Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 7 5. Where to Go
On the first morning after fleeing with the entire barony, Rand, who hadn't finished his breakfast, saw his chief knight hurriedly find him.

"Aren't you on guard?" Rant guessed the bad news, but he hoped that Rolle would come back for breakfast.

"The barbarians have arrived at Galloping Horse Castle." Rolle confirmed the worst news in Rand's mind.

"How many are they?"

"At least 10 cavalrymen were just scouting, and went in directly because they found no one around the castle."

"How long do you think they'll come scouting the forest?"

"I guess it won't be long. The ruts on our ground are too obvious. If you don't come, you must be blind."

"I thought I could fight for one day, but it seems that I only got one more night." Lante said to himself, and suddenly looked at Rolle, "Inform everyone, pack your bags and set off immediately. The two knights should know the route to the next camp." , let them go first, we have a lot of people, we can change the road.”

"Understood, within 20 kilometers of this forest is our backyard. Every family is familiar with this place, so don't worry about getting lost in the forest." The Luoer team has a lot of information about this forest.

Half an hour later, that is, less than 15 minutes after Rand's main team set off, the first batch of barbarian cavalry followed the ruts of the galloping leaders to find them.

The spies of the barbarians are good hunters in the tribe, and once they set their sights on the prey, they will not lose it.The barbarian who came to search for Rand today is called bison. He also discovered Huck, the baron of the galloping horse two days ago, and a horse that followed Huck for 1.5-2 kilometers, and finally helped other cavalry in the tribe. Huck was captured several times.

Last night, the leader of the tribe asked them to set off outside Baron Galloping Horse's castle to investigate before dawn. The leader has confirmed that the bigger castle just south of the Cornico Pass will not interfere with their westward exploration.

However, outside the baron's castle, it was already empty.The bison yelled in his heart that it was not good, the prey was startled, and now he ran away before he was attached, and it would be difficult to find it again.

Fortunately, there are too many people in the baron's territory, and obvious rut ​​tracks can be seen all the way to the west.After chasing for about half an hour, the buffalo arrived outside the big forest, where he hesitated, because he had never seen so many trees after wandering on the grassland for more than ten years.

Just as the bison was planning to send a companion back to report the news, when he led three people into the forest to search, a burst of white mist rose from the ground of the entire forest, which blocked the bison from the forest like a wall.

In the forest in the early morning, there is always miasma.The early morning in the Great Forest is no exception, but the residents of Galloping Horses have experienced it more or less, so it's not surprising, but the barbarian's pursuit makes everyone quicken their pace.

The one in the back is still Luo Er, who is on guard about 500 meters behind the team.However, Luo Er didn't know why the barbarians on fast horses never entered the forest.

But he knew that the danger was about to be lifted.Because between the second camp and the first camp, there is a small river that is not too narrow.

This small river flows down from the Cornico Mountain in the north and forms many pools in the woods. The shallowest place is only half a meter deep. The most important refuge barrier.

During the evacuation period, people and livestock will take the lead in wading through the knee-deep creek, and the horse-drawn carts behind are not easy to ford. Less than 300 meters away, there is a small pond, which was specially set up after many times of evacuation.

The surrounding area of ​​the pool is specially heightened. Once the downstream outlet is closed, the increasing height of the pool will be drained from a higher gap in the other direction, and the water will be discharged into a river channel in a dry season in winter. Using this pool, people who seek refuge The river can be artificially diverted. After the carriage passes through the river bed, the original outlet can be reopened to make the river water become a barrier again.

Barbarians will be more cautious about unfamiliar environments. No barbarians will easily try to cross an unfamiliar small river. They are more inclined to look downstream to find a place to cross the river with a flatter terrain. However, it is inevitable to go deeper into the forest.

After entering this forest for 10 kilometers, there will be some middle and high-level Warcraft territories, and ordinary barbarian cavalry are not enough to deal with them.

In Baron Galloping Horse's preset camp, on the one hand, he didn't go too deep into the forest, and on the other hand, there were always people taking care of it: marking it with the excrement powder of high-level monsters specially bought from the king's city.Let the middle and low-level monsters avoid here.

In short, Rand found that the Benma family attached great importance to this refuge, and they were more considerate than their own castle.

The biggest disadvantage here compared to the castle is that the air here is too humid. If it can be drier, Rand will be more satisfied.

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After setting up camp, Rand began to think, what exactly do these barbarians want to do?
Rand can understand that they came to rob, but he doesn't understand why they plundered the people. Although the barbarians are low in civilization, they don't eat people, or the barbarians mainly rely on cattle, sheep and other animals for food. Cattle and sheep are not only It produces meat, but also produces dairy products, and the meat is used to trade food with the human race, which is enough for the barbarians to escape the climate crisis in winter.

So why did they take the risk?Why do you want to capture your own father and brother?It's understandable to pursue, afraid of leaking secrets, but really afraid of leaking secrets, isn't the dead man more strict?

All kinds of puzzles surrounded Rand's mind. He wanted to ask Albert for advice, but when he walked to the scholar's camp, he found that Albert was writing a thick book.

Rant didn't bother Albert, but observed the book by himself. It was actually a paper book, and the quality of the paper was very good. Although the pages were thin, it was strong enough and not transparent. At first glance, it is very mature papermaking technology.

Albert wrote selflessly, then felt Rand behind him, and turned around, "What's wrong? Rand, why did you come to me?"

"Albert, what are you writing?" Rand asked curiously
"Territory diary. Every territory above the baron has a family scholar. One of the missions of this scholar is to write a territory diary. It is his duty to record every day in the territory."

"But we have to go out for 4 or 5 days," Rand asked.

"Yes, the butler was writing for me a few days ago"

Mei Wennan is the steward of the territory. In terms of blood relationship, Mei Wennan is of the same generation as Huck Benma, and they have the same grandfather.

Mei Wennan has been a housekeeper for more than 20 years, and has been dedicated to the entire family. After Albert left, he acted as Albert's agent to write the territory diary.

"I want to ask, what date is it today?" Rant wanted to understand this world. He only received from the memory of the original owner that there were 4 seasons, 4 seasons, and 12 months in a year here, but the original owner had a rough life. Well, just remember the first ten days, the middle ten days and the last ten days, and I have no idea about the more detailed time.

“9月21日，更准确的说是神皇纪年996年9月21日”亚伯特脱口而出
"A good year", Rand thought in his heart, 996, this year is suitable for hard work. "When do you think the barbarians will leave the galloping horse territory?"

"From the current point of view, today's barbarians are just spies. The large forces will come back within a day or two. We haven't left them food, but they can't leave easily. I guess they will stay until the end of the month, which is the 33rd or 34th." No."

"Oh, 33, hey, what day do you think?" Lante felt that he had suddenly found Huadian,

"It's the end of the 33rd. You don't forget that this month is September and has 9 days?" Albert laughed, but Rand could only smile apologetically.
"You remember the days so clearly. I usually only remember the first ten days, the middle ten days and the last ten days." Rant praised, while trying to figure out the calendar. "Do you have a calendar or a monthly calendar? I want to see it."

"Of course," Albert then stood up and walked towards a box, "Speaking of which, it's still your property?"

"What? Mine?"

"Yes, this is the alchemy calendar. It is a magic product that relies on the magic rune circle to run. It is your certificate and tool as the territory director." Albert found an item, which was a small blue box. After opening, there was a The dial, the date pointer in the dial points to September 9st.Albert said that this alchemy calendar was issued by the Holy Supreme Council, and it was the benchmark tool for every lord above the baron.The hours, minutes, and seconds hands on the largest dial are almost completely similar to the clocks in Rand’s hometown. The small dials are calendars for the year, month, and day. It can be said that it is an all-round mechanical clock.

In addition to the time function, there is a gauge at the bottom of the box. The gauge is 0.1 meters long and can be used as a reference for length measurement. There is also a 0.1kg alchemy ceramic weight inside the box. The density of this weight is exactly the same as that of water. It can be used as a measuring tool for volume and mass.All officially recognized nobles above the baron in the entire empire will be distributed with one such alchemy tool as a benchmark for weights and measures in the territory.

"This calendar, the alchemy seal of the lord, and the alchemical landmarks on the territory are the three major certificates of the lord on the ground."

From the dial of the calendar, Rand found that there are 400 days in a year here, 33 days in each month, and 1 days in each month of January, June, September, and December.The standard of each day is very similar to the planet he used to be, but when looking at the calendar, Lante faintly found something not quite right.For example, in the chart of the astrolabe, Lante found that the star he was on was actually revolving around the so-called Raya, and Raya brought Alivia and several planets around Di Yang.At some point Rand felt that if Raya was a planet, then Alivia was a satellite.But now, the Raya galaxy where Alivia is located can be counted as the secondary galaxy of the Emperor Yang galaxy.Alivia has both rotation and revolution, and the entire galaxy revolves around Emperor Yang's galaxy.

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The night in September has already started to get cold, but the temperature in the Barony of the Galloping Horse is still much warmer than that on the Plain of the Galloping Horse.

At this moment, the leader of the Gray Goose Clan who just came down from the Galloping Horse Plain is sitting in the living room on the first floor of the Baron Galloping Horse Castle, experiencing the so-called aristocratic life in the civilized world of the Human Race.After much deliberation, the leader only said one sentence, your chair is not too soft.

Besides the elders and warriors of the Gray Goose Tribe, there was also a young man of the Human Race standing beside him.

"Patriarch, the son of the viscount outside is here again." Suddenly, a messenger from the tribe came to report.

"That little Rot, he still has the face. He said that there are hundreds of people here for a winter's grain, more than 50 horses, and more than 20 slaves, but I am here and only see this earthen house. You go Tell that kid, we haven't seen a grain of grain here, we will naturally look for it elsewhere, and let his viscount's father choose whether to give us the grain or we will go get it ourselves!"

"Yes!" The messenger turned and left
The young man on the side stared at the Gray Goose patriarch, "Master Patriarch, as I said, this poor baron has no slaves or food. The two items you want can only be found in the nearby Viscount Castle turn up."

"Yes, I know," the Gray Goose leader said relaxedly, "but less than 60 slaves are not enough. You know, it's winter, the land is about to freeze, and only a strong demon possessor can dig hard The ground. Therefore, the main force of mining is knight apprentices and junior knights."

"It's easy to handle. Once the matter of Rott's territory is exposed, the entire Maned Wolf City will be under pressure from the Dragon Kingdom. They will launch some families to make up for their crimes. We will send the demon owners of these families to the Galloping Horse Plain."

"Okay! I hope you can abide by the agreement." The tribal leader seemed very happy that a big rock had landed.

"Of course, we have cooperated for such a long time, and I have never kept the agreement." The tone of the young man was also much more relaxed.

"It's inconvenient for you to stay here for the rest of the matter. I suggest you go back to the camp first and help me debug those capricious magic circles."

"Okay. Do you need to contact the local connector before you leave?" The young man didn't seem so willing to leave like this.

"Local?" The leader seemed to think for a few seconds, "No need, it's best not to let too many people know about our affairs."

"Okay, then I'll wait for news from the leader at the camp." After that, the young man also left the castle.

After watching the young man leave, the leader whispered, "Baron, Viscount, Earl, you nobles hiding behind the stone wall, what do you think I am? A vulture on the grassland? A few pieces of carrion from you will be enough ?”

"Come on!" the tribal leader roared, "tell the camp in the north of the mountain pass to get ready, let the warriors polish their iron knives, wipe their armor clean, feed the horses enough food, and let the tribal camps on the plain go south. This winter, let's find a warm place to spend the winter!"

"Yes!" Following the order of the tribal leader, many barbarian cavalry rushed to the north, and the hunting of the barbarian tribes in the southern part of the Galloping Horse Plain was about to begin.

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