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The scorching sun scorched the golden desert. Even if you are wearing thick clothes, you can still feel the burning sensation when you lie on it.

He's been lying here for half a day, and he hasn't eaten a drop of water during this time. The lips cracked with thirst, and layers of dead skin rolled up.

Even so, he lay motionless on his stomach, his eyes staring in one direction.

Five miles in that direction is an oasis.

He's ambushing someone who came out of the oasis!

He's a horse thief, and robbing the road can be said to be his job.

It's just that few horse thieves are so "dedicated".

In such a hot weather, the average horse thief has long taken refuge in the tent in the oasis, drinking the cold spring water, and scanning the "fat sheep" in the oasis with eagle-like sharp eyes, thinking about who to attack.

Tugo is one such horse thief.

He is a horse thief belonging to the owner of the thirteen oases of the Gobi, and the horse thief king Gemut in this area.

Horse thieves, of course, are also organized, and unorganized horse thieves do not live the next year. Because if you haven't been recruited by a certain horse thief king by the second year, you will definitely be killed by the nearby horse thief king.

Wolves cannot tolerate lone wolves on their territory.

It took one eye and the tail and ring fingers of his left hand to understand this.

But it's not too late, after joining Gemut's organization, he also gets a lot of things that he couldn't get on his own.

For example, intelligence, for example, the right to freely enter and exit the oasis.

Horse thieves are certainly not welcome in the Oasis, and no Oasis would welcome these guys who lick the blood to survive.

But organized horse thieves are not something that an oasis can afford to offend.

Until the organization is found, the horse thieves can only rely on disguise and infiltrate the oasis to exchange high prices for supplies—there are merchants everywhere who dare to take risks and do gray business, after all, merchants are profit-seeking by nature.

After joining the Order, all you need to do is show the Order's logo - Gemut's wolf's head token - and you can enter the Oasis and sell your stolen goods at the normal price in exchange for supplies.

Of course, the submission of the oasis inhabitants to horse thieves is also conditional.

Horse thieves cannot plunder within a radius of five miles from the oasis, and if they fall in love with a certain "fat sheep", they must follow the other party out of this range before plundering.

Now, for example, he has his eye on a caravan of about five people.

The Xirong clan has many rare treasures that are not available in the Central Plains, such as the Hetian beautiful jade produced by the Kunyi tribe, the beautiful slaves and maids looted by the Inurong tribe from the Yiqu Kingdom, and the extraterrestrial meteorite produced in Jiuquan.

Especially the Extraterrestrial Meteorite!

Since ancient times, the Central Plains has lacked people who are good at smelting iron and forging swords, and after the establishment of the Sanjian Villa at the foot of Huashan, it has really cultivated many sword-casting talents for the country. The art of forging swords in Jeguo has caught up, and now it is not inferior to the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, which is famous for its iron smelting and sword casting.

Although the art of sword forging is already the best in the world, the art of iron smelting is much behind. Even though the Central Plains is vast and there is no shortage of iron ore, more than half of the soldiers in the army still use bronze blades.

There is no shortage of good iron in Jiguo, what is lacking is only the art of iron smelting.

Because of this, Jeguo had to spend a lot of grain every year to ask the Xirong clan for extraterrestrial meteoric iron.

It is not known whether the so-called extraterrestrial meteorite actually originated from the extraterrestrial sky. Although Jiuquan is the best place for meteorites to fall, almost every year, at least three extraterrestrial meteorites fall into the Jiuquan Fallen Star Plain.

However, most of the meteorite iron produced in Jiuquan is taken from the sand mountain mine next to the fallen star plain, which is no different from ordinary iron ore. It's just Jiuquan, which has three special springs.

The first spring is naturally the Jiuquan spring, which is the origin of the place name. This spring gushes out of the spring every hour and is closed at the end of the day. The water has a strong aroma and is perfect for sake brewing. It is even rumored that Du Kang, the ancestor of Jiguo, was the westward expedition to Xirong and learned the method of winemaking through Jiuquan.

The second spring, which is the spring on which the people of Jiuquan live, is called Yueze Spring, which means that the light of the moon is blessed by the world. This spring is the opposite of Jiuquan, and the water gushes every day at the beginning of the day, and it stops at the end of the hour. Because the spring is when the bright moon hangs high, it is believed by the people of Jiuquan that the moon god protects this spring.

The third spring is the origin of Jiuquan's meteorite iron from the sky. The name of this spring is the Flaming Spring, and as the name suggests, it is a lava spring. Jiuquan is located in the remnants of the Tianshan Mountains, which have many volcanoes and frequent underground lava activity. After an earthquake 300 years ago, this magma spring appeared here.

The people of Jiuquan love and hate this spring.

Because of the existence of this eye spring, Jiuquan has an additional way to make money, and it can rely on magma to smelt refined iron, and falsely claim that the meteorite outside the sky is sold to the Central Plains Dynasty. But it is precisely because of this spring that countless Jiuquan people unfortunately fell into it and died of burning in flames.

It is precisely because the cost of iron smelting is too high that the price of extraterrestrial meteorite has always been very high. Not only is it expensive, but the amount supplied to Jekoku every year is completely insufficient.

After all, Xijon and Jekoku are still enemies, although the border has not been lit for many years, and the two countries are also very lively with each other. But whether it is the great chief of the Xirong clan, Kuotaiju, or the emperor of Jiguo, Zhang Ning, they are deeply wary of each other.

Therefore, Xijon imposed very strict restrictions on the amount of extraterrestrial meteorites that could flow into Jeguo each year, so that Jeguo could not buy enough extraterrestrial meteorites at a high price.

The meteorite that flows into Jiguo every year is not enough even for the imperial court itself, so how can it be distributed to the family sect. But walking the rivers and lakes, without a sharp weapon at hand, how can you do it?

So every year, a large number of caravans will sneak into the territory of Xirong and go directly to Jiuquan to ask the locals to buy meteorite iron. As long as it is transported back alive, it will be ten times or twenty times the windfall profit when it is sold.

As the so-called wealth is moving, even at great risk, these businessmen dare to take risks for the sake of huge profits.

The target of the horse thieves is most of the time such caravans.

In order not to alarm the Xirong clan's patrol on the border, they formed a team of seven or eight people at a time, or two or three people at a time.

Those who dare to take risks will naturally not be idle. Most of them are practitioners who have practiced both hands, but kung fu will definitely not be very exquisite.

After all, there are really powerful people, and there are a few willing to take risks to run this life-and-death desert trade route.

This caravan of five people, looking at it with the eyes of Tu Ge Lao, knew that it must have come to buy extraterrestrial meteorite. He munched on a leg of mutton as he quietly surveyed the caravan, guessing how much it contained in the bulging package.

In just a few moments, Tugo had seven or eight locations in mind where he could ambush the caravan, and he drew up three feasible ambush plans.

But after a while, he shook his head and sighed, and gave up on these plans.