Just when Shen Yan and Panni "harm" each other, they didn't know that there was a reason why this nearby "quietness" was so.

Less than fifty kilometers from here to the ridge, a protracted war is coming to an end, with both sides suffering heavy casualties. The exhausted war put both kingdoms on the verge of bankruptcy, and no one is the real winner. A large number of corpses that were not too late to converge were discarded in the valley, attracting all nearby carnivores like magnets, wandering in groups on the edge of the battlefield, while the herbivores flee in a distant direction.

This makes the place where Chen Yan lands peaceful and quiet as if it is a paradise.

However, there is no such place on this narrow land - this world does not have a vast continent that seems to never be able to go to the border, nor a huge city with a population of 10 billion - there is only a peninsula surrounded by the sea, with an area of ​​only equivalent to the sum of the three provinces of China, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and half of the land is mountainous, and half of the remaining half is swamps and forests...

The peninsula looks like a fist with a middle finger raised downward.

Its main landform is the Penglin Mountains, which are distributed in the shape of "Y". The lower end of "Y" forms the "middle finger" part and penetrates deep into the sea, dividing the ocean left and right into the blue ocean and the Black Sea, and the finger is the largest city in the south, Stormwind City and Storm Harbor. The upper half of the "Y" shape divides the "fist" part of the peninsula into three independent kingdoms - Stonehaven composed of subspecies such as lizardmen, elves and dwarves, Penglin, the human kingdom above and Penglin below the human kingdom.

Legend has it that the peninsula area was once the Penglin Province of a great empire in ancient times, and its territory covers the entire peninsula (it is said to only occupy a very small area located in the north). However, when thick clouds and a large number of demons appeared on the northern plateau, the road leading to the outside world of the peninsula was completely cut off.

The loss of contact with the Northern Empire caused the entire peninsula to fall into chaos. The Penglin province split into two kingdoms, the Upper Penglin and Lower Penglin, occupying the main farming areas in the middle and eastern part of the peninsula. During this period, due to the loss of imperial supply, the food was severely insufficient. Humans held high the banner of xenophobia and drove all the Asians out of the kingdom! Most of the Asians died during the migration, and a small number of Asians arrived at the swamps and forest areas in the western part of the peninsula and established their own country, Stone Haven.

Since then, three narrow countries moving north and south are like three sausages hanging on a rope. Whenever the demon tide comes, when a large number of demons rush down the cloud plateau, the three kingdoms will put aside all disputes and fight together against the demon army. Once the demon tide retreats, the three kingdoms will immediately begin to attack and annihilate each other and fight endlessly.

With the advancement of shipbuilding, offshore trade and fishery began to emerge, and a series of independent city-states and ports were spontaneously formed in the once barren lands (mainly frequent storms) in the southern coastal areas. Especially Stormwind City and Stormwind Port, located at the southernmost end of the peninsula, have a unique terrain and the strongest fleet on the peninsula, and monopolize half of the maritime trade. The strength made the three northern kingdoms very afraid.

It also further complicates the situation on the peninsula.

The racial hatred between humans and sub-ethnics, the conflict between emerging alchemy magic and traditional churches, the orthodox struggle between the upper forest and the lower forest, the struggle between the northern military nobles and the southern city-state merchants, the continuous conspiracy and infiltration of the demons on the peninsula... and the ghostly prophecy that always wandered over the peninsula, "Only the king who unified the peninsula can completely end the demon tide, dispel the fog, and return to the glory of the empire"... Everything has made the situation on the peninsula deep and increasingly difficult.

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"But all this has nothing to do with me. Now I just want to farm, hunt, and finally die happily in a bed."

Ozmart, Lizardman Ranger, former scout commander of the Third Battalion of the First Legion of the Kingdom of Stone Haven.

Lizardmen have similar limbs as humans and facial features to clearly distinguish, but the face shape of lizards is more like lizards. Their body surface is covered with green skin and a large number of scales, and their leg structure is more conducive to running and jumping than humans. The eyes have eyelids like snakes, and their tongues are slender and bifurced. Human society generally believes that lizardmen are evil descendants of humans and lizards. In fact, it is a kind of stupid and arrogant thinking!

Lizardman is completely different from humans. They have their own completely stable gene chains and also have intelligence and reproductive ability no less than humans. In a broad sense, they are no different from humans and elves.

Ozmart is the "former scout captain" because he has returned the identity of a soldier to the Kingdom of Stone Haven and the damn Northern War! Ozmart is now playing in a human convoy in exchange for the right to join the new village.

Interestingly, the leader of this convoy, Milton, was also a deserter - but he was from the human kingdom, and the captain of a guerrilla brigade of a second-line legion of Penglin - for a while, they were mortal enemies on the battlefield!

The second line of Shang Penglin was mainly responsible for maintaining transportation lines and "collecting" food and grass from western villages during the long war. When he discovered that the target of the recruitment was his hometown village and the villages began to starve to death, Milton broke out! He killed the military supervisors and betrayed the Kingdom of Shang Penglin with half of his subordinates and the rest of the village.

Fortunately, the Kingdom itself was exhausted at this time and had no energy to pay attention to the whereabouts of a second-tier legion team, which allowed them to leave the kingdom controlled area smoothly. Milton was a very capable person. He collected manpower and war orphans along the way and formed a huge convoy. The ultimate goal was to cross the Xipenglin Mountains, choose a hidden place between the West Coast and the Xipenglin Mountains, and establish a free land that belongs to the villagers. To this end, he asked everyone who joined the convoy to let go of their prejudices and welcome the other party regardless of race.

At present, although there are still many problems, Milton successfully did what he said. When the convoy was halfway through, it had almost become a peninsula race coalition, and the adopted war orphans were of any race... but it was still based on humans. This is also the reason why Ozmart was willing to join the new village.

"Fifteen days, at most twenty days, we can get to that place. Then the big man will come and ask me, Hi, Oma, have you decided where to stay? I will say, the village? No, no, the little ghosts are too noisy; the waterside? It's too wet, it's bad for the skin; on the hillside? I have to think about it, it seems like a good idea to build a cottage near the woods, but it can't be too far from the water. I can help you watch the woods and prevent wild beasts from breaking into the village, and those little guys will be taken away by wolves like rabbits.

That's right, I'll say that when the time comes, he's going to be as happy as a fool..." Ozmart kept muttering to himself.

He hid his green face in his cloak and hood, and the chain mail on his body deliberately covered most of his lizardman characteristics. Despite this, he kept himself as far away from the sight of ordinary humans as possible and walked in the front of the convoy. Although he had been used to various discriminatory gazes over the past few decades, Ozmart still felt sincerely guilt when the children were scared by his appearance, even though it was not his fault.

The current situation is that humans are responsible for orthodoxy, elves are responsible for arrogance, dwarves are responsible for stubbornness, only lizards are responsible for nothing, or they are responsible for ignorance, barbarity, backwardness and uncivilization... In the eyes of the world, those three races have created brilliant civilizations, and only lizards live as if they are no different from wild animals, and no culture is left behind.

It was a bit sad to think of this. When a child took the bug and asked him if he would eat it, Ozmart almost cried...it was just a little bit short of it.

"I never want to eat that bug! Never! Lizardmen do not eat bugs, and lizards are not our distant relatives. No, we should not be called lizardmen at all! Will humans be called monkey people? Will elves be called vegetative people? Only lizardmen do... They see a lizard, it is like looking at your brother. This is ridiculous. They will not call monkeys brothers, but point at the lizard and ask if this is your relative?" they talked to themselves, and said to themselves.

Anyway, although he was with the convoy behind him, Ozmart tried to keep his distance from those people when possible.

Lizardmen don’t wear shoes. Their thick flippers can clearly distinguish the changes in the earth. For example, changes in humidity can easily determine the location of the surrounding streams and swamps. There are also changes in temperature, allowing him to know the secrets deep in the earth. And his tongue that always spits out is not to catch flying insects - say again, I don’t eat insects!

That is used to identify the smell in the air and to detect hidden dangers early.

"If there is a teammate of the Lizardman in the adventure team, it is everyone's luck! Because he is not only loyal, reliable, but also versatile. For example, like this," Ozmart continued to talk to himself, and even stuck out his tongue to "lick" the air, "Tsk tsk, there is a burnt smell, someone is burning something nearby? Is this empty dust smell the burning wood ash? There is also the smell of human bones inside."

Ozmart held his right fist and raised it, signaling the convoy behind him to suspend the alert.

Then he took off the thick giant sword on his back, and flexibly disappeared in the grass with a light jump. Even if someone stared at him at this moment, he would lose his trace in the blink of an eye! The Lizardman has super mobile ability, and their skin and special armor can change color with the environment, and the Ranger's ability provides more hiddenness in the grassland and forest terrain. Just as Ozmart himself said, the Lizardman is actually a very worthwhile teammate.

Humans with a sense of superiority are the most useless race in the entire multiverse... By the way, we generally call it the "most balanced race".

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