Chapter 190 Echo in the Valley

The hospitable mountain people also specially prepared a lot of dry food special to the village for them when they bid farewell to everyone. Although the large backpack on Y's back made people believe that Hao Ren and his party would not be short of supplies on the road, the mountain people said that this was It was the custom of their clan to see off their friends, so Hao Ren gratefully accepted these things.

This warm reception should be thanks to Betsy's good connections. It is hard to see that this mercenary girl has established such a high popularity among these foreigners. Betsy's explanation for this is simple: "The mountain people are very popular." It is an easy-to-understand nation that repays kindness with kindness and repays hatred with hatred. I happen to have a similar personality, so after helping them a few times, I easily became friends."

Unexpectedly, this mercenary girl who seemed to be obsessed with money turned out to have such a simple and clean side in her heart.

After the group left the small border village, they did not delay their journey any more, and spent the next few days traveling at full speed.

It was very hard to drive day and night on the vast grassland, but the magnificent and exotic scenery along the way somewhat diverted the group's attention, so it was not too hard. Riding a horse in such a vast place is not a novel feeling that can be experienced easily. Even Vivian and Nangong Wuyue, who have traveled around the world, seemed to be in high spirits along the way, not to mention Lily: she simply loved it. Living in such an unfettered wilderness environment, I spend half of the day riding a horse, and half of the time running with Yizhaks behind the team. Occasionally, I even carry my own horse for a while. The travel life is particularly rich. Colorful…

Hao Ren felt that if he didn't find a populated place, Lily would soon degenerate back to the state before becoming a spirit: Now she nervously jumped off the horse again and was landing on all fours... with her own Horse racing.

It was simply unbearable to look at.

"You guys are quite interesting," Betsy turned to look at Yzaks, who was running with his head down at the end of the team, and the four-legged werewolf girl racing with his mount. She felt that she could see this in her life. Rare things have happened in the past few days. "I ask again, are you sure you all study magic?"

"Isn't that true?" Hao Ren repeated this question many times, and now he has basically reached the level of talking nonsense in person without changing his expression. He started telling lies as soon as he opened his mouth, "Lily just took the wrong medicine when she was doing the alchemy experiment..."

"Didn't you say last time that she was struck like this by lightning during a magic experiment?"

"Oh, I was struck by lightning while taking medicine, and my head was caught in the door by the way."

Vivian sighed and communicated with Nangong Wuyue next to her: "I suddenly don't want to bully the big dog anymore. Please treat her well in the future."

Lily had no idea what these heartless guys were talking about behind her back. She happily laughed for a while, then suddenly rushed to Hao Ren's side, and then ran with unusual agility regardless of the horse running. He got on the horse and grabbed Hao Ren's shoulders from behind and shook him hard: "Landlord, landlord! We are almost at the foot of the mountain!"

After yelling this like crazy, Lily jumped back to the ground, ran two steps to catch up with her horse, and put herself on the horse's back again. Her movements were so smooth that if outsiders saw the whole process, it would probably scare them to death. It's a joke, but this girl plays as smoothly as walking on the ground: no matter how weird her personality is or how magical her bloodline is, Lily's sincerity that she is the best in physical skills in Hao Ren's five-person team cannot be shaken. After all, even if Iza A fierce man like Kes can be crushed by his extraordinary strength. The real technical fighting master still has to look to Lily.

It's a pity that this girl never used her talents in the right place.

Hao Ren was almost thrown off his horse by Lily. After finally regaining his balance, he raised his head and saw that the mountain range in the distance was now close at hand: this mountain range had appeared on the horizon a long time ago, but As the saying goes, a horse can't run fast enough to reach a mountain. The group of people had to rush for several hours before they reached the foot of the mountain.

This mountain range is the famous "Dragon's Back Mountain Range" in the west of the Horleta Kingdom. It is named after its continuous, evenly spaced, sharply undulating, spine-like mountains that are distributed throughout more than half of the mountain range. The western interior of Erleta Kingdom extends to the depths of the prairie, and is a barrier that Hao Ren and the others cannot avoid when heading to Beinz Blood Lake.

Because the other side of the mountain range is the sacred Beinz Blood Lake, the Horleta people spent a lot of manpower and material resources to dig large tunnels or mountain roads in order to cross this mountain range. In some key places, they even used expensive tunnels. Permanent teleportation array to connect (mainly cathedral-type "sacred buildings" on both sides of the mountains. The church and the royal family must ensure smooth communication between themselves and the holy land at no cost). Hao Ren's original plan was to turn south at the mountain range, take a zigzag line from the interior of the kingdom, and finally pass through a newer mountain tunnel. However, in order to find the "otherworldly woman" who took action two days earlier than they did. "After receiving the clue, everyone in the mountain village decided to cross this barrier directly from the ancient mountain road near the grassland border.

Comparing the two routes, the latter seems to have a shorter straight-line distance, but in fact it takes almost the same time: although the mountain tunnel requires a detour to the kingdom, it is relatively easy to walk, and the mountain ancient road is direct, However, due to the rugged roads and complex conditions in the mountains, it is not really a shortcut. Of course, for experienced mercenaries with various special skills, there is no difference between these two paths.

Betsy is a second-level mercenary. Although she is quite young, she must have real ability if she can pass many tests to obtain the rating she has today. Before the blockade level of Beinz Blood Lake was raised due to the orb incident, she worked many times. This is the first time I have crossed this mountain range (mainly to earn extra money), so this time I took the lead as a guide. Betsy led everyone into an inconspicuous mountain col at the foot of the mountain that was easily missed by rookies, and found the ancient mountain road that sloped upward.

"Be careful here," everyone dismounted and walked, and Betsy led the horse at the front. "This area is said to be one of the relics of ancient civilization. There are some strange monsters in the mountains that are difficult to explain, although they are not difficult to deal with... …But it would be troublesome to get entangled, and the road conditions are not suitable for fighting.”

"Speaking of which, ancient civilizations are really everywhere," Nangong Wuyue muttered. The bare mountains around here blocked the gentle wind on the grassland. The current altitude has not yet reached the mountainside where there are more clouds, mist and water vapor. The dry air makes the sea The demon girl felt a little unhappy, "How much trouble did they make?"

"Anyway, the noise was so loud that it annoyed the goddess," Betsy said with a smile. "It is said that the entire Dragon's Back Mountain Range was forcibly shaped from the plains by the human magic emperor 'Elokan' using a forbidden spell at that time, so it That's why it stands so abruptly across the plains. My grandfather said that when Elokan shaped this mountain range, it completely disrupted the blueprint set by the goddess at the beginning of the creation of the world, but the reason why he did this was just because he didn't like it. The cold wind blowing from the west side of the plain—that’s how the magic emperors of ancient civilizations were...well..."

Hao Ren tried to remind: "Seek death?"

"Yes, seeking death!" Betsy nodded vigorously, "This statement is quite appropriate. Anyway, my grandfather said that the magic emperors of ancient civilizations were very arrogant. All magicians at that time were arrogant. The werewolf magic emperor Sanu Er' created the Sunset Volcano, and Elf Queen Lorissa—also a magic emperor—overstepped God's authority to create a semi-immortal tree of life, and allowed the tree to draw nutrients from the goddess's holy spring to maintain eternal life. , the vampire's magic emperor 'Derian' is the original initiator of transcending divine authority to create a perfect life."

"Well...it's really crazy." Hao Ren was a little amazed at the creativity of those magic emperors back then. At the same time, he began to think about what if these "mad scientists" with big ideas really appeared in front of Raven 12345. What would happen, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still felt that Raven 12345 would probably find it very troublesome and leave the mess to his censors...

"The Dragon's Back Mountains are the creation of Elokan, and the power of the earth king still remains here." Betsy was excited and kept talking about the legends she heard from her grandfather. At this time, she continued to talk to herself. He continued, "It is said that the stone monsters that attack people in the mountains today are driven by Elokan's crazy soul fragments. We'd better not encounter that kind of thing. Although the threat is not great, it is particularly difficult to kill. Hardly. Still waiting."

"Boom——"

Almost at the same time that Betsy finished speaking, a loud thunder-like sound suddenly came from deep in the mountain.

Vivian had 1,800 "trap warning indicators" all over her body and began to call the police frantically. She felt that she might be unlucky again.