The short carriage ride didn't last long. When the surrounding trees gradually thinned out, the lively shouts and exercise sounds reached Xiao Yaluo's ears from time to time.
The road began to sink, and the carriage began to tilt downward. Xiao Yaluo had to hold on to the decoration on the side to prevent himself from slipping out of the front door.
The horse's heavy hoofs kept rubbing against the gravel road, and the splashed gravel rolled down the roadside, making several "da da da" sounds.
Squeak, squeak!
The wooden body of the carriage constantly sounded the piercing screams, and the long and leisurely shouts of exercise began to become clearer.
Bah!
With the crisp sound of horseshoes hitting the bluestone, the carriage finally reached the smooth stone road.
Phew~
Xiao Yaluo took a deep breath, barely suppressed the feeling of nausea, opened the wooden window, and looked outside.
This place is halfway up the mountainside of a huge valley. At the foot is a neat bluestone road, with houses built of thick logs on both sides. Not far from this street, there is a flat training ground with more than ten people. A heavily armed warrior is constantly training.
This is more like a military camp than a street, but a little empty at this time.
Two of the three knights who followed saluted David and walked away, leaving Kabir alone with David and others.
"Are you here?" Xiao Yaluo turned to his father and asked.
"Not yet," David looked at the warriors exercising outside with a hint of subtlety in his expression. "These are the retainers of the Garner family. They can also be regarded as the knights stationed in the Achilles Valley. Your grandfather's castle is still ahead. ."
"Retainer? Why is it considered a stationed knight?"
Retainers are equal to one's future power.
From the name of the stationed knights, you can tell that this is a foreign force.
Little Yaro didn’t know why David was so contradictory.
David turned around and explained: "I should have told you that one of the reasons why your grandfather built the castle here was to protect against the wild forest. However, in the territory under your grandfather's name, the small town alone has Seven.”
"How could your grandfather alone be able to defend against such a large area, so the Jungle House Wizards Alliance will regularly send some potions to help the trainee knights break through."
"These knights who rely on potions to break through nominally belong to Wendel Wizarding Academy, so they are stationed knights. Under normal circumstances, we have no right to take them out of the territory."
Under normal circumstances?
Doesn’t that mean that most people can do abnormal things?
Also, if no one reports it, even if it is taken out, who will know?
It's just that the face-saving project may need to be done well.
Xiao Yaluo nodded with deep understanding, and his eyes softened a lot as he looked at the soldiers outside.
These are all my retainers!
"By the way, father, what is 'Jungle House'?"
"I once attended Wendel Wizarding Academy, which is one of the academies affiliated with Jungle House. You will know after you enter the academy to study." David did not want to say more and dealt with it casually.
The carriage continued to move forward. After crossing a stone gate, the sky suddenly darkened, as if there was an invisible line that blocked the sunlight.
At this time, except for this winding bluestone road, there was a black swamp all around, and some twisted tree trunks, like ferocious corpses, were scattered in it.
The carriage walked slowly on the bluestone road, and the sound of horse hooves echoed continuously.
Xiao Yaluo shrank his neck, feeling a little scared.
Dark, twisted, ferocious, weird... it really feels more and more like a ghost story.
The black cat looked around boredly and said lazily, "The water in the swamp is a little dry, and there are no more bubbles."
Kabir, who was driving the car, turned around and explained: "Ms. Gemma, if the water is added to the point where it bubbles, the surrounding trees will not stand stable."
"Unstable? What do you mean?"
Xiao Yaluo looked up in surprise.
"Aren't those weird trees growing?"
"No, those tree trunks are all branches we specially selected from the woods, trimmed and cut, and then transported here."
Xiao Yaluo frowned when he heard this, "Why do you do such a strange thing?"
"Because he believes that this is the only way to show the majesty of a wizard family."
David shrugged, pointed to the sky and said, "In order to block the sun in this half of the canyon, he even bought tree growth chemicals and cultivated vines to twine in the sky. These medicines used up almost half of his savings. ."
"Most of your savings!?"
Xiao Yaluo opened his mouth in surprise.
Spend most of your savings on planting trees?
Just to enhance the atmosphere?
The image of the mysterious and powerful old wizard that he had built up in his heart suddenly collapsed. At this time, Xiao Yaluo only felt a deep heartache.
What a prodigal!
The black cat raised his head and reminded: "Something strange will appear soon. Timid Yaro, don't be so scared that you wet your pants."
Something else weird?
After the majestic image in his heart collapsed, Xiao Yaluo no longer felt afraid. When he heard the black cat's reminder, he became even more curious.
What could it be?
Dumb——dumb——
Thump thump thump!
Hearing the rough and hoarse crow call, Xiao Yaluo quickly looked up.
Could it be this?
crow?
"Oh~ let me see which friend is visiting my house today."
Boom!
The ground was shaking slightly and the horse was shaking uneasily. Kabir quickly grabbed the reins and stabilized the carriage.
"Xiao Yaluo, look at the big rock on the left."
Hearing Black Cat's reminder, Xiao Yaluo quickly looked around and saw a huge boulder standing on the side of the road. Facing the road, there was also a vague facial features, and the lips on the facial features were trembling slightly.
"Oh~ It's a pity that you have to answer my questions before you can pass here."
There was a dull sound from the stone, but David slapped himself in the face and urged: "Kabir, hurry up, I don't want to see this thing again!"
The muscles on Kabir's face twitched slightly, but he forcibly suppressed his face, which was about to lose its composure, and turned around to wave his riding crop.
"Oh~ you are so rude!"
The boulder shouted helplessly. Xiao Yaluo looked at the boulder curiously until he could no longer see its figure, then turned back and asked, "Why don't you answer his question? Don't you need to answer it?"
"It's not just that I don't need an answer..." Kabir scratched his head, feeling a little distressed for a moment, "How should I say it?"
"That thing is a mechanism," David explained with a sigh. "As long as someone passes by there, the mechanism will be activated, and the echo stone buried in the boulder will release a recorded sound."
"If you stand still, the echoing stone can speak for a whole day without repeating it, but as long as you leave a certain distance, the echoing stone will play the last sentence."
"Are you too rude?" Xiao Yaluo quickly answered and said with great interest, "It's really an interesting thing."
Echo stone?
recording?
Xiao Yaluo immediately thought of the movies in his previous life.
With this thing, can I also use it to make a movie?
Just when Xiao Yaluo was about to start thinking again, a towering huge castle vaguely appeared in front of him.
If we compare this with the castle that Xiao Yarrow lived in before, the one he lived in before can only be called a stone house, but this is the real castle!
As expected of a grandfather who spent most of his savings on planting trees and building a house without losing face!
With thoughts of wonder, little Yaluo followed his father out of the carriage and entered on foot.
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