Several bonfires were lit, and the iron pot on it was boiled broth, and the aroma blew with the wind.

This was the fourth evening when Mu Shaoan led his team to the east bank of the Anduin River, but so far, they have never seen any living creatures except killing two lost wild boars, let alone those fallen gray dwarves.

"Gray dwarves exist. One hundred and twenty years ago, I had the honor to enter the Lord of the Rings to perform anti-virus missions. Of course, the timeline has already entered the Shuangtaqi strategy. In the army of the Demon Lord Sauron, there are some gray dwarves. They are very cruel, their eyes are red, like wild beasts, and they will release all kinds of evil witchcrafts. They will be hit by accident."

The person who spoke was Geng Shilong, a leader who was seconded from the Storm Hunting Group.

"Actually, I'm even more curious, why do you have to hunt those gray dwarves, little town lord? Isn't it better to have the energy to directly contact the dwarf tribes in Iron Mountain or El Castle? Those dwarves are more elite and prefer to drill caves." Next to the bonfire, another bearded man spoke. He was Liu Bing, the butcher's younger brother, and the actual commander in the camp.

"Drink the soup, Liubing, your broth is very high." Mu Shaoan just smiled slightly and changed the topic.

Everyone laughed and put a big helmet soup on their own. The soup was delicious and steaming. It was really comfortable and affordable on this chilly spring evening.

And at this moment, Mu Shaoan suddenly raised his head, glanced across a direction in the darkness, and smiled without saying a word.

Although his strength was weakened by his young age, his mental power was as high as 15,000 points. So on the third day, he had already discovered that unknown creatures were spying on several kilometers away.

This powerful beast intuition is something that no one else can possess. Of course, if it were a special profession like the Sword Immortal and Druid, Mu Shaoan would have nothing to say.

There was nothing to say all night. The next morning, Mu Shaoan and the others continued to set off. In fact, there was no way. It was all up to Mu Shaoan to tell the way with a temporary inspiration. Of course, Geng Shilong and Liubing and the others did not understand the reason.

On that day, a hill appeared in front of him, and some light green trees grew sparsely on it, but the grass on the ground grew very energetic.

Mu Shaoan walked in front of the team, looked left, and looked again. Occasionally, he would pull up a weed from the ground and put it in his mouth to chew it. Liubing and others didn't know why.

"That's right, it's here, prepare for the battle!"

When Mu Shaoan spit out the grass leaves in his mouth, he shouted, and everyone quickly assembled into an array. However, what is strange is that they had just assembled into an array, and hundreds of low figures quickly appeared behind the hills a few miles away. Isn’t that a dwarf? No, it’s an evil gray dwarf.

Liubing, Geng Shilong and others were shocked at this time, but they were also extremely convinced.

Their small city lord was ridiculous all the way, but he didn't expect that he had such ability.

"Don't be impatient! You guys stay here, I'll negotiate with them."

Mu Shaoan didn't know where he took out a big package and staggered on the road.

"Little City Lord, there is an evil gray dwarf opposite. Do you want to think twice?" Liu Bing shouted. He felt that the little city lord was still very polite and really didn't want to see him torn apart by the evil gray dwarf.

The fallen gray dwarf in the world of the Lord of the Rings is almost no different from the beast.

But Mu Shaoan just waved his hand and kept walking.

The gray dwarfs on the hill opposite were indeed very irritable. They were all small like jumping rats on the keyboard, screaming strangely and grinning.

However, they did not charge, and they obviously felt the terror of the military formation on Mu Shaoan's side.

When Mu Shaoan walked five hundred meters away from them, he suddenly threw down the package on his back, turned around and ran away, while the gray dwarfs whimpered, stepped on their short legs and chased after them.

Mu Shaoan turned around and looked carefully, and saw that the gray dwarfs had gray-white hair and beards, which was a bit weirder than normal dwarfs.

Seeing this, he felt more relieved and continued to run back.

And the hundreds of gray dwarves caught up and surrounded the package, tearing it up, but soon, a louder scream sounded, as if they were completely crazy.

"Little City Lord, are you okay? Are you playing an empty city plan? Those gray dwarves seem to be crazy. Do you want us to make a move? I promise to destroy them all in three rounds, no, no, no, capture them alive in five rounds!" Liubing was very excited.

"Go back to your sister!"

Mu Shaoan waved his hand and led people back to the camping position last night along the same route, and then waited patiently.

In the afternoon, the sentry guarding outside the camp suddenly shouted, and it turned out that three gray dwarves were walking straight over and asking if they were shooting or killing them.

Mu Shaoan quickly greeted you and shot your sister. My arrangement has just taken effect.

After rejecting the escort from Liubing and others, Mu Shaoan walked out of the camp to show his sincerity and looked at the three gray dwarves who looked very old, well, anyway, their hair and beards were completely white, and they looked thirty meters away.

Mu Shaoan spread his hands and said that he did not bring any weapons.

After observing him for a while, one of the three gray dwarves said in the common language of Middle-earth: "Who are you?"

"I am a businessman." Mu Shaoan said concisely.

The three gray dwarves on the opposite side were silent, and then they said a lot, and finally said simply: "How much does that kind of salt do you have? How much does it cost?"

"I have as much as I want, and I don't just have salt here, but also flour, meat, fruits, vegetables, Charles' tobacco, as well as rum, dark beer, whiskey, and Moutai. As for the price, it depends on what you have." Mu Shaoan smiled, his face full of harmless humans and animals.

When he heard his words, the three gray dwarfs opposite him had their eyes wide open, and their slightly swaying beards were enough to show their excitement.

"His Merchant, in order to show our sincerity, we also hope that we can buy more salt, grain, uh, a small amount of tobacco, please accept our gift."

A gray dwarf took out a large piece of yellow and orange thing from his waist pocket, and then a large piece, and a large piece.

Bullhead gold!

Mu Shaoan blinked his eyes and felt quite happy. Of course, the gray dwarfs were not stupid. They had a high IQ and understood the meaning of gold, but things had to start from the beginning.

Everyone on earth knows that if a person does not consume salt for a long time, his body will be weak, his hair will turn white, and eventually he will become a white-haired woman.

By the same token, dwarves are also humans. If they do not consume salt for a long time, their hair will turn white and their bodies will become weak. This is the origin of the gray dwarves.

Of course, this was what Mu Shaoan guessed.

As for why dwarves lack salt, the reason is very simple. Dwarves are natural warriors and miners. When the Gone Mountain Dwarves Kingdom was prosperous, why did so many humans go to Changhu Town to settle down? Why did the endless business trips form the ancient road of dense forests?

It’s not because dwarves don’t do production, can’t farm, can’t mine salt, and can’t make wine. Uh, farming and making wine are actually not difficult, and salt is the most important thing.

The large amount of supplies purchased by humans from Charles, Bray, Rohan and Gondor on the west bank of the Anduin River were passed through Rivendale, Gao Pass, and then crossed the Anduin River, passing through the dense forest ancient road in the dark forest, and finally entering Changhu Town and transported to the Gone Mountain Dwarf Kingdom.

This is a path to wealth.

But later, the dragon Smaug destroyed Gushan and destroyed this path of wealth at the same time. In fact, it could have been continued at first, but it was not until the Battle of the Five Armies and the Orcs broke out, and the path of wealth completely collapsed.

Why the dwarf tribes such as Tieshan have weakened is actually related to this path to wealth.

But more dwarves are losing their kings, their homes, and their mines on which to survive. They are nothing and can only wander around the wilderness.

Everyone, that is the wilderness of the primitive era, everything is eating raw meat and drinking blood. If it were humans, it would be fine. After all, humans are full of various life skills. But these wandering dwarves, in addition to digging holes, mining, and forging weapons, they will at most farm a little bit.

So it is conceivable that for the past few hundred years, they have wandered in the wilderness, ate the blood of the wilderness, slept in the wind and hunger, frozen in the cold, scorching summer, diseases and plagues, hunger and wild beasts, living and changing in pain, and eventually becoming what some noble and superior people call the so-called depravity, evil, and unforgivable gray dwarves.

That's right, without food, they had to hunt like wild animals. Without salt, their hair and beard gradually moved closer to grayish white, and they became monsters.

This time period is still good now. After more than ten years, when the shadow of the Demon Lord Sauron gradually expands in the east, these gray dwarf tribes that wander in the wilderness will naturally be demonized.

Everything is just for living.

Who is qualified to condemn whom?

This detail was something that the layouters of the large legion could not have imagined. Mu Shaoan could have thought of. Could it be that they could not have thought of it? It just didn't make any sense to think of it.

Because they have no intention of being businessmen and building the economic artery.

Mu Shaoan now wants to open up the Moria pit and connect the Anduin River. He also has the Pasgarland grassland and hundreds of square kilometers of fertile land. It only takes two or three years, and the materials produced on this land will be extremely abundant.

Food, salt, wine, and tobacco are transported to the eastern wilderness and sold to the gray dwarves who eat raw meat and drink blood, and then exchange them for more ore, steel, weapons, and even gold from the gray dwarves.

Turning back, using gold to buy important supplies, elves' weapons, charles' tobacco, northern leather, and southern spices. These huge and abundant commodities can also flow into the hands of the people of Denland.
Chapter completed!