Path of light

Chapter 722 723. Prisoner camp outside the city

In the central square of Padstow, the gray dwarf prisoners lined up in four long lines and walked out of the portal slowly.

It was noon in Padstow at this moment. The dazzling sunlight shone on the central square, making the square like a large oven. The strong sunlight fell on the skin, and there was even a strong stinging feeling.

The gray dwarf prisoners wore dirty linen shirts. Their beards had not been properly groomed for almost a week, and they were almost knotted on their chins. Some beards were even stained with blood.

Coming to a strange environment, the gray dwarf prisoners looked around coldly. Surrounded by a dense forest, this central square looked like a patio.

When the gray dwarf prisoners walked out of the portal, they would subconsciously stop. At this time, the elf guards at the portal would use the short sticks in their hands to poke the dwarves' shoulder blades, urging them to move forward quickly to avoid congestion caused by the portal.

Sometimes the portal is congested, which may cause the gray dwarf prisoners behind to get lost in the unknown space cracks...

Driven by sticks, the gray dwarf prisoners lined up and stood in the extremely hot square.

Soon the sunlight above their heads was gradually blocked by tall trees, and the central square quickly became cooler.

When the central square was almost half full of gray dwarf prisoners, a team of half-blood elf guards came from the edge of the square. This team of half-blood elf guards escorted 3,000 gray dwarf prisoners out of the square and walked down the forest road in the city.

The gray dwarf prisoners found that both sides of the road were crowded with half-blood elves watching, and they were all pointing at the dwarf team...

The gray dwarf prisoners did not expect that it would take most of the day to walk out of Padstow City from the central square.

The forest road was full of half-blood elves, and some half-blood elves would even throw some rotten apples on the street and directly throw them in the faces of these gray dwarf prisoners.

Seeing the two fully armed half-elf guards on the street, the gray dwarf prisoners did not dare to resist.

The towering trees on both sides of the street were covered with tree houses of different styles. The gray dwarf prisoners kept walking and arrived at a clearing in the forest on the outskirts of Padstow when it was almost dark.

What kind of forest city is this? Why are there so many elves living there?

The gray dwarf prisoners had a new understanding of the elven city...

Some carriages filled with magic herbs stopped on the roadside outside the city. The half-blood elves standing next to the carriages were also stunned to look at the group of gray dwarf prisoners. They did not expect that so many gray dwarves would come from the city of Padstow...

Some Silver Moon Elf merchants were bolder and asked the half-blood elf guards who escorted these gray dwarf prisoners:

"Sir, are these gray dwarves going to be sent to the Padstow Plateau to mine?"

"Yes, let them help us mine to wash away the crimes they committed in the Queen Ivennie Islands."

The half-blood elf guard captain stopped and said to the Silver Moon Elf merchant.

The Silver Moon Elf merchant shouted in surprise: "Are they sent from the Queen Ivennie Islands? So the naval battle in the Queen Ivennie Islands was won?"

The half-blood elf guard captain looked at him with a matter-of-fact look and did not talk nonsense with the Silver Moon Elf merchant.

...

There was no place big enough to house these gray dwarf prisoners in the city, so Roy could only temporarily detain them in a clearing outside the city.

Although the clearing was an open area, after a whole night of preparation, the clearing was not only surrounded by fishing nets, but also covered with thorny vines.

This was a hillside, and there was a river flowing from Padstow City below the hillside.

Nearly a thousand elven archers were deployed around the clearing.

The exhausted and hungry gray dwarf prisoners walked into the clearing one after another. The half-blood elves used ropes to divide a lot of areas between the trees, including passages, rest areas, and special areas for fetching water near the river.

The river water was clean, but the river channel was not too wide. There was a waterfall every 100 meters down the river.

Miss Christine rode a silver Pegasus and stood beside the waterfall. Four silver Pegasus knights followed behind her. Looking at the bustling prisoner-of-war camp from afar, she said to the silver Pegasus knight behind her with some doubts:

"...That is to say, when Captain Roy led eight magic airships to the Queen Ewenni Islands, they happened to encounter the gray dwarf bandits who gathered 100,000 troops to attack the Queen's Island. As a result, they used magic explosive arrows to burn the gray dwarf bandits' three-masted sailing ship, so these gray dwarf bandits were defeated?"

The silver Pegasus knight hurriedly explained: "Ahem, in fact, this is also due to the ancient war tree and the Silver Moon Elf Guard who stayed on the Queen's Island. , and there were four Silver Pegasus Knights blocking these gray dwarf bandits in the sky. After the gray dwarf bandits were defeated, they chased the fleeing gray dwarf fleet for three days and three nights. "

Miss Christine lowered her head, stroked the mane of the silver Pegasus under her, and asked in confusion: "Then they can't have been flying on the sea for three days, how did they get supplies?"

"It was Captain Roy's magic airship that provided the corresponding supplies."

"So, if there is a magic airship in the legion, the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved?"

"Yes, Miss." The Silver Pegasus Knight replied.

Miss Christine did not look at the gray dwarf robbers in the woods again. She reached out and patted the silver Pegasus under her affectionately. The silver Pegasus spread its white wings and flew up to the sky above the waterfall.

The sunset had already set, and the sea of ​​trees in the mountains was dyed red.

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The first thing the gray dwarf robbers did was to take a bath by the river.

They were not used to the hot and humid weather in Padstow. Fortunately, these half-blood elf guards did not directly lock them up in the clearing in the forest and could not do anything. They could go to the river to fetch water or apply for a bath, but they needed a team of gray dwarf prisoners to act in unison.

These gray dwarf prisoners did not dare to run away, as there were half-blood elf archers everywhere.

The gray dwarves even felt that there were some invisible eyes staring at them in the shadows of the surrounding woods. Their sixth sense was always very sharp...

These gray dwarf robbers were very fierce and brutal when fighting, but they were also stubborn when they became prisoners.

A group of gray dwarf bandits came to the creek. The river bank was actually sandy. A group of gray dwarves took off their linen shirts and plunged into the cool river water, feeling the lost strength returning to their bodies.

The first thing they did in the river was to wash their beards. A row of big and strong gray dwarves sat in the shallow water, washing their beards while chatting in a low voice.

"Mushrooms are growing on my feet."

"I thought they would put us in the prison on Palram Island, but we didn't expect to come to a plane full of forests."

"They actually defeated us with a magic airship. The magic airship was originally a magic technology created by us dwarves. We should also bring the magic airship here, so that they will have no advantage at all."

"Why do you think we have never dared to let the magic airship enter the Elf Kingdom?"

"Because those Silver Pegasus Knights are the nemesis of magic airships. They can destroy the floating device by casually throwing war spears at the floating device, and our magic airship will crash directly."

The gray dwarf bandit leader gave the answer, and a group of gray dwarves fell silent.

They rinsed the linen shirts in the river water, wrung out the water, and put them on again.

Some gray dwarves have walked from the river to the shore. There is not much time for them to take a bath. There are still a large number of gray dwarves waiting behind them.

After the gray dwarves put on their clothes and walked back from the river, they followed the fixed passage surrounded by ropes and came to another open field, which was filled with wooden boxes. A large number of wooden boxes exuded a strong apple aroma.

The gray dwarves, who had not eaten any food for a day, immediately felt their stomachs begin to drum.

Under the escort of the half-blood elf guards, the gray dwarf prisoners lined up in a long line and began to walk in front of the pile of wooden boxes. Each gray dwarf was given two apples.

The gray dwarf robber actually saw a young human boy among the half-blood elves distributing apples. He was wearing a set of thick leather armor and magic pattern structure. He took out green apples from the wooden box and distributed them to the gray dwarf prisoners.

A gray dwarf prisoner came to the wooden box and saw that the box was full of these green apples, and curled his lips.

While Roy was lowering his head to take the apple, he quickly said in the Imperial language:

"In the Elf World, we can actually see humans. Hey, boy, where is your home?"

Roy heard a string of Imperial language and looked up with a puzzled look, just in time to see a gray dwarf with a red beard looking at him.

The gray dwarf said in Elf language again: "Why, you don't understand the Imperial language? ... How about Elf language?"

Roy answered casually: "Elven language is OK."

The red-bearded gray dwarf immediately said: "I said human boy, where are you from, how come you don't even know the Imperial language?"

His Elf language immediately attracted many hostile eyes around him, and almost all the half-blood elves were staring at him.

The red-bearded gray dwarf was frightened and took a step back.

Roy stuffed the green apple in his hand into his hand and said casually:

"I have lived in the Elf World since I was a child and I am used to the life here."

The half-blood elves kept bringing baskets of apples to share with these gray dwarf prisoners.

These gray dwarf prisoners walked to the back and received a palm-sized salted fish, which was to replenish salt for the gray dwarf bandits. After all, the Partington plane had just entered the hot summer, and the city of Padstow was as hot as a steamer.

After taking a bath and receiving food, the group of gray dwarves were escorted back to the rest area assigned to them.

It was a clearing in the woods, with a tent under the sky and a mat on the ground. There was no shelter, so the dwarves could only sit on the ground. Fortunately, the ground was not too humid.

The gray dwarf prisoners ate green apples and whispered.

"Hey, they took away our beans, and gave us these sour rotten apples..."

"Be content, you can think of it this way, at least we can still eat green apples."

"Why not have a fish? It's better than nothing."

The beans and barley on the three-masted sailboat were confiscated by the Silver Pegasus Knights. The Silver Moon Elves planned to use these beans and barley to feed the horses, and they would not give them to the gray dwarf prisoners.

The gray dwarf bandits sat in a clearing in the forest and ate apples.

Some gray dwarves found some fungus spores that looked like horse dung eggs under a big tree, and they immediately distributed these horse dung bags.

Some gray dwarves crushed these horse dung eggs in their palms and applied them to wounds to prevent inflammation of the wounds...

"I didn't expect the elves to be sent to a plane. This is not their style!"

"To be honest, this place doesn't seem as bad as we imagined,"

"At least we are not hungry and we are not beaten."

The only thing that was a little uncomfortable was sitting in the woods wearing a linen shirt. There were small flying insects everywhere in the woods. The flying insects could not bite the dense hair of the dwarves, but they could leave some marks on their armpits, wrists, ankles, and necks.

It was hot and humid, and there was slippery moss everywhere.

The gray dwarves didn't like the smell of the grass and trees.

As the gray dwarf prisoners arrived at the clearing in the forest one after another, the entire hillside was filled with gray dwarf prisoners, densely packed in the dark.

...

Roy was even a little worried that once the gray dwarf prisoners found that the half-blood elf guards were not strong enough, they would suddenly start a riot in the clearing in the forest. Even if they did not fight back and just fled to the Padstow Forest, the current 3,000 half-blood elf guards would not be able to stop them.

Roy was not completely unprepared. At present, the assassin group was guarding outside the temporary prisoner-of-war camp.

Tennyson even hoped that there would be some brave guys among the gray dwarf bandits who would escape from the prisoner-of-war camp in the dead of night.

Because there was such an unwritten rule in the Partington plane, prisoners who escaped without permission would be killed without mercy during the pursuit, whether they were Silver Moon elves or any other races.

Tennyson just wanted to implement this unwritten rule to the end...

A group of half-blood elf guards stood on the big trees around, holding forest bows in their hands, staring at these gray dwarf prisoners vigilantly.

In fact, the archery skills of the half-blood elf guards were not bad. The ordinary forest bows plus feather arrows still had a strong killing power in front of these unarmored gray dwarves.

The clearings in the forest were full of gray dwarf prisoners.

Roy checked around the prisoner camp and found that after eating the two apples and a dried fish in his hand, the gray dwarf prisoners actually calmed down. They crowded together and lay on the forest floor to sleep soundly without any scruples.

The last team of gray dwarves arrived at the prisoner camp in the clearing in the forest. It was almost dawn in Padstow.

Roy touched his forehead helplessly when he saw the green apples that the half-blood elves brought from the apple orchard.

He didn't dare to think whether the gray dwarf prisoners would riot after eating green apples for a few days.

But Padstow had nothing else to fill the stomachs of these gray dwarf prisoners except these fruits.

After a busy night, Roy was also in the temporary canteen in the morning, distributing green apples to the gray dwarf prisoners.

He was here not just to distribute apples to the gray dwarves. He took advantage of several gray dwarf prisoners sitting together and chewing sour apples and took an apple to them. Unfortunately, Roy couldn't understand the language spoken by the gray dwarves at all.

Finally, Roy waited for the red-bearded gray dwarf from last night. When he saw him again in the morning, he had braided his red beard into three beautiful braids.

Roy picked two larger apples and threw them to the red-bearded gray dwarf. The red-bearded gray dwarf asked Roy in Elvish: "Why are you still distributing apples here? Haven't you rested all night? These elves always treat us dwarves and humans as people..."

"This job is not bad. It's not tiring to distribute apples." Roy responded casually.

"I remember that you didn't take down the Queen Ewenni Islands last time. Why do you want to attack the Queen Islands this time? That island is a strategic location, and the elves will never give it up."

The red-bearded gray dwarf was slightly startled when he heard Roy say this. His face became a little helpless. He spread his hands and said to Roy:

"We have no choice! We are also trying to survive..."