Chapter 506: Before the Storm
Chu Huan held this very thin and light paper, but he could feel the heavy mood of the wolf baby, perhaps in the belief of the wolf baby, the meaning of his next life is to find the real murderer behind the scenes and kill him to avenge his blood.
For some reason, the yellow sand in the sky, as well as the wolf baby, which is equivalent to a letter of allegiance, made Chu Huan think of his mother Chu Li's rather strange proverb for no reason.
Success is not separated from the sand, defeat is not separated from the soil, the order of fire virtue, the army, the seven evils, and the greedy wolf arch guard.
Now that I am in the desert, I can't feel the meaning of "never leaving the sand", but is the wolf baby the so-called "greedy wolf"? This thought was just a flash, but Chu Huan just felt a little ridiculous.
"By the way, the corpse of your horse?"
The camel man sighed, "I have been buried in the desert and cannot go back." "They returned with Ma Zhengyi's body before, and if they were in a hurry, they could return to Luoyan Town for burial, but they were intercepted and killed on the way, avoiding the sand bandits, so they could only find a place to bury Ma Zhengyi's body in the desert.
In fact, camel riders have always been buried in the desert if they lose their lives in the heart of the desert, and for camel riders, the desert is their final destination.
Chu Huan looked at Ma Xiulian's corpse, the camel rider already understood what he meant, and said, "Uncle Chu, we will persuade the wolf baby, Xiulian's corpse will be buried as soon as possible, and the trip will not be delayed." ”
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By dusk, the mission had already begun to pack its tents, sort out its cargo, and prepare for departure.
After resting for half a day, it was far from enough for everyone's physical strength to recover, but it had recovered somewhat, and it was barely possible to travel at night.
In fact, everyone knows that this time the luck is really bad, Qiu Yinghao's internal trouble was eliminated, but the threat of the sand bandits has not dissipated, and this time it really encountered a desert storm, the officials secretly complained, and the soldiers also felt that the time was not good.
At dusk, the weather is already a little weird.
The wind and sand were much stronger than usual, and when the sun went down, the temperature dropped rapidly, and even black clouds began to wriggle in the sky.
Chu Huan knew that the situation was indeed serious, but fortunately, Zhao Cheng explained the situation in advance and prepared a plan, otherwise he was afraid that the road behind would be more troublesome.
Under the persuasion of the camel riders of the Ma family, the wolf baby finally buried Ma Xiulian's body in the desert.
He didn't let anyone interfere, but he left the camp with Ma Xiulian's body in his arms, and it wasn't until the team finished packing up and was about to go on the road that the wolf baby returned to the camp alone.
The team no longer continued to travel north, but turned to the northwest under the leadership of Zhao Cheng and other Qiu family camel riders.
Xuanyuan Shengcai was really a little uneasy at first, and asked the Ma family camel guest privately to ask if there were valley-shaped sand dunes in the northwest, but the Ma family camel guest nodded yes.
According to the Ma family camel rider, the valley-shaped sand dunes are a special terrain in the desert, and there are countless desert sand dunes, but the valley-shaped sand dunes are concave and blocked, and the surrounding areas are blocked by high sand dunes, which is really useful for resisting storms.
However, the terrain of the desert is unusual, often after a big storm, it will change a lot of landforms, the formation of valley-shaped sand dunes is created by a big storm, no one knows when there will be a big storm, resulting in a change in terrain.
Chu Huan actually felt that his luck was really not good.
Zhao Cheng explained to him that the big storm is not uncommon in the desert, in fact, there are so many times a year, but the season is not accurate, once there was a camel in Luoyan Town because of the big storm, more than a dozen people died, and even the goods were all swept up by the wind and sand.
Camel riders walk in the desert, one to avoid sand bandits, the other to avoid storms, the vast desert, the whereabouts of camel riders leading the way are uncertain, and it is actually difficult to judge the appearance of camel riders.
However, if the sand bandits encounter a camel rider, they rarely kill them all, most of them rob the property, kill one or two people to demonstrate, and let the others go, for the camel riders, it is unlucky to meet the sand bandits, but when they encounter a storm, they are unlucky.
The chance of encountering a storm is actually much smaller than encountering a sand bandit, but the luck of the mission this time is really bad, Zhao Cheng claims to have walked the desert for more than 20 years, although every time he walks in the desert, he will worry about encountering a big storm, but he really encounters a storm only two or three times, and the storms encountered these times are not too fierce, several times they have been prepared to dodge, only once they encountered a big storm, or in the marginal area, but even so, that time was also very dangerous, when Zhao Cheng said it, he still had a sense of palpitation.
The sky soon darkened, the wind and sand became bigger and bigger, the desert wind blew on the face, like a knife blowing through the skin, it felt really uncomfortable, and more importantly, the wind sand, the dust and sand danced all over the sky, and it was uncomfortable to hit the face, and it was even more uncomfortable to get into the nostrils and eyes.
Everyone could only brave the wind and sand, raise their hands to block their eyes, and walk forward with their heads down, but the camel riders leading the way in front were much neater than the mission, and their leather felt hats played an effective role at this time.
The camel rider's felt hat has a thick leather edge, which is usually lifted and buckled, but when it is lowered at the moment, it can cover all the ears, and the brim is very low, even able to block the upper eyelids, in addition, they are very familiar with the desert environment, equipped with masks, masks, flying sand can not enter their mouths and noses at all.
The wind and sand howled like ghosts, whining and whining, which was a situation that the team had never seen before, and for a while everyone only knew how to pull the horses and camels and follow the camel riders forward, and did not know how to make other responses.
Chu Huan quickly realized the trouble brought by the wind and sand to the team, and after walking for more than half an hour, the wind and sand not only did not weaken in the slightest, but also had a stronger and stronger tendency, thinking that this was the case at this moment, if it really encountered a big storm, wouldn't it be even more terrifying, seeing that many people were blocking the wind and sand with their arms, he immediately sent someone to send an order to let everyone tear off the cloth towel from their bodies and cover their faces.
Only then did everyone think that they could tear off the cloth towel from their bodies, and after the order was issued, they all immediately started to cover their faces with cloth towels, so that the degree of marching was really much faster.
On the night of the wind and sand, there was no moon in the sky, and Chu Huan ordered the camel team and the horses to be in between, and the soldiers on both wings were one after another, not to be scattered, so as not to get lost in the wind and sand.
At this time, the environment was already extremely bad, and under the fierce blowing of wind and sand, many people had blood on their faces.
Xuanyuan Shengcai is still patrolling back and forth between the front and back of the team, so as not to scatter the formation of the team, in the wind and sand, the volume of normal speech is no longer clear at all, and he must shout at the top of his throat to hear clearly.
Zhao Cheng came over from the front, finally found Chu Huan, and shouted: "Lord Chu, this big storm is not trivial, we have to hurry up to the valley-shaped sand dunes, this is the eye of the storm, once the sandstorm comes, the consequences are unimaginable." ”
Chu Huan actually understood that this storm must be not small, and these camel riders really still had some ability, and they could judge that there would be a storm when the scorching sun was in the sky.
The weather at this moment is obviously a precursor to the coming storm, but it is just an appetizer, and the real difficulties have not yet come.
The team stared at the knife-like cold wind as it headed northwest.
In the middle of the night, the team didn't know how far they had gone, Chu Huan groped to the front, found Zhao Cheng, and asked how far away from the valley-shaped sand dunes, at this time the sky and earth were dark, and the camel riders were completely relying on their experience, just saying that it should be not far ahead, but how long it would take, it was not easy to determine.
When returning from the front to the mission team, between the camel rider and the mission, Liu Meiniang and the three of them were sandwiched between them, and they were also moving forward against the strong wind and sand, Chu Huan could only vaguely judge who Liu Meiniang was from her figure, stopped beside her, and finally said nothing and returned to the mission.
After going forward for more than half an hour, I suddenly heard a whistling sound in the north, and the sound was like a dragon's roar, which suddenly covered up the already great sound of wind and sand.
The sound of the tiger roaring and the dragon's groan seemed to be quite far away, but it seemed to be close to the ear, and there were already camel riders chasing after Chu Huan, shouting loudly: "Oh no, Lord Chu, that's the sound of the sandstorm, the sandstorm is coming this way!" ”
Chu Huan frowned tightly and looked to the north, it was already dark at this time, even if he was facing the north, he couldn't see far, but Chu Huan had already felt that there seemed to be a big wall in the north that was squeezing towards this side, and the sound of the tiger roaring and dragon roaring was not just a certain place, it seemed that there were dozens of divine dragons that had traveled for nine days in the entire north were roaring towards this side.
In fact, when the whole team heard the voice from the north, many people had already changed color.
Chu Huan was anxious, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, don't hesitate, don't care about that side, hurry up and move forward, there is a place to hide from the wind and sand ahead, let's rush there before the wind and sand arrive, brothers, let's fight hard, we must rush over!" ”
The horses of the team obviously also had a premonition, they had already neighed loudly, hundreds of horses neighed, mixed with the wind, but it was also frightening, and those camels, which were originally silent, were also in a commotion at the moment, making strange calls, the camels were able to continue to move forward, and the horses of the mission had not gone through such a formation, many of them were already out of control, breaking free and running away, the soldiers could only hold on to the reins of the horses and drag them forward, Chu Huan saw a fierce horse breaking free, and stepped forward to help the soldiers pull the horse together, The whole team knew that the situation was urgent, and they didn't dare to delay, and they had enough strength to move forward, even Xue Huai'an, a few weak people, also fought with their lives to move forward.