Chapter 1498: Captain of the Guard
Soon, the two mutants and Qin Lang had approached the caravan, and when they were close to the caravan fifty yards, Qin Lang and the two mutant clones were stopped by the caravan's guards.
This caravan consisted of 300 people, of which more than half were guards.
"What person?" The captain of the caravan's guard was a burly man who seemed to be doing his best, but he was not a cultivator, but a martial artist with a mid-stage martial god cultivation, and the strength of this mid-level martial artist was similar to that of a cultivator in the Yuan Infant Stage.
And most of the guards in the caravan were also martial artists of the Martial King level, and of course, there were also three or four cultivators in the Dan stage among them.
The martial arts style is prevalent in the Qinghe Continent, and almost everyone among mortals practices martial arts, and these martial artists above the level of martial arts are among the leaders, all of them are mortals who do not have the qualifications to cultivate the true spiritual root, and most of them are from some small families.
And to be able to cultivate above the level of the Martial King, these people have definitely spent more time than the cultivators, the overall strength of the guards of this caravan in front of them is not weak, there are about seventy people at the level of the Martial King, and the remaining sixty or seventy people are all martial artists in the late stage of the Martial King, and they almost become the appearance of the Martial King.
Suddenly, several strangers appeared, and the captain of the guard was very vigilant.
After all, the value of the goods to be protected this time is quite large, and there is no room for carelessness. There is no sympathy even for the wicked.
"Hello, we're passers-by from afar, and we want to join your caravan for some time, I wonder if we can?" the S-class mutant electronic synth sounded.
Hearing the electronic synthesis voice of the clone No. 1, not only the martial artist in the middle stage of the martial god, but even the other guards next to him were stunned, what kind of exercises did this guy practice, and why did this strange sound appear.
Moreover, they all felt that the three people in front of them were extremely strange.
Isn't it weird? The three people in front of them are dressed differently from the Qinghe Continent at all, the two mutant clones are all a black suit, and the clothes on Qin Lang's body are also a new set of casual clothes, these caravan guards have not seen these strange clothes for many years.
In their induction, the three guys in front of them ...... The two mutant clones didn't look like mortals at all, they should be powerful beings who had cultivated some kind of special technique.
But how powerful the two mutant clones are, they don't know, and now the two mutant clones have a restrained aura and can't sense cultivation at all, and they don't know whether these two mutant clones are martial artists or cultivators.
As for Qin Lang's words, it seems to be a little more normal now, he should be a cultivator.
Qin Lang, who was recovering from his serious injuries, could not move now, and his cultivation had fallen to the bottom, and there was no sign of the flow of true yuan power in his body, which looked inferior to a cultivator in the foundation building period, but they automatically ignored Qin Lang.
They took the initiative to regard Qin Lang as the weakest of the three, so they didn't need to pay much attention to it at all, in fact, Qin Lang's current physical condition was indeed the same.
The captain of the guard looked like a very bold guy, and he sighed for a moment and said, "It's not impossible for you to join the caravan, but I have to ask my master first." ”
After speaking, the burly man ran to the center of the caravan and asked the caravan owner in the caravan in the center of the caravan, after all, the captain of the guard was only the leader responsible for guarding the safety of the caravan, and the caravan was really in charge of the caravan's owner.
After a while, the burly man ran back: "My master agrees with you to join the caravan, but you have to be careful not to get close to the caravan in the center of the caravan, which is where my master and the ladies stay, and they don't want outsiders to get close." ”
"Okay, no problem. S-class mutant clone One sensed.
In this way, Qin Lang and the two mutant clones temporarily joined the caravan escort team and began their journey to the nearest oasis.
Because Qin Lang seemed to be very fragile, the kind-hearted captain of the guard also freed up a horse in the team and let Qin Lang ride.
"Thank you. Qin Lang couldn't speak yet, but just manipulated the clone No. 1 to express his gratitude to this burly man.
"Hehe, it's not easy to go out, since I see that I can help, I will try to help as much as I can...... My name is Tan Cheng, and I am the captain of the guard of this Qiao family's caravan. The burly man smiled.
"I am the first, this is the second brother of my brother, and the one who has just recovered from a serious illness is our son-in-law Qin Lang. "S-class mutant clone One, who also followed the customs, gave new names to both mutants.
After that, the two mutants called them one and two and began to talk to Tan Cheng.
During the conversation, Tan Cheng found that no matter how he talked with these two mutants, the atmosphere between the two sides seemed strange, and there was no expression on the faces of the first and second species, and they all looked very old-fashioned, but the content of the conversation was very eager.
"Maybe there is something wrong with this kind of cultivation method of the first and second brothers, so he has lost the emotions that a normal person should have!" Tan Cheng can only guess like this now, in fact, mutants have no emotions at all, but he doesn't know this.
After talking for a while, Qin Lang also got some very useful information, the Western Desert in front of him was much larger than the Southern Regions, and the area was almost three or four times that of the entire Southern Regions.
And the Qiao family is a big family called Luliuzhou more than 800 miles ahead, there are more than 100,000 people in Luliuzhou, and it is a small desert oasis where mortals and cultivators live together, with a total of four or five families.
The Qiao family has a population of 2,000, ranking second in the strength of Luliuzhou, the family has three Yuan Infant Stage cultivators, and the ancestor of the family is even more in the middle of the Yuan Infant Period, and it can be regarded as a medium family in the entire Western Desert.
After knowing that Luliuzhou had a Fang Market supplied by the Xiuzhen Realm, Qin Lang also secretly calculated that he was going to stay in Luliuzhou for a while to recuperate his body, but he had just come to the Western Desert from the clear light of the earth, and if he wanted to get some resources, pills or something, he had to think of more ways to do it himself.
This caravan of 300 people has more than 500 mules and horses, with an average of two mules pulling a cart, these carts are full of goods traded from far away, and the Qiao family will basically run a long distance every two months to supplement the resources needed by the family.
After chatting with the two mutant clones controlled by Qin Lang for a while, the captain of the guard, Tan Cheng, felt that there was nothing to talk about, and the three of them didn't seem suspicious, and they were definitely not horse thieves and spies that the caravan needed to watch out for, so after that, Tan Chengcheng directly transferred to other parts of the caravan to inspect.
And Qin Lang was also happy to calm down, silently operating the true yuan power in his body, and began to slowly recuperate and recover himself.
After all, at the current speed of the caravan, the journey of more than 800 miles would take at least six or seven days to travel, and it was still too early to reach the oasis.
In the next few days, the escort team also discovered some special places for Qin Lang and the three of them, in addition to Qin Lang needing to feed some liquid food every day, Qin Lang's two subordinates didn't know what exercises they had practiced, so they didn't need to eat every day, and they didn't even need to drink water.
In this way, they are even more convinced that the cultivators of the first and second species are cultivators, and they are cultivators who have reached the realm of Bigu above the Dan stage, because those cultivators above the Dan stage in the caravan can achieve this level.
However, even if those cultivators in the caravan who were above the Dan stage were able to clear the valley, they still ate like normal people every day, after all, the cultivation life of cultivators was long and boring, and the appetite became one of the few pleasures for most cultivators.
Speaking of which, a few cultivators in the guard team in the caravan admired the first and second species, although they didn't know what the strength of these two mutant clones was, but this kind of strict discipline and ascetic-like lifestyle was really not something that ordinary people could not adhere to.
It's just that what they don't know is that the body structure of mutants is completely different from that of humans, and they are completely equipped with the energy required to maintain the body by nuclear fission, while the nuclear energy chip template of the first and second bodies is very energetic, and it is no problem to maintain the operation of the two clones for more than one or two years.
The weather in the West Desert is very dry, but it is not hot, which is also one of the regional characteristics, and everyone has not sweated for three or four days.
There are still two or three days to reach the oasis, and everyone's spirit is beginning to become relaxed at this time, you must know that it is not easy to run a business, the entire Western Desert horse thieves are rampant, there are dozens of horse thieves of almost all sizes, and the strength of these horse thieves is very strong, and some of them can't even provoke the guards of the Qiao family's caravan.
Fortunately, this time the running business went very smoothly, the back and forth was almost twenty days, and now it was almost over, and the materials exchanged this time were enough for the Qiao family to support for nearly two months, and the next time the business ran was two months later.
And just as the entire caravan began to become lax because it was getting closer and closer to the goal, Tan Cheng, the captain of the guard, became solemn at this time and stopped the caravan from moving forward.
"There is a situation! Everyone, pay attention, array!" As a martial artist in the middle stage of the Martial God, Tan Cheng's sensing ability is very keen, even if the divine sense sensing ability of those few cultivators in the Dan Stage is not comparable to this escort captain, this is probably the real reason why Tan Cheng's prestige in the entire escort team is so high.
After all, a martial artist whose strength has reached the middle stage of the Martial God should not be underestimated, even in the face of a cultivator in the Yuan Infant Stage, there is no need to show weakness, such a strength is indeed qualified to command the entire escort team.
With Tan Cheng's order, the entire caravan began to circulate, and the vehicles set up a defensive formation.
At this time, a large number of horses' hooves were heard in the distance, like thunder, coming to this side, and then a large number of dense small black dots came into view.
"It's a horse thief! There are at least more than a hundred ......" Tan Cheng squinted his eyes slightly and looked into the distance, he was also a figure who had guarded Qiao's running merchants for many years, and he had experienced dozens of battles in large and small formations, and the ordinary small group of horse thieves really didn't pay much attention to it.
Under Tan Cheng's methodical command, the entire caravan seemed very calm, and this defensive formation had been set up before the horse thieves arrived, but when the group of horse thieves in front of him approached, Tan Cheng's face suddenly changed.