Gu Sang, the caravan director, directed his men to sort out the goods in the camp and carry them to the pack cars. Then he looked at the sun that was almost rising above his head. He couldn't help but curse in his heart and felt a little confused at the same time.

Everyone in the caravan got up very late today. They should have been woken up by the night guard in the early morning. However, knowing that the sun was rising very high, people in the caravan woke up one after another and missed the last step to cross the Quinsis Snow Mountain.

good time.

If they continue their journey, they may have to climb the mountain overnight, which is far more dangerous than climbing the mountain during the day.

In addition to such a big matter, the leaders of the caravan, large and small, naturally have to hold others accountable.

After asking everyone afterward, they found out that all the guards who were supposed to be on duty at night had fallen asleep, which meant that their caravan camp was completely undefended last night.

After learning about this incident, everyone felt scared. Fortunately, they did not encounter any bandits or robbers, otherwise the entire caravan would be doomed.

However, although they knew that the responsibility lay with the guards who were on night duty, the principals who were present after listening to the guards' explanations did not mean to blame these guards, because at this moment they all thought of the legends about this castle.

Although everyone in the caravan seems to be in good condition now, we learned from the night watch guards that they all fell asleep for no reason last night, just like the legendary victims who stayed overnight in the castle.

Therefore, each of them felt scared in their hearts. Even under the bright sun during the day, they still felt that the surroundings seemed very eerie and scary. Almost all the people in charge expressed that they did not want to stay here for another night and suggested leaving immediately, even if they needed to turn around overnight.

Mountain.

Seeing this situation, although Gu Sang was worried about the dangers he would encounter while walking on the mountain trail at night, he was also worried about the dangers contained in the castle. He believed that this was not a place where he could stay for a long time, so he ordered the camp to be set up and packed.

Although the caravan had packed most of their luggage the day before, these packing methods were all for climbing the mountain during the day. At night, this packing method could not be used, and a different packing method was needed to reduce the risk of climbing the mountain.

Methods, such as the cargo of each pack car must be lightened, etc.

It took a lot of time to rearrange the goods. It was already noon when the pack car was completely packed and ready to go.

The convoy did not stop to eat. Instead, they prepared some dry food and drove the pack car directly through the castle corridor at one end of the square to the other end. They began to officially enter the mountain path of Quinsis Snow Mountain. According to the

According to the previous algorithm, this is the real ancient salt railway.

The ancient salt railway was first used by the mountain people of the Kingdom of Maris to hunt, cut firewood, and collect medicine. Later, it was discovered by some smugglers of the Kingdom of Maris. They expanded the mountain road and then

A road was dug on the hillside on the Savile Kingdom side, and this was how the Ancient Salt Railway came to be.

At that time, there was no sea salt refining method in the world of Velen. All the demand for salt came from salt mines on several continents. The top three salt mines in the world of Velen were all in the Kingdom of Savile. These salts were also important to the Kingdom of Savile.

Commodity, and is listed as one of the prohibited goods by the kingdom.

Similarly, the Kingdom of Maris uses the highest quality iron ore in the entire Velen World. The special iron tools they produce can be said to be high-quality and are also the best-selling products in the entire Velen World.

Smugglers used this ancient salt railway to transport these two best-selling commodities to the two countries, earning unimaginable huge profits. Some smugglers even became nobles in both countries through the huge profits they obtained.

Such huge profits naturally attracted the attention of the real nobles of the two countries, and they quickly decided to take over this smuggling trade route as their own.

Although the smugglers were unwilling to give up such a huge benefit, facing the oppression of the two kingdoms, they were powerless and could only give up the ancient salt railway.

However, after that, except for some civil strife in the Kingdom of Savile, it seemed that all the attention of the Kingdom was attracted by the civil strife, while the Kingdom of Maris quickly sent people to the other side of the ancient salt railway and built a strong castle.

, occupying the entire ancient salt railway. In the end, after the Savile Kingdom recovered from the civil strife, it could no longer deal with the situation. In the end, the Savile Kingdom had no choice but to find another trade route.

Although at first, the ancient salt railway excavated by smugglers on the hillside of the Savile Kingdom was a bit narrow and crude, but later, the Kingdom of Maris built a castle here to station troops and needed to transport military supplies frequently, so the ancient salt railway was

The Salt Railway has undergone another large-scale renovation.

During this renovation, the road was not only widened, but they also carefully measured the width of the military-standard pack car and installed two ground rails on the ground to facilitate the climb of the pack car.

I saw that the caravan came to the bluestone road going upwards, skillfully stuck the wheels in the guide rail grooves on both sides of the road, and then drove the pack car towards the top of the mountain.

Because smugglers and other caravans often use this road from time to time, this ancient salt railway is not familiar to the long-abandoned road, except for weeds growing in some places and some gravel falling from the mountain.

Other than that, the road conditions are pretty good.

However, this relatively good road condition only lasts to the middle of the mountain. After reaching the middle section, most of the previously paved roads have been destroyed, leaving only a gravel mountain road that can allow two cars to travel parallel, and there are still more roads on the road.

Some gravels kept falling down due to the mountain wind.

It only took less than two hours to get from the foot of the mountain to the caravan halfway up the mountain. From the halfway up the mountain, it took almost the same time to climb up less than two kilometers. According to this climbing speed, it would take

It may take until late at night to reach the top of the mountain.

What's worse is that it has started to rain and snow, and the ground has become slippery.

For this reason, Gu Sang had to stop temporarily, cover the wheels with anti-skid leather covers, and then tie up each pack car with iron chains. Once a pack car slipped off the road, these chains could also ensure that it would be

Hold the pack cart to prevent it from sliding into the ravine beside the road.

What's really bad is not the slippery ground, but the strong winds brought by the rain and snow. These strong winds not only slow down the climbing speed, but also keep big rocks hanging down from the hillside. These big rocks

Falling down is often fatal.

The caravan was also very experienced in dealing with these big rocks. They set up several iron plates like shields on the pack cars. The caravan members and the pack animals hid under the iron plates, but some people were still too careless.

He failed to hold on to the shaft and was blown away from the protection of the iron plate by the strong wind. He was hit by a falling rock and died on the spot.

Although someone died, the convoy did not stop. In accordance with tribal rules, the dead person cut off his hair and nails, wrapped them in paper, and handed them to his family when he returned. The body was thrown to the cliff next to the road.

Down.

Compared with the hard-driving pack car in front, the pack car at the end of the caravan without any defensive measures seemed to be very relaxed.

There seemed to be an invisible force surrounding the pack car. The violent rain and snow turned into drizzle and light snow when it got close to it, while the strong wind turned into a breeze. Even the stones falling from the air would be blown away.

Before approaching there, it inexplicably changed direction and passed by without causing any trouble to the carriage.

Sanz, the owner of the pack car, was worried about this danger at first, but as all kinds of weird things happened around him, he realized that it was probably the people in the tent behind him, and he relaxed a little.

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Some people in the caravan who knew about the wood carvings also noticed the situation of the carriage, and they also guessed that this strange situation should be caused by the people inside the carriage. They were increasingly in awe of this, and no one dared

Get close to the horse and make friends and chat.

Although Leo, who was sitting in the carriage, protected the carriage from the wind and snow and the surrounding rocks through the spiritual network and psychic protection, his mind was not on protecting the pack car, but on his own back.

Changes in pattern.

There is no doubt that the pages from Yegami Sigh yesterday brought great changes to the pattern on his back, but the problem is that now he can only find the change in the shape of the pattern, but the changed pattern has not changed.

Any changes in his nightmare power neither greatly enhanced the power of nightmares nor gave him any knowledge related to the power of nightmares and Night God's Lament.

"Could it be that the thunder gun used too much force yesterday and damaged those pages?" Leo couldn't help but feel doubtful, and at the same time, some speculations emerged in his mind.

Although it was just a guess, Leo also felt that this guess might be true. After all, he didn't use the thunder gun last night at all. The power contained in it was not much worse than the energy main gun on a starship, and

Although those pages come from a mysterious and powerful object like Night God's Sigh, they are only a few pages after all. Even if they really contain powerful power, after so many years, I'm afraid there won't be many left. Lei

It makes sense that a gun can damage it.

However, even if he had doubts, Leo did not give up and continued to study the tattoos on his back. Since those pages could still cause changes in the tattoos on his back, they would definitely also cause changes in his nightmare power. Maybe this change

It was hidden, maybe it was because the change was so small that he didn't notice it for the time being.

Just like this, Leo stayed quietly in the carriage, studying his own affairs, and didn't pay attention to the various movements outside.

The caravan, led by experienced veterans, moved slowly towards the top of the mountain.

As the sky gradually darkened, the convoys lit their torches. I don't know whether it was because they were close to the top of the mountain or for other reasons. The wind and snow around them were much lighter, and the gravel falling from the slope next to the road

It has been greatly reduced, and they are all very small gravels, no longer large rocks.

However, this does not mean that the road will be easy to walk. The rain and snow that fell during the day have already formed ice on the road at this time, making the road slippery and difficult to walk. If you are not careful, the pack truck will slide out of the driveway.

Fortunately, every time an accident occurred, the veteran driver was able to use the braking device on the pack car in time to block the ground and prevent the pack car from sliding further. Then other pack cars used connected iron chains to stop the car.

The pack truck that slipped out of the driveway was pulled back, so no major damage was caused.

Along the way, the caravan did not suffer any major losses. Only when a pack car slid out of the driveway, nearly half of the goods on it fell to the cliff next to the road because they were not tied securely.

Although the convoy moved slowly, it was still steady, and finally arrived at the top of Quinsis Snow Mountain in the middle of the night.

The top part of the Ancient Salt Railway was built along a mountaintop glacier, and there are some relatively gentle terrain around it where people can rest.

Although as a caravan manager, it was very tempting to continue moving forward and walk through this mountain road in one go, but his reason prevented him from doing so.

After a whole day of intense driving, everyone in the convoy was exhausted. However, the ancient salt railways in the Maris Kingdom were not like the relatively spacious two-lane railways in the Saville Kingdom. Most of them were

It is an extremely narrow lane, and driving a pack car requires more concentration to safely walk through this ancient salt railway.

So Gu Sang ordered the team to rest in place for an hour, boil some hot water and cook some hot food on the spot, eat something, and restore some physical strength and energy.

When the convoy stopped, Leo got off the pack truck, left the convoy alone, and walked towards the glacier not far away.

Some of the guards of the convoy did not know Leo's situation and wanted to prevent Leo from approaching the glacier, but they were stopped by the convoy bosses. Although these bosses did not know what Leo wanted to do, they knew very well that whatever Leo wanted to do

Nothing is beyond their control.

Leo walked to the edge of the glacier, released his spiritual net, and explored into the glacier.

The reason why Leo is interested in glaciers is because he feels that there seems to be an energy fluctuation in the glaciers. This energy fluctuation is very weak, almost equivalent to a low-level psychic creature, but the level of this energy is very

High, at least beyond Leo's psychic level, because while feeling this energy fluctuation, he also felt a suppression from the life level.

"God of the Snow Mountain of Quincy? What is this thing?" Leo quickly discovered the source of this energy fluctuation, but what he detected through the spiritual network made him feel a little confused.

Because, Leo discovered that the thing emitting that high-level energy fluctuation turned out to be a skull fragment, and this was also an extremely special skull fragment.

Driven by curiosity, Leo quickly walked to the top of the glacier. His spiritual energy was driven out of his body and gathered under his feet to form an invisible drill, allowing him to drill into the skull fragments below the glacier like some kind of drilling device.

passed.

The people in the caravan were all attracted by Leo's movement. They only saw Leo walking onto the glacier, and suddenly he sank into the iceberg. They mistakenly thought he fell into the glacier crevice, but
Chapter completed!