Chapter 9: The First Sight of the Slave
Yang Xin'an didn't know if there were any other humanoid creatures in front of him, but he just hoped to find one that looked more like him!
The two of them continued to drive on, and they saw large gathering places like towns, as well as small gathering places with only a few households.
I also saw dozens of soldiers in neat leather armor riding tall wildebeest galloping across the grassland, hunting and killing beasts that looked relatively large.
I have also seen a huge city standing on the grassland from afar, and the city wall that can be seen by the eye is like a hill, but it is roughly estimated that it must be 100 meters high, and its wall extends to the east and south, and there is no edge at a glance.
The two siblings were amazed at the city's ability to build, the walls looked rough, but there must have been a great leader in commanding such a magnificent city.
Not daring to make any more stops, the two of them hurriedly drove a few miles away from the city, until they could not see the slightest trace of the city wall.
The off-road vehicle that independently carries a skeleton on the grassland is like a bright lighthouse, telling the sentry on the city wall that there is a problem here.
There is no clear road on the grassland, if there is a marching road or a trade road, only the more creatures will leave obvious traces, from a distance, there are long caravans running back and forth to transport goods, the brother and sister lurk in the bushes in the distance and observe with toy binoculars.
"Those convoys must be merchants with goods! Are the guards or mercenaries with weapons on the side? Yang Xiaoxin looked at the team and analyzed.
Yang Xin'an didn't want to analyze anything too much, after all, he had a very superficial understanding of the world, so he said: "Whether it is or not, we should follow this road, and it will take many years to step on a solid and wide road on such a grassland." ”
Far along the road that extends to the northeast, in the middle passed several city walls with a height of more than 30 meters, or built with the mountain, or lived by the water, each city wall is twenty or thirty miles long, but unfortunately the brother and sister can only do a distant view.
After walking like this for more than a month, the brother and sister were blocked by a pass.
On both sides are hundreds of meters high peaks, and the trees are overgrown with rocks, and it is impossible to climb them with an off-road vehicle.
In the distance, the mountains are wide and the mountains are stacked with waves, and if you want to go to the other side of the mountain, you can only break through from the pass, and you don't know what the scene is on the other side of the pass, but it is not a city, or there is a pass to guard.
After all, the cities of this world seem to be particularly fond of building on the mountains.
The brother and sister looked at the mountain and the forest, and decided to climb up to investigate, for the two of them whose strength skyrocketed, there was no problem at all in climbing such a mountain, only one person was needed for reconnaissance, Yang Xiaoxin stayed in the car, and Yang Xin'an began to climb the mountain.
The trees in this forest are much smaller than those in the primeval forest, but there are also trees with a diameter of five meters, most of which look like pine trees, standing upright, and there are many vines growing on the mountain walls, and occasionally strange fruit trees growing on the cliff edges.
This time Yang Xin'an finally experienced the feeling of jumping on a tree like an anime character, jumping a distance of several meters every time, and almost fell off the tree several times by mistake with his feet.
When I went up to the top of the mountain, I looked to the other side of the pass, and there seemed to be a pass there, but the valley below was less than thirty meters long.
Yang Xin'an didn't dare to observe closely, because he found that there was a sentry lurking not far away, maybe he hadn't encountered an emergency for a long time, and the sentry was also a little slack, so Yang Xin'an could find him and not be discovered by him.
Slowly retreated.
In order to figure out what was on the other side of the mountain, Yang Xin'an took a long detour to the other side of the mountain, on the other side was a wide and endless plain, and patches of woods grew luxuriantly on the plain, and a road could be vaguely seen winding in the woods.
Yang Xin'an quickly returned to the place where the car was hidden.
"Brother, why do you say there is a pass here, there are other enemies besides those giant beasts? Yang Xiaoxin sat in the car thinking about the question, and when she saw her brother coming back, she asked.
"Maybe it may or may not, we haven't been in a hurry to go over these days, we have been carefully observing for two days, and we have been busy on the road to see if we have neglected something. ”
Yang Xin'an is also a little confused about this world, and he has not seen any disharmony from so many cities, it is completely a society dominated by one force, which means that there must be another force outside the pass.
The siblings looked at the navigation and saw that their position was far from due east, but they didn't care much about it now, and they were curious about who they were hostile to, whether it would be humans.
Before dawn, he brought a toy telescope, a little dried meat and a few fruits, and a mobile phone, and lurked in the bushes one mile away from the pass.
Yang Xin'an, who has watched a lot of TV movies and played a lot of latent games, thinks that he has a set of experiences about latent and will not be discovered.
When the first rays of sunlight shone in the east, distant bells and trumpets rang over the pass, and the gates of the city slowly opened.
Yang Xin'an was very surprised to hear the bell in this world, he always thought that this world had not started smelting, listening to this bell, this world should have a lot of attainments in copper smelting.
In the distance, the caravan that had not had time to leave the gate before closing the city gate yesterday began to slowly approach from the post station several miles away.
This time, Yang Xin'an turned on the mobile phone video recording and adjusted it to fifty times the focal length, only to find that the picture seen on the mobile phone screen was not as blurry as before.
Picking up the toy telescope and putting it in front of his eyes to observe the convoy, Yang Xin'an suddenly regretted a little, why didn't he buy a really good telescope before, and looked at the convoy slowly approaching on the road thirty meters away.
This is also the first time that Yang Xin'an has been on the road for so long and has observed the caravan up close.
The three-meter-tall tin ox slowly marched forward with heavy steps, strapped to its high cargo, and a cowman-like man sat on its neck to control the direction of travel, followed by more than a dozen horneed horses more than two meters tall to pull the wagon, and there were many guards around to escort it on similar wildebeests.
They carried weapons of all sorts of metal, some with bows and arrows on their backs, and all wore leather armor, helmets, and skirts.
Yang Xin'an didn't pay much attention to this, looked at the faces of these people with a telescope, and found that they all looked similar to those two little demons.
Some resemble lions, some resemble leopards, some resemble tigers, most of them have a hint of predator appearance, and only a few faces look a bit like cow faces and horse faces.
Yang Xin'an carefully searched for the steward again, and finally found a little old man who looked a bit like a fox on the cargo pile of the first horned horse.
He seems to be wearing silk fabrics, and he also has jewels and gold and jade on his neck and hat, and he looks like a rich lord, seeing these Yang Xin'an's understanding of the charm of gold and jade jewelry has reached a higher level, and sure enough, good-looking things are popular there.
One by one, the convoys passed in front of them, and the convoys that entered the customs finally came to the eyes, and the goods of these convoys were covered with sackcloth or animal skins, and only the bulging cars could be seen, and they shook every time they advanced.
In these caravans that came in, Yang Xin'an saw something different, it should be a person to be precise, chained, and there were people behind him with leather whips, staggering forward.
The men were ragged, unkempt, barefoot, some short and strong, some scrawny, and looking ahead, the goods covered by sackcloth looked like cages, which should also be prisoners, this should be a slave caravan.
Yang Xing'an roughly estimated that there were hundreds of people, and the value on the car was the highest, and most of them were women, because there were no women among those who were bound by chains, and Yang Xin'an could only hate such things in his heart.