Chapter 673: Mountain second hand

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Whether you set foot on the ancient salt railway is easy to identify, because the construction of the ancient salt railway Suyong stone is not the stone produced by the Savile Kingdom, but the unique purple stone of the Kingdom of Marais.
The ancient Kingdom of Marais advocated purple, palace houses like to use purple materials, and also highly admired purple gems, and a gem called purple stone is the most precious, a large piece of ordinary purple stone can only be produced A purple stone of a book size is produced, and its value far exceeds the value of ordinary stone. Generally speaking, as long as a purple stone is found, there is no loss in the entire quarry.
So in many quarries occupied by nobles, the mining of stone is not for building stone, but for purple stone.
In this way, a large amount of waste rock will be produced in the quarry. Some of the waste rock can be used in other places after being polished, but most of the waste rock will only have some fragments.
So, at that time, the rulers of the Kingdom of Maris decided to use these postures to build a purple stone that runs through the country. At that time, Quincys Snow Mountain Stone was controlled by the Kingdom of Maris. The old castle was also an outpost of the Kingdom of Maris. The ancient salt railway was also built at the time, and it was naturally made of purple stone slag.
After entering the range of Quincys Snow Mountain, the surrounding plants soon became dense, and the number of tall trees also increased a lot.
The trees here are mainly cypress, which is a kind of tree species that is special in the Kingdom of Maris. It is now here and should be transplanted by the people of the Kingdom of Maris.
This cypress is a kind of fuel wood comparable to the charcoal tree. It has a long burning time and high temperature. It is the advantage of this wood. The only disadvantage is that the growth cycle is too long. A sapling takes at least three years. Time can only be considered to be fully grown, and the cypress is also the most famous tall tree in the vinylon world, which can be as large as more than two hundred meters.
However, the cypresses growing here are very, very peculiar. They do not grow higher and higher like the cypress trees in other places. Instead, they grow to a certain height and seem to be suppressed by some force. The top began to grow curvedly, and eventually grew into a spiral shape, and the spiral top of each tree will also nest and intertwined with each other due to growth, and finally become a piece of top surface like a desktop now. Flat, weird forest with stumps underneath.
I don’t know if it’s because of the force that caused the growth variation of the cypress. In short, all the plants that grow in this forest are very strange, plus the sun can’t shine on it all the time, making the forest dark and gloomy. Even if the tribes in the grassland next to them urgently need firewood, they will never come to this forest to find it.
But one thing is very weird. No matter how the trees grow in the forest, it will not destroy the ancient salt railway passing through the forest, as if this road contains unknown mysterious power.
When the caravan passed through the forest, everyone was quiet. Whether it was the outer guards or the others in the caravan, they put their hands on the weapons. All the braziers on each pack were ignited and the carriage All the dozens of meters around were illuminated.
Some of the beasts that lived in the forest all year round couldn't adapt to this light, and quickly retreated into the darkness, only showing a pair of fierce eyes reflecting the gloomy light, staring at the traveling caravan, looking for a chance to start.
At this time, the veterans in the caravan did not stay in the caravan tents. They all came out, walked back and forth from time to time, checked the situation, and loudly warned the novices in the team not to approach the forest.
In this tense atmosphere, the caravan traveled through the forest without any risk, and came to the other side, and the destination of the trip was the castle at the exit of the forest road.
Here is not so much an ancient castle, but rather a pass. The three-storey castle built on the mountain stopped the entire ancient salt railway. If you want to reach the other side, you must first pass through the lowest castle and go around A narrow passage that is easy to defend and difficult to reach reaches the second floor, then crosses the artificial canal of the second floor square, passes through the artificial channel under the third floor, and reaches the ancient salt railway opposite.
This ancient castle can be said to hold the point of the entire ancient salt railway. Anyone who tries to cross the Quincy Snow Mountain must either take a steeper and more difficult path or must pass through this ancient castle.
However, such an ancient military castle was abandoned for thousands of years, and even the Savile tribes who occupied the castle at that time were reluctant to stay in the castle for a while.
The reason why the ancient castle will be abandoned, even no one has taken over the ancient castle for thousands of years, leading to the complete abandonment of this ancient salt railway, mainly because of a tragedy that occurred in the ancient castle that year.
Although the relationship between the Kingdom of Savile and the Kingdom of Maris was very bad at that time, the relationship between the knight generals who were in charge of the ancient salt railway stationed in the old castle, the bottom soldiers and the tribes on the grasslands outside the old castle was very good. It can even be said that It is intimate. Many people in the castle have married women from the tribe. Even the knights stationed in the castle have a lot of local wives.
At that time, the grassland area was still very large, and the Gus desert was relatively small, and there was no difference between the size and the Gus. Because of this, the tribes on the grassland are also very strong, which is far from the tribes on the small grassland. At the time, the ambitions of the leaders of the grassland tribes were also greater.
At that time, the leaders of the grassland tribes wanted to become the overlord of Western Savile, but this was not an easy task. Whether it was recruiting soldiers or providing troops, etc., it required a lot of money. Although the grassland tribes at that time relied on the ancient salt railway It has earned huge profits, but in the face of the cost of war, it is still a shortfall.
The leader of the grassland tribe at that time put his mind on the old castle. He wanted to occupy the old castle and monopolize the interests of the entire ancient salt railway. With the benefits of the ancient salt railway, he would not worry about money anymore.
Therefore, when a leader of the grassland tribe was invited to the old castle as a guest, he led the tribes Yingyinghe to win the resident knights and soldiers who invited them to be guests.
If it was just to take down the castle and drive out the knights and soldiers, the prairie tribe leader would at most bear the treachery and provoked the infamy of war, but then he did something that shocked everyone, that is Slaughtered all the people in the castle.
You know, there are not only knights and soldiers in the castle, but also their families, many of them are people of various tribes in the grassland.
And more importantly, the guests he was invited to attend the banquet at that time, but the guests started the host at the invited banquet and slaughtered the host family. This kind of thing is absolutely taboo throughout Savile.
It's just that the people of the Savile tribe don't need to blame them. These people immediately relaxed after eating all the people in the castle, eating and drinking. When they ate and drank, they accidentally ignited the original shipment to Mary A group of animal skins in the Kingdom of Sri Lanka, and those people were either drunk or did not know how to use the fire protection measures in the castle, so that the fire could not be suppressed, and eventually covered the entire castle, most of them burned to death In the castle, only a few people who were arranged to guard escaped.
After that, the burnt castle became the most terrifying place in this area. Anyone who enters the castle, whether it is the people of the Kingdom of Marais or the people of the Savile Kingdom, will do as long as they spend the night in the castle. The same dream, in the dream they all returned to the night when the castle was destroyed, and were killed in the dream, then they will disappear in reality.
Yes, they disappeared directly instead of leaving the dead bodies after death.
After that, weird legends about the castle spread, and some people who were not afraid of death ran to verify, and ultimately only added to the legend.
Over time, the horror legend here has affected this ancient salt railway. No caravans will pass by here. In addition, the Savile Kingdom and the Kingdom of Maris have opened up a newer and more spacious commercial road on the south, so The old castle and the business road were completely abandoned, and only the legend about the castle circulated nearby.
Later, because of interests and other reasons, the smugglers of Marais and Savile began to reuse the ancient salt railway for smuggling contraband in both countries.
Although after thousands of years, when this castle with various packages appeared in the eyes of everyone, all people still couldn't help producing a trace of fear, whether it was because of the cool weather in the mountain or because of the legend The impact of the story in, also shivered in fear.
The wood in the old castle has been burnt down in the fire that was thousands of years ago, and the rest of the castle that has not been burned is also decaying. Most of the buildings in the castle have collapsed, some of them collapsed in the fire thousands of years ago. But more because of the squeeze of some vine plants.
Now, except for the buildings built on the mountain walls made of stones, the other buildings are almost the same as the ruins.
The caravan detoured from the lower castle and passed a ramp with gate defenses into the main square of the middle castle.
Because it was a very prosperous business road, when the castle was built, the designer specially built a large square that could camp a large number of caravans. The square is larger than the temporary market that left yesterday. A large number of pubs, shops, warehouses, and hotels were specially built around the square to serve the caravans, but most of the wooden structures have been burned down a thousand years ago, leaving only a neatly planned foundation. It proved that there had been some things here.
After arriving at the square, the caravans quickly cleared an open space from the vine plants all over the ground, and then lit some bonfires around the open space respectively, followed by the guards holding their swords and shields, and around the open space, hard Beating made a lot of noise.
As the knocking sound came out, there were some murmurs in the shadows of the castle everywhere, and there were some threatening beasts roaring, and soon all kinds of beasts hiding in the castle were in Under the lightness of this metal murmur, overwhelmed and escaped from the castle.
After cleaning up the surrounding beasts, the caravan people began to formally arrange the camp. A tent was erected. Some people, accompanied by the guards, began to look for some combustible wood in the castle, although they came The wood has been prepared at the time, just because the day and night are to be trimmed, then the prepared wood is not enough.
It was already early in the morning, and everyone was extremely sleepy, but they were still very strong, pulling the camp, and after eating a bit of food, except for the pile of guards who were responsible for the security of the barracks, they still sat beside the campfire to stay awake Other than that, everyone else got into the tent and fell asleep.
However, Leo did not fall asleep, but opened the spiritual network to check the situation inside and outside the castle.
Before the caravan had decided to take a day and night rest in the castle, Leo had discovered the anomaly of the castle, because at that time he just took out the survey instrument and was going to check the map changes above, but found this unexpectedly. The ancient city and its surrounding areas could not be shown on the map. It seemed that there was some interference.
It’s just that because he didn’t want to get into trouble, he didn’t plan to enter the castle alone to explore the secrets here. But when he learned that the caravan was about to recuperate in the castle, the previous ideas reappeared, and he planned to recuperate in the caravan. At that time, see if you can find something in the old castle.
In addition, while searching the ancient castle, Spirit Net also carefully searched the caravan. He did this mainly to know whether the caravan secretly transported that page from the madman's knowledge of the 13 ancient gods. Book pages.
But ~EbookFREE.me~ Before the investigation, he already knew the result, because whether he just joined the caravan or when the caravan was stationed in the small Gus desert halfway, he repeatedly used the spirit network to check the business. In the case of the team, if there are really pages of ancient knowledge, he cannot be found, so it is clear that the pages shipped are not in this caravan but in other caravans.
Just as he did not have any anomalies in the exploration of the caravan, this old castle, which had been almost destroyed, had no abnormalities under the investigation of his spiritual network.
To this end, he took out the surveying instrument again and checked the map. This place on the map was still blank, and there was also the top of Quincys Snow Mountain.
Leo was not in a hurry to explore the castle now. He was resting in the tent while carefully recalling the past legend about the old castle that Sanz had mentioned to him before.
Although there are many people in the legend who have an accident because of the overnight castle, there is a loophole in these legends, that is, if all the people in the overnight castle have an accident, how do these legends spread? What about? This is also a rumor that many people think that these legends are made by smugglers, in order to prevent others from approaching here, so as to monopolize the interests of this ancient salt railway.