Gou Becomes a Boss in the Fairy World

Chapter 1478 Mortal Heart Refining (Twenty-two)

Soon after the Qing'an caravan led by Wang Chen entered Yunze Prefecture, some sneaky figures appeared around it.

Although the caravan encountered many thieves along the way, the current situation is obviously different.

These sneaky guys followed the caravan from a distance, never approaching a mile away, and basically spied in groups of three or five in the form of small teams.

As the caravan went deeper into the marsh, the number of snoopers continued to increase.

Yunze Prefecture is vast, with rivers and lakes everywhere, and swamps and wetlands are everywhere. Although it also suffered from drought, the situation is much better than that of Changyi Prefecture.

But the complex environment is also prone to unpredictable dangers!

This made the Qing'an caravan more cautious in its actions.

At night, the caravan camped next to a vast lake to rest.

The escort guide said to Wang Chen: "Mr. Wang, in five days, we will almost reach Sanhe County."

Sanhe County is a large county in Yunze Prefecture. It used to have long-term trade relations with Qing'an County. The latter purchased a lot of food and medicinal materials from Sanhe County by water every year.

Now that the water route is cut off, the Qing'an caravan can only go to Sanhe County by land, which is undoubtedly much more troublesome.

"Yes."

Wang Chen nodded and ordered: "Keep everyone alert tonight and don't be careless."

"Yes!"

The escort took the order and left.

In addition to having 300 garrison soldiers as guards, this caravan also recruited escorts and porters from the only escort agency in Qing'an County to help.

These escorts and porters travel all year round. They are not only familiar with the environment of Changyi, Yunze and other prefectures, but also have extensive connections in the rivers and lakes, and have played a very important role along the way.

They are also very experienced, and they have completed tasks such as exploration, camping, patrolling, and vigilance very well.

It greatly reduced Wang Chen's burden.

But the situation tonight was quite different. When many members of the caravan fell asleep in the tent, the cry of a night owl suddenly came from all around.

Hoarse, shrill, weird, like a vicious curse, it drilled into everyone's ears.

Let everyone wake up from the nightmare!

They cursed.

After just a moment, the cry of the owl disappeared, and the surroundings of the camp returned to peace.

Everyone could only fall down and continue to sleep.

But after another half an hour, the same cry sounded again, disturbing everyone in the caravan again!

Now even the most clumsy people understood that someone was definitely making trouble on purpose and making things difficult for the caravan.

"Mr. Wang."

A bodyguard said to Wang Chen: "Do you want me to take someone out to see?"

The bodyguard's surname is Chen. He is the head of the escort company. He is over thirty years old and has strong strength. He has rich experience in leading teams and has seen many ups and downs in the world.

Although this kind of trick does not cause any direct harm, it is very disgusting. The intention is to prevent the people in the caravan from resting properly and then exhausting themselves.

If nothing unexpected happens, the same harassment will continue in the next few days as long as the caravan has not arrived in Sanhe County.

Those invisible enemies are like vicious wolves. Once they find an opportunity, they will immediately pounce on the caravan and tear it into pieces, and then eat the flesh and blood.

"No need."

Wang Chen looked up at the dark night sky and said in a deep voice: "Bear it tonight and talk about it tomorrow."

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It was dark and windy, and people were unfamiliar with the place. If you rashly go out to search for the enemy in such an environment, the probability of something going wrong is too high.

Wang Chen disagreed, so Chen Biaotou had to stay put.

He also knew that it was dangerous to go out, but indifference would easily make the enemy think that he was weak and could be bullied, and would only become more rampant.

On the next morning, when the caravan broke camp and continued to move forward, many people were mentally tired and yawned, and many of them had big dark circles under their eyes.

The speed of marching has dropped a lot.

At night, the same situation happened again!

This time, in addition to the frequent owl cries, there were also sounds of ghosts and wolves howling. The people in the caravan could only plug their ears with cotton to barely sleep.

On the third night, the number of enemies harassing the caravan increased greatly, and their methods became more unscrupulous.

They fired dozens of rockets at the caravan camp from a long distance, trying to ignite the trucks to disturb the mules and horses, with extremely sinister intentions.

Fortunately, the caravan guards who were ready to fight responded in time and did not cause too much damage.

But another disturbance inevitably caused the morale of the caravan to drop greatly.

Chen Biaotou was anxious: "Mr. Wang, this can't go on, otherwise everyone can't hold on."

After a bad sleep all night, even a strong man will be tired. Now the speed of traveling is much slower, and the gathering enemies can launch a fatal attack at any time.

The situation is really dangerous.

"I understand."

Wang Chen drew out his sword and wiped it gently with silk satin: "Tonight, you take people to guard the camp, and I will deal with these despicable rats."

Chen Biaotou knew that Wang Chen was very powerful, but he couldn't help but worry: "Mr. Wang, they are outnumbered, your precious body, it's best not to put yourself in danger."

A tiger cannot defeat a pack of wolves. No matter how strong Wang Chen is, if he is besieged by dozens or even hundreds of desperate criminals, it is normal for him to capsize in the gutter.

If something happens to Wang Chen, then this caravan will really be finished!

So the escort leader disagreed with Wang Chen's decision.

Wang Chen smiled and said, "What I'm least afraid of is a large number of people!"

As dusk approached, the caravan chose a suitable place to camp.

Under Wang Chen's order, dozens of guards worked together to cut long wood from the nearby woods and used ropes to build a lookout tower for an arrow tower.

Although this tower was only two or three feet high and had no defensive measures.

But when Wang Chen stood on the tower with a longbow in his hand, the morale of the soldiers who had fought side by side with him on the wall of Qing'an County was greatly boosted, and they even became excited.

And when the companions who didn't know the reason asked the reason, these veterans couldn't help but spit and boast about Wang Chen's deeds.

After that, they added two more sentences: "With Mr. Wang's strength and achievements, he is more than qualified to be awarded the post of county magistrate!"

Qing'an County had previously reported the battle record against the bandits to the capital, but apart from Ye Xiangming's promotion to half a level and taking charge of Qing'an County, Wang Chen, the greatest contributor, was actually ignored.

No reward.

This is not that Ye Xiangming deliberately concealed his achievements, but that the higher-ups, for some unknown reason, simply turned a deaf ear to it!

This made many people angry for Wang Chen.

Fortunately, Wang Chen is Ye Xiangming's son-in-law, and the two have a very close relationship, otherwise all kinds of rumors would come out.

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