Opening the window of the room and looking around, the sky was dimly lit.
One night has passed.
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When Ding Hao finished washing and walked out of the room, Gao Feng and others were already waiting outside. When they saw Ding Hao coming out, they greeted him respectfully. The little girl Xueer washed away the mud stains on her face, revealing a fair and delicate face. His little face looked like a different person as he greeted Ding Hao loudly.
The group had breakfast at the inn and began their journey there.
Before leaving, Ding Hao bought a lot of things, most of which were armors, weapons, food and the like. He hired a large carriage to complete the purchase.
The sun was shining brightly, and there were still fine snowflakes floating in the sky. The group of people walked out of the north gate.
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Valley Village.
Like many small-scale human settlement villages, Gudi Village is not large, covering an area of less than 60 acres.
The village is located among hills, backed by Xuelong Mountain, which is covered with snow-covered glaciers that never melt all year round. In front of the village is a grassland and bushes covered with ice and snow, and a deep underground stream thousands of meters deep, as if it were Like a crack cut open by a powerful sword from ancient times, the wind howls every day and the snow and fog fill the air.
The entire village is built on the mountain, showing a long and narrow shape in the east-west direction.
A main street extends from the east end of the village to the west end of the village, with houses built of rocks and ice on both sides.
A wall of more than fifty meters high was built out of rocks, giant trees and ice blocks outside the village. Various thorns and thorns were frozen in the ice. From a distance, it looked like a balled up white hedgehog. The ice wall stood out in the sun. It sparkles and looks majestic, and can be used to resist the invasion of some low-level monsters.
The long cold winter is coming, and both humans and demons are facing a crisis of food shortage.
At this time of year, the conflict between humans and monsters intensifies on the land of Snow State. Bloodshed occurs almost every day. For the continuation and survival of the race, both sides have to fight with swords.
When the sun just rose, Gao Lin, who was already seventy-three this year, as the eldest man in the village and the only elder here, led some armed young people to the arrow tower on the south side of the ice crystal siege. While on guard, Looking far and low to the south.
Today, four or five days have passed since the day when the village chief Gao Feng and several young adults in the village went to hire guardian warriors. According to the previous agreement, yesterday should be the day when Gao Feng and others returned.
"The demons in Snow Dragon Mountain are getting more and more violent, and I'm afraid they will soon spread to this area. I hope the village chief and others will return smoothly and hire a good guardian warrior, otherwise..."
Gao Lin didn't dare to think about the worst.
If there were no guardian warriors, this winter might be the end of Valley Village.
Many villagers stood on the high wall one after another, looking expectantly at the mountain road to the south.
Time passed slowly while waiting impatiently.
Gradually, as the sun reached noon, there was still not a single human figure visible on the distant road, the only road leading to the outside world.
"Elder, why haven't the village chiefs come back yet?" A young man who looked about ten years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, was quite heroic. He was impatient to wait, holding a long iron-tipped spear in his hand. Spear, couldn't help but said: "No
I encountered a demon on the road..."
"Gao Jian, don't talk nonsense." Gao Lin raised his white eyebrows and interrupted the bastard.
Gao Jian opened his mouth, but did not dare to talk back.
"Look, there is movement in the distance..." Someone suddenly shouted in surprise.
Everyone immediately looked towards the mountain road to the south, and saw a dozen black dots vaguely appearing in the distance where the white sky and the ground met. Then the dots became clearer and clearer. They were definitely not monsters or monsters. Other animals, but figures moving at high speed.
"Are the village chief and the others back?" Gao Lin felt happy, but in the next moment, the joy on his old face covered with wrinkles like ravines instantly solidified and turned into fear.
"Quick, set up your defenses immediately and prepare the archery tower. Yes, people..."
A long white banner suddenly fluttered on the mountain road in the distance. A long bloody dragon with teeth and claws was depicted on the banner. It made a hunting sound pulled by the north wind, and seemed to come to life. It was swimming in the sky, full of emotions. Get rid of the evil spirit of blood.
The banner was held in the hands of a knight wearing black iron and light armor.
Behind this burly knight, a cavalry team of more than thirty people roared towards them, like a black evil wind blowing between the white sky and the earth, at extremely fast speeds, with a thunderous sound of horse hooves. , this group of knights arrived under the ice crystal wall in the blink of an eye.
The ferocity of these knights can be seen even more closely.
The black armor on each of their bodies was stained with blood, and they were all black long-haired horses. There were several heads hanging under the horses' heads. They had been frozen, but the frightened and angry expressions on the heads and faces were still clearly identifiable. , apparently just killed.
These guys are like the army of death coming out of hell.
The knight's armor was stained with frozen red blood and silver-white ice. He was silent and solemn. The white air he drank from his mouth filled the air like a ghost mist. From time to time, the sound of a horse snorting made the atmosphere even more terrifying and permeated. Indescribable murderous intent.
On top of the city wall, the people in Gudi Village were almost stunned.
Most people were so frightened that they couldn't even say a word, and some people were even trembling with fear. The hands holding the spears began to tremble, their faces were pale, and their eyes were full of despair.
Almost everyone has heard various rumors about it.
This group of bandits, the largest within a radius of 500 miles, is notoriously bloodthirsty and ruthless. They come to capture the whistling wind. They run across the Snow Dragon Mountain area. No one dares to mess with them. They rob caravans, loot villages, rob people and money, and do all kinds of evil. , wherever they go, if they encounter the slightest resistance, they will burn and kill them all, leaving no chickens or dogs behind.
However, this group of ferocious bandits also knew that they should not exhaust their efforts. As long as they showed obedience to the villages within a radius of a hundred miles, they would expropriate them once in each season of the year. Otherwise, they would not plunder. Therefore, many similar villages were included. in order to survive.
Under the city.
The first black-armored knight was the burliest, and looked to be at least two and a half meters tall. He was like an iron tower, sitting upright on an equally huge and somewhat exaggerated half-demon horse, with a bald head and a face. There are green animal pattern thorn tattoos printed on his body and scalp, which makes him look even more powerful and terrifying.
The tattooed bald man's eyes were slightly squinted, with a faint green light shining deep in his pupils, and his eyes were cold and unhuman.