Lord Highlander

   Chapter 709 698. Mayor

  Suldak rode out of the dark and narrow city gate, and a wide valley appeared in front of him.

On both sides of the valley are towering and steep mountains. There are green forests at the foot of these mountains. In the middle of the mountains, you can see huge rocks that are as sharp as knives rising into the sky. hidden in the clouds.

  Many local aborigines in the Bailin plane hide in the valley forests among the high mountains. These tribes live a half-hunting and half-herding life.

  Looking through this valley, you can see the red pine forest on the edge of the Warcraft Forest north of Dodan Town.

  The aboriginal groom of the town hall rode along a winding mountain road at the forefront.

There are some large and small water pools on both sides of the road, some of which have dried up, exposing the dry and cracked soil at the bottom of the pool, and some small pools are full of red worms, attracting many waterfowl to gather around the pool and scream. non-stop.

  A river in the valley has dried up, and the valley is covered with glass grass, and the half-meter-high grass stems are covered with heavy grass seeds.

  Going out of Dodan Town means truly entering the Bailin plane. Although this valley is also the territory of the Grimm Empire, without the city wall behind it, there will be a feeling that the local aborigines may come out of the mountains at any time.

  In fact, the garrison patrols in Dodan Town have to pass through this gate every day and walk to the end of the valley. The undulating slopes are really the border of the occupied area of ​​the Bailin plane.

  If you want to open up territory in the northern part of the Bailin Plane, you must continue to open up from that border to the north.

  Of course, for all noble lords, it is not difficult to open up territories.

The difficult thing is how to defend this territory, build walls to block wild animals, build some sentry posts, or remove all potential dangers that may exist in this area. Although these methods can temporarily include a large area of ​​land in the valley north of the city...But Bai Lin The beast tide in the plane of warcraft forest has fallen, and unless a north wall similar to Dodan Town is built at the exit of the valley, it will be difficult to stop the fierce beasts in the forest.

  The landform here is very different from that of Hailansa City. The mountains are taller and more majestic, the pine forests are more dense and compact, and the mountains are well-structured. Looking at the high mountains piercing the sky in front of you, you seem to see the epitome of the four seasons of the year.

   This guide only heard that an adventure group was ransacked by a bandit group mixed with local aborigines in the forest on the east side of the north of the city. He only knew the approximate location of the incident and had never been there.

  He rode his horse and walked along the mountain road for a while. When he saw a fork in the road ahead, he walked towards the pine forest at the foot of the mountain on the east side.

The wilderness in front of me seems inaccessible, and the little beasts living here seem extremely cute, and they are not too afraid of people. When they hear some wind and grass, they will 'swish' into the hiding place. After a few minutes, these little beasts come again Protruding his head from the cave, he watched curiously as Surdak led a cavalry team passing by the mossy grass not far away.

  Andrew looked around, and could see that the residents of Dodan Town rarely came to the north of the city wall. The fertile soil here did not show any signs of reclamation. There were clusters of low shrubs growing on the ground, with some dried berries hanging on them.

   I didn't expect that the land north of Duodan Town is also quite fertile. The grassland in the valley in front of me is very suitable for grazing.

  Suldak planned that in the future, it seemed that he would not need to prepare fodder every day, open the city gate, drive out those ancient Bolai horses, and stock them in this valley, which would save most of the fodder.

The pine forest at the foot of the mountain is very lush and full of branches. If the cavalry want to pass through this forest, they have to use machetes to open a path in the forest. Fortunately, the groom guide is very familiar with this place, and he took everyone to find a path. The trail hidden in the pine forest, although this road is full of weeds, but there are no horizontal branches blocking the road.

   Sure enough, in such a lush mountain forest, a guide who is familiar with the surrounding conditions is still needed.

As we go deeper into the pine forest, each of these tall and strong red pines needs several people to surround and surround them. With direct sunlight coming in and no sunlight, the shrubs and trees in the woods are very sparse, and what often troubles the cavalry battalion is the huge tree trunks that fell in the woodland.

  The thickest trunks of these trees have a diameter of more than two meters, and they are tens of meters long across the woodland.

  The cavalry had no way to climb over the tree trunk, so they could only ride around on horses.

The aborigine guide stopped in front and said to Suldak: "Although this is very close to the town of Dodan, this place is already the territory of the Inta tribe. The Inta tribe occupies a large forest in the east of this valley. This mountain forest is only a corner of the forest we see, and the forests at the foot of these mountains are everywhere in this mountain range."

   Probably the aboriginal guide has fully integrated into the life of the town, so I heard him say:

   "It is difficult for our cavalry and heavy armored infantry to form a battle formation in this mountain forest, so the warriors of the Inta tribe have always been active in this mountain forest."

Suldak looked at the pine forest. There were hardly any large wild animals in the forest. It was probably the hunting ground of the Inta tribe. Maybe the adventure group was ransacked by the natives of the Inta tribe. Thinking of this, Su Erdak said to the aboriginal groom guide: "Can you tell us about the situation of the adventure group that was looted?"

  The guide looked a little unnatural. He forced a smile at Suldak, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth. The dark purple gums looked a bit oozing.

Suldak thought that he wanted some benefits, and felt that it was not easy for the guide to ride the horse and lead the cavalry battalion into the forest, so he didn't think there was any problem with picking up a few silver coins, so he took out a few coins from his pocket. Ten silver coins were stuffed into the guide's hand holding the rein.

The groom guide stared blankly at the silver coin in his hand, hesitated for a while, and then approached Suldak and whispered: "Although I don't know much about them, I also know that they are not a regular adventure group. They usually mainly shuttle through these mountains and forests, looking for those lonely prey in the mountains and forests."

   "If they want to hunt monsters, shouldn't they go to the forest of monsters further north?" Suldak asked strangely.

  Andrew said with a cold face, "Only slave traders don't need to venture into the World of Warcraft Forest. They only need to wander around in the mountains and forests around the indigenous tribes to capture some local indigenous slaves."

  The groom guide also had an unnatural expression, but he still said:

   "That's right, now that the beast swarm is approaching, almost all the adventure groups hunting monsters that entered the forest of monsters have evacuated from the town of Dodan. Only those slave traders can find opportunities to catch slaves in the forest."

  Andre snorted. As an indigenous Nanai warrior, this sort of thing might happen on the Maca plane, so I heard him say:

   "This group of slave traders may have offended the tribes in the area around the town of Dodan."

  The groom guide couldn't help but take another look at Andrew. He saw that his thick face was obviously different from that of the Grimm Empire. He found that he was an aborigine, and his eyes were more cordial. He said to Andrew:

   "That's right, people in our small town dare not go out of the city easily, for fear of retaliation by those tribal warriors along the way."

  Suldak frowned and said:

   "Mayor Marko brought his men to stand up for these slave traders and find their lost property?"

  The groom guide didn’t expect that he didn’t control his mouth, and said so many secrets at once, and muttered in his mouth:

   "The mayor must come out to put on a show, but they probably can't find anyone."

  Suldak asked the groom guide: "Why?"

At this time, Andrew replaced the groom guide and explained to Suldak: "It is impossible for the people who have the ability to rob this group of slave traders to be people from the indigenous tribes. It is estimated that they do not have the strength yet, and another group of people should be eyeing this group. Slave trader, maybe it’s other unclean adventure groups who are black and white.”

  A group of people walked through the pine forest, and soon met the team that followed Mayor Marko to search for the missing persons of the adventure group. These people had spread out in the forest to search.

When Suldak saw the search team, they were dealing with a porcupine that had just been slaughtered in the forest glade, and they had lit a bonfire in the forest. It seemed that they were preparing to deal with the porcupine. To bake on the spot.

  The members of the search team looked at each other when they saw a large group of cavalry coming out of the pine forest, not knowing what to do.

  A search member held up the porcupine in his hand, subconsciously stood up, and gave a military salute to Suldak.

   "Where is Mayor Marko?" Suldak sat on the horse and asked the search team condescendingly.

  The search team quickly put down the porcupine in his hand, pointed to the depths of the woods and said, "Sir, the mayor is searching in that direction."

  Suldak nodded, turned and left without saying a word.

   Seeing Suldak leaving with more than two hundred cavalrymen, the search team members let out a long breath and sat down by the campfire one after another.

   "Who are those fighters?" Suldak asked the guide.

The guide quickly said: "They are members of the armed team of the merchant group. They are usually responsible for guarding the goods transported by the merchant. They are organized by the merchant's money. This time, the mayor also recruited them, probably because he was worried about this. There are not enough people around.”

  The luck of Surdak and his party was pretty good. Before dinner, they found Mayor Marko who was gathering members of the search team in the forest.

I saw him surrounded by dozens of search team members, riding a blue-scaled horse, walking majestically at the front of the team, wearing a half-suit of magic pattern, a bearded, red-nosed brawny man, facing the side His entourage scolded: "It's just a few people, and they let them slip away, what a bunch of idiots..."

   "Mayor, look across..."

   A follower behind him reminded in a low voice.

At this time, the strong man with the beard raised his head, turned his eyes and looked towards Suldak, and he couldn't see clearly the jungle. The strong man took the lead and walked towards Surdak.

   said loudly to Surdak:

"Heh, I'm Marco, you're Baron Suldak, right? Your letter of appointment has arrived a few days ago. I've been waiting for three days in Dodan Town. I didn't expect that our first meeting would be in here."

  His voice was loud and rough, and when he looked at Suldak, a cold light flashed in his eyes.

  Although it was fleeting, it fell into Suldak's eyes. Suldak puffed up his chest, rode on the horse, and gave him a military salute before saying:

   "Mayor Marko, the Independent Cavalry Battalion of the Luthor Legion came to report."

   Around the pine forest, people from the search team continued to gather here. Mayor Marko sat on his horseback and said to Suldak proudly:

"I guess you have heard that an adventure group in the town was ransacked by a bandit group here. I brought people here to search the mountains last night. I have to give an explanation to the members of the adventure group who were killed. Unfortunately, just let That gang of robbers has slipped away. It's very kind of you to come in time to help me with these troubles."

   "Mayor, are we still going to accept the team?" The follower beside him asked in a low voice.

  The mayor of Marco scolded the follower angrily: "If you don't close the team, you'll be a savage in the forest, go back!"

Suldak did not expect that the mayor of Marco was such a powerful nobleman, he looked more like an officer who led the troops to fight on the front line. The search team gathered together and returned to Dodan in a mighty way.

  The cavalry brigade just arrived at the destination this time, and returned to the town the same way.

  Back to the small town, the sky has completely darkened.

Hundreds of people rode back to the town on horseback, and many town residents came out to watch. Surdak originally wanted to return to the station and have dinner with the cavalry, but when they parted ways, Marko town The chief suddenly turned around and said to Suldak: "Baron Suldak, tomorrow the members of the bandit group will be tried at the town hall, and you will also attend!"

   "Okay!" Suldak agreed.

  He was also a little confused for a while, didn't he say that the bandit group had slipped away? So who is on trial?

   Gone today

  (end of this chapter)