Chapter Fifty-Eight: Each Harbors a Ghost
Martin noticed this caravan for three reasons.
First, the caravan slaves gave him a sense of disobedience. Martin had seen countless slaves being sold by caravans, and he himself owned seven slaves. He could only see despair and numbness in the eyes of his slaves - the former was the expression of a man who had just become a slave, the latter was the expression of a slave who had been a slave for a long time.
But he didn't see them in the eyes of the thirty-three slaves. Although the slaves were expressionless, like all slaves waiting to be sold, sitting there like a pile of puppets, Martin could not feel any despair and numbness in them, but ......
Instead, he felt a bit of suppressed joy and hope in it.
At first, Martin thought that he had come from hallucinating after a long journey, but after confirming it again and again, he had to face such an astonishing fact.
Something is wrong with these slaves.
Second, the strength of the ten guards of this caravan is a bit exaggerated - for a caravan of more than fifty people, it is definitely an exaggeration to have ten guards from the third level of silver to the fifth level of silver, under normal circumstances, a small caravan of this size can have a silver-level escort captain is quite good. Martin had even seen a caravan of this size without an escort.
After all, everyone knows that the bigger the caravan, the more you can earn, and the better it can resist the attacks of bandits and the encroachment of other caravans. Slaves don't have the idea of boutique slaves, high-end products. Even if all the slaves are war slaves, or high-grade sex slaves, it is impossible for anyone to specialize in this part.
In particular, Martin knew at a glance that the thirty-three slaves of this caravan were all bitter slaves, the most ordinary kind.
Is it normal for such a small caravan to have a guard lineup that is more exaggerated than the caravan of more than 200 people on the side?
The third is the leader of the caravan.
One big and one small.
The big one was a young human man, who looked to be in his early twenties, and only had the strength of a silver level. And the little one, in fact, shouldn't be called the leader of the caravan, she is just the family of the real leader, a half-demon girl who is still in her infancy.
Yes, it's a brother and sister, and it's an interracial brother and sister.
Martin estimates that this is a half-sibling, after all, there are many such cases. But no matter how he looked, he couldn't understand why such a person would become the leader of a slave caravan?
It's not that the leader of the slave caravan should be fierce and vicious, and his face should be full of treachery, but a pair of brothers and sisters who are clean and don't look like people in the wilderness are the leaders of a slave caravan, which is quite discordant no matter how you look at it.
Since he was suspicious, Martin naturally set his sights on this caravan.
It seems that the three caravans should have arrived at the Mingda Oasis on the front and back feet, because under normal circumstances, a caravan would only rest on the oasis for one day, and none of the three caravans had any intention of moving from morning to night, and it seemed that they would not arrive much earlier than Martin.
Martin pretended to be a merchant who had been separated from his caravan, and first ran to ask the largest caravan if they would like to let themselves join it temporarily, which is not uncommon in the wilderness of Arsa, and the best way for some people who have been separated from the caravan to survive in this wilderness is to join another caravan temporarily.
Of course, joining the caravan came at a price, and Martin pretended to be very poor, so the first two caravans refused his request to join. This was what Martin had hoped for, and he used that as an excuse to find the smallest caravan.
The smallest caravan occupies the worst part of the Mingda Oasis, and even needs to run the farthest distance to even fetch water, and it can even be said that half of the camp is outside the oasis.
You must know that in the Arsa Wilderness, all non-seasonal oases have positioning runes, and these positioning runes have another function, that is, to stabilize the wind and sand within the oasis, this special barrier has no effect on living creatures, but it can weaken the wind and sand.
This can further protect the oasis itself, and secondly, it can also allow people who rest in the oasis to get a better rest.
The smallest caravan was on the edge of the oasis, and half of the camp had left the barrier.
"Who are you? What do you want to do? "It was a man with eagle-like eyes who stopped Martin.
Martin pretended to be weak and helpless: "Dear Mr. Guard, I am a merchant who has been separated from my caravan, I wonder if I can meet the leader of your caravan?" I want to join your caravan for a while! ”
The eagle-eyed man groaned slightly, then nodded: "You come with me, I'll take you to meet your lord!" ”
Martin followed the man into the caravan and stopped in front of a white dome tent.
Just as the Hawkeye man was about to speak, he saw a little girl rush out of the tent, giggling and running forward, crashing into the Hawkeye man's arms.
"Hello Brother Eugene!" Little Lori nodded politely at the hawk-eyed man.
The eagle-eyed man Eugene smiled slightly: "Little Miss, don't run too far, adults will worry about you!" ”
"I'm going to play with Sommiba!" Little Lori raised her hand and ran to the tallest person among the guards: "Somiba, Somiba, let's play together!" ”
The big man guard immediately put down the super heavy shield in his hand, which was taller than the average person, and played with little Lori with a smirk - the two played tug-of-war, and they were evenly matched.
Martin glanced at the super heavy shield that looked black and featureless, and when the thing was put out just now, it made a dull sound, and even the ground shook for a moment, which showed that the weight was not light, but it was as light as nothing when it was held by a big man. It can be seen that this is a power-type soul cultivator, but such a power-type soul cultivator is comparable to a little Lori who is not as tall as his knees?
Martin admits that he was not mistaken, although the big man guard did not use all his strength, it was definitely not perfunctory.
That little Lori has so much strength.
What race of half-demons?
Little Lori has finally learned the skill of hiding her tail during this time, and if she only has dark golden eyes, she can't directly point out her race.
Martin waited in front of the tent for a while, and the leader of the caravan finally came out.
"Sir wants to join our caravan?" The caravan leader asked with a smile.
Martin touched his chest with his hand: "Under Martin!" I've seen Mr., I really want to join your caravan temporarily. After being separated from his caravan, he has been struggling for several days, physically and mentally exhausted, and he really can't go on by himself! ”
The leader of the caravan nodded slightly: "My name is Nicholas, our caravan is a very small caravan, I don't know why Mr. Martin came to us to join?" I think the two caravans over there are better suited than us! ”
Tang Dou's acting skills are still high, pretending to be like he doesn't know anything.
Martin would never have imagined that half of the ten silver-level guards he thought were actually gold-level, but they had taken a special medicine to hide their breath - this medicine used Tang Dou's blood, which was the only one in the world, where would ordinary people believe that there was a drug that could not affect the strength, but could hide the breath?
As for the dozen or so servants, they are all warriors, but they are authentic silver-level, and after taking the medicine, they look no different from ordinary people.
And those slaves, they are indeed real slaves, and they are the slaves rescued by Tang Dou who robbed various slave caravans during this time. These slaves have already been to the Source of Life space, seen the "Kingdom of Heaven owned by the great Lord Nicholas", and know that they came out to act, so naturally there will be no despair and numbness.
In fact, these people have also taken medicine, so that their expressions can be controlled, otherwise these slaves should now have their expressions like happy dogs - suddenly from slaves to free people again, and go to the dreamlike heavenly life, in a world where no enemy will come to the door, picturesque, resourceful, and kind territory, everyone will be happy to be a dog.
Martin found some clues about this caravan that was not a caravan, but no matter how big his brain was, he couldn't think of the real secret of the caravan in front of him.
There's no way, when the painting style is different, how can you ask a native of the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm to think about Tang Dou's ability to open and cross the party - although the source of life is the original thing of this world, but in addition to the dragon clan, who knew that there would be such a place?
Not to mention the caravan that Tang Dou and his party pretended to be, after listening to Tang Dou's words, Martin showed a ashamed expression very appropriately: "Because I really don't have anything to do, and my own caravan is not a big caravan, I can't afford to pay the remuneration they propose!" ”
He rubbed his hands: "I can only pay Mr. Nicholas ten of you for a day's food and water, and two slaves!" ”
This kind of reward is not a low fortune for an individual, especially for people in the outer ring, even if it is placed in the middle ring, it can be regarded as a small fortune, but for a caravan whose ultimate goal is to go to the inner ring, this kind of reward is not equal to the risk price to pay for temporarily joining an unidentified person.
This was the reason why the other two caravans rejected Martin.
The Arsa Wilderness is a wild place where anything can happen and no one can easily believe it.
There are poor people who are really separated from the caravan, and there are robbers who disguise themselves as poor people and end up taking the whole caravan into a trap. There are even some gold-level masters with abnormal brains who specially pretend to be ordinary people to infiltrate the caravan, and then at some point they raise their butcher knives.
In this wild land, anything can happen.
Tang Dou just looked at Martin like this, looking up and down, no one knew what he was thinking, and then after a while, he finally nodded: "Okay." When we go out, we just want to help each other and support each other. Mr. Martin may join our caravan for the time being, as long as he obeys my arrangement. My caravan is not big, I can only go to the log oasis, I don't know what Mr. Martin's opinion is? ”
The Log Oasis is the largest oasis on the border between Central and Inner Rings, and is a meeting market where less qualified caravans sell their goods and are then entered by larger, more qualified caravans.
"No problem, no problem! My caravan is not big, and they will only end up at the Oasis of Logs, where I will be able to find my caravan and pay Mr. Nicholas! Martin's face was excited.
Tang Dou smiled: "You're welcome, it's convenient for others, it's convenient for yourself!" ”
So the two guys with their own ghosts "negotiated" like this, Tang Dou called Eugene to arrange a place for Martin to rest, while he continued to sit in front of the space tent and pretend to be deep.
A month ago, they dug up an amazing amount of loot from the sandworms. The amount of information brought by this was so great that Rao is Tang Dou was also shocked. And the more shocking was still to come, and in less than two days, the news from the Talos Lord's side spread to their ears along a caravan they had encountered.
Before he could retaliate, the Talos Collar was already finished, and Kakas, a guy with an IQ arrears, had already taken refuge in the Tiger Shadow Collar, and the Tiger Shadow Leader had already started an all-out war with the Kadesa Collar.
This change of events caught everyone off guard, and Ellie and Morion realized that they couldn't take revenge anymore, even if they killed Kakas—the whole affair seemed too coherent for anyone to think of as a conspiracy in itself.
So who is the real enemy of the Talos leader?
So the two took the initiative to find Tang Dou, saying that they were no longer in a hurry to take revenge, but to investigate slowly step by step and act slowly!
Tang Dou was also very satisfied with the reason and attitude of the two, and after discussing with Sha Yunyue and Klein, he announced the existence of the Source of Life space to the other party.
This shocked Ellie and Morian again, and Morian was even more cold sweat at that time - he thought of all kinds of possibilities, including the possibility of himself and others confronting Tang Dou, and finally came to the conclusion that he was the reason for his cold sweat.
But the shock was followed by ecstasy.
Having such an out-of-the-world place as the rear is already invincible.
After that, Tang Dou said his plan - to rob the slave caravan.
"We must bring down the evil slave trade and save the suffering people from fire and water! This is justice, this is a heroic thing! Tang Dou's slogan was shouted like this.
"Rob people! Grab the money! Free slaves, win hearts and minds, and gather strength quickly! This is the truth that everyone knows in their hearts.
The Arsa Wilderness has its own rules, and this place is very similar to the Fog Hidden Continent, that is, the people who live here don't care who rules them, they care about whether they are good enough after being ruled. They don't care who they work for, what they care about is whether they can get the due reward after working hard for whom.
On the one hand, they became slaves and lived a hellish life without seeing the light of day; One side is under relatively moderate rule, living in the kingdom of heaven, and fighting for the lord of heaven.
When these two choices were placed in front of the slaves, not to mention those slaves, most of the slave owners and caravan guards of those slave caravans were also tempted.
Tang Dou once again divided the Source of Life space into a new area, and stuffed all the new slaves into that area, which was not connected to the forest area where he lived and the lakeshore area where Crane and Ellie lived—the slaves didn't even know about the existence of the other two areas.
Then there are sparks and lightning all the way to rob people, leaving an unsolvable mystery for this wild land.
"There are demon beasts, there are demon beasts!"
When night falls, in the dead of night, there is a sudden scream of terror that breaks the silence of the oasis. (To be continued.) )