Lord Highlander

  Chapter 739 728. Waiting for freedom

  Suldak did not let President Barkley lead the mercenaries away directly.

These mercenaries are all wounded, although they are not worthy of his treatment, but considering that the residents of Dodan Town will have to resist the beast tide in the coming days, many of these mercenaries have settled in Dodan Town , Their injury is also a loss to Dodan Town.

  So Suldak still selected those mercenaries with broken tendons and fractures, gave them unified treatment, and confirmed that they would not be disabled due to this fight, and then let President Barkley take all the mercenaries away.

   Suddenly, the prison in the barracks was more than half empty.

  Only Manager Anthony, who was crowded in the corner before, and more than 30 waiters from trading houses.

   They originally wanted to mix in the crowd and walk out of the prison with the mercenaries, but they didn't expect that they would all be screened out in front of the prison gate, and those who didn't get caught would be taken back to the prison.

Not to mention dinner, these people didn't even eat lunch. Seeing that the mercenaries were released on bail, but Baron Golding did not rescue them, several young waiters collapsed on the spot. They were worried that they would be starved died in prison.

  Thinking of the unsavory rumors they heard about the prison, the young waiters became even more frightened, for fear that they would be accidentally...

   Manager Anthony let out a slurp: "Don't be so noisy!"

   It was quiet in the prison.

This prison, which was not much better than a stable, suddenly became extremely quiet again, and people seemed to be able to hear their own heartbeats. Everyone was like weak chickens standing in the cold wind and raining, one by one. Stay together and hug each other for warmth.

   Someone asked Manager Anthony: "When will the boss redeem us!"

Although Manager Anthony didn't know, but he was afraid that he would be beaten for saying that, so he could only squeeze the corners of his eyes, pretending to be confident and said: "Probably wait until tomorrow, the boss also needs time to clear up the relationship, in fact, you don't have to worry too much , there is someone above our boss!"

   Manager Anthony's cronies immediately echoed and said: "That's right, you see how arrogant Mayor Marko was at the time, but in the end there is nothing we can do about our boss!"

   "That's...that's right! Our boss has a lot of ideas. Apart from being stingy, there seems to be nothing wrong with him. I usually don't see him once a month!" Another person said.

   There was another silence.

   From time to time, someone in the crowd would mutter: "I'm so hungry..."

   "Damn, stop talking, I didn't feel anything at first, but when you said that, I felt it too..."

  …

   Badlands, Bump Mountain

  The pustule mountain is like a child's temper. Recently, it has continuously sprayed thick smoke for nearly half a month. The volcanic ash is like swirling black snow, falling continuously within the surrounding area of ​​50 kilometers.

  The river of lava where the kobold slaves mined the sulfur mine, the magma surged, mixed with these fiery red rocks, and flowed down.

  All the lava veins in the entire pustule mountain turned red.

  The kobold slaves had to retreat to the camp at the foot of the mountain, and the mining work of the sulfur mine was intermittent for the past two days.

  Aphrodite moved the tent into the lava mine, besides a small tent, the rattan chair was also moved in.

  When Suldak came out of the summoning circle, he happened to see her squatting in front of a salamander, gently stroking the rough skin of the salamander with his hands.

  In the distance, Suldak thought it was a row of salamander corpses.

   When I got closer, I found that these salamanders were not dead, but unconscious.

  Aphrodite hummed a song softly in her mouth. She spoke the language of the Demon Race, and Suldak couldn't understand anything.

  Although I can’t understand the gist of the lyrics, this kind of soothing singing can easily make people fall asleep. It should be something like a ‘lullaby’.

"What are you doing?"

  Suldak walked over, squatted down beside Aphrodite, and asked her in a low voice.

  Aphrodite glanced at him, pursed her bright red lips slightly, and then burst into a bright smile, her eyes seemed to hide the entire deep starry sky.

   "They have all been hypnotized and will not wake up for a while."

  Aphrodite tidied up her long black dress, turned and walked towards the wicker chair next to her. She sat on the wicker chair, showing a lazy look, resting her chin on one hand, staring at Suldak and said:

   "You said we packed these salamanders into big wooden boxes, can they be safely transported to Bena City?"

  Suldak kicked one of the salamanders.

  The salamander remained motionless.

"Forget it, I don't want such a salamander to suddenly appear in the warehouse of the magic airship. It will be the worst if the magic airship is sunk by then." Suldak forced Annai to live in this place. With a practical idea, I asked Aphrodite: "Do you think I can afford an airship with my current financial strength?"

   This sentence is convincing both Aphrodite and himself.

  He pulled out a skinning knife from his leg, and said casually to Aphrodite:

   "Okay, don't delay me slaughtering these big guys."

  Aphrodite changed a comfortable position on the recliner, saw that Suldak was about to insert the skinning knife into the back of the salamander, and quickly protested to Suldak:

   "Pull them away, don't get **** here."

  Suldak took a lot of effort to drag these thousand-pound salamanders into the crystal stone cluster. He chose to slaughter these salamanders by a lava pool.

   After killing so many salamanders, he had never been so relaxed. He directly stabbed the dagger into the salamander's brainstem like killing a fish, and let it die in his sleep. Then, in order to keep the meat fresh, the blood in the salamander's body must be drained.

He cut off two blood vessels at the salamander's tail and chest artery respectively, then hung the salamander's nose with an iron hook, hung the salamander by the lava pool, and took advantage of the fact that the blood hadn't completely solidified, and took the entire precious piece of paper. Premium leather peeled off.

  Peel off the internal organs, the heart and poison sac of the salamander are extremely valuable, and these should be put into the magic sealing box separately.

  As a skinner, Surdak can skillfully complete these steps alone.

Suldak threw the removed large pieces of fresh meat into the magic-sealing box one after another, and cut off the salamander's head to be kept. The remaining skeleton and internal organs would not be thrown away. Those kobold slaves in the field camp especially like to chew on the bones of salamanders, and use these internal organs to drink some offal soup.

  The five salamanders were handled by Suldak for nearly a whole night, and after sorting, they were packed into thirteen large magic-sealing boxes.

Suldak hesitated for a moment, then took out the magic-sealing box full of magic herbs from his magic pocket, and piled it with thirteen magic-sealing boxes, but only this magic-sealing box was marked with the address of Luther The residence of the Marquis.

   Called a group of kobold slaves, and transported all these magic sealing boxes and large wooden basins full of internal organs to the camp at the foot of the mountain, before meeting Luke who was waiting there.

  Suldak wrote a string of addresses on a piece of parchment in the camp shed, handed it to Luke and said to him:

"Luke, this time you sent these fresh salamander meat and salamander leather to the airport pier of Hailansa City. I have written the address on it. These are to be sent to Bena City. I want Karl to come forward and contact the magic airship. And the post office, his aristocratic status is more reliable."

  Luke took the parchment, folded it properly, put it in his arms, and said, "Leave it to me, Duck."

Afterwards, Luke directed the kobold slaves to move the thirteen large magic-sealing boxes onto the four-wheeled carriage, and found a piece of tarpaulin to cover all the magic-sealing boxes. These four-wheeled trucks usually come here, It was for the shipment of sulfur ore, and occasionally some supplies were brought over from Wall Village.

These ancient horses pulling carts are used to pulling carts with masks, but it is a bit troublesome when feeding the horses, the air is full of volcanic ash, and only a dust cover can be built to remove the masks from the mouths of ancient horses down.

   Luke patted his forehead and said to Suldak:

   "By the way, Dak, the things you asked me to prepare last time are all ready."

As he said that, he brought Suldak into the warehouse next to the storage of sulfur mines. This open-air stone room was filled with huge oak barrels. Suldak roughly counted them, and there were more than a hundred of them. bucket.

   Now the top layer of wooden barrels is covered with volcanic ash, and it looks like it has been stacked for a long time.

  Luke walked over, knocked vigorously on the wooden barrel, and said with a 'hey' smile:

   "These have been prepared according to Billy. The oak barrels are specially made thick and can ensure airtightness. There is no problem even for wine."

  Suldak pried open the cork on a wooden barrel with a dagger, put his fingers in, and squeezed out a handful of black powder the size of a grain of wheat.

   "How dare you pile up those things in the camp, so you won't be afraid of being bombed, and let all the kobold slaves fly into the sky?" Suldak leaned close to Luke's ear and said in a low voice.

  Luke said with a smile: "I added some water to the charcoal. It shouldn't be so easy to ignite. It's safer to put it here."

  Suldak thought about emptying a few magic belts in order to carry so much black powder, patted his forehead and said:

   "Got it, I'll take it later."

   Then he put one hand on Luke's shoulder, and told him: "In the future, the place where these things are stored must be kept away from yourself. It's not like you don't know its power."

   "Okay, Duck, stop talking..."

   Luke and Suldak walked out of the warehouse together.

   "Is there any trouble in Wall Village?" Suldak asked Luke again, took out a honey pot from the magic pocket and handed it to him, saying, "Help me take this to old Sheila."

  Luke straightened his chest, turned his head and scolded the two kobold slaves who were about to bite, and said, "Everyone is fine! By the way, why can you go back once?"

   "In a few days!"

  Looking in the direction of Wall Village, Suldak thought about how he could persuade Aphrodite to go back to the village...

  …

  Dodan Township

  The owner of the tailor shop checked his warehouse overnight and found that there was not so much felt and not so much cotton, but there was enough cotton cloth.

He ran to the leather shop next door and the grocery store on the corner of the street, moved all the felts in their hands, and pieced together the materials for the felt tents, quilts and cotton coats that Suldak requested, and then It is necessary to rush to make these cold-proof materials overnight.

  In order to keep the cotton-padded clothes warmer, he even bought a large amount of rex rabbit skins from the leather shop next door and sewed them up as the inner lining of the cotton-padded clothes.

  The owner of the tailor shop worked in the shop for five consecutive days before preparing the first batch of felt tents, cotton-padded clothes and quilts.

When these materials were transported to the military camp in Dodan Town, Suldak took three aborigines to inspect the goods in the barracks. The three aborigines were not afraid of trouble, and almost all the materials were unpacked and inspected before they were bundled again. Even more compact, there are also bags of baked wheat cakes loaded into the truck with these cold-proof materials. These baked wheat cakes are directly made into the size of the mouth of a cloth bag, and they look extremely neat when put into the bag.

  These materials traded to the Dakuni tribe are fully loaded with three carriages.

  Suldak personally led a cavalry squadron and sent the supplies to the edge of the Invercargill Warcraft Forest.

  The indigenous warriors of the Dakuni tribe had been waiting here for several days. When they saw Leto and the others bring back three carts of supplies, they got out of the dense forest and cheered loudly around the three trucks.

   There were even a few natives who were so excited that they wanted to kill the old horse pulling the cart on the spot, but fortunately they were stopped by Suldak's cavalry in time.

  All the supplies were unloaded on the spot, and Suldak took the cavalry squadron and three carriages back on the original road.

   Coming out this time, Suldak found that the Invercargill Warcraft Forest was very different from the previous few days. There were more beasts on the edge of the forest than the previous few days.

  These beasts should all have come out from the depths of the forest, and many small beasts have already entered the hilly land.

  Some territorial warcraft fought at the edge of the Invercargill Warcraft Forest. The forest was severely damaged, and many carnivorous beasts had fallen into a semi-crazy state. The killing in the forest was going on all the time.

   Today, many small beasts have been driven into the Dodan Valley.

  This is the territory of humans, jungle beasts rarely come in, and now some small animals can be seen everywhere.

   Before there was enough salt, Suldak was not ready to hunt these small animals that ran out of the forest.

Suldak returned to the town of Dodan with the cavalry squadron, and the garrison camp actually received the second batch of military supplies from Wilkes City, and the most important thing was that the salt that Suldak needed also came with him. The supplies were transported to the town of Dodan.

   So far, Manager Anthony and the attendants in the trading firm have been imprisoned in the prison at the barracks for six days.

   These people are still holding on to the prison fence every day, waiting for Baron Golding to redeem them...

  …

   Meanwhile, Wilkes City Military Department.

  A letter of complaint accusing Suldak of acting arbitrarily in Dodan Town has already been placed on Chester Great Swordsman's desk.

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