He Mulan, who was worried about Di Yefei and others, was naturally safe, but it was not good at all.

Although the village has water and food, it is impossible to continue to survive because of the problem of fertility, unless they can find people who will voluntarily settle here.

But there is still no one at the head of the messy well, there is still no one to show up, naturally because it is so remote that no one cares. Many villages far away from the trade routes have disappeared naturally, and humans are social animals, and it is impossible to survive on their own without the crowd.

However, when Hermulan offered to let the people of the village go with her, many were reluctant to leave. Some of them are elderly people who are no longer willing to take risks, some are mentally retarded parents who have to stay in the village to take care of them, and some simply do not trust Hermulan.

He Mulan and Zheng Zong did not reveal their own identities, but only hypothesized that He Mulan was a big family in the city of Qin Khan, and as long as they arrived in the city of Qin Khan, they could arrange their future lives.

This is not a deception, with the identity of He Mulan, it is more than enough to let Liu Yuanzong and Feng Heng take care of these villagers with personal favors.

In the end, there were only twelve people who were willing to leave with He Mulan and Zheng Zong, but they were all sent out of the village first, and if they were really good outside, they would come back and pick them all up.

This is also prudent, to have twelve people willing to go with her is already beyond their imagination.

There were camels in the village, and these men were young men who often went out to barter, and they were also the strongest men in the village, and He Mulan and Zheng Zong followed these twelve men, riding camels, carrying the supplies collected in the village, and just like that they went to the river beach where they often bartered.

The people of Chaojingtou have never been to the city of Chin Khan, and many people don't even know what the city is, and if He Mulan wants to ask these people who grew up in a closed environment about the road to the city of Khan, it must be in vain.

Walking in the desert is not like a flat road, and Hemulan and his party have a guide and still end up like this, let alone how to touch the city of Chin Khan with this group of people who don't even know the road.

Not to mention that a group of them are penniless, the most valuable thing brought by the people in the messy well is salt, but salt is not so precious in Beiliang, because it is adjacent to Qinghai, the yield of salt is high and easy to transport, and it is okay to change some daily necessities, but it is not possible to use it to make money to hire a guide.

He Mulan and Zheng Zong walked with them in the desert for five days before they came to the "River Beach", which is said to be the most prosperous, and it is just a market gathered near the oasis, which is still far from the "prosperous", but it is already lively to see multiple caravans gathering at the same time in the desert.

This group of people, except for Zheng Zong, who was injured and weak, from He Mulan to the twelve men were all strong people, which naturally attracted the attention of many people.

They had no money, they didn't know the way, they weren't locals, and they couldn't hire a guide even with Hermulan's gold chain, but one of the caravan leaders saw the big sword at Hermulan's waist and thought that she must be a very skilled martial artist, and offered to let them do miscellaneous work and escort in the caravan, and serve as travel expenses to follow them to the city of Chin Khan.

This is a caravan from Beiliang, going to Pingcheng to do business, originally prepared to follow the Northern Wei delegation back, but the Wei mission did not bring outsiders, so they set off with the Wei mission, and sure enough, relying on the Wei mission to sweep the road in front of the road, clean up the robbers, and go all the way smoothly.

It's just that the Wei delegation has been lost in the recent past, so these caravans have to resupply in the nearby oasis and recruit new people to protect the mission.

If there is no brigade to open the way, all kinds of sudden situations can easily destroy the caravan.

Naturally, Hemulan's ability was not said, and the collar was very satisfied with it just after a casual test, and even wanted to hire her as his personal bodyguard, but declined to her. The inhabitants of the chaotic well have been living by catching earth rats, and they have plenty of food, and they are much stronger than the other desert dwellers in terms of spirit and physique, and they are all employed.

Only Zheng Zong, because he was disfigured and injured, the caravan leader was reluctant to take it, but who was Zheng Zong? He is a translator of many Chinese languages in the Wei Kingdom, and he knows that He Mulan does not understand Lu Shuihu and Xiongnu dialect, and with Zheng Zong is the translator, so he had to agree to bring it.

Zheng Zong can read, write, and calculate, and soon got the attention of the caravan leader, plus He Mulan's martial arts are amazing and he doesn't like to cause trouble, so the two of them just used some food and didn't even need a commission, which was simply cheap for nothing, and they were even more satisfied.

This group of people went in the direction of Qin Khan City, and the route along the way was exactly the same as the previous Wei mission, and it also let He Mulan know that the road that Lao Sang Tou had guided before was indeed correct, and he really went to Qin Khan City, but he would turn to Windy City halfway, and he didn't know if it was intentional or unintentional.

On the way, He Mulan also inquired about the sandstone city, Zheng Zong asked around and told her that the place was a place where the sand wind thieves often haunted, so the caravan would not pass through there, only a very powerful army would stop there, and the wind in that place was often known to many people, and the locals called it "Wind City", unless they really wanted to avoid some disaster, things would not go there.

He Mullan, who had exterminated one of the Sand Wind Thieves before, was extremely sensitive to the name of the Sand Wind Bandit, and when he heard the name of the Sand Wind Thief again, he immediately became suspicious.

Since even the caravan's guide knew about the sand wind thieves haunting there, why would the guide sent by Beiliang follow the opinion of Lao Sangtou and think that there was no danger there?

The guide of the Wei State may not know the rumors of every strange place in this desert, but the guide sent by the royal family of Beiliang must be an experienced person, and the only possibility is that someone in Beiliang has colluded with the sand wind thief, or has colluded with the old mulberry, what to do

[,！ However, this qiē truth, with the accident of the Northern Wei mission, was destined to not be so easy to be exposed.

He Mulan followed this caravan all the way to the northeast of the city of Chin Khan, day and night, the road is also stable, the caravan is a team selling all kinds of spices and strange things, the goods are easy to carry and not much weight, this kind of caravan is the safest to walk in the desert, easy to run, few things are not easy to be targeted by horse thieves.

But even so, in the early morning of the third day, the caravan came across a convoy of horse thieves.

This kind of thing would not have attracted the attention of Hemulan, the number of horse thieves they encountered was not large, and the warriors brought in the caravan had no problem at all, and the other party also misestimated Hemulan's martial bravery, and in this battle Hemulan killed at least thirty people, so frightened that the horse thieves were frightened, and left their injured companions behind.

Zheng Zong had a lot of eyes, and after catching an injured horse thief and torturing him repeatedly, he came up with a shocking news.

I don't know where it came from, the Wei delegation encountered wind and sand in the desert, and as a result, the dowry of Princess Xingping, a huge fortune, was buried in the legendary "Windy City".

"Windy City" has a strange feature, that is, the sand will move around, the more sand the faster it moves, so over the years, the Windy City has experienced countless sandstorms, but the sandstone and various eroded landforms still exist.

So even if the wealth is buried, after a few months, the contents will still be revealed, and then you just need to send someone to dig it up.

The Beiliang royal family is rich in the world, and the treasures of the whole world are circulating here, the Western Regions, the Wei State, the Liu Song Dynasty, the Tuyuhun Family, the Frustrated Qu Mengxun For peace, what good things are really put into the dowry of Princess Xingping, when they first went out of the city, the dowry team alone dragged countless miles, and the news had already spread throughout the four countries, causing countless horse thieves to covet.

But the Tiger Army is not easy to mess with, the Iron Guard Battalion in Beiliang is also quite famous, and the scale of the horse thieves in Tengger is not large, no one dares to provoke such a force, but now the situation is different.

The Wei envoy encountered the wind and sand, and the whole thing was crippled, and it is said that because all the supplies were buried, a group of people abandoned all their treasures and left the Windy City with only camels and horses, and now their whereabouts are unknown.

A large amount of ownerless wealth is waiting for someone to get it, and all the horse thieves in the sandstorm thieves who got the news are completely boiling, and no matter where they are, they are desperately rushing to the Windy City. It was originally the territory of the sandstorm thieves, everyone knew the path, and the sandstorm had just blown, and now is the safest time.

The Sand Wind Thieves encountered by Hermulan's caravan had been on their way to Windy City after receiving the news.

After He Mulan and Zheng Zong got this information, their intestines were about to be twisted.

The Tiger Ben army suffered heavy casualties, lost supplies, and its whereabouts are unknown.

Princess Xingping's dowry is lost in the Windy City and may be taken by the Sandwind Thieves at any time.

"If you can get the news of where the mission is camping and where something happened, the old mulberry must be a person from the sand wind thieves, maybe this news is from him."

Zheng Zong pondered for a while, and said to He Mulan: "It's a pity that we can't contact the mission and the army in the country now, otherwise we can catch the sand wind thieves and figure out what happened to us when we encounter the sandstorm."

"Not far from Windy City?" Hemulan noticed the information revealed by the horse thieves. I'm going to go to Windy City, and with Yuan Fang's prudence, it's impossible not to leave the Tiger Ben Army there to guard the property, and maybe I'll be able to meet the people in the mission."

It is impossible for the wind and sand to bury all the supplies, and the old mulberry once said that if there is water and food, the Windy City is the safest campsite, because there is a lot of shadow to hide from the scorching sun. Now that the wind and sand have passed, if Yuan Fang leaves supplies, it is likely that there are still tiger troops in Windy City.

"We don't know how many miles we have been blown away by the wind......," Zheng Zong sighed: "The chaotic well is already far away from the Wind City, we were blown away by the wind for half a day, but we followed the caravan for a few days to arrive, it can be seen that the wind is terrible, and I don't know what the situation of the mission is. If we leave the team now, we may never be able to return to the city of Chin Khan."

"Then you go back to Chin Khan City to find reinforcements." He Mulan paused, and suddenly spoke, "I'll take this horse thief to Windy City to find out."

"That's too dangerous! If all the sandstorm thieves were around there, wouldn't you be a sheep? If you believe the Sandwind Bandit, he will probably take you to the siege! "

Zheng Zong shook his head again and again.

"Not to mention you don't even know the language!"

"So, you either let him go at night without a trace, so that he thinks he ran away." He Mullan gritted his teeth, feeling a little sorry for the caravan leader.

"I will tell the leader that if he is allowed to run away, it will be dangerous for the whole caravan, and then ask for food, water, and sturdy camels to chase him. He didn't ride a horse, he wanted to survive in the desert, he had to find his companion or his lair, or an oasis, and I would be able to find what I wanted by following him."

She looked at Zheng Zong, who was full of disagreement, and patted him on the shoulder.

"You have to trust my skills, even if you can't find Windy City, nothing will happen. If I can't find out the truth and avenge so many innocent brothers, I won't go back to Pingcheng."

"You're not going to go?"

Zheng Zong looked at He Mulan.

"It's the best way to do it. Now that you're wounded, moving with me will only drag me down, but if you know their language, and with so many sturdy villagers in Chaojingtou, you'll be able to reach the city of Chin Khan safely. Feng Heng of Chin Khan City is a trustworthy person, and with his help, he will definitely be able to bring a large army here. Bei Liang now. [,！ It's no longer trustworthy, and if you move too slowly, maybe all the evidence will be buried by the Beiliang people. And most importantly......"

He Mulan said thoughtfully: "Before the storm blew, I went to find Bodhi, but he was not in the tent. There is a whole team of tiger soldiers guarding outside the tent of the Bodhi prince, it is impossible for him to fly away, someone must have done something, I suspect that the old mulberry head led us there, not necessarily to destroy our mission, but to steal the Fuqu Bodhi."

"Stealing?"

"Who knows. Maybe someone didn't want him to reach Heijo, right? Maybe it's the political struggle between Bei Liang, or maybe they want to kill people. I still don't understand that I'm not a good schemer."

He Mullan shook his head.

"I'll have to sneak into the Windy City to see, and if there's no one, I'll make another plan. When I was in Windy City, the guides had already shown me the direction of the nearest oasis and the path to go, so if it didn't work, I would go to the oasis over there to rest and find the caravan and continue to Chin Khan City."

Zheng Zong has always been very soft in the face of He Mulan, although he knows that this is inappropriate, but he is indeed a burden, and He Mulan will never give up on the sandstorm encountered by the Tiger Ben Army, so he can only endure the anxiety and agree to cooperate with him.

So in the evening of this day, when the people in the caravan were about to have dinner and start their journey for the night, they suddenly heard a shout from the escort: "The captured horse thief has run away!"

The caravan leader did not agree to stay alive at the beginning, it was Zheng Zong who used the excuse that he was worried that there were horse thieves on the road ahead, so he left him to interrogate repeatedly, and the other horse thieves were killed, and this one was locked up in the camel herd and tied to the camel, which should have been foolproof.

As soon as he heard that the horse thief had run away, the caravan leader immediately led the people over to take a look, and saw that the rope tied to the camel's leg had been bitten by another camel, and the camels looked at him innocently and stirred their lips.

The camel is very docile and naturally won't gnaw the rope, but Zheng Zong smeared salt water on the rope. Walking in the desert, camels also need a lot of salt supplement, so the camels around smell the salt, and they come to suck/allow the tied rope to chew it, and chew the rope hard.

Zheng Zong is a person who is very good at taking advantage of a qiē, even if he has poor resources in his hands, he always has a way to achieve his goal, he is simply an expert in doing bad things.

The caravan leader's face darkened when he saw the rope that had been bitten by the camel, and he hurriedly looked at Zheng Zong and He Mulan beside him. It was Zheng Zongti who left a living mouth to ask about the situation of the horse thief, and if this kind of problem occurs, according to the rules of the caravan, he must be responsible.

So He Mullan said very honorably: "This man does not dare to run on a camel, because the movement is too great, so he must not have gone too far, give me a camel, and give me some water and food, and I will chase him down, kill him, and come back."

After Zheng Zong finished translating, he added: "We must go out immediately, now that he has companions nearby, maybe he will come back after the reunion."

At this moment, the shape became nervous, and He Mulan hurriedly mounted the camels in the caravan, asked the caravan the direction they were going to go next, and as soon as he stopped the name of the oasis they were about to reach, he chased in the direction of the footprints with enough water and food for two days.

This is the advantage of being in the desert, as long as you run for a short time and there is no wind, your footprints will always be in the sand, like a road sign.

Zheng Zong urged the caravan to hurry out, because Zheng Zong and the twelve villagers had stayed, and the caravan leader did not suspect him, and immediately set off in the direction of Qin Khan City.

There are horse thieves who will catch up with the danger of revenge at any time, and Zheng Zong is constantly urging and reminding in the team, I am afraid that the time for this caravan to reach the city of Chin Khan will be greatly shortened.

In this way, Hermulan rode a camel unhurriedly after the footprints of the escapee, slowly and leisurely towards his destination.

It was already dark, and it was becoming more and more difficult to distinguish the footprints, and as soon as the desert was windy at night, Hermulan did not dare to go too far, and was afraid that the fleeing people would notice that someone was following, so he simply got off the camel, and only led the camel to follow.

The escapees did not panic, and made their way to the north with great precision, and the sand dunes rose higher and higher as they went, until they were half a man high.

As the terrain became more and more familiar, a sense of the grotesque rose in Hermulan's heart.

She remembered the night before the accident.

Sure enough.

He Mullan heard the terrible, shrill sound of rustling.

The sand is a very quirky place, and if you raise the sand or walk around on the sand, the chirp will be louder, so the chirp will be different in every place.

Also in the singing sand, maybe the sound on this sand dune is soft as if someone is plucking the strings, and the sand dunes trampled on by someone in another place are like fingernails scraping glass.

When He Mullan heard the loud noise, he knew that there must be many people nearby, and when they first entered the Mingsha Land, the sound was very quiet, but when the mission entered, the people were so disturbed that they could only run away from there.

The Sandwind Thieves really used this as a joint, or maybe this was the outpost of Windy City.

Such a terrible sound, no one can stick to it, it must be Gatong guò, and when it is added, it is easiest to ambush, and the noisy sound can also hide their whereabouts.

Maybe when they passed through the sand dunes that day, the sand wind thieves would be hiding there, ready to take Bodhi away.

Who instructed the Sandstorm Thieves?

And why do you do that......

He Mulan narrowed his eyes, and regretted that he didn't bring Zheng Zong.

Even if she catches the boss,. [,！ The language must also be incomprehensible.

After a loud noise of sand, there was the neighing of horses. The sand thieves used horses instead of camels, and so did the army, and only caravans used camels in large quantities, and when Hermulan heard the neighing of the horses, he was overjoyed, and knelt down on the camels, and crouched behind a tall sand dune, hid himself in the shadows, and stretched out his head to look.

It was pitch black on Hermulan's side, but the horse thieves were walking at night with torches, which made it easy for her to find them.

There were about forty sand thieves who came over, and each of them rode a tall horse. The runaway shouted something, possibly a coded signal from the joint, and the horse thieves on the other side sent a few people over to check the movement.

After the two parties met, the fugitive finally breathed a sigh of relief, he ran all night, already exhausted, and immediately sat down on the sand, wanting to lie down and rest.

Another man in a red cloak stopped him, as if trying to persuade him to sleep well, but the fugitive moved, probably too tired to stand up.

These forty or so people should not be all, because He Mulan saw neither a water bladder nor any coverings on them, and there must have been other people guarding the supplies, otherwise even if this was the territory of the Sandwind Thieves, they would have died of thirst and starvation.

"If you miss this opportunity, you may not be able to find the boss so easily, and if you capture the king first, you may be able to force them to throw a bogey......

He Mulan did not bring the rock out, but gave it to Zheng Zong as a token and went to the city of Chin Khan for help. There is only one rock in the world, and there is only a borrowed scimitar and a relic dagger of the Tiger Army.

However, it is not impossible to outwit.

He Mulan thought about it, pulled the camel up, pulled out the dagger and stabbed it fiercely, the camel was in pain, and immediately sprayed its nose and moved in a circle in place, fortunately the camel was good at patience and did not run away because of this, otherwise He Mulan would have been dumbfounded.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, He Mullan buried himself in the sand by sticking to the edge of the dune, hiding it tightly, leaving only a small hole to see and pay attention to the movement outside. Today there are no stars and no moon, and it is dark in the sand, and no one will notice that there is a person hiding here.

The camel writhed wildly, and naturally the sand was startled, and there were very few animals in the sand, making such a big movement, and the people in the sand wind thieves were all taken aback, and immediately someone came to investigate, probably only saw a lone camel, but did not see anything else, so they screamed and shouted at their companions below.

He Mulan clenched the dagger in her hand and stared at the movement outside, as one horse passed by her, and two horses passed by her......

Even though she had tried to cling to the edge of the dunes, there were several times when the horses almost stepped in her direction. Fortunately, the knights of the Sand Wind Thieves are also superb horsemen and did not deviate, otherwise she would have been trampled to death if she failed to ambush, which would have been funny.

'Here we go!'

He Mulan held his breath and looked outside, until a red patch passed by in his sight, and immediately stood up!

Before this group of sand thieves could understand what had happened, He Mulan had already jumped near the target's horse, stretched out his arm and stabbed the horse's belly three times, and grabbed the horse's calf with the other hand, shaking it vigorously!

"Get me down!"

The red cloak on the horse was also a shock, and the horse jumped down immediately after the startle, but was grabbed by the calf of Hermulan who came out, he pulled out the scimitar on his waist and slashed it towards Hemulan's arm, but as if he had seen a ghost, a strong force struck from his leg, and he was lifted upside down!

The people living in the desert are generally short, He Mulan is more than one meter tall, and he is already a big man in Beiliang, so mentioned, the original action of the red cloak to cut his arms turned into a ridiculous cut of his feet, He Mulan just kicked off the scimitar in his hand, and then stepped on his heart tightly with a kick, and pulled out his scimitar against his throat with lightning speed.

The whole thing was only a moment, and it would never take five minutes, and the people who were still driving to the dunes to pick up the camels for nothing didn't even know what had happened, and the red cloak that was guarded in the middle of the line became a prisoner in the hands of Homolin, and he fell to the ground with a sharp scimitar against his throat.

[See...... Hell ......]

The horse thieves didn't even have time to dismount, and they were dumbfounded and dumbfounded.