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The mist rose and rolled in the sky, and water droplets fell from the clouds and fell on the burned-black fields.
Large groups of rock gnomes, carrying simple tools, carefully turned over the dry and hard fields and re-mashed the sintered soil bit by bit.
They dug up the thick soil, buried the burned hard soil deep in the fields, and then re-created smooth ridges in the fields.
The carapace was removed from the corpses of the flaming gold-eating ants one by one, and all the flesh and blood were beaten to pieces. After being mixed with various plant ashes and the like, they were buried deep in the fields.
They destroyed half of the crops outside Dashi City, and their flesh and blood will be used as fertilizer to nourish this injured field.
A dozen Master Yuan from Dashi City lined up in a row, walking slowly in the fields. They activated the clouds and mist, dropped water droplets, and together with the rock gnomes, carefully repaired the burned farmland.
"What a sin!" A gray dwarf wearing leather armor and carrying an ax squatted beside the sky and the earth, grabbed a piece of burned-hardened soil and knocked it on his head hard, causing tears to flow from his heart.
What a sin, these guys from the Yan family.
In this cruel world, in this damn age, any little piece of land is priceless.
A small field measuring a square meter can support a rock dwarf or two or three ratmen with mushrooms; a field measuring forty or fifty meters square can support an elite with a huge appetite and great strength. Ox warrior.
Like the Wu Family Stone Castle before Wu Tie, the mushrooms produced in a few small fields can support a limited number of rock gnomes. Those little rock gnomes born beyond the standard will starve and die.
That's why the young Wu Tie secretly distributed his food to the little ones so that the little ones could survive.
Even Wu Tie, who has just become sensible, knows the value of fields and the value of food.
Every field is not just a field, but a life that relies on the produce of the field to survive hard.
In order to attack Dashi City, the Yan family actually dispatched flaming gold-eating ants, directly burning half of the farmland outside Dashi City.
Crazy... Really Crazy...
Wu Tie stood in the distance, looking at the gray dwarf who was secretly crying.
He still remembered this bearded dwarf. On the day of the Yan family's raid, the flaming gold-eating ants rushed up the city wall. This stout dwarf was carrying two big axes and was on the front line with incomparable courage.
His whole body was burned to pieces, but until Wu Tie used the ice wind tornado to drive back the swarm of flaming gold-devouring ants, not a single flaming gold-devouring ant could cross his defense line on the small piece of city wall he was holding on to.
This is a tough guy who is not afraid of death.
But he was squatting alone by the field, grabbing a piece of soil that was burned stiff, grinning there, and crying silently.
He's not the only one...
Many Dashi City warriors were far apart, either squatting or standing in the fields.
They were all crying secretly, but they avoided their companions and did not let their companions see their tears.
The soft cry of the rock gnome could be heard in the distance.
The group of dwarfs gathered near the burned shack.
Those shacks were built to facilitate the management of crops in the farmland. Many rock gnomes usually lived in the shacks.
When the swarm of flame-devouring gold ants attacked, at least tens of thousands of rock gnomes failed to escape. When the fire rolled around, they were burned to ashes.
Rock gnomes are naturally small.
When burned by the fire, some of them were directly burned to ashes, and some of them were lucky enough to be left with lumps of char the size of a fist.
The rock gnomes who were tidying up the fields cried softly. They dug deep pits in the fields and buried all the remnants of these shack settlements in the deep pits.
These dwarf slaves in Big Rock City intermarried with each other, and they became a huge dwarf tribe. Many of the dwarfs who were burned to death were their relatives, their friends, and their brothers...
Even a slave has the right to grieve and cry...
At this point, whether they are the elite warriors of Big Rock City or the humble slaves, their power is equal.
Wu Tie wore a set of leather armor made of python skin that was almost transformed into a dragon. The Fengyun flag was hung on his belt and wrapped in a large cloak. He stood on the edge of the farmland and looked at these sad warriors and slaves quietly.
Lao Bai led 600 carefully selected rat warriors, Black-skinned and One-Eyed led a hundred wolf warriors and a hundred lizard man archers, Tie Ba88 led fifty big men from the Ox clan, and Shi Meng's Two confidant warrior leaders brought two hundred elites from the stone city.
In addition to these people, there are five stone giants ten meters tall standing further away.
They were covered in heavy metal armor and held special large weapons. Each one of them was armed to the teeth, standing there like five iron towers. Beside them were ten iron dwarves and fifty gray dwarves.
These boxy dwarfs are also wearing heavy armor and various weapons.
The large group of people stood far away on a mine road leading to the distant mine, looking at this side in silence.
Lao Bai murmured to himself: "What a sin... So much food, so much food... How many animals can be raised, how much meat can be slaughtered..."
The faces of a group of giants and dwarves were not pretty either.
"A lot of food... a lot of wine..." A giant muttered angrily: "The Yan family... hum."
Wu Tie turned around and strode towards the direction of the mine in the distance.
If you haven’t experienced it, you can never imagine what it means to have so many fields and grains burned in this era.
Maybe many old people will commit suicide.
Or many children are abandoned by their parents.
In short, these are lives strangled due to lack of food.
There is a strong sense of sadness in the air, but what is the root of it all? It's simply ridiculous... It's just because there are several elders in the Shi family and the Yan family who have taken refuge in the Immortality Sect.
Wu Tie could not judge whether Shi Fei and Shi Meng's actions were right or wrong, but he believed that colluding with these elders of the Immortality Sect was wrong.
If they do something wrong, they will be punished.
It's that simple.
Led by Wu Tie and Shi Meng, the team that raided the Yanjia Yuan Cave was walking vigorously on the mine road, and they soon arrived at the most remote mining area in Dashi City.
What is produced here is ordinary iron ore, which is not of much value, and a small vein is almost hollowed out, so there are no people here on weekdays.
Only the senior officials of the Shi family knew that deep in the mining area, there was a secret passage leading to the Yan family's territory.
There are actually three such secret passages near Dashi City.
The Shi Family is the largest ore supplier in the Cangyan Territory. The Shi Family's mining team likes to dig everywhere. Over the years, the Shi Family has dug huge holes everywhere. Similar secret passages leading to various places have been dug out. Quite a few.
One of the three secret passages has been used by the Yan family to raid Dashi City. Apparently, the secret of this secret passage has been leaked to the Yan family by some senior members of the Shi family.
However, Shi Meng did not believe that the elders of the Shi family would be stupid enough to leak all the secrets to the Yan family.
Therefore, Wu Tie and the others walked into this most remote mine and shuttled up and down the complicated spider web-like mine tunnels for several hours. Finally, they arrived at the deepest part of the mine tunnels.
A stone giant strode to a rock wall. He pressed his hands on the rock wall, his whole body was shining with a light yellow light, and he chanted a very strange spell in a loud voice.
There was a yellow light rushing on the rock wall, and in the next moment, a rock with a diameter of more than ten meters slid to one side silently, revealing a huge hole. A strong, cold wind roared out from the entrance of the cave, causing most of the torches in the team to suddenly go out.
Lao Bai made a sharp cry.
A group of rat warriors were running around in chaos, and the timid nature of the rat men was fully exposed here.
Wu Tie snorted heavily, and rubbed his hands together. White fireballs the size of water tanks roared into the sky, floating above his head and lighting up a space hundreds of meters in radius.
"It's just wind, it's just wind..." Wu Tie yelled at Lao Bai, who was covered in hair.
"Ha, it's just the wind... Of course I know, it's just a gust of wind, no big deal..." Lao Bai smiled dryly, and hurriedly put the crossbow in his left hand, the dagger in his right hand, the blowgun in his mouth, and the quiver wrapped around his tail. The poison-quenched steel thorn was put away.
Wu Tie looked at Lao Bai speechlessly.
Old acquaintances Heipi, One-Eye, and Tiebaba started laughing. Lao Bai laughed dryly, got a whip out of nowhere, and pretended to point it at the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons around him. A spanking that was neither light nor hard.
With great difficulty, the rat warriors running all over the ground organized their formation. Wu Tie and a few stone giants took the lead, followed by the elite warriors. Rat warriors were in groups of three or five, rushing back and forth to deliver news. The men and horses entered the cave entrance.
At the end of the team, a stone giant waited for everyone to enter the secret passage. He stamped his feet heavily. The rock, which was more than ten meters in size and nearly a hundred meters thick, silently slid back to its original place, blocking the entrance to the secret passage. Solid.
"What a spacious corridor." Walking in the secret passage, Wu Tie and others looked around and exclaimed.
The narrowest part of this corridor is thirty to fifty meters high and tens of meters wide. It is spacious and deep, and the ground is flat, making walking effortless.
Not only Wu Tie and the others walked easily, but even the four-wheeled carts pulled by the gray rock lizards in the team were very stable when walking.
Obviously, after the Shi family excavated this secret passage, they must have spent a lot of manpower, material resources and time to specially widen and level the secret passage. Otherwise, how could it have such an effect
"You guys discovered this secret passage accidentally... Are you ready to go to war with the Yan family at any time? Otherwise, what do you want by organizing this secret passage so well?" Walking at the front of the team, Wu Tie He curiously asked the stone giant walking "slowly" with "small steps" beside him.
Several stone giants blinked and thought seriously for a while, and then a stone giant said angrily: "This is a kind of... piety..."
"These caves and tunnels are the blood and energy of the world..."
"Unblocking them can bring good luck to us giants and dwarves..."
The stone giant looked at Wu Tie seriously: "This is the natural mission of us giants and dwarves... to make the whole world accessible in all directions, to make the blood and energy of the world smooth and smooth, this is our mission..."
"Only those giants and dwarves who have completed their mission can have their spirits merge with the ancestral spirits of the stone after death..."
Wu Tie looked at these big guys in astonishment.
Is this religious belief
'Religious belief', Wu Tie found this word with great difficulty from the knowledge inherited by Lao Tie.
For giants and dwarves, this is their belief. They are dredging blood and energy for the entire world...
Well, this is their perception.
But Wu Tie always felt that those guys from the Shi family definitely did not clear this secret passage for this purpose.
I always feel that there is something sneaky about the existence of these secret passages.
Stone elders like Shi Hui are not good people, so the intention of building these secret passages is... remarkable.
After gently patting the calf of the giant next to him, Wu Tie asked him: "This secret passage..."
The stone giant made an angry sound and pointed out two fingers: "Two thousand three hundred miles long... It will take about half a month to arrive... If these little mice can persevere."
The stone giant looked down at the rat warriors running around on the ground, curled his lips in disgust, and shook his head.
Lao Bai jumped up as if someone had stepped on his tail. He rushed to Wu Tie from the shadows on the side, waved his fist at the stone giant and shouted: "Big guys, don't think that you guys are the only ones who are powerful..." None of Lao Bai’s children and grandchildren is a coward!”
The stone giants grinned, very innocently.
"Strength? You, you can't..." The five stone giants bent their arms at the same time, and their bulging muscles made their stainless steel arm guards rattle, brazenly showing off their developed muscles and terrifying strength.
Lao Bai's face drooped and he shook his head feebly.
Competing strength with giants
Ha, is he that stupid
The Shi family managed this secret passage very well, and planted a large number of luminous plants in the secret passage.
Clusters of luminous mushrooms, strips of luminous vines, luminous ferns, and even large pieces of fluorescent ore inlaid in many places.
Therefore, the brightness in the corridor is very good. There is no need for torches or Wu Tie's fireballs, and everyone can walk in the secret corridor easily.
The Shi family even kept a lot of small creatures here.
Lizards, rats, non-venomous snakes, non-venomous spiders and bats, etc.
Under the regulation of nature, a small self-sufficient ecological circle has been formed in this secret passage that is more than 2,000 miles long.
The rat people hunted these little things everywhere and ate them happily, which greatly saved the food brought by the team.
What shocked Wu Tie even more was that in this secret passage, every two to three hundred miles, the Shi family set up small outposts to monitor every move in the secret passage at any time.
Along the way, Wu Tie and the others also took on the task of replenishing these outposts with various fresh ingredients...
In this way, half a month later, they came to the end of the secret passage.