Ride and Cut

Richard is not the first Pompeii pioneer to usher in this land. Although the predecessors did not succeed in pioneering, they still left their own traces here.

For example, the former stronghold, a two-story wooden building located on the top of a hill.

When a group of people found it, the sun happened to be in an ingenious position, coating the green hillside and the wooden building with a layer of gold, brilliant and dazzling.

The winding river loops like a silver ribbon around the base of the hills. The abundant water source makes dense clumps of white thorns grow in the grass nests on both sides of the bank, and the slightly bitter aroma is diffused everywhere.

The roughness and dryness that can be seen everywhere on the wasteland has long been tiresome, and the rare lush water and grass made Li Cha fall in love with this place immediately.

Even from a military point of view, it is a very superior geographical location. Located on the top of a hill, it is already a rare commanding height in the vast and flat wasteland. There is a spring beside the wooden building, and a small stream gushes out from the top of the slope to the bottom of the slope, and merges into the river semi-surrounding the hills.

If there is a war in the future and besieged, the defenders will not only have a good location, but also can use it to obtain a stable water supply.

"This will be our new home from now on." Li Cha's tone was firm, and the barbarians also took it for granted.

Such a superior location is a sought-after item even in the wilderness. After the pioneers leave, it is difficult to abandon it, and it becomes the residence of the aborigines. What really made him feel strange was that the people who occupied this place were the kobolds who were notoriously short and cowardly.

It stands to reason that such a good location will attract more powerful tribes to settle down, and the weak kobolds have never had the strength to hold a territory.

Uninvited guests broke into the picturesque scenery, and armed barbarians came to the foot of the hills, causing a commotion among the kobolds. But it was just a commotion, and they didn't even have the slightest intention of running away.

Li Cha pointed at the wooden house with one hand on his hips, and stretched out two fingers, "Two hundred pulses."

The barbarians who couldn't wait immediately rushed forward, and the unsuspecting kobolds were beaten as soon as a group charged.

From Lord Li Cha's point of view, this is really a worthy opponent. The height can barely reach the waist of the barbarians, and they lack martial arts and military training.

The killing efficiency of the barbarians throwing spears and charging with long spears is astonishing. The most courageous kobolds turned into blood gourds in the blink of an eye. The complete collapse took only a blink of an eye, and except for a few exceptionally strong and sharp ones who escaped their lives, the rest were harvested neatly and neatly, taking no more than a hundred pulses.

Another "Barbarian Spearman" has accumulated enough experience to be promoted, and is proudly showing off his experience to his companions.

When Li Cha climbed up the hill, the top was obviously artificially leveled, and it was a large open space. At the edge of the clearing was a waist-length low wall of gravel, which was a veritable parapet by kobold standards, barely defensive.

The pioneers who first built this place must have spent a lot of money, and the wooden houses are all made of high-quality pine wood. Even after wind and rain, it is only slightly old, and the fine wood has not really been eroded.

The kobolds who used to live here probably had a bit of intelligence. They simply repaired the damaged and old parts of the roof with a mixture of mud and hay, so as not to leak wind and rain.

The situation is far better than what Li Cha had imagined at the beginning, and you can move in directly with a little cleaning.

In addition, the kobolds actually have a lot of grass seeds and dried meat in reserve. Li Cha will definitely not eat these unknown things, which are all cheaper than the second general Hum Ha who has a wide range of recipes.

The satiated giant was tireless, and under the supervision of the barbarian, he was moving the baggage on the carriage to the top of the hill one after another. This kind of heavy and simple physical work is quite suitable for them. It only takes two or three trips to empty a carriage.

...

At night, a lamp is like a bean, illuminating a piece of parchment the size of a palm.

Li Cha, who was the only one who could read and write, held a quill soaked in ink and served as both the host and the clerk at the same time. All the savages were present, and they crowded the originally spacious room to the brim, and even the air was somewhat polluted.

"Okay, then our first internal meeting in Gaoshan Castle will start now." Li Cha smoothly decided on the place name.

Gunther curled his lips quietly in the darkness—a wooden house on a small hill, neither a mountain nor a castle, why is it called a mountain castle.

The quill draws a meandering curve on the parchment to represent the creek at the foot of the hill. Then draw a circle at the corner of the curve, which naturally represents the Alpine Fort.

"That's where we are right now."

The savages scrambled to gather around to watch. After watching, they looked at each other in a daze, unable to understand why a pearl held in a clam shell could represent the current situation.

"We are here now." Li Cha pointed at the "pearl" with a quill, and wrote Alpine Fort next to it, "but we don't know anything about the surroundings."

So everyone suddenly realized, oh, this is actually a map!

"The most urgent task now is to find out how many tribes are around, otherwise we will be blind."

"Boss, there's a big goblin tribe up the river, just five or six miles away." Gunther raised his hand suddenly and said, "I found it when I was walking my horse in the evening."

Li Cha knew that this fake Gongji privately rode a horse for a ride, crushing the nasty horse pulling the cart with a weight of more than two hundred pounds.

"A goblin bear is still a hobgoblin." He casually ticked off the ball again.

"Ordinary goblin."

"Ordinary goblin?" The hand that was about to write froze suddenly.

The bear goblins are physically strong, and the hobgoblins are good at army formations. They are relatively outstanding races in the goblin family. In comparison, ordinary goblins as a unit of measurement are almost useless.

A philosopher once said that there are no completely useless things in the world, but goblins really come close to this concept. Short and thin, his head is not bright, and there is always a disgusting smell on his body. The only thing they are good at is breeding like mice in a litter, and then dying in a litter when food is scarce.

In Pompeian folklore, the word goblin can also be used to refer to dirty, stupid, stench, or even any negative concept. If you want to find someone to fight in Cologne, the most effective way is to say "I guess you have a relationship with goblins".

Thinking of such a group of guys living in the upper reaches of the river where the water was drawn, Li Cha's face suddenly turned pale.

"Gunther, where did you get the water for cooking today?"

"It was taken from the spring next to it, what's the matter?"

"Huh~ It's okay, it's okay, I'll take it from the spring in the future."

Near the new circle on the map, Li Cha carefully wrote down the word "Goblin", and then crossed it viciously.

"Tomorrow morning, all the people will gather and fight them!"