In the Elf World, southwest of the White Elf's Capital City, more than 1,000 kilometers away from the Capital City, there is a city with bustling trade.
As the sun rose, the heavy city gate was opened by the city guards. Two horses and four carriages drove out of the city and wandered forward along the loess road.
According to the marks printed on the carriages, it can be seen that these carriages belong to the "Qiucheng" Practitioner Academy.
A young elf girl with a ponytail and a round face poked her head out of the carriage window and asked the middle-aged elf man on the horse.
"Teacher Dole, this time we go all the way to the Capital City to participate in the competition. Should we be able to meet Her Royal Highness Princess Linglan?"
"Naixi, if you want to meet Her Royal Highness the Princess! You must at least pass the preliminaries." Dole smiled at his student.
An elf boy who was dressed gorgeously and looked like he was from a rich family also poked his head out of the car window and said with some expectancy.
"I heard that after sunset, under the light of the mother tree, there is no night in the capital. This time I want to see it with my own eyes and go to the night market to have some fun."
The elf woman who was riding parallel to Dole had a cold look on her face. She said to the elf boy who was going to the night market, "Yan Mu, if you can't even pass the preliminaries this time, you don't have to go to the night market or anything like that."
Think about it."
"Teacher Yaduo, don't worry! It's just a preliminary round, it's very easy to pass." Yan Mu said confidently.
At first, these elven boys and girls who went to the "capital" to compete were quite excited and chattered non-stop in their carriages.
But after a while, everyone became bored and stopped talking at all.
The sun slowly rose in the sky, and the team walked for more than five hours. Because of the uneven road, the carriage bumped around, and many people felt pain in their buttocks.
Then, Dole looked at the sun hanging in the sky and said to everyone, "We will find a place with a bigger shade to stop later and let's eat something."
Soon, the driver of the car led the team to a small forest.
Dole was the first to jump off his horse. With the strength of the first stage of the third level, he started to sense and quickly detected the small forest. After confirming that there were no strange beasts in the forest, he put away his sense ability. The whole process took less than fifteen seconds.
Afterwards, his students jumped out of the car one after another, and three of them hurriedly rushed into the woods, seemingly wanting to go to the toilet.
Dole watched them hurriedly enter the woods, then turned to Yaduo and said, "Later, you will teach them how to ensure their safety at the resting point when they go out. You can use stricter methods and words."
The cold-faced Yaduo smiled, like bright sunshine, "Well, I will teach them 'well'."
The three students came back from using the restroom, looking relieved and happy.
But as soon as the three of them came back, Yaduo rushed up, kicked each of them to the ground, and then kicked them while cursing, "You three idiots, after getting off the carriage, you didn't even do basic reconnaissance, in case something happens."
What should I do if a strange beast hides in the woods?”
The three of them rolled on the ground, holding their heads and screaming. In fact, Yaduo's kick was not heavy. These three students just used this method to reduce the possibility of being beaten worse.
Among the three reckless students was Yan Mu, who said he was going to the night market. He rolled around and shouted, "Teacher Yaduo, we just went to the toilet!"
"It's expensive to go to the toilet, isn't it?" Hearing that someone dared to argue, Yaduo stepped a little harder.
She kicked and scolded, "Some cunning beasts like to attack you when you go to the toilet. Once you are attacked, you have to pee and fight the beasts at the same time. It's fun, isn't it?"
When Yanmu and the other three heard this, they were all speechless. If they were really attacked by a strange beast while going to the toilet, they would have fought first. Why would they pee?
However, the other six students thought about it and felt that what Yaduo said made sense. What if a strange beast really ambush?
Yaduo kicked Yanmu and the others casually a few times, and then said to them.
"You who have been studying in the academy are just like the flowers in the garden that are carefully taken care of by the gardener. You have no experience in traveling far away, so you must do everything you can to create a safe environment for yourself, especially when you are still weak.
"
Yaduo pointed to a few carriages and said, "Things like carriages are actually very good defensive tools. When you are resting, connect them in a row to form a half circle. At least they can temporarily block the enemy in one direction.
attack."
After receiving the instruction, Yanmu and the others immediately took several carriage drivers and rearranged the carriage to form a semicircle.
"You guys, don't be idle. Use your weapons or powers to sweep away the thick grass. Be careful. Although it is unlikely that strange beasts are hiding in it, you might be able to sweep out snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
Something like that." Yaduo said while looking at the girls standing aside.
Upon hearing this, Naixi and her classmates immediately went to the nearby grass and used weapons or special powers to drive away the ordinary small animals hiding in the grass.
"Leave one person on guard outside, and the others can eat." Yaduo said.
Yan Mu, who was in the best spirits, went to stand guard near the carriage, while the others began to eat. The food was all prepared early this morning and tasted pretty good. Of course, in a few days, the food would not be so good.
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Half an hour later, Naixi went to replace the hungry Yanmu.
Dole and Yaduo sat on the grass and ate something casually. The latter said with emotion while eating gracefully.
"When I was a hunter of exotic beasts a few years ago, the environment was not so good. There was no one to escort me, and there was not enough dry food or carriages. Just walking was exhausting, and I often couldn't fight in a good condition."
Dole on the side smiled and said, "I told you to stop being a hunter of exotic beasts and come to teach in the academy, but you didn't..."
Soon, everyone was full, and the coachmen began to take out hay from the baggage carriage and began to feed the horses.
Just when everyone was sitting on the grass and resting and feeling most relaxed, the faint sound of horse hooves could be heard in the distance.
The first one to react was Yaduo, who had a mid-level third-level strength. She stood up from the grass, looked at the direction where the sound of horse hooves came from, and her hand was already on the hilt of her sword.
Then came Dole. He turned around and took a few steps forward, bent his knees and jumped onto the roof of the carriage, looking in the direction where the sound of horse hooves came from.
The distance was too far to see clearly, so Dole closed his eyes first, and then opened his right eye. His purple pupils glowed with a light golden aura, and he could clearly see things a hundred meters away.
After a few seconds, his expression became serious. Dole jumped out of the carriage. He came to Yaduo and whispered, "Be careful. I saw twenty-two people with my powers. They were all wearing leather armor and
Carrying weapons."
"With such a rapid sound of horse hooves, they are in a hurry. They are probably not coming for us." Yaduo speculated that this group of people is most likely not vicious thieves, and said conservatively, "But we still have to be careful."
Dole, who looked serious, nodded. The two of them finished talking and were ready to deal with it. Then the students belatedly heard the sound of horse hooves.
At the same time, they didn't react much, but curiously looked at the place where the sound of horse hooves came from.
Yaduo saw this scene and yelled angrily, "You all should be smarter. Don't stand still and be prepared for defense. What if it's a thief?"
Could the other party be a thief?
The inexperienced students were stunned for a moment, and then they immediately reacted. They all got up from the grass, quickly went to the carriage to get their weapons, and prepared for battle.
"Da da da……"
Not long after, the sound of intensive horse hooves came nearby, and on the loess road in the distance, a black spot and a line of dust and smoke approached at an extremely fast speed.
When the all-black horses are galloping, they have a sense of speed and pressure.
If a team of more than twenty horses are running together quickly, the heavy sound of horse hooves will create a sense of shock. This is why cavalry charges on the battlefield are very scary.
The opponent is getting closer and closer to us. Dole and Yaduo can already see these riders galloping over. All of them are armed with weapons and wearing leather armor. They look murderous and have psychic powers on their bodies.
fluctuation.
Practitioners, these people are all practitioners, and each one of them is not weak in strength.
The faces of fledgling students like Yan Mu and Nai Xi changed somewhat after they sensed the strength of these riders.
Naixi and the other girls even slowly approached Ya Duo. After all, they were still girls!
Are these riders enemies, or are they just passing by? The students' emotions are getting more and more tense, and the hands holding the weapons are sweating.
Soon, more than 20 people on horseback arrived on the road opposite them... The leader turned his attention to Dole and the others, but none of the riders stopped because of this. They seemed to be in a hurry, and then passed quickly
this area.
Seeing the more than twenty riders quickly disappearing, and seeing their figures obscured by the rising dust and smoke, everyone except Dole and Yaduo breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately afterwards, Dole asked the students to rest for a while, and then said, "Okay, everyone has almost rested, let's continue setting off!"
"Crack, click..."
The wheels were rolling, and the convoy heading to the Capital City was back on the road. If they were just silent and bored before, the emotions of the students who had seen the cavalry team now began to become a little nervous.
After all, the group of riders just now gave them a lot of excitement... If those people were vicious thieves and there were no two teachers around, what would they do and what consequences would they encounter?
These are all the students are thinking about.
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A few days later, Dole and Yaduo, who were heading to the ‘Capital City’, finally arrived at their destination.
It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. This sentence is very true no matter in which world we are in. After running around for days, these fledgling students suffered a lot, but they also grew up a lot.
Just when the students thought they had nothing to learn and were no longer inexperienced newcomers, reality taught them another lesson.
For those who travel far, the difficulty is not only the ferocious beasts and terrible thieves that may appear at any time, but also another formidable enemy - the ever-changing weather.
Just as the carriage continued to move forward and would reach the 'capital' in half a day, a sudden heavy rain blocked the carriage in a small forest.
Although the big trees can block a certain amount of rain, there are still many raindrops dripping from the leaves.
And as time goes by, the amount of water that the branches and leaves of the tree canopy can store is approaching its limit. Within a few minutes, the amount of water dripping under the canopy will not be much worse than outside.
Yaduo, who was wearing a raincoat, stamped her feet, and the ground rumbled, and the soil surged. In less than three minutes, a simple earthen house appeared in front of everyone.
Yaduo and Dole walked into this earthen house made with supernatural powers to take shelter from the rain. The four coachmen put on the raincoats they had prepared for their horses and hid inside.
As for the nine students, they were turned away by their teachers.
In the dim woods, Yaduo lit a fire in the earthen house to keep warm. He looked at the nine students wearing raincoats outside the earthen house and saw that their clothes were starting to get a little wet, so he spoke.
"Now you have to learn to avoid the rain on your own, whether it's the rainproof equipment you prepared in advance or the rain-proof tricks you think of on the spot."
Now we are in the wild! There is no village or shop in front of us, how can we hide from the rain! The nine students are a little confused. They have never encountered such a situation before.
The nine students looked around with pitiful expressions on their faces, but Yaduo, who was sitting in the earthen house, smiled and did not give any hint.
Although the raincoat can prevent rain, it has its limits. Once it rains for a long time, it will no longer be effective. The dark clouds in the sky are thick now, and it is estimated that it will not stop raining in a short time.
The nine students took out dry food from the waterproof tent in the carriage, ate and used their brains.
The heavy rain kept falling without any sign of stopping. Before they even took a few bites of dry food, they felt something was wrong.
My back is a little wet. It is estimated that the raincoat will fail after a while, and I will definitely be soaked in the rain.
Besides, to take a step back, even if the raincoat has been effective, they can't stand in the rain all the time!
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"Pattering..."
The rain has been falling without any sign of stopping, but it has a tendency to get heavier and heavier.
Under the dark curtain of rain, there are unknown birds singing long and long in the woods. Although there is no feeling of terror, but combined with the sound of rain, there is only a deep and peaceful silence, which makes people feel a little uneasy.
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A strange beast that had just gone out to hunt had to go home early because of the heavy rain. But when it returned to the cave where it lived, it saw an uninvited guest.
"This place belongs to me. You can find another place to hide from the rain." Lin Fei, who was sitting in front of the firewood and grilling meat, said to the wet beast.
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This chapter has been completed!