.Chapter 195 The Scepter of the Earth - The Great Rift Valley (I)

The good news is that tomorrow is finally Sunday, and the bad news is that I seem to have a cold again. My health is so poor, it is indeed a tragic. 55555

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Thirty kilometers north of Altinis is a huge rift valley that runs across the Great Wilderness to the northern plains. As for how big the rift is, for example, it takes at least half a month to get from one end of the rift to the exit of the other end, and it is still riding a war horse at full speed.

"Traces of the Earth" is what most indigenous people call this Great Rift Valley, because it directly cuts the entire land. It completely separates the originally flat Great Wildland from the Northern Plains, blocking the Hansting Empire's development of the Great Wildlands. After all, the entire Great Wildlands is basically a treasure pot with extremely rich resources and resources, but due to the existence of the Great Rift Valley, the development of this area is very backward.

In Chen Kai's opinion, the Hansting Empire had no financial resources and energy to develop the Great Wilderness, so the cities in the Great Wilderness were scarce. Building a city that could resist the invasion of monsters was too expensive, so expensive that even the Hansting Empire, which had existed for thousands of years, could not afford the cost. After all, it had to support the construction of other places, and the world was too big.

"Deep and narrow" is Chen Kai's first impression of the Great Rift Valley. In the early morning of yesterday, when two ice sword masters looked at each other, Chen Kai received two tasks about the Great Rift Valley from the Altinis mercenary administrator. One is to explore the Great Rift Valley. Of course, it is not to explore the ecology of the Great Rift Valley, but to explore some unknown reason that is said to have caused the Great Rift Valley to be blocked.

Another is Altinis's monthly end-of-month mission, collecting hydrological and natural materials in the Great Rift Valley, which is what the druids want to know the most. Because they are basically natural scholars in this world, and they are the best ones.

But now most of the druids are busy looking for their lost leaders, who are the former leaders, namely the bodies of Teral and Augustus, so Chen Kai and others must go deep into the Rift Valley to record the information without the Druids.

The entrance to the entire Great Rift Valley is a winding path that is so narrow that it can only be passed by a carriage. Directly below the road is a cliff that is 1,000 meters deep. An underground river flows through the cliff. On the other side of the river is another road, but it is a road out of the Great Rift Valley.

The slope of the entire road is extremely steep, almost reaching nearly 45 degrees. Therefore, as long as the horse is slightly scared or goes off the road, the passengers waiting to sit on the horse will receive a ticket to the underworld, which is still the kind of person who is crushed to pieces.

At least Chen Kai would never want to rush down the cliff from the war horse, even if the underground river below the cliff is where they want to explore. However, going directly from the cliff and going upstream from the river are two different concepts. If you go directly down, Chen Kai has to go and drink tea with Pluto and pay the level 9 experience as a travel fee. If you go upstream from the downstream, he still has the chance to catch the Great Rift Valley salmon as his prize.

In fact, Chen Kai and the others are moving forward with a path-exploring attitude towards this mission. After all, they not only want to investigate the reason why the Great Rift Valley was closed. - According to the report of the Mercenary Guild, the three indigenous mercenary teams and more than 20 players who received this mission in the early stage did not complete the mission, and they did not bring back any news within at least two days. Or they have not reached that area yet, after all, the road to the Great Rift Valley is not easy to walk.

As for another task, it is also difficult for Chen Kai and others, especially Chen Kai and Fei Yun who are hanging on the rope slowly climbing down the cliff. In order to obtain the natural ecological and hydrological information in the Great Rift Valley, they must climb down the cliff to pick some plants growing on the cliff and herbs that He Liwen and Chen Yi like.

Although Chen Kai and Fei Yun didn't want to do such things at all, one of them was the leader of the team and had to lead the way. The other was agile thief who definitely climbed down the rope. Therefore, whether they wanted to or not, they had to risk climbing down the rope.

"Boss, you're sure that herbs will grow in this damn place. Oh my god, the most of the ones here are weeds, and of course some unknown insects." Fei Yun grabbed a protruding stone on the cliff. Even if he tied two circles of ropes, he couldn't bring him any sense of security. In fact, if you know that your feet are hanging in the air and you can't see the ground, even if you are strong, you will become a little scared.

"Shut up and just look down, and have we climbed over the cliff?" Chen Kai refers to the time when he climbed down the cliff to save the villagers. Of course, Fei Yun later took his people down the cliff and entered the cave to set fire to level up.

"That's different, at least the cliff of that mountain looks better than here." Fei Yun signaled with his soles. This cliff is steeper and smoother than that mountain.

"Okay, if you have time to talk nonsense, try to catch two Scarter slugs or octopus rock wall spiders. At least they can become a task experience and your nonsense can't be said." Chen Kai said impatiently while knocking down a rock with a mace hammer and stuffing it into his backpack.

"Okay, boss, do you think that task administrator will give you more experience just because I caught a few more slugs?" Fei Yun used tweezers to stuff a slug that was big fist into a large bottle specially prepared for it, and then threw it into his backpack.

"I don't know, but I'm sure if you catch a few more, those druids will cause trouble for you, and if you turn them into dinner, you probably have to stay in the tree for a few days." Chen Kai said in a very clear tone. These big slugs are often caught for a long time because of their delicious taste. Of course, the biggest consumption is Effira. The big white-roasted slugs once became the signature dish of Effira's restaurant.

"That's a pity." Fei Yun sighed at the big slugs that were squirming their bodies and running along the wet cliff walls, because the black market price of these big slugs is as high as 50 gold coins per one.

In fact, although many merchants are cursing this Grand Canyon that blocks the trade route, many medicinal merchants and mages like this place very much. Because there are hundreds of precious plants grown here that can make potions. Although they can only pick a small part of them every year under the protection of the druids, even less than one percent of the plants grow normally and reproduce.

However, the druids still tried hard to control the outflow of medicinal plants in the Great Rift Valley, which is the most criticized thing about the harmony of all things. In the eyes of those merchants, they were too selfish and regarded all the things given by the Goddess of Nature as their own. However, no merchant opposed it, but any opposing merchant would be excluded by the business association.

Because the outflow of medicinal plants leads to high prices of these medicinal materials, the merchants chasing profits will naturally not object to this kind of thing that is beneficial to them. Even if they want to get more profits, the rational merchants will never touch the druid's brow, but instead support the druid's measures.

Therefore, it is difficult to buy various medicinal materials produced in the Great Rift Valley on the market. On the one hand, they are expensive, while on the other hand, they are deliberately hoarded by merchants. But now Chen Kai and the others have a good opportunity to obtain these medicinal materials for free, and they are still in the name of the druids investigating the ecological environment of the Great Rift Valley.

Now Chen Kai and his team can obtain a large number of medicinal materials and plants by completing three steps. First, they double the amount of herbs collected by the druids. Second, after the collection is completed, it is immediately made into medicine powder and stuffed into their backpack. Third, they treat nothing that has happened and handed over the part needed by the druids.

In fact, what Chen Kai and the others are doing is this, but because the delicious animals in the Great Rift Valley are directly protected by druids. If you catch a few more, it will definitely attract druids. Therefore, even if you care about the big white-roasted slug that has disappeared for ten years, Chen Kai does not intend to be locked up by druids for the sake of his tongue.

"Kudzu roots, louvered fruits, ice blue grass, dream sunflowers... Do you think we should increase our manpower? Two people pick hundreds of herbs and are on the cliff? I think this is too difficult." Fei Yun held two rocks with his hands and let his body hang on the cliff for a rest.

"You are right, but who do you think is more appropriate to let him come down?" Chen Kai said in a teasing tone, and used the badge he had taken from the druid in his hand to drive away a poisonous snake that seemed to want to give him a sweet kiss.

"It seems that there is really no one else." Fei Yun sighed. Zhao Tiezhu and Su Xinghe were directly excluded by him. What they are now responsible for is pulling the ropes of the two people, because only they have the strength, of course Su Wan has it. But obviously she has to be responsible for the security work. After all, there are various animals in the Great Rift Valley, and some animals are not controlled by the druid.

Apart from these three people, Fei Yun could not have thought that anyone could climb down the cliff to collect herbs. Xu Fei and Wang Xuewen had completely evolved into nerds at this moment. At least Fei Yun thought so. In his opinion, those who spent their time reading spell books were nerds, although that could increase some of the spell knowledge.

As Fei Yun imagined, when he and Chen Kai slowly climbed up with a backpack of medicinal materials and those rock wall insects, several spellcasters were studying their spell books. Or in other words, they were studying new spells, because the time they upgraded to 39 was too fast, and they couldn't master the magic power generated after the upgrade. They didn't have time to learn new spells. Of course, Xu Fei's sacrifice spell is not listed here.

However, the Thunder Flash Explosion Technique is not very practical, first of all, it requires sacrifices. This one alone is enough for Xu Fei to have a headache. Spell items born with lightning magic patterns are not easy to work with. Another point is that the process of chanting spells and casting is too long, so long that the enemy can kill Xu Fei n times in the raid battle, and it is still chopped into meat sauce.

Chen Kai and his team are not the business road that merchants often follow, but a shortcut that only druids know. Because they need to complete the collection of herbs and creatures, and even if the druids protect the plants on the side of the business road, those plants have been almost extinct by the merchants passing by.

So due to distance and location, Chen Kai and his friends are more dangerous and full of all kinds of strange things. For example, when Chen Kai climbed up from the cliff, the first thing they welcomed was not Xu Fei or Chen Yi, and the only one who was still angry was Su Wan, but two friendly golden long-tailed macaques.

Of course, that was the matter after Chen Kai handed over the two apples. Before that, the two macaques wanted to do the most was to climb onto Fei Yun and snatch the fruit in his hand. The two fruits were extremely important medicinal materials, and they were very rare even in places like the Great Rift Valley. Naturally, they could not be eaten by the two monkeys who came out of nowhere.

The two apples easily solved the macaques spoiled by the druids. In their opinion, the apples are not only large in size but also much better. So in a short time, the two macaques abandoned Fei Yun and rushed towards Chen Kai, quickly took the apple from his hand, and swept his tail a few times on his legs to express their gratitude. At least Chen Kai thought so.

At the same time, the dozens of animals and birds surrounding the camp fully demonstrate how popular the druids are here. Even though Chen Kai and the others only wore a badge with the druid breath, they were still extremely popular with those animals that were so friendly that it was unacceptable. For example, the non-toxic python wrapped around Xu Fei's body.

After finally sending away the enthusiastic and overly enthusiastic animals, Chen Kai slowly walked into their own tent. Of course, he invited a small snake that wanted to wrap his thighs into the tent together. However, in the end he was very helpless to find that there was a new tenant in the tent, five golden-wire macaques, three big and two small.

The whole family was squatting on the blanket in the tent with the apples given by Chen Kai, eating hard. On the other side was Chen Yi, who was bathing a little monkey with a brush. Judging from the current situation, Chen Yi had a plan to treat this family like a pet.

"Today's progress is good. I guess we will be able to fish in two days by the river under the cliff." Chen Kai said as he picked up an apple and wiped it, then stuffed it into his mouth and took a bite. However, when Chen Kai took a bite of the apple, a little golden macaque grabbed Chen Kai's trouser legs with his claws and signaled that he was eating their food now.

Looking at the little golden-wire macaque's purple eyes like crystal, Chen Kai could only helplessly hand the apple he had bitten to it. Looking at the apple he was caught in the hands of the golden-wire monkey, Chen Kai felt that he should tell his sister that pets were forbidden in the tent.

In fact, Chen Kai finally found that his worries were unnecessary. When night fell, there were sounds of monkey groups calling for their companions outside the tent. The golden-wire macaque family quickly rushed into the night with the fruits exploited from Chen Kai, and when they left, they waved goodbye to Chen Kai. Yes, they really waved their hands to say goodbye.

"Okay, remember not to bring strange animals into the tent next time. They actually ate all the fruits we had in two days." Chen Kai pointed to a pile of peels on the ground that needed cleaning. Except for those who were taken away, the golden monkeys in the family ate at least one kilogram of fruit.

"But they are really well-behaved. Look, they also brought gifts." Chen Yi took out some small stones from her pocket, and the black stones were covered with little mottled golden light spots. Chen Kai pinched a stone with his hand and found that the stone was much heavier than he imagined. A stone as big as a thumb weighed more than one hundred grams.

"This should be some kind of metal ore." Xu Fei, who took two consecutive baths to remove the fishy smell of pythons on his body, said in a trembling voice. He has not yet come back to his senses when he is entangled by a three-meter-long python, because it was an unexpected intimate contact.

"I guess it's also true, but I hope they can get me some magic gems." Bai Shasha said happily as she looked at the black stones in her hand, because she found that these stones seemed to have a strong attraction to magic.

"Don't come again. That little monkey is so ugly. Look at my hair is almost scratched into a bird's nest." Fei Yun said in a very horrified tone, and by the way, he showed his head that had become messy to others.

"You are so pitiful, but I think it would be very cost-effective if those little monkeys use this kind of thing to exchange for fruits. Although I don't know what kind of ore these are, they are definitely more valuable than fruits." Chen Kai twisted a small stone in his hand, and burned the small stone with the holy fire at the tip of his fingertips, one of which was maintained in its original form, and the golden light spots on the stone gradually began to become brighter.

"What a good thing. I feel that this thing seems to be purifying my holy fire." Chen Kai said according to his own feelings, because he found that the white flame between his fingers gradually became a trace of gold after passing through the small stones, although it was very light.

"Maybe we should think that the golden monkey family exchanged more of this ore." Fei Yun licked his lips, and through Chen Kai's fingers, he seemed to see a large pile of gold coins waving to him.

"I think you'd better not do this. The druids understand very well what's in the Rift Valley. If we're too greedy, it's probably going to cause trouble." Su Xinghe said very rationally, because he felt that since these golden-skinned macaques knew how to exchange stones for fruits, someone must have taught them. Obviously, this person is definitely not a businessman, because only druids or druids' pass badges can come in here.

"Really?" Fei Yun said in a questioning tone. He soon understood the authenticity of this matter from other faces. After all, this is the druid territory, and they are just here to do missions.

The next day, the family of golden-wire macaques came to Chen Kai and their tent again, and got up earlier than Chen Kai and the others. They also exchanged a lot of strange little stones for the fruits prepared by Chen Kai and the others, but there were few black stones inside, and more were gold and silver ore, rough stones with a few spell gems, and a few small spell crystals that could only be used as rings.

In addition, the family of five brought a large group of macaques, including an old and huge macaque who knows how to recognize people. As for why the old macaque recognizes people, the first thing it did after seeing Chen Kai and the others was to give its own macaque whose son or grandson a claw. By the way, he took back the pile of stones used for exchange and began to threaten Chen Kai and the others with a huge voice.

This situation only became slightly better after it felt the druid badges taken out of Chen Kai and the others from their backpacks. At least it would not prevent its descendants from exchanging the stones in their hands for Chen Kai and the others' fruits and vegetables. However, the old macaque was alert to Chen Kai and the others, and went straight to an injured young macaque with a paper tube.

But it was already noon. Chen Yi was playing with a few little macaques, or she used the peanuts in her hand to tease the little macaques. The old macaque was watching Chen Yi vigilantly while enjoying the fruits and the personal hygiene service of her son and daughter. As for Chen Kai and Fei Yun, they were working hard for a few precious herbs under the cliff more than 300 meters away from the camp, and under them was a bottomless canyon.

Just as Su Wan and Wang Feifei were preparing lunch, a shrill macaque scream came from a distance. Soon, a macaque with several arrows behind her rushed to the old macaque and handed a blood-stained bamboo tube to the old macaque's hands with its trembling body. Then she lost her breath. No matter how the macaque around her flirted with her hands and body, it did not respond at all. Even Chen Yi and Wang Feifei's healing magic tricks could not save the life it lost.

After the old macaque roared a few times with an angry and sad roar, hundreds of macaques soon surrounded the surrounding cliffs and woods. Xu Fei discovered for the first time that the macaque family here was such a huge family. Of course, perhaps it was only under the care of the druids, because the old macaque handed him a carved oak tree on the bamboo tube, which was a unique emblem of the Druids.

"Brother Shui, I think we have something to do. A macaque came here with a message. A druid's sentry two kilometers away from here was attacked." After reading the note in the bamboo tube, Xu Fei truthfully notified Chen Kai who was working hard down in the team channel. However, less than five minutes later, Chen Kai climbed up with the help of everyone. The group of macaques were already planning to find the guys who killed them like him to take revenge.
Chapter completed!