The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 273
The green hills are very open, without the trees, the distance between the sky and the ground seems to be farther. If you look up, the azure blue sky seems to have a deep magic that can make people fall into it.

However, there are still some differences between the green hills and the grasslands in everyone's impression. Generally, they are grass + plains, while the green hills are grass + hills.

From a distance, it looks like a large undulating green wave, which is magnificent.

Compared with the most dangerous forest of Manach and the arthropod forest where spiders will get entangled if you are unlucky, walking to the green hills means that the caravan has officially entered the sphere of influence of Canso City.

Since there are few shelters here, if there are powerful monsters appearing nearby, they will be easily spotted. Canso City will also send people to clean them up. The main dangers to worry about are wild beasts and robbers.

Said to be a robber, in fact, can also be understood as a local.

The nomadic tribes who originally lived on the green hills caused considerable trouble to the newly established Canso City, because the green hills happened to block the trade route going north. Canso City wanted to cooperate with the northern cities, Companies such as Amen Trading must address this threat.

At the same time, these nomads not only plundered caravans in normal times, but also went south to loot farms when the climate reduced livestock production and food was insufficient.

Kanso City also thought of many ways to do this, sending people to negotiate, promising preferential policies, doing business with them and other peaceful means, but none of them worked.

The unbearable Kanso City sent a large army to carry out the siege, but several military operations ended in failure. After all, these nomads grew up on horseback and came and went like the wind. If the army could not catch them, the small army would be captured Divide and annihilate them.

Later, Kanso City thought of a once-and-for-all solution. Every time they went deeper into the green hills, they built castles in places with water sources, and took the castles as nodes step by step to bring the entire green hills under their control.

Of course, the nomads will not sit still, but Kanso City really wants to solve the problem permanently this time. While building the city, the army is waiting nearby, and if they dare to come, they will be dumped.

In the end, the dotted castles controlled a small number of water sources and settlements on the green hills, and allowed nomads to trade, exchange livestock for food and other necessities, and also allowed well-behaved locals to obtain citizenship.

This can be said to be a combination of kindness and strength, with the steel knife chosen on the head in one hand and the tooth-losing sugar in the other hand. After a series of measures and the efforts of time, the nomads on the green hills have almost been domesticated and become special The city of Canso provides pastoralists with livestock, wool and dairy products.

Of course, it is probably because the country is easy to change and the nature is difficult to change, or it is ugly to say that calling a dog can’t change eating shit. These herdsmen don’t mind looting a weak caravan when there is no one around, and when the time comes, they will move their things. Go home and sleep, and wake up the next morning and still pretend to be a good citizen.

The main thing caravans need to guard against is this kind of robbers, and the threat from wild animals is much smaller.

On the second night after entering the green hills, a pack of prairie wolves discovered the caravan and attacked it in the dark.

——Then Lin Tianci was allocated five wolf skins of good quality.

It's just that untreated wolf belts had a strong stench, and Lin Tianci thought it smelled bad, so he temporarily put it on the caravan's carriage instead of carrying it himself.

So far, the caravan has not encountered any real difficulties. Compared with being attacked by wild beasts on the first night in Manach Forest, it has been considered more relaxed and enjoyable.

But the absence of danger does not mean that there are no difficulties.

On the fifth day of walking on the green hills, there were dark clouds, and the violent Thunder Snake was sprinting in the air, and it didn't take long for it to rain heavily.

It was always sunny along the way, and the caravan's luck was very good, but the good luck was obviously used up.

Under the heavy rain, everyone in the caravan could only wrap their cloaks tightly and pray to stop before the rain took away too much energy and body temperature.

After all, there is no place to hide from the rain on the green hills, and there is no chance to drink hot soup in this weather.

Speaking of rain, Lin Tianci had to thank Mei Li.

The cloak she helped Lin Tianci choose was quite good in defense and heat preservation. Both Alma and Redicia said that although Lin Tianci lacked adventure experience, he chose the cloak very correctly.

The heavy rain lasted for a whole day and night, and everyone was already exhausted. For Brother Lin, who was not physically fit, the heavy rain was second to none.

In the forest, you can still hunt at least, but on the grassland, it is difficult to find even a rabbit.

It is also impossible for Lin Tianci to conjure delicious food out of thin air. All he can do is pick some wild leek flowers along the way, find a jar and pickle them with salt.

However, the leek flower sauce made by everyone is full of praise, and the people in the caravan even plan to make it into a commodity...
This was one of the few joys in a boring trip, and after the heavy rain, the caravan finally arrived at an important trade node on the green hill, a town called Fort Flannery, in the afternoon.

This small-scale town was still established as a castle to control the nomads at the beginning, but because it is the castle farthest from Canso City and the only way for north-south trade, it quickly developed and expanded.

As soon as he entered the city, Lin Tianci felt a little weird. Although the buildings all had the meaning of medieval castles, the streets were full of livestock brought in by herdsmen for trade, and it felt more like a purely livestock trading market.

The caravans and adventurers didn't have so many messy sighs. They hurriedly found the nearest hotel, and the top priority was to have a good meal and a good sleep.

Since the caravan has no livestock business and will not sell supplies here, the caravan will only stay here for one night and will set off again tomorrow.

The two girls, Alma and Redicia, were also very tired and went to rest. Only Lin Tianci, a very energetic guy, would choose to stay in the city after eating the creamy soup for three people. go around.

He said he was going around, but in fact he was just idle, and his only gain was probably to exchange the five wolf furs he got before for a well-made wolf fur coat.

Not to mention whether it would be a loss to change five wolf fur coats, monks are not sensitive to temperature, as long as it is not extremely cold, they do not need warm clothes, and at the current temperature, wearing a wolf fur coat will probably cause heat stroke.

But as the saying goes, money can't buy happiness, and he just likes it.

Especially the long wolf fur coat with exposed fur was really cool in his opinion.

Brother Lin liked it very much in his previous life, but the ones sold online are hard to distinguish between real and fake, and the styles are not rough enough. He likes the ones in old movies.

What's more, even if there is that style, he can't afford real leather...

By the time he walked around Farnborough and returned to the hotel with his wolf fur coat on his back, it was almost night in the afternoon.

At this time, Alma and Leticia also caught up on some sleep, drinking refreshing coffee or black tea.

Most of the other people in the caravan were still sleeping soundly in their rooms, and Erma and Leticia got up with the sleepiness to get the command input device of the ancient elves.

According to the information obtained from the contactor of the White Hands Association in the small town of Lanluoya, there is a command input device collected by the private sector in Frankburg. Alma and Redicia just wanted to see if they could get it. With its assistance, it will be much more convenient to explore the ruins of the ancient elves in the future.

So after the two girls woke up a lot and Lin Tianci also threw his coat into his hotel room, the three of them left the hotel again and walked on the street as if they were strolling.

Alma said softly as she walked:

"According to the information of the White Hands Association, the person who owns the command input device is an old mage who lives in seclusion here. He is a fanatical lover of ancient elves, and he is very obsessed with their creations."

"A collector? It shouldn't be easy to get his collection."

To judge others by oneself, anyway, if Lin Tianci particularly likes to collect certain things, he will definitely not easily give his collection to others. It is not a matter of money.

"It's really not easy, but we're lucky, the collector died recently."

"..."

What kind of good luck is this?

Alma went on to explain:

"The collector has an ignorant son who is the heir to the inheritance. He is a typical prodigal son. He lives in Canso City and has only recently returned to Frankfurt, mainly to deal with his father's legacy. If this prodigal son If we don't know the goods, we can buy command input devices at a much cheaper price."

"how much is it?"

The part related to money is what Redicia is good at, she said nonchalantly:
"About three hundred to five hundred gold coins."

"Is this still cheap?"

Lin Tianci stayed in the West for nearly a month, and the money in his pocket did not exceed a dozen gold coins. It may not seem like much, but this amount is enough to support a long-distance trip for a long time.

"Antiques related to ancient elves are very expensive, especially rare magic items like command input devices."

"But do we have that much money?"

Five hundred gold coins is easy to say, but it looks like a huge lump in front of your eyes. Neither Erma nor Redicia have such things as dimensional pockets. Even if you have money, where do you put them?

"Our team is still quite rich. Most of the team funds and personal funds are placed in the bank. When the time comes, sign a purchase contract and go to Canso City to pay the money and deliver the goods."

Leticia waited for Alma to finish speaking, puffed out her chest and said proudly:
"To be precise, it's in my bank."

"..."

I almost forgot that this girl's family is a super rich local tyrant.

"Anyway, if you put it in the bank, you will be exploited by the banker. Why do you want to take advantage of others."

That's right, the fat and water don't flow into outsiders' fields.

"Leave the business to me. At that time, I just need to do a little trick to easily get rid of that prodigal son and let him give the command input device with both hands."

The three of them just walked and chatted softly, and soon left the busy street and came to a real residential area.

(End of this chapter)