The forces in the wilderness of Arsa are divided into three levels.

Among them, there are dozens to hundreds of people wandering around, and the leaders who are not much different from other ranks fight around all day long, or bully those weak settlements, and the main living area is the outer ring, these are collectively called bandits, that is, a group of rogue bandits. However, their boss often calls himself a Commander, an Overseer, or something imposing by his name.

A little more advanced than them is the kind that can have the ability to seize a relatively large territory as a fixed base, and if it can defend one or two long-term oases, then it can be regarded as a hegemon. This is the territory. Most of the forces at this level live in Central. The original Taros Leader was such a level, although it was the strongest in Central, it was not the overlord of Central, and it was still a second-rate force in the entire wilderness.

And again, there is the real first-class power, which only exists in the inner ring, and the number of such forces has not exceeded seven since ancient times, which seems to be a number formed under a specific tacit understanding, because there are exactly seven large oases that have existed for a long time in the inner ring.

These forces directly claim to be the king and hegemon in the inner ring, either the XX king, or the XX main group, and then the XX master. It sounds like a variety of high-end atmospheres on the grade.

And the class of Arsa is therefore determined.

The kings of the inner ring ruled over many lords, and the lords controlled many lords, and the whole of the Arsa wilderness was like a net that spread out from the inner ring and spread throughout the wilderness.

Although the outer ring is on the periphery of the whole wilderness, it is the smallest because of the lack of depth, followed by the middle ring, which is about twice the size of the outer ring; The inner ring, also called the central belt, is as large as the outer ring and the middle ring combined.

Without considering other factors, it takes about 10 days to walk the nearest distance, from the Outer Ring to Central, and at least a month to walk from the Central to the Inner Ring. Except for the robbers, there are very few people who walk around this wilderness. Because such a movement requires a lot of price, and without enough benefits, who would risk their lives to run outside?

But every five years in the wilderness of Arsa there is a business tide! Whenever the merchant tide begins, countless caravans will begin to walk on this wild land, connecting countless lords' lands, commanders' posts, and settlement villages.

The caravans of Arsa are completely outward, they are caravans circulating within the entire Arsa Wilderness, and the goods that circulate are not living goods in the sense of leisure - ninety percent of the caravans in the Arsa Wilderness only do one kind of trade, and only pull one kind of goods, that is, slaves.

The Thousand Souls Spiritual Realm as a whole is against slavery, but slavery cannot be completely avoided.

If slavery was prevalent in the Fog Hidden Continent, then the Arsa Wilderness was the only place in the world where slavery was celebrated.

In this wilderness, slavery was a currency in itself.

Bitter slaves that can only be used as coolies, war slaves that can be used for battles, medicine slaves who can be used for drug experiments or various live experiments, and sex slaves for people to have fun. These are all things that are popular in the wilderness of Arsa.

Every five years, when the tide of business begins, there will be caravans that start to set off, some of them are large caravans that depart directly from the inner ring, some are small caravans that depart from the middle ring, and even some small caravans that depart from the outer ring and don't know if they can be counted as caravans.

These people all had the same purpose, they would buy slaves from forces weaker than them—it could be a verbal promise, it could be a few bags of water, it could be some food, it could be a sword slaughter—in this wilderness, human life was never the most important thing.

The small settlements that could not resist had to sacrifice a few for the safety of the majority, and some even made a living from the slave trade.

With the blowing of the wild wind, the five-year merchant tide began, each merchant tide will be carried out for five months, which is the longest time limit for all slave caravans in the entire Arsa wilderness, if it is short, it may not be able to run all over the wilderness, and if it is longer, the gale period will be a sandstorm period, and then it will be a dead end to act outside.

Therefore, the business tide will be a very standard experience of five months, and the error will not exceed ten days.

This kind of business tide has been going on for thousands of years, and no one knows when it started, and no one knows whether it will end one day, but the people who live in this wilderness have long been accustomed to the existence of business tides. Or even think of it as a kind of calendar.

But in this year's business boom, there are two rumors that have begun to make it different.

The first rumor is about the change of power in Central, because of the split of the Taros Lord, the forces in Central that once competed with the Taros Leader for the supremacy immediately began to fall into various ways. Kakas's brain-stricken idiot had already begun to suffer from the balance of his IQ, and the Shangjia he had taken refuge in didn't care about him and Talos at all, and after taking enough benefits, the Shangjia began to ignore Kakas's various delays.

However, more than 300 of Kakas's most elite 1,000 barbarian warbands mysteriously disappeared on the way to hunt down their sister, and they disappeared cleanly without even leaving any news. Even one of the high-ranking Assassins lent to him by the Kamiya disappeared - this was the excuse for the Kakas's dissatisfaction and the wearing of small shoes.

Under such circumstances, the forces of all parties in Central immediately began to act, robbing the cattle of the Talos Collar today, burning the granary of the Talos Collar tomorrow, and simply occupying the oasis of the Talos Collar the day after tomorrow. Then a group of people surrounded Taros and began to dig into the corners of the wall.

The ambitious and loyal men of Talos have either died in battle, set up their own hills, or followed Ellie and Morion to their fate. Which one of those who stay is not a slut who puts interests first? Now that he sees that Kakas is going to be finished at any time, who is still messing with him?

In two months, there were once tens of thousands of people, 5,000 elite Taros leaders, after a turmoil and turmoil, there were only a few hundred people left.

Kakas, a guy with a low IQ, finally came back to his senses at this point - he was tricked.

However, sluts naturally have the advantage of being sluts, that is, they are shameless enough. So Kakas simply took refuge in the opponent of the original family, because his remaining hundreds of people were still quite good, and Talos was the former Central tyrant, and he had some strength even if he was broken, so the other party really took him in.

So Kakas went so wrong and took refuge in his rival who was originally in the family.

If this matter comes to this, it can only be said to be a funny idiot story. But the story doesn't end there.

Kakas's original predecessor was not one of the "Seven Great Powers", with Kakas's ability, he was not qualified to take refuge in the Seven Powers, but in addition to the Seven Great Powers in the inner ring, there were also some territories that were very powerful, even so strong that they were called "non-national countries".

Everyone thinks that if it weren't for the fixed position of the G-7, then these non-state countries could also become states.

Kakas's original family, and the current family, are two such non-national countries in the inner ring.

The original master called it the Kadesa Collar, and the current one called it the Tiger Shadow Collar.

The former is the territory of a human race, and the latter is the territory of a demon race. The two sides are said to be feuding, and they have been hostile since the beginning of their power, and they have fought for almost a thousand years, and now the two sides have formed a point where even if the other party spits on it, this side must issue an application to express its contempt.

The reason why the Tiger Shadow Leader took in Kakas was to disgust the Kadesa Collar, but they probably didn't expect that this series of operations was a conspiracy of the Kadesa Collar, and when they took in Kakas, before they could disgust Kadessa, the other party actually used this as an excuse to start a war!

You must know that there are seven great powers in the inner ring, and those lords under them can't start a war casually, even if they fight, it's a small fight. But this time, the Kadesa Collar was supported by the Horta State, one of the Seven Great Powers, and launched an all-out war against the Tiger Shadow Collar.

This time the Tiger Shadow Collar was confused, but the two sides were originally feuding, and they had long seen that the other party was not pleasing to the eye, and although it was very unexpected for the other party to launch a full-scale war at this time, the Tiger Shadow Leader still reacted immediately and counterattacked comprehensively.

As a result, the inner ring, which had been generally peaceful for thousands of years, fell into the turmoil of war.

Although it was only a war between two non-national countries, although the seven great powers did not move, the inner ring, which had been calm for so long, suddenly ignited the flames of war, and the seven major countries that should have come out to stop them did not move, which immediately made countless people smell a different breath.

At this time, the merchant tide just began, the caravan still set off, and the news of the war began to spread throughout the wilderness with the caravan's actions.

But a month after the start of the Merchant Tide, another message began to spread among the caravans, and even the Inner Ring received the news.

There are a large number of caravans mysteriously missing!

Yes, mysteriously missing!

The disappearance of a caravan is not an uncommon thing, whether it is a natural disaster or a robber who is ready to die in a hurry, he has the ability to make the caravan disappear. However, the former is often an occasional situation, and seven or eight out of a hundred caravans can be considered a high-probability event, after all, in addition to the hot wind during the gale period, the various natural disasters in the entire wilderness are the calmest times.

As long as the caravan is prepared to deal with the hot wind, it is impossible to have a large-scale accident.

Although the latter has a much higher outbreak rate, it does not cause a large number of caravans to disappear. And it disappeared mysteriously.

The robbers robbed the caravan and did it secretly, and they would also leave traces, but this time there was no trace of anything, and those missing caravans were like evaporating from the world.

The Inner Ring has sent out clever stalkers and scouts, but nothing has come of it yet.

Martin is one of the Seven Great Powers in the Inner Ring, a stalker sent by the Duvese State. He is a pure-blooded demon of the leopard clan, born and raised in this wilderness, his war spirit and racial talent make him extremely qualified as a stalker, in Duvese, there are not no hunters who are more clever than him, but there are only a few people.

The level of the seventh level of gold also gives Martin himself extremely strong combat power and survivability, from the mission, he entered the middle ring from the inner ring, after ten days of searching, he finally found some possible clues, and then followed this clue to the Mingda Oasis.

After his own investigation and analysis, Martin found that although a large number of caravans disappeared without any residue, the area where the caravans disappeared was itself a clue. And this clue forms an invisible road, that is, the longest route from the outer ring to the inner ring.

Under normal circumstances, no one will choose the longest route to take, except for those caravans who have no way out and are ready to fight, otherwise the average person will only take a certain section of this route.

But Martin saw the clues from the distribution of caravans, and he found that the area where the caravans disappeared in high density was precisely the area that advanced along the farthest route. And judging from the timeline of the disappearance of each caravan, this line is still slowly approaching the inner ring.

So Martin had every reason to believe that those who had robbed the caravan were making their way along this farthest route, and as they went, they met all the caravans on their way.

The Mingda Oasis was one of the must-stops on this route, and it was also the place where the robbers were about to arrive, in Martin's speculation. Martin came here to prove his speculation.

When Martin arrived at the Mingda Oasis in the morning light, he found that there were already three caravans resting here.

The unwritten rule in the wilderness is that any oasis in the wilderness is shared unless it is an oasis to which the territory belongs. Although the people of the wilderness are crazy and chaotic, they still have to have the most basic order, because they themselves cannot survive in the chaos of no order at all.

The three caravans in the Mingda Oasis were one large and two small, the largest caravan had more than 200 people, and the smallest caravan had more than 50 people.

Occasionally, there will be people who act alone in the wilderness, these people have all kinds of identities, all kinds of stories, and no one will ask about them, and no one will care. So Martin's arrival did not attract any attention from the three caravans. The men of the three caravans only looked at Martin for a moment, and after making sure that this was not a machete gang who was ready to come up and slash with their sleeves, no one looked at him again.

But Martin was secretly looking at the three caravans, and then he set his eyes on the caravan with the smallest number of people.

The caravan consisted of only fifty-six men. Thirty-three of them were goods (slaves), eleven were servants, ten were guards, and two were caravan leaders.

Martin noticed this caravan for three reasons. (To be continued.) )