongye's mouth suddenly opened so that she could squeeze her fist in... This caravan actually came to catch the elf slave? Are these people serious and not afraid of death? !
The two snow werewolf warriors secretly observed their kung fu for a while, and there were more than a dozen people on the crew's side that splashed blood on the spot. In such a fierce battlefield, even the two snow werewolves were trembling in the fight, let alone the crew involved. One of the humans wielding a scimitar seemed to be unable to bear this kind of unilateral slaughter, and suddenly ran out of his position and charged. At the last wooden shed, he caught an elf girl whose hands and feet were tied up with a rope, and put a scimitar across the neck of the elf girl, and shouted something to the two elf warriors who were still fighting.
"Despicable!"
Yu and Hongye were furious, but... the next second, the kidnapped elf girl hit the scimitar by herself, and the huge amount of blood sprayed from her neck even Yu and Hongye far away was horrified.
An elf warrior pulled up the long knife that the dead crew member had inserted in the sand and threw it fiercely. The crew member who tried to threaten the opponent with the elf girl was immediately pierced by the long knife...
"..." The two snow werewolf warriors went down again.
After more than half of the crew of a hundred people were beheaded, they could no longer form an effective defensive formation. They lost their fighting spirit and fled in all directions; the two elves did not intend to let them go, and both took off their long bows. When the bowstring rang and arrows with magical halo flew out, the crew with their backs must fall.
Slaughter, a one-sided slaughter absolutely based on few to many. About ten minutes later, there were no more standing people on the beach except for two elf warriors.
The blood-stained elf warrior walked silently to the elf girl in a pool of blood. One of them picked up her body and uttered a sad song like a nightingale singing.
They took off the blood-stained clothing, wrapped up the elf girl and tied it to the back, and then entered the wooden shed to untie the ropes of the other slaves; they were too far apart to hear what they were talking about, Yu and Hongye could only guess what the slaves who were released were begging for, and some people stumbled to the cargo box, opened the box, and showed the shiny things in the box to the two elf warriors.
A large group of former slaves surrounded the elf warriors and said things for a long time. The two elf warriors seemed to nod their heads, so these slaves stripped their clothes from the dead crew members and put them on, and then took out things from the cargo boxes and packed them. Only then followed the two elf warriors to leave the beach and head towards the depth of the land.
Hongye and Yu waited until the figure of these people disappeared in the dense vegetation, then they both bounced up, turned their heads and ran towards the road... There are elves activities nearby! Too dangerous! Tell Ayun quickly!
...In half an hour.
After hearing the small bloody battle that took place on the beach "next door" from the two soldiers who were definitely smart men among the Snow Werewolves, Xiao Yun's face was a bit pale...it's so special, this world is really so cruel! But Xiao Yun really didn't understand Hongye and Yu's nervous direction: "It's really dangerous to have a slave-catching fleet moving around here, but since it has been wiped out by the elves, it should be fine?"
"..." Hongye has no expression on her face.
Yu especially didn't understand Xiao Yun's reaction: "Ayun what are you talking about? Why is the slave fleet dangerous?"
"Huh?"
"Wait." Hongye grabbed Yu, twitched his mouth and said, "I forgot one. Regarding the matter, Ayun is not very clear about some common sense. He had asked me before if the orc empire will hit the grassland..."
"?!" Yu showed an expression of destruction of his worldview, facing Xiao Yun with a particularly horrified face, as if Xiao Yun had done something heinous to him.
Xiao Yun: "??"
...It's like this, after passing "common sense".
This time, Xiao Yun showed the expression that his worldview was broken.
"Do you understand? Ayun?" Hongye was concerned.
"...Understood." Xiao Yun couldn't make an expression. His mood at the moment was almost upset. "We inhabitants of the grassland have been so happy and foolishly messing around. It all depends on the two ferocious neighbors of us living next door.
" Hongye & Yu: "??"
Xiao Yun held his forehead with his hand. He didn't want to speak, he wanted to be quiet.
After coming to this world and knowing that there is an orc empire on the east side of the grassland and a human kingdom on the south side, Xiao Yun has been worried about when these two families will start to grab the grassland this flat land... After all, the history of the earth, The origin of civilization of any nation started from a plain with lush water resources.
As for the snow-capped mountains to the north, Xiao Yun really didn't pay much attention...Even if he knew that the northern elves were super capable of fighting, and the elves of a city could just face the army of the orc empire, Xiao Yun didn't think that the northern elves were so wide—this is really true empiricism kills people! The people on earth have too high a natural affection for elves, which are naturally beautiful creatures!
The reality is that in this other world, the elves are the most iron species!
After the Orc King hit the Elf King City eleven years ago, he took the imperial army to the Orc King's home and went on an armed tour within half a year. He was only willing to return to the city until the Orc King had no temper!
Humans dare not enter the north of the mainland by land, because the jungle is the territory of the forest elves!
There is no such thing as rich and powerful old human beings who can raise elves as playthings in this world, because once the elves know who their kinsman will arrest them as slaves, they will have to expedition ten thousand miles away to beat you cry~
To offend an elf, there will be millions of elves gearing up and waiting to kill your whole family. This is not funny in this world. In the words of the people of the steppes, this is the epic of war in this world. There are at least eight out of ten. The field is related to the elves...
Xiao Yun couldn't laugh or cry. There are so many cute and playful elves-related pornographic works on the earth, which really deceived him-sensibly and with a little IQ, the average life span is over 500 years old and the physique is strong. The elves, if there is no evil in the world to sprout people and collectively reduce their intelligence, how weak and stupid can such a group of long-lived creatures with magical talents? Apart from the earth people's random imagination, what else is possible?
The elves here are mainly divided into three major races: forest elves, dark elves and snow mountain elves.
According to the magical power of the elves themselves, the snow mountain elves are the first, and they are both study magical and powerful. They are a group of beauties with white skin and red eyes and pointed ears. (Nickname Red Eyes Pointed Ears), the leader is the "Elven King" of Snow Mountain.
Then there is the forest elves, majoring in magic. They are a group of light green skin, mainly golden and green eyes pointed ear beauties (nickname green skin pointed ears). The leader is the forest "Elf queen".
Finally, there are dark elves. They are a group of dark-skinned elves who are more slack in practicing magic and force. Their eyeballs are mainly brown, brown, black and other dark colors. They are also super beauties with pointed ears (nickname black leather pointed ears), leader The one is the "Dark Elf Grandmother."
A branch of other forest elf races "plain elves" ...
The dark elves play a rebellion. Once they drill into the underground world,and they become a boss. The dark elves can also fight against the kingdom of dwarves under the ground, with the light background of the branch of the elves...
If Xiao Yun wants to develop the grassland and develop agriculture well, he must be friends with the two ferocious neighbors, the Snow Mountain Elf and the Forest Elf. It is unlikely that a war will break out between these sparsely populated aborigines, and the Orc Empire and the Human Kingdom will fight over? It is afraid that it won't last long if the Orc Empire occupy the land.
Rubbing his eyebrows vigorously, Xiao Yun endured the headache and put aside the affairs of the elves... It would be no problem if he didn't put it aside. Compared with the population of the snow werewolf and the elves, he would not expected to fight with the elves and get a consequent which one could win. It's not an order of magnitude at all, the snow werewolves don't even be put in elve's eys.
"After all, it was the merchant ship who caught the elves that caused the elves to rebound. It doesn't matter to us how to say it." Xiao Yun said, "We will leave when we make the salt, and we will not stay here. Even if we encounter the elves, both sides They didn't provoke them, and they won't bother us."
Hongye and Yu thought about it, and reluctantly nodded. The wood elves usually move in the depths of the jungle and do not come out. Occasionally, when patrolling, both parties are far away. If you really have any contact with the elves, there is no way.
"Speaking of it, do you say that the elves took away the slaves of the merchant ships and also the goods?" Xiao Yun's eyes were piercing, "Five ships, and only a group of slaves cannot take away all the goods. Is there still left other goods?"
Hongye and Yu looked at him blankly.
"It's such a coincidence that the merchant ship we came to get the salt ran aground on the nearby beach and killed the elves. Doesn't this mean that we are destined to help clean the battlefield? Come on, when Ashan and Qingyan come back, Let's pick up the goods... and clean the battlefield voluntarily. Otherwise, what about plague pollution caused by so many corpses?" Xiao Yun patted his thigh, "It is so happy to decide!"
Hongye & Yu: "? "
...So when Ashan and Qingyan returned to the team, Xiao Yun took all the staff to pick up the free goods--ah no, go to clean the battlefield.
It's close to the cave under the cliff, but the road is too difficult to walk. This time a group of people walked around from the shore. After walking for almost an hour, bypassing the cliffs, and seeing the tragic battle scene with his own eyes, Xiao Yun almost couldn't stop vomiting...
Calculated by Hongye and Yu's return time, this fight should have happened two hours ago. In just such a short time, the corpses on the beach attracted countless predators, seabirds and seagulls, biting, pecking, Nibbles and so on made the whole beach covered with ground meat and bone scum, not to mention looking at it with the eyes, you would have to shake your head to smoke it.
Endure the nausea to drive away scavengers, pick up the crew's clothes that the slaves didn't take away, and drag the wreckage of the crew to the shore to dig a pit and bury it. Even if the "duty" is completed, then it's exciting. When people's hearts-out of the box!
Er...most of the cargo boxes on the pile of sand have been opened by people. Most of them are empty and nothing is left. After turning to the bottom, we found a few cargo boxes with left items.
Xiao Yun quickly took the scimitar dropped by the crew to pry open the first box... Bad luck, it turned out that half of the box looked like a copper plate of coins. What use is this thing on the grassland? ! Currency is not in circulation at all!
Prying open the second and third boxes again, Xiao Yun's expression turned cloudy immediately: The two boxes were actually filled with cloth soaked in water. Although the dyeing patterns on the cloth were all blurred, Who pays attention to good-looking here?
When prying open the last box, Xiao Yun almost died suddenly without getting too excited--there was a box of germinated potatoes inside!
"Ayun?!" Uncle Ashan looked at Xiao Yun in horror at Xiao Yun, who was holding his chest and panting for breath.
"I'm okay...uncle, this, this is a real treasure, I must, must take it back in its entirety!" Xiao Yun grinned at a box of potatoes, his tone almost the same as a last word.
"Ayun, don't scare me!" Ashan quickly dropped the crew weapons he collected, and ran over to hug his nephew.
... After taking a bit of a word to make Ashan understand that he was really just getting excited, Xiao Yun looked lika a rent-collecting landlord stared at the temporary camp set up by the crew.
"Iron pan, iron pan, hahahahahaha!"
"Pocket watches!"
"Sewing kit hahahaha! Steel needles!"
"Oh there is a medicine cabinet wow hahahaha!"
A group of snow werewolves and a black panther hugged together in shaking, is Ayun crazy?
Moved out all the things they had searched in the temporary camp, and the addicted Xiao Yun turned his attention to the five boats lying in the shoal.
Climbing is definitely the best at Qingyan. Xiao Yun, who is eager for profit (...), doesn't care about Qingyan's fear of water. He stuffed the rope found in the camp into Qingyan's arms, and let Hongye carry Qingyan. The big boat runs in the sea.
"No, don't ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" Qing Yan screamed and struggled.
"Don't be afraid! You can't touch the water!" Hongye persuaded, and tried to raise Qingyan with his hands. After running to the side of the ship, he threw Qingyan on the hull again.
...Qingyan immediately stretched out his claws to catch the hull, and then instinctively climbed up.
"Tie the rope and throw one end down!" Xiao Yun shouted heartlessly from below.
Qingyan has countless swear words to say deep in his heart.
The slave fleet seems to have been stranded for a long time. The damaged hull shows signs of repair. There are not many things left on the ship, but it is still valuable.
In the corner of the cabin of a ship, Xiao Yun ecstatically found two bags of heavily sprouting sweet potatoes... The value of this thing is about the same as that of potatoes, and it is a high-yield starchy side food. Half of ancient Europe on the earth depends on potatoes. To feed, in the so-called Kang-Qian heyday in Chinese history, sweet potatoes were also piled up. These two pieces of jade are worth more than a whole ship of jewelry and jade. The people on the grassland need to develop a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes to solve the food ration problem.
"Thank this beach for letting the slave boat run aground, and thank the elves who cleared the field!" Xiao Yun looked towards the jungle from the bottom of his heart and affectionately, "How much benefit your expedition has brought us... wait for us to develop in the future. Now, you friend, I'll make it!"
After scouring the inside and out, Xiao Yun even asked Qingyan to take down the others sail and take it away... Don't look at the broken sails for patching up, it's linoleum anyway, it can be as waterproof.
The group of people who returned with a load... continue to squat in the salt pan to boil the salt. It's so rare to take a trip like this. If you don't bring as much salt back as you can, you will lose out. Originally they didn't carry many leather bags and couldn't cook more, but now they have missed the slave fleet, they have obtained more than ten iron pots and a few large bundles of oily leather bags. If they hadn't come out with enough staff, Xiao Yun would want to be there. Lai by the sea until the end of summer.
One month later, at the edge of the jungle.
Six huge snow werewolves, carrying small mountain-like sacks wrapped in sails, walked slowly north along the edge of the jungle.
"The water vapor is a bit heavy, it's going to rain, Ayun."
Walking in the front, Ashan looked up at the dark clouds in the sky, and turned to look at the nephew riding on the back of Ayue.
Xiao Yun has been frowning at the sky for a long time. Since five days ago, the rain on the grassland has become dense. It will be the next time in almost two days, and there is no way to dry the salt. So he asked the people to pack the harvest and prepare to go home. . Unexpectedly, after embarking on the way home, the frequency of rain for the past two days has become every day...This made him vaguely disturbed.
"...Should it not be so bad that the water was flooded in the first year of farming?" Xiao Yun felt very unsure. Now the wheat has been harvested, but the soybeans, alfalfa, and vegetable fields are still in the fields. Will the riverbank play a role...
The sky suddenly darkened, and the next moment lightning flashed across the sky.
After a few seconds, thunder rang out.
"You can't go anymore, rest where you are." Xiao Yun patted Ayue's wolf skull. After Ayue stood firm, he jumped off, "Go outside, don't get too close to the jungle. There are trees around when it thunders. It's not safe."
Found a slightly higher slope, piled the materials wrapped by the sails on the slope, and collected some straws around to cover it, and the big raindrops splashed down like a curtain.
The snow werewolves have recovered their human form, sitting in rows on the slopes, holding their stomachs helplessly in the rain, they are not afraid of raindrops on their bodies, but their stomachs are panicked... When it rains, the rain will completely cover the breath of the beasts. Children hunting, the rain keeps going hungry.
Hmm... Qingyan is more embarrassed... Hongye sees him quite pitifully, so she embraces him and uses her body to block part of the wind and rain.
"I guess I won't be able to open the fire tonight. Eat dried fish to top it." Xiao Yun opened the oily skin bag and took out the dried fish made between the salt and gave it to everyone... The fishing nets are made of bark fiber and knit sweaters. The skilled worker Qingyan made a fishing net without much trouble.
The so-called relying on the sea to eat the sea, squatting on the beach for the past twenty days Xiao Yun has made a lot of seafood to give everyone a taste of freshness. When he left the beach, he took away a lot of salted fish and dried shrimps. It can eaten on the way or brought back to the tribe. The clansmen who stay behind can taste these new snacks.
When they came, they only walked for five and a half days in a human form. When they returned, there were too many things and changed the weight of the wolf and it was difficult to walk. After more than two days of work, a group of people went to the place where they had to turn when they were blocked by the jungle.
The salty dried fish swallowed a little bit, then opened his mouth and drank some rainwater. The snow werewolves who had been walking for most of the day only regained some energy.
It's just that after they rested for a while, the lightning and thunder continued without stopping, and there was a tendency to continue. Naturally, they couldn't continue on the road... The thunderstorm on the grassland was terrifying, and the snow werewolves would never be here no matter how stupid and cure they were. This kind of weather turns into wolves form running around, in case of bad luck, it will kill them.
"It seems that we can only stay here for the night." Yu wiped the rain off his face and looked worriedly at the materials covered with straws. "Ayun, there is no problem with the salt inside?"
"Salt all packed in an oily leather bag and then wrapped in canvas. It's not problem. There is also no problem with the dried fish." Xiao Yun had some lingering fears when he said this. If they hadn't been for picking up the free goods of slave-catching fleets, they would just rely on the leather bags which they brought would be impossible to transport the salt back...
Yu nodded and rubbed his stomach again... he felt more hungry when he was relieved.
Xiao Yun took a look at Yu's movements, took out the dried fish and sent another round...It was better to eat too much dried fish after salting and drying, than to be hungry.
The darkened sky and the heavy rain screen make it hard to see the scenery five meters away, and the sound of creaking and gnawing dried fish can be heard. It doesn't know if their chewing sounds were mistakenly judged to be rodents hiding in the cave where they were eating. When Xiao Yun was chewing dried salted fish in the rain, the outline of a humanoid creature suddenly appeared in front...
"...?" Xiao Yun wiped his eyes. Because of the frequent rains these past few days, he and his clansmen wore round hats made of rattan and straw to keep out the rain. But the shortcoming of the rattan and straw stuff is that the gap is too large, and the rain is always leaking and sticking to his eyelids.
Ashan, who was sitting with Xiao Yun, also saw the "thing" coming, and had a meal of gnawing fish.
The thing approached, and both sides could see the distance from each other clearly, so Xiao Yun, who was facing him, saw a face... quite gorgeous and delicate, even if he was such wet but it was a pretty face.
Xiao Yun and snow werewolves: "..."
The patrol warrior of the elves Carl: "..."