Watching Robbie leave, Dolores, who had been standing behind Jessie, wondered: "Isn't it said that he was outsmarted? Why does it feel like he helped him obtain Noland City?"
Jie Xi chuckled and said, "Indirectly seize it."
From Noland City to the new stronghold, it would take at least about a month, including the time for road construction. Jexi worked almost non-stop to plan the route, and hired a large number of refugees as workers through the nobles newly befriended by Kim Gates.
The local aristocrats are very willing to serve Kim Gates. In their eyes, Kim Gates is an out-and-out tycoon, and Kim Gates also knows what role he should play. He passed the advice of a noble
After recruiting a large number of refugees through personal connections, they would be given tools and then hired a regular construction team to lead the refugees to work in the fields.
The Thorn Mercenary Group's style of dealing with the outside world never asks about good or evil, just achieve the goal. And what they did in this matter was a good thing. At least these displaced refugees can live in simple cloaks and eat well.
Enough bread to satisfy your hunger.
Half a month later, Carew, who was escorting Silas and Cyril, returned to Noland City. He said it was an escort, but actually he needed Carew to help Cyril and take care of the pedestrians he might encounter. Cyril is not good at dealing with people.
relationship.
In order to achieve the goal faster, when the road was half-finished, Jessie asked Karu to hire a logging team to cut a passage in advance from the small forest that cut across Norland City and the new stronghold.
Moreover, the auction house in charge of Kim Gates was also running like crazy. Jiexi asked Kim Gates to change the name of the auction house. The new name was "Mingwu Auction House", which was specially used to auction all kinds of weapons and equipment.
Using the cover of the auction house, the Thorn Mercenary Group began to purchase metal and wood on a large scale. They pretended to make weapons, but in fact they were preparing materials for making war magic machines.
Everything is going on in full swing, and the most leisurely person is probably Aranza who is dealing with the red-blooded earth dragon.
"Well, Carew, did that guy come out today?" Aranza emerged from the tent, saw Carew who was about to go out to chop wood, and asked. Aranza is now living with Carew at the temporary residence of the logging team.
inside.
Karu shook his head and said, "It seems like it wants to hide. Haha, Mr. Captain, I'm going to chop wood!"
As Kalu said, he led a dozen lumberjacks to leave the camp. The big man also understood Jiexi's intention of letting Aranza deal with the red-blooded earth dragon alone, and he didn't want to help Aranza deal with that not-so-stupid monster. As early as Jin
·When Gates organized the road construction team, Aranza walked to the new stronghold alone and collided with the red-blooded earth dragon more than once. As a result, Aranza could not get rid of the rough-skinned and thick-blooded red-blooded dragon in a short time.
Earth dragon, and once the battle goes bad, this red-blooded earth dragon will immediately turn around and go back to the cave.
Aranza went into the cave to pursue once. As a result, in the passage that just accommodated the red-blooded earth dragon, Aranza was forced out without even a chance to dodge when faced with the collision of her opponent.
Aranza sighed and said to herself: "Well, it looks like I have another free day."
At this time, Yifei, who happened to be passing by with some bowls and chopsticks in her arms, asked: "Master, captain, aren't you going to fight World of Warcraft today?"
Her brother went to cut wood, so of course she couldn't help, so she stayed in the camp with a few other women to take care of everyone's meals.
Aranza shook her head and said, "Well, it has been hiding in the cave for several days."
"It's really strange," Ife frowned innocently and said, "Isn't it hungry? My brother comes back from logging every day and is very hungry and eats several portions of roast beef..."
"Haha!" Hearing this, Aranza burst out laughing as if suddenly enlightened, and patted the girl on the shoulder, which made Effie shrink her neck in fright. Aranza said with a smile, "Well, well, right, I can do that.
Use food to lure it out, alas, why didn't I think of that before."
As soon as she had a plan, Aranza went back to the tent without delay, put on her platinum armor, picked up her sword, borrowed some raw beef from Ife, and left the camp in a hurry.
The cave of the red-blooded earth dragon is in a small hill behind the new stronghold. It is not too far from the Karu logging forest, but it still takes a morning to walk. Looking around the terrain of the new stronghold, it is a semicircular open space.
, behind the Red Blood Earth Dragon Cave, and in front surrounded by a small forest. And behind the hills are the endless cloud and mist mountains, close to the Misril Mountains.
Aranza came out of the small forest, holding wood in her arms and carrying raw beef and "tear" on her back. Finally in the afternoon, sweating profusely, she climbed up the hill full of hard rocks.
Going up from here are some jagged and strange rocks, and finally there is the cave of the red-blooded earth dragon. Aranza walked up the stairs leisurely, yes, the stairs. The rocks here were originally bumpy, and these stones were nothing to the earth dragon's travel.
, but it was extremely difficult for people to walk. After several battles with the red-blooded earth dragon, Aranza, who was idle and bored, simply used "Tear" to carve out a staircase here.
Aranza stopped at the entrance of the cave, put down the things, and looked at the entrance. The cave was naturally formed, with the opening facing the sky and the passage sloping down. No one has measured the specific depth. According to some residents of Norland City,
This red-blooded earth dragon was originally the mount of a certain knight. It was later abandoned and settled in this cave. Some low-level monsters in the small forest in front became its food, as well as the occasional passing human beings.
"Yohoo, old man, I'm here again!" Aranza shouted towards the entrance of the cave. However, the bottom of the dark cave could not be seen at all, but just a moment later, the angry roar of the red-blooded earth dragon came from the cave.
Aranza smiled with satisfaction, lit a bonfire on the spot, took out the black crystal roasting fork from her waist, skewered the raw beef, and looked like she was preparing to barbecue.
"Well, let me tell you, old man!" Aranza didn't care whether the red-blooded earth dragon could understand him or not, and shouted towards the cave entrance, "You have been huddled in there for several days, are you hungry? I beg you
Eat beef!”
Another angry roar came from the bottom of the cave, but that was all.
Aranza was not in a hurry now. He put the roasting fork on the bonfire, stood up and slipped around the entrance of the cave twice. There was a huge boulder next to the entrance. Aranza had noticed it before. He inserted the tear under the boulder to use it as a lever.
, pressed down hard, and when the boulder was obviously loose, he stopped and returned to the campfire to continue warming himself.
A faint smoke rises from the kitchen, and the aroma of meat suddenly overflows.
Aranza picked up the beef and took a bite. It tasted pretty good: "Hey, old guy, are you going to get out?!"
With still an angry roar, Aranza tore off a small piece of beef and threw it into the hole, followed by an even more angry roar.
Aranza raised her lips with satisfaction, put the beef back into the bonfire, relied on her breath, turned around and quietly moved towards the boulder, and huddled behind the boulder. In Aranza's soul perception, the red-blooded earth dragon was slowly moving upwards.
After a while, there was a burst of doubt from its soul point, but it also stopped climbing and lay quietly. The atmosphere suddenly became quiet, and the only sound around it was the crackling sound of the bonfire.
Soon after, the bonfire was extinguished unwillingly, and the beef on it was deliberately raised higher by Aranza so that it was not scorched. But the red-blooded earth dragon in the cave still did not move, and Aranza was dormant quietly. Just from his soul
In his senses, he knew that this monster was a little impatient.
Sure enough, when it was about to get dark, the red-blooded earth dragon popped its head out of the hole. It was a triangular head covered with tiny red thorns. The red-blooded earth dragon looked around cautiously, but found nothing.
The figure looked even more confused.
However, the doubt only lasted for a moment. When its yellow eyes glanced at the roast beef not far away, Aranza's perceived emotion changed from doubt to excitement.
When the opportunity came, Aranza couldn't help but clenched the "Tear" in her hand.
Sure enough, the red-blooded earth dragon suddenly stretched out its whole body. Its body was much larger than its head, and it was wrapped in pieces of red armor. It dragged a long tail behind it, and at the end of the tail was a spike-covered tail.
sphere.
This monster has been with humans before. It has not eaten anything roasted for a long time, otherwise it would not be so excited about this piece of roast beef. The red-blooded earth dragon took the beef in its mouth and chewed it beautifully, seeming to enjoy the wonderful taste.
Meal time.
Its mood completely changed to calmness. When it swallowed this piece of beef that was not enough to satisfy its stomach, and was about to return, the dormant Aranza let out a loud roar, activated its brute force enchantment, and actually pushed the huge boulder several meters away in one breath.
Block the cave entrance with a bang!
Aranza laughed and said: "Haha! Old guy, let's see where you run away this time!"
"Roar!" He was answered by the angry roar of the red-blooded earth dragon, and its scarlet tail fell towards Aranza!
Aranza was so proud that he forgot to defend himself, and the ball at the end of his tail hit him. Although the spikes failed to break through Aranza's defense, the huge impact still threw him several meters away!
Aranza got up in pain and cursed: "I'm going to kill you! Old guy, I want you to look good!"
As he spoke, his footsteps suddenly quickened, and "Tear" pounced from behind, slashing at the red-blooded earth dragon!