"This is the desert sea," said Hajvi Yakel, pulling the reins, and Juvi leading his horse to his side, and the two of them stood together on the low mountain bag. "After crossing the desert sea, walking for half a day, we will return to the town of peace, if it is fast enough, at noon the day after tomorrow, or early in the morning of the day after tomorrow, we will be able to get out of the desert sea. ”

The desert sea is not really a sea, but a desert like an ocean. Behold the empty desert stretched out before them, flat and vast to the end of the sky. Countless dark gray desert weeds swayed in the wind, and the desert turned into a gray sea in their eyes, and the weeds were waves. There are no mountains, hills, trees and jungles, there are only "seas".

"I remember that there were many Yodelman villages in the desert sea. Guard Hu Wei said.

"Yes, most of them are to avoid taxes and conscriptions, and there are some outlaws who carry their lives on their backs," said Baron Hydgwick in a deep voice, "like weeds here, they come here without being subject to the control of the kingdom, without paying taxes, without responding to conscription, without having to bear the consequences of their crimes." They became the daughters of the sea, and they drifted here to endure the winds and the cold. As he spoke, he tightened his leather coat.

Guarding Juan couldn't help but wonder when he heard this, "How did they survive here, there is no water source, it is not suitable for farming, and there is a lack of women. ”

"Humans can adapt to any environment, I have smuggled into the Endless Forest with the mercenary team before, at the edge of the Endless Forest, I have seen savage villages, they will exchange items with mercenaries in the past, they need food, mercenaries need gems in their hands, and mercenaries with luck can also exchange a few bags of rice for magic crystals worth thousands of gold coins. Juan, the elder brother of Juvi, sacrificed himself to protect his wife and daughter, and when he learned the news from the handwritten letter of that beautiful wife, he directly regarded Juvi as his own brother. ”

"I'm bastard. Juvi graciously admits that he has nothing to hide from Hajvi Yakel, "The union of the Odin with the Yodelmen is brown hair, and I am half-sibling to Juan. ”

"Oh, I see. "If it weren't for Juan's gratitude, he would never have paid attention to this yodelman boy, Jodelman...... Then he remembered the blue hat, the blue hat that had taken his daughter away while he was away. At that moment, he heard the sound of hurried and messy footsteps, and looked back.

After he and Hu Wei saw the outline of the wasteland sea, they galloped forward and left the team far behind, could it be that they encountered the enemy at the time of this meal? The light armor of the two personal guards was shattered, as if they had been smashed by a blunt object, and blood flowed from their mouths to their broken chests. He watched the two pro-soldiers staggering in front of him, and then reacted, and quickly dismounted to support the body of a pro-soldier guard. Hu Wei guarded the other soldier while his hand rested on the sword at his waist.

Haijvi Yakel looked around, but there was no sign of the enemy, and the group was hanging not far away, moving forward unhurriedly. What's going on?, the team is all right, why are his own soldiers injured, "What about the others?" He has ten personal soldiers, and there are three people in front of him, "What about the remaining seven people, what happened?" Suddenly having a bad premonition, he asked the two injured soldiers in front of him urgently.

"They've killed you, sir!" said one of the soldiers for a long time before he squeezed out a few words, "The guys have conspired, saying that we are going to murder Baron Paderman, and when we are not looking, they rush forward!

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Time froze at this moment, and at this frozen moment, the wrinkles on Hajvi Yakel's face deepened a few points, as if at this very moment, he was ten years old.

"You take care of them!" he said to Hu Wei, "and don't follow me." ”

Haijivi Yakel threw two wounded soldiers to Hu Wei, turned on his horse, and rushed down the hill alone!

"Don't go, sir!" shouted Hu Wei behind him, looking after the two guard brothers, he couldn't keep up with Shanghai Jiwei's footsteps.

The slopes were steep and thorny, but there was no fear in Hajvi Yakel's eyes. He knew he might never return to the south, and it wasn't until he ran to the front of the group that Hajvi Yaker realized the folly of his impulsiveness.

On the spear hung the head of his own soldier, Sideman's son, Steku Yatong

"Hajvi Yakel," Sdeku Yatong raised his spear and flaunted, "Look who this is, is this your own soldier, his name is Huvey, right? Well, I recognized the wrong person, I remember that it was a Yodelman who drew his sword in the barracks in the morning, what a strange, your daughter married a Yodelman, and your own soldiers are also Yodelmans, they will rebel, Hajvi Yakel, he just assassinated my father, did you instigate this?" He flicked the spear in his hand, and the head on the spear immediately turned into a parabola and rolled down in front of Haijivi. The maroon horse under his crotch was frightened, his eyes widened, and he nodded his hooves a few times uneasily.

Everything had not been going well since the morning, perhaps from the moment the scout veteran jumped off the Wall, and darkness seemed to envelop Hajvi Yakel. looked at the personal guard who had been with him for at least ten years - the blood on his skull was still flowing, the eyes were not closed, and the skin of his mouth was broken, as if he was telling about his previous unwillingness. It was seven or eight seconds before he gasped out of his chest.

His face was very bleak and stiff, and he looked into the distance, hoping that there were other soldiers alive. However, a smiling remark from Steku Yatong completely shattered all his luck:

"They're all dead! No need to look for them, Hajvi Yakel, I helped you clear out the traitors, how are you going to thank me? Why don't you say thank you to me?

Ignoring Steku's questioning, his mind was full of the voices and smiles of the soldiers: watching the women dance around the campfire, stealing a jug of wine from the barracks, taking a sip from each of them and keeping the remaining half of the jug for himself, and everything in the flower prairie...... Almost half of the journey of his life, he was accompanied by these soldiers, he was fifty years old, and these soldiers were nearly forty, each of them had their own story, and now they are all dead, and there is no one to collect even the corpse.

His teeth were biting out blood, his fists were clenched, and when he saw the head of his own soldier, he had already made an inner decision.

He stepped off his horse and took off his black coat, covering the already cold heads of his own soldiers. He thought, I can't take you back to the flower grassland, so I won't go back. Then he looked up at Stiku Yatong and shouted:

"Duel! Lao Tzu wants to duel you!" At this moment, he abandoned his aristocratic demeanor and hissed, "You vile, vicious fellow! dare not accept my duel!" he shouted, took off his sword sheath, and threw it at Steku Yatong.

There are two types of duels, one that ends at the point and the other that never stops.

Throwing the scabbard at the opponent means the second - never die!

There are dozens of people on the other side, all at this time

In solemnity, fighting head-on is just sending him to death, and duel is the only way he can come up with.

"You're an old fellow, we could have been family, but what...... Hey!" Staku smiled, a sharp grin, and then he changed his words, "It must be interesting to kill you, so I decided to accept your application for a duel!" With that, he rolled over and dismounted, picked up Hyjivi's scabbard, and then took off his own scabbard, arranging the two scabbards on the ground in a cross shape.

A very ceremonial duel.

It was a handout on the part of Steku Yatong, who could have had his men launch a charge that was too simple to be simple, but he didn't, it seemed ungentlemanly and chivalrous. Of course, in the face of Haijivi, who is twice his age, he has enough confidence. So, accepting the duel became a matter of course. "Take his horse away!" Steku ordered his men, and then he looked at the old man five paces away, "Hajvi Yakel, you have no way out, so, show all your strength! Let me see your last dignity!" Steku thought to himself, you rejected my marriage and married Hayska to a yodelman, this is a disgrace to me, and I will get it all back today.

A stocky body poked its head out of the carriage in the crowd, and he smacked his lips, lamenting in his heart that his son was young. As a mature man, he shouldn't leave any chance for the other party, but the duel is decided, and in front of everyone, he can't regret his son.

Meanwhile.

Two hundred paces away, on the hill, Hu Wei looked after two wounded guard brothers.

"Hu Wei, you should follow your lord," said one of the wounded guards, "obviously, your lord is going to fight for us, and you can't stop it, so come with him." ”

Dragging the bodies of the two guard brothers, Hu Wei's throat choked silently, and finally squeezed out a trace of crying: "What should you do?

"Hu Wei, you stupid goose, don't you see? Lao Tzu's intestines are all flowing out, and you will die in a while, and it is useless if you are not here!" said the wounded guard.

"Yes, you should follow Master Hygivi......" another wounded guard chimed in. He was stabbed in the neck, bleeding and slurred.

"You ......," Hu Wei covered their wounds and looked at the figure in the distance with concern, "I can't give up on you, I still want to help Lord Haijivi! What should I do? What should I do? What should I do...... I should do" he asked himself.

"Hahaha!" the wounded guard smiled bloodially, "Cute fellow, you're sick again, what's the matter?" he said, reaching out and pulling out the long sword from Hu Wei's waist, and the next second, he stabbed the long sword into the lower abdomen of another injured guard!

Hu Wei was completely dumbfounded, and opened his mouth wide to look at the incredible scene in front of him.

The guard who was stabbed in the lower abdomen was also stunned for a moment, and then, as if he understood something, he bared his bloody teeth and looked at Juan with anticipation, he was laughing silently, and then died.

"Hu Wei, you see, it's very simple, isn't it? I'll help you make a decision this time, and next time you make a decision, you have to be decisive," said the guard who killed his companion, "Go ahead, go and fight with the adults!" With that, he slashed his neck with the long sword in his hand.

There was no time to stop it, and the blood burst up two feet high, burying Hu Wei's stiff face......