Chapter 316: Desert Oasis
In desert areas, tornadoes are frequent, and when it leaves, new dunes and valleys appear on the ground. Seeing mortals trudging through the ground, constantly facing the threat of lack of water, getting lost, sandstorms, and sand thieves, she once again sighed at the benefits of her supernatural powers.
Contrary to what most people think, this desert is vast, but it is not a dead place. There are more than a dozen large oases in the desert, and people have built more cities and cities than any other state or county. But after all, the desert is barren and there is no oil and water to scrape, so this big state is the junction of the three forces, in other words, it is a gray area of the three sides.
Therefore, this is also a paradise for lone monsters and loose cultivators, and many shady transactions like to be carried out here. What Fu Yunchang and his entourage went to was the oasis city of Kashna, which is also the largest gold cave and trading ground in this desert.
Tu Duan learned from the robbers' memories that Fu Yunchang's small gang called themselves "immortal bandits", all of which were composed of loose cultivators and lone monsters, and these two types of immortal cultivators were not allowed to be in the famous sects, so the resources for cultivating immortals were much scarcer than those of the children in the sect. Not to mention anything else, among the lucky people who have successfully survived the tribulation in the past five thousand years, none of them are scattered immortals or lone demons, which shows that the path of these two types of people to cultivate immortals is rugged and difficult.
Since you don't want anything, then simply rob, rob, and blackmail. Fu Yunchang formed this small gang of immortal bandits, and he actually succeeded repeatedly in the past few decades, and there were countless immortal sects and demon sects that he had harmed, but first, he was very principled not to provoke the big sects, and secondly, he usually only robbed magic weapons and property without harming people's lives. In the Land of the Northwest. Although everyone hated this immortal bandit when they mentioned it, they didn't have a blood grudge against them, and Fu Yunchang was cautious and cunning. Decide and then act, you will leave a way back for the team, and immediately after the first blow is successful, you will take the bandits away and fly away, so you have been at large and have not been caught.
There is a way to rob the stolen goods, and there must also be a channel to sell the stolen goods. Many cities in the desert oasis are their usual places to sell stolen goods, and this time the fairy bandits went to Kashna. However, this time, Fu Yunchang rushed to deliver medicine to his family to relieve the plague. Therefore, the stolen goods were handed over to his younger brother to be sold. Fu Yunchang is no matter how smart he is, after all, he has not participated in the ceremony of Guangcheng Palace, and he doesn't know that this small mirror is actually related to the safety of the world. He took it in his hand and looked at it twice. Not thinking anything out of the ordinary, he gave it to his men and took it into the city with the rest of the things, and prepared to get rid of it according to the usual channels for selling the stolen goods.
In Tu Quan's analysis, Fu Yunchang, the leader of the immortal bandits, never came in person. The success rate of Ning Xiaoxian and his party has skyrocketed.
The demerated soul clone is easy to use and conceal. But there are also flaws. You have to rely on your physical body to travel, you can't travel thousands of miles a day in broad daylight, it took a lot of time to rush back to the valley where Ning Xiaoxian was, so after all, the immortal bandits would arrive in Kashna one step earlier than them.
To be honest, in her imagination, the so-called desert oasis is a shallow puddle of water emerging from the yellow sand, and green algae floating in the water. Tall palm trees and shrubs grow nearby, and perhaps humans have set up tents here. It's a messy scene everywhere.
But it wasn't until she saw the city of Kashna with her own eyes that she was deeply ashamed of her loneliness.
The city was indeed built on the water's edge, but it was surrounded by eight huge freshwater lakes! These eight oases are like pearls in the desert, the smallest of which is the size of three standard football fields. The water was clear and translucent, and the oases weren't entirely green, at least one of the eight oases she saw was reddish and one was light pink, which was said to have something to do with the algae that grew at the bottom of the lake.
The abundant water vapor changes the landscape. The eight oases may be interconnected underground, so there are not only beautiful and tall poplar forests, but also water grass fields, green meadows, low but dense jungles, and even large swamps. As a city that connects various oases, Kashna has low earthen walls and simple houses, which are simply the best endorsement of horizontal and vertical, but the flow of people in the city is unexpectedly huge. Almost every half hour, caravans from afar enter the city through the Guò checkpoint to sell wine, silk, tea or other local products from other regions.
As a city in the desert, Kashna is hungry for daily necessities. Of course, this is only the appearance that mortals see. For all the immortal cultivators who know about it, you can buy almost a qiē must-have here, provided you have enough spirit stones in your pocket, and you have a precise and sharp eye, and you have an excellent sense of danger.
If there are still immortal sect demon sects in other states and counties, then these oasis cities in the desert are governed by the local forces themselves, and whoever has the big fist is the boss. After thousands of years of fighting, order was born out of the chaos, that is, the forces composed of local snakes and local factions maintained the local ecological balance.
The immortals live here together, and people have long been accustomed to seeing the sassy and heroic posture of the immortals falling from the sky. However, it is said that the devil hides in the details, so no matter how tight the time is, Ning Xiaoxian also ordered Qizai to find a corner outside the city and descend, and the three of them walked into Kashna City. I don't know how many pairs of eyes are fixed on strangers in this city, and she doesn't want to impress people too much.
She and Tu Duan both used a trick to cover their eyes, Qizai's appearance was too conspicuous, and the fairy bandits had already seen its little white bird form, so it could only reluctantly transform into a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy in white. Chongming Bird has a phoenix crest on his head, so after he became a human, he also retains a Mogansi-style hairstyle, very much like the young people she likes to wear tight leather clothes and leather pants in China, and have a thick hairspray on his head.
The city of Kashna is huge, and it looks like it has a population of at least 700,000 or 800,000 people. The plague that ravaged the south-central region of the Southern Ganbu Continent had not yet spread here, so the whole city looked a little chaotic and a little wild, but it was very vibrant. When he searched for Ning Xiaoxian in Zixiao Palace, he activated his divine power to search for everyone's divine soul imprints, and he could also use this old method now, but there was a lot of confusion here, and he couldn't be sure that this powerful power would attract some powerful attention, which would cause unnecessary trouble. So what he wants to track now is the mark he left behind.
He left a very inconspicuous imprint on the unfortunate man he possessed, and the man himself was not aware of it, but in the eyes of the smeared eye, this mark was like a beacon to guide the direction and location of the target, and it would not fade until three days later.
Now he stood in front of the crowd, closed his eyes and felt it for a moment, and then chased in the direction of the imprint. This is the main street, and it is crowded, but the three of them are extraordinary people, and they can move fast like fish in a crowd.
Half an hour later, they were standing in front of a square building. The buildings in the northwest of Nanbu Continent are very different from those in Middle-earth, and the exterior walls of this building are actually pasted with slightly reflective light blue bricks, and the two huge pillars at the entrance that are hugged by three people also show a completely different character from the mainland. As soon as Ning Xiaoxian saw these two pillars, his face turned red, because the carvings on these pillars were two half-naked women dressed in tulle, with plump breasts and fat buttocks, and they were beautiful.
Directly above the porch was painted with three curved lines, which were a common sign of the pan-continent, so everyone understood that this was a bathhouse, that is, a bathhouse, and maybe it was the kind that could provide special services. No matter who comes to Kashna, they will want to take a hot bath. Monks are also promoted from mortals, and the habits they have developed since childhood cannot be broken. The geothermal resources of this desert city are actually quite abundant, and of course there are VIP rooms in the hot spring pool hall opened for the noble monks and lords.
In a word, if you have money, you can live a fairy-like life in Kashna.
However, his face was not good-looking, because he realized that he was negligent. The bandit who was marked by him obviously did not have a high status in the entire team, so every time he went to the desert oasis cities, such a skilled job as selling stolen goods would be done by the leader, and he usually had fun with others to relax his nervous mood. Robbers are not ordinary people who can do this kind of work, although they are monks, they do not eat the fireworks of the world, but after doing this business for a long time, sometimes they also need the pleasure of ordinary people to relax their muscles and relieve stress.
For security reasons, Fu Yunchang never let them follow him to sell the stolen goods, so that once someone is caught by mistake, the team's secrets will not be exposed. So now this guy and several leaders of the fairy bandits have parted ways temporarily, and they are lying down comfortably in the hot water, enjoying the massage of the beauty, and Ning Xiaoxian and their clues have been interrupted here.
"In this person's memory, can there be a general direction?" "It's good to give a direction, otherwise Kashna is so big, and they are unfamiliar with life, where to find it?"
"Nope. Tu Duan expressed his pity, "Fu Yunchang is very careful, every time he waits for his gang to disperse and leave, he will take Qing'er to find the person who joins him." In the whole team, there will be no more than three people who know the secret sales location of each city. ”
"Three, but Fu Yunchang, Qing'er, and He Laosi?" Seeing Tu Duan nodding, she muttered, "Fu Yunchang sent the medicine, and most of the Qing'er who was the Dan Master also accompanied him, so it was convenient to treat them nearby, so the only leader who stayed in this city to sell the stolen goods was probably He Laosi." This guy may not be as careful as Fu Yunchang, maybe he can take advantage of it. ”
Tu Duan said softly: "I'll go in and find those people and see if I can get any more clues." (To be continued......)