Chapter 722 723. Prisoner of war camp outside the city
In the central square of Padstow City, the gray dwarf prisoners of war lined up in four long lines and walked slowly out of the portal.
It is noon in Padstow City at this time. The dazzling sunlight shines on the central square, making the square like a large oven. The strong sunlight falls on the skin, and even has a strong sting. feel.
The gray dwarf prisoners of war were wearing dirty linen shirts. Their beards had not been taken care of for almost a week and were almost knotted on their chins. Some beards were even stained with blood.
Arriving in a strange environment, the gray dwarf prisoners of war crowded around coldly, surrounded by a dense forest, making the central square look like a patio.
Gray dwarf prisoners of war will subconsciously stop when they walk out of the portal. At this time, the elf guard at the portal will use the short stick in his hand to stab the dwarves' shoulder blades hard, urging them to move forward quickly to avoid teleportation. Doors cause congestion.
Sometimes the portal is jammed, which may cause the gray dwarf prisoners behind to get lost in unknown space cracks...
Driven by sticks, the gray dwarf prisoners line up, Standing in the extremely sunny square.
Soon the sunlight overhead was gradually blocked by tall trees, and the central square quickly became cooler.
When almost half of the central square was filled with gray dwarf prisoners of war, a group of mixed-blood elven guards came over from the edge of the square. This group of mixed-blood elven guards escorted three thousand gray dwarf prisoners of war out of the square. Walk down the forest road in the city.
The gray dwarf prisoners of war found that both sides of the road were crowded with onlookers of mixed-blood elves. They were all pointing at the dwarf team...
The gray dwarf prisoners of war did not expect that when they walked out of Padstow City from the central square, they actually Walked for most of the day.
The forest road is full of mixed-blood elves, and some mixed-blood elves will even smash some rotten apples on the street and throw them directly into the faces of these gray dwarf prisoners of war.
Seeing the two heavily armed mixed-blood elf guards on the street, the gray dwarf prisoners of war did not dare to make any resistance.
The towering trees on both sides of the street were covered with tree houses of various styles. The gray dwarf prisoners of war kept walking until it was almost dark, and finally arrived at the outskirts of Padstow City. A forest glade.
What kind of forest city is this, and why are there so many elves living there?
The gray dwarf prisoners of war had some new understanding of the elf city...
Some carriages filled with magic herbs were parked on the roadside outside the city. Those standing next to the carriages The mixed elves also looked at the group of gray dwarf prisoners of war with their mouths open. They did not expect that from Padstow City, So many gray dwarves came unexpectedly...
Some Silver Moon Elf merchants were more courageous and asked the mixed-blood elf guards escorting these gray dwarf prisoners of war:
"Sir, Are these gray dwarves going to be sent to Pagisto Plateau to mine?”
"Well, let them help us dig mines to wash away the crimes they committed on the Queen of Evanid Islands."
The half-blood elf guard captain stopped and faced the Silver Moon Elf. said the businessman.
The Silver Moon Elf merchant shouted in surprise: "Are they sent from the Queen Egwene Islands? So the naval battle of the Queen Egwene Islands was won?"
The captain of the half-blood elf guard He looked at him with a matter-of-fact look and stopped talking nonsense to the Silver Moon Elf merchant.
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There was no place large enough in the city to house these gray dwarf prisoners of war, so Roy could only temporarily imprison them in a forest glade outside the city.
Although the forest glade is an open area, after a whole night of arrangements, the forest glade was not only surrounded by fishing nets, but the fishing nets were also covered with thorn vines.
This is a hillside, and there is a river flowing from Padstow City below the hillside.
Nearly a thousand elven archers were deployed around the forest glade.
The exhausted and hungry gray dwarf prisoners of war gradually walked into the forest glade. The half-blood elves used ropes to divide many areas between the trees. There were passages and rest areas near the river. There are also specific areas in the creek area dedicated to fetching water.
The river water is relatively clean, but the river channel is not very wide. There is a waterfall no more than a hundred meters down the river channel.
Miss Christine was standing next to the waterfall riding a Silver Pegasus. Behind her were four Silver Pegasus knights. Looking at the lively prisoner of war camp from a distance, she looked at the Silver Pegasus behind her with some confusion. The horse knight said:
"...That is to say, Captain Roy When he led eight magic airships to the Queen Egwene Islands, he happened to encounter the gray dwarf bandits gathering an army of 100,000 to attack Queen Island. As a result, he used magic explosive arrows to burn the gray dwarf bandits' three-masted sailing ship, so these gray dwarf bandits were defeated. ”
Silver Pegasus The knight quickly explained: "Ahem, in fact, the ancient war tree and the Silver Moon Elf Guard Group who stayed on Queen's Island also contributed to this. In addition, there were four Silver Pegasus Knights in the sky to stop these gray dwarf bandits. They After the gray dwarf bandits were defeated, the gray dwarves who escaped The fleet chased them for three days and three nights."
Miss Christine lowered her head, stroked the mane of the silver pegasus under her, and asked with some confusion: "Then they can't keep going for three days. Flying over the sea, how do they obtain supplies?”
"It was Captain Roy's magic airship that provided the corresponding supplies."
"So, if there is a magic airship in the legion, the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved?"
"Yes, miss." The Silver Pegasus Knight replied.
Miss Christine stopped looking at the gray dwarf bandits in the woods. She reached out and patted the silver pegasus affectionately under her. The silver pegasus spread its white wings and flew violently over the waterfall. Up to the sky.
At this time, the sunset has already set on the mountain, and the sea of trees in the mountains and fields is dyed fiery red.
...
The first thing the gray dwarf bandits did was take a bath by the river.
They are not used to the hot and humid weather in Padstow. Fortunately, these half-blood elf guards did not imprison them directly in the glade, unable to do anything. They can go to the river to fetch water or apply for a bath, but they need a team of gray dwarf prisoners to act in unison.
These gray dwarf prisoners of war did not dare to run away. There were mixed-blood elf archers everywhere.
The gray dwarves even feel that there are some invisible eyes staring at them in the shadows of the surrounding woods. Their sixth sense has always been very keen...
These gray dwarf bandits are very ferocious and brutal when fighting, but they are also very stubborn when they are captured.
A group of gray dwarves came to the creek. The river bank here was actually sand. A group of gray dwarves took off their linen shirts and plunged into the cool river water. They felt that the lost strength returned. Body.
The first thing they did in the river was to wash their beards. A row of big gray dwarves sat in the shallow water, chatting quietly while washing their beards.
“Mushrooms are about to grow on our feet.”
“I thought we would be imprisoned in the prison on Parram Island, but I didn’t expect that we would end up in a forest full of Plane.”
"They actually defeated us with a magic airship. The magic airship was originally a magical technology created by us dwarves. We should also bring the magic airship over, so that they have no advantage at all."
"You Why have we never dared to let magic airships enter the Elf Kingdom?"
"Because those Silver Pegasus Knights happen to be the nemesis of the magic airship. As long as they throw their war spears at the floating device casually, they can destroy the floating device and our magic airship will crash directly."
The gray dwarf bandit leader told the answer, and the group of gray dwarves suddenly fell silent.
They rinsed the linen shirts casually in the river, then wring out the moisture on them, and put them on again.
Some gray dwarves have already walked to the bank from the river. There is not much time for them to bathe. There are still a large number of gray dwarves waiting behind them.
After these gray dwarves got dressed and walked back from the river, they followed the fixed passage surrounded by ropes and came to another empty field. The empty field here was filled with wooden boxes. , a large pile of wooden boxes exudes a rich aroma of apples.
The gray dwarves, who had not eaten any food for a day, immediately felt their stomachs begin to drum. Under the escort of the mixed elf guards, these gray dwarf prisoners of war lined up in a long line and began to walk in front of the pile of wooden boxes. Each gray dwarf would be given two apples.
The gray dwarf bandits actually saw a young human boy among a group of mixed elves distributing apples. He was wearing a set of thick leather armor and a magic pattern structure, and he got out of the wooden box. Take out the green apples and distribute them to these gray dwarf prisoners of war.
A gray dwarf prisoner of war came to the wooden box and curled his lips when he saw that the box was filled with such green apples.
While Roy lowered his head to pick up the apple, he said quickly in Imperial dialect:
"In the elf world, we can actually see humans. Hey, boy, your home Where is it? "
Roy heard a string of imperial words and raised his head with confusion, and happened to see a red-bearded gray dwarf looking at him.
The gray dwarf said in Elvish again: "Why, you can't understand the Imperial language? ...What about Elvish?"
Roy replied casually: "Elvish is fine."
The red-bearded gray dwarf immediately said: "Human boy, let me ask you where your family is from, how come you don't even know the Imperial language?"
His Elvish words immediately attracted many hostile looks around him, and almost all the mixed-blood elves were staring at him.
The red-bearded gray dwarf was frightened and took a step back.
Roy stuffed the green apple into his hand and said casually:
"I have lived in the elf world since I was a child and am used to the life here."
Mixed-blood elves kept bringing baskets of apples to distribute to these gray dwarf prisoners of war.
These gray dwarf prisoners of war walked back and received a palm-sized dried salted fish. This was to supplement the salt content of the gray dwarf bandits. After all, the Partington plane had just entered the hot summer. Pardes Tuocheng is as hot as a steamer.
This group of gray dwarves took a bath, received food, and was escorted back to the rest area assigned to them.
It was just a clearing in the forest, with nothing to cover it. The dwarves could only sit on the ground. Fortunately, the ground was not too wet.
The gray dwarf prisoners of war were gnawing green apples and talking quietly.
“Hey, they took away our beans and gave us these sour rotten apples...”
“Be content, you can think of it this way, at least we still have Can eat green apples ”
“ Why is there still a fish? It’s better than nothing.”
The beans and barley on the three-masted sailboat were confiscated by the Silver Pegasus Knights, and the Silver Moon elves were going to feed them with these beans and barley. Horses, in short, will not be given to gray dwarf prisoners of war.
The duergar bandit sat in the glade and gnawed at an apple.
Some gray dwarves found some spores like horse dung eggs under a big tree, and they immediately separated the horse dung bags.
Some gray dwarves crush these horse dung eggs in their palms and smear them on wounds to avoid inflammation...
"I didn't expect the elves to be sent to a place. In the Virgo plane, this is not like their style!”
“To be honest, it doesn’t seem to be as bad here as I thought,”
"At least we are not hungry or beaten."
The only one who felt a little uncomfortable was sitting in the forest wearing a linen shirt. There were small flying insects everywhere in the forest. The flying insects could not bite the dwarf's thick hair. But it can leave some marks on their armpits, wrists, ankles, and necks.
It’s hot, humid, and there’s greasy moss everywhere.
The gray dwarves don't like the smell emanating from the vegetation.
As the gray dwarf prisoners of war gradually arrived in the forest glade, the entire hillside was filled with gray dwarf prisoners of war, densely packed in the darkness.
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Roy was even a little worried. Once the gray dwarf prisoners of war discovered that the half-blood elf guards were not strong enough, they would suddenly launch a riot in the forest glade, even if they did not make any counterattack and just fled into the Padstow Forest. , it is impossible for the three thousand mixed-blood elf guards to stop them at present.
Roy is not completely unprepared. The assassin group is currently guarding outside the temporary prisoner of war camp here.
That guy Tennyson even hoped that there would be some bloody guys among these gray dwarf bandits who could escape from the prison camp in the dead of night.
Because there is such an unwritten rule in the Partington plane, prisoners of war who escape without authorization will be killed during the pursuit, regardless of whether they are Silver Moon elves or other races.
Tennyson just wanted to implement this no-no rule to the end...
A group of mixed-blood elven guards stood on the surrounding big trees. They all held forest bows in their hands and stared at these gray dwarf prisoners of war warily.
In fact, the archery skills of the mixed-blood elf guards are pretty good. Ordinary forest bows plus feather arrows are still very lethal in front of these unarmored gray dwarves.
The entire forest glade is filled with gray dwarf prisoners of war.
Roy checked around the prison camp and found that after the gray dwarf prisoners ate the two apples and a small dried fish in their hands, they all became quiet. Everyone huddled together and lay down. Sleeping soundly on the forest floor without any worries.
It was almost dawn in Padstow City when the last group of duergar arrived at the prisoner-of-war camp in the Glades.
Roy touched his forehead helplessly when he saw the green apples brought by the mixed elves from the apple orchard.
He was a little afraid to think about whether the gray dwarf prisoners of war would riot after eating green apples for several days.
But apart from these fruits, Padstow City has nothing else to fill the stomachs of these gray dwarf prisoners of war.
After being busy all night, Roy was also at the temporary canteen in the morning, handing out green apples to gray dwarf prisoners of war.
He was here not just to distribute apples to the gray dwarves. He took advantage of several gray dwarf prisoners of war to sit together and gnaw on sour apples. Can't understand.
Finally Roy waited until the gray dwarf with the red beard last night. When he saw him again in the morning, he had already braided his red beard into three beautiful little braids.
Roy picked two larger apples and threw them to the red-bearded gray dwarf. The red-bearded gray dwarf asked Roy in Elvish: "Why are you still sharing apples here?" Didn't you rest all night? These elves always don't treat us dwarves and humans as human beings..."
"It's not a bad job, it's not tiring to share the apples," Roy responded casually.
“I remember that last time you attacked the Queen Egweni Islands, you failed to defeat them. Why are you thinking of attacking the Queen Islands again this time? That island is a strategic location, and the elves will never let it out. ”
The red-bearded gray dwarf was slightly startled when he heard what Roy said. His expression became a little helpless, and he spread his hands and said to Roy:
"There is nothing we can do! We also want to survive... …”
(End of this chapter)