The crescent moon was like a hook, hanging obliquely in the western sky, and he turned his head coldly, looking at the brightness illuminated by the moonlight, Li Que's fluorescent silver mask, Hou Jie couldn't help but be in a trance. [This site has a new domain name. initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]

Changing time and place, in Luzon and Borneo, there is always a violent stupid girl who always asks herself the same question, but now, it is no longer a matter of right or wrong.

However, the habit that has been deeply rooted in the bones made Hou Jie pat his chest very confidently: "It's okay, there is me!" ”

After a sentence, the atmosphere seemed to be a little embarrassing, looking at Li Que bowing his head, Hou Jie seemed to be dumb at a loss, but fortunately, at this time, Wu Yuanqing, who had a bitter face next to the fire, suddenly shouted with excitement: "Little monkey, and that ice cube face, come here, I'll just say that these mercenaries are not given for nothing, there are good things at the critical moment!" ”

I don't know what kind of animal dried meat is gurgling in the pot, and the last bit of water is used to cook the meat, although the steam is wasted, but there is no way, these dried meat is harder than stone if not cooked.

There are also dry and hard naan pit cakes in the pot together, a small pot of things thirty-nine people is obviously not enough, but the chapped lips are almost about to burst, and a small bowl of fragrant broth for one person is also a kind of enjoyment, watching the mercenaries take out all the good things at the bottom of the box, Hou Jie is not stingy, and he also made a small handful of red powder from his jacket, but it immediately caused the mercenaries to surprise in disbelief: "Chili!" ”

Since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Vikings of Northern Europe have gradually flourished, and these Norse barbarians in dragon pulp boats have literally used the sea as their back garden, and some historians even believe that these people were the first to discover and land in the New World.

In fact, there is really this possibility, a bunch of peppers did not know that they were brought to the European continent by that group of Viking pirates, and they did not know that they were planted as ornamental plants by that rich family, and they traveled thousands of miles, through the Silk Road, and were accidentally obtained by Li Jie, so the spicy taste of the five flavors was completed.

It's a pity that even if Li Jie popularized chili, the spicy taste of red in this era was still not as popular as in later generations, and the spicy taste was still far away from the ordinary people's table like other precious spices, and was promoted as a cheap spice in the army and the military general's family.

These mercenaries have occasionally eaten chili sesame skewers, but the value of this touch of chili pepper is equivalent to employing all of them, naturally they can't afford to eat it many times, and seeing the red chili noodles, it is no wonder that these outlaws who lick blood with knives are excited.

In fact, the dry broth with chili peppers is not very delicious, but everyone is happy to eat this meal.

However, after a meal, the morale of the expedition team was still low, and the mercenaries who had been tired for many days were lying down in old sheepskin jackets around the fire, although this road gradually declined, and there was no danger such as sand thieves until now, it does not mean that there is no danger, and they can seize all the time to replenish their strength, which is the priceless experience that they can live for so long.

Even the blind old man leaned his head against a blackened ruin and squinted, and Wu Yuanqing's snoring was even more shocking.

The eldest of the mercenaries, an old mercenary who is almost fifty years old, but he found Hou Jie, who was still leaning on the map at the entrance of the town, the old guy is also quite special among the mercenaries, everyone else is wearing a leather armor is very good, but he is wearing a very strange white ring armor, and a helmet with a horsetail mane, if it is not for the armor and helmet are worn out, it must be very powerful and beautiful.

This old guy is also the only mercenary who was not recommended by Paul, and it seems that Hou Jie has known him for a long time.

"Zhonghujun, we can't go any further."

Hou Jie, who was looking at the map and was distracted, raised his head to look at him unexpectedly, but did not speak, under Hou Jie's probing eyes, the old mercenary's throat became dry, but he still stated to himself: "Ahead is the Salt Desert of Death, once on this road, there were at least thirteen towns, but because of Fujian, a large number of Persians who did not want to believe in Islam fled to Tianzhu, and now, the last town has also been destroyed here." ”

"We are short of supplies, the water bladder is empty, there are only a few breads left for food, the original plan to get supplies in Hulantu has now become impossible, my lord, we can still go back to the last town after drinking camel blood for two days, and we can't pass through the death salt desert empty-handed."

"Bernis, you've crossed the Salt Desert once, why did you cross here?"

Looking at the eyes of the old mercenary, Hou Jie's rhetorical question made the old man fall into a trance, and then urged his head gloomily: "In order to escape the war." ”

"This time it's my country, and my supreme sovereign order will be forward, and I'm going to cross the Cavill Salt Desert anyway, you, understand?"

The old man's face twitched again, and he was silent for a while, the old mercenary slammed his chest and turned to leave, not continuing to entangle with Hou Jie, and after he walked away, Hou Jie, who put down the map, let out a long sigh again, and smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "Hehe, Lao Tzu has never been so great, it's just a stupid girl to repay this favor that she will always want to repay." ”

The moon rose higher, but on the plateau desert where there was no other light source, the whole land was plunged into a thick darkness, and it was really impossible to see five fingers, not a single light to be seen.

After a few days of severe water shortage, even urinating became a luxury, but at night after eating some chili peppers, one of Paul's four childcare apprentices, a black and fat Bero peasant boy, woke up with urine, and staggered up from the pile where several people were hugging each other for warmth, turned around and walked aside.

Leaning on the ruins on the outermost part of the entire team, even Hou Jie's respectful blind old man's eyes, which were already unbearable, suddenly trembled violently, and after a while, the blind old man suddenly jumped up, hit the ground heavily with his crutches, and hissed exhaustedly: "Get up, get up, something is close!" ”

Hou Jie, who had just been confused, immediately jumped up, and without thinking about it, he pulled out his horizontal knife and shouted loudly: "All up, draw your sword, and meet the enemy!" After shouting, Hou Jie kicked hard at the back of Wu Yuanqing's buttocks, who was still snoring.

The hiss of the two people tried their best to blow up the pot in the mercenary group, and the thirty-four mercenaries all turned over for the first time, and Li Que, who was leaning on the corner of the wall, suddenly shot out from behind with a long and a short double knife, and one rolled to the center of the crowd, but he looked left and right nervously for a moment, and there was nothing around.

Everyone looked at Hou Jie with some complaints, but Hou Jie was always vigilant, kicking the still confused Wu Yuanqing into the crowd, and on the other hand, he was looking vigilantly left and right with a horizontal knife.

"Help!!"

The terrible sound suddenly sounded from the town, and in the swaying firelight, the unlucky boy who had just gone to release water ran out of the corner where he had just hid with a cry, and between the crotch of his pants, a large patch of dark red blood continued to flow downward, and before he could run a few steps, several black shadows suddenly pounced behind him and dragged him directly to the ground.

At the same time, hundreds of green-eyed green-eyed buildings appeared in the town's dilapidated buildings.

"Ahhh!!h In the violent screams, the boy who released the water was directly torn apart by several blood basins, and the dripping blood and green internal organs all gushed out under his cry, and were immediately devoured by the owner of the green hungry eyes.

"Wolves, run!"

Dragging the knife Hou Jie ran back without hesitation, and followed him skillfully, Li Que stretched out his hand and dragged the trembling Wu Yuanqing's collar, the wolves had already seen the blood attack, and at this time, it could not be solved by confrontation.

At this time, the speed of reaction was also revealed among the mercenaries, and a dozen or so people turned around and ran, and the rest were obviously slower.

"Oh, shoot her!" Seeing that five or six wolves had rushed in front of him, the young mercenary scout Hulk didn't know which language to use to scold, pulled out his scimitar and met it in despair, worthy of being a mercenary who often walks in the desert, the sharp scimitar slashed into the wolf's neck with the first knife, and the second knife cut off the front leg of the wolf on the left.

Unfortunately, before the third knife could be cut, the steppe wolf that came up from behind bit his neck and pounced on him directly.

The dozen or so mercenaries who didn't react were drowned in the wolves in a blink of an eye, the screams and roars could be heard in half of the town, and their deaths bought time for the remaining mercenaries, and with his subordinates, Hou Jie anxiously ran to the other half of the town.

"Go to the room! Go to the room! ”

It's really a strange thing, the first time the blind old man shouted, Paul had already led his remaining apprentices away, and now he was shouting on the dilapidated roof of Hulantu.

It was really a word to wake up the dreamer, and the panicked mercenaries woke up like monkeys, desperately turning over to the dilapidated houses on the left and right streets.

Don't look at the blind old man is a blind man, he is more agile than the mercenaries at this time, he leaped up to the roof early, and saw him take off the line, Hou Jie just wanted to climb up himself, and the sound of panting made him turn around and go back helplessly.

"Quick, on!"

With Wu Yuanqing's fat buttocks, even if he has been trained in the Punjab army for more than two years, Hou Jie is sweat beads on his head, so he finally lifted Wu Yuanqing up, panting, Hou Jie was just about to change his strength, and Wu Yuanqing, who was unprepared to go to the room, yelled in horror: "Monkey, be careful behind!" ”

Turning around in shock, a particularly strong one-eyed old wolf jumped up and suddenly met Hou Jie's eyes, this beast was actually psychic, and he had been following Hou Jie who was giving orders.

"Damn it!" His heart was cold, but Hou Jie did not hesitate to grab the horizontal knife.

Bang.......