Chapter 44 Dangerous Survivor (1)
Chen Kai and his group didn't know that they had wandered around the gate of hell, but in fact he could not know at all. Not to mention how far the distance between the two sides was, the smoke generated by the burning carriage was enough to block everyone's vision.
The harsh flames lasted for more than an hour, and the dazzling firelight was clearly visible even after Chen Kai and his carriages left for more than ten kilometers. However, after the carriages ran for more than ten kilometers, the speed of the carriages began to decline, and finally slowly returned to the travel speed of about ten kilometers per hour.
If it is on a plain road, the carriage may reach a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, but Chen Kai and his team are now in a wasteland without roads. If the road is not quite flat, it would be impossible to even guarantee the current speed. The most important thing is that Chen Kai and his team are seriously short of horses pulling the cart, which makes the group of people only able to travel on the wasteland at this speed.
For the cart pulling the cart, the cart he pulls is a bit of a serious tendency to be overloaded and overcrowded. The cart originally pulled by four horses now only two carts left. Looking at the strenuous horse Chen Kai estimated that these exquisite pack horses would become disabled old horses after leaving the wasteland, so he had to choose to get off the cart and walk forward to reduce the weight of the passengers on the cart. In fact, it is not just Chen Kai who does this, but others who are as physically strong as even the dwarfs do this themselves, trying to save the horse's physical strength and act as protective personnel for the entire convoy.
Armand found hundreds of dwarf muskets, as well as a large number of magic crystal gunpowder and bullets from the Dwarf convoy. A large part of these muskets were equipped in the hands of dwarf women who did not need to fight. They sat on the carriage and held muskets as muskets. As for the original dwarf muskets, each carrying at least three muskets. Amand had to carry five muskets, of course he also carried a battle axe on his waist. Although the dwarf muskets are very powerful, no matter how powerful muskets are, they cannot damage the skin of creatures above level six. Only the best bullets in these muskets can penetrate the outer skin of high-level creatures. The muskets made by Armand are definitely the latter, and of course the special bullets are also the reason for his unique power.
So after getting the new magic crystal gunpowder to supplement it, Amander made many bullets of characteristics. Of course, the best armor-piercing bullets cannot be made because of the lack of materials and tools. However, the bullets made at this stage are enough for Amander to use. The weight of the musket is not light, especially for Amander with five muskets on his back. After walking a few kilometers, the sweat on Amander's forehead began to flow down like money. But this dwarf did not mean to put the musket down at all. In fact, he had already used such a move as exercise.
"Can Armand hold on?" Fei Yun sat in the carriage and shouted at the dwarf below. Among them, only Fei Yun was still sitting in the carriage and accompanied Zhao Tiezhu, who could not walk. There was no way to have a heavy crossbow. If the weight of the heavy crossbow was too heavy, and if there was no roof as a shooting platform, it would be useless. In order to operate the heavy crossbow in time, Fei Yun obtained the privilege of staying in the carriage.
"It's okay!" Amander did not look up but continued to walk. He didn't want to waste too much energy because of speaking. When Amander finished speaking, his ears suddenly heard some movement, and Fei Yun on the carriage quickly turned the direction of the heavy crossbow and aimed at the place where the sound sounded.
"Who!!" The musket in Armand's hand instantly raised and aimed in the direction of the sound. Almost at the moment when Armand's voice sounded, a black shadow jumped out of the grass, but the next moment, neither Armand, Fei Yun nor others attacked him. Because what jumped out of the grass was a dwarf, a dwarf stained with blood on his back.
"Save me!!" The dwarf fell to the ground just by saying these two words. Chen Kai and the others could clearly see the deep bone- visible wound behind the dwarf, and also saw the enemy chasing the dwarf.
"Rat?" Looking at the enemy rushing out of the grass in front of him, Chen Kai's first impression was that the other party's head seemed to have a mouse.
"It's the Wasteland Ratman!" Xu Fei said casually with his head down, and then stopped paying attention to these two guys with rat heads. In his eyes, these two Wasteland Ratman had basically been labeled as death. In fact, Xu Fei didn't think that the two Wasteland Ratman could chase this dwarf so miserable.
"Bang! Bang!" Accompanied by two gunshots, the Wasteland Ratman who rushed out with simple weapons was blown out of the head by the musket before he could get angry. Most of the ratman whose head was blown off rushed directly to the ground. Then more muskets aimed at the grass and prepared to kill the hidden enemies in the grass. However, after a few minutes, no Wasteland Ratman appeared, which made the dwarves who originally wanted to practice musket skills sigh.
"Do you know this dwarf?" Chen Kai glanced at the dwarf wrapped in a bandage. After being rescued by Chen Kai and the others, the dwarf fell into a coma. He did not wake up even when the medicine was applied. At the same time, Chen Kai and the others also found that the wound behind the dwarf was very ferocious, with extremely strong evil power attached to the wound. Obviously, as Xu Fei expected, this dwarf was not injured in the hands of these two rats.
"I don't know him! He is not a black dwarf! How could I know him!" Armand said softly, but he was not wrong. He really had no impression of this gray dwarf, but of course one of the gray dwarfs in the team knew him.
"It's Biborg! I know him! He is a member of the scout team sent by the main city!" The gray dwarf who spoke was one of the only few gray dwarfs left in the entire convoy. For the hundreds of gray dwarfs in the entire escort team, they were the last ones left. In fact, these gray dwarfs don't like to talk now. They feel more guilty than Chen Kai and others. More than two thousand tribes died in one day, and it is obvious that this death will definitely not be caused by their black dwarfs. The only reason for the death of thousands of tribes in one day is the only carriages, or the strong men in the carriage, and the gray dwarfs arranged for this time.
"Just know!" Chen Kai slowly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, if it was a dwarf who didn't know, then the group of people had to consider the origin of this dwarf. In fact, Chen Kai was not worried about whether this dwarf was an evil creature. Because when Chen Kai dealt with the other party's wound, he used holy flames to burn the other party's wounds and cleared all the evil forces on the wounds. If the other party was an evil creature, then the holy flame attached to his palm would burn him to nowhere to leave him.
"Let him have a good rest! Maybe we will know something when he wakes up!" Chen Kai sighed and put the dwarf into the carriage. The shaking carriage was not a good place for the wounded.
"Boss! Do we need to search around if there are any living dwarves?" Fei Yun asked softly as he looked at the dwarves who slowly disappeared behind the carriage door. At the same time, the other dwarves also looked at Chen Kai with hope.
"I guess there is no need! He is a scout and can escape. Other dwarves..." Chen Kai did not continue, but everyone knew what he meant after his words, that is, other dwarves had no chance of escaping.
"Let's search! Maybe there are really dwarves who escaped!" Xu Fei slowly stretched out his neck and said. His words puzzled Chen Kai. The most important thing is that it is not safe around him now.
"I really need to do this?" Chen Kai looked at Xu Fei with his neck hanging on the carriage and said, because he felt that it was too dangerous to do so. Now the entire convoy's garrison is extremely weak. If people were to be assigned to search for survivors, it would be necessary to waste more time and put the convoy in greater danger.
"Required! Of course, we have to find a safe place to stay! We need to rest before we can find survivors. The most important thing is that we can wait for others to meet with us while searching for survivors." Xu Fei patted the simple map in his hand. This was the most important thing that the dwarfs searched out from the convoy. However, Chen Kai and the others did not find the corpse of the dwarf. They didn't know whether the other party escaped or left with the carriages.
"Okay!" Chen Kai finally chose to agree. Of course, he knew very well that it was impossible to find a few people when searching for survivors. Xu Fei's biggest purpose was to wait for others to resurrect and meet with them. Although it would be very dangerous to travel through the wasteland, at least it would be safer than the entire convoy to pick them up thousands of miles away. The more people the target, the larger the target, not only is it unsafe on the wasteland, but it will become more dangerous. As for the safe place Xu Fei chose not far from their current location. Of course, there are no safe places in the wasteland, because there are no truly safe places in the wasteland. Chen Kai and his friends chose this small valley just so called safety. There are very few such canyons on the wasteland, because there are very few mountains and only small hills.
Therefore, the cliff walls around this small canyon are not high, only three or four meters long. In fact, in general, this place is not a good place to hide. First of all, it does not have a strong enough defensive perimeter, and secondly, the entrance and exit are too narrow to accommodate carriages. The most important thing is that there is no water source in the small canyon and the place is very small. Such a narrow place is just right for a convoy with only a few hundred people. Of course, they cannot build a defensive camp here with complete facilities, and can only simply arrange a simple camp.
The group quickly arranged the camp, but looked at the cliffs of the canyon less than three meters above their heads and felt that the camp's defense was a bit weak. If the entrance and exit of the canyon were blocked, there would be no place to run. However, Chen Kai probably could not be able to block the entrance and exit of the canyon for a period of time under the attack of more than a dozen dwarf musketeers. The problem of cliffs around the canyon was better solved, that is, laying some traps on the cliffs. Because Chen Kai and the others did not plan to stay here for a long time, the entire camp was not carefully built, but they carefully built the escape passage.
The dwarves cooperated with the eclipse to dig an underground passage in the canyon that leads to more than 100 meters away. The spells in the eclipse were built in just one afternoon and the entire passage was very perfect except that it was not very strong. Of course, for Chen Kai, he would not get into that passage even if he killed him, because he would definitely not be able to climb out after he got in.
After setting up the camp, Chen Kai began to wander around with a few dwarves. In fact, these dwarves also knew that their fellow tribe might not be able to survive, but there was always a hope. After all, Biborg, a dwarf who was saved by them not long ago, is an example. Although this dwarf has not woken up yet, he is at least still alive.
When Chen Kai left the camp, Xu Fei began to direct the dwarves to clean up the ground in the camp and at the same time began to prepare food. The so-called humans are iron rice and steel, and they don’t eat for a meal. Even if they encounter great difficulties, they must fill their stomachs before talking about it. As smoke rose from the camp, the entire camp finally recovered a little bit of anger. Among the more than 300 dwarves in the camp, there were less than 80 adult male dwarves, and the others were underage children and women and children. Therefore, the garrisoning power of the camp is actually a problem. After all, those adult male dwarves are not all warriors. But now they have to act as warriors.
For example, the few dwarves of the follower Chen Kai. They had never used muskets before, not to mention picking up warhammers, they had never used muskets. But now they had to put down their tools and pick up weapons, because they had to fight to defend their families and tribesmen. Of course, fortunately, they were black dwarves with strong combat power. If they were gray dwarves on the ground, they might not have been able to adapt so easily. Even if they were craftsmen, they had certain combat abilities. If they were gray dwarves on the ground, they might not have been able to use other weapons.
The dwarf with several muskets on his back rode a pack horse and formed a simple survivor search team behind Chen Kai's butt, carrying some dry food in Chen Kai's backpack. In fact, if these dwarves were not anxious, Chen Kai would have hoped to wait for dinner before setting off. Now it was impossible. So he could only take these dwarves hungry and move quickly towards the direction where the former dwarf convoy was. According to the map copied by Chen Kai from Xu Fei, there were probably only a few places around the entire dwarf camp where there might be survivors.
Therefore, Chen Kai and the others only need to focus on searching these places, and then searching along these areas bit by bit. In fact, if the dwarf scout woke up, Chen Kai and the others did not need to search like this. They just need to ask the dwarf scout to roughly determine where the survivors might exist. In fact, if Amander is more reliable, Chen Kai and the others will not have to be so lucky, because in the end, it is Armander that Chen Kai did not participate in the search of dwarf corpses. So if Amander recorded the death toll and compared the total number of black dwarves at that time, you can roughly understand whether there are survivors.
Unfortunately, Armand didn't pay attention to this. Chen Kai and the others also did not remind them because of time and concerns about the enemy. Now when they think about it, Chen Kai felt that he was in a hurry. If he had paid a little attention at that time, maybe there would be no need to be such trouble now. Looking for survivors who might not exist in a wilderness full of dangers, Chen Kai really felt a little depressed when he was using this mission. Of course, it was not that he didn't want dwarves to survive, but that Chen Kai already felt that no dwarves should have survived in such a situation.
Although Chen Kai had already put the three words survivors in his mind like other dwarves, Chen Kai still started to search for the so-called survivors in the wasteland with great effort. From the ruins of the dwarves that had not been burned yet, he searched slowly along the scheduled route. The high temperature emitted by the scorching flames could still feel the high temperature generated by the burning flames. The mountain above his head was like the ashes falling from snowflakes, forcing Chen Kai to bring his own hood. The dwarves behind him also carried gray hoods and followed Chen Kai's butt step by step, hoping to find the tribe members who might survive in this grass.
Since the ground around the camp had been cleared out under the collision of two unnatural powers, there was no plant on the scraped ground, and many traces were eliminated. Chen Kai found almost no traces outside the camp except for the traces left by his own group. That is to say, no surviving dwarves came back to check after the fire in the camp. Of course, this is actually normal. After all, those dwarves probably thought that the fire was released by the enemy, so they naturally would not run back to the trap.
So Chen Kai gave up the idea of finding traces of survivors around the camp and began to take the dwarves to search for grass, which is the place they are now. It is located in the meadow area less than two kilometers away from the dwarves camp. This is one of the areas that Xu Fei circled on the map where there may be survivors, because most scouts will search for places with tall weeds to avoid the enemy hiding in the grass. This meadow area has lush grass leaves, although all the weeds have gray-yellow leaves, but there is absolutely no problem for hiding a few people in such a large meadow.
Chapter completed!