Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 151 Mountain Cabin
After pondering for a long time, Li Wei took out the one-star pet card from his palm.

Even before it was activated, he could sense the trembling of the Blood Raven skull in his arms.

The two are indeed related, but he has no intention of touching the Blood Raven Skull; he only wants to activate the pet card.

There's a saying: "The camp remains, but the soldiers come and go."

The same applies here. Pet cards are fixed and won't drop unless the pet dies. A pet card can only hold one pet at a time, but if a pet dies, you can continue searching for more pets.

This principle is simple and easy to understand.

The next moment, Li Wei successfully activated the one-star pet card. As expected, he felt nothing, as if nothing had happened, and there was not even a notification. He activated a lonely card, and even the hunter card was indifferent to it.

Only the blood raven skull in his arms trembled slightly more frequently, but not in the way it trembled when receiving commands from the black-robed witch.

"Sure enough, I've used up all the potential of my Hunter Cards on archery and throwing, and there's really no extra potential left to develop pet training."

Li Wei wasn't surprised; there's no such thing as having your cake and eating it too.

In the future, he will have to train from scratch, for example, by catching some chicks or ants as pets, and training and improving little by little. This process will be very difficult and very long.

Let's leave it at that for now.

Li Wei stopped worrying about it and completely abandoned the idea that her first pet would be a crow.

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Nothing happened overnight. The next morning, after making a fire and cooking breakfast, Li Wei and his group of six continued their journey.

With the route cleared yesterday, today's journey is significantly easier, as we can avoid cliffs, steep slopes, and rocky areas to the greatest extent possible. Even if it means taking a longer route and pushing the cart more difficult, it's still better than carrying the wheelbarrow.

Anyway, around 10 a.m., they had already walked more than 30 miles and arrived at their second campsite.

The area offers a wide view, is on higher ground, and has a mountain stream flowing a few hundred meters away, making it ideal for setting up camp. This was all scouted by Li Wei in advance.

In short, apart from being a little tired and hot, the five of them were at least twice as relaxed as yesterday, and they were all secretly impressed with themselves.

Indeed, a skilled warrior achieves little without a glorious victory.

To become the head of a family is no ordinary feat; and so, without making a sound, advantages have been accumulated little by little.

"Same as always, Liu Zhongyuan, you're in charge of setting up camp and cooking. Clyde and Coras's group will go fetch water and patrol the surrounding area. Charles and Pang Wu's group will go gather firewood and cut down a few trees of similar quality. I plan to build a mountain supply station at this location."

Supply station?
All five men were stunned. This place was in the middle of nowhere, deserted and not even frequented by bandits. "Sir, have you lost your mind? We haven't even started buying salt yet, and you're already thinking about this?"

But Li Wei didn't explain at all; he had seen this place yesterday and thought it was excellent.

First of all, this place is about sixty miles from the family camp, which is not a long distance. In particular, the first twenty miles are flat roads, and the remaining forty miles, if built according to the route explored by Li Wei, can certainly be a qualified mountain path, if not perfect.

Pushing a wheelbarrow, even a mercenary with first-level physical strength could make a round trip in a day.

Secondly, the location here is right in the middle of four mountain ranges.

The mountains to the east are not high and have a gentle slope.

The mountains to the north are very tall, standing like a barrier in the north.

Then there's the mountain range to the west. Li Wei estimates that once you cross that mountain range, you'll see the road; it won't be more than fifty li away.

Finally, there are the mountains to the south. They are not very high, but they are undulating and densely forested, which serves as a decent barrier.

In short, building a mountain transit station and supply depot here, taking advantage of the terrain, is very suitable.

Of course, all of this is contingent on Li Wei being able to find a town in the north that can supply salt.

In this way, it would be possible to bypass the city of Kah and trade with other places.

It was at least one-sided trade.

However, this would immediately bring the conflict with Kah City to the forefront.

However, that's a problem that the head of the family will have to worry about later. Anyway, he opened up a trade route, so can you say that's not a contribution?
Right.

Next, Li Wei personally helped with logging, site selection, foundation digging, and tunneling.

When Clyde returned with the water, everything was under his control, and he worked on it until evening. The main structure of a sturdy mountain cabin, which was still lacking a roof, was completed.

"Sir, if you want to operate this mountain supply station for a long time, it would be best to bring some lime from the camp and fire some tiles. However, if it is only for a short time, this is easier. I can make sure that the mountain hut will not leak tomorrow."

"Alright, we'll stay here for a day tomorrow and fix this little house."

Li Wei nodded, agreeing with Clyde's suggestion.

The night passed quickly, and a new day dawned. After breakfast, Clyde directed his four mercenaries to get busy.

Li Wei, however, picked up his shovel and continued to explore the path ahead.

This exploration still mainly involved taking detours, avoiding steep areas as much as possible, and occasionally digging out a path.

However, part of this thirty-mile journey was quite difficult to traverse. After surveying the surrounding area five times, Li Wei finally decided to take another detour.

The journey that could have been completed in thirty li was extended to nearly sixty li.

However, this route was mostly flat, meeting the standards of a mountain path and even qualifying as a main road. As night fell, Li Wei was still sixty miles away, but he had successfully found the road connecting Kah City to the northern province of Ver.

All he needs to do is dig a side road and put up a signpost, and the trade route will be basically set in place.

Of course, we can't do that right now.

When Li Wei returned to the mountain cabin, it was already midnight.

Clyde is quite reliable; today they not only built a roof for the hut, but also reinforced the floor with two layers of rammed stones.

The first layer is gravel and fine sand, the second layer is stone slabs, and a layer of wooden planks can be added in the future.

Liu Zhongyuan even set up a stove in the small house.

It's nice that you can hang smoked meat on the roof.

The small house has a total area of ​​eighty square meters, which is enough.

That night, Li Wei didn't keep watch. Everyone blocked the door, pushed the wheelbarrow into the room, and slept soundly.

As dawn broke, everyone got up to cook, but a light drizzle began to fall outside. After they had just finished eating, the rain suddenly intensified and continued unabated.

The stream swelled, a flash flood occurred, and thunder rumbled occasionally.

It looked like we wouldn't be able to walk anymore.

The group looked at each other, but could only secretly feel lucky. In this kind of weather, not only would the supplies on the wheelbarrow be soaked, but they themselves would not be able to withstand it either.

As a result, because of Li Wei's orders, they are now hiding in a leak-proof cabin, chatting and joking around, with hot meals and enough firewood to use. Well, they had collected a lot before. Since this is a mountain supply cabin, how can it be without firewood?

Gee!

Awesome!
They could even imagine what the others in the family camp would think at that moment, probably imagining six people soaked to the bone.

Hahaha!
The heavy rain lasted all day, only gradually stopping around four or five in the afternoon.

The golden sun peeked out from behind the clouds, illuminating the world with a pristine glow.

A rainbow hung in the sky, like a dream bridge connecting all the worlds. Here, they fought bloody battles, barely surviving, neither human nor ghost.

Over there lies their long-lost hometown, where they were just little kids, peeing and playing in the mud, farting and causing puddles, with childhood sweethearts and innocent playmates.

I can still vaguely see familiar figures, and I can almost hear laughter and my mother's calls.

But we can't go back!
Today is the fourth day of this month.

Around noon tomorrow, they will enter that main road, and many things may happen there—they may encounter bandits, caravans, or the lord's army.
Everything is unknown.

Li Wei had no good solution to this. He looked at the sky and went into the mountains alone. As night was about to fall, he returned carrying a deer, a small elk.

Everyone watched with admiration, especially Pang Wu, whose eyes were red with envy. He was also a three-star hunter, but he had only hunted one-star deer a handful of times in the past few years.

"Sir, may I help you break it down?"

Korath ran over to fawn over Li Wei, who glanced at him. The next second, Korath had already handed over a gold coin without Li Wei noticing.

Hmm, this child is teachable.

In fact, even if Korath is decomposed, the contribution gained will all go to Li Wei, but there is one exception: this process will increase the Butcher's Fate.

This is a truth that many mercenaries only understand after they become mercenaries.

A person's career destiny may not be immediately apparent, but its actual impact is so significant that no one can ignore it.

Kolas's dismantling is actually much better than Li Wei's, and can even surpass the previous version of Fila No. 1. After all, he is a three-star killer, and the deer hides he skins are quite excellent.

The next day, Li Wei and his group of six set off again. Some supplies were left behind in the cabin, including some venison that needed to be dried further, but the deerskin was taken with them.

The roads are undoubtedly more difficult to travel due to yesterday's flash floods, but even so, it is still easier than crossing the mountains.

They set off at five in the morning and by noon they had successfully arrived near the main road, about ten miles away.

Here, Li Wei had already marked a place where he could camp.

"We could build another mountain cabin here as a rest stop."

After lunch, Li Wei pondered for a long time before issuing another order.

Building a cabin won't take much time, but it can greatly improve the quality of your camping trip.

He wasn't sure what the situation would be like when he bought salt and grain, but as a prudent person, it was very necessary to build two wooden huts in this desolate mountain forest, with firewood, stoves, and shelter from the rain.

Especially since it's the rainy season in August, who knows when it will rain?
When the time comes, they will be transporting hundreds of kilograms of grain, and they won't even have anywhere to take shelter from the rain.

The first wooden house on the east side is 60 li away from the family camp, and the second wooden house is 50 li away from the first wooden house, which is quite good.

And so, the group ended up staying there for another day.

(End of this chapter)