Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Man Who Hides in the Belly of a Camel

The West Sea, also known as the Devil's Sea, is less than 100 miles in radius, and the narrowest point from north to south is only 40 miles away, which is this land, which separates the Qilian Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains tightly, and is a natural barrier from Longzhong to Hami.

It is said that it is the sea, but there is not a drop of water to be seen.

You can't see a drop of water, but you can pick up countless shells in low-lying places on the edge of the West Sea.

The West Sea, it is an ocean without seawater.

This is a land that has been fully harmed by nature.

From afar, you can see a flat river, and only when you get closer will you notice that there are ravines everywhere.

There are torrential rains in summer, and torrential rains will form flash floods, which will wantonly cut through the thick layer of loess for thousands of years

In the pre-Tang Dynasty, when Hou Jun gathered his troops to conquer Gaochang, he passed by, and Cheng Yanjin, as the rear army, was demoted by Li Shimin because he got lost here.

It was here that Hou Junji created a horrific massacre, 60,000 prisoners were killed in one night!

Rumors of night ghosts killing people in this land have been circulating for almost two hundred years.

It's winter, and even the most tenacious tumbleweeds won't roll here to take root.

Even the most durable camel thorns avoid this place and go elsewhere to take root.

There is only the biting cold wind and the loess in the sky.

Meng Yuanzhi's sweaty horse stopped on the edge of a trench, kicking the loess under his feet irritably, and the gauze on his mouth made it very uncomfortable.

"Are you sure this is it?" Meng Yuan straightened the cloth on his face, turned back and asked a person next to him who was covering more tightly.

Tie Xinyuan untied the cloth on his face, spit out a mouthful of saliva with loess and said: "Nine beams and eighteen ditches, there is only one place where there is water."

This place is secretive, but as long as you find a place with trees, it must be a hiding place for the horse thieves in the West Sea.

In the West Sea of Nuoda, only there is a little hay in this ditch. ”

Meng Yuan smiled and said, "To tell the truth, what are you doing here?" ”

Tie Xinyuan said: "I don't feel very good, plus I still don't believe in a cloud, besides, I'd better be with you when you're unlucky, so you won't have other thoughts in your heart." ”

"I chose to come to Xihai by myself, and I won't complain."

"Your son has already cried out for you!"

"I almost broke his leg, you saw it."

"It's not like that, it's normal to have doubts, trust takes time to deepen, and emergencies are also an important factor in testing trust.

Since I'm idle, why can't I come with you? At least those frivolous guesses will be omitted.

Trust is the thing that can't be hurt by guessing the most, and if you can test it less once, you can test it less once. ”

Meng Yuan looked directly at the loess that was swept up by the wind and asked, "Why do you feel that something is wrong?" What's wrong? ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said: "I don't know, I can't say it, it's just that before you were ready to come to Xihai, you felt uncomfortable, and your back itched badly, like a wheat ear with a wheat mang crawling on your back." ”

Meng Yuanzhi looked at the dirt ditch in front of him again, and with a wave of his hand, a small group of scouts immediately jumped off their horses, slipped into the dirt ditch along the soft edge of the dirt ditch, and moved forward cautiously with a crossbow.

The scout searched two miles forward, but found no problems, so Meng Yuanzhi jumped off his horse and prepared to enter the ditch on foot.

"You stay on it, if there's something really wrong......"

"I'll run away immediately!"

"That's right, run away immediately, but you have to remember to take my BMW with you, you can't lose it."

"I'll run on a sweaty horse, so fast."

"Good idea, I'll come to you when I kill the enemy."

After Meng Yuanzhi got a satisfactory answer, he took three hundred warriors down the earthen ditch, leaving only Tie Xinyuan and fifty warriors to guard them.

There was another broken beam in front, and a dirt ditch became two, one to the west and one to the south, Tie Xinyuan had no way to follow Meng Yuanzhi's team again, so he had to wait for Meng Yuanzhi to return in the triangle of this earthen ditch.

The wind stopped, the dust in the sky fell in a pour, and after a while, a group of people from Tie Xinyuan became natives.

The sun was pale and pale.

The warriors around Tie Xinyuan began to untie the water bags to feed the thirsty war horses, and Tie Xinyuan himself quickly drank up the bags of water.

The only person who was not moved by the dust was Tie Liu, who knelt on one knee on the loess and cautiously looked into the ditch.

Because of the dust, it wasn't far away.

Tie Xinyuan once again spit out the dust in his mouth and sighed, this place is actually not suitable for human habitation, the Western Regions is so big, why would a cloud place the most elite horse thieves here?

With the discipline of a horse thief, it is unbelievable to survive in such an environment and not run away.

Unless, there is something here that is firmly tied to the hearts of horse thieves, and only then can it explain why they have lived in the West Sea for decades without thinking of changing places, what is it that attracts them?

Gold?

Impossible, if you want to get gold out of the soil, you need a lot of water, water is not worth much in Hami, it is very ordinary, but in the Western Sea, water is probably worth more than gold at some point.

Agate?

It is even more unlikely, that thing is actually a stone, a mineral, a rocky beach, a volcanic land is where they exist, and it is absolutely impossible for agate to exist in the loess.

The thick loess layer here comes from the Gobi, and it was the wind that brought them here from the Gobi, and it became the loess layer over time.

In the loess layer, the poorest thing is minerals.

Tie Xinyuan didn't know that in the Western Regions, the biggest feat of human beings that could be compared to the Great Wall was the qanats!

The West Sea is located in the sedimentary zone of the Tianshan Mountains, and the dust brought by the strong wind from the Gobi Desert slowly fell on the West Sea Plain because of the obstruction of the remaining veins of the Qilian Mountains not far away, and finally formed this peculiar landform.

At his feet, a tall, wide qanats large enough for carriages passed.

The spring water that originates from the Yumai Zongwu Long Mountain of Qilian Mountain flows in this huge qanat, and the water flow is clear and dusty.

The clear water eventually leaves the qanats and converges into a huge valley.

This is a very large valley, and even in winter, the pines here are still verdant and pleasant, unlike the pines and cypresses on the Tianshan Mountains, which have long since become dry.

In the valley of Nuoda, the traffic is vertical and horizontal, the land is flat, and the wheat straw after the autumn harvest is still intact on the ground.

The tall rocks were covered with caves, and countless people were coming in and out of the caves, and the women who fetched water carried tall wooden buckets on their backs, filled them with water, and then staggered up the steep stone steps.

Some men in tattered clothes were working hard to dig caverns under the whips of horse thieves in leather jackets.

At the very bottom of the stone wall, there is a very large hole, from which sunlight shines into the cave and falls on a huge bed.

A man wrapped in sackcloth lay on the bed, screaming in pain from time to time, and foul words spurted out of his mouth like a torrent of foul language.

The two strong men in bear skins frowned and looked at the man on the bed, not caring about the foul language of the injured man on the bed, but their eyes were full of impatience.

"Said, Otoma, I know you hate me, no matter how much you hate me, I am still my father's son, and I am the true master of this place."

After a terrible pain, the man on the bed seemed to sober up a bit, and finally said something meaningful.

A strong man at the head said: "Hurunur, you said that the king has died in battle, can you be sure of this?" ”

"The thousand men my father took with me disappeared without a trace, and then the valley where I camped was attacked, and I almost died under the arrows of an archer named Rahman.

Before I could prepare myself for battle, a valley in Nuoda would have been turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and if I hadn't cut open the belly of a camel and hid it inside, it would have been burned to ashes.

Even so, when I woke up, the water was already boiling hot, and the meat on the outside of the camels was cooked, and if it had not been for the fire that melted the snow and ice on the top of the mountain, the flash flood had washed the camels away.

I guess it's going to be stuffed in the belly of a camel, like a roasted whole camel, the sheep in the belly of a camel. ”

Said shook his head and said, "Haven't you heard of a condor archer named Rahman, who told you his name?" Do you know who his leader is? ”

Hurunur took out a thick half-feathered arrow from the bed and threw it to Said, saying, "His arrow has his name written on it." ”

Otoma took the feather arrow, looked at it and said: "A rare carved arrow, such a straight arrow, you can't find a single one out of a hundred feather arrows, it seems that it really belongs to the feather arrow of the condor shooter."

It's just that the name Rahman has never been heard, and in the Western Regions, any Condor Archer is famous.

Even less that we have not heard. ”

Said asked, "Hurunur, according to what you said, the king took the Red Devils' thousand-man squad and a hundred of his own guards to attack a small cottage.

In the end, he died under the city, which is simply impossible, the siege power of the Red Devils is the strongest among us, and the king has a mandrill, there is no place that cannot be visited.

It's impossible for you to accept Tsui Mo City right now.

Since you can escape back, king, there is no reason why you can't escape, as long as we wait a little longer, the king will definitely return. ”

Hurunur laughed and said, "Said, the city is not yours, it was my father who discovered it and brought it back to life.

Just digging a qanat, there are less than 10,000 dead slaves, do you want to sit back and enjoy it? ”

Said shook his head and said, "No one dares to betray the king, I am a subordinate of the king, and I once swore to defend the city for him."

Now, it's just keeping my vows. ”

Hurunur laughed again, and moved the edge of the bed beside him, and the feet of Said and Otoma were empty, and the floor tiles on the ground cracked to both sides, and in two exclamations, Said and Otoma disappeared into the swarthy hole.

The tiles were quickly closed, and Runur slumped down on the bed, soaking the linen with sweat with just one small movement.

Sweat soaked the burns, and Runur screamed in pain again. (To be continued.) )