Chapter 69: The Great Desert of Tagore
The Tagore Desert of the Gama Empire, here is endless, legend has it that in the deepest part of the vast sand sea, the wind is often raging, blowing up sandstorms in the sky, and the eyes are full of yellow, even if the master with the strength of the great fighter is in this majestic natural disaster, he will soon be blown by the violent wind and sand to only the skeleton, and the strong man of the fighting king is swept in, and he can only survive for a short period of time.
Even the snake people, the overlord of the Tagor Desert, only live in the depths of the sand sea, and as for the center of the desert further inside, they dare not venture in.
As for human beings, even if they covet some special resources of the Tagore Desert, they only dare to establish some cities on the outskirts of the desert because they are photographed by the snake people and the unpredictable desert environment, and only those mercenaries who are not afraid of death will risk their lives to break into the depths of the desert in order to find those rare medicinal treasures in exchange for a large number of gold coins.
Among the many human cities in the Tagore Desert, there is a small city called Stone Desert City, which is also relatively deep into the desert, of course, this depth is a very far distance from the depths of the desert, otherwise the masters of the snake people would have come to destroy this small city long ago.
Ten miles away from Stone Desert City, more than a dozen mercenaries in similar costumes were walking towards Stone Desert City with a smile, the packages on their backs bulging and swollen.
Their harvest from this trip was very rich, and they picked a lot of precious materials from the desert demonic beasts, as long as they returned to the city and sold them to those merchants, then they could go to those happy places to live in style for a while.
Just as they were chatting happily, a cry came from the sky in the distance, and the voice was very high-pitched, even if it was far away, it still clearly reached the ears of these mercenaries.
These mercenaries were taken aback for a moment, and reflexively drew their swords, forming a circle back to back.
A leader-like mercenary squinted his eyes at the sky, trying to catch the figure that made the scream, and only after half a sound did he wave his hand to the others angrily, "It's okay, everyone can relax their guard." ”
"That's the Wind Eagle, a flying magical beast, and a wooden house on its back, so it should have happened to pass by here."
"What is the name of this dead bird monster, it almost scared Lao Tzu to pee." A young man with a few pimples on his face whispered.
An old mercenary next to him had very sharp ears, and he heard the young man's angry words clearly, and immediately shouted loudly: "Oh, little Nick is actually scared to pee, let me touch my crotch to see if it is wet!" With that, he reached out and touched the young man's underneath.
"Fuck off, Bart, you old pervert!"
The young man suddenly slapped away the old mercenary's rough hand, took a step back and said, "Lao Tzu didn't pee his pants!" ”
"Haha."
Seeing the young man's appearance, the old mercenary and the others burst out laughing, and their previous fears were swept away.
When they are in this industry, risking their lives to earn a good reward, their nerves are often tense, and they also need to relax properly, otherwise it is easy to distort their personalities.
Just as the mercenaries were laughing, they didn't know that on the sand dunes on the far right, a pair of dark eyes were staring at them faintly.
"According to the position I observed on the Wind Sculpture before, this place should not be far from the Stone Desert City." The owner of the eyes muttered, turning into a gray shadow and running forward, but the mercenaries remained unaware.
"The Tagore Desert is indeed worthy of being called the only dangerous place in the Empire that is only in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, not to mention the desert Demon Beasts lurking under the thick layer of sand, this yellow world that seems to never end alone makes people who set foot here for the first time go crazy in despair!" Running for miles in the vast sea of sand, looking at the desolate scenery in front of him that had not changed at all, Garten couldn't help but sigh softly.
Because it would be too eye-catching to take the Wind Sculpture directly to Stone Desert City, and it might affect his future plans, so Garten asked Mo Lun to let himself down more than ten miles outside Stone Desert City, and then walked directly towards Stone Desert City with his legs.
In the Tagore Desert, apart from the sun and moon hanging high in the sky, and a few immovable oases, there are no obvious landmarks that make one identify, because even the high sand dunes and all kinds of strangely shaped rocks can be submerged by sandstorms every few days.
Some mercenaries even find that outside the city has become another strange world if they don't leave the city for a month or two.
Therefore, the map of the empire in Garten's hand, when it reaches the location of the Tagore Desert, becomes abstract, just a few circles and dozens of city icons are roughly drawn on it, only letting people know the general direction, if someone really walks on it in a daze, maybe they will not encounter a human city until they get out of the Tagor Desert.
Of course, it is more likely that this person became the dung of a desert monster in the vast sea of sand, or was killed by the snake man and became a corpse, and was finally buried by the wind and sand.
But fortunately, Garten's location was not far from Stone Desert City, and after running for a while again, he finally saw the small city on the horizon.
After running five or six miles of road, the appearance of the stone desert city was completely presented in front of Galten's eyes, the city wall made of earthy yellow rock, only about four zhang high, stretching for seven or eight miles, has withstood the harsh environment of the desert, plus the knife marks and arrow holes left by the war with the snake people, so that this desert city adds a bit of historical heaviness.
Because of its proximity to the depths of the desert and frequent conflicts with the snake people, the empire stationed a powerful army in the stone desert city, once the snake people counterattacked the humans, this army formed a strong defense line with the dozens of cities on the outskirts of the desert to resist the enemy's attack.
Outside the city gate, there was a small group of heavily armed soldiers guarding the outside, with sharp eyes scanning the mercenaries and merchants entering and leaving the city gate, as soon as they found someone wearing a thick cloak and covering his face, several soldiers drew their swords and rushed up to the man to surround him, rudely unbuttoning his robe and pulling his hat to prevent the snake man's spies from taking the opportunity to sneak into the city.
Although the difference between snake people and humans is huge, except for a huge snake tail under their bodies, their appearance is also relatively rough, but some thin snake people are not much different from humans as long as they drape their black robes and cloaks on their bodies to cover their snake tails and faces.
Therefore, in the human cities on the desert, almost no one will wrap their bodies so tightly, and only the newcomers will occasionally violate such taboos, and the others are dressed simply and unrestrainedly, and some women's tops even only wrap a small point on the chest and below, revealing the wheat-colored water snake waist, which has become a unique scenery in these cities.
Garten, who was dressed in a gray suit, naturally would not be stopped by the soldiers at the city gate as a spy, and entered the stone desert city smoothly.
Walking slowly through the streets of the city, Garten was not in a hurry to find a place to stay, but took an interesting look at the unique scenery of the desert city.
Unlike the stable interior of the empire, Stone Desert City is close to the lair of the snake people, and may start a war at any time, so the people here, whether male or female, all have a wild and fierce temperament, and here, only with strong strength will they be respected by others.
After walking on the street for a while, Garten stopped a boy about thirteen or fourteen years old next to him, took out a few gold coins and waved them in front of him a few times, and asked him what forces there were in Stone Desert City and where they were distributed.
The charm of the gold coin is really great, even if he is suddenly pulled by a stranger, the boy still does not have the slightest nervousness, his eyes stared at the gold coin in Garten's hand with longing eyes, and he said all the news he knew fluently and quickly.
Among them, there is the location of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group that Garten wants to know, as well as the approximate strength of the two leaders.
After getting the information he wanted, Garten did not deceive the boy, and with a throw of his right hand, several gold coins landed accurately in the boy's hand.
Looking at the back of the boy leaving happily, Garten followed the boy's news and walked around the streets around the station of the Motie Mercenary Regiment, and after familiarizing himself with the environment, Shi Shi asked for a separate courtyard in an inn in the city to live temporarily.