Chapter 234: Seeking
The three days passed in a blink of an eye, and with the arrival of a huge caravan of hundreds of people, Quanqu Pass was lively at any time.
It's been a long time since a caravan of this size has arrived.
Fifty special carriages, with a few additions to the wheels of the special carriages, will become carriages that can walk in the desert for camels to pull through the desert.
When Hua Shangxue saw the style of those carriages, he couldn't help but marvel at the wisdom of the ancients, and actually thought of transforming the cart into a car similar to a sleigh, so as to prevent the wheels of the cart from getting stuck in the sand and hindering the carriage, and not worrying that because there were too many goods, too many camels were needed to pull things, but not too much goods could be provided.
After seeing these things, Hua Shangxue immediately thought of sailboats.
As long as there is wind in the desert, can you travel completely by the wind?
Although the idea is good, the natural wind cannot be controlled, otherwise it can really be considered.
Jerky meat, seeds, water bags, cloth, iron farming tools, blades, sugar cubes, and spices were all available to make up the size of the entire caravan.
The three hundred guards in charge of the escort, fifty carriages were divided up, and six people escorted a carriage, which was not much.
Enough drinking water was prepared and the horses were replaced with camels with long-lasting endurance.
After passing the inspection the next day, I went out of the customs, and after leaving the customs, the bottom of the car was directly modified at the edge of the desert, which was more suitable for walking in the desert.
The cars are connected like a train festival, and each car is fastened to the car with a fixed tough cloth strap to the camel that supports it. Start rushing.
Along the way, there were several accidents, and the car almost rolled over, but it was controlled in time, and it can be seen that these people did not specialize in these things, but fortunately, they have good strength, and there are no big mistakes.
Xuan Lan is a native of Tasha, and he is more familiar with the desert than the so-called guide, you must know that Lu Dao was the leader of the sand thieves at the beginning, can he not be familiar with the desert?
With the existence of Xuan Lan. In addition, the people who accompanied him were all people who were not weak. Trying to find the surviving Tasha people in the vast sea of sand is not something that can be done in a day or two.
Xuan Lan estimated that the water he brought could support the time, and he had no accidents when he resupplied it in several oases in the Langdao he knew.
It's just that I searched like this for nearly a month, but there was no result. There is even a suspicion of snow on the flowers. I guess the rumors are fake.
"The last place. If there was no one there, maybe the rumors were all false, and we would have to go back. "Next to the bonfire lit in the oasis. Xuan Lan stirred the fire and spoke.
"Is it the last place?" Hua Shangxue responded with a slight disappointment.
After searching for the places that Xuan Lan had heard of, the last one was the direction where Ritian City was located.
Although the city has been destroyed, after all, it is a place where it once flourished, and maybe someone will really go back there, although it is rumored that the oasis of the city has dried up, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will be other reasons.
Sometimes the most dangerous place is the safest, and there should be some reason why Sunsky City was built in that place in the first place.
No one could be found anywhere else, but there were rumors that they had seen the people of Tasha.
There is a reason for the groundless incident, and it is impossible to have such rumors for no reason.
Maybe they're missing something.
After a month of tossing, when nothing is found, it is inevitable that there will be a little discouragement, if the last place can not be found, how to find someone?
After resting for the night in the oasis, the procession of hundreds of people set off again and headed straight for the location of the Ritian City.
Three days later, the old site of the Heavenly City came into view, the ruins of the broken walls can be seen everywhere, and there are traces of fire, although most of them are buried by the yellow sand, but everything that is revealed indicates that the Heavenly City suffered a fire before it fell into such a forbidden place.
"The original Sunsky City was destroyed by fire?" Hua Shangxue sat on a camel, looking at the broken wall and ruined land, and couldn't help asking.
"Hmm. After the fire, the entire Ritian City was destroyed, and now all that remains is such a small ruin of the broken wall. Xuan Lan responded, a trace of strangeness obviously flashed in her eyes, and she always felt that for this Ritian City, Xuan Lan's eyes seemed to reveal a trace of different emotions.
It's not the cowardice of homesickness, it's not the pleasure after revenge, but there is a little complicated feeling, as if there is something in this city that has something to do with him, but it makes him hold a grudge, want revenge but can't get a chance, the helplessness of the enemy has died is mixed with a little bit of a different feeling, which is extremely complicated.
After finding a place, and putting the goods there for the time being, Hua Shangxue, Yu Mi Xuan, Xuan Lan, September, March, and July left the team and rode around on the ruins of the Ritian City, wanting to see if they could find any clues, and hoping to give them a hint to find the person they were looking for.
Walking on the streets, looking at everything on both sides, you can still imagine the prosperity of the past.
It's a pity that a catastrophe has turned everything into nothing.
Just when Hua Shangxue and the others were wandering, Ah Li, who was beside Hua Shangxue, suddenly stopped Hua Shangxue's footsteps.
"Mother, someone." Ah Li suddenly called.
"Anyone?" Hua Shangxue looked around and didn't notice anything wrong.
"I'll leave for a while, I noticed that the place is a little far away, I'll go to make sure first, and then come and tell my mother, you are going around the neighborhood now, and you will be back soon." Ah Li said and immediately flew out of Lu, and after a while, he disappeared, only to know that the direction he flew to was west, and that's it.
As Ah Lidu said this, the snow only slowed down the speed of travel, and even when he saw that there was a road in the direction of the west, if there was enough road to pass, he turned around.
Several times he walked straight without taking a turn, such a move undoubtedly made Yu Miying feel strange.
"Xiaoxue, what's wrong? Did you find anything? Yu Mi asked .
"Oh, it's nothing, it's just that I want to walk around like this, and for no reason, you think too much." Hua Shangxue replied with a smile, and when the words fell, Ah Li, who had left, suddenly flew back quickly.
"Mother, hurry up, I'll take you to save people, maybe those people can find the person you are looking for." Ah Li shouted, and then motioned for Hua Shangxue to follow.
"Don't ask why, you want to come with me." Hua Shangxue opened his mouth to speak, and did not explain, and took the lead in driving the camel to run ahead, but fortunately there was no obstacle along the way, and gradually deviated from the direction where the original team was, and ran directly out of the range of Sunsky City towards a sand dune.
The dunes are so high that if you want to climb them on a camel, you might as well run up them yourself.
"Mother, people are on the other side of this dune." Ah Li said, Hua Shangxue thought about it, jumped off the camel directly, and began to climb up with what could only be regarded as an ordinary light skill.
Yu Miying and Xuan Lan obviously felt the strangeness of Hua Shangxue's behavior, but they didn't ask much, believing that they would soon get the answer they wanted, so they simply followed Hua Shangxue and climbed up to the top of the sand dune, and even helped Hua Shangxue a few handfuls by the way, and brought her to the top of the dune.
When standing at the top of the sand dunes here, even Yu Mi saw a few figures who were about to be buried alive not far away, and at this moment there was no need to say anything more about the snow on the flowers, and the group ran directly to the place where the group of people was, pulled the people out of the sand, and after probing their noses, they found that there was still breath, but it was only because of their dry mouths and hungry stomachs that these people collapsed and had only one breath left.
If they continue to stay here, they will die of sunburn before it gets dark.
In September, March, and July, the three people untied the water bag from their waists and fed the water to the three who are still alive, but the rest of the people have been dead for a long time and are not saved.
The clear water entered the throat, undoubtedly giving motivation to the three people with a tenacious desire to survive, although the drink was a little slow, but how much it entered the throat, and slowly recovered a little physical strength, and he couldn't die for the time being.
In September, the three men carried one man on their backs, descended the dunes again, and brought the men back to the camp where they were stationed.
Let people boil some liquid food, pry open the mouths of the three and feed them, all that remains is to wait for the three to wake up, ask the identity of the three people, maybe if they can find the Tasha people who are still alive, it will fall on the three people.
When night fell, the three people woke up at the end of the day, and after letting the food be distributed to the two to eat to replenish their strength, Hua Shangxue visited the three of them a little impatiently.
"Thank you for saving your life!" The three of them knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the three of them to thank them.
"No need to be polite, we just happened to save you, and it was your luck. It's just a pity that other people don't have as much luck as you. By the time we arrived, the three of you had only one breath left, and the others had been dead for a long time. I don't know what nationality you are? What happened to the former site of the Heavenly City on this day? Why did it end up like that? I don't see any of you have two camels with you, so you have been walking on your legs. Hua Shangxue couldn't wait to ask, Yu Miying and Xuan Lan were not busy talking, and handed over the right to ask to Hua Shangxue, knowing that she was anxious.
After the three of them glanced at each other, they did not rush to answer, but one of the middle-aged men with obvious burn marks on half of their face opened their mouths.
"I don't know what nationality the benefactor is? What is the situation between the Qiongyue Kingdom and the Lanling Kingdom now? ”
"We are from the Lanling Kingdom, and now that the Lanling Kingdom and the Qiongyue Kingdom are in a temporary truce, you should also notice that we have brought a lot of supplies, saying that we are merchants, after all, these things are for the purpose of finding the remnants of the former Tasha Kingdom for trading. Of course, our main purpose is not to do business, it is just incidental. I'm here mainly looking for a person, and I'm sorry I won't be able to say who it is, but I can assure you that the person I'm looking for is a native of Tarsha. He went to Tasha nearly five years ago, before the fall of Tasha. He is my godfather, and I am here to find him. It's just that I heard that someone has seen that the remnants of the Tasha country have a stronghold somewhere, and I want to find it, this is our last stop, if we don't meet you, we will stay here for a few days at most, and we will be ready to go back. (To be continued......)
PS: The second update is complete!