"How many are these?"

"The seventh, my lord."

Damian replied, looking to the left, where there were three ragged refugees-looking fellows, a man and two women, drinking from a bowl of water, with a look of horror on their faces that had not yet faded.

All three were "captives" rescued from the ogre camp, and if the caravan had arrived a few days late, these guys would have become the ogre's meal.

From the beginning of the departure, this is already the second batch of prisoners rescued by the caravan, counting the previous batch, a total of 7 people.

"These people are really bold, they know that this road is dangerous, and they still want to take risks here." Dai Guang shook his head and said helplessly.

"That means that the profits here are high~"

Lu Kuan understood the reason and explained: "If you take the sea route, the taxes and fees at the departure and destination ports add up to at least 40%, plus freight and loss, the profit margin left for merchants is actually very limited, and if you are unlucky enough to encounter pirates, you will lose all your money." ”

Damien next to him was shocked when he heard it: "The taxes are so high? What else is going on in business, are these merchants stupid, they still have to go to the side of Rapids. ”

"No way, there is only one trade route between the north and the south, a big port with an important geographical location like Rapids, you can't help but come, for example, there is only one port for goods to be shipped to Lava Castle, unless you don't do this business." Lu Kuan shrugged.

At this time, everyone understood how low the tax rate of Rune City was at the top of the three forks, no wonder the merchants in the Night Fall Sit were crazy to run to Rune City, with such a low tax rate, the merchants sold their goods to Rune City, and their profits would hardly be affected.

Rune City then sold things through the teleportation array, and he made a lot of money.

Is this why adults attach so much importance to this trade route? Damian looked at Lu Kuan, who was frowning slightly, and admired it even more in his heart.

Lu Kuan didn't think about this at this time, he looked at the captive in front of him thoughtfully.

These three people are different from the previous ones, all of them are merchants from the Golden King City, and after the goods were robbed, they were also captured alive and became the reserve food of the ogre.

After hearing that Lu Kuan's caravan was going back to the Golden King City, the three of them unanimously asked Lu Kuan to take them with them, they didn't want to go to the Night Crater, they just wanted to go home quickly.

Seeing Lu Kuan frowning and thinking, one of them immediately limped over.

"My lord, our Black Dragon Caravan is also a well-known family in the royal city,"

One of them, speaking fluent lingua franca, pleaded with Lu Kuan: "Please be kind and bring a few of us back, as long as we return to the royal city safely, our Black Dragon Family will be greatly grateful!" ”

This man bowed to Lu Kuan as he spoke, because his body was too weak, he bent down and lifted it up again, almost fell to the ground with his head, and was grabbed by Lu Kuan.

"Don't get excited,"

Lu Kuan calmed down the other party's emotions and thought for a while, "What is your identity in the caravan......?" ”

"I'm the deputy team leader, my name is Birushna!" The man hurried to his feet.

"In that case, let's join our caravan and recuperate,"

Lu Kuan showed a kind smile: "But this is going to the Golden King City, the road ahead is long, the caravan can't bring useless people, when you are well, just help in the convoy~"

Hearing this, Biruthna's face was ecstatic, and he immediately said, "Yes, yes, this is how it should be!" Your life-saving grace, when you return to the royal city, we will definitely repay you again! ”

Lu Kuan smiled and waved his hand, asked the guards to take the three of them down, and then asked Damian to come over.

"Mongo brought six personal guards from the mines, you see."

"I saw that they were Master Mungo's personal soldiers, so I didn't ask in detail." Damian nodded.

"I'll go back and tell Mongo to pick out three people and follow these three guys,"

Lu Kuanchong chin in the direction of the three of them, and said, "It doesn't matter if you work or not, don't let them see things they shouldn't see, your subordinates should be more cooperative and pay more attention." ”

"I see, sir." Damian bowed.

After the order was finished, Lu Kuan showed a relaxed smile, raised his hand to summon the radish, and smiled at the compass and Dai Guang: "Let's go, Chen Shuang and they are probably in a hurry." ”

……

The fact is that no one thinks of Lu Kuan and the others at all now, everyone is immersed in the beautiful scenery in front of them and can't extricate themselves.

The caravan was now passing through a large lake, two lakes to be exact.

The lake on the right is so large that you can't see the boundary on the other side, even if it's not as good as the deep lake, it's not much worse, and as the breeze blows, the surface of the lake rolls up dense ripples, and then quickly shatters into several pieces, swinging around like fish scales.

The lake on the left is a little smaller, and you can see the curved border in the distance, where a variety of colorful trees surround the lake, dyeing the water surface of the shore in bright colors, and in the middle of the lake, there is a huge water banyan tree.

The banyan tree was so large that the island on which it was entrenched could not be seen, and only the huge yellow and green canopy that stood out like a giant leather ball over the water.

Every time the canopy shakes slightly, it can bring up a whirlwind of leaves, thousands of fallen leaves fall from the canopy, fluttering and spilling onto the water, quite spectacular, and all these beautiful scenery, can be seen on the water surface can be seen clear reflection, colorful, set off each other, beautiful.

The caravan's current location is on a stone beam between the two lakes, this natural stone beam, which divides the lake into two parts, one left and one right, which are not connected to each other, like a natural stone bridge thousands of meters long.

"Wow~Hurry up and video~"

Several girls had long been fascinated and turned on the camera function, but this time it was different from the past, and Mongo was also among the three girls, sitting on the roof of the carriage with everyone, enjoying the beautiful scenery.

"What kind of place is this, it's called Nameless Lake?" Bai Xian looked at the map and said with some curiosity.

"Hmm,"

Mungo explained: "To the east of this place is the swallowing swamp, from which the water of the two lakes flows, and there is such a natural stone dam, but the bottom of the two lakes is connected. ”

Listening to Meng Ge's introduction and looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him, it was extremely comfortable, among which Chen Shuang was curious: "How do you know so clearly?" ”

The little halfling grinned when he heard this: "There is a map brought by the weeds merchant group, and I took advantage of the days when the old deer arrived at the mine, I wanted to come over and take a look." ”

Several girls glanced at each other and saw the admiration in each other's eyes: Lu Kuan attaches so much importance to her, and it's not all because of nostalgia~

"You say, such a beautiful place, will there be any adventures on the island?" Bai Xian asked curiously.

"Even if we had, we wouldn't have time,"

Wu Xiaoxiao looked at the beautiful water banyan island in the distance, and said softly: "You must be the first to hurry, go to the island to adventure, waste time." ”