Silk Road 7

When we reached the back of the tent, I also heard the slightest noise, which was very similar to that of a snake walking in the sand, and I was shocked, could it be that a snake had come in?

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It was dark, but by the light of the stars, I noticed that the chief's face was lightened, and it was true that it was dangerous to encounter snakes, but it was much easier than anything else.

The leader cautiously walked to the back of the tent, and after a careful look, he waved his hand to me behind him, and said, "Call everyone up." Let them carefully inspect their tents to see if there are any other snakes. ”

I immediately nodded, took out a gong, and began to beat it, and soon, everyone got up, and after they understood the situation, they began to check themselves one by one.

And the leader and I are going to find the snake, and if we can't find it, we won't have to sleep tonight, who would dare to sleep next to a snake?

However, after my investigation with the chief, we did not find any trace of the snake. Did we hear it wrong, the leader and I both shook our heads, it's not strange that one person heard it wrong, but it was strange that two people heard it wrong.

Since I heard you correctly, it's possible to run, I said. Although the leader agreed with me, he said uncomfortably that he might have fled to other tents. If I can't find it, I'm not very sure.

The chief's concern was right, we immediately mobilized everyone, and after a while, we finally found the snake, but when we saw the snake, everyone laughed, the snake was not a snake, just a cauliflower snake.

However, in retrospect, I feel very strange, how could there be cauliflower snakes in the desert. But at the time, none of us found a problem.

After finding the snake, we went to sleep again, and when I was about to enter the tent, I looked up at the moon and found that the moon was still like that, and at this time, the leader seemed to have noticed the problem with the moon, but the moon mutation really has nothing to do with us, and even if it does, we can't control it.

The leader didn't say anything, just hummed and went back to sleep.

I looked at the leader and felt settled down.

There was no word all night, we got up early the next day, originally we didn't need to be so early, but yesterday we left too many roads, so we got up early, avoided the scorching sun, and ran as many roads as we could.

Everyone in the caravan knew what the leader was thinking, so everyone immediately went into action, but within a while, someone had an accident.

Can something happen during the day? Everyone in the tent looked at the Momutu to see what was going on there.

At this time, after taking a sip of wine, he continued to speak.

We have a requirement for our caravan, which I have already mentioned, that is, we must count the water resources every day to see how much water is left, but today, when the leader counts, he found a problem.

The problem is that the person guarding the hydration bag is gone.

The lack of a person of course surprised the chief, but he was very calm, first, the person guarding the water bag was his relative, and would not say anything about stealing money and running away, and second, this is a desert, if you want to run, there must be a footprint left, but now there is no footprint around the water bag, so the person is not gone.

But, since the man did not flee, where did he go?

The leader immediately counted the people, and when he counted them, he immediately knew that something was serious.

When the number of people was counted, I was also with the chief, and when I heard the number, I was also very surprised, it was not only the person who guarded the water bag who disappeared last night, but also two people were missing, as for those two people, although they were only small merchants attached to their caravans, but the small merchants disappeared, that was serious, if they were heard by other merchants, what would they think?

Therefore, the leader immediately blocked the news, and the only ones who knew that there were not enough people were me and him.

No one could be found, and the leader did not delay, as if he felt that there was something wrong here, he immediately urged everyone to go on the road. The others had no opinion, as if they didn't feel that there were fewer people, and continued to set out for the depths of the desert.

Day after day, the number of people became smaller and smaller, and at this time someone finally discovered the problem, it was impossible not to find the problem, and when we first set out, the caravan was about a hundred people, which was very large. But as they went deeper into the desert, the number of people became smaller and smaller, and at last there were only seventy or eighty people left.

With so many fewer people, those who had their own caravans might not think there was anything wrong with them, but the small merchants blew up.

At this time, speculation, suspicion, and quarrel arose, and they first guessed that they were killed by the chief, but the leader made it clear that after he had someone who had disappeared, they also believed the leader's words after counting the number of people.

But it is precisely because of believing his words that small businessmen will speculate and doubt.

But the road still has to go on, we were in the middle of the desert, either continue to move forward, or retreat back to the first oasis, no one will choose to retreat, once they retreat, not to mention whether they can hold on until they return to the first oasis, as long as they retreat, then they will lose a lot, then they are no different from suicide.

So everybody decided to go on, and they shortened their sleeping time, and they quickened their travel time, and once they went to sleep, there were at least three or five people guarding the surroundings, and by this method, the number of missing people was reduced, and there were a few missing people a day, but now they are missing for two days.

I saw that this method worked, and immediately followed the leader and said, "That's good, just hold on to the next oasis and you'll be fine." ”

When the leader heard my words, he shook his head.

"If you can't find the murderer, then there's no point in going to the next oasis."

The leader had determined by this time that those people had been killed, but I wondered if the bodies had gone since they had been killed. I wanted to ask, but I knew the chief wouldn't answer, he had his concerns, and I had my thoughts.

After a few days of peace, everyone was relieved, but as the leader said, the murderer was not found, so the so-called peace was just an illusion.

Sure enough, when there were still five days to go to the next oasis, someone else disappeared.

At this time, the panic was not so bad, and I knew that they thought that as long as they survived these few days, they would be safe to go to the next oasis. But I had a vague feeling in my heart that it would not be safe even to go to the next oasis.

Five days later, the caravan was left with just over fifty men, and we finally came to the next oasis.