On the first morning after fleeing with the entire barony, Lant, who had not finished breakfast, saw his chief knight hurriedly finding him.

"Aren't you on guard?" Lant guessed the bad news, but he hoped that Rohr would come back for breakfast.

"The barbarians have arrived at Galloping Horse Castle!" Rohr confirmed the worst news in Lant's mind.

"How many are they?"

"At least 10 cavalrymen were just conducting reconnaissance. They found no one around the castle, so they went in directly."

"How long do you think it will be before they come to scout the forest?"

"I guess it won't be long. The ruts on our ground are too obvious. Unless you are blind, you won't come."

"I originally thought I could fight for one day, but it seems I only fight for one more night," Lant said to himself, and suddenly looked at Rolle: "Notify everyone to pack up and set off immediately. The two knights should know the next camp. Let them go first, we have more people, so we can change the route."

"Understood, this forest is our backyard within 20 kilometers. Every family is familiar with it, so there is no need to worry about getting lost in the forest." Team Rohr has a lot of information about this forest.

Half an hour later, only 15 minutes after Lant's main team set off, the first batch of barbarian cavalry followed the ruts of the galloping leaders.

The spies of the barbarians are all good hunters in the tribe. Once they have set their sights on the prey, they will not lose it.

The barbarian who came here today to search for Lant and the others is called Bison. He also discovered the galloping Baron Huck two days ago, and has been following Huck's horses for 1.5-2 kilometers, and finally helped other cavalry in the tribe to defeat Huck. Several people were captured.

Last night, the tribal leader asked them to set out before dawn to scout outside Baron Galloping Horse's castle. The leader had confirmed that the larger castle directly south of Cornico Pass would not interfere with their westward exploration.

However, when we arrived outside the baron's castle, it was already empty. The bison yelled in his heart that something was wrong, the prey was startled, and now it ran away before it could even stick to it, making it difficult to find it again.

Fortunately, there were too many people in the barony, and obvious wheel tracks could be seen heading west. After chasing for about half an hour, the bison arrived outside the big forest. Here he hesitated because after wandering on the grassland for more than ten years, he had never seen so many trees.

Just when the bison was about to let a companion go back to report the news, and he took three people into the forest to search, waves of white mist rose from the entire forest floor. This white mist was like a wall, blocking the bison from the forest.

Miasma always appears in the early morning forest.

The early morning in the big forest was no exception, but the residents of the Galloping Horse Territory had experienced it more or less. They were not very surprised. On the contrary, the fierce pursuit of the barbarians made everyone speed up their pace.

At the rear was still Roll, who was on guard about 500 meters behind the team. However, Rohr didn't know why the barbarians riding fast horses never entered the forest.

But he knew that the danger would soon be over. Because there is a small river that is not too narrow between the second camp and the first camp.

This small river flows down from the Cornico Mountain in the north and forms multiple pools in the woods. The shallowest place is only half a meter deep. After many times of refuge in the woods, this small river has become a popular place in the territory of galloping horses. The most important refuge barrier.

During the evacuation period, people and animals would be the first to wade through the knee-deep river. It was difficult for the carriages behind to wade. However, there happened to be a few places in the river basin where the riverbed was particularly flat. The water depth was relatively shallow in the upper reaches of this flat land. Less than 300 meters away, there is a small pond, which was specially set up after many times of evacuation.

The surroundings of the pond are specially raised. Once the downstream outlet is closed, the pond with increasing height will drain water from a higher gap in the other direction, and the water will be discharged into a river in the dry season in winter. Using this pond, people taking refuge can The river can be artificially diverted, and after the carriage passes through the river bed, the original exit can be reopened to allow the river to become a barrier again.

Barbarians will be more cautious about unfamiliar environments. No barbarians will easily try to cross an unfamiliar river. They prefer to go downstream to find a flatter crossing point. However, this will inevitably lead to deeper forests.

After entering 10 kilometers into this forest, there will be some territories of mid-to-high-level monsters, which ordinary barbarian cavalry will not be able to deal with at all.

In the camp set up by Baron Galloping Horse, on the one hand, he did not go too deep into the forest, and on the other hand, there was always someone taking care of it: marking it with fecal powder of high-level monsters specially bought from the royal city. Let mid-level and low-level monsters avoid this place.

In short, Lant discovered that the Galloping Horse family attaches great importance to this refuge and considers it even more thoughtfully than their own castle.

The biggest disadvantage here compared to the castle is that the air here is too humid. If it could be drier, Lant would be more satisfied.

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After setting up camp, Lant began to think, what do these barbarians hope to do?

Rand could understand that they came to rob, but he didn't understand why they robbed the people. Although the barbarians had a low level of civilization, they did not eat people. In other words, the barbarians mainly relied on cattle, sheep and other animals for food. Cattle and sheep were not only It produces meat and dairy products. Meat is used to regularly trade food with the humans, which is enough for the barbarians to avoid the climate crisis in winter.

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So why did they take the risk? Why do you want to capture your own father and brother? It's understandable to pursue, for fear of leaking secrets, but if you are really afraid of leaking secrets, wouldn't the dead be more strict with their mouths?

Various mysteries surrounded Lant's mind. He wanted to ask Albert for advice, but when he walked to the scholar's camp, he found that Albert was writing a thick book.

Lant did not disturb Albert, but observed the book by himself. It was actually a paper book, and the quality of the paper was very good. Although the pages were very thin, they were strong enough and not transparent. At first glance, it looks like very mature papermaking technology.

Albert wrote selflessly, then he felt Lant behind him and turned around, "What's wrong? Lant, why do you want to come to me?"

"Albert, what are you writing?" Lant asked curiously

"Territory diary. Every territory above baron has a family scholar. One of the missions of this scholar is to write the territory diary. It is his duty to record every day's events in the territory."

"But we have to go out for four or five days," Lant asked.

"Yes, the housekeeper was writing it for me a few days ago."

Mei Wennan is the steward of the territory. In terms of blood relationship, Mei Wennan is the same generation as Huck Galloping Horse. They have the same grandfather.

Mei Wennan has been a housekeeper for more than 20 years and is dedicated to the entire family. After Albert left, he wrote the territory diary on behalf of Albert.

"I would like to ask, what day is it today?" Lant wanted to understand this world. He only received from the memory of the original owner that a year here also has 4 quarters, 4 quarters, and 12 months, but the original owner's life was too rough. , I just remember the first, middle and last ten days, and I have no idea about the more detailed time.

"September 21st, to be more precise, September 21st in the year 996 of the God Emperor!" Albert blurted out

"A good year," Lant thought, 996, this year is suitable for hard work.

"When do you think the barbarians will leave Benma's territory?"

"From the current point of view, today's barbarians are just spies. The main force will return within a day or two. We have not left any food for them, but they cannot leave easily. I estimate that they will stay until the end of the month, which is the 33rd or 34th. Number."

"Oh, 33, eh, when did you say?" Lant felt that he suddenly found Hua Dian,

"It's the end of the month on the 33rd. You didn't forget that this month is September and it has 34 days, right?" Albert smiled, but Lant could only apologize.

"You remember the days so clearly. I usually only remember the first, middle or late ten days." Lant praised, while trying to figure out the local calendar, "Do you have a calendar or monthly calendar? I want to see it."

"Of course," Albert then stood up and walked towards a box: "Speaking of which, is this still your property?"

"What? Mine?"

"Yes, this is an alchemy calendar, a magic product that relies on the magic-gathering rune array. It is your certificate and tool as the master of the territory." Albert found an item, which was a small blue box. After opening it, there was a On the dial, the date pointer on the dial points to September 21st.

Albert said that this alchemical calendar was issued by the Holy Supreme Council and was the benchmark tool for every lord above the baron.

The hands for hours, minutes, and seconds on the largest dial are almost completely similar to the clocks in Lant's hometown. The small dials are calendars for the year, month, and day. There are also several small dials that can actually display astrology, three-dimensional clocks, and so on. The moon phases of the moon, the orbits of the two suns, etc. can be said to be an all-powerful mechanical clock.

In addition to the time function, there is a ruler at the bottom of the box. This ruler is 0.1 meters long and can be used as a length measurement standard. There is also a 0.1 kilogram alchemical ceramic weight inside the box. The density of this weight is exactly the same as that of water. It can be used as a volume and mass measurement tool in itself.

All officially recognized field nobles above the baron level throughout the empire will be issued such an alchemical tool, which serves as the benchmark for weights and measures within the territory.

"This calendar, the lord's alchemical seal, and the alchemical boundary markers on the territory are the three major credentials of the lord on the ground."

From the calendar turntable, Lant discovered that there are 400 days in a year, 33 days in each month, and 34 days in each month of January, June, September, and December. The standard of each day is very similar to that of his former planet, but when looking at the calendar, Lant faintly discovered that something was not quite right.

For example, in the astrolabe chart, Lant discovered that the star he was on was actually rotating around the so-called Raya, and Raya took Alivia and several planets to revolve around Di Yang.

At some point Lant thought that if Raya was a planet, then Alivia was a satellite.

Now, the Laya galaxy where Alivia is located can be regarded as a secondary galaxy of the Diyan galaxy. Alivia has both rotation and revolution, and the entire galaxy revolves around Di Yang's galaxy.

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The nights in September have begun to get cold, but the temperature in the Galloping Horse Barony is still much warmer than that in the Galloping Horse Plains.

At this moment, the leader of the Gray Goose clan, who had just come south from the Galloping Horse Plains, was sitting in the living room on the first floor of Baron Galloping Horse's castle, feeling the aristocratic life in the so-called human civilization world. After much deliberation, the leader only said, your chair is not very soft.

In addition to the elders and warriors of the Gray Goose tribe, there was also a young human being standing next to him.

"Chief, the son of the viscount outside is here again," suddenly a messenger from the tribe came to report.

"That little Lott has a lot of nerve. He said that there are hundreds of people here with a winter's worth of food, more than 50 war horses, and more than 20 slaves. But here, I only see this earthen house.

Go tell that boy that we haven't seen a grain of grain here. We will naturally look for it elsewhere and let his father, the viscount, choose whether to give the grain to us or to get it ourselves! "

"Yes!" The messenger turned and left

The young man on the side looked at the Gray Goose Patriarch: "Master Patriarch, as I said, this poor barony not only has no slaves, but also no food. The two items you want can only be obtained at the Viscount Castle next to it. Found inside.”

"Yes, I know!" the Gray Goose leader said easily, "but having less than 60 slaves is still not enough.

You know, it's winter now, the ground is freezing, and only the strong demoniacs can carve out the hard ground. Therefore, the main players in mining are knight apprentices and junior knights. "

"This is easy to handle. Once the affairs of Lot's territory are exposed, the entire Maned Wolf City will be under pressure from the Dragon Kingdom. They will launch some families to compensate for the crime. We will also send the demon-supporters in these families to the Galloping Horse Plains! "

"Okay! I hope you can abide by the agreement," the tribal leader looked like a big stone had fallen to the ground and was very happy.

"Of course, we have cooperated for such a long time, and there has never been a time when I have not kept my promise!" The young man's tone was also much more relaxed.

"It's not convenient for you to stay here for the rest of the matter. I suggest you go back to the camp first and help me debug those capricious formations."

"Okay. Do you need to contact the local contact person before leaving?" The young man didn't seem so willing to leave like this.

"Local?" The leader seemed to think for a few seconds, "No, it's best not to let too many people know about our affairs."

"Okay, then I'll wait for news from the leader in the camp." After that, the young man also left the castle.

After watching the young man leave, the leader whispered, "Baron, viscount, earl, you nobles hiding behind the stone wall, what do you think I am? A vulture on the grassland? I will be full with just a few pieces of carrion from you." ?”

"Come here!" the tribal leader yelled, "tell the camp in the north of the mountain pass to prepare, let the warriors polish the iron swords, wipe the armor clean, feed the horses enough food, and let the tribal camps on the plain go south. This winter, let’s find a warm place to spend the winter!”

"Yes!" Following the tribal leader's order, many barbarian cavalry carrying orders rushed to the north, and the hunting of the entire southern barbarian tribes in the Benma Plain was about to begin.