Chapter 13 Zang Baotu

More than an hour after the battle, Zhang Hua led more than 30 people to hurry over and asked in surprise: "Childe, why did you encounter an ambush here?" ”

Everyone has lived here for more than ten years and is very familiar with everything around them, and there are no tribes in the vicinity at all.

"Uncle Hua, he is a Qiang man at the foot of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he has caught three live ones, and there is also a leader, he refuses to say important news, and his mouth is very hard!" Childe Wei Xing spanked the dust behind him, stood up and replied.

Phoenix Fort is located on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin in the southern Tianshan Mountains, and more than 1,000 miles south is the Altun Mountains, which are part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been the territory of the Qiang people for generations, and under the mountains bordering the Tarim Basin in the Western Regions, there are many large and small tribes of the Di and Qiang tribes, who mainly live as nomads and grow some crops.

The Xiaowan Kingdom, which is dominated by the Cypriots, is also in that area, and its relationship with the surrounding Qiang tribes has been good and bad.

"Leave it to me, I have learned the methods of torture and interrogation; Just a quarter of an hour and let them spit out everything! Zhang Hua said confidently.

"Uncle Hua, don't worry, let's go back to the inner valley first, no one knows if there is another Qiang people nearby; Our cavalry is already very small, try to avoid casualties! Childe Wei Xing said.

"Yes, our forces have always been insufficient, and three more knights have been wounded, and it will take at least two or three months to recuperate." Zhang Hua also looked very depressed and helpless.

It was because three knights were wounded by arrows in the legs and could not walk normally, so Gongzi Wei Xing sent people back to the valley as soon as the battle was over.

Half an hour later, the people returned on rafts, and the new leather armor, hats, and raisins that they had brought with them were also brought out.

Half an hour later, Zhang Hua walked over excitedly.

"Uncle Hua, this is more than a quarter of an hour!" Gongzi Wei Xing said jokingly with a smile.

Zhang Hua's face turned red, and he immediately explained: "The two little soldiers don't know anything, the secret is in that leader; But his bones were too hard, and it took a little more effort! ”

"Why did they come all the way here, and why did they attack us for no reason?" Gongzi Wei Xing asked the doubts in his heart.

"Childe, this is extremely amazing news, you have always been smart and witty, you can guess!" When Zhang Hua mentioned this secret, he was very excited, and his face couldn't hide it at all.

"Uncle Hua, there are more secrets in the world, stop playing riddles, let's talk about it!" Gongzi Wei Xing also wanted to know what secret made the steady Uncle Hua so excited.

Zhang Hua immediately handed over a palm-sized parchment scroll, with some messy lines and annotations of different thicknesses drawn on it, which made Gongzi Wei Xing dizzy, and sighed: "Uncle Hua, I haven't been interested in these things since I was a child, so don't go around in circles!" ”

In his heart, Gongzi Wei Xing has always despised the drawings drawn by the ancients;

Most of the drawings have some special symbols, except for some people inside who can understand them, others can only rely on blindness!

"It's a Zang Bao map!" Zhang Hua whispered excitedly.

Gongzi Wei Xing was stunned for a moment, and muttered to himself: "Zang Baotu, really? ”

"It's true, Childe, I've been sure for it again!" Zhang Hua replied very confidently.

Gongzi Wei Xing looked at the parchment scroll carefully and asked, "Is the location near or on a mountain peak near or around the lake?" ”

Zhang Hua was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Childe, how do you know?" It took a lot of effort for me to pry it out of the boss's mouth. ”

"It's very simple, if the treasure is not around the lake or on a nearby mountain peak, no matter how bloodthirsty the Qiang people are, they will not attack some strangers for no reason!" Gongzi Wei Xing explained calmly.

"Childe is wise!" Zhang Hua was very convinced and stretched out his thumb.

"Don't be too happy, the treasure is likely to be a bad thing for us in Phoenix Castle!" Gongzi Wei Xing whispered with some concern.

Childe didn't even ask who left the treasure, so he showed this sad expression, Zhang Hua didn't understand it, and asked: "Childe, this is the treasure left by a group of horse bandits who were destroyed more than 20 years ago, they once broke into the top ten of the horse bandit list, and the treasure they left behind must be very rich." ”

"Childe, why are you so worried?"

Gongzi Wei Xing casually threw the parchment roll to Zhang Hua again, and said, "Uncle Hua, you take a closer look at this parchment roll first, and you will soon find out the problem in it!" ”

Zhang Hua pondered for a while, and suddenly clapped his hands and said, "This is a newly concocted sheepskin!" ”

"Yes, it's new, that's the problem!" Gongzi Wei Xing nodded expressionlessly, and continued: "There are new pictures, and there must be old pictures!" ”

"No one knows how many new pictures there are, and no one is sure that there is only one old picture, and there should be other people looking for it."

"It's a good thing that we haven't found our secret in the valley, and once our secrets are discovered, any tribe will do everything in their power to fight for our vineyards and presses!"

"We can destroy the press and rebuild, but we can't destroy the vineyard, and we are not willing to do it ourselves! Even if we are willing to destroy it, we don't have seven or eight years to restore it to its current scale! ”

After listening to Gongzi's speculation, Zhang Hua's hands and feet were cold, and he didn't have the excitement before at all, and there was only fear left in his heart!

"Uncle Hua, don't panic, everything is speculation! In case things have nothing to do with my speculation, it's to scare yourself! Seeing this, Gongzi Wei Xing had to comfort him gently.

In fact, Gongzi Wei Xing himself doesn't believe his own words, and most things in reality often change in a bad direction.

"I'll torture and torture that Qiang leader again!" Before the words fell, Zhang Hua turned around and walked out quickly.

Gongzi Wei Xing also hopes that Uncle Hua will pry out some useful information from the mouths of the Qiang people, so that he can make further judgments!

In about a quarter of an hour, Uncle Hua came back with an ugly face, and Gongzi Wei Xing immediately realized that the situation was very bad, sighed, and said, "Say it, bad news is bad news, you have to know sooner or later!" ”

"Childe, you're right! Parchment rolls were circulated from black market auction houses, and there were nine such parchment rolls; This Qiang tribe found an opportunity to attack a lone thief who had a good picture of Zang Baotu, and it was very lucky, among which the Qiang tribe killed more than 60 elite warriors at once. Zhang Hua said in a deep voice.

The black market is jointly organized by the top three horse bandit gangs on the horse bandit list and a mysterious organization, and every year some invitations are sent to various forces in the Western Regions, inviting everyone to come and trade goods, usually two or three times a year, in different locations;

The black market has been circulating for many years, and no one knows who organized it first.

As for safety, during the Black Market, no fighting or fighting is forbidden within a radius of 300 miles;

Violators will be killed by the top three horse bandits on the horse bandit list and the mysterious forces.

It is rumored that there are very few discordant things in the black market, and the reputation is very good.

By the way, the horse bandit list came out of the black market!

As for how it will be judged, outsiders cannot know.

As for the specific appearance of the black market invitation, Gongzi Wei Xing has never seen it, this is due to his weak strength;

Before the Stone Fort was built, Phoenix Fort was like a rat hiding in the shadows, living tenaciously and never having too much contact with the outside world.

As for the mysterious forces, there are various rumors about their origins, but they have never been refuted or admitted, and it has always been a mystery;

Any person or force that is too curious will disappear silently;

In the end, the matter of mysterious forces slowly became a taboo topic, and no one dared to mention it casually.

Now that the fort has been built, there are more people, and they are not qualified to receive invitations to the black market for the time being, which is still because the strength is too weak.

"More than sixty elite warriors have died in battle, this lone thief is really powerful, won't he be a grandmaster-level master?" Gongzi Wei Xing muttered to himself.

In the rivers and lakes, the master who enters the "Huajin" will be called the grandmaster.

Such a master has always seen the head of the dragon but not the tail, and very few people know its true face.

Seeing that Childe had shifted the subject, Zhang Hua shook his head and said, "Childe, it shouldn't be a grandmaster-level figure; I have seen the Grandmaster Master hidden in the secret of our royal family, and if the Grandmaster wants to escape, it will be extremely difficult for many people to be trapped, unless thousands of troops and horses block him on the plains! ”

"Is it really that powerful? Is the grandmaster of our royal family still alive now? Gongzi Wei Xing suddenly asked excitedly and loudly, hoping very much to get an affirmative answer in his heart.