Four hundred and ninety-eight, come to Riverdale Town
"Yes, money is not an issue!"
Zhu Linglu also said on the side, and then took out a money bag from his arms, which he had made from a bet with the dwarves before, and then Zhu Linglu pretended to take it out of his arms, in fact, he released more than a dozen gold coins from the Horcrux in his left hand.
Deliberately reached out and showed the gold coin to the archer Bud, put it in the money bag, and then threw it at the archer Bud.
Archer Bud caught the money bag, frowned and looked at the dwarf and Zhu Linglu, and finally nodded, "But you have to help, put these barrels on my ship, this is my task." Plus, there's a checkpoint before you enter town, so you'll have to hide in a barrel, and I'll find a way to cover it up for you! ”
"Yes, but what should I do if they can hide in the barrel?"
Zhu Linglu deliberately looked at Bard and asked him as if he was embarrassed.
"Perhaps, you should be fine, just be an adventurous traveler, as long as you pay a few more gold coins to the checkpoint, they should let you in!"
Archer Bud looked at Zhu Linglu again, but nodded to Zhu Linglu and said, anyway, in his opinion, Zhu Linglu is very rich, and the current state of River Valley Town, as long as there is money, it is not a big problem.
Because these dwarves may have something to do with the woodland elves, the elves may be very concerned about the dwarves, but they can't distinguish between all humans.
As long as Zhu Linglu entered River Valley Town, the woodland elves naturally couldn't find Zhu Linglu.
Everyone was busy, and the dwarves helped the archer Bud carry the barrels to his ferry, and then took his ferry in the direction of Riverdale.
After a while, the river went around a cliff on the left, and the rapids at the bottom of the cliff crashed against each other, and many white foams bubbled up.
Then the cliff disappeared and the trees disappeared.
The terrain became open, and the water of the river flowed in all directions. Some of them stay between the islands on either side and become small lakes.
However, there is still a strong mainstream that continues to flow downward, and in the distance, in the broken clouds, is the lonely mountain that the adventuring party has been thinking about for a long time.
Its mountains stretch all the way to the northeast until the end of the line of sight.
It stood proudly, overlooking the plain in front of it, which was originally the fertile field of the human valley city on the edge of the lonely mountain, but now the plain was deserted under the threat of the evil dragon. It turned into a scorched earth.
Humans did not dare to live near the lonely mountain, but rebuilt a river valley town in the long lake, and survived by fishing and adventures in the woodland kingdom.
However, the ferry is mainly supported by Bud with anchors, although it moves with the help of the current, but in order to keep the ferry stable, the speed of the ferry is not very fast.
Before they got close to Riverdale, the dwarves and hobbits didn't have to hide in the barrels, but everyone looked at the lonely mountain from afar. It all seemed thoughtful.
By the time the river bent sharply to the east, allowing the dense forest river to flow into the long lake, the sun had already set.
The edge of the lake has a steep gate like a cliff and many roofs underneath. From the surface of the lake, the water surface of the long lake also looks very wide.
In fact, even the other side of the lake looks very far away, at the end of its elongated shape. That is, pointing in the direction of the lonely mountain, and you can't even see the shore of the lake.
According to the original novel information, Zhu Linglu knew that the Benliu River, which was located further east, flowed down from the mountain. Together with the Jungle River from the north, a terrain that may have been a deep valley has been transformed into a long shuttle-shaped lake, that is, Long Lake.
To the south of the lake, the confluence of the two rivers descends to a waterfall with a thunderous force to the unknown side.
In the silence of the evening on the lake, everyone could hear the roar of the waterfall in the distance from the ferry, but the people of Riverdale were used to it.
Because the lake is close to the north of Middle-earth, the temperature on the lake is relatively low, although it is the second half of July, but the temperature on the lake is only a dozen degrees, if it is later in the day, there will even be floating ice floes on the lake.
Riverdale does have a few buildings on the shore of Long Lake, but it is not built on the shore, but is located right in the middle of the lake.
Protected by a boulder, the middle of the lake forms a calm and waveless lake, with a wooden bridge leading to the middle of the lake, and a bustling town built on a wooden pile-made corridor platform.
It is said that when the lake was not yet formed, the valley floor where the lake was located was also the site of an ancient town.
There have been many battles and heroic deeds here, so when the drought recedes, one can see more ruined remnants of ancient towns on the shore.
When the archer Bud was driving on the long lake with the ferry, he could also see some dilapidated buildings standing abruptly on the lake, which made people look a little frightened, and they were not familiar with the foreign ships here, and they would even hit the sunken buildings in the lake, causing the boat to capsize.
However, Bard sails here all year round, so naturally there will be no accidents, but the dwarves are still a little frightened.
Of course, the ferry also arrived at a checkpoint outside of Riverdale, and Bud quickly drove the dwarves and hobbits into the oak barrel, except for Zhu Linglu, who still held the hilt of the enemy's fencing sword and stood beside Bud.
"Mr. Haven, don't talk yet, I'll take care of everything! I think I'll need to deal with these oak barrels, and there's a checkpoint when I get into town, and there's a guy there, the mayor's henchman, and it's a nuisance! ”
Bud turned his head to Zhu Linglu and said, and then held the ferry boat and came to the front checkpoint, Bud jumped on the wooden bridge plank road of the checkpoint and talked with the guards at the checkpoint.
Bad the archer is still very popular among the lower classes of Riverdale, and it is obvious that he is also familiar with the guards over there.
It's just that the dwarves hiding in the oak barrels are suspicious of Bard again, suspecting that he is betraying them, which inevitably makes Zhu Linglu, who stayed in the bow of the ship, helpless, no wonder these dwarves ran away without waiting for him to come back before.
These dwarves were too suspicious, so Zhu Linglu could only slap the oak barrel and directly shut them up.
It wasn't long before Bard returned, rowed the boat forward again, and at the edge of the checkpoint, the guards inside sent out a net of fresh trout and poured it into the oak barrels.
The smell of fishy fish made Zhu Linglu inevitably leave these oak barrels in a few steps, but the dwarves and hobbits in the barrels could only bear this smell.
Bard then rowed through the outer checkpoint again and followed a waterway into the entrance to Riverdale...... (To be continued......)