.Chapter 423 Wind and Snow

The howling north wind blew against the surrounding environment, and large white-haired snowflakes fell down, and as time went by, the snowflakes became heavier and heavier. Chen Kai had now nestled into the caravan's caravan. In fact, the mercenaries of the caravan were also huddled in the caravan. Now it would be nice to keep their formation intact if they were on the way. Of course, the caravan did not intend to continue rushing. The terrifying heavy snow around made the road extremely difficult. According to the mercenaries, if they continue to move forward in such heavy snow, it would be a big problem to not talk about whether the horses could bear it or not.

So at this moment, Chen Kai and the caravan were actually surrounding the carriage into a circular carriage array, and then piled up the snow on the carriage and carriage directly to form a snow wall to build a camp to rest. Originally, Chen Kai could have set up a tent himself to rest, but the middle place behind the carriage was still occupied by the carriage, and there was no spare place to set up a tent, so Chen Kai could only live in the carriage of the old merchant Luhanas, chatting with the old merchant while waiting for the wind and snow to stop.

"Dongdongdongdongdong" Just as Chen Kai was starting to get a little sleepy, the carriage door was knocked. After checking the time, he was depressed and found that it had been his duty time unconsciously. Although Chen Kai joined the caravan as a traveler, as a combatant holding a weapon and a Templar Knight, Chen Kai had the obligation and responsibility to become the rotating staff at night to watch.

"Knight Kaichen, I'm really sorry because of the lack of manpower and the use of physical strength in this kind of wind and snowy day is quite expensive, so I'm sorry to you." The one who said sorry to Chen Kai was Nosadri, the leader of the mercenary group. As an ordinary-level mercenary group without a special title, Nosadri has been working on the Golden Plain for several years. However, because there are too many horse thieves on the Great Plain, the chance of failure of the mercenary group's mission is also high. Several times, the mercenary group in Nosadri rushed to level D but was finally knocked down due to the failure of the mission. Now that this mission is completed, their mercenary group will probably become level D again, and then restore the name of the mercenary group that has been acquired several times and then lost.

"It's okay, I'm sorry to you to the commander of Nosadri." Chen Kai smiled at the other party, and then walked out of the carriage. The howling north wind kept falling from the sky with the heavy snow like goose feathers. In Chen Kai's field of vision, he could rarely see other colors except a piece of white. In order not to freeze his cheeks, Chen Kai closed the mask of the helmet. Although the cold helmet was made of metal, its lining was warm leather, so Chen Kai would not feel cold in the helmet. The most important thing is that he could also block the wind and frost from directly blowing his cheeks. At the same time, Chen Kai's vision can be effectively guaranteed with the help of the crystal observation mouth on the helmet. At least in terms of vision, Chen Kai is no weaker than those old mercenaries who have been a few years old, and even with the help of the magical effect, he can see things that the mercenaries could not see in advance.

In fact, although the Golden Plain has become an agricultural planting area, the number of wild animals has never decreased, but most of them are ordinary low-level beasts. According to the danger zone division announced by the Adventurers Union, the danger level of the Golden Plain is only light yellow, which belongs to the moderately lighter dangerous area. The largest beast here is only a few hungry wolves or grassland hyenas. Of course, the most dangerous thing on the entire plain is not these beasts, but horse thieves and robbers who are not sure where they will emerge.

Chen Kai carefully wiped the crystal observation port on the helmet with a clean rag, and then covered a snow-covered one on the helmet. When his feet stepped on the snow-covered ground, the creaking snow layer made Chen Kai's feet sink directly into it. After cleaning and stacking, the snow in the carriage array had a depth of five or six centimeters again after only three hours. This amount of snow surprised Chen Kai, who had first seen the power of the blizzard in the game. It was just a surprise. After all, as long as it existed in a game, it would have its rationality, as long as it was not b.

Stepping on the soft snow layer, Chen Kai carefully walked on the ground made of snow. The mercenary was constantly collecting snow blocks and building defensive walls. This method is the most time-saving and effective defense measure in winter on the Great Plain. The snow on the entire Great Plain often does not melt, and only the road covered with magic will not be covered with snow. When the snow on the surrounding plain is the deepest, it often reaches more than one meter. This record is relatively average, and it is often only high and not low. It is said that there is a year of snowfall.

When the thickest snow layer once reached two meters. Therefore, in fact, all animals and humans on the entire plain stored enough food before the first snowfall. After all, heavy snow more than one meter thick takes a long time to completely melt. Although the road is covered with snow removal spells, it takes at least one day to clear the snow layer above, and someone must activate the spell. In fact, for travelers on the road, especially those walking on the business road during this season, snow days are definitely a terrible thing.

For example, those pilgrims who were taken by kind-hearted old merchants on the road, if they did not encounter caravans around, they might get completely lost in the wind and snow and fall to a certain corner and freeze to death or starve to death. In fact, the number of pilgrims who die in blizzards every year is the largest number of pilgrims who die in blizzards, but there are always pilgrims who will go to the Holy Mountain to participate in the Christmas celebration of the God of Morning. The last day of December every year is the first day of the New Year. Especially at midnight on December 31, it is the highest stage of the entire activity, the sky

Even the power of the magic will turn into a day filled with morning light. In order to participate in this grand celebration, people from various regions or pilgrims from other countries will walk on this avenue every year. When horse thieves were not very rampant, pilgrims could still be rescued by many caravans on snowy days, but at any time, the number of horse thieves is increasing, and caravans are getting fewer and fewer, resulting in hundreds of pilgrims who freeze to death every year. This is definitely a big stain for the Temple of Morning Light. Therefore, if anyone hates horse thieves the most in the entire plain, the temple is undoubtedly the number one.

However, as a religious force, although the Temple of Morning Light has one of the largest cities in the entire empire, the City of Morning Light is a religious territory, and at the same time there are a large number of temples as a sphere of influence in each city, it does not have enough control of the army. There are only three armed forces from top to bottom in the entire temple. The first is the regular temple guard, that is, the Knights of the Temple, which has the largest number of armed people and the heaviest burden. The most elite part is stationed in the Temple Holy Mountain and the Demon Gate, and the others act as guards are distributed in various temple guarding places. The second part is the Temple Priest and the Priests, and

The Knights of the Temple are similar in distribution. The third is the Temple's permanent Martial Inquisition, which specializes in referring heresy and evil organizations, and has the only martial Knights that the Temple can command. However, the number of the God Punishment Knights is too small, with only 300 people at most. In addition to the reserves and servants, they can become a thousand-person group, but there are always only 300 people who can enter the battlefield. This is a concession made by the Temple to not stimulate the royal family of the Hansting Empire. The Royal Knights of the Hansting Royal Family can also be called by the Temple at some point, which is considered a condition of exchange after the two sides compromise.

So when the Temple of Morning Light wants to wipe out the many horse thieves on the entire plain, and some of these horse thieves were still private troops, it was an impossible task. Although the number of horse thieves who died in the hands of the Knights of Morning Light Light each year is at least a thousand, compared with the number of horse thieves wandering on the entire plain, it is just a drop of water in the ocean. In fact, only the prime minister in charge of the imperial finances knows how many horse thieves there are on the Great Plain, and how many bankrupt farmers join the ranks of horse thieves every year or because of the territory.

The poorly managed bankrupt nobles joined this ranks. If the horse thieves on the entire Great Plain were not completely cleaned up, it might not take decades. This once prosperous trade route would be completely cut off, because the merchants who dared to take this route had been robbed by horse thieves. Therefore, the temple is secretly recruiting players to join the task of clearing out horse thieves in the wilderness. Although the number of horse thieves in each territory is a bit large and much stronger than players in combat power, the temple believes that with the player's growth level, one day it will be able to completely clean the horse thieves on the entire plain, and that day will only be one or two years at most.

Of course, this plan is hidden, and even the lower levels of the temple participating in this plan do not know why they wanted a large number of players to go to the City of Morning Light, and they had to go through the trade road full of horse thieves. Only the high-level staff of the temple understand that doing so can a large number of players flock to the City of Morning Light and accept the task of clearing horse thieves. The more players there are, the more horse thieves will be wiped out. At least, there are no large horse thieves in the entire city of Morning Light. In this range, there are more players than horse thieves. A group that has just raised a flagpole to be a horse thieves may have been wiped out before it opened. The head and things on their bodies have become shining gold coins in the player's backpack.

However, Chen Kai had never accepted such a task. His purpose of going to the City of Morning was to borrow from there and turn to the Holy Mountain. After all, the City of Morning was only 200 kilometers away from the Temple Holy Mountain. Unfortunately, he was trapped in heavy snow like the pilgrims in the carriage, and it seemed that there were still people rushing around in the heavy snow. At least during the three hours of Chen Kai's patrol on the night, he had helped the caravan accept five or six pilgrims, each of which had been detected by his divine technique. Only Chen Kai, who confirmed the kindness, dared to let them enter the carriage and rest because he was worried that some horse thieves would mingle among the pilgrims.

"Sorry, Lord Knight, I may have disturbed you for rest, but I want to ask for your help?" When Chen Kai finished his vigil mission and was about to climb back to the carriage to drink a bowl of hot broth, an old man in a cloak shivering all over his body walked up to him. In the cold wind, the old man wearing the thin white linen coat of pilgrim looked unusually cold, with frost that had not yet melted.

"Is there anything that can be served?" Although Chen Kai felt a little tired, he still planned to listen to the request of the old man opposite him. In fact, as long as the other party's request is not so difficult to satisfy, as a member of the Temple of Morning Light, he must help him in terms of responsibility and obligation. Although it is unlikely that Chen Kai can get rewards for helping these pilgrims, he can get some good or justice values. The only use of these two values ​​so far is that the Lord Knight is used to stabilize the residents of the territory. Generally speaking, the lord's two values ​​are more likely to be more rewarded than the Lord's.

The higher the number, the more you will be, the more you will be, the more you will be accepted by strangers in the game. If you are a high number, the more likely it is to be accepted by strangers in the game. After all, compared with vicious players, kind people will be more acceptable. This is a kind of encouragement for the game to hope that players will be kind in their hearts. Although most players are utilitarian when helping the indigenous people, when this utilitarian behavior becomes a habit, players gradually find that they are becoming more and more accustomed to helping others.

"It's such a knight. When we came here, we met some pilgrims on the way. Although we had tried to help them and persuade them to walk together, they might not believe that there was a caravan ahead, so they still stayed in the house built of ice and snow. So I'm here to ask if you can help these people. They are about one kilometer south of here." The old man thought for a moment, especially when he was determining the direction, he hesitated for a moment, and then looked around and determined that it should be the south or the south in his mind. Because according to the direction he pointed at his finger, Chen Kai could be very sure that it was definitely not the south but the south. Surrounded by heavy snow, the old man was obviously a little confused about the direction, so Chen Kai really doubted whether he could find those poor pilgrims.

Although Chen Kai was a little doubtful about whether he could find those pilgrims, after seeing the kind green task bar in the task bar, he sighed and walked out of the carriage formation. After saying hello to the mercenary on the night, Chen Kai rode the spots deep and shallowly in search of the direction guided by the old man. The whistling north wrapped in snowflakes quickly hid the horse's hoof prints left by the war horse that Chen Kai rode, and at the same time slowly swallowed his figure. After walking less than twenty meters, he disappeared into the wind and snow in the sky.

Chen Kai opened his portable map and looked back. Although he knew that the camp was behind him, he saw nothing but gray-white snowflakes through the wind and snow. Fortunately, Chen Kai had marked the camp on his portable map, so he didn't have to worry about getting lost in the wind and snow. However, searching for those pilgrims would become a troublesome thing. Fortunately, when he walked out of the carriage, he borrowed a few blankets from the old merchant, which should be able to make the unlucky pilgrims walk in the wind and snow.

"Come on Spots, I'll take you a hot bath when I get back to town." Chen Kai slapped his poor mount. He knew how much damage it would be to the horses themselves when walking on such heavy snow. The cold snow water may rust the horseshoes and cause the horseshoes to become infected and cause the horses to rot. But Chen Kai had to do this, because with his own walking ability, it was impossible for him to travel more than a kilometer in a short time. Of course, Chen Kai could also use the tool of a sled, but unfortunately he searched all his backpack but couldn't find such a thing. The only thing similar to the sled was the same piece. Of course, Chen Kai could also use the tool of a sled. Unfortunately, he searched all his backpack but couldn't find such a thing.

The broken boat board was still the rest of the ship he had dismantled. It was not impossible to slide on the snow with such things, but Chen Kai could not fix himself. At least in a short time, he could not chisel enough grooves on the wooden board to put into the battle boots. So he could only work hard for a while and then return to the town to find a special veterinarian to see it. In fact, after walking into the snowy plain, Chen Kai was very suspicious of whether the horse thieves had the courage to rob in this weather, because the surrounding environment was so bad that they could hardly see what was twenty meters away in front of them.

A few minutes later, the howling north wind and the sound of trampling on the snow layer became the main music that accompanied Chen Kai's advance. In such an environment, Chen Kai tried hard to search for traces on the ground, and the rising snow bags around the main road became the first target Chen Kai was looking for. However, most of the snow bags were natural snow hills formed by the snow layer due to the strong wind. Chen Kai obviously could not tell whether the snow hills were natural or man-made, so he could only search them one by one. Finally, when Chen Kai found the first pilgrim who was about to be frozen, it had been nearly half an hour since he left the camp.

This unlucky pilgrim who was about to be frozen to death curled up in the snow cave he dug out. If Chen Kai had not stepped through the snow layer, he would have never been able to find him. He would have been discovered by the farmer only after the snow turned into snow in spring, and at that time he was already a corpse.

"Thank you... Thank you sir, thank you... Thank you for saving me." The pilgrim who was almost frozen to death shrank in the blanket and drank the liquor handed to him by Chen Kai. The warm liquor gradually dispelled the cold in his body, which made his blue-purple cheeks slowly turn a little bloody.

"Don't thank you, do you know where the pilgrims are with you?" Chen Kai asked the other party hopefully, but the other party's expression made Chen Kai sink. Obviously, he was a lonely pilgrim, and such pilgrimage was the longest and most troublesome thing on the entire plain. They were originally poor farmers, and only devout faith and great gods were their only spiritual sustenance. Naturally, they were nothing, so they were poor, so they were poor.

"Okay, are you looking for other pilgrims with me or staying here to wait for me to come back?" Chen Kai looked at the other party's face and planned to continue setting out. After all, he could not escort him alone. If the delay on the road was too long, it would make those who could have been saved lose hope of living.

"I want to follow you" The pilgrim was obviously very enlightened. He knew the consequences of staying in the snow, and even if he was wearing a blanket, he would still feel the biting cold. Although he had to brave the snowy days to follow Chen Kai, at least his safety was guaranteed, and he could drink hot spirits at any time. This was the most important life-saving thing for pedestrians in the snow.
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