Early on the morning of March 6, Neil brought a much larger team to the vicinity of the iron mine.
Looking from a hillside to the north of the iron mine, the iron ore factory a few kilometers away is surrounded by a 6-meter-high earth wall to form a walled city. Looking past the earth wall, one can see a large area of dark brown stone exposed on the mountain. . That is the best quality and easiest to mine open-pit limonite on the Benma Plain.
Not far from the iron ore mine, various earthen and wooden buildings were piled up into a walled city. Many buildings were built from the inside of the earthen wall to the mountain. They looked orderly from a distance, but chaotic when up close.
But Neil can be sure that there must be many more demons living in this iron mine than in the salt mine, and even more than in Yeqi City. Thinking that his master is planning to capture this place in the future, Neil I also have a big headache.
"Come on, let's call the door!" Neil was riding on the horse and said to the long ox hoof beside him. Then they each rode their mounts down the hillside and approached the iron mine.
This is Neil's strategy. Don't expose your strength first, use your best mount to approach the iron mine, explore the truth, and run away at any time.
"Brown Bear Tribe! We are the Longhorn Tribe, and we are here to transport iron ore!" When they were more than 100 meters away from the mine gate, the two Neil stopped and started calling the door.
Neil believed that if there was someone on the other side of his voice, he would be able to hear it. However, there was no response from the brown bear tribe, and there was no one on the wall.
After calling the door three more times, the two decided to explore forward one more time, so they held the reins tightly and urged their partner underneath them to move forward bit by bit.
With a "click" sound, the door of the camp was rudely pushed open, and a humanoid monster nearly 4 meters tall, with no clothes on his upper body and a pair of wide leather pants on his lower body appeared at the door.
"This," Neil exclaimed, even for a demon possessor, the height of 4 meters is definitely an exaggeration. If it were in the human empire, it would definitely be a high-level existence or above.
"This is..." Long Oxhoof took a closer look, but felt that the monster in front of him was very familiar, "Is it the brown bear leader?"
"Ah?" Neil was even more surprised after hearing this. Not to mention the leader's current high-level figure, his condition alone was also very weird.
Now that winter has just ended on the plains, everyone has to wear leather jackets, but this leader has bare purple arms and leather pants with stains, his eyes are distracted, and the saliva on his mouth is almost frozen. Not like the normal state.
"Hey, it's delicious!" The brown bear leader's dull eyes perked up as soon as he met the two of them. He saw the monster swooping in front of the long-horned beast, and he hugged the big-horned beast with a pinch of his hands. With a flick of his hand, the big long-horned four hooves were lifted off the ground, and even the long-horned leader who was sitting on it was thrown out directly.
Neil looked at the brown bear leader in front of him in shock. It only took a few tens of seconds to lift a beast of burden carrying a person, and then opened its big mouth to reach the neck of the big horn.
"No!" Long Ox Hoof, who was thrown more than ten meters away, looked up and was shocked to see his partner being torn to pieces by the monster's hands. His legs could not even support him.
Neil still didn't know that this monster ate the beast of burden first simply because the beast of burden had more meat. As long as he stayed for a moment longer, the black-scaled horse under him would not be able to escape his own fate, so he quickly kicked him twice to suffer the consequences. The frightened Whirlwind picked up the long hooves and ran away to the north.
The brown bear leader here opened the mouth of the beast of burden in a few seconds and swallowed the bones and internal organs alive. The plain in front of him and the gate behind him were empty.
. . .
Most of the tribe's demonizers and the cavalry led by Neil witnessed the cruel scene in the morning. Many young people started vomiting before arriving at the camp. Even many veterans who had participated in the war couldn't bear it.
Neil knew that the current iron mine would be inaccessible. He was not enough people to feed the monster alive, but he was at a loss for what to do.
In the big tent, the galloping horse knights all bowed their heads and remained silent. This was their most complete defeat since entering the galloping horse tribe. A high-level opponent, a group of junior knights like them, was simply unable to fight.
Changniu Hoof simply collapsed on the blanket as soon as he came back and couldn't even eat lunch.
"My big horns are gone like this." The old man kept wailing. "It's a shame that I still want to get the iron ore with a bottle of magic potion." His daughter Xiaohua knelt beside him and accompanied him silently. he.
"I said, you have to cheer up. If something happens to you, what will Xiaohua do?" Neil kept comforting her, understanding his mood very well. To a certain extent, if not With big horns, maybe he and the whirlwind have become the monster's lunch.
"Sir, there is a messenger from the iron mine." A report suddenly came from outside.
"What?" Everyone in the tent was stunned.
. . .
When Lant received Neil's letter in Yeqi City, it was already the evening of March 10, and Lant was having a meeting in his tent.
"Huh? There's something wrong with Neil." In front of everyone, Lant casually picked out some content and read it out. "The leader of the brown bear tribe seems to have gone crazy. It seems that iron ore cannot be bought anymore."
"Sir? Is Neil okay?" Makoto on the other side was very concerned about his son.
"Nothing happened, just a little shock, but a mage found him in the iron mine," Lant read the end of the letter, "It seems that this iron mine is much richer than the salt mine."
The so-called mage was the messenger who found Neil in the camp after the decisive battle. He had only one purpose in finding Neil, to persuade them to leave quickly. The leader of the brown bear had gone completely crazy and out of control.
Playing against the Bruins was Neal's most unsuccessful assignment since following Lant, but Neal wasn't going to give up just yet.
"Hey, this kid, it's okay to eat a medium-sized tribe, why are you still planning to station there?" Neil's letter was written by Knight Kearney, and their plan was written in detail.
On the one hand, they believe that without the supply of iron ore, several medium-sized tribes around the iron ore will have survival problems, and now is a good opportunity to annex these tribes. On the other hand, they are worried that once they evacuate, the mysterious Fani El Fox is going to make waves around here.
"This brat," Lanter looked at Makoto with a smile, "Don't you just fall in love with someone else's girl? You don't want to come back, right?"
Makoto was stunned by these words, worried that his son would be tabooed for making decisions without permission.
"Netherland Wilson, you take a team of 50 people and follow the messenger back. Let Neil do it. Once the new tribe is captured, just move the people back." Lant read Neil's letter and was very surprised. I agree with his idea of stationing on the spot, but this guy is obviously inexperienced and almost got himself involved. He can only find an intermediate knight to bring more people to work with him.
From Lant's perspective, although he still couldn't get the iron ore, he could eat all the surrounding medium-sized tribes and get a lot of ore. Since the supplier does not provide supply, we should first find a solution from the channel supplier.
(End of chapter)
