Edge of the Apocalypse
Chapter 916: Winter Is Coming

Seeing Ont return with a dull expression, Alan frowned. He did not poke his forehead as usual. He just said, "It doesn't matter if I fail. I have other preparations, so you don't have to be too sad. For a novice, it's understandable to fail once or twice every now and then."

Ante tapped her cheek with her finger. "She kissed me three times just now."

Alan was lifting his water bag to drink when he almost choked. He wiped the water off his lips and scolded, "Then you should be proud now. Why do you seem to have lost your soul? Fortunately, you are a man. If it were a woman, you would think that someone would take advantage of you."

Ante glared at him angrily, his face flushed red, and then angrily crawled out of the tent. Ellen narrowed his eyes and said, "This kid hasn't tasted a woman yet, has he? It's really rare."

Walker sighed.

After discussing with a group of caravan leaders for a long time, they were unable to come to a conclusion. This matter was like a dead end, the old captain thought to himself. Could it be that he really wanted to hand over the master and servant as Darang had said? Watch shook his head.

At this moment, Fei Lin's voice sounded from outside, and then she saw her precious daughter enter the tent. Watching Fei Lin's excited expression, the gloom in Walker's heart became even more intense. She had only one daughter, so she could not accept that Mountain City was the end of her life.

Ferlyn laughed heartlessly, then pulled Walker and said, "Father, I have a way."

Walker knew what she was referring to and shook his head and flicked her forehead, "What can you do?"

He had originally asked as if he was joking, but unexpectedly, Ferlyn really whispered something in his ear. Watch's eyes gradually lit up, and he finally threw his thigh and said, "That's a good idea. Why didn't I think of it? Feline, your brain is quite good."

Ferlyn's eyes curved into crescent moons.

In the afternoon, the caravan continued on its journey, arriving at Mountain City as night fell. After walking for more than a day, almost everyone in Mountain City was dumbfounded and exhausted. Only Allen and Belmord were still full of energy, and they still had time to look at Rackett, a city built by the mountains. The Storm City on the border was also built on a mountain, but Rackett's city was not only near the mountain, it could even be said to be built on the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, the city gate was built with large rocks six to seven meters high. The entire wall was gray and unadorned, but compared to the commercial heavy ponds of Ark Harbor, it had its own bottom of Qi Condensation. The city gate was divided into two floors. The outer layer was made of black iron, and the inner layer was made of thick wooden gates that were left and right. Each of the black iron bars was the thickness of an adult arm and required a rope wheel to lift. It could be seen that once this fence was placed during the war, it would be very difficult for ordinary siege tools to break through the city from the front. It was unknown how many tons of black iron would be used for this iron fence. Only a city like Mountain City, which was rich in copper and iron deposits, would have enough materials to forge such an iron gate.

There were 3.1 metres of hidden barriers and 5.1 metres of sentry towers on the defensive wall, and they were evenly distributed over the defensive wall. There were also six defensive cannons that could cover an area within a kilometer of the city. Apart from that, there were also large ballistae and other weapons of war. It could be seen that Rackett was willing to sacrifice his capital in defending the city.

Alan saw this and quietly memorized the arrangements. At this time, the caravan entered the city. The iron fence slowly rose. The caravan passed through the city gate and entered a small square paved with rubble through the dark vaulted passageway above the city. From the plaza, you can enter the main road of Mountain City, Greystone Street. This would make the mountain city even more magnificent and magnificent.

The caravan landed in a hotel in the city. As soon as they settled in, Qianniao's mercenaries seemed to be unable to endure the loneliness of their journey and didn't care about the hard work of traveling for a day. They all changed their clothes and rushed to the tavern in Mountain City to get drunk. Standing in front of the window of a room on the second floor of the hotel, Alan smiled faintly.

The next day.

The City Lord's Mansion of Mountain City was built at the highest point of the city without any suspense. The city lord's mansion was located on a natural platform at the mountainside. Originally, there was no way to reach the towns below, so he forced a certain city lord to drive a mountain path that could accommodate two carriages. This mountain path named "Coiling Snake" had countless bones buried beneath the roadbed. Up until now, in the middle of summer, fireflies could still be seen in the depths of the mountain path. They were the scales of countless bones beneath the cornerstones of the mountain path.

The people living in the mountain city must not be willing to get close to this Coiling Snake Mountain Road.

The Count's roar could be faintly heard from the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion. This allowed the servants to carefully bypass the hall, lest the count should see them suffer from the pond. But the servants could hide, but Justin couldn't. He didn't want to stand here and endure the Count's fury of thunder, but as an aide, he had nowhere to hide. He only hoped that this storm would calm down as soon as possible.

Looking at the old count spinning around the hall like a furious lion, whoever could get hold of the items in his hands, regardless of their value, threw them at him wildly. Justin could only smile bitterly. If it was him, he would probably be even angrier than the old count. There was nothing he could do. A whole cavalry of fifty men had been killed for no apparent reason, and there were twenty heavy cavalry inside. There were only 200 elite cavalry secretly trained in this mountain city, and each heavy cavalry was piled up with heavy gold coins. Having suddenly lost such a mixed cavalry, Rackett was already quite sensible that he hadn't killed anyone yet.

Panting heavily, Rackett shifted his butt and sat down on the only chair that was still intact. The count had calmed down. The old man, who was already in his prime of life, opened his blue eyes and shouted, "Did you find out who did it?"

Justin smiled bitterly and said, "I found out, but …"

"Just what? Don't hesitate. If you have fart, quickly let it go."

Justin sighed and said, "We followed the trail left behind by the cavalry and found their bodies. There was only one caravan passing by. The caravan hired a mercenary group called Thousand Birds as a guard. If nothing unexpected happens, our men were killed by the Thousand Birds."

"Who cares? Kill my men, you can't let them off so easily. Justin, go inform Hillo and ask him to bring people to capture this mercenary group!" Rackett smiled sinisterly.

"That's the problem," Justin coughed dryly. "In fact, there's something going on in Mountain City today."

"What is it?"

"Last night, when a drunkard was drunk in a tavern, he said that the army of our Mountain City had disguised themselves as bandits and robbed us everywhere, and even scolded you loudly. When someone heard this, the drunkard took out an army badge. The man also said that he found it when he was robbed by bandits outside the city, so people were doubtful. "Justin paused for a moment and then said," It didn't take long before someone took out another batch of weapons and said that they had obtained it from a group of bandits. What's more, those weapons all bear the symbols of our mall's army. Coupled with what the drunkard had said earlier, this matter became more and more widespread, causing more and more trouble. Of course, I believe that there are people behind this. But in this way, the count could not take down the mercenary corps. Otherwise, we'll just fall into the trap. What was supposed to be doubtful would then become a fact of life. "

'"Then why are you still standing there? Why don't you hurry up and find the mastermind behind the scenes!" Rackett shouted with a shocked expression.

"Yes sir." Justin left the hall with a bitter smile on his face. It was easy for the count to say, but this mountain city had tens of thousands of people, so it was no different to look for a needle in a haystack for the mastermind behind the scenes.

After Justin left, Rackett's old face gradually lost its luster, as if he had aged for ten years in an instant. He stood at the window and sighed. How could he have the might of the anger of thunder just now? He was more like an old man in his twilight years. He leaned his hand on the windowsill as if asking himself, "How long can this city and this family last? Can you turn the tide against the storm that is about to come, Rackett?"

"Hard." He sighed.

In the hall, the shadow behind a stone pillar twisted slightly, and then a figure with his hands, feet, and head under a cloak slowly walked out from behind the pillar. "The wind and rain are coming, and you still intend to stay out of it. Earl Rackard, isn't this abacus too loud?"

Rackett didn't turn around, but smiled bitterly, "When you came looking for me, I knew that both the clan and the mountain city would inevitably get involved in this storm."

"But this isn't a bad thing for you. Think about it, if you had such a strong army in the past, if we hadn't helped you, you would have been able to raise 5,000 soldiers, let alone 200 heavy-duty knights." The figure in the cloak spoke in a hoarse and unpleasant voice, like a sharp knife grinding metal.

"It's useless to say more. In short, if you take down those three territories, the Ark Harbor will belong to me. The rest is up to you." "Daniel is a scheming fellow," he snorted again. "Even I didn't know he had dealings with you."

The man laughed, "We worked well with the viscount, and we weren't afraid to tell you." If our cooperation with him goes smoothly, then these soldiers should be his now. The first to be attacked was not the other territories, but your mountain city. So you should be glad he died, otherwise you wouldn't be our new partner. Since it was a collaboration, then there were some things that needed to be spread out. "I want to know that under the current conditions in Yishan City, it is no longer necessary for you to disguise the army as bandits to do the looting. Why are you still doing this?"

"Earl Rackett, I hope you don't do anything stupid. If you want to attract attention and let people know that we're quietly stationed here, you see, you don't have to be in this city. You have three sons, and any one of them is enough to run this city for you, don't you think?" Throwing out such a threatening sentence, the figure retreated towards the pillar and disappeared.

Rackett was the only one left in the hall. He looked out of the window. This winter is coming to an end, but can you still see spring in Mountain City? Rackett didn't know.