Chapter 118: Barrens

"Black Sea Cliff, Gaoshan Town. These two place names are really appropriate."
On a hillside with a wide view, Luo Lin looked at his territory from a distance, and couldn't help but sigh.
There is a sea-side high cliff more than fifty kilometers long, black dark rocks, howling sea breeze, surging waves, the air China is confused with the smell of fishy salty salty, it seems that the salt can be pinched directly from the air. . The so-called Gaoshan Town was built on the sea cliffs, the terrain was very high, but the houses were low and dilapidated, one to the east and one to the west, and only one was separated by hundreds or even thousands of meters, sparsely and depressed.
As for the farmland... this whole area can’t be seen at all. The ground can almost be said to be barren. Luo Lin jumped off his horse, squeezed a handful of soil from the ground, crushed it, and tasted it with his tongue. A bitter taste.
The taste continued to bite into his heart, making him unable to help a wry smile: "The salty bittern all over the floor...it's strange to grow grass."
Carnado, the housekeeper, had been mentally prepared for a long time. Before he came, he made careful preparations and calmly explained: "Lord Rollin, this entire area of ​​the Black Sea cliff cannot be grown for crops. The only source of income is the sea. Fishing. So almost all people in Gaoshan Town are fishermen."
"Fisherman? It seems that my territory will not be able to collect any taxes in the future. Look at those people, their faces are yellow and thin, and the fish they usually catch are not enough to eat by themselves." Luo Lin sighed and turned to ask. Canado: "But I finally have more than fifty kilometers of land in my territory. There should be a little richer place, right?"
"There is a piece of land, 20 kilometers deep into the land, and there is a wild bear hill. There is an oval basin with a diameter of about five kilometers in the hill. Because there are hills blocking it, there is basically no sea breeze in the basin. The mud is still there. It is fertile, the only problem is that the place is too small and the traffic is blocked, no one has been developing and constructing, so the basin is still occupied by woods.
Canado said.
The news finally gave Luo Lin some hope. He didn't bother to go to this barren and impoverished Gaoshan town. He turned his horse's head directly and said to everyone around him: "Then let's go to the basin."
The group has no objection. No one wanted to blow the sea breeze on this depressed sea cliff, one by one followed Luo Lin.
Twenty kilometers is not too far, especially there are almost no plants on the ground in this area, and walking is completely unobstructed, so only two hours later, everyone came to the so-called wild bear hills.
The soil quality in the hills has changed, and the vegetation on the ground has become denser and denser. The gray color was replaced by a piece of green, and everyone's mood was also refreshed.
"It looks good, but the mountain road is a bit steep." Luo Lin was basically satisfied. However, the peaks in this hilly area are not low, and the elevation of each mountain is at least 500 meters. The mountain road between the peaks is inaccessible, and the woods and trees block the road, making the journey extremely difficult.
Reluctantly, Luo Lin could only order to dismount, pick up the sword, and join the hired mercenaries to chop the trees and mowing the grass at the forefront, clearing the way for a few ordinary mages, butlers and others.
"That's why I said that the traffic is blocked in the basin." Canado said: "Very few people are willing to come to this place, because there are still terrible brown bears in this mountain forest."
"Luo Lin, wait!" Dai Wei suddenly shouted to Luo Lin, who was holding a sword to cut through the thorns to open the way.
"what's up?"
"Look over there, there is a mountain road." Dai Wei shouted, pointing to a direction ahead.
Upon hearing this, Luo Lin smiled slightly in his heart, turned his head and looked in the direction of Dai Wei’s fingers. Sure enough, at the place where the two mountain peaks intersect and the mountain is relaxed, there is an inconspicuous mountain road. More than one meter wide, the trees on both sides of the mountain road have been chopped down, and the weeds on the road have also been trampled down. It is obvious that people often move around.
In fact, Luo Lin already knew the existence of this mountain road, and also knew the function of this mountain road. This was created by the Destructionists to connect a hidden altar in the mountain. Of course, the scale of this altar was not Great, with their current force enough to cope.
Of course he wouldn't say it, just shouting: "Maybe hunters stepped out. Go, let's take the mountain trail."
He walked over first, and everyone else followed.
With the ready-made mountain roads, the walk was much smoother. After about two hours of walking along the way, Luo Lin suddenly felt that his eyes were empty and his vision suddenly became extremely broad.
The terrain in front suddenly became very gentle, and a dense forest appeared. The white mist was lingering in the forest, and it was impossible to see the edge at first glance, and it had a smell of forest sea.
"It is said that the fog in this basin is poisonous. People in Gaoshan Town tried to go into the mountains to hunt, but after returning from the basin, every hunter will start to get sick and bedridden. If you are in good health, you can overcome it. Dead, so no one should have entered the mountain these years...wait, but this mountain road?" As he said, Canado found something was wrong.
Looking at this mountain road, it was obvious that someone had walked recently, which did not match the news he had heard.
Dai Wei said: "The rumors are just rumors. Maybe someone has found a way to understand the poison, or the white mist is not poisonous at all. We will find out when we go in and explore."
Luo Lin naturally agreed with Dai Wei's statement. He knew that the fog was not poisonous at all, and everything was a ghost of the Destruction Sect.
However, it is not early today, and it is also tomorrow to go to explore. He told the mercenaries on the side: "Find a flat place and camp on the spot. Let's spend the night in this area."
The mercenaries took money to do things, many of them were Sword and Rose members, and they knew Luo Lin. Naturally, they had no opinion, and started to get busy one by one.
Taking advantage of this time, Canado, the butler, came over and asked: "Lord Rollin, what are your plans for your territory?"
Canado didn't pay attention to the anomaly that he had discovered before. He believed Dai Wei's statement, believing that it was because the information he found was wrong.
Luo Lin thought for a while and said, "If possible, I want to develop in this basin."
"But this mountain...and this wood."
The basin is a good place with development potential, but the mountains and forests block roads. Even if it can develop. The potential is not big.
Luo Lin needed such a secret place. In this way, he can just concentrate on developing his strength, and this basin is not as unbearable as the world imagined. He knows there are still some minerals hidden in it.
With a plan in his mind, he smiled and asked: "Then you say, do I have other choices?"
Canado was taken aback when he heard the words, and then shook his head. This is already the only fertile place in the Black Sea Cliff.
"Hey~" Canado had to admit this fact, but just this way. I don't know when the ten thousand gold coins lent by Master Bernard will be returned.
Seeing that he was already tired, Luo Lin smiled and said, "Okay, don't worry, I will find a way. You are tired for a day today, go and rest first."
Canado resigned, leaving Luo Lin and Dai Wei behind.
"How is it, did you find out?" Luo Lin asked Dai Wei softly.
Dai Wei shook her head in a daze. She walked all the way, except for the feeling that the place was extremely barren, she found nothing unusual.
Rollin explained softly: "Cannado is a very serious person. The information he got is very accurate and rarely makes mistakes. The news that the hunters won't enter the mountains he inquired is not necessarily correct, but it is definitely worth paying attention to. You Looking at this mountain road again, it is obvious that it has been trampled for a long time, indicating that there have been people entering the mountain all the time, instead of entering the mountain after recent changes, so the situation is abnormal."
"Can't the hunter step on it?"
"It's not a hunter. As far as I know, experienced hunters don’t just walk a mountain trail. They are good at finding animal trails, or they create animal trails and set up traps. So if it’s a hunter, we are one There should be other mountain roads on the road, but in the current situation, there is only one road."
Speaking of this, Dai Wei has already understood a little bit. She frowned and thought for a while, her face showed sincere admiration: "Luo Lin, you are right, this is really weird. This mountain road is like Someone specially drove them out to enter the basin, but the problem is that we have also seen that this basin is deserted. What are they doing in the basin?"
The instructor always praised Luo Lin's observation and reasoning ability. She was still a little dissatisfied before, but the longer she was in contact with Luo Lin, the more convinced she became. Luo Lin's brain was indeed very, very useful, and she couldn't accept it.
"This is the problem." Luo Lin smiled slightly: "Humans are humane, beasts have animal ways, and ghosts have ghost ways. These people act so secretly, and they must be doing things that cannot see the light. It seems that we have to be more vigilant. Up."
Thinking of this, he beckoned a cloaked short man in the team who was silent: "Saledo, come here."
Saledo also followed him. In order to conceal his identity, he was very low-key and never spoke. Now when he heard Luo Lin's call, he hurried over and said in a low voice flatteringly: "Master, what do you command? "
"Didn't you say that you were summoning a lionmane war demon? How is the progress?"
"I have made contact with a war demon in the lower planes, but the rewards I can promise are too few. He doesn't care about me very much, just refuses to sign a contract with me." Saledo looked miserable.
"What reward?" Luo Lin asked.
"The best reward is of course the human soul... Uh, Mage Dai Wei, I have already abandoned the dark and cast light. Of course I won’t do that. Don’t worry. The next thing is all kinds of magic power. The demons on the lower planes are all Like to devour magic, this is almost their universal talent."
Saledo looked at Dai Wei with humility. Although his magic power is stronger than this little girl, he can't provoke Luo Lin. The two are so close. He provoked Dai Wei and Luo Lin must punish him. , So in his heart, Dai Wei is now the third person who can't mess with, the first is Vianna, and the second is Luo Lin.
"Magic?" Luo Lin took out the small package Vianna gave him, took it inside, took out a fist-sized emerald green crystal and threw it over: "Life Crystal, is one enough?"
This crystal was used by Vianna to save Luo Lin's life. It was only three pieces, very precious, but the powerful force of the lion's mane war demon was worth his consumption.
Saledo's eyes suddenly brightened, jumped up, took it with both hands, then looked upside down in front of his eyes, and exclaimed: "So pure, so rich... Enough, absolutely enough. No, I have to give up the previous one. That war demon is now, this crystal is enough for me to sign a contract with a higher-level demon."
Luo Lin frowned slightly and asked, "How long does it take?"
"Soon, very fast, there are too many powerful alien creatures willing to get the life crystal, don't worry, if you are lucky, it only takes an hour!" Saledo held the life crystal tightly in both hands, as if he had obtained a peerless treasure. .
"That's good, go ahead, don't let me down!"
"Of course, of course." Saledo walked away with the crystal in his hands, he looked agitated.
Looking at his back, Dai Wei still doesn't understand Luo Lin's actions: "I don't think you should trust him so much, Luo Lin, this guy's power is very evil."
Luo Lin laughed. This is a gap in ideas. Words alone cannot tell right from wrong. Only time can prove everything. Luo Lin just smiled: "Beautiful Mage, relax your mind, it's okay."
Dai Wei spread her hands: "Okay~EbookFREE.me~ I hope he won't disappoint."
The mercenaries quickly set up their tents, and the dinner began to be prepared. Soon, the aroma of the food floated out. What I eat now is not the marching rations, but the dried meat that Rolin personally purchased in Vendôme. Things taste very good.
The group had been walking for a day, and they were all tired, and it was getting late. After eating food around the campfire, everyone went back to their tents to rest.
The mountain forest quietly, occasionally sounded a beast roar, but they all appeared far away from the camp, and there was no threat.
It seems that this will be a calm night.
At least in the first half of the night, it was like this, but in the second half of the night, at two o'clock in the morning, Luo Lin was suddenly awakened by a warning message from the brain.
"There are people approaching the mountain road. The number is six. According to the analysis of footsteps, the two are strong, one is extremely agile, the two are no different from ordinary people, and the other is a giant beast." (To be continued...)
...
...()