From the desert to the Gobi Desert in southern Xinjiang, "Blade" Tails has been standing tall for many years, ranking among the "Four Great Kou", not only because of his superb martial arts and spiritual cultivation, but also because he is self-aware and knows the principle of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. Seeing the airship painted with the Kolath flag suddenly appear in the sky above Sweetwater, he had a vague premonition that something bad happened, and what happened afterwards confirmed his hunch: the eagle and the cannon inflicted a head-on blow on his men, and then another snow-capped mountain descended from the sky to extinguish the fire in the granary.

At this point, if Tails still insists on his original plan to hunt down Sand Rose and sack Sweetwater, he is not worthy of being the leading big brother of the "Blade Regiment". Swinging his sword to push Sand Rose and Bena back, the Mantis Man quickly broke away from the grappling with a series of dazzling backflips and fired a decisive signal arrow into the sky.

The arrows fired from the Sleeve Crossbow were infused with magic, emitting a sharp alarm as they exploded in the air, scattering blinding red flames. When the sand bandits of the Blade Regiment saw the signal in the air, they all understood it, and immediately turned on their horses and turned around and left the battlefield. In an instant, hundreds of sand bandits swept away like a wind and clouds, and only a few sand bandits who were seriously injured and unable to retreat were still moaning weakly on the bloodstained streets.

Seeing the sand bandits retreating, Sand Rose secretly breathed a sigh of relief, got up and changed back to its original form, casually slapped a magic spell on her body to heal the knife wound, and looked up at the silver-gray airship that was slowly landing.

The Dawn landed on a flat barn near the entrance of the town, and Tonya and Lyudmila jumped off the gangway first and walked quickly to the sand roses that greeted them.

"Senior sister, long time no see!" Tonya couldn't hold back the excitement of a reunion after a long absence, and hugged the tall, plump half-giant lady.

"Tonya, I only received your letter three days ago, but I didn't expect you to come so quickly, and fortunately you came in time, otherwise I'm afraid that Sweetwater Town would have become a scorched ruin." Sha Rose smiled happily, first cast a curious glance at the airship that carried the rescue soldiers falling from the sky, and then shifted her gaze to the young girl behind her junior sister, secretly wondering what the other party was, her tall and toned figure was more conspicuous than most half-giant girls, but she was dressed elegantly and decently, and at first glance she was the eldest lady of a rich family.

"Tonya, this young lady is your friend?" Sand Rose skillfully led the conversation to the tall and handsome bow-wielding girl, smiling at her, "Thanks to your spell just now, you summoned a large amount of ice and snow to extinguish the fire and save the granary, and I want to thank you for all the residents of Sweetwater. ”

"I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce you!" Tonya patted her forehead embarrassedly, turned around and took the female ranger's hand and said to Sand Rose, "This is my friend Miss Lyudmila, who is also my boss, the High Minister of Cabinet of the Kingdom of Kolas and the head of the Census Office, we are here to conduct the census in Sweetwater this time, and Mira just found out that the town's granary was set on fire by the sand bandits, so what did she use to ......" She looked up at her best friend.

"Avalanche." Lyudmila has a heart and soul with her good sisters.

"That's right! He used the magic bow to unleash the 'avalanche technique' to extinguish the fire, and by the way, scare away the bandits. Tonya said with honor.

"It turned out to be an avalanche technique, and Valentina-sensei once told me about this 9-ring spell, but this is the first time I have seen it, and it is also the first time in my life that most of the residents of the town have seen ice and snow." Sand Rose smiled and turned around, pointing at the curious people around the melting snow and exclaiming, "Don't worry, it's just a big pile of snow, let's enjoy it while it hasn't melted yet, just like this is Lady Lyudmila's gift to us Sweetwater." ”

"Wow! It turns out that this is snow! A half-giant boy had the courage to reach out and touch it, then retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted, and exclaimed in surprise, "It's cold!" It's so cool! As the story goes, the snow is cold! ”

"I'll taste what snow tastes like." Someone grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into their mouth.

"Sweet or salty?" A little girl asked curiously next to her.

"Neither sweet nor salty," the man smacked his lips and shook his head in disappointment, "it doesn't taste like anything special, and it turns into cold water in your mouth." ”

"Stupid! The book says that snow is changed by water, and of course only the smell of water! ”

"The book also says that children in the north use the snow to build snowmen, snowballs, and snowball fights in winter, and let's play in the snow while the snow has not melted!"

"Good! All right! ”

The children were always optimistic, and while the adults were still apprehensive about the sand bandits' looting and arson, the children of Sweetwater had already pounced on the snowdrifts, laughing and playing.

Sand Rose retracted her gaze and said to Lyudmila with a smile: "It's not early, you have worked hard all the way, I will arrange dinner and a place to stay, have a good night's rest, and it will be too late to do anything tomorrow." ”

Lyudmila shook her head and politely declined the warm hospitality of the Druids: "We have eaten on the airship, and we don't need to bother to arrange accommodation, we are used to resting on the airship, and while it is not completely dark, I suggest that the sand bandit captives be interrogated first, and we may be able to get valuable information from them." ”

Sand Rose gladly accepted her suggestion and instructed the militia to bring over the bandits who had not had time to escape for interrogation one by one. The sand bandits are arrogant and domineering on weekdays, and they are hated by the residents of southern Xinjiang, but now they have fallen into the hands of the militia of Tianshui Town, and when they see the hateful looks on people's faces, they also know that there will be no good end, and their arrogance is all gone, and they are like eggplants beaten by frost. When he was tried next, he didn't have the heart to be a hero, and in order to get a chance to live, he told everything he knew without resistance.

The results of the interrogation confirmed Sand Rose's initial suspicions. The "Blades" were indeed hired by the "Baron of Mochizuki Mountain" William von Hurd to "teach a lesson" to Sand Rose, who refused to cooperate with the Southern Xinjiang Manor Lords, and completely destroyed Sweetwater, a "heretical community" that was "incompatible with the local traditional order" and dared to openly pledge allegiance to the Kolas government. As for the residents of Sweetwater, Lord Hurd was merciful and left them a way to live, and all of them were reduced to slavery, entrusting the "Blade Regiment" to escort the townspeople to Mochizuki Castle, the children and young women to the slave market for auction, and the rest to work on the farms and mines of Mochizuki Mountain.