Poru looked at the fortress with a curious mentality of visiting ancient monuments, and thought to himself: "This castle looks good, a bit like Stormwind City. But calling this a fortress may not be worthy of its name."
Otto looked at Polu who was sitting on the lamp holder in a daze: "Aren't you cold?"
"It's not cold, this lamp holder is so warm!"
"Is this thing so powerful?"
"Well, the price of the lamp is 3600 gold. Every time you turn it on, it will burn 40 gold coins worth of magic crystal. Isn't it cool to burn such money?"
“My God, this thing is too expensive.”
"It's really too expensive. If you open it for one day, a year's harvest of a small village will be gone."
Polu was chatting with the other two people when he suddenly saw something squirming into the light from the corner of his eye. He took a closer look and saw several gray, wolf-like creatures. They seemed to be afraid of the bright light.
The edge of the light lingered. Poru shouted: "Otto, look over there, at the edge of the light, there is something!"
"Saw it!"
"Captain!" Otto called back: "Come here quickly! There's a situation!"
The captain ran over with his helmet clanking: "What's wrong?"
"Look over there, something is starting to gather."
The captain took a closer look and sighed: "The hard days are coming, these things have already arrived."
"Keep an eye on them. As soon as they start to approach the city wall, sound the alarm and I'll notify the infantry team."
Everyone was silent for a while. Bolu looked back at the fortress arranged in a staircase. Every inch of the land had been the scene of fierce fighting. At the foot of the fortress was the first city wall, which was only 10 meters high.
50 meters, and there is a city wall, which is even higher than 15 meters.
m. The two city walls are arranged in a stepped manner, so the first city wall is actually the second city wall of Wengcheng. Theoretically, the two city walls can stop all wild beasts. However, every time the beast tide brings some new things to people,
If something is guarded, it should be raised higher. If it is not guarded, it should be raised even higher.
Two spires are exposed behind the city wall. The ever-increasing city wall has blocked most of the two spires. One of them is the residence of Count Tashkent, the commander of the fortress. Visiting the fortress every winter has become a member of the Tashkent family.
Obligation. For this purpose, the kingdom contracted all the expenses for the construction of the fortress and the defense period. There was even something called the Tashkent tax that was specially collected to support the expenses of this fortress.
The other high tower is the magic tower built into the fortress, which provides magic support during defense. Beyond the two spires are the soldiers' living area and workshop area, and even a small temple of the goddess of life. Beyond that, there is a huge
Warehouse.
The Atlas Mountains surrounding the fortress surround the northwest border of the United Kingdom of Casadolia. They are rugged mountains with a width of 300 kilometers and no roads to be found. To the south of Shandong, there is a vast forest with birds singing and flowers fragrant, an endless landscape.
Orchid Plain
.The terrain of the northwest wasteland is much higher than that of the Tulan Plain. In summer, a large amount of melted ice and snow water flows freely in the wasteland. Gravity guides the water flow and runs rampant until they find a natural outlet in the huge mountains.
The river formed by gathering together is called the Ilili River, probably because the water flow is fast and the sound of water is flowing all the way. Who named it is unreliable. It may be that a mountain man told the Kingdom expedition team and recorded it.
Come down.
The water of the Ilili River surged day after day and accelerated rapidly as it flowed to the lower Turan Plain. As a result, it cut a deep canyon in the Atlas Mountains. On both sides of the valley were huge rock walls towering into the clouds.
The rock walls in the direction gradually converge, forming a funnel mouth. At the funnel mouth
At the position, there is a huge platform formed by rocks on one side of the rock wall. The Iriri River makes a small bend in front of the platform, swirling and rushing past the platform. The cutting effect is still in effect. The area where the river is located
The curve becomes deeper and deeper, and the platform even forms a peninsula extending into the water.
From this small peninsula, the direction of the northwest wilderness is clearly visible. Every winter, the wild beasts, monsters, and sometimes some random things that I don’t know what they are called will follow the river valley in front of the peninsula.
They rushed south to survive and rushed into the Turan Plain, causing huge losses. These things flooded like a tide, and were later called a beast tide.
Someone once proposed to blow up the valley, but the kingdom needs the Iriri River. The water from this river is the largest provider of irrigation water in the Turan Plain. Therefore, 200 years ago, the unlucky Count Tashkent, whose fiefdom was at the exit of the valley, was ordered to inspect Iriri.
River valley, see if there is any suitable method.
An expedition team climbed over mountains and ridges in a slippery river valley. After half a month of trekking, they discovered this small peninsula. However, they never understood that a large number of wild beasts gathered together and food became abundant.
Why do we have to bravely rush to the human fortress?
The small peninsula is nearly 80 meters long diagonally from one end of the rock wall. A fortress was built here, with one end connected to the rock wall and the other end facing the cliff, blocking the way for the beast tide to go south in winter. At first, there was only a high wall here.
, but the people on the plains finally lived a peaceful life for a few years, and an early winter caused
In order to prevent a larger scale beast tide, the high wall was destroyed. After cleaning up the mess, everyone remembered the goodness of the high wall again, so they rebuilt it, destroyed it, and rebuilt it again. Now, the peninsula has become Finistere
Er, a dam that protects a stable life, is also the end point of human civilization control.
At this time, by a lake 300 kilometers away in the northwest, Sitting Bull, wrapped in animal skins, was sitting in his small tent. He touched the clay pot at hand. There was only half a jar of dried fruits in the clay pot. He looked at it again.
There were dots of flames in the fire, and there were only three or five strips of bacon on the shelf. He looked at the heavy snow outside the door. He sighed. How can he survive this winter?
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Suddenly there was a drumbeat: "Everyone, come to discuss the matter!"
Sitting Bull touched his flat belly, grabbed the animal skin on the ground and wrapped it around his body, then walked into the wind and snow outside.
There is an open space in the center of the tent group, and several groups of roaring bonfires are crackling. The chief wears a crown that he only wears on major occasions, and stands between the bonfires with a stern face. There are two more bonfires behind him.
The sizzling wild boar is leaning against.
Sitting Bull squeezed in front of a bonfire, glanced at the golden wild boar, swallowed, put his hands and feet in front of the fire, and then asked the person next to him: "Ah Da, what happened?"
"I don't know." Adal, whose beard was even fluffier than his hair, even covered his face in animal skins. "It's so cold. I guess I have to go out and grab some winter food."
"That's good, I'm worried about not having enough to eat."
"Come here, everyone!" the chief spoke. The deep voice spread throughout the audience: "This year, the snow fell very early. Now, no one has saved enough winter food!"
Sitting Bull felt that there seemed to be something in the darkness around him, as if thick fog was rolling in. As he looked back, he asked Ada: "Is there something next to me?"
"No, I didn't hear the dog barking. It must have been foggy." Although Ah Da said this, his hand was already holding the dagger that never left his body.
"I always feel like there's something out there watching us."
At this time, the chief's voice suddenly rose to an octave: "There is no other way. With the current food, no one can survive! No! We must find food!"
Black mist flowed in along the shadow of the tent, hovering behind everyone.
The chief raised his hands and shouted: "No matter where we are! We must go! We must grab food! Come! This is the common food of the tribe. When everyone is full, prepare and set off when the snow stops!" After that, the two
The strong man split the wild boar into pieces, and threw them piece by piece on the wooden pillar in front of the chief. The hot fat gave off an irresistible aroma. Everyone's eyes immediately focused on this rich food.
With the chief's shout, the black mist hidden in the shadows around everyone's feet suddenly rose and dissipated, and everyone's breath was sucked into the body. In just a few blinks, Sitting Bull's nervous expression gradually relaxed,
And Ada's hand also took off the dagger.
The chief looked back at the wild boar in front of him and showed a mysterious smile. Suddenly his face twisted, as if he wanted to shout something, but nothing came out. After that, he returned to his previous calmness. He whispered in a low voice:
"Humph, you are quite stubborn, old man. It doesn't matter. When your people eat these things, you will all be a family again. All in good order."
The chief cut up the food himself with a knife, brushed the sauce from the jar on the grilled brown steak, and then asked his men to distribute it to the people around the fire. Sitting Bull also got a piece. His reason had completely succumbed to
In order to satisfy his appetite, he chewed it with big mouthfuls. It wasn't until he licked every drop of grease off his fingers that he smacked his lips with unsatisfied content.
The chief shouted: "How about it, do you want to eat barbecue every day? Go to the south, to the big city in the south, there is everything behind it, food, livestock, everything!"
Ah Da's eyes immediately turned red. He jumped up and shouted, "Go grab the big city in the south!"
Sitting Bull also jumped up, and everyone jumped up, with red light oozing from their eyes!
"Go south! Go south!"
The chief paused, then raised his hand and waved it down suddenly: "Let's set off tomorrow and go to the south!"