Lu Yunrui smiled brightly and said to Kimura,""Uncle, do you have the blueprints I gave you?”
"Yes!" Kimura answered. You want to use it?"
"Didn't you tell me that the gnomes like to play with some small toys?" Lu Yunrui shook her head. I was thinking, why not let those goblin slaves look at these blueprints and let them join in the research? Perhaps they could help solve many problems!”
"That's right, how could I have forgotten about this!" Kimura patted his head.”
"I heard about you buying goblin slaves," said Gaia. He was puzzled at first, but now he knew that Mister Lu had a deeper meaning. I can't help but admire you from the bottom of my heart!"
"Don't praise me!" Lu Yunrui laughed. Actually, I just thought of it. This way, the Gnomes could be freed from slavery and regain their freedom. Secondly, it could allow the Gnomes to be self-reliant and not rely on others. Third, it was very possible to create some high-tech items and tools. Fourthly, it could also help the Elf Clan gain a good reputation for helping other clans. With so many benefits, why not?”
"What a good 'why not?'”Gaia clapped and laughed. On the one hand, they bought as many gnome slaves as possible from the humans. On the other hand, they sent more people out to search for the gnome clansmen scattered all over the world. It's also good to start research and development as soon as possible."
"How can you forget about us dwarves when it's such a good thing?" Parker also shouted from the side. Count us in!"
Everyone burst into laughter, feeling extremely carefree.
That night, Gaia held a banquet in the side hall to entertain Lu Yunrui. The attendees were all prominent figures of the elf race, and only Parker was invited as a distinguished guest.
During the banquet, everyone praised Lu Yunrui. Gaia even directly conferred Lu Yunrui as an elder of the elves, granting him the same authority as the eight elders of the elves. For this, everyone toasted Lu Yunrui to congratulate him. Lu Yunrui also expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the Elf Tribe and the Elf King for their kindness. The atmosphere of the entire banquet was warm and peaceful.
After the banquet, Lu Yunrui immediately bid farewell to Gaia and the elders, indicating that he would be leaving for the Dwarf Race tomorrow morning. He also tactfully declined everyone's offer to send him off. Gaia and the others seemed to have received some hints from Kimura, so they didn't try to stop him. They only planned out their route in detail with Parker.
Before resting, Gaia handed over the ten guards that he had personally selected to Lu Yunrui and appointed his own guard captain, Gu De, to personally lead the team. Moreover, he gave Lu Yunrui two interspatial rings. The storage space of these two rings was more than ten times larger than the one given by Kimura. One had 165 square meters of storage space, while the other had more than 200 square meters. In order to make it easier for Lu Yunrui and the others to camp in the wild and walk on the continent, Gaia had also stored a lot of food, water, and money in the ring.
Early the next morning, Lu Yunrui and the other nineteen people, along with the two unicorns, did not alert anyone in the city. They only greeted the elves in charge of guarding the castle and quietly left the elf castle. They entered the dense forest and embarked on the journey to the dwarves.
There were two roads from the Elf Forest to the Dwarf Clan's encampment: The other was to leave the Yiling Mountain Range where the elves were located, cross the Mandu Plains, and go straight to the Dopmestar Mountain Range on the other side of the plains. Then, they would enter the Dwarf Race's territory along the Sangluo Ancient Road. The entire journey was about 800 kilometers long, and there were countless villages, towns, and cities along the way. The other was to go west along the Yi Ling mountain range, bypass the Mandu Plains, and reach the intersection of the two mountain ranges. Then, they would turn north and enter the Dwarf Race through the Sang Luo Ancient Path. The entire journey was more than 1,700 kilometers, and it was all mountainous. Although this road was more than twice as far as the first one, and it was not as easy to walk as the first one, the advantage was that there were few people along the way, so it would not attract attention. Back then, when the Dwarf Race reinforced the Elf Race, they had taken this path.
Lu Yunrui and the others chose the second option this time. There were three reasons for this. Firstly, there were elves, dwarves, humans (Lu Yunrui and his robots could easily be mistaken for humans), and unicorns among Lu Yunrui's group. No matter where they went, they would attract attention and become the focus of everyone's attention. This was something that Lu Yunrui was deeply afraid of. Secondly, in recent years, driven by profit, many nobles in China, including the royal family, had joined the ranks of poaching elf girls. The relationship between the elves and China had cracked, and they were no longer as close as before. Although the first route was much shorter, more than 80% of the journey was within the borders of China. Lu Yunrui and the others were not safe in China, and it was even risky. Thirdly, Lu Yunrui was anxious to get to the Dwarf Race as soon as possible. He did not want to delay his journey because of an accident. Therefore, after repeated discussions, they finally chose this not-so-easy path to reduce unnecessary trouble.
Along the way, they traveled in the morning and stayed up at night. They only walked sixty to seventy miles a day. When they encountered beautiful scenery, they would stop to admire and play. The group of people walked for nearly two months on the thousand-kilometer road before they arrived near the Mulberry Valley Ancient Road.
The Ancient Path of Mulberry Fall, also known as the Mulberry Fall Canyon, was about 20 kilometers long and was the only path to the Dwarf Race. The road passed between two mountains. Many places were steep mountain walls, and the terrain was very complicated and steep. According to Parker, there had been a group of bandits appearing here all year round in recent years. They often intercepted passing merchants, and the dwarves had sent people to clean them up many times. However, even after searching all the places within a hundred miles that could accommodate people, they could not even find the shadow of the bandits. This made the Dwarf Race feel strange and troubled.
Not long after entering the Ancient Path of Fallen Mulberry, the sound of metal clashing could be heard from afar.
Parker's expression tensed up. He took down the large axe on his back and ran forward quickly.
Lu Yunrui turned her head and saw that the elves were all holding bows in their hands. Alice was also holding her staff tightly.
"Goode, immediately divide the people into two teams. You and Meng Te will each lead a team and be ready to coordinate at any time. Between the two teams, they had to cover and cooperate with each other. Alice followed Good's team. Water Guard, Water One, and the Unicorn, pay attention to their defenses and don't let anyone get close to the sprite. Pay special attention to Alice's safety. Wind Guard and Fire Guard, follow me to the front to see the situation!”Lu Yunrui ordered in a low voice.
After saying that, Lu Yunrui stood up and quickly ran forward. The Wind and Fire Guards followed closely behind. Goode quickly followed Lu Yunrui's instructions and divided the elves into two groups. He protected Alice and then covered her.
After turning a corner, there were two groups of people fighting in the middle of the road ahead. One of them was protecting a group of carriages, which was obviously a caravan. The other group of people were all wearing veils, revealing only their eyes. At a glance, one could tell that they were bandits who were looting.
At this moment, Parker had already started fighting with some of the criminals in charge of guarding the area. The two sides were locked in a fierce battle.
Lu Yunrui immediately waved his hand, signaling for the two guards to join the battle. Second Guard immediately took out his weapon and charged into the battle.
Lu Yunrui carefully sized up the situation on the battlefield and quickly sorted it out.
The caravan was a small team with only sixty to seventy guards. The caravan had obviously been alerted before the attack. The carriages were arranged at the periphery, forming a barrier. The guards protected more than a dozen people dressed as merchants in the middle, hiding behind the vehicles and fighting with the bandits.
There were about 400 to 500 bandits, and there were more than a dozen people on guard at both ends of the road. The rest were attacking the caravan from all sides.
On the left side of the road was a gentle hillside with dense forests on the top. It seemed that the bandits had laid an ambush there and waited for the caravan to enter the road below before rushing out. Moreover, it was very likely that they were afraid that the merchant group would escape, so they first used a portion of their people to stall the merchant group. After sending people to cut off the two ends of the road and make the merchant group a turtle in a jar, they then launched a powerful attack. At this moment, the battle between the two sides had obviously been going on for a while. The bandits had already begun their final attack on the merchant group. Although the guards of the merchant group were brave and had the vehicles as cover, they were too few in number. Under the full force attack of the bandits, they could not hold on. There were a few openings that were broken through by the bandits. As a result, the caravan was in a precarious situation and could be wiped out at any time.
The bandits had obviously done some scouting before they attacked. They had found out that their prey was an isolated caravan, and no one or caravan would pass through in a short period of time. The sudden appearance of Lu Yunrui and the others was clearly out of the bandits 'expectations, and their attacks could not help but slow down.
Although Parker was short, he was very brave. Even though the dozen or so bandits went all-out, they could only barely hold him back. They couldn't do anything to him. With the addition of the two guards, the stalemate was broken.
The Fire Guard thrust his spear at one of the bandits, who hurriedly blocked it with his sword. Unexpectedly, not only did the spear fail to block it, but the long sword was also pierced through by the tip of the spear and broke into two. He could only watch helplessly as the spear entered his body. However, the Fire Guard's spear style did not stop there. Instead, it pierced through the body of this bandit and into the body of another bandit, skewering the two of them together like meat skewers. The two bandits died with disbelief in their eyes. The Fire Guard casually swung his spear and threw out the two corpses hanging on the spear. Then, he took the opportunity to use the " Black Dragon Swinging Tail " move, and two more criminals fell to the ground with their hands on their throats.
On the other side, the Wind Guard wielded a Japanese sword and slashed at the bandit in front of him. The bandit waved his sword to meet him, but he was cut in half along with his sword. His corpse fell to the left and right. The Wind Guard didn't stop and pounced into the middle of the bandits. His knife moved and cut five bandits in half.
Parker had just struck down the second bandit when he suddenly realized that there were no more enemies in front of him. The dozen or so bandits blocking his way had been taken care of by the two guards in the blink of an eye.
While Parker was secretly upset that he hadn't killed to his heart's content, he couldn't help but be secretly shocked by the combat strength of the two guards.
At this moment, Gu De and the others had also turned a corner and came to Lu Yunrui's side. Lu Yunrui gave them some instructions in a low voice, then turned around and rushed towards the caravan.
At the same time, the bandits saw that there weren't many people coming and immediately relaxed. They began to attack the merchant group again. They divided about 200 people and pounced on Lu Yunrui and the others, wanting to eat them and the merchant group in one bite.
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