The Last Caravan

To the north of Changyuan, a portal swallows monsters day and night. The Celestial Empire has been fighting chaos for three hundred years, the treasury is exhausted, and the mountains and rivers are about to collapse - but for the time being, it is not the turn of Guo Shishi, the steward of the Ministry of Household Affairs, to worry about. He is a profiteer who only cares about money and money. The emperor appointed him to lead a caravan on an envoy to the empire, and he was overjoyed: traveling at public expense, selling private goods along the way, and even picking up a treasure from the treasury. He picked a compass, put two secret letters in his pocket, and happily left the seclusion with five weirdos who had their own thoughts. Along the way, he coaxed ogres, dodged orcs, and battled wits with black dwarves, thinking about how much money he could make in the empire. What he didn't know was that one day the compass would point in a direction he didn't dare to look at; one of the two secret letters he should never open in his life. He thought this errand was a piece of pie in the sky, but little did he know that fate was already at the end of the road, waiting to collect his debt.