High Above

After a day or two of progress, the caravan arrived at Anmore Town, where they dropped off a batch of transit supplies that had entered the Byson Mountains colony by water, received a batch of indigenous specialties, and then set off again.

Between Port Harrison and City of Three Rivers is the 'Great Rift Valley', which used to be a high mountain, but because of the geological changes caused by the catastrophe, the entire mountain burst and collapsed, sliding into the sea, and the cracks and holes created by the collapse And the sedimentary layer is today's Great Rift Valley and Mirage Labyrinth Reefs.

And some cracks have been washed away by the river all the year round, turning into cascading waterfalls at the bottom of the ground, where there are unique water cliff species in Nanling, and quite a few flying water monsters inhabit them.

It is even said that these rift valleys lead directly to the sea.

But all of this has nothing to do with the white room caravan. They just crossed the shortest part on both sides of the rift valley along a stone arch bridge, and then walked towards the area where the labyrinth reefs are located.

"There are a lot of monsters around here. It is considered the hardest-hit area for monster attacks. Even the natives rarely come close."

Entering this area, the caravan became vigilant, and even Brin began to wipe his long knife to prepare for a possible battle at any time: "See that over there? Small caravan, if you want to try your luck, probably It was attacked by a monster forest leopard."

At the place Brin pointed to, there was a wreckage of a trailer that had been covered with overgrown moss, and obvious fine claw marks could be seen on it, which was quite terrifying against the backdrop of the tropical jungle.

Some of the chewed-up bone residue was scattered nearby, which is just the latest thing.

The forest will soon swallow it all.

"According to the fragments of the corpses, there are only five or six people." Ian raised his eyebrows. He looked at the remains of the bones and said in surprise, "How dare you go to the Nanling trade route with such a small number of people? Ten times is almost the same."

"The profit is really high."

Brin sighed a little: "The inscription creations and alchemy lamps in the Great Plains, as well as metal tools, can be sold at two or three times the price when they are shipped to us."

"And the herbs and rare catches here, as well as the special magic beast materials you know, Ian, are transported to the Great Plains area around the imperial capital, and the profits are more than four times higher if you sell them casually!"

With a profit of 300%, a businessman dares to trample on all the laws of the world—let alone a huge profit of more than ten times?

There are not a few people who have had the last string in their heads burned by Thaler, ignoring the extremely high cost and extremely high risk under extremely high profits, not to mention the official relationship that needs to be opened back and forth, reliable local partners, and security The armed force and everything else that needs to be prepared.

"Small caravans like this die a lot, and most of them don't have the money to fight for their lives. But if they succeed, they will really have capital and be able to do some serious business, which is considered to be the foundation."

Back then, Brin thought about making a fortune and doing great things, but later he realized that this was a big dream. The monsters in Nanling were hungry, and they didn't mind eating a few more big meals at all.

The white room caravan also has more than a hundred people, and there are not a few guards. They even carry alchemy firecrackers for self-defense. At most, ordinary monsters will come closer to see if they can drag away a few unlucky ones. scale attack.

Not to mention that Ian, the sublimator, was in charge, so the Chamber of Commerce brought a lot of extra goods this time, and wanted to take this opportunity to make more money.

The sun gradually sets and night falls.

However, the caravan increased their vigilance by arranging cars and camel beasts in a circle to form a simple fortress. Guards like Brin were all patrolling around to monitor the surrounding monsters.

What kind of robber can be as scary as a monster? A crazy hard-shell bear can knock down a small house, and their car bases can only be said to be better than nothing. In a real fight, they have to be repelled and scared away by various methods.

Everyone was very nervous, but Ian had a calm face, holding a pen and paper all the time, recording and writing something.

No one cares about him, after all it is obvious who is the boss of the caravan.

Until a sharp whistle sounded.

This is the sound that indicates that a monster is approaching. At the same time, there was a sharp howling of a monster in the distance.

Everyone in the caravan sank, or took a breath—Brin also quickly took out the light crossbow to reload the arrows. Although he had experienced similar monster attacks several times, each time was different. tension and danger.

"It's the reef-eating sea otter!"

Not far away, the voice of the scout sounded, with surprise: "How come, although this is indeed around the labyrinth reefs, how could they surprise us so far from the shore?"

Hearing these words, Ian raised his head. He first looked in the direction of the monster, and then in the direction of the caravan's truck. There is indeed a lot of blue mist there.

The caravan carried a batch of Warcraft materials. Originated from the indigenous materials of Warcraft.

Different from the preferential treatment from the Tenglan Department, the price for Port Harrison to accept the surrender of the natives of the Mountain Tide Department is to let them kill all the swamp crocodile dragons that have the potential and level of monsters.

Compared with the indestructible giant eel lineage, which has long since become a sea of ​​trees in the entire Great Redwood Forest, the swamp crocodile is the easiest totem spirit lineage to eradicate. This is indeed an excessive demand, but in the face of carrying Viscount Grant, who was overwhelmed by absolute strength, the aborigines finally succumbed.

As for the killed swamp crocodile materials, a batch was sent by the white room caravan.

As for why it is the White Room Chamber of Commerce... Of course, it is to share a part of the benefits with the people of Bai Zhimin, and let Ian, the sublime, escort him by the way.

Sure enough, now there are monsters who are interested in this batch of earth-type monster materials, and Ian will definitely make a move.

"The viscount is really convincing...he can just say no."

"Also, this group of reef-eating sea otters is weird."

Shaking his head slightly, Ian stood up, put on his helmet, and walked in the direction of the monster.

At this time, almost everyone in the caravan was preparing their weapons, stringing their bows, and getting ready for battle.

Although reef-eating sea otters are invulnerable to swords and guns, and their fur is almost metal, armor-piercing arrows can still bleed them, not to mention that the shells of reef-eating sea otters that have not reached the monster level are not that hard at all, and heavy arrows are enough to penetrate their hard skin.

The group of sea otters was approaching, and with the sound of snapping bushes, huge silver-skinned sea otters ignored the scouts' constant yelling and flame threats, and approached the caravan's main camp like no one else.

Sea otters bumped into each other with metallic clangs.

They come for the materials of other monsters. This is a rare opportunity to obtain a large amount of source quality and promote the growth of the group. If human beings ignore risks for the sake of profit, the same is true for monsters.

Staring at the car base, the sea otters looked greedy, and their needle-like hairs stood up, obviously entering a fighting state.

And the caravan guards were also extremely nervous. They all held bows and crossbows, prepared kerosene and long guns, and were ready to hit the group of giant otters who were already a little crazy with their car bases.

But they didn't wait for the chance to do it.

Because Ian walked in front of the group of sea otters.

He didn't even draw out his sword, but just stood in front of the monster sea otter who was the leader, so that the other party could see clearly, or in other words, sense his source quality breath clearly.

Then, the monster-level giant otter knelt down in fear.

Crash la la la.

It quickly crawled in front of Ian, with such force that it even crushed some rocks under it. Its whole body was trembling like a human body throwing itself to the ground, and even the ordinary reef-eating sea otter behind it lay on the ground. .

There was a young sea otter standing blankly. It didn't quite understand why everyone fell down, but soon a female sea otter slapped the kid, who couldn't sense strength, weakness, and height, on the ground.

It does look like a mother.

"Let's go, don't bother me."

And Ian sighed: "I don't know who brought you here, but I'm quite good at choosing."

"If you really want to kill you all, the caravan must be a mess."

Feeling that Ian thought it was troublesome and wanted to let them go, the leader Sea Otter stood up immediately as if he had been pardoned, and let out a long howl to guide the group's actions.

So the group began to retreat in a panic.

Ever since Ian beheaded a reef-eating sea otter leader many years ago and advanced himself to the first energy level, he has come to the Labyrinth Reefs to hunt monsters from time to time to obtain enough supplies—the labyrinth reefs Warcraft has known him for a long time.

In a sense, this is also a kind of beast king.

And after meeting Shasha, he brought him here twice for additional meals—one of which was to bring Shark to eat a few reef-eating sea otters.

The armored shark is the natural enemy of marine metal-based monsters such as reef-eating sea otters, and it is also one of the few large monsters that can threaten them.

Coincidentally, those few reef-eating sea otters are probably the group that he bred after beheading the leader. With the wisdom and memory of monsters that are much higher than wild beasts, this group of sea otters recognized Ian, the terrifying "natural enemy" Breeder Severer' and 'Friends of the Armored Shark'.

Ian told the group of sea otters to retreat, and they retreated obediently.

"...It is convenient to have sublimators."

After the sea otters quickly left along the way they came, Breen stepped forward.

He shook his head with lingering fear and said: "If it's just our caravan, if we kill all these sea otters, we won't be able to make up for the pensions for the lost people... The monster attack is still too terrible."

He didn't ask why Ian didn't kill all the reef-eating sea otters after apparently completely suppressing them—there are at least two monster-level sea otters in it, and they can earn two or three hundred talers. If the fur is intact, they can earn more.

Because Brin also sensed that after the reef-eating sea otter retreated, many other eyes that were vaguely watching the camp also retreated fearfully.

Although only a group of monsters like the sea otter came out just now, if the fight really became fierce, the monsters in the surrounding jungle would definitely not mind picking up the leak.

Seasoned hunters know this too, so everyone breathes a sigh of relief.

"It has nothing to do with you, this is my trouble."

But Ian spoke, making everyone stunned: "Let's not talk about it without me, the Viscount would not be able to entrust this batch of goods to us."

"This group of reef-eating sea otters hurriedly left the reef and landed, and they came towards us in a straight line. There must be someone guiding them behind them."

"And, I know, it must be Flameland."

He turned his head, and behind the helmet, the cyan eyes shining with psychic light scanned the entire caravan.

Ian said calmly: "Among the hunters accompanying the team, some are spies from Flameland—he is the one who led this group of reef-eating sea otters here."

"I will give you a chance to stand trial alive and stand up for yourself."

"Otherwise, I will make you into an alchemy material."