"The bacon and dry food were prepared a few days ago, and five servings have been packed. If you save some food, it will last for half a month." Nicotine replied respectfully.
Du Dian glanced at him. From the housekeeper's point of view, nicotine is still very qualified, basically he doesn't need to worry about anything, and said: "Go and wake them up, and come to me in five minutes to gather."
"Yes." Nicotine promised, and went upstairs.
Du Dian came to the hall and checked whether the cannon parts in the suitcase were missing.
After only about three minutes, Hei Scar, Lao Jin, Kaqi and Guinness quickly went downstairs one after another. Although Du Dian was rarely strict with them, and his attitude was always relatively flat, even gentle, they all knew that This young man has an uncompromising character and dare not go beyond the times.
Du Dian looked at the four of them, and they all put on the intermediate hunter suits they bought from the Temple of Elements a few days ago. This hunting suit is the exclusive magical product of the Temple of Elements, and it is also one of the few products that the temple sells for foreign gold coins. Other consortiums prohibit the production and sale of it, and it can only be bought occasionally on the underground black market.
"You two go outside the wall for the first time, if you have anything you don't understand, just ask Hei Scar and Kaqi, don't leave the team." Du Dian instructed Guinness and Lao Jin.
Guinness nodded slightly.
Lao Jin's expression was a little nervous and faintly excited. Although he was a Knight of Light before and had never been outside the wall, when chatting with Hei Scar in prison, he knew more about things outside the wall. He was both afraid and yearning.
"Eat breakfast and get ready to go." Du Dian ordered.
Nicotine immediately asked the maid to serve breakfast, and everyone finished eating quickly, and carried the suitcase containing the cannon and the barrel rolled in linen to the outside carriage. Du Dian sat in the carriage and let Lao Jin drive the carriage. The scar three led the way on horseback.
"If anyone comes to me, I will refuse." Du Dian warned Nicotine before leaving: "Don't reveal my whereabouts."
Nicotine respectfully promised.
Watching the few people leave the castle, the smile on Nicotine's face slowly disappeared, and a sneer curled up at the corner of his mouth.
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When the carriage drove to a remote path, Du Dian saw that there was no one around, and asked Lao Jin to pull off the flag of the Ryan family on the carriage, and turned to another road to continue. Two or three hours later, everyone gradually left the living area and came to the wilderness near the frontier. While driving, Du Dian suddenly smelled a few smells gathered together and approached them.
"Other consortia?" Du Dian wondered.
Soon, this smell appeared in his sight. It was actually a group of soldiers wearing military uniforms, galloping on horseback, and soon caught up with them, but the latter didn't seem to be coming towards them. Without slowing down at all, he passed the carriage and headed for the fort ahead.
Du Dian slowly put down the car curtain, his eyes flickered. It seemed that the war situation in the border fortress was more tense than what was said in the newspaper.
After a while, everyone came to the fortress.
Du Dian clearly saw that the number of soldiers in this fortress was several times higher than before. In the open space of the barracks behind the fortress, there were extremely dense patrolling soldiers, and some soldiers were practicing in the open space. Some of these soldiers were about the same age as Du Dian. A boy of fifteen or sixteen years old. Du Dian took a look from a distance and saw that the movements of these young soldiers were sloppy and their limbs were weak. It was obvious that they lacked exercise, unlike the regular young soldiers trained from the barracks.
Thinking of the mandatory conscription he had heard before, Du Dian frowned slightly and looked away.
"Stop!" Hei Scar, Kaqi, and Guinness, who were leading the way, were stopped by the soldiers and shouted, "This is a border fortress. Idlers, stay away!"
Du Dian pushed the door open, jumped out of the carriage, took out his hunter medal, and said: "We are hunters of the Xinshi Consortium, hunting outside the wall in the early stage."
The soldier took his medal and looked at it twice, then turned to Kaqi and the others, and said, "What about you?"
Kaqi snorted coldly, took out his hunter medal from the inner armor, threw it to the soldier and said, "Look carefully." His original hunting medal had been confiscated long ago, and Du Dian asked Flynn to reissue it for him. Yes, any consortium can apply to the temple to make the Hunter Medal.
The soldier glanced twice, confirmed that it was correct, then looked at Heiba and the others, looked away, walked to the carriage that Du Dian was riding in, and said, "Is there anyone in the carriage?"
Du Dian said: "No one, it's just some hunting tools."
"Let me see." The soldier said indifferently.
Du Di'an shrugged and said casually.
The soldier opened the back of the carriage and saw several suitcases and cloth-wrapped gun barrels. He opened it and checked it. He turned around and came back after seeing nothing suspicious, and said to Du Dian, "You just use these things to hunt?"
Du Dian smiled lightly and said, "How to hunt, do I need to report to you?"
The soldier's face changed slightly, he snorted coldly, turned and returned to the team, and signaled his companions to open the gate.
Du Dian returned to the car, passed through the passage of the fortress, and soon came to the outside of this towering fortress, and the entrance was full of desolation. According to the direction indicated by Du Dian, the three Black Scars continued to lead the way ahead.
After leaving the fortress for a few miles, Du Dian opened the curtain of the car and saw some rough rivet hammers and sabers scattered on the ground along the way. On the plain with sparse grass, some footprints and dried blood remained on the ground.
"This place seems to have experienced a war not long ago." Kaqi, who was clearing the way ahead, looked around and said calmly.
Hei Scar and Guinness also noticed this, with doubts in their eyes.
Du Dian suddenly saw something and said, "Stop."
Lao Jin quickly reined in the horse rope and looked back.
Du Dian pushed open the car door and jumped down, ignoring the questioning gazes cast by Kaqi and others. He went straight to the grass more than ten meters away and picked up a short knife. Carved with weird engravings.
He looked carefully, his brows slowly frowned, and he closed his eyes to recall for a moment, how many times he had entered and exited the fortress, the weapons equipped by the soldiers stationed in the fortress, although they had short knives, seemed to be slightly longer in size, and the handles were similar to this one. different. He flicked the blade lightly with his fingers, making a humming sound, his brows furrowed even more, and he fell silent.
"What?" Kaqi came on horseback and asked strangely.
Du Dian came back to his senses, shook his head slightly, "It's nothing." He put away the dagger, returned to the carriage, and said, "Go on."
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After more than two hours.
Everyone finally saw the huge wall, towering like a mountain, covering the sky and blocking out the sun. After the carriage approached, Du Dian jumped out of the carriage and saw the Bright Knight standing in front of the passage at a glance. After showing his hunter medal, he opened the passage and let Kaqi and Guinness carry the fort into the passage.
When the two light knights saw these things, their expressions were indifferent, and they didn't step forward to inspect them. They were only responsible for inspecting the ones brought back from outside the wall, and they didn't bother to pay attention to the ones brought out.
After unloading the things, Du Dian handed over the horse and carriage to the two light knights, and led Kaqi and others through the lengthy passage.
Kaqi came to the middle of the passage, paused, looked at Du Dian who continued to move forward, and said in a daze: "Don't you need to pray?"
Du Dian glanced back at him as he walked, and said, "I said, we don't believe in God."
Kaqi froze for a moment, looked up at the goddess of hunting engraved on the rock wall, the enchanting body and beautiful face, in the shadow of the lights, like a witch, he saluted under the pine, bowed his head silently, closed his eyes After praying for a while, he raised his salute and caught up with Du Dian.
Pushing open the heavy iron door, Du Dian glanced around and saw no monsters before turning over and looking at the powder box piled up next to the huge wall last time. It was covered by an oilcloth, so it should not have been wet by rain.
"Huh!" Lao Jin stepped out of the passage, looking at the world in front of him with surprise on his face, is this the scenery outside the wall
Guinness also glanced around, looking at every plant and tree outside the wall.
Du Dian put all the suitcases together and opened them. He took out the parts inside and assembled them. He spliced them together in just a few minutes. Under the base of the cannon is a two-wheeled rolling turret. The diameter of the barrel in the front is 20 cm. One hundred and sixty centimeters long, it belongs to a small primitive fort.
Seeing this weird weapon assembled by Du Dian, Kaqi, Guinness and others were surprised and very curious.
"Could it be a catapult?" Kaqi observed for a moment, then wondered, "But I didn't see the elastic cord, it's strange."
Du Dian didn't answer his question, and told several people: "Take all the things here, and follow me."
Kaqi and others have long noticed the powder boxes piled up next to them. Kaqi, who was more curious, even took advantage of Du Dian's inattention, and buckled in from the edge of the box to find out the explosive powder inside. When he saw the smelly powder At that time, the doubts in his heart grew stronger.
"What is this, poison?" Kaqi asked curiously, holding six explosive boxes with ease.
Du Dian was noncommittal, "If you eat it."