Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 156: Wolf Pack (Bonus: for Alliance Chief lanruoruo)

"Line up! Everyone line up! No cutting in line!"

"One bowl per person; after eating, go into the house and stay there!"

Collas held a wooden stick, herding the fifty farmers into two lines like driving pigs. This was a difficult but uncomplicated matter.

Under the cudgel, it was very easy to accomplish.

There were three pots in total: two large pots and one small pot.

The first two were for the vegetable meat porridge cooked for the farmers. The third pot was used by Li Wei's group, plus the six carriage drivers.

There was nothing special either. Time was tight; being able to whip up food to eat was already not bad.

However, Liu Zhongyuan, Clyde, and the other three had no time to eat. They were suffocatingly busy just being responsible for maintaining order and distributing food.

Li Wei was a special case. He ate together with the six carriage drivers. After eating his fill, he instructed the carriage drivers not to go too far when grazing the horses. There were wolf packs in this mountain forest, and their numbers were quite substantial.

Subsequently, he went into the room on his own to rest and sleep. This was already the ninth day of this month. Things he had to do and think about every day were very numerous. The premise of everything going smoothly was that he had resolved all problems that could possibly appear.Therefore, one could imagine how massive the drain on his Stamina was.

Hence, seizing every minute of time to rest was a must.

The importance of the wooden cabin supply station was revealed beyond doubt at this moment. Otherwise, just arranging accommodations for those fifty farmers would have left one thoroughly exhausted and in a bad fix.

Even when they saw there were wooden cabins, the previously fearful and uneasy emotions of those farmers—due to the continuous howling of wolves in the mountains—stabilized quite a bit. With houses, who fears whom? Moreover, these were wooden houses; they looked very solid oh.

"Awoo hoo!"

The howling of wolves in the distant mountain forest rang out again, but this time it couldn't bring fear.

Five huge bonfires were distributed in the surroundings, and six horse-drawn carriages were parked behind the wooden houses.

The firelight drove away the darkness, and the aroma of food enchanted people. The slurping sounds of farmers eating, the shouting and cursing sounds of Clyde and the others, and the neighing sounds of draft horses inherently carried a sense of security.

After eating the vegetable meat porridge, everyone still had to eat a bowl of wheat rice, taken straight from the carriages. This was instructed by Li Wei: a standard of one catty of wheat per person, with Table Salt allowed to be added.

What he wanted was this trade route; he wanted to repair this trade route. Then, letting the farmers repairing the road eat well so they would have enough Strength to do the work was essential!

The total length of this trade route was 150 li. From Victor Town to this place was forty li, but in fact, the first thirty li of the road were considered fairly decent; digging some soil casually could handle it. The last ten li only required clearing away weeds and shrubs, as well as trees blocking the way; fundamentally, it was very flat.

Even continuing forward to arrive at the first wooden cabin supply station, the fifty-li stretch in between was still considered passable.

The hardest to chew part was from the first wooden cabin supply station to the eastern division-of-spoils point. This intermediate thirty-li stretch required spending massive effort to get done.

So, what did eating some grain amount to?

It didn't matter. Even if in the end two-thirds of this three thousand kilograms of wheat was eaten up, he was still earning a profit.

"Awoo hoo!"

The howling of wolves was still continuing, rising and falling in succession. But it also couldn't stop the pairs of gleaming green eyes of the farmers staring at those three iron pots. The aroma of food surpassed all fear.

Liu Zhongyuan was so busy his entire body was covered in sweat. Even a Three-Star Chef couldn't withstand such a battle formation. But he was very happy, happier than fighting a battle. Experience wasn't important, and rewards weren't important. What was important was that his Chef Destiny Grid could increase slightly because of this.

There were many people and few pots, so they had to divide into a few batches to eat.

Clyde, Collas, Charles, and Pang Wu only had time to eat a bowl of vegetable meat soup before they had to be fully armed: swords unsheathed, bows strung. Open sentries, hidden sentries, and roaming sentries scattered toward the surroundings, forming an invisible protective net over the entire temporary Camp.

They could all hear it: that wolf pack in the mountain forest had suffered some unknown stimulation tonight, and possessed a very strong desire to attack.

Of course, they weren't afraid.

Are you joking? If they came it was just right to improve the farmers' living standards.

Now they roughly all understood Li Wei's intentions; even the most sluggish brains could guess it out now.

Therefore, only sighs of emotion remained. It felt a bit like dreaming; how did matters suddenly become this easy at once?

"Tomorrow we can continue to set off. Half a day's time is enough for six horse-drawn carriages to rush to the first wooden cabin. Unload the wheat and Table Salt, and the carriages can immediately return, fundamentally without delaying the departure of Victor Town's merchant caravan. Fifty farmers who have eaten and drunk their fill are the main force for repairing the road. When the entire route can allow horse-drawn carriages to drive unhindered, a trade route is formed just like this."

"F*cking awesome!"

"Opening up a trade route like this, during the Month-End Summary, it should start at minimally 500 points of Contribution, right?"

In the dark night, Clyde pondered in his heart, sighing with emotion endlessly. Opening up a trade route was something he had also discussed with the ambitious Leon three months ago. Only by opening up a trade route could the family Camp usher in a second wave of development and expansion.

What a pity, at that time they were completely in the dark regarding the outside world. Before they had time to explore, Li Wei took the lead, suppressing them in a single breath until now.

"Fortunately we surrendered. Looking at it now, there's no suspense about next month's Head of Household either."

"A trade route ah. The meaning brought by this matter itself is even several times, or even dozens of times more than this trade."

"It's just unknown what strategies those three high-level players have now."

"I really want to see the wonderful expressions on their faces."

"However, what if George chose to go to Kakh City with Victor Town's merchant caravan? No, he wouldn't go; he hadn't planned to go from the very beginning."

Clyde had pretty much seen completely through Li Wei's plans. This guy was too steady; how could he possibly go do that kind of unreliable thing?

Conversely, those few high-level players, for instance Hathaway, might employ risky military moves, delusionally attempting to settle the universe in one fell swoop.

Just as he was thinking, Clyde suddenly felt his scalp prickle for no reason; a feeling of danger welled up in his heart. Without hesitation, he rolled forward on the spot. A foul wind struck, pouncing onto his previous position. Closely following, a second foul wind and a third foul wind struck from different directions, unexpectedly seeming able to lock down his rolling completely dead!

F*ck!

It's the wolf pack!

Moreover, it was absolutely that kind of tacitly cooperative, strong, and food-abundant wolf pack.

Otherwise, the pouncing attacks of these three wolves wouldn't link together so awesomely.

However, he, Clyde, was not to be trifled with either.

Rolling again like lightning, he dodged the second wolf. At the same time, lifting the shield in his left hand, he blocked the third wolf. His right hand had no time to draw his sword; it directly used a punch to blow up the head of a wolf that was pursuing upwards again! Even its eyeballs flew out.

25 points of Strength; you think I'm a noob?

The next moment, Clyde successfully found an opportunity to draw his longsword. Once sword and shield were together, that was airtight. At the same time, micro-adjusting his footsteps, with a good measure of offense and defense, in less than a few bouts, the three attacking wild wolves cast aside their lives!

And at this time, angry roars also rang out from other directions.

It's Collas!

The two of them were responsible for being hidden sentries, furthest from the Camp, so they were also attacked by the wolf pack in the first instance.

Just didn't know how this person would cope?

Thinking like this, Clyde was also orderly retreating backwards. It was nothing much if they few Mercenaries fell into the attacks of the wolf pack, but if the farmers were attacked by the wolf pack, it wouldn't be fun. Although in reality it probably shouldn't be anything much either; farmers who had eaten and drunk their fill weren't some delicately brought up and expensively raised young masters. Holding dung-forks and shovels, they were also masters capable of doing in a Demon Hunter!

That's right, it was just this simple.

After the initial panic, the farmers instead became stimulated and excited. Clamorously picking up their respective tools, under the illumination of the fire piles, they even wanted to charge outwards.

It entirely relied on Liu Zhongyuan's loud voice to block them. It was just killing wolves; was all this necessary!

And at this time, although the howling of wolves was continuous, an occasional miserable shriek would also ring out. Every time Pang Wu's longbow shot out an arrow, the farmers would agitatedly clamor for a while; it felt very secure.

However, after he shot out over a dozen arrows in one breath, the farmers also mulled it over and tasted the flavor. Why couldn't they hear screams anymore?

When Clyde returned unharmed, Collas also returned carrying slight injuries.

"Old Ke, how many did you kill? Your father smashed four heads. This wolf pack is a bit numerous ah!"

Collas smiled savagely, but his brows were slightly furrowed. Yes, this wasn't an ordinary wolf pack. If not handled well, it might be a mechanism similar to monster sieges. That boss wanting to carve out a trade route in this mountain forest; had he asked the kings of the mountain forest here?

Tsk tsk, speaking of which, is that little brother George still sleeping?

Just as he was thinking this, he saw Li Wei calmly walking out from the wooden house, his gaze light.

"Let the farmers rest. Clyde, you guys take turns keeping the night watch. Along the way, help the carriage drivers cut some fresh wild grass; like this, it's impossible to graze the horses."

"My Lord, this wolf pack is not quite simple."

Clyde hurriedly said a sentence. He wanted to follow and go. Yes, whenever the family Camp developed to a certain degree, similar mechanisms would inevitably form. If this wolf pack could be annihilated, the Contribution points earned would absolutely not be few.

"No need, just protect the camp well."

Li Wei refused. He naturally could also sense the difference in this wolf pack. Seven had already been slaughtered, yet they still lingered and did not retreat. If it weren't for the fifty farmers currently not being in chaos, and excitedly holding farm tools like a hedgehog formation, believe it or not, this wolf pack might even dare to charge head-on!

"Awoo hoo—"

"Swish!"

A wolf howl rang out from a hundred meters away, but it came to an abrupt end the next second, because Li Wei had lightning-fast shot an arrow—instant kill!

Just now Pang Wu crackled and rattled out over a dozen arrows, seeming to have only hit two wild wolves.

At this moment, the farmers were clueless, but Collas, Liu Zhongyuan, Charles, and Pang Wu all had their complexions turn awe-inspiring. Once an expert makes a move, one knows whether they have the goods or not. This archery skill was a bit divine!

Only Clyde wasn't surprised at all, and even felt honored by association. He had truly endured the clamor of these four Mercenaries for far too long.

The howling of wolves on the opposite side seemed to have all broken off. And Li Wei didn't utter a word. Holding the Two-Star Composite Bow, he took large strides into the darkness. With every few steps he took, he fired an arrow, and a wolf would definitely be struck by the arrow.

In just a short thirty-plus steps: five arrows, five hits!

At this moment, the wolf pack finally chickened out!

Rustling running sounds transmitted over, with occasional whimpering howls, but what accompanied them were feathered arrows flying and shooting over!

Li Wei alone, unexpectedly suppressed the more than twenty wolves on the opposite side!

(End of this chapter)