The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 263 Look!alien!
When you are away from home, it is of course impossible to guarantee three meals a day on time like at home.

In order to maintain progress and reduce the time spent camping to avoid danger, caravans are used to having only two meals in the morning and evening when they are outside. If they are hungry at noon, they can eat some dry food by themselves.

Not to mention Brother Lin, even the others felt that it was time to set up camp and arrange dinner.

This trade route from Yamen to Kanso has been in use for a long time, even though the fog on Mihun Bay dissipated more than ten years ago and it can be transported by sea, it still has not been cut off.

Because although sea freight is fast, it is more dangerous, the sea conditions are harsh and there are many monsters, resulting in high sea freight prices.

If you are not in a hurry, land transportation is more cost-effective. Even if you count the cost of hiring adventurers, the price is much lower than sea transportation, and it is also safer.

For hundreds of thousands of years, merchants have always taken this trade route with various goods. Over time, there are also agreed rules on when and where to camp.

The sun gradually began to fall in the sky, and the caravan speeded up a little. After less than 10 minutes, they arrived at the place where they camped tonight.

It was a clearing that was deliberately felled in the forest. If you look closely, there are still many scorched marks on the ground where a campfire was fired.

This is similar to the post station in Eastern Shenzhou. If you rush every day, no matter how slow you are, you have to reach a place where you can camp. This is the only way to ensure safety to the greatest extent.

It is because there are so many monsters that no one in the west dares to open a shop in this wild place.

Since it is called a caravan, it is impossible to have only one or two carriages.

The caravan that Lin Tianci and the others hitchhiked in had a total of 12 fully loaded two-horse carriages. 40 people.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, and everyone is not a rookie who came out to take risks the first day, and they will soon perform their duties.

The people of the caravan surrounded the carriages into a roughly circular area and unloaded the horses so that they could also eat some grass, drink water and rest.

The advantage of this is that once there is danger at night, the carriage can act as a temporary shelter, and it can also limit the number of monsters entering the camp, so that they can be defeated one by one.

The adventurers are watching the wind nearby, and some are helping the caravan prepare meals together.

Of course, there is nothing to eat in the wild, so they built a wind stove with stones, and moved a huge pot from the carriage, got clean water from a nearby water source, and prepared to stew something.

Lin Tianci was curious at first, so he went over to take a look, but it turned him off.

The so-called dinner is a soup stewed with jerky and dried vegetables. The jerky is too hard, and the cook has to use a knife to cut the jerky into small pieces for cooking. However, the knife he used to cut the jerky is not long. I just cut the monster before, and didn't even wipe it...

The staple food is hard bread like 'baguette'. Lin Tianci wanted to secretly break a piece to taste, but he didn't break it.

Seeing this food, Lin Tianci missed Eastern Shenzhou more and more...

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you want to change. People are forced out. If Lin Tianci doesn't want to eat this kind of food, he can only think of it himself.

He looked around, and then stepped into the woods beyond the clearing.

On the other side, Leticia and Alma are laying the camp.

A mage has a lot of preferential treatment during travel, not to mention being able to make a carriage, and there is no need for a vigil after camping at night, and the place to sleep is the safest central area of ​​the camp, so as to avoid losing magic power on your side if you are attacked support.

They lay down their bedding, set up bonfires to keep warm at night, set up magic alarms around the camp, spray insect repellant, and the like.

When they were almost done, Alma glanced at the bedding belonging to Lin Tianci, who had been left aside, a little puzzled and said:

"Where is Lin Tianci?"

Leticia unfolded the bedroll and said:
"Maybe to help prepare dinner? I saw him at the wind stove before."

Alma looked around on tiptoe, but did not see Lin Tianci over there:

"Shouldn't he be patrolling the neighborhood with the others?"

It would be fine if he really went on patrol with other adventurers, but if Lin Tianci ran away by himself, Alma was worried that he would get lost.

After all, the terrain of the Manach Forest is complex, and if it is too far away from the official road, it will really be similar to a natural maze.Lin Tianci, an outsider who is not familiar with his place of life, is really hard to say.

While they were talking, Laiditia, who had just made the bed, saw a bush move not far away, and Lin Tianci's head leaked out from behind.

"Isn't that here? I should go to the toilet."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Lin Tianci coming out of the bushes with four fish in his hand, which had been cleaned up and strung together with straw ropes.

The two girls went there together, and when they saw Alma, they asked:

"Where did you find the fish?"

"It's in the lake a little to the east. By the way, this fish should be edible, right?"

Lin Tianci was not sure, although the fish looked like silver carp, but when he caught the fish, he found that the mouth of this fish was full of fangs...

Alma was a little confused:

"It is indeed edible, but...you didn't encounter any monsters when you caught the fish?"

"You mean that kind of oversized octopus? I came across it, but its meat was too old, so I didn't bring it back."

"..."

The two girls will not pursue how Lin Tianci knew the information of 'the meat is too old'.

After all, I came from a country of big foodies. When I saw an unknown animal, my first reaction was to wonder if it was edible, whether it was delicious, and how to eat it.

As he spoke, Lin Tianci suddenly remembered something and said:
"By the way, I also caught an alien on the way."

"Aliens? Is there such a race?"

Looking at Redicia, the latter shook her head, saying that she had never heard of the race of 'alien'.

"Maybe you don't call it this name here, wait for me to drag it out."

As he spoke, Lin Tianci handed the fish to Alma, and turned back into the woods. Within a few seconds, he came out dragging a vine, as if he was still very excited.

"It's also the first time I've seen aliens. I didn't expect that there are not only monks and magicians in this world, but also such scientific things as aliens."

He pulled hard, and a small humanoid creature that was tied into a rice dumpling and covered in green skin was pulled out of the bushes by him.

Alma and Redicia were shocked when they saw it:
"Stop it! That's a goblin!"

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Mistaking goblins for aliens, it can only be said that Lin Tianci knows too little about monsters in the west...

In his previous life, he had heard of goblins, goblins, etc., but they were on the computer screen. Whether it was a manga style or a manga style, even if it was a pixel style or a 3D model, it could only be regarded as Two-dimensional product, I have never seen such a green-skinned little monster in reality.

For him, the closest image of this kind of green thing with big eyes is an alien. Lin Tianci originally thought about taking it back to Eastern China to raise it in the talisman gate, maybe he could torture it out Where is the flying saucer.

But since it's a goblin, then everything is out of the question.

This is a small monster that lives in groups, usually with a settlement of 6 to 20 as a unit. The unlucky one that Lin Tianci caught should be hunting or patrolling nearby.

Speaking of it, this thing can barely be regarded as a kind of intelligent creature, but its IQ is relatively poor, and it is an evil creature. Despite its small size, it is quite cruel by nature. There are often news of goblins attacking travelers or farmers.

Unlucky is indeed unlucky, but life is like this, either you kill me or I kill you.

Let a few adventurers take this unlucky goblin to a place a little further away from the camp and slaughter it, lest the smell of blood attract other monsters.

As for the goblin companions, there is no need to worry. As long as these guys see a dead body, they will generally not rush to die again. They are relatively timid.

And Lin Tianci, who had an oolong, dealt with the fish he got from the lake while Elma was explaining what kind of monster a goblin was.

He had already cleaned up the internal organs by the lake. This time he just broke off a few branches, peeled off the bark, and used the branches as barbecue skewers to thread the fish.

Then open the rucksack and take out the spices from inside.

Ever since the experience in Qixia Valley, Lin Tianci has been used to carrying some commonly used spices with him, so as to avoid the sad situation of eating barbecue in the wild with only salt.

However, he didn't bring much, so he touched some ginger powder on the fish to remove the fishy smell and enhance the smell, then marinated it with salt, and put it on the side of the campfire to roast it.

When the skin is crispy and the meat is fragrant, sprinkle with a little chili powder.Although it is not very delicious, at least it is more in line with Lin Tianci's appetite than the broth stewed by adventurers.

Even Alma and Leticia got sucked in, and the three of them ate up the four big fish.It's just that the eyes of the other people who are eating hard bread with broth are not right, probably because of envy and hatred...

After dinner, the sky was basically dark, and the adventurers began to arrange candidates for the night watch.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the caster. It is customary for mages not to keep vigil.

Lin Tianci threw the fish bones into the bonfire, and drank the wine from the water-cleaning gourd one by one. This was the only psychological comfort. His gourd was filled with the wine he poured in during his travels in Eastern China.

The strong smell of alcohol made Alma's nose twitch while eating the grilled fish:
"That container of yours contains spirits?"

It seems that there is no gourd in the west.

"This is the wine from our Eastern China. It looks like water and is colorless and transparent."

"Aren't you afraid of getting drunk? This wine smells strong."

Lin Tianci waved his hand nonchalantly:
"If you drink too much, you will go to the toilet twice. We monks will not get drunk."

He held up the water hyacinth and said:

"Come to have a taste?"

"No, I don't drink."

Redicia explained:
"We mages generally seldom drink alcohol, especially in the wild. If we drink too much when casting spells, it is easy to make mistakes."

Lin Tianci shrugged, there was nothing he could do.

So magicians are not as good as monks, at least in Lin Tianci's view, it is unbearable not to drink.

(End of this chapter)