"Spare your life, the messenger spare your life~"

Stimulated by Li Shun's hysterical roar and the shiny long sword, Bagjira's mind collapsed directly, and he lay on the ground and kowtowed desperately to beg for mercy.

Bagjira's fate caused the rest of the caravan to crouch on the ground like quails and tremble with their heads in their hands, and Althea and her three maids were equally frightened and wept together.

Whether it was in the city of rest or walking along the way, Li Shun gave all of them the impression that he was polite and steady, but now he suddenly became a different person, and he looked very scary.

"Messenger, I may ...... Know...... Knowing that there is another road to Daqin, there is no need to pass through Dawan, and the people of Anxi will definitely not be able to catch up......" A dark and thin servant in the caravan suddenly stammered in nonsense.

"Hmm~" Li Shun Huoran turned his head to look at this guy.

"My lord, I heard that after entering the body poison, you can reach the territory of the Yue people by passing through dense forests and canyons along the Great Snow Mountain to the south, and I heard that the Yue people are adjacent to a place called Shu Kingdom, and I also heard that Shu Country is very wealthy, and the people there are wearing gorgeous robes and using luxurious utensils, which is very similar to your Daqin people......

"Really?" Li Shun's eyes lit up instantly, and he squatted down and grabbed the placket of this guy's clothes.

"My lord, I ...... I'm not lying, I'm a poisoner because I steal ...... Stealing things was driven out by the family, so he wandered around, and later met Bajira who went to sell drugs, Bajira saw that I was pitiful and took me in, the legend of the Yue and Shu people knew about the poison in the body, and my grandfather's grandfather heard that he also did business with the Yue people......" The black and thin guy stammered and replied.

"Lord Li, it seems that this guy is not lying, Lingnan is the territory of Baiyue, which has a history of thousands of years, and the Yue people in Shu and Lingnan have close contacts, and the counties of Qianzhong in Yunnan and Guangxi are adjacent to Bashu, so it is not surprising that people with poison know about Shu!" An official of the mission who accompanied him said in surprise.

"Go get the map!" Li Shun let go and stood up, and then an official hurriedly took out a pickle-like map of the world that had long been folded from the satchel he was carrying.

The map was spread out haphazardly on the ground, and a group of people immediately gathered around to study it.

"Master Li, the body poison is in the south of Great Xia, according to the world map drawn by Hou Ye, this is the Luo Yue realm......

"Luo Yue was destroyed by the Shu State, and the Hou Gongzi Hui of the Shu State rebelled, and King Huiwen ordered Sima to send troops to quell the rebellion, and after beheading the Gongzi Hui, the Shu State was abolished and the Shu County was ......"

"In order to rule and conquer Luo Yue, King Huiwen once ordered Li Bing, the Taishou of Shu County, to dig a five-foot road to lead directly to the Dian Kingdom......"

"Now that my Great Qin has only been in China for a few years, it is natural that people who are poisoned only know that there is Shu but do not know that there is Qin......"

The envoys to the West this time are all selected officials from the Academy of Arts and the Dictionary Bureau, not only can speak well, but also have a rich reserve of astronomical geography and historical knowledge, plus before leaving, Chen Xu also specially explained the geographical knowledge of the West and the general distribution of the country.

From the map, it is certain that the body poison is closer to the Yue people in Lingnan, but the real distance is very far away, and it is certainly not an ordinary difficulty to detour to Lingnan and return to Daqin from the territory of the Yue people, because the south is not only hot and rainy, but also must be high mountains and dense forests, all kinds of wild beasts are rampant, not to mention the poisonous insects, snakes and ants alone completely make their group of landlubbers who grew up in the northwest unable to adapt, not to mention passing through the poison country......

"Lord Li, if you can really find a familiar guide, detour Luo Yue into Yunnan County, the possibility of returning to Xianyang safely is still very high, Yunnan County is in Kunming, which is the location of the former Chu State Dian Palace, and now it is Ren Huan and Zhao Tuo who are guarding Lingnan, Kunming must have my Great Qin soldiers, so as long as we arrive in Kunming smoothly, Antioch will not be able to catch up with us even if he has wings!" An official said, tugging at his short beard.

"But no one has walked this road at all, everything is still just speculation at the moment, although the poisonous people know that there is this road, but it is estimated that there are occasional contacts, I am still familiar with Shudi, Lingnan Bashu I have also been to many places, but to be honest, it is really not a place for people to stay, and I heard that the Dian Kingdom is even more reckless, and the mountains and trees are impassable at all, so even if this road can avoid Antioch's pursuit, the probability of our successful return is also very low......" Another official reminded with a worried heart.

Li Shun stood up and walked around with his hands in his hands, and a group of people carefully held their breath and did not dare to disturb.

Bagjira and Althea and others were even more frightened.

Their life and death were all in Li Shun's thoughts.

And Li Shun is also very entangled, handing over Althea can certainly get rid of the suspicion of seducing the princess, but it does not necessarily guarantee that Antiochus III will let go of the mission, after all, this face is not ordinarily big, maybe Antioch in order to prevent future troubles, arrange for people to kill all the missions and then throw them in the wilderness, so that God does not know the ghosts, and the Great Qin must not know anything after tens of thousands of miles, not to mention that even if he knows, he can only sigh with admiration, it is too far, far away to make people desperate.

And handing over Althea Li Shun is also quite unwilling, first, Althea's experience makes him very sympathetic, and second, he will inevitably be hated and despised by Althea if he does so.

The most important thing is that doing so will make Da Qin lose face, and it will make the rest people feel that Da Qin is weak and can be bullied.

Li Shun had never considered avenging Athea's father, and he shouldn't have considered it, but because of the safety of the mission, he abandoned her like this, and Li Shun felt that it was a shame to be a man and a proud envoy of the Great Qin Empire.

Li Shun thought about it for more than ten minutes, and he almost took Bajira and the others to think about it.

"My lord, how is it arranged?" Seeing Li Shun stop, an official hurriedly asked.

"Take Althea to continue to Daxia, wait until you arrive in Daxia and then inquire carefully about the news, if Antiochus arranges soldiers to chase and kill us, there will definitely be news coming out, if not, we will ask the king of Daxia to send troops to escort us to Dawan, if there is, we will make other arrangements, we are really forced to make a detour from Yunnan to Daqin......" Li Shun finally made a decision.

"My lord......" An official still wanted to persuade, but was stopped by Li Shun with his hand, and said with a serious face: "Manly man, when you do something, you should do something, although the rest is strong, but it is not strong enough to make my Daqin whisper and obey softly, although the Susa country and my Daqin eight poles can't fight, but sooner or later my Daqin will dominate the world, the so-called division is famous, there is the princess of Susa country in hand, in the future, my Daqin will really be famous, just rest obedient, disobedient, hum, Qinghe Hou's Taiyi Shenlei is not a vegetarian, Without further ado, let's rush to Great Xia as soon as possible! ”

"Honorable Order!" A group of officials and forbidden troops all gave their orders, packed their luggage and belongings, and then firmly protected Bagira's caravan and the four of Althea in the middle, and continued to go towards Great Xia without stopping.

However, there is a saying that people are unlucky, and they will stuff their teeth when they drink cold water.

Li Shun felt that the return of this trip may not have been divination and calculation of bad luck, and it was obvious that everything was not going well.

Because as they ran along the inaccessible trail to the border of rest, led by Bagjira, the guide, a thunderbolt almost knocked him over on a sunny day.

Great Xia is gone.

From the mouths of countless people of Great Xia who fled with their mouths, it was learned that at the beginning of May, a group of powerful enemies suddenly came from the north and successively captured many city-states in Great Xia with lightning speed.

These people are extremely savage, and they are particularly ferocious, burning, killing, and looting.

The king of Bactria hastily organized a large army against this murderous enemy, but it was quickly routed, and then the royal city was destroyed, the king was killed, the general was killed, and a large number of soldiers and civilians were slaughtered.

I'll go to his uncle's gourd scoop.

Not only Li Shun was stupid, but the entire mission and caravan were stupid.

Bagira, in particular, completely collapsed at once, but he did a business trip, and not only his family was gone, but his country was also gone.

Seeing this burly man with a stubble on his knees and crying like a child, Li Shun and the others had nothing to do but express sympathy after waking up.

At present, they are mud bodhisattvas crossing the river and it is difficult to protect themselves, so they can only temporarily stop and ask around for news, but because these barbarians who conquered Great Xia do not understand the language, neither Kangju Dawan nor Anxi, only from the mouths of some fleeing nobles heard that these people may speak the Eastern Hu language, which is very similar to the language of the Western Regions.

This news made Li Shun and others even more suspicious.

They only left from the Western Regions last year, and there were two mighty Great Qin elite horsemen stationed there, and the Western Regions have been very peaceful in recent years, how could an army of tens of thousands of people suddenly come here for thousands of miles, this is particularly unscientific.

"My lord, I just heard from a Great Xia merchant that there is a Shaqi City fifty miles away from here, not far from a poisonous state, and there are thousands of soldiers in the city, let's go to Shaqi City for the time being and then think of countermeasures, these people who suddenly attack Great Xia will not provoke the poisonous country too quickly!" An officer in charge of gathering intelligence came running to report it.

"Well, it's okay, that's it, let's go to Shaqi City first!" Li Shunyan obeyed, and soon ordered the mission to take Baghila and Althea to the south, and followed the large group of fleeing people to Shaqi City, dozens of miles away, to take temporary refuge.