Chapter 68: Night in the Wasteland
Some of the guards slept on the grass, where they sat cross-legged and rested while cultivating, while six guards took turns keeping watch. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The next day, just after dawn, the caravan was on its way again.
The vast wasteland is rarely visited by people, but ordinary birds and beasts are common.
Sometimes some of the guards bent their bows and arrows, and shot the birds and beasts that passed near the convoy.
Ordinary birds and beasts only contain a very small amount of life essence, and they can only be used to satisfy hunger, so these descendants of the Celestial Human Race in Divine Sword City generally do not hunt them.
The convoy took one of the safest passages in the wilderness, and sometimes there were some post stations near the passages.
It is said that occasionally, a cavalry of the tribe's brute convoy will gallop through the passage.
Due to the scarcity of trees in the wasteland, at noon, the sun bakes the endless ground like a furnace.
Torrential rains sometimes fall in the wasteland, and after the rainstorms, lakes or rivers quickly form in the low-lying areas.
The brutes lazily trotted under the scorching sun with heavy loads.
Occasionally, there will be one or two towering trees beside the passage, and the huge canopy is like a thick canopy, which hides a large part of the ground.
Finally, in the evening, after the sun set, the heat gradually dissipated, and the moor was golden as far as the eye could see.
This situation and this scene are picturesque.
However, only first-time visitors will be immersed in such a view.
Zhao Yu was one of them, and from time to time he pulled a corner of the animal skin covered with metal cars, admiring the beauty around him.
The hides covered in metal cars block out most of the heat emitted by the scorching sun, making it not hot inside.
There is a lake one mile away from the campsite, about ten acres in size, there are some towering ancient trees growing around the lake, some turquoise lotus flowers grow in the lake, and from time to time there will be fish swimming to the surface of the water to breathe.
The grooms take turns walking to the lake and filling the water bladders with the clear and sweet water.
While some of the other guards were busy, they built a campfire and cooked dinner.
After half a ring, an old horseman caught a ten-pound small spirit fish from the lake and brought it back to the camp.
Soon after, the aroma of grilled fish and fish soup slowly wafted out of the camp.
Many grooms carry wine bags, drink spirits, eat a piece of barbecue, and take a sip of fish soup, looking contented.
Chu Xuecao ate something on the grass, then lay on his back on a dense and soft grass, a pair of beautiful eyes looked up at the stars in the night sky and seemed to fall into reverie.
Her black hair was draped like a waterfall, covering her neck skin as white as mutton fat jade.
Zhao Yu sat on the grass and listened to some of the guards in the convoy who had participated in the hunting activities in Yinshan, telling what they had seen and heard in Yinshan.
Although they are just ordinary warriors or monks, they know something that no one knows.
"Do you know that sometimes women disappear suddenly in this great wasteland!" suddenly whispered a thousand-year-old guard, whose surname was Chu and his name was Dong.
Chu Dong was originally serving as a guard in another large caravan, and a year ago he joined the "Yongfeng Caravan".
In fact, the Yongfeng caravan was a second-rate caravan of the Tianchu tribe, far inferior to those first-class caravans.
Chu Dong had followed the caravan to most of the area in Excalibur City, and had traveled back and forth thousands of times in this prairie, so he knew the situation here well.
Hearing him say this, many people showed curiosity.
"Chu Dong, can you tell us about it?" a young guard with a fat body hurriedly said.
"In the past thousand years, there have been at least tens of thousands of women who have disappeared inexplicably in this great wilderness! It is said that they were all swept away by a strange black mist!" Chu Dong said in a low voice.
As he spoke, he glanced at the night sky from time to time with his eyes, and the expression on his face seemed a little nervous.
"Chu Dong, you seem to be afraid of something?" a middle-aged escort with a swarthy face suddenly asked in surprise.
Whew, whew!
Suddenly, there was a strange sound of wind from the side of the lake.
"Oh my god, what kind of monster is that?" suddenly exclaimed one of the guards who were fishing for small spirit fish by the small lake.
"Run, the devil is coming!" another middle-aged guard shouted in horror.
A moment later, the stars in the night sky were suddenly shrouded in a sudden boundless black mist.
With a "whoosh", a streamer suddenly shot out from the boundless black fog and flew towards the camp like a meteor.
The speed of the black streamer was extremely fast, and it flew above Chu Xue in the blink of an eye, and then it turned into a large cloud of black mist.
"What touched my face?" Chu Xue suddenly exclaimed.
Although she was only a sixteen-year-old girl, she had followed her father from south to north since she was a child, and she also learned some tricks from her father and brother and some guards, so she was quite bold.
"Little beauty, you are very beautiful, come with me!" Suddenly a terrifying voice came from the black fog, like a crow chirping.
Burst!
Chu Xue only felt that her lips were suddenly kissed.
She hurriedly stretched out her hand as white as white jade and touched her lips, and suddenly found that her lips had been bitten and a stream of blood flowed into her mouth.
She thought she was dreaming, only to realize that it was all real.
So Chu Xue shouted in horror: "There is a ghost, help, come and save me." ”
At this moment, Chu Xue's face was pale, and her expression was very sluggish, as if she had really seen a ghost.
Her screams frightened many people in the camp and immediately pulled out their weapons and gathered together.
But they just watched in horror at the slowly moving black mist.
The black mist exuded an evil aura and terrifying coercion, and many of the grooms and some of the young guards trembled with fear.
A few timid grooms were so frightened that they fell to the ground, shivering and urinating.
But there were still some guards who quickly picked up their weapons, and under the powerful coercion, bravely approached the black mist that exuded an evil aura step by step.
Whoa!
Several black rays of light suddenly shot out from within the black mist, and they turned into several black streamers like arrows and shot towards several guards.
While!
A powerful guard swung his long knife like lightning and slashed at a black streamer that shot at him, instantly blocking it, and a violent metallic tremor was heard for hundreds of miles.
Many grooms were immediately stunned by the sound of metallic tremble.
"Those black lights are very powerful, at least a hundred stones. Zhao Yu, who was standing aside and probing with his divine sense, said secretly in his heart.
Poof!
After a breath of time, the two guards of average strength were shot in the throat by two black lights, and died on the spot.
The speed at which they wield their weapons was far inferior to the speed of the black light, and the black light seemed to be alive and capable of turning at great speed.
"Death to those who stand in my way!" an evil voice came from within the black mist.