Chapter 334 Departure

The white head waved towards the field, motioning Allen to follow, it seemed that it was unwilling to expose itself to the eyes of the people of Sur City. Bai's intelligence is no less than that of an adult man. He knows that if ordinary people see him like this, he will not be regarded as a dangerous species. Although until now, Allen found that the creatures on this planet have no clear concept of dangerous species, and only classify these mutated beasts as dangerous beasts.

But if Bai is exposed to the eyes of others, Alan can't guarantee whether Sur City will organize a hunting event against it. After all, Bai's current appearance feels very dangerous. Walking beside its snake body that has grown to six or seven meters, Allen can fully understand the pressure faced by an ordinary person facing it.

After swallowing the heart last time, Bai fell into a deep sleep in the cellar. Later, when Allen came back from the Aspen Mountains, the king snake had already left. Allen thought it was just hunting in the wild as usual, but he never imagined that the change was so huge. Its scales are not as smooth as before, and each scale is covered with fine granular protrusions, which look very rough. When Allen gently touched it with his hands, he could feel Bai's muscles tense for an instant, and then slowly relaxed.

At that moment of change, Bai's body erupted with magma-like power. The huge explosive power can make Bai launch a violent attack in an instant. As for the snake scales, they are not cold to the touch, but slightly warm. Snakes are originally cold-blooded animals, but the king snake seems to break this rule. Allen remembered that when he brought the Dark Dusk King Snake to the snake's lair, he saw it adjust its own temperature to incubate eggs. It can be seen that now Bai also gradually possesses the power of the King Snake.

The scales are rough, thick, and white like armor. Especially the coronal bone on its head, which almost covered half of its head, perfectly protecting Bai's important organs. The bone crown is connected by many fine bone slices, and the thickness of the serrated edges is about two centimeters, which shows how thick this "helmet" is. If it hits the enemy with this, it may be used as a siege cone.

Stopped in a forest, Bai opened his mouth and let out a silent hiss. Not long after, two giant pythons not much smaller than Bai came out of the grass. Their amber eyeballs kept staring at Allen, and spit out snake letters with strong hostility. One of them even tried to get close to Allen. The thick thigh-thick snake body convinced Allen that they could easily strangle an adult's body.

Bai Chao opened his mouth to the boa constrictor, revealing its thick fangs. The boa constrictor was frightened and shrank back. Bai Gan simply formed a snake formation around Alan as the center, with the big head just above Alan's head. Alan couldn't cry, Bai was like a hen protecting its young, for fear that Alan would be hurt by a python.

In addition to the boa constrictor, after a while, there were dozens of colorful poisonous snakes swimming out of the forest. They didn't dare to get close to Bai and the boa constrictor, they were a little behind and circled their bodies in the grass. Then there were many beasts, most of which were strange little beasts that could not be named. They are as big as squirrels, with big heads and small bodies, and their round eyes are very cute.

But occasionally, the top of their head will be split open, and a cross-shaped mouthpart will appear, and a long tongue with thorns will come out.

Allen realized that it was the mouth of the alien beast. These things, like piranhas, deceive opponents with their cute appearance. When the target is careless because of their appearance, they will reveal their big mouths and eat their prey in one bite.

The last ones arrived were three or four wild boars. They had long and curved tusks, palm-sized bone fragments on their ventral sides, and a row of spikes of different lengths on their backs. They were obviously mutated species.

Alan was greatly surprised. These beasts and snakes were like a white army, and there were distinct ranks among them. Since Bai is the king snake, in this special army, snakes have the highest status and are closest to Bai. As for the other beasts, they had to be subdued behind the snakes, and among the beasts, the armored wild boars were the most respected. Even the two beasts, which looked like leopards and tigers, shrank behind those wild boars.

Bai lowered his head, his two eyeballs showing a look of complacency. It tilted its head, as if waiting for Allen's appreciation. Allen was angry and funny, touched its big head and said, "Good guy, have you developed your own power now?"

Bai nodded, opened his mouth to spit out the letter, and licked Alan's cheek lightly. Allen patted it on the head and said: "I'm going to leave for a while. It's inconvenient for you to be around Suer City in this state, so don't go back for now. When I come back, I will think of a way to make you and Suer City get along in harmony."

"Try to keep your subordinates away from the city. When I'm not around, you have to take care of yourself."

Bai straightened his body, shook his big head, and looked nonchalant. It is like a child who has just grown up, full of confidence in himself, and even a little bit disgusted with the "parent" Allen, who is a bit long-winded.

Allen and it already had a connection, and couldn't help laughing. He beckoned, Bai stretched out his head, and Allen hugged it. Bai closed his eyes, seeming to enjoy the hug very much.

"I'm going back, and I'll come see you later. Work hard, Bai."

After a moment, Alan let go of it and left the woods. When Bai came to the edge of the forest, he didn't follow him, but just looked at Alan from a distance. Allen looked back and saw that all the beasts behind the king snake followed suit, which made him very relieved that Bai would no longer be lonely on this planet.

Two days later, the well-prepared caravan set off at the square in front of the City Lord's Mansion. The caravan consisted of more than a dozen carriages, all of which were newly produced and top-grade fabrics. The accompanying merchants included Sean, three other workshop owners and their buddies. Alan was in charge of the guards. In addition to Willick, Adele, and Regis, the three elites, there was also a mountain king army of 30 people.

There were even more people seeing them off. The newly promoted city lord Edward and his wife Nilu both came outside the venue at the same time, and other city officials, members of the chamber of commerce, and ordinary citizens also saw them off. After all, Allen's trip symbolizes the hope of the rise of the city of Sur. No one sincerely prays for this caravan, praying that they can return safely and bring a good harvest to the city.

The four of Allen rode on war horses, which were covered with a layer of light armor. These four sets of horse light armor are of excellent workmanship and were found from Baron York's warehouse. They come from the inland of the empire and are one of Baron York's favorite collections. I have to admit that after wearing them, the war horse looks extremely handsome, but the significance of decoration is far greater than the actual use.

Although Alan is more willing to exchange these four sets of harnesses for money, Edward insists that he use them on war horses, and must make a circle in front of the citizens, in order to enhance the image of Alan, a newly promoted knight, in their minds . It seems that Edward, who has been a Uranus superstar, is much better at image packaging than Allen.

Sure enough, with the backdrop of war horses and gorgeous harnesses, the images of Alan and the others will appear taller in the eyes of the citizens. Especially the knight badge worn by Allen on his chest, which reflects the morning light and dazzles people's eyes. When people saw him, they only knew how to cheer loudly, and even some girls kept throwing kisses at Allen, which made Adele who was behind wanted to shoot these nympho.

After leaving the city of Sur, the world gradually returned to silence. The tawny earth began to become the only theme. On this planet where transportation is not well developed, towns are the most basic settlement unit. And between these units, there is often a desolate land. In this world and this era, people's connections are not close enough, which gives the land more gray areas.

Filled with gray areas, there are more words like violence, gangsters and chaos.

In the vast empire of Balegon, only the center of the empire can be called prosperous. Therefore, the vast territory and the insufficient connection between each other made the war between the princes of the empire last for hundreds of years. The imperial family controls the most powerful dukes, and those grand dukes also rely on the imperial family to consolidate their power. The two are like holly trees and ivy, co-existing and co-prosperous, thus constructing and extending the most central power of the empire.

Without this center, war became the subject of constant discussion among the nobles and was put into action. There are no eternal friends, and there are no eternal enemies. This sentence perfectly reflects the normal state among the middle and lower nobles of the Balegon Empire.

In this normal state of war, bandits, thugs, and pirates are the products of this era. The city of Sur is located on the border of the empire, and the thugs on the blood rock wasteland are far from being as numerous as a cow's hair. However, there are also one or two hundred robbers who are active in this wasteland all year round, looting the passing merchants. The only thing they didn't dare to move was the army of Storm City, as for the other caravans, they didn't pay attention to them.

Otherwise, Sur City would not have to sell the produced cloth to Storm City at a low price all year round, because Sur City itself did not have a strong enough army to escort the caravan. This year may have been an accident, Sean who was sitting in the carriage thought so, he looked out the window, and Alan, who was riding a horse in front of him, had silver hair shining like a flame in the sun.

The journey on the first day was uneventful. The next day, just as the sun rose, the caravan started again and stopped in front of a rift. The wind-eroded rift is the only way to pass through the blood rock wasteland. Riding on the horse, Allen saw a small stronghold at the entrance of the rift from a distance. Barricades were set up at the entrance to prevent people from passing by. Behind the roadblock are two wooden houses, and there are even two war horses tied in front of the wooden houses.

Under the corridor of the house, a soldier was dozing off, and the muzzle of the fire/gun on the fence of the corridor was clearly facing the road outside the entrance. Coupled with the fact that the flag of Storm City is planted on the wooden house, there is no doubt that this stronghold belongs to Storm City.

Allen smiled, and said to Willick next to him: "It seems that we have encountered an official bandit."

Obviously, Storm City's setting up checkpoints on such traffic arteries is definitely not as simple as protecting civilians. Setting up card charges within the territory is often one of the most direct sources of income for the lord.

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