Chapter 68 Brute Force
"Lawrence, you can bring your charcoal, but you have to carry it on your own." "
Sofia, help me feed this basket of beans to Nora."
Early in the morning, Salil started Conductor Lawrence and Sophia.
Salil, a strong woman, was in charge of the deal with the Cloda people. Lawrence and Sophia were unfamiliar with each other, so naturally they were the ones to do it.
Whether in the mountains or on the seaside, strength is a passport.
Lawrence felt that even if he had trained for five years, he would not be able to beat Salil.
Not all barbarians are so strong. Salil is obviously not strong, but she is more powerful than those fat women in the village!
Lawrence had no doubt she could lift a pig with one hand!
"It would be great if Dom Sheep had such strength." Lawrence sighed and put his bag of charcoal in the basket and carried it on his back.
Nora the Dom Sheep can only carry a maximum of one hundred kilograms of things on her back. In addition to her usual riding, she will reduce the pressure on the Dom Sheep most of the time.
It was the same today. Except for more than fifty kilograms of copper ore, the three of them carried everything else on their own.
In addition to a basket of charcoal, Lawrence also brought a wooden drill and iron nails, as well as a traveler's stick and a scavenger's dagger.
The dagger was used for self-defense, and the rest of the things were not easy to carry, so I didn't bring them.
Sophia carries a shield on her back and a wooden spear in her hand.
Sariel tied her waist with a rope, held two axes in the belt at the back of her skirt, and led Nora the Dom Sheep down the mountain.
Lawrence looked at the house. The kitchen had been blocked with wooden boards to prevent some birds and beasts from running in.
The door of the house and the livestock shed are also closed, and there is some extra feed inside. It will be fine if you come back early before dark.
The three of them set off quickly. The entrance was the forest where they had caught squirrels before. The three of them led the sheep into the depths of the forest.
Salil looked around and said, "It's very easy to get lost here. Don't leave my side. I've marked this place before. This is the road!" Lawrence didn't have a map
of the area, but he had seen this before when surveying the terrain. There are no mountains or rivers at the end of the forest. It should be a canyon or a downhill road.
"Sariel, where is the village of Clodagh? Is it on the mountain or down the mountain, or in the valley or on the mountainside?"
Sofia became excited and praised excitedly: "The master will not get lost, he can find it no matter where it is! Lawrence
pinched Sophia's little face with one hand and said harshly: "Be more humble! Don't always tell me about my good points!"
Sophia quickly nodded her head in fear and obedience.
Sariel didn't believe this and looked at Lawrence with suspicion, "The Cloda people live deep in the forest. It's not our forest, but a hot forest protected by many fifty-meter-tall trees!" "You can find it
! "?"
Lawrence was very speechless. "I can't find it. Just say this. How can I find it? Stop looking for trouble and lead the way. I don't know."
Salil was in a very good mood and continued to lead the way.
Lawrence said he didn't know, but he inevitably started to argue with each other as he walked, and began to think about the general location.
A fifty-meter-tall tree... If there were many trees that tall, it would be easy to find them.
Normally, all kinds of trees will grow in one direction. The mountainous terrain here is uneven and not suitable for some trees to grow.
The safe growing environment for many years, coupled with the need to avoid the witches in Talim Mountain.
Hot Forest...is it a volcano?
Lawrence thought about the location of the volcano, and also thought about the rough judgment he had made about several nearby mountains during the previous terrain survey.
It shouldn't be too far away, five hours at most.
But our current speed is slower than walking on normal roads. Normally, we may not be able to climb a mountain in five hours.
So this distance should not exceed ten kilometers.
Lawrence quickly made a rough guess and judgment.
After walking in the forest for more than an hour, Salil led Lawrence to a cave based on a few marked trees and stones, as well as the downward hillside road.
"You must have never imagined it! After passing this cave, there is the territory of the Cloda people behind it!"
Lawrence nodded, "I really didn't expect it."
Lawrence thought that it should be in a canyon or siege inside the mountain, or maybe On the back side of the mountain, I didn't expect there to be a passing cave. This cave was blocked by stones. The entrance of the cave was about the same width as a normal door, but shorter, only 1.67 meters high.
Lawrence looked at this large stone more than one meter wide.
Just when I thought there was nothing I could do, I saw Salil walking to the stone and starting to push it to one side with both hands.
"Lawrence came here to help. In the past, two people pushed it together."
Lawrence looked at the big stone with a thoughtful look on his face, which was more than one meter wide and one and a half meters high.
"I don't think this can be solved by one more person."
Buzz... The boulder was pushed hard by the girl and moved to the side at a very slow but firm speed.
The gap became wider and wider, and Lawrence's frown deepened.
Laurence suddenly looked suspicious.
[Is Salil really human? I suspect she's a savage...oh, really she is. 】
I used to wonder if Sariel could be a witch, but witches shouldn't have such great strength.
Sofia soon joined in the pushing work, and together with Salil, she pushed the big stone that was much bigger than her.
With the cooperation of the two girls, the big rock was quickly pushed aside.
Sariel looked exhausted, leaning on the stone to rest, and then looked at Lawrence angrily.
"You are the laziest man I have ever seen!"
Lawrence walked to the stone and looked at it. There were traces of repeated rubbing on the ground. The stone was often pushed around, but the traces showed that it was not pushed around many times. And except for this fresh trace, the rest of the traces are blurred.
Lawrence tried it himself, but he couldn't make the stone move even when he pushed it with all his strength.
This stone weighs at least a thousand kilograms!
Although it couldn't be pushed even if it weighed 500 kilograms, Lawrence thought that the stone must weigh more than 1,000 kilograms!
Sariel ignored Lawrence and walked directly in with the sheep and Sophia.
"Don't be afraid, Sophia. It looks very dark here. Just walk fifty steps and you'll be there."
Lawrence also followed in. After entering, he found that it was completely dark inside, and Sophia and Salil couldn't be seen at all.
"Sofia!" Lawrence quickly took a few steps forward and entered the darkness.
"I'm here!" Sofia's voice sounded in the darkness, "Master, where are you?" "
I'm behind you, it's dark here and no one can be seen."
"Master, I'm afraid..."
"Don't be afraid, Sofia, I'm holding your hand, it's okay, keep going forward, we'll be there soon."
The further inside it became, the darker it became. Lawrence turned around and looked, and found that the entrance to the cave had also disappeared.
Lawrence was not afraid, he knew that when he walked just now, he turned along the stone wall of the cave.
This cave is not straight, but sloped, still sloping slightly downward toward the left front of the entrance.
After walking through the dark passage for two or three minutes, Salil pushed open a wooden door and led the two of them to a valley full of huge trees.
"This is the territory of the Cloda people. The Cloda people have a holy spring that can emit heat even in winter. Let's go there to find my friend." Lawrence looked
at the tall vegetation and trees nearby, and then at the building behind him. The steep mountains and the mountains in the distance gave me a rough idea of where I was.
It should be the location southwest of Talim, the poisonous mountain.
Lawrence became suspicious. Is there volcanic poisonous gas in Talim Mountain, or is there really a witch?
There should be... Lawrence still believes in the existence of witches.
Because there is a woman by his side who is even more outrageous than a witch.
In any case, Lawrence now believes that there are extraordinary things in this world.
(End of chapter)