At dawn, the earliest carriage on Talon Avenue had not yet appeared, and Duan Qing and others set out on their journey again. Fortunately, this walk shouldn't take long, because their destination, Tania, the capital of the principality, is not far away.
They even found many buildings built by players not far from the road.
"Those...should be player bases." Looking at the lively scene in the distance, Duan Qing rubbed his chin and said, "Many guilds cannot grab territory in the city, so they have to set up bases in the wild. .”
"I think it's good in the wild." Xiao Hongchen continued: "You can find a lot of fights."
"Yes, yes, and we need to find someone to keep watch at night, otherwise we may be overwhelmed by the army of wild monsters..."
"That's okay, you can have a good time..."
"It's cool, the station is gone." Seeing that the situation was not right, Mengzhu hurriedly stepped in and said, "I don't want the station we worked so hard to build to be wasted. It is our home... ..."
"So, the location of the station is a very important choice." Duan Qing nodded and said: "Previous game experience is not very useful in this world. Players' survival is so difficult. If they want to die, what monster level is suitable? , if you set up a station in a place with a good leveling environment, you will most likely not be able to survive a few sunrises..."
"We can refer to the location of these people." The little girl pointed to the crowd of players coming and going not far away: "There is probably some pattern to the addresses they chose?"
"Unfortunately, there are no rules." Duan Qing spread his hands: "You may be able to find some rules in other places, but there are probably no rules in the suburbs of Tania. This place is a place that players would struggle to squeeze through. The place to come in..."
He pointed to the temporary walls made of wooden piles in the distance: "In a place like the capital of the principality, even if it is the fifth outer ring or the outer fifth ring, there will be people robbing it, so unless a certain place is really not suitable for camping, other players Our camps are basically built in clusters..."
"If this is the case, these stations do not need to consider much in terms of security." He looked at the large or small, scattered city-like buildings and said: "Because they are all piled up, even if they are If monsters come to harass us, several guilds should help each other."
"Huh? Is that so?" Mengzhu said with some suspicion: "Don't they fight with each other? Don't they have any grudges?"
"There will definitely be such things as grudges, but these things are trivial in the face of survival." Duan Qing said with a smile: "We players are all weak now, so in the face of the righteousness of living, who dares How about touching everyone’s brows and settling personal grievances?”
He looked at the woman in black cloak who was leading the horse behind. The latter lowered her head and ignored him.
"Well, I feel that this environment is not bad. At least everyone can be more harmonious." Ignoring the dissatisfied look on Xiao Hongchen's face, Mengzhu nodded slightly: "At least on the surface it is so...well. "
"What are you looking at?"
"Find a suitable place."
"So urgent? Aren't we going to set up a station in the city?"
"That hope is too small. With so many guilds outside the city, how can we possibly be ranked... Speaking of which, the construction of these guild stations is really messy. Aren't they afraid of people from the principality? Come out and punish illegal construction or something..."
"The people in the principality are eager for players to do this."
This time, it was the Snow Spirit Huanbing behind who answered her question.
"If the empire's offensive really reaches the city walls of the capital, these messy camps will block them for a while."
The other three people looked at me and I looked at you. They didn’t say anything for the time being. Even Xiao Hongchen, who is usually bellicose, would understand the cruelty of war to some extent. That’s not just one or two players. If a place where they can dominate really comes to them, it will not be a joke.
"Looks like we have to reconsider..."
"Yes, with the current state of the principality, it is difficult to guarantee that players' investment will not be wasted."
"What is the principality doing? There are so many counties, and each county has a city guard. There are probably hundreds of thousands of troops, right?"
"Nobles everywhere regard their territories as their own back gardens. How could they let it go... Oh, by the way, they are members of parliament now, not nobles."
"Hey, what's the difference..."
"You can think about Rama, isn't he just a typical..."
"Drink!"
Several people were chatting. On the road ahead, a man in black armor suddenly appeared in the center of the stone road, shouting in a certain direction. After they were attracted by the loud shouting, they discovered a person who was beaten away in the distance of their sight. The person fell on his back on the ground not far from the big man. He groaned for a long time without getting up, and fell from the ground. Judging from the traces, it seemed that the fall was not light, and it dragged a long trace on the ground before it stopped.
The big man slowly put away his posture. Duan Qing and others here discovered that he had no weapons in his hands. It seemed that the previous blow was made with his bare hands.
Both of them had IDs on their heads and looked like they were both players. However, due to the distance between them and the scene, it was difficult for the people on Duan Qing's side to see what their names were. But not long after, they had no time to take care of this subtle problem - at the next moment, several players suddenly jumped out from the right side of the road, holding swords, guns, swords and halberds to protect the fallen player.
"XXX, you are too%#@#%..."
The voices of those players were obviously not as loud as the black-armored player opposite them, so Duan Qing and the others could not hear their shouts clearly. However, judging from the postures on the scene, these players obviously fell to the ground. That man's companion, so facing the previous actions of the big man in black armor, these players started to condemn at the top of their lungs - they seemed to have the courage to do this, because the black armored man had already clenched his fists when shouting, He walked towards them with a smile.
Several players in different clothes began to walk backwards, each of them looking fierce and angry. Judging from the results that happened later, they could not defeat the powerful player in front of them, even if they were in front of one of the players. After shouting, several people rushed forward, but they were still beaten by the big man in black armor, and they were all knocked to the ground in a few rounds.
Amidst the sound of laughter, a large number of players rushed out of a walled city surrounded by wooden piles on the right side of the road. The leader of the players put his hands on his hips and shouted at the big man in black armor. It seemed as if a real group fight was about to happen at the next moment. As a result, before the few fallen players around the big man got up and tried to show off their power, players with the same colorful clothes and uneven equipment rushed to the side of the road and stood behind the left side of the road. Behind the big man in black armor.
In their hands, they also held hammers, hammers, wood saws, iron catalpas and other various construction tools for different purposes, just like construction workers who had just come from the construction site.
Accompanied by the loud laughter of the big man in black armor, the players on the left, who were copying various tools like hard workers, rushed towards the group of players on the right, and quickly broke up the opponent's defense line under the momentum of the big man. , for a while the scene became a mess, and then became inextricable.
"This..." Duan Qing looked at the sudden out-of-control scene in front of him and grabbed the shirtless man who was about to try: "This is too 'harmonious'."
"The harmonious scene, wasn't that what you said just now?" Mengzhu on the side asked.
"I...I didn't know the people here were so bad-tempered and never agree with each other..."
Duan Qing shook his head, and then suddenly jumped back to avoid a player who staggered and fell in front of them. At the same time, he raised his hands to show that he had no ill intentions. The player was also beaten and fell to the ground. He was beaten to pieces, and he didn't know the background of the people in front of him. But the next moment, he was hit in the head with an iron catalpa by the player chasing behind him. superior.
"Are you..." The player from the other side who was chasing him glanced at them with his peripheral vision: "Are you passers-by?"
"Yes, yes." Seeing that the other party looked like a warrior from some heavenly kingdom, Duan Qing immediately nodded without hesitation.
"The Iron Fist Gang is dealing with personal grudges. It's a bit chaotic here. You'd better go around, otherwise..." He pointed to the chaotic battlefield behind: "Don't blame me for not warning you."
He looked at Duan Qing, then at the black cloaked figure holding the horse behind him, and finally withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, turned around and rushed back to the battlefield.
"We...should we take a detour?" After the man left them, the little girl asked with a trembling voice, covering her chest.
"If you want to wait here for a while, we don't have to take a detour, otherwise..." Looking at the fight scene that turned into a pot of porridge, Duan Qing shook his head helplessly: "We'd better Just listen to others."
"With this situation... we still have to fight this battle."
Several people discussed for a while, then stepped over the stone railing next to them and walked to the grassy slope. They looked at the distribution of the city walled by various wooden fences in front of them, and then picked randomly. continued in this direction.
The woman in the black cloak behind slowly loosened her secret grip on the sword hilt, then took the reins of her mount and followed little by little.
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Although the capital of the Principality of Ernifea, Tania City, is not as majestic as people imagined, from the outside, it still looks like a big city.
Because from the south gate, the city walls are as wide as mountains.
The city wall structure of Tania City is not a complete straight shape, but is built into an arc-shaped structure. The streamlined outer wall not only highlights the difference of this capital city, but also gives everyone who first arrives in the capital of the principality a The players were very impressed. But if they asked the residents in the city about the origin of the construction structure of the city wall, most of them would not be able to tell.
They'll just tell you that this city has been like this a long time ago.
According to the unexpected situation before, Duan Qing and the others did not take the main road leading here, but went around from the grass on one side. Fortunately, Tania City is almost surrounded by green grassland, so as long as the direction is correct, everyone can find the city safely. In addition, Duan Qing and others did not stray far from the main road, so it didn't take long for them to arrive. Found the huge gate to the south.
However, this journey is still eye-opening. Except for the station they saw when they were just taking a detour, which had not even completed the outer wall, most of the other player stations also had a lively scene. Through the low wooden walls, Duan Qingdu could see You can see the lively scene of setting up camp and building various construction facilities inside. From time to time, there are a large number of players carrying various construction materials, and they are constantly busy around the construction projects. However, probably due to technical reasons, most of the station construction uses wood and stones, and it is rare to see higher-end building materials. Therefore, along the way, Duan Qing and the others saw very simple infrastructure. .
Not all players are architects, so don't expect the design of the house to be beautiful.
Player members from various guilds carrying big logs almost collided with Duan Qing and others several times. However, thanks to them, Duan Qing and others found the direction of the city gate very easily - the grassland outside the city was almost They had already searched it all, not even a small tree could be found, so most of their materials were purchased from the city and then transported outside the city one trip at a time. Several people followed the flow of people carrying them and gradually groped to the outside of the southern city gate. It was not until they saw the curved city wall that looked like waves and the tall and pointed city gate that they felt relieved.
They don't want to encounter any sudden accidents again.
"We're finally here!" The little girl in the purple burqa jumped excitedly, causing the golden ponytail on the back of her head to jump: "Tanya! We are here!"
"Excited like a child." Duan Qing shook his head and smiled: "Don't be anxious, we still have a lot of things to do, after all..."
"That happened in Fenghua Town."
Several people were silent for a while, and then shook their heads in unison, temporarily dispelling the shadows in their hearts. Duan Qing looked at the situation at the city gate, then turned back and said: "Let's prepare to enter the city. There seems to be something at the city gate... ."
"Check the... appearance of..."
His words became slower and slower - at the end of the team, the woman in the black cloak had turned around and led her horse towards the way she came.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Duan Qing immediately stopped her: "Where are you going?"
"I'll just send you here." Xue Ling Huan Bing didn't look back: "Since no one is causing trouble for you along the way, I can leave."
"Don't." Realizing that the other party really seemed to want to leave, Duan Qing hurriedly advised: "Well, uh... since we're all here, you can drop in and have a rest before leaving. I'm treating you. Even if I just want to thank you for going all the way..."
"impossible."
Amid the hustle and bustle at the city gate, the woman's cold voice was still clearly audible: "I am from the Wings of Freedom, and our guild is still on the principality's blacklist."
She turned back and pointed at the prosecutor's guard at the city gate: "That's why I can't get in."
People were coming and going, and there was a lot of noise. Although the noise here was very chaotic, the clatter of footsteps and horses' hooves on the stone slabs that were getting farther and farther away from him seemed to become louder in Duan Qing's ears. Clearer. Mengzhu's anxious shouts came from one side, and in front of him was the silently leaving figure. At a certain moment, the hood of the black cloak was blown off by the wind, revealing the long black hair underneath, and followed the breeze in the direction of Duan Qing. Floating.
"Wait a moment!"
By the time he came to his senses, these three words had been shouted out.
